Month: September, 2013

Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon: The Mad Monk of Health Consciousness and the Forensic Researcher of the Far-Out, the Far-Reaching, and the Super-Freaky

Combine the health consciousness and analytical capabilities of a Virgo Sun with the instincts for breaking with “The Establishment” of an Aquarius Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing likely to be involved in reforming some aspect of society – maybe all of society – along precise guidelines. Astrologer Jefferson Anderson refers to Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon as the pairing of “The Scientist” who is attracted to concepts far-out, far-reaching, and super-freaky:

Once you have found the field that interests you most, there is no end to your dedication. Your combination is ideal for scientific achievement, as you have analytical strengths and precision of the Virgo as well as the originality and pioneering spirit of the Aquarian. In addition to technological fields, you can excel in psychology, teaching, social activism, and exploring unusual areas such as astrology and the occult. (Source)

Health guru Paul Chek, founder and CEO of the C.H.E.K. Institute, is a Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) Much of what Chek advocates for good health – organic food, natural forms of exercise, plenty of rest, contact with nature – are unlikely to seem foreign to people reading an astrology blog. When, however, they are compared to the chemically-drenched, greed-fueled hallucinations that comprise the consensus reality within modern medicine they may as well be of the “occult”.

Anderson writes of the Virgo/Aquarius individual’s professional aptitudes, “. . . your ability to detach yourself is ideal for altruistic pursuits such as nursing, medicine, and the clergy.” (Source) Chek is not a nurse or a member of the clergy but he could certainly be described as a “pastor of primal-fitness”, “nurse of natural movement patterns”, and a “monk of medical research” whose sense of spirituality is rooted in life-giving physical and nutritional routines.

Virgo/Aquarians will excel at discovering better, healthier ways to organize human society even if doing so puts them at odds with the moribund corruption of entrenched institutions or ephemeral emotionality of public opinion. This pairing has little patience certain species of humans that have proliferated during the last 50 years such as North Americanus Ignoramus Gigantus and Ass Clownus Corportatus. Astrologer Bill Tierney explains in his book All Around the Zodiac:

Together, Virgo and Aquarius foster an enlightened mindset that helps elevate community standards through educational and technological means, rather than purely by economic development.

. . . the combination of Virgo and Aquarius allows us to find progressive and practical outlets in which to use our brainpower, and hopefully in brilliant ways that will benefit timely humanitarian enterprises. (Source)

There is, of course, a downside to being so incredibly brilliant all the time. Virgo/Aquarius individuals can become excessively detached from human emotions, both their own and those of others. If it fails to keep these tendencies in check it can end up treating itself and its loved ones more like science experiments or specimens in a lab than real live flesh and blood humans.

Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon: The Space Alien Scientist Extraordinaire

Speaking of specimens under a microscope and brilliant humanitarian enterprises, the Harveys offer two images as metaphors for the healthy expressions of this pairing, “Staring into a microscope, a scientist sees the past and future writ large . . . Aliens land and embark on building a new and improved world order.” (Source)

Both images happen to be excellent approximations of Paul Chek. While not a scientist by trade, has has spent inordinate amounts of time pouring over scientific journals and approaches his work with a distinctly scientific mindset. Likewise, neither he or the small army of practitioners certified by his institute him are actual space aliens. Their methods, however, represent such a departure from the status quo that to the uninitiated they may seem like space aliens who have embarked on building “a new and improved world order” of wellness. Here, for instance, are a pair of diagrams from the book Space, Time, and Self by Norman Pearson that Chek uses to teach his advanced students:

Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon: The Space Alien-Scientist

Again, neither of the above diagrams have been downloaded from the databanks of a UFO but the typical cubicle dweller, pharmaceutical representative, or globo-gym goer would likely react to them as though they had been.

Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon Astro-Twins: Paul Chek and Weston A. Price

People with the same Sun/Moon pairing (“Astro-twins”) often bear a impossible to dismiss resemblance to each other even if they’re obviously not related by blood. Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon natives will often display dignified quarkiness, charming bookishness, and intellectual brilliance in their physical persona. Take a look, for instance, at Paul Chek and Weston A. Price who also happens to be a Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Price’s Chart)

Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon: Weston A. Price and Paul Chek

A dentist by profession, Price is primarily known for his theories about the relationships between nutrition, health, and physical fitness. Like his astro-twin Paul Chek, much of what Weston Price advocated was at odds with what the medical establishment’s profit driven status quo. Both Chek and Price approached health with the mindset of a modern scientist even as they both studied the lifestyles of primitive people and embraced many of their life-giving ancient practices.

Interestingly enough, Chek has studied Price’s work extensively and incorporated a good deal of it into his own teachings. (Source) He’s even spoken at the yearly conference that now bears Price’s name:

Margaret Sanger, the pioneer of planned parenthood, is a Virgo Sun, Aquarius Moon who once said, “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body.” (Chart) Sanger was referring to women’s reproductive rights when she said that but the same can be said of both genders’ ability to control and own their own physical and spiritual health. Sanger, despite holding distinctly unpalatable views regarding race, did make huge contributions to the field of women’s reproductive rights. Price and Chek have made similarly significant contributions to the fields of nutrition and physical health. That all three are Virgo/Aquarius natives should come as no surprise. At its highest expression this pairing will strive to be of service (Virgo) to all of of humankind (Aquarius) by combining their capacity for detailed research (Virgo Sun) with their need for rebellion against oppressive aspects of the status-quo (Aquarius Moon).

About the Author: Matt Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or consults at his contact page.

Pisces Sun, Gemini Moon: The Source Code, the Spook Loop, and the Psychic Surveillance State (Part II, "Through a PRISM, Darkly")

Continued from Part I

By now you’ve heard about “PRISM”, the NSA surveillance program so all encompassing it can “watch your ideas as they form”, to quote Edward Snowden’s assessment of its capabilities. What you probably haven’t heard about is a database and pattern recognition program by the name of “PROMIS”, the circa 1982 granddaddy progenitor of today’s mass surveillance systems. Why haven’t you heard about PROMIS before? There’s a number of reasons not the least of which is journalists who get too deep into the story have a nasty habit of turning up dead, usually under very suspicious circumstances. (Source) An astrological consideration of PROMIS is certainly in order at this time because, as an early 1990’s Australian news program “A Current Affair” describes it, the PROMIS saga revolves around “spying on a scale never before imagined”:

Using the date of its creation as its date of birth, PROMIS is a Pisces Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) Astrologer Linda Goodman observes that Pisces “absorbs people’s feeling and emotions like a psychic sponge” while Gemini “always wants something to read.” (Source) As explained in a previous article, this pairing can get so good at connecting, collating, and cross-indexing subtle impressions from the psychic world (Pisces) with data driven perceptions from the information world (Gemini) that he or she will seem to sense your thoughts before you do:

When the intuitive abilities of a Pisces Sun are combined with a Gemini Moon’s need for constant communication the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that’s adaptable, versatile, hyper-flexible, and hyper-aware. This combination is often something of a savant when it comes to languages, whether spoken or symbolic, ethereal or technological.

Pisces is associated with diffusive invisibility while Gemini is associated with multiple identities. The combination can thus ply its trade while remaining opaque, obfuscated, obscured or even disguised as something innocuous, similar to what a chameleon can do. In the old days it made for a great witch (or warlock). In the modern day it makes for a great computer hacker.

William Gibson, the writer who coined the phrase “cyberspace” in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, is a representative Pisces/Gemini. (Chart) His novels typically feature computer hackers, renegade CIA agents, ubiquitous surveillance systems, and other techno-occult themes.

According to astrologer Bill Tierney, “Pisces seeps into a situation’s hidden layers to uncover less visible facts” while “Gemini’s job is to spot, observes, and articulate”. (Source)

Short for “Prosecutor’s Management Information System”, PROMIS was originally intended as a federal case management tool. Designed by former NSA analyst Bill Hamilton, it worked by reading and integrating a wide variety of previously non-compatible databases into a single elegant, searchable, private proto-Google. This enabled the prosecutor to peer into previously “hidden layers” (Pisces) of a case to “uncover less visible facts” by “spotting, observing, and articulating” (Gemini) all the actions of the defendants, witnesses, arresting officers, judges, detectives, and defense lawyers in all their previous cases. (Source) When all that information was cross-collated and analyzed it became easy to predict which defense attorney and/or which judge was going to take which course of action in which case with what degree of probability. A legal strategy that might have taken months or years to research and develop before PROMIS could now be decided upon in nano-seconds. For the attorneys with access to it, PROMIS was, in effect, a micro-processor powered crystal ball.

