Masters of Money and War
On October 2nd we have a New Moon Solar Eclipse falling at 10 degrees of Libra. Eclipse energy is strong and unpredictable; things that have been hidden may be revealed and/or important events may be triggered, and the effects of an eclipse can continue for several months.Outcomes other than those expected may well occur. Libran energy is very much concerned with peace, balance, harmony, beauty, justice, fairness – so why so much craziness for war?
Firstly, what’s happened since the Lunar Eclipse? Right on the eclipse (therefore missing the last blog) tensions in the Middle East intensified as Hezbollah in Lebanon promised retribution for attacks that were made via pagers and walkie talkies, bringing in a new type of cyber warfare that can target anyone using anything containing a lithium battery. Realisation at this point dawned that everyone, wherever they may be, is vulnerable – suddenly in your own backyard and not just somewhere overseas.
More worrying in my mind is that there appears such an overt desire to bring on war; as though many are ‘baying’ for it like a proverbial pack of wolves; rather like the audience who sat at the executions at the time of Marie Antoinette, or in the auditorium awaiting the deaths of the gladiators during the Roman Empire. And yet in the Libran world of peace and harmony, violent death should be an anathema. Have generations become so dumbed down by computer games and films that none of this feels real in any way? Or have they successfully been brainwashed to believe that war is the only solution? Additionally, we have also seen a second assassination attempt on Trump as the Trump/Harris race for President becomes yet more vitriolic.
Bob Dylan wrote many anti-war songs. In 1963 he penned Masters of War as a protest against the build-up of nuclear arms in the face of the Cold War, as well as the US impending entry into the Vietnam War.
Come you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.
Libra is ruled by Venus - symbolising women, relationships, love, value systems and money. Libra is the sign of the zodiac which, alongside Taurus perhaps, seeks a sense of a ‘safe’ world because Libran individuals want to keep their life ‘even’, harmonious; Libra’s symbol resembles the scales of justice, or a ‘bridge’; Libran individuals often see themselves as mediators. However, they can be the eternal ‘flip-floppers’. By trying always to see both sides, they just can’t make their mind one way or the other.
Mercury, the planet of communication sits at 11 degrees of Libra, just one degree separating him from the Eclipse point – so we do need a voice to mediate and make peace. In my lifetime it’s been a long time since we were this close to a full-on, possibly nuclear, world war as now, and yet met by an almost silent public. When the Libran desire for peace is so needed where are those voices? In the astrological house system I use, the sign of Libra is ‘trapped’ or intercepted in the 6th house – very symbolic of what I am saying here. The voices just can’t get out, they can’t be heard; they have been imprisoned. Brainwashed into silence even? In the chart for the UK, Mercury rules both the second house and the sixth house (where Libra is trapped). The second house is our finances and our assets, whilst the sixth house covers the day-to-day routine of everyday life, the army (interestingly) and our physical health. Are we really seeing what is happening on the financial front or issues within our general health?
This is an eclipse that sits with the South Node of our north/south destiny axis; the south represents the gifts and talents we entered this world with, and the north is our potential destiny. A Lunar Eclipse with the South Node will, therefore, ask us to relinquish something or learn from the past. We should bear in mind we are still under the influence of the confusing energy of the Lunar Eclipse in Pisces next to Neptune at the last Full Moon point two weeks ago. For the UK at this Solar Eclipse, Uranus sits in the first house, very close to the Taurus Ascendant, also ruled by Venus (the eclipse ruler), and Pluto at the end of Capricorn is in the 10th house of our future direction, very close to the Midheaven. This shouts out to me that big changes are ahead for us. But, just as the Libran energy is trapped, so our action energy (Aries) is also trapped in the twelfth house - mentally and spiritually we are ‘in prison’.
