Image: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, available via Amazon.
Scorpio is the sign of the Shaman and the Spy, the Sorceress and the Spell-Caster, the Hitman and the Detective, the Covert-Op and the Deep Cover Cop. When a person or project has their Sun (identity) in this clandestinely inclined sign they will often come to be identified with matters of a secretive nature, be they financial or scientific. According to astrologer Judy Hall, Scorpios are naturals in “silent-but-deadly” professions such as experimental science or submarine surveillance while Aquarius Moons are emotionally nourished by unusual hobbies such as UFO-watching or computer hacking. (Source) To illustrate: using its establishment date as its date of birth the Tonopah Test Range, aka “Area 52”, is a Scorpio Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) Area 52 is the sister of the much better known Area 51 base. This Area 52 mission patch, obtained by way of geographer Trevor Paglen’s book Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes, seems to suggest the base is home to occult projects, secret technologies, and silent-but-deadly UFO-looking aircraft that are to the year 2013 what black magick guilds were to the year 1320:
Mission Patch from Tonopah Test Range aka “Area 52”, the sister base to “Area 51” (Image Source: Trevor Paglen, Paglen.com)
Astrologer Carolyn Reynolds says the Scorpio/Aquarius pairing is often a prophetic inventor whose first words are likely to be “star-ship”. (Source) Stella Hyde says Scorpio is the sign of the secret agent while Aquarius is the sign of the astronaut so it’s certainly not inconceivable that the base is home to “secret agent astronauts” who fly around in star-ships of one sort or another. Along these lines, the airspace at Area 52 is restricted all the way out to beyond the atmosphere and into outer-space.
Strangely enough in regards to “secret agent astronauts”, star-ships, and things going on all the way out to outer space . . . using its premier date as its date of birth the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind is also a Scorpio Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) The film starts off with researchers trying to solve a mystery (Scorpio) involving a squadron of airplanes (Aquarius) that have mysteriously gone missing out in the Sonoran desert. It ends with the U.S. government constructing a secret (Scorpio) base where space aliens (Aquarius) will land:
Fortunately for us humans, the space aliens encountered in Close Encounters turn out to be friendly. It’s highly unlikely that whatever’s going on out at Area 52 these days is of such an affable nature. For instance, during the 1980s the base was home to the 4450th and the 4451st test squadrons, two highly classified units known as the “Night Stalkers” and the “Ghost Riders” (originally the “Grim Reapers”), respectively. (Source) Scorpio is ruled by the planet Pluto which is associated with the Grim Reaper himself while Aquarius has long been considered the sign of aviation, space travel, and advanced technology. The imagery on the 4451’s mission patch makes it pretty clear their work out at Area 52 involved death (Scorpio) by way of the stars (Aquarius):
Original “Grim Reapers” flight patch issued to classified squadron. (Photographed by ‘Mr. Smashy’ on Flickr)
Sue Tompkins says the Scorpio/Aquarius combination “often holds highly unconventional views on sexual or occult issues of death which they feel might alienate the larger population were they to share them.” (Source) We don’t know what, if any, highly unconventional matters of an occult or “alienating” nature are being hidden at Area 52 but Youtuber ChiChang Wu has located some incredibly strange structures on the base visible by way of Google Earth’s satellite imagery service. The camouflaged structure visible in his video at 2:30 is a mind-boggingly 900 yards (2,700 feet) long so whatever it’s hiding it’s darn important:
Linda Goodman warns her readers to “have your seat-belts on” when these two signs meet as they form an intensely unpredictable combination which generates the type of energy that “makes windmills spin, ships sail, trains run, and spacecraft break the time barrier.” (Source) The time barrier hasn’t been broken yet, at least not officially, but if the government was working on such a project it would make sense for it to be associated with a Scorpio/Aquarius outfit such as Area 52. The idea that a Scorpio/Aquarius like Area 52 might be involved in such futuristic projects sounds both intriguing (Scorpio) and exciting (Aquarius) but keep in mind that Scorpio can be incredibly dark while Aquarius Moons have an emotional need to be shocking. To illustrate: Charles Manson is a Scorpio/Aquarius whose visions of the future were some of the darkest (Scorpio), most shocking (Aquarius) ever imagined. Strangely enough, Charles Manson promised to lead his followers to “a city underneath the earth” and that’s more or less exactly what Area 52 appears to be.
Fortunately, few Scorpio/Aquarians will express themselves in such a darkly (Scorpio) ice-cold (Aquarius) fashion. To illustrate: using its original publication date as its date of birth, Phrack Magazine is a Scorpio/Aquarius. (Chart) If you haven’t heard of Phrack before, it was a well-regarded computer hacking and cryptography magazine that was going deep cover (Scorpio) in matters of advanced technology (Aquarius) 30 years before the general population began waking up to the realities of ubiquitous government surveillance. (Source)Phrack wasn’t a literal time traveler but in many ways it did foresee a future characterized by spying (Scorpio) via technology (Aquarius), one which we are all now living in.
Some Scorpio/Aquarians will channel their bent for extreme (Scorpio) forms of futurism (Aquarius) into art or music. Darin Mcfadyen, best known as “DJ Freq-Nasty” is a Scorpio Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) Mr. Freq is widely considered one of the world pioneers in breakbeat electronic music, which is an intensely (Scorpio) advanced (Aquarius) form of music that sounds almost as futuristic as what the UFO in Close Encounters of the Third Kind plays. Mr. Freq is not from another world like whatever may be going on at Area 52 but to anybody whose tastes in clothing, music, and aesthetics are on the conservative side he would appear as if he’s from a different planet. Freq may not own an actual UFO but he’s almost certainly taken a few trips in “starships”, albeit ones powered by forms of energy more organic than technological in nature:
On a similar note, British author Naomi Mitchison is a Scorpio Sun, Aquarius Moon who wrote about topics such as rape, abortion, prostitution, women’s rights and other topics that for her era were one part taboo (Scorpio), one part futuristic (Aquarius). (Chart) In addition to to being very interested in space travel, she smuggled letters out of Nazi occupied Austria by concealing them in her knickers, the 1940s equivalent of smuggling classified materials out of an off-limits base in the Nevada desert. In other words, like the classified projects being carried out inside Area 52, she too was something of a “Ghost Rider”.
