Hey all summer craziness is in the air. Sally will be back as soon as she finishes moving and helping her kids settle in with her new granddaughter Brooklyn.

The squares and oppositions in the heavens right now with Pluto, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter are setting off long term changes. These energies are playing out politically with the Glen Beck insanity, hurricanes, volcanoes...pure chaos. I hear how the Democrats are going to get mopped up by the Wingnuts in November when they retake the government whilst they fight among themselves to see who can out insane the other. Pundit heads are spinning and Americans are giving them a great big yawn. Will America give them back the car keys?

Stay tuned.

Namaste.

The Cancer Sun initiates a Grand Cardinal Cross with a Grand Water Trine lending its weight to this Summer Season of political unrest and the specter of a severe hurricane season with the Gulf of Mexico full of Texas Tea. The Sun is in a square with the Uranus/Jupiter conjunction five degrees shy of the SS Midheaven. The Sun also squares Saturn in the Third House and opposes Pluto in the 6th House. Chunk'o energy, oh lucky us. The Sun fortunately has an outlet to use that energy with a trine to the Chiron/Neptune conjunction in the 8th House and a trine withe the 29 Libra Moon as it transits into a Grand Water Trine at 0 Scorpio later on the longest day.

The Moon, the "small people", light the fuse with an inconjunct aspect to the Uranus/Jupiter conjunction, and another fuse is fired off with the Saturn inconjunct to the Neptune/Chiron conjunction. Lastly, a really irritating Mercury in a semi-square to Venus. Mercury in Gemini is exalted, the provider of information, Venus in Leo in the first House exaggerates the drama. Keep your ears open.

by Sally Cheyne McDonald

I raised 4 children basically alone, two girls and two boys and had the usual highs and lows that most parents experience. Days when I wanted to shout to the world with pride "that's my child," and days I wanted to deny (but couldn't) those kids had any relationship to me. I did however have two other children that I never saw their face or even heard them coming until my other four were standing in front of me; I did nevertheless know their names. They were called "I don't know and it wasn't me." Today all four of my kids are grown and doing pretty well, so are the other two, in fact "I don't know and it wasn't me" are in Washington as we speak, they are rich and powerful people today. They have been working and rising to the top of banks, insurance companies, politicians, big business. They are right now sitting in front of Congressional hearings, repeating those oft used names of "I don't know and it wasn't me," a close third would be "it's not my fault," even if they are holding the smoking gun in their hands. BP, Halliburton, and Transocean seemingly had nothing whatever to do with the Gulf massive oil spill; they don't know what happened. It wasn't them, they don't know what happened, and it wasn't their fault. Believe me, before all this is over they will try (and might succeed) in placing the cost on the taxpayers shoulders, after all the Banks and Insurance companies have been able to do this with the help of our "it wasn't us" government.

By Sally Cheyne McDonald

The last three and a half months have left this country reeling. Just to click them off, there is of course, Tea-baggers, health care, Iraq and Afghanistan and Israel heating up, what Rumsfeld called "old Europe" is collapsing and doing all they can to stay out of bankruptcy, the corrupt monetary system in this country is, well you know what it is, now we have a collapsing mining industry, and a horrific oil spill on April 20th at 10:00pm in the Gulf of Mexico and threatening our fragile coastal eco-system as it pours out 5,000 gallons a day into the Gulf of Mexico and lapping at the Louisiana shores and wetlands.

And the latest thing would be the repeat of the 1930's and 40's only this time instead of Jews it's the "illegal's" in Arizona with other states wanting to spread their "hate and fear" along with Arizona and Congress cannot come up with a plan, even though "old Europe" devised one a long time ago that's been working for them.

by Sally Cheyne McDonald

100 years ago Teddy Roosevelt (10-17-1858, New York, NY N/T) tried to pass health care for all people, after his defeat in that effort politicians and presidents went on and on and on in the hope of making health care not a privilege but a right. Lyndon Johnson came close with his Medicare/Medicaid bill in the 60’s coupled with a long overdue Civil Rights Bill. FDR’s Social Security Bill was not perfect when passed, neither was Lyndon Johnson’s Bill but over the years both have been greatly improved and so will this bill. It isn’t flawless but it’s a beginning and like all the other industrialized countries we will continue to improve and add to the bill.

There will be struggles with this bill but will not be dropped if this country can stand firm against a mean spirited GOP who seem to believe only the elite deserve to have good health, only the elite deserve to live. The chart of this bill’s passing has a very interesting aspect and that is Sun oppose Saturn. Saturn in opposition to the Sun is a new beginning not the normal ending that an opposition normally signals. The Moon at 15 Gemini also trines the US Saturn, another signal of solid gain for the people. Transiting Neptune and Chiron conjunct the US Moon, and Teddy Roosevelt’s progressed Chiron conjuncts the US Sun with transiting Uranus conjunct his Progressed Sun. I mention Roosevelt’s chart because he represents the beginning of this process.

Net buzz has it that President Obama is going to lay out his plan to get HCR passed based upon both the Senate and House versions of the bill using tactics worthy of his Republican predecessors on Wednesday March 3, 2010. Using a Noon chart here are some of the energies at play. All of these antics should be best enjoyed with a bowl of popcorn and the beverage of your choice.

The foul winter super storms have placed frosty fingers across a broad swath of the US and those not frozen are soggy. The New Moon and Sun are at 25 Aquarius moving to conjunct Chiron and Neptune at 26 Aquarius. Sharing House space with the Aquarian energy finds Venus at 3 Pisces and Jupiter at 6 Pisces spicing up the House with utopian idealism rooted somewhere in the ethers with Jupiter amplifying the effects. Nothing like wide spread frost and frozen precipitation to say hello Climate Change.

by Sally Cheyne McDonald

In December 2004 a Tsunami washed over the Indian Ocean and killed over 230,000
in 14 countries of a poor and struggling people in every area.

On August 29,2005 a hurricane that devastated New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, again mostly hurting the poor and struggling, as nearly 2,000 bodies floated in the flood waters and thousands never returning to New Orleans because a lack of funds to rebuild.

In 2008 this country undertook an effort to provide health care insurance that would save the lives of thousands of people struggling to provide their own health care, it would impact several million people in the US and come close to leveling the playing field for all; 2009 sees us coming close to that end and 2010 is coming close to killing the whole bill.

January 2010 is seeing the eruption of Hell on Earth in Haiti, carrying thousands on that "Soul Train" that has taken so many already. Thousands are lying dead in streets as relative and friends frantically try to find them a place for a burial; thousands of dead are lying under rubble that will no doubt become their burial ground as those who have raced to help them, are having problems with distribution. Most of us sit by helpless to know what to do or how to help, and the poorest people in the Western Hemisphere have hardly if any resources to help themselves. I heard one reporter say "these are people who were on their knees before and are now prostrate" All I can add to that is "let us pray, let us send light, let us send energy, let us send positive thoughts; whatever power we believe in, let us send it.