Venus, the eclipse ruler, symbolises the feminine, women in general, love, relationships, and how women use their feminine guiles within their relationships. Feminine energy is ‘reactive’ energy. Venus also impacts our value systems – what we value, how we behave to achieve this, and money and finance in general. Protect your money., But Venus is unable to deal with any matters to do with the eclipse – she is in an adjacent sign and adjacent signs are regarded as not being able to ‘see’ each other). So who can and where is Venus? Venus is in Scorpio, where she is not strong - her actions are hidden and masked, and she is manipulated and controlled! A Scorpionic love is possessive love. Scorpio has two rulers – Mars, who squares the eclipse and trines Venus, and Pluto who is up on the Midheaven – but neither of these guys is likely to be beneficial to us. Mars in Cancer is weak, so he is not going to be showing off his best qualities; he is more likely to be the arrogant bully boy throwing his weight around, whilst Pluto at the very end of Capricorn is flat out, trying to ‘bury all the bodies’ before he fully enters Aquarius soon.
I have just finished reading a book called The Creature from Jekyll Island on the subject of the creation of the Federal Reserve[1]; not necessarily a gripping bed-time tale you might say. Luckily the book provides a summary of each chapter (I must say my guilty pleasure looks more like MI5 and MI6 spy books rather than financial). However, it was surprisingly interesting because it told me so much about the monetary system and how the public at large are totally taken in and manipulated by it (just like Venus); the bankers rarely ever lose, and it is always taxpayers that end up footing the bill in ways that we just don’t expect or actually realise. Even inflation is another ‘hidden’ tax.
The book begins with a meeting attended by some very influential and wealthy people whose goal was to create a system where all bank reserves would be pooled into one large reserve so that all banks would follow the same line. My main takeaway came at the beginning with the statement that ‘money in the banking system has been created out of nothing – via loans’. A defaulted loan actually costs the bank little - it shows up as a reduction in assets. But, if bad loans exceed the size of assets, then the bank becomes technically insolvent. However, if the bank can avoid writing off large bad loans and continue receiving interest payments on them, then endangered loans are just rolled over and increased in size and the bank carries on making money.
Obviously, as the book is about the creation of the Federal Reserve, it is very much US centric. But the same system applies to the UK – in fact our own Bank of England, set up in 1694, was the first of all the central banks. Banking as we know it began in the 14th century, whilst the system of ‘usury’, with individuals as the loansters, was evident as far back as the days of the Bible. But by the end of the 1700’s we were beginning to see the influence of the banking families – the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Morgans; according to the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island all share similar traits of cold objectivity, indifference to the human condition and immunity to patriotism. They are motivated to propel governments into war because of the profits those wars will yield for them, but they often add to those profits by funding both sides.
When loans go ‘south’ and large banks are involved, it may be determined by governments that not bailing out a particular bank ‘might result in great damage to the economy’. Cue inflation and the taxpayer paying for the bail out; all ending up with hidden taxes and the bankers getting richer, whilst ‘everyday Joe’ gets poorer as he pays for the mistakes and greed of the bankers. Think back to the collapse of Northern Rock in the UK in 2008 at the beginning of the recession.
We are perhaps immune to the amount of debt nations are in these days – the USA currently at over $35 trillion and the UK at just under £3 trillion, almost 100% of its GDP. However, it is not in the bankers’/loan makers’ interests to have the loans paid back – their money is made on the back of the interest. In The Creature from Jekyll Island, the author asserts that, if all debts were repaid, the entire money supply would simply vanish. Power has been given to the IMF/World Bank as a central power that is able to issue world fiat currency (fiat currency is our everyday currency that is backed by nothing).
Strong nations give loans to less strong, smaller, but generally corrupt nations – Africa for instance, but also think Ukraine – to keep them compliant. Eventually, however, what happens when the once strong nations begin to need assistance? Will they accept – or have they already – a loss of sovereignty in return for this aid? An eclipse with the South Node suggests to me someone or something that has little real identity of its own and needs something or someone else to boost it and control it. If any of the stronger nations gets into financial trouble – maybe the UK at this rate – would that nation end up relinquishing some of its sovereignty?
Historically, in 1944 the Bretton Woods agreement created the IMF and the world bank, supposedly to facilitate international trade and stabilise exchange rates of national currencies; instead of currency being backed by gold it would be backed with a world currency, which the IMF, acting as a world bank, would essentially create out of nothing. Interestingly, many of those who worked on the Bretton Woods agreement were members of the Fabian Society, that I spoke about in a recent blog. The Fabian Society is popular with members of our own Labour government, including our Prime Minister. The Fabian image is, very telling - the wolf in sheep’s clothing, whilst their motto is ‘inch by inch’ rather than direct confrontation; or as commentator Jason Christoff would say – death by a thousand cuts!