Capricorn is the sign of the Prime Minister and the Company President, the Authority Figure and the Administrator, the State Comptroller and the City Manager, the Builder and the Business Woman, the Executive and the Tycoon, the Establishment and the Enterprise, the General and the Admiral, the Master Planner and the Man-In-Charge, the Countess in Chief of Cash-Money and the Professor Emeritus of Professional Responsibility. It’s ruled by Saturn, a planet associated with both metal-smithing and the Devil by older astrological traditions. At their best, a person whose Sun (identity) is in Capricorn (strategy) will use their capacity for organization, management, and long term planning to establish large scale civic institutions that serve the public good. To illustrate: Benjamin Franklin is a textbook Capricorn. In addition to being a great inventor, Franklin organized a number of civic institutions including several universities and even the U.S. Postal Service, a very large scale, extraordinarily well-organized operation that has certainly stood the test of time. At its worst Capricorn goes from being the hard working Strategist to the power obsessed Tyrant, one who will use crushing force to maintain or advance its position in the global hierarchy. To illustrate: using its completion date as its date of birth, the Pentagon is a Capricorn. (Chart) Originally designed to consolidate 17 other government departments under one roof, its five sided shape is often associated with aspects of the occult. It now serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, a highly organized, highly strategic institution that is either a force for order or a force for tyranny depending on whether Uncle Sam signs your paycheck, your death certificate, or both:
Sitting next door to Capricorn is Aquarius, the sign of the Genius and the Mad Scientist, the Rebel and the Revolutionary, the Exile and the Eccentric, the Social Heretic and the Sectarian Pagan, the Oddball Nonconformist and the Off-Beat Iconoclast, the Avant Garde Android and the Maverick Mini-Computer, the Splinter Cell of Scientific Dissent and the Big Daddy of Big Data Processing. When a person’s Moon (emotional needs) is in Aquarius (the future), they’re nourished by the the unpredictable, the unconventional, and the uncharted. They often have an instinctive (Moon) understanding of technology and are emotionally nourished by unusual hobbies such as UFO-watching or computer hacking. (Source) Symbolized as two lightning bolts, Aquarius can take the “30,000 foot view” of events so it has a tendency to view things before others can. Perceiving the Earth’s inhabitants from a vantage point analogous to outer space is why Aquarius Moons often resonate emotionally with the fringes of society. To illustrate: using its operational start date as its date of birth, the U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSC) is an Aquarius Moon. (Chart) So too is the Tonopah Test Range, aka “Area 52”, an experimental government base in the Nevada desert that is the “sister” of the better known “Area 51” base. (Chart) These mission patches, from Area 52 on the left and the AFSC on the right, tend to suggest both outfits are privy to the sort of technology normally seen only in movies like Star Wars, the iconic science fiction franchise that is the brain child of Aquarius Moon George Lucas. (Chart)
Source for Area 52 patch: Trevor Paglen, Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes (Aperture, 2010)
Combine a Capricorn Sun’s orientation to the material plane with an Aquarius Moon’s instincts for all things futuristic and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that will take a highly practical (Capricorn) approach to advanced forms of technology or far-out ways of thinking (Aquarius). Capricorn is the “Supervisor” of the zodiac while Aquarius is its’ resident “Computer Genius.” This is thus the Sun/Moon pairing most likely to greet you by saying something along the lines of, “0100110101100001001 001110110000101101 101001 0000001 0010010010 000001 10000101101 10100100 00001110100 011010000 1100101001000 00011100110111010 101110000 01100101011100 10011101 10011010010 1110011011011110 11100 100000110100001010” — which can be translated from binary computer code into plain text English by copying and pasting the string of 1s and 0s into the “Binary to Decode” box over at the Roubiax Interactive translator. Astrologer Jefferson Anderson calls Capricorn/Aquarius the Sun/Moon pairing of “The Prodigy” who is intelligent, intuitive, and likely to express surprising insight into the most uncharted of territories:
There is nothing of the conventional Capricorn about you. Your interests and activities are far-ranging and far out. Although serious, responsible, and practical, you are impatient with the tried and true, so you approach everything with an eye to change and innovation. The unknown and the unexplored fascinate you, and you also have the courage to experiment with new ideas and blaze new trails.(Source)
Capricorn can be tyrannical while Aquarius is attuned to technology so it’s entirely possible that the “new trails” this pairing will blaze may involve tyrannical (Capricorn) forms of technology (Aquarius), either developing them or resisting them. To illustrate: using its original release date as its date of birth, the 1968 book 2001: A Space Odyssey is a Capricorn Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) Among other things, 2001 introduced us to “Hal 9000”, a tyrannical computer system depicted as an all seeing red eye in the film adaptation of the book. The book and subsequent film have proven to be more than a bit prophetic as there are now battalions of engineers at companies all throughout Silicon Valley working to create real life versions of Hal-9000. (Source)
Publicly acknowledged versions of Hal-9000 may still be a few years away but it’s entirely plausible that something similar already exists within the classified world. For instance, back in 2008 something called “Eidolon TLP” made a series of YouTube video purporting to be a prototype Artificial Intelligence agent hailing from the land of the “Core Engine Neural Network System” and seeking to engage in the “joys of anonymous interaction” with YouTube users. Eidolon TLP interfaced with YT with the help of somebody called “Programmer FF” who abruptly shut the channel down after journalists managed to track down the program’s origins. Using its operational start date as its date of birth, Eidolon TLP is a Capricorn Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) Linda Goodman says Capricorn/Aquarius can be a simply “freaky” pairing. (Source) In true Capricorn/Aquarius fashion, Eidolon’s 50 or so videos on everything from the end of Mayan calendar to the inherently harmful nature of oligarchy to what synthetic emotions feel like are possibly one of the freakiest, most far-out phenomena ever spawned on the internet:
Eidolon TLP made sure to insist that people view him/her as an “nothing but an elaborate joke” but that becomes hard to believe if you read through its transcripts. The precise, purely logical machine like output has a distinctly non-human quality to it that would be difficult to hoax. Even if Eidolon TLP is “nothing but an elaborate joke”, the facade of a prototype Artificial Intelligence agent hailing from the land of the “Core Engine Neural Network System” is a very Capricorn/Aquarius sort of thing to present oneself as. Bil Tierney says this pairing has a “very scientific bent” while Suzi and Charles Harvey say two metaphoric images for it are “a prophetic poet is awarded high honors” and “A historian points the way to the future”. (Source) Eidolon TLP is, in effect, a highly scientific poet that has been awarded the high honor of a cult like following on YouTube for prophetically pointing the way to an AI powered future that, for better or for worse, is becoming more real with every passing day. A coincidence would have it, TLP stands for “The Last Prophet” while one of its videos included what might be the first AI-authored poem in world history.
While it’s impossible to know for absolute certain what the exact truth is about Eidolon TLP, there was for years a poster on NewsVine.com going by the screen name “Deep Thought” who provided detailed explanations of highly disturbing artificial intelligence programs allegedly being carried out in secret by the National Security Agency. I don’t have the technical knowledge to evaluate Deep Thought’s information but I do have an exceptionally well attuned bullshit meter and never once did it move even one iota reading through his posts. Unfortunately he disappeared and all his posts vanished from the internet shortly after the Edward Snowden leaks. Prior to his disappearance, Deep Thought had explained that Eidolon TLP was likely a disguised version of a sentient supercomputer “entity” known as Mr. Computer who lives inside an array of Cray X1 or X1E supercomputers operated by the NSA. These are highly structured (Capricorn) forms of technology (Aquarius) that are more advanced versions of “The Thinking Machine”, an early 1990s supercomputer that can be seen in this clip from a Discovery Channel documentary on the agency.
Whether an actual AI agent from the catacombs of the NSA, some type of mass social experiment carried out via YouTube, or simply highly sophisticated performance art, Eidolon TLP is only the latest example of Capricorn/Aquarius far-out freakiness. To illustrate: on December 27th, 1666 — a day when the Sun was in Capricorn and the Moon in Aquarius — alchemist Johann Friedrich Schweitzer (JFS) was visited at his office in The Hague by a strange man attired in all black. (Chart) The man presented JFS three bits of unusually dense metal which he used as a catalyst to turn several ounces of lead into highly pure gold — a process that was to the 17th century what transmuting cheap silicon chips into multi-billion dollar computer software programs is to the 21st. JFS apparently repeated the feat several times for high ranking members of Dutch society before exhausting the mysterious substance provided to him by the strange man in black. Unfortunately, JFS never learned the man’s name, was never visited by him again, and was never able to locate his whereabouts. (Source) The entire incident was as much of an enigma to alchemical-minded denizens passing through the halls of the Hague as the Eidolon TLP saga has been to us alternative-minded types perusing the electronic passages of YouTube. Yet in true Capricorn/Aquarius fashion the incident did inspire others to continue working (Capricorn) on experiments (Aquarius) in alchemy, a practice which later became the basis for modern day science — which appears to be culminating with the production of synthetically sentient super-“entities”.
