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Planet Waves Astrology | Blog by Eric Francis Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2005

REGARDING RUMORS of the possible resignation of Dick Cheney, I have this to add to the discussion. When Spiro Agnew became the second vice president in US history to resign from office, on Oct. 10, 1973, Mars was retrograde in Taurus. This occurred less than one year prior to the resignation of Richard M. Nixon. This does not guarantee anything -- but it's a very interesting synchronicity that the discussion is even happening at all; it could be a kind of echo effect, since Mars has not been retrograde in Taurus since that time.

Rumors of Cheney's resignation must be precisely that, because if the idea exists, it's only a contingency plan. I am going to guess that White House types are not quite sure what Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is going to do. And in my version of the novel, the intelligence community is not cooperating with their requests for information, either that, or it's too bluntly uncouth to ask. Cheney, after all, is not good friends with the CIA. And while I'm writing a novel, we can be pretty sure Mr. Fitzgerald has a good budget for sweeping his office for bugs, and that he has secure phone lines. He deals with creeps like this fairly often.

But this does tell you something of the tense atmosphere in Washington. We are still waiting patiently for that big oil guzzling dinosaur to do the Watusi.

A Google news search will bring up the discussion of Cheney. Some interesting charts are posted below, a few days down, for the curious or obsessed. Much more on the Political Waves site, linked from the http://planetwaves.net homepage.