Astrologer Pam Gregory in recent commentaries cites the signs of Pisces and Libra as the ones most likely to become victims of their actions – Pisces because individuals with a strong Pisces leaning always want to find someone or an ideology to be able to ‘rescue’ another/others in some way; and Libra because the Libran individual dislikes confrontation and so wants to see the point of view of ‘the other’ that they defer to ‘the other’, rather than being true to their own desires. Interesting then that both eclipses in this current ‘season’ cover Pisces and Libra. So how might we be becoming victims?
Solar Eclipses always occur at a New Moon, and New Moons are always times of new intentions. Perhaps, as this one in October sits with the South Node, we need to re-examine old skills, perhaps skills we don’t realise are actually our treasures and talents because we take them so much for granted. But if you are beginning something new remember to wait until you can see the first sliver of the New Moon in the sky, the energy is just too potent to start anything new right on the actual date of a New Moon – and particularly when it is an eclipse, which is just a New Moon on steroids. Wait until about three or four days after the New Moon.
The bankers of today are like alchemists in terms of ‘turning lead into gold’. And, without this ‘alchemical’ or magical ability to create money from nothing, there would probably be no wars. This means that if this system is retained then wars will be inevitable. Our current banking system operates like a cartel, which gives the bankers prior warnings from the governments of future events so that the bankers can ‘hedge’ their bets. If only we all had this knowledge. According to The Creature from Jekyll Island, the two World Wars centred around secretive groups such as the Council for Foreign Relations, acting almost like a hidden government directing operations. Their aim appears to be to deliberately want to ruin the economies of industrialised nations in order to be more able to achieve their goal of setting up a world government.
It is becoming more evident that world governance is the end goal. To do this there has to be a destroying of the middle classes, achieved in part by a corrupt media to give out a biased news, alongside a political system with controlled political parties that creates an illusion that we have choice and a functioning democracy. Any of this sound at all familiar?
Under a world government war would be technically impossible, but governments can perpetuate their power by means other than war. That generally revolves around an enemy of some kind to make society afraid; the enemy does not have to be real, only believable. The environmental and/or pollution model is generally chosen, and if it carries with it the threat of the end of our earth or the end of humanity then so much the better. Society becomes focussed on this and doesn’t see the real goal of world order by any means possible. Beginning at the weekend of 21st/22nd September in New York the UN – an organisation that most people would just assume to be trustworthy – endorsed their policy within their Pact for the Future meeting; basically their Agenda 2030 goal, which in effect takes the world further towards global governance with digital identity and digital control. They say they will strengthen ‘the international response to complex global shocks’ in order to protect ‘the peoples of the world’ against the choices we have supposedly made. All of this will no doubt lead to higher taxation, as the people once again fill up the coffers of the unelected wealthy who have decided once again how wemust pay for our bad decisions. Be sure though that it is more likely to be in their interests rather than ours.
You fasten all the triggers For the others to fire Then you sit back and watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion While the young people's blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud
Let me ask you one question Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could? I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul.
Life is rarely just ‘even’, or indeed fair as Libra would like, and in the tougher times we either fall or we remain resilient. How we evolve as individuals depends upon our reactions to challenges. But, as this eclipse is in the sixth house of health and daily routine, then we should all be paying as much attention as possible to that. Our spiritual health, however, is just as important and can affect us on a physical level; and that is symbolised by the twelfth house where we find the North Node (destiny potential). So calming twelfth house activities such as meditation, being in nature walking and grounding, listening to music are all perhaps things we should concentrate upon to get through these strange times. However, the north node energy is Aries energy – so we at the same time have to be strong, assertive warriors for our future. Choose to be with like-minded others whose energy lifts you, rather than with the energy leeches. Trust that good always wins out over evil, even if the odds seem unsurmountable. And never forget to laugh!! A lot.
[1] G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from Jekyll Island, Dauphin Publications, 2010