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Feb. 20 | These Fishy Times

EL SOL is in Pisces, the 12th sign of the zodiac, and the third month of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Each season begins with a cardinal sign (winter begins with Capricorn), peaks with a fixed sign (in this case Aquarius) and ends with a mutable sign (Pisces). Mutable signs are where one energy gives way to the next; one season to another.

Pisces is an interesting sign because it comes at the end of the roundel of the seasons; Brit astrologers sometimes refer to it as the 'dustbin of the zodiac' as this is where a lot of karmic material is hidden. Pisces are intense people, and Pisces is always an interesting time of the year. We have the added treat of Mercury retrograde in Pisces this year as well. This to me is one of those bits of astrology that makes things completely transparent. It is the astrology of see-through reality.

I think we're going to be doing a lot of seeing through as we come up on the Pisces New Moon exactly conjunct Uranus in the midst of Mercury swimming in several directions...a New Moon that is the one-month marker to the Aries total solar eclipse of 3/29. That is what I'm calling the 3/29 cluster that will rewrite the face of known reality a little.

But we're ahead of ourselves...the fun big forthcoming event, the cinematic reality enhancer, the surprise package, is the this little New Moon conjunct Uranus.

Here is what it looks like:

http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=pisces_uranus

I'll cover this more on Astrology Secrets Revealed (as I'm devoting Planet Waves Weekly to a series of studies on outer planet transits for the next few weeks).

Speaking of cinematic, last night I saw the George Clooney film, "Good Night and Good Luck," about legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's battle against anti-Commie crusader Sen. Joseph McCarthy. This was a time in history more frightening than what we are seeing now, with the war on terror being used to declare everyone the enemy, and as an excuse to do everything from search your library records to swipe all your emails and MP3 downloads.

Great film...excellent, straightforward work...like Murrow himself, who is one of my investigative reporting luminaries; his basic premise, which I pretty much figured out on my own, is that both sides of a story rarely have equal value; that the truth is NOT somewhere in between. Essentially, if you look  (time and time again), you will figure out that in any given controversy, somebody is full of shit. But thanks to the ubiquitous existence of human cowardliness and lack of resolve -- and watering things down to please the sponsors -- we have invented this notion of "journalistic objectivity" when all we really need to do is investigate the facts and give everyone full opportunity to respond.

Of course when it comes time to write about somebody like Charlie Manson, we don't give him full opportunity to respond or a fair story...he is simply crazy because he supervised murders...but when it comes to somebody like Bush, who supervises murder on the federal payroll, we feel we must; and this is simply kissing the ass of power rather than speaking truth to power.

And McCarthy went on and on for years, terrorizing people's lives and bullying the country over the "communist threat" and alleging that people were on the "Soviet payroll," when in reality it was a huge game played at the expense of everyone. Yes, there were spies. No, they were not people who attended union meetings or who subscribed to Worker's World.

"Good Night and Good Luck" is one example of brave journalism getting results in an era very much like our own. It will demonstrate that the people you see on CNN every night basically ain't the real thing. They are what some politely call haircuts.

Coincidentally, this morning, an article arrived in my inbox. Have a look, it's trippy. And by the way, as mentioned over the weekend, we are working on some detention center information for you, and will have it later in the week.

February 18, 2006
UK police arrest stars of award-winning film
"The Road to Guantanamo" under the Prevention of Terrorism Act

Citing the "Prevention of Terrorism" act, British Police have arrested and interrogated three of the stars of the award-winning film "The Road to Guantanamo", together with the three ex-Guantanomo detainees on whose story the film is based.

Acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom ("9 Songs", "A Cock and Bull Story", "24 Hour Party People", "Welcome to Sarajevo") had been showing the film at the Berlin Film Festival, where it has won a number of top awards.

http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/02/uk_police_arres.html