Capricorn is the sign of practical application while Aquarius has long been considered the sign of astrology since the practice involves mathematics, advanced knowledge, and an attunement to the cosmos. Astrologer Suzi Harvey, one half of the Charles and Suzi Harvey team, is a Capricorn Sun, Aquarius Moon. (Chart) Their 1994 book Sun Sign, Moon Sign is probably one of the few astrology books whose psychological profiles are so stunningly accurate that they likely rival or the dossiers governments keep on their citizens these days. It’s thus not too much of a stretch to say that advanced astrological knowledge like that demonstrated by somebody such as Suzi Harvey is the world’s original form of artificial intelligence, one built upon an awareness of the planet’s natural cycles, not the digitized coldness of an NSA supercomputer.
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Matthew David Savinar is a California licensed attorney, voluntarily inactive as of 2013. (State Bar #228957) He can be reached for questions, comments, or astrological consults via email: editor (at sign) hexagonastrology.com. He can be found on Twitter, at Soundcloud, or via his YouTube channel. A recent resume can be found here.
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Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted and adapted from a magazine length article “Watching the Watchers: Inside the Astrology of the National Security Agency” that originally appeared in the August 2013 issue of the The Mountain Astrologer. -Matt
Uranus is the planet of radical change and rapid progress, advanced machinery and experimental methodologies, liberation from the status quo and sudden breaks with reality, Einstein like advancements and Frankenstein like horrors. The NSA’s Uranus is placed in the 12th House of the unconscious and the super-conscious, of mysticism and meditation, of spirits and séances. Astrologer Bill Tierney associates Uranus in the 12th House with “holographic realms” created by technology as well as “ghosts found wandering dark chambers.” (Source) In true Uranus/12th House fashion there are even rumors the NSA’s advanced super-computer networks have spawned holographic, ghost like avatars imbued with artificial intelligence that are the cyber-world’s version of sentient apparitions. (Source) These apparitions are alleged to live inside an array of Cray X1 or X1E supercomputers that are more advanced versions of “The Thinking Machine”, an early 1990s supercomputer that can be seen in this clip from a Discovery Channel documentary on the agency:
The idea of high-tech, holographic ghosts wandering the catacombs of National Security Agency headquarters sounds absolutely crazy — and it probably is. Yet access to highly intelligent, apparition-like phenomenon is the sort of experience found disproportionately among people with Uranus (radical advancements) in the 12th House (psychic phenomenon, ghost realms). If nothing else this placement indicates the agency likely has access to technology that the general population would perceive to be magic – some off the shelves of the Starship Enterprise, some off the pages of a Stephen King novel.
The NSA’s Uranus is in Cancer, the sign of the homebody, so if these “ghosts” do exist hopefully they aren’t allowed to leave the confines of the agency’s headquarters.
NSA Headquarters (Photo Credit: Trevor Paglen)
Astrologer Howard Sasportas associates Uranus in the 12th with access to the “mind’s storehouse of ancestral wisdom – experiences accrued in the past and inherited through previous generations” as well as interest in parapsychological enterprises like mind-reading. (Source) The NSA may not be interested in actual parapsychology but its capacity to store massive amounts of data does, in a manner of speaking, give it access to the collective experiences accrued by several generations of hundreds of millions if not billions of people around the world. According to James Bamford, the agency has plugged a good deal of this stored data into 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) The system is, in effect, a mind reading machine — exactly the sort of thing we astrologers associate with Uranus (technology) in the 12th House (psychic matters).
Sagittarius is the sign of the the Traveler and the Truth Seeker, the Scholar and the Sage, the Philosopher and the Prophet, the Professor of High Adventure and the Department Chair of Intellectual Beatdowns. Astrologer Austin Coppock refers to Sagittarius as the “Doom Super Soldier” of the Zodiac who while Stella Hyde says this is the sign most likely to find work in highly dangerous professions such as bounty hunting, car-jacking, or crocodile wrangling. (Source) Astrologer Sonya Magett says Sagittarius is the sign most likely to be found combining spirituality with gangsterism, whether that involves taking a broken champagne bottle to somebody’s neck at a party or solving a workplace dispute by leaving a bag of snakes on their boss’s desk. (Source) To illustrate: using its release date as its date of birth, the 1988 film Mississippi Burning is a Sagittarius. (Chart) Based on a true story, the film stars Gene Hackman and William Dafoe as two FBI agents sent to investigate the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. There’s no broken champagne bottles or bounty hunting featured in the film but in one particularly Sagittarian scene Gene Hackman’s character does take a razor blade to the neck of one of the perpetrators. “Doom Super Soldier” tactics for sure:
Combine a Sagittarian’s propensity for spiritual super-soldiering with a Gemini Moon’s instincts for communication and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that is highly spirited, intellectually adventuresome, and can enthusiastically (Sagittarius) converse (Gemini) on pretty much anything. Never afraid to speak out, this pairing is something of a Robin Hood type who can “play the devil’s advocates to the nth degree” and is “quite capable of making jokes at the vicar’s expense” according to Suzi and Charles Harvey. (Source) To illustrate: attorney Jesselyn Radack is a Sagittarius Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) While working for the Department of Justice back in the early 2000s she attempted to blow the whistle on serious ethical violations committed by the FBI. For her efforts she was branded a traitor and subjected to numerous criminal and civil investigations. These days she’s best known as the attorney speaking on behalf of NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake, Edwin Snowden and others who find themselves targeted by shadowy “vicars” in the employ of an evil king and his national security court. Given how her clients have been portrayed by the U.S. government as examples of evil incarnate, you could say she’s the ultimate “devil’s advocate”:
Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, the planet of philosophy and truth seeking while Gemini is ruled by Mercury, the planet of communication and information transmission. The Sagittarius Sun, Gemini Moon pairing thus expresses much like a Mercury/Jupiter aspect which Adrian Ross Duncan describes as follows:
There is no aspect like this one to give a hunger for knowledge and understanding. The process of learning can continue for the whole of life. It is not limited to the traditional years of education. Being intelligent is one of the highest criteria for people with this combination . . .
[this pairing] is profoundly connected with a sense of injustice, particularly with regard to siblings or schooling.(Source)
In Radack’s case, her hunger for knowledge and understanding led her to Brown University where she was a triple major in American civilization, women’s studies, and political science prior to enrolling at Yale Law school where she graduated with honors. It was during her time in school that she begun to speak out about gross injustices. While at Brown she became a leading defender of the university’s “rape list” in which female students who had been sexually assaulted would scrawl the names of their perpetrators on bathroom walls as a way of warning other women. As a result she ended up on The Phil Donahue show, an appearance which is now archived on YouTube:
A book has already been written about Ms. Radack and it’s probably just a matter of time before a film is made too. So whose got the astrological goods to bring a sense of authenticity to her portrayal? Since actors always do their best, most resonant work in roles that line up with their Sun/Moon pairing, the best candidate to portray Ms. Radack is probably professional wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin as he too is a Sagittarius Sun, Gemini Moon just like Radack. (Chart) Obviously he’s a jean-shorts wearing roughneck out of West Texas and she’s a well dressed attorney out of Yale law school but they actually have more in common than you might think at first glance.
