Checking in with Yourself

My Momma and Granny both advised me to stay away from discussing politics and religion unless I wanted to suffer the backlash of a lot of teeth-gnashers and/or those who carry a big stick. I listened to both of them to some degree, such as ‘ladies before gentlemen,’ ‘offer a lady your seat,’ ‘write proper thank you notes’, but when it comes to what made me mad and resentful as a boy, i.e., manipulation and outright lying by preachers and politicians, I speak out and take my lumps if need be.

As you begin to read about and see more and more candidates barking, braying, back stabbing, sounding like blowhards, promising anything and everything to be elected President of the United States in 2008, check in with yourself. Determine what you want a candidate to do to make the greenback stronger here and abroad. Support a candidate to be someone who would hold individuals responsible for their own financial well-being. Mark your ballot for a proactive statesman who would heal the bad blood among countries around the world toward Americans by getting out and staying off their turf—refuse to invade—by using diplomacy until it wears out bullies and demagogues. Ask yourself which one is more likely to be an independent thinker, unlegislated by his or her Party and one that has a Higher Power rather than a convenient church affiliation, before you are unduly persuaded by the rhetoric of a particular candidate. More and more those vying for the highest office in our country are sounding the same or resorting to prejudice or slander.

There is a new book out, Words That Work: It’s Not What You say, It’s What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz (Hyperion, 350 pages, $24.95) that will help you “hear” what the candidates are saying rather what they are “saying”. Find out what you hear him say to help you better know what a candidate represents. There is an old adage with which I concur regarding politicos specifically: “I hear what you say but I know what you really mean.”

Take your power back when it comes to government candidates—don’t cast your vote frivolously or from the way one of them looks. Join the quantum physics of ‘who we elect can make a difference.’





By the time you read this month’s astrology column most of you will have switched to daylight saving time (Arizona, Indiana and Hawaii don’t switch—we stay put) and spring will have sprung March 20th. Mercury went direct on March 7th—but you should have waited until at least the 14th to be rid of the cautions of the retrograde—so it is safe to buy and sell with contractual agreements, make plans to travel for business or pleasure and to get the sense that your mind is not still playing tricks on you. Mercury retrograde can also make you grumpy and generally out of sorts. Move freely without all the warnings about Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will.

There was a Solar Eclipse New Moon at 28 degrees of Pisces on March 18th which should be a flash card from the Universe that it is time to start something new for Pisces, Virgo, Gemini and Sagittarius. Solar Eclipses are usually much more powerful than lunar eclipses (March 3rd) and its effects will be felt until the next one which will be September 11th at 18 degrees of Virgo—again new beginnings for the mutable signs mentioned above.

Saturn at 18 degrees of Leo is the only retrograde planet during this Aries cycle. This indicates more cosmic refinement (read “harsh realities”) for Leos but great benefits to Aries and Sagittarius.

Overall the aspects are better now than they have been in six weeks and most signs will receive a reprieve from the heartbreak of living life on life’s terms.