Intelligence agencies quickly realized that with a few modifications PROMIS could be altered to quickly cross-collate and analyze a target’s bank deposits/withdrawals, credit card transactions, insurance files, stock investments, book purchases, phone calls, geographic movements, as well as those of all their associates out to several degrees of separation. When all of that information is overlaid with data from reconnaissance satellites, surveillance cameras, and license plate readers the resulting dossier is astonishing in its thoroughness. Investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts, the Assistant Secretary of HUD during the Bush I administration, has said the film Enemy of the State is a good approximation of what these systems were capable of back around 1992. Today the systems are run not by humans sitting in front of terminals but by automated, artificial intelligence powered super-computers that compile high detail, low-cost, real time dossiers on the entire population, not just selected troublemakers. (Source) What’s depicted in Enemy of the State is thus more than a generation out of date but if you fast forward to 00:48 of this scene you’ll at least get a decent, if fictionalized, visual reference for how invisible (Pisces) connections (Gemini) can be discerned with PROMIS progeny:

According to LAPD narcotics detective turned investigative reporter Michael C. Ruppert, by the turn of the millennium the system had mutated into an automated, algorithm driven Hydra, with a computerized “head” invisibly (Pisces) peering (Gemini) into every database and through every camera on the planet 24 hours a day. (Source) In other words, how modern government surveillance is less “FBI agent listening in on your phone calls” and more “All Seeing Eye, Version 2.0”:

What would you do if you possessed software that could think, understand every language in the world, that provided peep holes into everyone else’s computer “dressing rooms,” that could insert data into computers without people’s knowledge, that could fill in blanks beyond human reasoning and also predict what people would do – before they did it? You would probably use it wouldn’t you?

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[My source] described an actual physical point in space, further out than ever thought possible and now used by US satellites. This distance is made possible by PROMIS progeny so evolved that they make the original software look primitive. [From there], everything would be visible in terms of measurable and predictable patterns – the ultimate big picture.

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Once its power and advantages are demonstrated, most corporations, banks or nations are eager to be a part of the “exclusive” club that has it. (Source)

There are, of course, perfectly legal and reasonable uses for PROMIS. According to Bill Hamilton, it’s now routinely used to by banks, insurance companies, and law enforcement to spot everything from identity theft to insider trading to insurance fraud to tax evasion. By 2007, the technology had advanced to the point that credit card companies could even predict which married couples would get divorced with a 95% plus rate of accuracy just by running their credit card transactions through AI-powered “data waterfalls”. (Source) That’s more accurate than most psychics (Pisces), no matter how many inquiries (Gemini) they make.

The software’s predictive abilities come alive via the power of what’s known as “block modeling”, a process IBM pioneered beginning in the 1980s when it began building computerized models of its own employees. (Source) (It’s now called “dimensional modeling”) How it works: let’s assume a person is so unique that they’re one in a million. That means there’s 350 other people with their exact psychological profile just in the United States alone. Even the most unique person’s thoughts can thus be predicted with a high degree of accuracy based on what the other 349 people in their respective data “block” have done or thought in similar situations. If an agency or corporation can data mine all of a person or community’s emails, phone calls, google searches, banking records, etc, then automatically compare and cross-analyze those against the same data mined from all the other persons and/or communities in similar “blocks” the resulting psychological profiles start to get extraordinarily granular. The software is so powerful that, according to a 1991 Vanity Fair article, journalist Danny Casolaro was murdered for his investigation into it. Dubbed “the Octopus conspiracy”, the story even made an episode of the television series Unsolved Mysteries. Fast forward to 4:07, you’ll even get to see Bill Hamilton, the man who developed PROMIS in the first place:

Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey tell us the Pisces/Gemini pairing has internal “lines of communication” which are used to “keep a running commentary on people and situations” (Source) That’s exactly how PROMIS works, by accessing every “line of communication” imaginable to keep running, real-time dossiers (“commentaries”) on not only people but also entire governments, organizations, neighborhoods, corporations, communities, ecosystems, families, and financial markets. According to a UK Register article entitled “War Games on the Grandest Scale”, the Pentagon has been utilizing PROMIS like systems to build virtual reality computer simulations of all 6.5 billion people on the planet since 2007. The system, called the “Sentient World Simulation” is, for all intents and purposes, a psychic (Pisces) data exchange (Gemini) — one that can predict the likely actions of an individual or community years before they’ve even thought to take them. That sounds like something out of a futuristic science fiction movie but it’s actually already decade old technology. According to a recent PBS article, in the early-to-mid 2000s the National Security Agency developed a computer system called “AQUAINT” (Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence), an artificial intelligence powered black box agents can query to find out what person X thinks about subject Y. (Source) AQUAINT is, in effect, a psychic surveillance system — one whose lineage can almost certainly be traced back to the PROMIS software originally designed by Bill Hamilton and stolen from his company INSLAW.

When Jefferson Anderson wrote in 1978 that the Pisces/Gemini pairing is “actually several clever individuals inside of one and can play any part in order to get what you want” he had no idea just how accurate he was. (Source) The ability of PROMIS progeny to manipulate any database (“play any part”) makes them extremely effective at enabling subtle manipulation of both groups and individuals, from Wall Streeters to whistle-blowers, multi-national corporations to localized protest movements. Suffice it to say, it’s a excellent tool for blackmail and intimidation. Those old school J. Edgar Hoover tactics, while still useful, are crude child’s play compared to where PROMIS progeny really shine. When integrated with the latest advancements in neural networking and parallel processing they can perform not only surveillance but also intervention in the systems being monitored: cell phones, power grids, court systems, oil rigs, research facilities, traffic lights, automobiles, stock markets, email accounts, tax and regulatory records, anything computerized. (Source) Whoever wrote the 1992 Robert Redford film Sneakers had such a detailed understanding of PROMIS software’s capabilities that it’s amazing the movie was even allowed to be made. In one particularly chilling scene, Redford’s team realize the software can be used not only for theft and espionage but to do things like artificially shut down parts of the power grid or even to crash passenger jets by manipulating air traffic control systems:

As coincidence would have it, PROMIS dervied software was on the computers of the FAA, NORAD, the Secret Service, and the White House the day of the 9/11 attacks. (Source)

Using its original air date as its date of birth, the classic Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” is also a Pisces/Gemini — one whose plot bears more than a few similarities to the PROMIS software saga. (Chart) In the episode space aliens on a secret mission use advanced technology to manipulate a town’s electrical and telecommunications grid, plunging the residents into a frenzy of paranoia, suspicion, chaos, and violent scapegoating. A 2002 reboot of the series replaced the team of invading space aliens with a secret Pentagon unit tasked with stoking people’s fears of terrorism.

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In the epilogue to “Monsters” Rod Serling stated, “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts . . .” Unfortunately, as events of the last decade have made clear, the mass weaponization of our thoughts is no longer something confined to the Twilight Zone.

About the Author: Matt Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or consults at his contact page.

Plutonic Punk Astrologer Willow on the Fukushima Radiation Crisis

This week’s guest on the North Bay Astrology Show was Willow of Willow’s Web Astrology who discussed the astrology of the Fukushima radiation crisis and concurrent media blackouts:

Part II of the show can be watched on YouTube.

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Tem Tarriktar on the Secret History of "The Mountain Astrologer"

Tem Tarriktar, the founder of The Mountain Astrologer, joined us on the North Bay Astrology show to discuss the history of the world’s most well recognized astrology magazine:

The Mountain Astrologer is published six times per year, written and digital subscriptions are available at the TMA website.

The North Bay Astrology Show with Matt Savinar is heard on KOWS 107.3 FM in Occidental, California on Thursdays from 10 am to 12 Noon.

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