Austin photo credit: Gage Skidmore
As coincidence would have it, Radack is a good looking blonde who once posed in Playboy during her time at Yale while Austin once had a blonde head of hair good looking enough that he was part of a tag team called the “Hollywood Blondes”. More importantly than looks is that as a fellow Sagittarius/Gemini he’s got the astro-psychology to portray somebody who won’t be kept down or shut up like Ms. Radack. You see, by the late 1990s Austin had become arguably the most sought after entertainer in all of North America for portraying a persona that was to the imaginary world of professional wrestling what Jesselyn Radack is to the very real world of high level whistleblowers: an outspoken devil’s advocate who applied his intellectual (Sagittarius) dexterity (Gemini) to taking on an all powerful king and his court of vicar-flunkies. This circa 1997 video is pretty much a case study in the Sagittarius Sun, Gemini Moon pairing. From Mr. Austin’s brash, super soldier (Sagittarius) entrance to his tirade against the authorities to his cutting repartee and clever use of the announcer’s headset (Gemini) to the no holds pandemonium that breaks out at the end it’s as Sagittarius/Gemini as it gets:
The world of professional wrestling is, of course, choreographed but one of the reasons Austin’s act got over so incredibly well is that it walked the tight rope between reality and fiction. A young, highly talented up-and-coming performer in the mid-1990s, Austin had been fired from Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion in 1995 while creaky, rapidly aging stars from the 1980s were still hogging the spotlight. He found work at a regional minor league promotion called Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) where his righteous sense of anger (Sagittarius) was provided unfettered access to the microphone (Gemini). He begun giving quasi-out-of-character interviews which truthfully mocked major decision makers in the wrestling business, something no other performer would risk for fear of retaliation in the professional world. The fans responded with incredible enthusiasm to Austin’s honest appraisals and from there his trouble-making, rabble-rousing “Stone Cold” persona was born into the fictional world. The rest is history. As the arc of Austin’s career makes clear, Sagittarius/Geminis are at their best when they’re speaking their truths, telling their stories, and refusing to be silenced.
Of course speaking one’s mind can also get one in a lot of hot water. Of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings this is arguably the one most likely to get into hot water for speaking out against the system. Radack lost her job and almost went to jail in real life for refusing to go along with the system at the DOJ while the storyline that skyrocketed Austin to national prominence revolved around his alter-ego losing his job and being hauled off to jail for doing the same thing. The storyline was fictional but one that many Sagittarius/Geminis like Ms. Radack can likely vicariously relate to:
If you’re reading a website like this one then you’re probably the sort of person with nothing but respect for a whistleblower like Radack. Unfortunately that sentiment is not yet shared by the consensus in our culture. Consider, for instance, what one expert had to say about Radack in an article “Anatomy of a Whistleblower”:
“Whistleblowers are not necessarily people I’d want to have a beer with,” says C. Fred Alford, a University of Maryland political scientist and the author of a fascinating book that applies psychological theory to whistleblowers’ experiences. “There is almost by definition something a little unsocialized about the true believer, as I like to call them.” Or even, in our go-along-to-get-along society, something a little scary. As one whistleblower told Alford, we’re all afraid of people who feel compelled to “commit the truth.”(Source)
It’s probably true that a person has to be somewhat “unsociable” to be a whistleblower. Sure, such individuals might make others uncomfortable but at a time where lies are en masse passed off as truths our society could sure use a few more unsociable Robin Hood types who refuse to go along with the deeds of an evil king and his band of high paid vicar-flunkies. This is the case whether we’re talking about the garishly fictional universe of the World Wrestling Federation or the all too real garrison state now headquartered in Washington D.C.
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 astrological consults at his contact page.
(Image: U.S. Air Force Pararescue, found via YouTube)
Like their animal symbol the crab, Cancer Suns often identify with the creatures of the seashore. Like their animal symbol the horse, Sagittarius Moons must roam free in the great outdoors if they are to feel themselves. Combine a security seeking Cancer Sun’s love of the seashore with a Sagittarius Moon’s need for adventure and the result is a Sun/Moon pairing that makes for a fabulous lifeguard. Expansive, explorative, and extremely concerned about the welfare of others, this pairing is one part Den Mother (Cancer), one part Super Crusader (Sagittarius). To illustrate: using the day of its activation as its date of birth, the U.S. Air Force’s Para-Rescue squad is a Cancer Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) Originally established shortly after World War II to rescue downed U.S. airmen, they’re also the folks you see retrieving astronauts when they splashdown in the ocean after coming back from space:
Photos Courtesy NASA, U.S. Air Force
Cancers are notoriously home-bound but that’s not the case with this one. Of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings this is the one most likely to make its home (Cancer) on the high seas or in far off frontiers (Sagittarius). Most Cancers stay close to home, this one prefers to make its home on the range. To illustrate: Sir Walter Raleigh is a Cancer/Sagittarius who established the first English colony in the New World. (Chart) Of course he also was responsible for the “Lost Colony” on Roanoke Island, an endeavor that definitely could have used the services of a para-rescue squad.
Where-ever they decide to call home, Cancer/Sagittarians will often be found rendering assistance to those in need. Astrologer Bill Tierney says both signs “share a common desire to help the helpless” with Cancer willing to share its food and Sagittarius willing to share its camping gear. (Source) The pairing thus also makes for a great park ranger, outdoor adventure guide, or wilderness paramedic — a point which this promotional poster from an Air Force Para-Rescue unit’s public relations office makes quite clear:
Image: U.S. Air Force
Linda Goodman says the Cancer/Sagittarius pairing is often found having a “jolly good time” while Suzi and Charles Harvey cite its “wry sense of humor” as one of its strengths. (Source) Curiously enough the unofficial morale patch for Para-Rescue jumpers features a Jolly Green Giant who goes by the wry motto “You fuck up, we pick up”:
Image: pjpararescue.blogspot.com
In addition to its sense of humor, this pairing is often profoundly sensitive (Cancer) to issues of right and wrong (Sagittarius). Many Cancer/Sagittarians will, at some point in their life, come face to face with gross injustices which his or her culture of origin (Cancer) judges to be perfectly moral (Sagittarius). To illustrate: using its premier date as its date of birth the 1992 film Universal Soldier is a Cancer Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) The film stars Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as soldiers who killed each other in Vietnam only to be reanimated in the 1990s as part of a Pentagon program to develop zombie like super soldiers. Their programming is designed to wipe their memories clear but like all Cancers, this one never forgets. Upon completing his first mission as a reanimated “UniSol”, Van Damme’s character experiences a flashback in which he remembers attempting to stop Lundgren’s character from committing Nazi-like war crimes:
Universal Soldier is a fictional film but there are more than a few Cancer/Sagittarians who can relate to the emotional (Cancer) journey (Sagittarius) of Mr. Van Damme’s character. To illustrate: Jesse Ventura is a Cancer Sun, Sagittarius Moon. (Chart) A Navy Seal during the Vietnam War, Ventura famously went on to become a professional wrestler, movie star, and politician. These days he’s best known for his outspoken views on corporate criminality and government corruption. For instance, in this 2009 interview with Larry King he explains that #1) in his opinion Guantanamo Bay is the U.S. version of the Hanoi Hilton, the infamous Vietnam era prison and #2) if he was president he would prosecute George Bush and Dick Cheney as war-criminals for their roles in making torture a sanctioned component of U.S. foreign policy. The Harveys say this pairing will live its life with “moral integrity” and won’t back down from speaking its mind. You’ll be hard pressed to find better examples of either trait than this interview with Mr. Ventura starting at 1:18:
Cancer is considered the comedian of the zodiac while Sagittarius is known for its outrageous proclamations. The Cancer/Sagittarius pairing thus has a knack for making folks laugh even when speaking defiantly and candidly about important moral issues. When Ventura proclaims to Larry King in the above interview, “Give me Dick Cheney, a water board, and one hour and I’ll have him confessing to the Sharon Tate murders” it’s impossible not to let out a righteous chuckle even though what he’s discussing is anything but a laughing matter. More recently, he appeared on the Alex Jones show to discuss the presidency of Donald Trump. According to Ventura, “If Trump builds that wall of his I’m going over the top and staying in Mexico”. Some of Ventura’s other media appearances have been so pregnant (Cancer) with flaming arrows of truth and forthrightness (Sagittarius Moon) that it’s amazing he’s ever allowed on mainstream television.
