Eclipses always represent an acceleration of karma, and can come with the feeling of drawing back a veil. What emerged in the news throughout May - the exposure of the torture, rape, and murder of Iraqi detainees - fits the imagery and feeling of the total lunar eclipse in Scorpio early in the month. People tracking the astrology will note that the eclipse occurred on the Moon's south node, wherein lies the story of the past, in this case the history of control and death trips associated with this war and every war. Under the spell of the eclipse, nothing could contain it.

I am impressed at the speed with which this information has come out. We started with a morally reprehensible war prosecuted by an illegitimate President and his sick war-hawk "advisors" - his bosses, obviously. In the space of a year, the whole thing was revealed to be a lie, just as layer after layer of the September 11 lie simultaneously emerged. Remember those hearings that unfolded as the April 19 eclipse of the Sun drew near?

I am satisfied that the truth is out. We know about Halliburton's $3 billion contract and how for all practical purposes they are running the war on the ground. We know that after stealing the election the Bush administration made a valiant and ultimately successful attempt to ignore the well-documented terrorist threat. We know the invasion of Iraq was spoken of openly in the first days of the administration. We now know that torture of conquered Iraqis, so long in the planning, was concealed for many months up to Rumsfeld's level.

All we are missing is the smoking gun that shows that Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Wolfowitz planned the September 11 attacks themselves. We already know that their New American Century position paper, published in the late 1990s and still available online, states clearly that they needed such a cataclysmic event to spark and accelerate their agenda of world domination. We can only be thankful that they have failed. Iraq is a gulag in the midst of an instigated civil war, and the US is a few notches closer to a true-blue police state. But the US, if anything, is less of a world power than it has been for many years.

Venus Trump Card
On June 8, the world will experience an extremely rare astronomical event as Venus passes between Earth and the Sun, making the equivalent of an exact eclipse. Called a "transit," this event last occurred on December 6, 1882. No living human has witnessed this event, and no living astrologer has felt its effects.

The Venus transit is the astrological trump card of the year, and perhaps a defining event of our lifetime. Arriving as it does in the midst of the Iraq torture scandal and in the lead-in to the US political conventions, the Olympics, and the US presidential election - interestingly, Tony Blair being up for re-election as well - we would do well to consider this particular sign. My take is that the global events surrounding the Venus transit may not look so exciting, but that what we are seeing is an actual awareness-raising and healing process that is making the reality of war painfully obvious to millions of people like never before.