Inauguration Chart Set AS PROMISED, the set of charts from the Jan. 20, inauguration of Bush and Cheney, is posted below. The story of the past five years in history is told as clearly in the astrology as it is anywhere else, and this is one of the more vivid moments in the process. While I have your attention, I would like to request that you take 20 minutes out of your life and read a little about the Valerie Plame spy outing case that is, with any luck at all, about to come to a head in the next week or so. Here's a snipped URL that will take you to a Google search of the issue on truthout.org: http://snipurl.com/ijzz Note that most truthout stories are selected from the mainstream media, such as AP and the Washington Post, but are chosen on the basis of simple journalistic standards -- accuracy and balance, and then reposted to truthout to gain more exposure and create a kind of cosmic archive. Accuracy is not that hard of a standard to meet. Everything in a news article needs to be documented somehow, and as you start to assemble those documents, whether a news article is for the most part real or bullshit becomes fairly easy to spot. The short version of the Plame story (also covered copiously on Political Waves, usually called Weaselgate) is this. In order to justify the massacre and invasion of Iraq, Bush lied to Congress and the American people and said that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons. When this claim -- long known, based on the government's own intelligence reports, to be false -- was debunked by a former American diplomat named Joseph Wilson, who had personal knowledge of the issue, people in the Bush administration retaliated by exposing the identity of Wilson's wife, Valarie Plame, who was at the time a CIA agent working in the Middle East against the prospect of terrorists getting such weapons. In doing so they threatened her life and the safety of the entire spy network with which she had been working for years. Now, as a result of these lies, the U.S. seems to be intractably mired in a war that is killing and destroying the lives of many people, driving the U.S. deeper into debt by the minute, and diverting resources and attention away from many pressing problems in the U.S. and elsewhere that the whole world must face together. Does anybody remember that the Republicans attempted to impeach Bill Clinton for saying he had not had sex with Monica Lewinsky? This was an issue with absolutely no bearing on the fate of the Earth except for the notion that the president ought to be an honest guy. What is about to happen some time in the next week and a half is that a special prosecutor appointed to look into the matter, named Patrick Fitzgerald, will conclude his investigation, which has lasted two years and is scheduled end Oct. 28. Fitzgerald has the power to bring criminal charges against anyone involved in the situation, who include Bush's top political advisor, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, a guy named "Scooter" Libby, and a variety of journalists who cooperated in exposing the identity of a U.S. operative -- a serious federal offense. Will these guys be prosecuted? Will they take the fall for Bush and Cheney? We will need to wait and see. Here are the charts for the Jan. 20 inauguration of Bush, entered into the collective consciousness: http://www.planetwaves.net/charts/inauguration/ And here is the chart showing the progressed Moon reaching an opposition to Mars on Oct. 30, a condition in the chart that will continue over the next four to five months as the Moon opposes Pluto early next year. Other versions are a few days down. Note Mercury exactly in the ascendant of this truly remarkable horoscope, just a shade into the 12th house -- a little echo of the Sept. 11, 2001 chart. http://www.planetwaves.net/charts/inauguration_chart.html As usual, my friends helped with the heavy lifting: Tracy cast the charts and Anatoly put the little Web site together. I just sat here and told you the story. Please let me know what you see in these charts. We are all very curious.     e