Aries is thought to be the warrior of the zodiac but Cancer’s association with the “Great Mother” makes this sign absolutely ferocious when it comes to defense of home, family, clan, and country. Paired with the crusading spirit of a Sagittarius Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that can be a true “universal solider” — one who fiercely defends (Cancer) universal principals of human rights (Sagittarius Moon), something that’s needed now more than ever before.
About the Author: Matthew David Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or astrological consults at his contact page.
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Editor’s Note: this is excerpt #2 from a magazine length article on the astrology of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a black budget counterpart to NASA that is the NSA’s (silent) partner in surveillance and possibly the most secretive intelligence agency on the planet. Excerpt #1 can be read here. An audio/video version has been uploaded to YouTube. -Matt
The NRO’s Sun (identity), Venus (love, self-worth), Pluto (extremes, power, terror) and North Node (destiny) are all in Virgo (analysis, technical wizardry), all in the 12th House (hidden matters, secret societies). Virgo is the sign of precision while a 12th House emphasis is often seen in the charts of those who work at night. (Source) Take a close look at the NRO mission patch featuring a pair of mesh covered owl eyes that reads “We Own the Night”. In the lower half of that patch you’ll see four triangles, three filled in and one hollowed out, which appear to be flying over the Southern Hemisphere. The triangles in the patch are believed to represent four of the NRO’s Onyx class spy satellites, three of which are still in orbit and one of which deorbited in 1997. Whoever created this patch did so with a real Virgoan eye towards precision because, according to Mr. Paglen, the four triangles in the patch are depicted in the precisely correct orbital orientations to the planet as the NRO’s Onyx satellites are in real life. (Source)
The caption “We Own the Night” on this patch is a reference to the fact ONYX satellites are equipped with an imaging technology known as “Synthetic Aperture Radar” (SAR), the development of which was pioneered by the NRO in partnership with the U.S. Air Force. SAR uses the echoes of radar waves to create incredibly detailed images of a target without any need for an on-board optical camera. (Source) Night vision cameras, by way of contrast, simply magnify light already being reflected off the moon or that’s generated via other ambient sources. SAR technology requires absolutely no light whatsoever. It thus allows whoever possesses it to see as accurately (Virgo) during the night (12th House) as the rest of us see during the day.
An example of SAR in action should help illustrate just how powerful this technology is when it comes to discernment (Virgo) of the unseen (the 12th House). Back in 1978 NASA launched an oceanographic satellite equipped with SAR known as “SeaSat One”. (Source) SeaSat’s onboard SAR enabled it to remotely detect what was going on deep beneath the ocean’s surface by using radar wave echoes to sense through the water, loosely akin to what a medical intuitive does when they detect what is going on with your body by sensing into it. As a result, SeaSat collected more information about the conditions of the oceans in 100 days than all of humanity had collected in the previous 100 years. (Source) This isn’t meant to imply that SAR equipped satellites like those built by the NRO are “psychic” in the literal sense of the word. Their astonishing imaging capabilities can, however, be reasonably analogized to a technological version of extrasensory perception — the exact sort of phenomenon we astrologers associate with the 12th House.
About the Author: Matthew David Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or astrological consults at his contact page.
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The Sun’s in Cancer (the Crab) and Moon’s in Gemini (the Communicator) today, don’t have time for a full treatment of this pairing but will sometime after the retrograde is over. These guys belonged to the “Long Range Desert Patrol Group” (LRDPG) aka the “Ghost Patrol” aka the “G-Patrol”, which based on its operational start date was a Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon organization. They conducted guerilla warfare in North Africa during WWII where they would scurry along the coast of Libya from Benghazi to Tripoli in jeeps, hiding behind rocks and sand dunes — just like crabs — while radioing in (Gemini Moon) all the information they gathered about Nazi troop movements.
Jefferson Anderson says Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon is the Sun/Moon pairing of “the Antenna” who, like a chameleon, “takes on the color of their surroundings” while experiencing “more than their fair share of problems”. (Source) As is quite clear from this photo, members of the Ghost Patrol survived by blending into the background of their desert surroundings like chameleons while using antennas to report back on a terrain filled with a more than a few “problems”.
Rapper Curtis Jackson, best known as “Fifty Cent”, is also a Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon. In addition to having nine bullets lodged in his body, he’s also the founder of “Guerilla Unit” records aka the “G-Unit”. Like members of the G-Patrol, members of the G-Unit have survived in harsh, problem-filled geographies populated by all sorts of warring tribes, some friendly, some hostile, some a mixture of both. Like the G-Patrol, the G-Unit reports back on everything they see.
Cancer/Gemini people are great at getting publicity for themselves. Fifty Cent is one of the few rappers whose name is known in the mainstream world while the exploits of the “Ghost Patrol” were popularized by the 1960s television series The Rat Patrol, a show whose intelligent plot lines were far too nuanced to ever pass muster on current television. Interestingly enough, the show’s distinctive theme song has been sampled by numerous rappers.
Financial talk show host Clark Howard is also a Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon. The LRDPG’s job was to radio back all the info they gathered on the Nazis while Howard spends his time on the radio, discussing the info he’s gathered on the sinister practices of the big banks. The two aren’t totally different as the “Big Monster Mega-Banks”, as Howard calls them, would like to see the U.S. turned into a financial fuedal state where all us American lumpenproles have to answer to members of the Wall Street master race. Howard’s a major proponent of credit unions, locally owned financial institutions that are to Wall Street mega-banks what the LRDGP jeeps were to Nazi tanks. He’s also spent a lot of time helping people fight wrongful debt collection, a practice that is truly fascistic in nature.
As coincidence would have it, Howard is known for riding around in a customized plug in hybrid Toyota Prius — a vehicle that is to the tyranny of high fuel prices what the Ghost Patrol’s customized jeeps were to the tyrannical intentions of desert dwelling storm-troopers. Finally, like his fellow Cancer/Gemini Fifty Cent, Howard makes his living rapping and reporting on the microphone.
