My guest this week is a well-known financial astrologer, Kaye Shinker. Kaye lives in the Louisiana Bayou. Kaye has earned the NCGR Level IV Certification in Counseling and Education as well as the ISAR Certification. She currently serves on the NCGR board of Examiners. Kaye loves to talk about everyone’s favorite subject – money – the marketplace, where to look for bargains and what to avoid.

Kaye’s book, The Textbook For Financial Astrology, can be purchased on her website: www.astrologicalinvesting.com, which she shares with her business partner, Marlene Pfeifle. Together, they team up to present their combined views on trading stocks and the stock market. Their website offers lots of free information, as well as their e-books. You should check them out and subscribe to their monthly newsletter. Kaye and Marlene are very generous with their knowledge.

This week President Obama signed the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law.

The President was out on the road to emphasize his care and concern for the American workingclass. It is unusual for a President to set up such a public signing of a bill. He signed the bill in front of a large crowd in Denver, Colorado to emphasize the potential stimulus for new green energy businesses.

I thought it was like a pep-rally with all the Colorado politicians in attendance. The young businessman who introduced the President is far more representative of the American workingman than Joe the Plumber. Blake Jones, president of Namaste’ Solar Company is the face of clean energy business that is going to help regenerate the economy. Namaste’ has grownsteadily and quickly over the last three years, starting with 3 employees and growing to 55.Jones said that this bill would allow is company to start to grow again and to make new jobs.

What does astrology offer in understanding this event?

The astrological signature of this event is the exact joining of the planets Mars and Jupiter. Mars is the planet of action and deeds. It represents what we do and how we do it. Jupiter is the planet of expansion and opportunity, and it rules legislation. It is the great benefic. Together the two planets have a regular cycle of interaction every two years. They represent enthusiasm and growth.

Mars is the faster trigger and will act like a go between as it moves ahead to meet up with Neptune by March 8. What is important about that is that Jupiter and Neptune are in the close of their 14-year cycle. The new cycle begins on May 27. The Jupiter-Neptune cycle represents the growth of new social, economic and cultural belief systems. Sometimes we see new spiritual movements rise up in society. The pair also help create peaceful relationships internationally.

Their last cycle began in January of 1997 in the sign Capricorn, which represents Capitalism. So, we have seen the growth of the housing bubble, the international level of financial investments, and imperialism related to continued focus on fossil fuels, like oil raise to super inflation. This all came to a sharp fall as soon as Pluto first entered Capricorn in January of 2008. During the summer, it seemed the financiers could fake an improvement, while Pluto backed up into Sagittarius for a few months. They were still saving their own butts with the first bailout. As Pluto entered Capricorn to stay on Nov. 26, 08, we have witnessed the complete collapse of that inflationary cycle.

Mars triggering Jupiter as the President signs this bill to revitalize America, it is setting the pace of the next 14 year cycle of Jupiter and Neptune. This time they meet in Aquarius, which is the sign of groups, humanity as one family, and it is a sign of information and connectivity at a very fast pace. We can expect the continued development of new businesses of fuels based on natural energies, like wind and sun. With that will also be new forms of transportation and broadening connectivity.

The big theme of our time is the represented by the opposition between Saturn and Uranus that has been the main topic since Election Day. The time that the President signed the bill in Denver had Uranus at the Midheaven, illustrating the unusual quality of the administrative action and calling out revolutionary changes. Saturn was on the 4th house cusp, the arena of home and family. Saturn rules real estate, construction, and most forms of structure and organization. It shows the plan to re-evaluate the mortgages of homeowners in trouble. It also illustrates the resistance of some politicians at more local levels.

There are Governors and Mayors who are saying they will not participate in the stimulus money. This is the standoff between conservatives, who hold to fear, petty and menial attitudes, and who stubbornly debate the potential value to their communities. The Moon rules the Cancer rising, and is another factor of first of all, addressing the general American economy. The Moon represents the general population and is in the arena of the workforce. In Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, suggests that ultimately the people are encouraged that this action will stimulate jobs, put people back in the mood of hope and optimism that will get the economy moving again.

There are many good links in this chart among the planets. The energetic of the chart has a foundation that will rely on cooperation between legislators, lenders, and the positive and active participation of the general workforce. Everyone must make some level of sacrifice for the plan to work.

The President has said that it will take about two weeks before the money is really on the street. This takes us right to the time the Venus, the planet of money, turns retrograde. This illustrates the re-valuing of assets. This is perfect symbolism for what is happening. This doesn’t take away my concern however that bigger issues are brewing at the main street level of society. There are deep problems in the system and they will have to disclose more details in time. It is too soon to think our problems are over.

