Let’s zoom in a little more. In the DNC chart, the corresponding opposite degree in Sagittarius is rising, or the exact ascendant—the way you would say that is 28+ Sagg is rising. This does several things. One, it puts 28+ Gemini (and thus the Moon of all three events) on something called the descendent. The convention begins with the Moon on an exact angle (the western horizon) at the precise moment of moonset. When you place a planet on an exact angle, you crank up its emphasis by quite a lot; name a proportion—fivefold, tenfold, pick a number. It puts it in the cosmic spotlight. And that planet happens to be the September 11 and tsunami Moon, which is now the DNC 2008 Moon.
Next, it puts Pluto precisely in the ascendant—rising to one arc minute of exactitude. Pluto is 28 Sagittarius 33 and the ascendant is 28 Sagittarius 34. Pluto is rising to 1/60th of a degree. This verges on ridiculous and it makes you think they hired an astrologer to do the chart. That’s usually how you get a chart like this. But they probably did not—the convention started at 4pm in 2004 and it’s starting at 4pm in 2008.
The Moon is opposite Pluto to within 1/10th of a degree; its position is 28 Gemini 38 and Pluto is at 28 Sagittarius 33. I have not called up every astrologer I know, but I don’t think too many of them would rate this as a friendly arrangement, even subtracting the whole bizarre September 11/tsunami synch. If I had to describe this chart, it’s like the Democratic National Convention is a loaded gun pointed at itself, and consequently the public. If you had paid me a lot of money and I had venom in my heart, and I brought the full weight of my talent to the question, I could not have chosen a darker chart to commence the 2008 Democratic campaign.
The chart has a few saving graces. First, dark may be exactly what we need. Second is that it’s precise. That does not make it “good” per se, but it does make it a clean work of cosmic engineering. Not to subtract from my saving-grace theme here, but the last chart that came close to being this precise was the September 11 chart. And that chart was certainly “good” for whoever pulled it off. It was, however, more elegant and a little less in your face than the DNC 2008 chart. We, at least, have a clue that we’re dealing with some potent astrology. The September 11 chart is precise, but it’s slippery, just like 9/11 itself.
Next is that the Galactic Core is not only rising in the DNC chart, it’s in the ascendant to within about two degrees. This is the center of our Milky Way galaxy. If there is an astrological stand-in for the highest order of Divine consciousness, we can look for it in the Galactic Core. Whatever is there binds together our magnificent 300 billion-star, spiral-barred galaxy.
Given these facts, we have an occasion to take the highest possible interpretation of the chart. To paraphrase the poet Donald Rumsfeld, you don’t necessarily go into the future with the chart you want; you go with the chart you have. So—let’s go.
We live in dangerous times (which we prefer to zone out and deny), and those times are represented in this chart: reminders of the two enormous global disasters previously mentioned and often forgotten. The Moon opposite Pluto (which feels like a weapon pointed at the public, which happens to be a true fact of our world); a sharply divided public suggested by both the Gemini Moon and Pluto seeming to split it down the middle (let’s see which cool-minded liberals can’t quite bring themselves to vote for a black guy).
We are dealing with a mix of profound potential global threats, all of which seem to push the amazing potential of our era into the shadows. These threats, as we well know, include our perfect train wreck of an environmental crisis; fossil fuels running out; terrorism; false-flag terrorism (fake attacks coming from the inside and/or used for manipulative political purposes, such as September 11), oil men and arms brokers in charge of the government stealing from absolutely everyone, and killing a few people along the way; a stressed-out public that is conditioned to believe lies and to expect the government and corporations to lie; and so on.