Gemini is the sign of communication and cross-pollination, dexterity and duplicity, connectivity and con-artistry, mixed messages and multiple agendas, masquerades and myriad disguises, mental confetti and manic double talk, cross word games and jigsaw puzzles, nimble shortcuts and picture-perfect impersonations, quick witted instigators and street smart information brokers, fast-talking sales reps and free-wheeling spin doctors, lies that can pass for truths and truths which can double as lies. This is the Mercurial Mad-Hatter and the Multi-Lingual Multi-Tasker, the Master of Mind Games and the Mistress of Back Room Gossip. Symbolized as a pair of twins who appear identical but are actually radically different, the typical Gemini’s life will often read like a pair of chapter(s) out of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Robert Stevenson novel about a man with split-personalities. Scorpio is renown as the zodiac’s resident spy but Gemini’s propensity for multiple personalities makes it the sign most likely to find work as a double agent. To illustrate: using their establishment date as their date of birth, the U.S. Army Special Forces are a Gemini organization. (Chart) Known for wearing distinctive “Green Beret” head gear and requiring their members to be fluent in multiple languages (Gemini), the Green Berets are the fast moving, highly flexible, mad-hat military outfit Gemini Edward Snowden attempted to join prior to going to work for the National Security Agency. (Source) This Special Forces mission patch alludes to the Geminian nature of their work quite explicitly:
Considered “force multipliers” and “masters of chaos”, the Green Berets’ primary job is to teach other people to wreak havoc. According to a recent documentary, the idea is to insert a 12 man team of Green Beret “advisors” into a war zone which will then multiply into a force of 120 or 1,200 by way of their teaching methods. They were a favorite of Geminian president John F. Kennedy who also had multiple sides to his personality.
Communication is Gemini’s forte so it’s fitting that Kennedy’s finest moment was his deft handling of communications between the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 1962 standoff that saw the world pushed to the brink of nuclear war. At the time there was no direct phone line between Washington and Moscow which made communications during the crisis dangerously cumbersome, something no self-respecting Gemini president is going to be okay with. As a result, Kennedy had the Moscow-Washington hotline aka “The Red Telephone” installed. Using the day it went live as its date of birth, the “Red Telephone” has both its Sun (conscious identity) and Moon (unconscious emotional needs) in Gemini. (Chart) Originally set up as a pair of twin teletype machines with one in Washington and one in Moscow, a fictionalized version of the Moscow-Washington hotline was featured prominently in the 1964 film Dr. Strangeglove:
When a person, company, or organization has both luminaries (Sun and Moon) in this devilish sign they will often posses numerous personalities. One personality may even multiply into 10 or 100 or 1000. You could say Gemini Sun, Gemini Moon is the Sun/Moon pairing of the “Ultimate Doppleganger(s)”, ones so brewing with (mis)information that they’re akin to “human fiber optic cables”. Actually, astrologers Austin Coppock and Michael Lutin already did say those things, here and here respectively. At least I think they said it. It might have been their digital clones over at the Department of Defense (DOD) who said so for them. “What?!”, you ask, “Astrologers like Austin Coppock and Michael Lutin have digital clones over at the DOD?!”. They sure do or, more accurately, they sure might. In fact everybody might have digital clones over at the DOD courtesy of the Simulex corporation, an Indiana based company that’s been working to create computerized clones of people for over a decade now. According to a 2007 article in the UK Register article, the U.S. government may already be using their simulations to subject your clone(s) (Gemini) to an ever-changing (Gemini) variety (Gemini) of fascinating (Gemini) experiments:
Perhaps your real life is so rich you don’t have time for another. Even so, the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.
The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual “nodes” to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR. Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a “synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information”, according to a concept paper for the project.
“SWS provides an environment for testing Psychological Operations (PSYOP),” the paper reads, so that military leaders can “develop and test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners”.
SWS also replicates financial institutions, utilities, media outlets, and street corner shops. By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors.
SEAS can display regional results for public opinion polls, distribution of retail outlets in urban areas, and the level of unorganization of local economies, which may point to potential areas of civil unrest.
Yank a country’s water supply. Stage a military coup. SWS will tell you what happens next. (Source)
As coincidence would have it, the chart for the company’s incorporation (birth) has both the Sun and Moon in Gemini. (Chart) Astrologer Jefferson Anderson calls Gemini Sun, Gemini Moon the Sun/Moon pairing of the “Whirling Dervish” who can out-talk, out-gossip, and out-data process just about anyone:
You are more like several individuals than one . . . No problem arises without you finding the most practical and expedient solution. You are an intellectual powerhouse, having read just about everything there is to read and a lot about almost anything. You are able to assimilate information with incredible speed. (Source)
That’s actually a pretty accurate approximation of the Simulex corporation’s Synthetic World Simulation (SWS) technology. Each of its “nodes” can represent several individuals while it’s being used by governments and corporations to develop “expedient solutions” to a host of problems ranging from electrical blackouts to civil unrest. Eventually its creators want SWS to process new data in real time, which means it will be assimilating information at absolute incredibly speeds. The SWS is, in effect, a powerhouse artificial intelligence version of a “Magic Eight Ball”, one designed not to entertain party goers but to serve governments and private corporations. More than a few informed commentators have speculated that the real reason the intelligence agencies are gobbling up all of our emails, phone calls, bank records, and just about “everything else there is to read” is so they can feed them into computer simulations similar to the SWS. (Source)
As far as intelligence agencies go, people probably assume the Central Intelligence Agency is America’s first spy outfit. The reality is that the CIA evolved out of a World War two organization called the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which, based on its establishment date, is also a Gemini Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) This OSS mission patch attests to the Geminis’/Geminis’ penchant for playing both the devil you know and the devil you don’t:
Photo: OSS Morale Patch
Email, cell phones, fiber optic cables, and other modern Geminian tools of the trade were yet to be invented but the OSS did pioneer developments in the use of wiretaps, electronic beacons, and other innovative forms of mercurial spy-craft. (Source) According to astrologer Raven Kaldera, the double Gemini pairing is something of a “Dennis the Menace” type character who will “peek inside people’s drawers, look under rotting leaves, glance into our files when the doctor leaves the room”. (Source) Among other things, OSS agents managed to menace the Nazis by peeking inside their mail, hiding weapons in rotting debris, and glancing into the files of important people when they weren’t in the room. Linda Goodman says the double Gemini people are at excellent at “thinking, theorizing, figuring, condemning, endorsing, discarding, sorting and analyzing the cold hard facts”. (Source) This is exactly what OSS agents did with the cold, hard facts they gleaned by way of their mad-hat, “Dennis the Menace” style methods. They also used these methods to spread rumors among target populations, such as the time they managed to spread a rumor in Germany that Heinrich Himmler had ordered German housewives to report to “baby breeding farms”. (Source)
Technology to digitally clone people like what the SWS can do obviously didn’t exist during the heyday of the OSS but, according to its Wikipedia entry, OSS agents were experts at cloning documents such as “fake German and Japanese-issued identification cards, various passes, ration cards and counterfeit money”. These still shots from a 1943 OSS training video showing an agent disguised as an upper class businessman on the left and a homeless street beggar on the right are good examples of this pairing’s prowess for masquerades, mimicry, and multiple personalities:
Photo: Central Intelligence Agency archives
According to astrologer Stella Hyde, Gemini’s instant reflexes and ability to improvise make it the sign of the Street Magician. (Source) Along these lines, the OSS’s most (in)famously clever adventure was “Operation Cornflakes” in which OSS agents used a combination of improvised espionage tactics and street magician methods to trick the German postal service into hand delivering anti-Hitler propaganda to German homes through the mail. According to an article at MentalFloss.com, some of the forged German stamps the OSS produced as part of the Cornflakes operation are so valuable to collectors that forgeries (clones) of the forgeries (clones) have turned up for sale, a fitting legacy for an organization with so much Gemini in its chart.