It will be interesting to see how this all comes together through March and into April. The simple astrological fact that the workings of the planets in the current arrangement brings the bottom line to how much the resisting status quo factions try to derail the intentions of this bill. Opposition brings a butting of heads or a pull in opposite directions. We are in for a lengthy tug of war.

Luiza Azancot

Norma Jean welcomes back Jungian astrologer, Luiza Azancot for a discussion of representations of the American psyche in movies and other current events.

Luiza Azancot has been studying natal and mundane astrology for the past 9 years although her love for the subject started much earlier. The purchase of a Carl Jung book in 1971 led her on a convoluted path to professional astrologer 35 years later. She graduated at the end of 2008 from OCA, www.astrocollege.com, where she is also an instructor of teaching The Archetypes of the Zodiac. Jung’s psychology and her astrological studies have given her with a connection to the Universe and a tool to achieve and help others achieve a better integration of our conflicting psychological drives. If we change our consciousness we end up changing the collective consciousness which maybe the only effective way to change the world for the better.

Born in Lisbon, Portugal, her home is now in Cape Cod, MA. She can be reached at astr...@gmail.com for consultations or philosophical discussions about astrology.

The deep financial crisis that all major financial institutions have been hiding in 2008 may have started when the housing bubble was gaining speed and inflation. The dramatic show in Washington with a new cast on the stage is going to be very compelling in the coming weeks. As the younger generation of the people born in the 1960’s come into power, they must be the clean-up grew for what has amounted to the greatest spending spree in the world’s history.

This generation, which Obama and Geithner belong to, was born with the qualities that will bulldoze the system and completely renovate how big business does its business. This is a groundbreaking ceremony, with Timothy Geithner cutting the ribbon.

The Saturn-Uranus opposition that is one of the main features of this time connects to the positions each held in the mid-1960’s, bringing out the revolutionary energy of those born in that time. It is an activation of a factor established in this generation.

Besides the interaction of the two planets, Pluto was with Uranus in 1964-68, during some of the most violent social demonstrations. It happens that Pluto is another important factor of current time, having just moved into the sign of Capricorn and shut down the 15-year party of greedy business practices that this crisis is exposing.

President Obama’s team has such a mixture of old and new players that the opposition struggle is right in their meeting rooms. It is interesting to listen to the media talk about not being able to tell what real change is. Uranus is the planet of change and revolution. Saturn represents the safe, well-known standards.

As Americans watch the cost of Plutocratic greed grow to astounding figures, April 15 is just around the corner. The enormous crisis is in the street, where the homeless numbers are shocking, and no one is talking about them. I foresee tax day as a potentially radical day. How are people going to buy food? Can they pay taxes too?

When the Big Bank CEO’s come back in response to limits on their PERKS, how can the unemployed families, hard hit by weather, days-into-weeks without electricity, and the Sheriff at the door with a foreclosure notice, consider meeting the April 15 deadline to file taxes?

The astrology of the day holds the potential of civil unrest, possibly exploding into a major national event. Venus, the planet of money and values, will be retrograde from March 6 to April 15. This means that the monetary system will have little to no value.

As it reaches the point of its station to turn direct, Venus contacts a fixed star named, Sheat. It is a star known for shipwrecks and great misfortune. Venus will be traveling through Aries for four months, from February 4 to June 6, except for the two weeks in mid-April when it backs into the last degree of Pisces. Venus is in a very poor condition in Aries. This factor alone suggests that there will be very little improvement in money matters, until Venus enters its own sign of Taurus, on June 7.

Tax day also has other planetary aspects that relate to civil uprising, as well as a major event relative to the US Treasury. The surprising level of information that has been rising to the surface, revealing the hidden causes of this financial event leave me to wonder what more will come out before mid-April. I do not expect the masses of Americans to be jubilant, but likely outraged. The country is on a fast train to a new period of demonstrations and demand for relief. Unfortunately, Tim Geithner may need to overpower his trainers to be true to his generation and revolutionize the financial systems of America.

Dorothy Oja

In this first Podcast of Sirius Star Talk, Norma Jean welcomes fellow astrologer, Dorothy Oja, author of Planet Weather, a weekly newsletter of astrological activities and commentary on political and social events.

Dorothy Oja is a certified, astrological professional (ISAR C.A.P.) and career astrologer offering complete Astrological Consulting through her practice, MINDWORKS. A full-time astrologer since 1981, Dorothy began her astrological studies in 1971 and began teaching in 1976. She has lectured nationally and internationally since 1981. Having served the Astrological Community two terms as Chair, one as Co-Chair, Dorothy is now an advising member of AFAN’s Legal Information Committee, dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of astrologers when faced with anti-astrology ordinances. Currently, Dorothy is an ISAR Board member, and Chair of the ISAR Ethics Committee2.

Visit Dorothy’s website at: http://www.planetweather.net/index

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