Article here:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/09/sanders_a_growing_force_on_the_far_far_left/

It seems to me, it would be prudent to try and get hold of Benanke’s and Sanders’ charts, and run them against the Fed charts w/the eclipse.

My bad! The statement should have been “in an exact opposition to the Sagittarian Mercury of this chart…

That the Federal Reserve chart does have a 5th house Gemini Saturn at 13 degrees opposite Mercury at 13 Sagittarius (in the chart’s 11th house when one casts this chart in a ‘start of business day’ format) we get a very good picture of the Fed as what may often be an unpopular ‘regulating’ factor in and to the general ‘marketplace,’ the “marketplace” always being an 11th house idea.

We are also offered the idea that the Fed exists to at least think about the behavior (and thinking) going on in said marketplace – replete with all the banking systems, corporate entities and such which would go with that. That Mercury rules Gemini tells us that it is the actions observed which trigger or shape the Gemini Saturn actions – especially with these two points so tied together.

Since we’re here and I’m working on getting the taste of foot-in-mouth off my typist’s tongue anyway, there is another tidbit about this which may well be…well, tasty. (ha!) That is that the 13 Sagittarius Mercury, apart from being not graced with self-control simply by being in Sagittarius (a sign Mercury is known to be hasty, sloppy, self righteous, inflexible or even simply over-the-line/out-of-control in)…that said Mercury is positioned one degree past asteroid Kleopatra at 12 Sag.

Resisting comments on pains in the asp, this gives us an image of the Mercury/Saturn opposition (as ruled by the regulatory Capricorn Jupiter on the Ascendant) as the Federal Reserve’s rather Saturn ‘purpose’: to keeping monetary forces from committing suicide. Ruled by Jupiter, Sagittarius as a sign can as easily indicate greed, righteous entitlement and excess as insight, judicious growth towards prosperous goals and the ability to see all things in and with perspective.

Interesting also to note is that Saturn is currently transiting the 8th house of the Fed’s chart – a house which in financial terms is easily seen as taxes, investments and debt…and less commonly but as aptly seen as back room/sweetheart deals, collusion, exclusionary tactics, resistance to change and evasion of fiduciary responsibility. Many in the United States (and perhaps elsewhere) would like to see new banking, investment and corporate regulations put in place which would protect the real-life consumer and not just economic/capitalistic theory. For them, news may be in the works, though not in short order: come January 2011, Saturn will take its station and go retrograde atop the 9th house cusp of the Fed’s chart, suggesting something ‘taking a turn’ at that time.

Given that this signal is one of going INTO retrograde, results will be slow in coming. But! Given that the July, 2010 Solar Eclipse will smack the 6th house Cancer (public money in every sense) AND with a June 1, 2011 Solar Eclipse occurring at 11 Gemini (2 degrees shy of Saturn in the Fed’s Gemini Saturn/Sagittarius Mercury opposition) … it would seem sure that big changes are on the way.

Any chart where you see one of the axis points (Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven, Nadir/IC) being eclipsed with the ruler of that point being eclipsed shortly thereafter (granting ‘short’ is being used here in the astrological, not everyday term)… that’s a sure sign of changes yet to come. It would be true of an eclipse hitting a chart point (i.e., planet or node) too: first the planet then the planetary ruler of the sign it’s in? That’s a strong astrological sequence.

In this case, as we are talking about eclipses (a Sun, Moon, Node function), with the Federal Reserve’s Moon being posited in Scorpio (a most fiduciary sign) and the 9th house (native house of law and Jupiter), bringing in the eclipsing of the Moon-ruled Cancer Mars. Taken together, this would seem to talk about transactional procedures, disclosures and plain old methods by which things are done.

And what about “punishments” so many think well deserved? Though there are many who wish severe penalties would rain down on the various corporate/executive monetary system rapists (subtle enough?) they are likely to be disappointed – at least when it comes to the Fed. That would depend on 10th and 12th house indicators of stricture which just aren’t there. In point of fact, the Federal Reserve may consider it’s (Saturn in 5/Mercury in 11) regulatory nature to be quite enough of a damper, holding to a ‘we can’t be the enemy; our job is to work with the system, not tyrannize it’ sort of thing.

This is a long answer for what was (to begin with) a simple omission of a word, but the Federal Reserve’s chart continues to be a fascinating tool, one I’m sure we will discuss yet again.

In the meantime Diane, thanks for finding the glitch – best to you and yours.

Boots

Thanks