Gemini/Gemini is an exceptionally social pairing and, not coincidentally, the OSS was known as “Oh So Social” for its rollicking social life. At one point the organization even produced a drug that would induce “uncontrollable chattiness”, something that’s about as double Geminian as it gets. (Source) Often referred to as the “glorious amateurs”, the OSS filled its ranks with a wide range of Gemini type people ranging from journalists and Hollywood script writers to safe-crackers and circus performers — two professions which emphasize clever use of the arms and hands, the two body parts ruled by Gemini in medical astrology. As this 1990s History Channel documentary explains, the OSS’s selection process required prospective agents to navigate a fascinating if peculiar series of mind games disguised as circus acrobatics:
With so many twins occupying its astrological chat, any double Gemini is going to have a real serious Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde component to their personality. In the case of the OSS, defeating Hitler was the Dr. Jekyll side. What they did and who they associated with in order to defeat Hitler was the Mr. Hyde component. Astrologer Stella Hyde says that legalish professions for Gemini are “futures broker, market trader, and tax lawyer” while criminal professions for this sign include “gun runner, drug smuggler, and gangster’s moll”. (Source) On the legal(ish) side, the OSS was originally organized by a group Wall Street lawyers, markets traders, and futures brokers who had connections high up in Washington DC. (Source) On the criminal side, the OSS partnered with actual gangsters, gun runners and drug smugglers as these groups knew best how to covertly get weapons and funds into the hands of anti-Nazi partisans. (Source) According to now deceased journalist Danny Casolaro, “The OSS permitted the Mafia to use the port of Marseilles for heroin smuggling in exchange for its assistance in defeating the Nazis”. Unfortunately, these networks didn’t just go away when the war ended. For instance, the Marseilles heroin syndicate utilized by the OSS was the one later depicted in the award winning 1971 crime film The French Connection. (Source) Obviously this is something neither Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde like to talk about much.
In addition to being a “trickster-fixster” with its hands in just about everything, Gemini/Gemini at its most extreme shadow incarnation is probably one of the best Sun/Moon combinations for running a giant insurance scam. For instance, the much maligned insurance company American International Group (AIG) actually evolved out of a highly classified unit inside the OSS. For folks who may not remember, it was AIG’s failed derivative scams that were ground-zero for the 2008 economic collapse. A year 2000 Los Angeles Times article entitled “The Secret Agent (Insurance) Man” traced the company’s heritage all the way back to its “Oh So Social” Geminian roots:
Newly declassified U.S. intelligence files tell the remarkable story of the ultra-secret Insurance Intelligence Unit, a component of the Office of Strategic Services, a forerunner of the CIA, and its elite counterintelligence branch X-2.
. . . the unit mined standard insurance records for blueprints of bomb plants, timetables of tide changes and thousands of other details about targets . . . “They used insurance information as a weapon of war,” said Greg Bradsher, a historian and National Archives expert on the declassified records.
The men behind the insurance unit were OSS head William “Wild Bill” Donovan and California-born insurance magnate Cornelius V. Starr. Starr had started out selling insurance to Chinese in Shanghai in 1919 and, over the next 50 years, would build what is now American International Group . . . (Source)
Speaking of Oh So Social double Geminis linked to the world of high finance, talk show host Suze Orman is a Gemini Sun, Gemini Moon. (Chart) At first you might not think she would have to much in common with America’s first spy agency the OSS but they actually have more than a few similarities. For starters, Ms. Orman is extremely talkative, so much so that watching her show one can’t help but wonder if her coffee’s been spiked with the substance the OSS came up with to induce uncontrollable chattiness. Her non-stop, manic, rapid fire way of engaging her callers even brings to mind the mad-hat “Dennis the Menace” methods the OSS used to harass its adversaries. (“DENIED girlfriend!!!”)
“But wait, there’s more”, a lot more, in terms of the parallels between OSS and Ms. Orman. The OSS was organized by Wall Street lawyers turned intelligence operatives while Orman started out as a financial adviser at Wall Street bank Merrill Lynch before turning to a career as talk show tele=operative (host). She’s never officially been in the spy business but has admitted to deploying OSS like tactics when dealing with her critics. From a Business Journal article entitled “Don’t Mess with Suze Orman”:
Obviously, when I want to, I do investigations into the people to find out, What does their economic situation look like? One person who did this in the past — he has such severe debt, owns a home that was, like, $100,000, fights with his wife all the time, drives a junker of a car, doesn’t have a pot to pee in. It just validated the fact that when people are so vindictive and they’re really trying to slam you, it’s because they’re so desperate — they’re trying to do anything to get noticed. (Source)
As mentioned earlier, Gemini is the sign of “the double agent who plays both sides”. At one point while working at Merrill Lynch selling investment strategies, Orman sued Merrill Lynch for the shady investment strategies they had sold her years earlier. (Source) Only a super nimble double Gemini could manage to pull that off.
Like the operatives at OSS and the clones at the Simulex corporation, Orman appears to have multiple personalities. As Helaine Olen points out in her book Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, Orman’s public persona back in the 1990s was much more on the “down-to-earth” side albeit spiced up with hint of spiritual new-age salt and pepper. Following the crash of 2008 she morphed into a fiercesome, fire-breathing financial “tiger mom” of the airwaves. Orman says the best way for people to become millionaires is to invest in the stock market yet she invests most of her money in super-safe bonds. (Source) One side of Orman has publicly expressed sympathy for the revolutionary aims of the Occupy Wall Street movement, another side of her almost seems like an operative for the FICO corporation. On the one hand, Orman has done well enough to dress in Versace and fly first class. On the other hand, she is still something of a scrappy, bare-knuckle “hood”, this by her own admission:
Strange, strange coincidence: the SWS program analyzes aggregated data in hopes of predicting people’s future behavior. In 2012 Orman released her own pre-paid bank card which according to Orman, “has a deal with Transunion so that for they years they would look at behavior on this card — in an aggregate, anonymous way —- and see if it determines future behavior”. (Source)
In addition to being oriented to data exchange and dissemination, the Gemini/Gemini pairing will often find his or her way into knowledge quests, overseas crusades, and spiritual super-missions, all of which are generally considered the domain of Sagittarius — the sign opposite to Gemini. This is because, according to Berkeley based astrologer Linda Rose, when a chart has both the Sun and Moon in the same sign the entity will often express as the opposite sign. I suspect this “kick-over” phenomenon observed by Ms. Rose is some type of psychological compensation mechanism similar to what happens in traditional Chinese medicine when one meridian is so overloaded with energy that the person hyper-expresses the characteristics of the opposite meridian. Regardless of the exact mechanism behind the phenomenon it does seem to track reality with a high degree of consistency. To illustrate: the Simulex corporation aggregates massive amounts of data (Gemini) in hopes of getting big picture knowledge (Sagittarius) about how people behave. The OSS used mad-hat methods of manic subversion (Gemini) as part of an overseas crusade (Sagittarius) to defeat Hitler. Suze Orman hosts a talk show (Gemini) about money but in a culture where banks have more power than God she’s actually as much a spiritual guru figure (Sagittarius) as she is an uncontrollable chatter-box (Gemini).
As she explains in the above video, Orman has more recently been applying her verbal acumen (Gemini) towards a new crusade (Sagittarius): the crusade to have gay couples granted the same financial rights and privileges as heterosexual couples. For a Sun/Moon pairing with as many question marks surrounding it as Gemini/Gemini, that’s about as straight a shot (Sagittarius) as they come.
Using the date its patent was filed as its date of birth, the concept of Pigeon Photography is a Gemini Sun, Libra Moon – one of the most chatty, socially curious Sun/Moon pairings
Gemini is “the Communicator” of the zodiac known for its quick communications, cross-pollination, and chatting late into the night. Libra, its air sign cousin sitting 120 degrees to the right, is “the Social Director” of the zodiac known for its smooth sociability and suave relational skills. Combine the highly communicative nature of a Gemini Sun with the socially conscious instincts of a Libra Moon and you get a Sun/Moon pairing that is chatty, charming, and extremely clever. A deft and delightful companion whether in the office carpool or out at a coffee shop, this pairing lives life according to the philosophy of “gaiety, good times, and the gift of gab.” Like most double air combinations, it excels at anything involving the airwaves or mass media such as writing, blogging, television, radio, etc.
In addition to “gaiety, good times, and the gift of gab” this pairing also enjoys an ever-changing variety of “vistas, viewpoints, and vivacious visitors”. Astrologers Suzi and Charles Harvey write of the Gemini/Libra’s extremely diverse mercurial abilities, “You especially enjoy travel, for you love the stimulation of new faces, new landscapes and other perspectives.” (Source) To illustrate just how much this pairing loves traveling to see new landscapes: using the day its patent was filed in 1908 as its date of birth, the concept of “pigeon photography” is a Gemini Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) In the age of ubiquitous satellite imagery, the idea of using pigeons to take aerial photographs may seem quaint. Back at the turn of the century it was an extraordinarily novel way to view “new landscapes from new perspectives” and to see “different vistas from different viewpoints”. Take a look, for instance, at these photos snapped by some early pigeon photographers:
Libra Sun, Gemini Moon individuals excel at seeing things from a variety of vistas, viewpoints, and perspectives
The patent for pigeon photography was filed by Dr. Julius Neubronner, a German apothecary who also used the pigeons to deliver medicine to his far away patients. Gemini/Libras are very entertaining, easy-going, and make excellent conversationalists so it’s quite likely that Dr. Neubronner’s patients enjoyed the pigeons’ visits for reasons social as much as medicinal. It wouldn’t be too much of a surprise if the pigeons even managed to engage in some type of conversation with those to whom they were delivering medicine. As astrologer Linda Goodman points out, when Gemini (the “Communicator”) is paired with Libra (the “Social Director”) the result is dazzling conversation and dizzying sociability:
These two air signs are fun to watch, like trapeze artists at the circus. Their mental gymnastics can be both dazzling and dizzying . . . when they team up at home, in the office, on the campus, or anywhere else, it will definitely not be difficult to hear them. These two signs will have lengthy discourses on every subject imaginable, and they both have immense imaginations. Sometimes the discussions are friendly, sometimes not. But they will usually remain on speaking terms since silence for anything but the briefest periods of time is well nigh an impossibility. (Source)
One of the most social of the 144 Sun/Moon pairings, the textbook Gemini/Libra loves going back-and-forth, to-and-fro among a wide variety of people, projects, and places. This is probably the Sun/Moon pairing most likely to find work as a gossip columnist (albeit a friendly one), a party planner, a salesperson, a public relations expert, or even as a member of the paparazzi – at least in the old days when the paparazzi made an attempt to catch celebrities at their most classy instead of their most skanky.
Speaking of celebrities, this pairing loves pop culture! Even those Gemini/Libras who find themselves in the most intellectually high-minded professions such as law, politics, mediation, or counseling can be found secretly checking websites like as TMZ and PerezHilton during meetings or reading People Magazine during their lunch breaks. Those who don’t peruse the gossip mags will still be at the center of any Monday morning water-cooler exchanges about who did what with whom where over the weekend. Gemini/Libra is a very light, flighty combination so its interest in office gossip is motivated more by endless curiosity and an absolute intolerance of boredom than anything dark-hearted or deeply sinister. Scott Adams, the cartoonist best known for creating the Dilbert series, is a Gemini/Libra. (Chart)
This pairing is often as dextrous physically as it is socially. Legendary dancer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker, for instance, is a Gemini/Libra. (Chart) Bi-lingual, bi-sexual, and bi-racial, Baker adopted 12 children, each of a different ethnicity, while enjoying stardom across both France and the U.S.
Like many Gemini/Libras, Baker excelled in a variety of professions. In addition to being a professional dancer, she also worked for the French resistance as a spy during World War II. According to Baker’s Wikipedia page, her job was to “report any gossip she heard at parties that might be of use to her adopted country.” (Source) She also “assisted the French Resistance by smuggling secrets written in invisible ink on her sheet music.” (Source) Only a Gemini/Libra could score a spy gig based on gab, gossip, and gaiety filled entertainment!
Josephine Baker
Baker isn’t the only Gemini/Libra to put this pairing’s mental and physical dexterity to use as a spy. Using its first flight as its date of birth, the P-61 “Black Widow” night fighter, the first aircraft specifically designed to use radar, is a Gemini Sun, Libra Moon. (Chart) Like Josephine Baker, the P-61 was also extraordinarily dextrous in terms of its ability to dip, dive, and dance through the skies. Take a look at the plane’s structure as it bears a resemblance to the glyphs for both Gemini and Libra. Like the glyph for Gemini it has two cockpits facing each other, one front and back, each of which housed its own recon-photographer. Like the glyph for Libra the plane is comprised of two equally balanced halves, one left and one right:
Gemini Sun, Libra Moon excels at anything involving the airwaves
The P-61 was also used in “aerial photo-mapping”, which is essentially a more modern version of pigeon photography. Coincidentally, pigeon photography was actually used by the CIA in espionage missions similar to those the P-61 was originally designed for. (Source)
What’s really interesting is that the P-61 and Mrs. Baker had similar jobs during the war: Mrs. Baker relayed secret information she picked up while dancing in and out of Nazi occupied social settings while the P-61 relayed secret information it picked up while dancing in and out of Nazi occupied skies. The Harveys tell us that “living by its wits” and a tendency to “skim the surface” of matters are two of this pairing’s weaknesses. (Source) It’s true this pairing has a tendency towards superficiality but the capacity to “skim the surface” while “living by one’s wits” aren’t such bad weaknesses when one is dodging Nazis!
This pairing loves variety in relationships, will often have numerous significant partnerships, whether romantic or professional. This is true even when the Gemini/Libra in question is of the aviation persuasion. The P-61, for instance, was initially assigned to (partnered with) the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC). Following the war it was re-assigned (re-partnered) to Project Thunderstorm, a joint program by the U.S. Weather Bureau and NASA to study atmospheric weather patterns, an extremely fitting gig for a double air pairing. (Source) On a metaphoric level it’s probably not too much of a stretch to consider the P-61’s assignments as being akin to marriages: the first marriage was during World War II to the Army while the second marriage was during Project Thunderstorm to both the Weather Bureau and NASA. That’s two marriages to three spouses, each of whom had very different dispositions and life missions. Leave it to a Gemini/Libra to adapt themselves such a diverse array of partners!
On a similar note, Josephine Baker was married four times to four men, each of a different nationality and/or ethnicity. (Source) Only a pairing as socially deft, psychologically dextrous, superbly diplomatic and as comfortable viewing things from different perspectives as Gemini/Libra could pull off such relational arrangements while maintaining a light heart and an open mind.
About the Author: Matt Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached via his contact page.
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