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-Rick
The Gulf Oil Spill and Astrology
Much has happened that has caught the attention of the whole world since the last article I sent out. Remember I talked about the five passes of the Saturn/Uranus opposition. This opposition affects everyone and everything on our planet, from your own personal life journey straight into local and national government and world level events.
Here is the biggest challenge of all…The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 was only three days before the fourth of five exact Saturn/Uranus oppositions. Uranus (high technology and sudden upsets) was in Pisces (oil, the sea, “the forest”, if you will) while Saturn (conservative, practicality) was in Virgo (engineering, “the trees”). Some people contend that the technology used to drill offshore in such deep water and to such deep levels below the sea floor was extended to its limits. In addition, Mercury was retrograde at 12 degrees of Taurus, which implies that perhaps the best decisions were not being made when this disaster occurred. At least, the retrograde Mercury indicates that the whole truth is not readily available, or that how to fix the problem will take an about-face when it turns direct. The Moon was at 17 degrees of Cancer, less than two degrees away from the upcoming eclipsed spot of 19 degrees Cancer, indicating this is a profound event and not just a minor accident or procedural hiccup.
All attempts to stop or slow the leak have failed. On May 10, Mercury stood still to begin forward motion. The next day, executives from BP, Transocean, and Haliburton were called before congress for hearings. All three blamed the other companies for the situation. On May 28, Mercury got back to where it had turned retrograde and the scope of the problem began to come into focus. Obama toured the Louisiana coast, saying, "I am the president and the buck stops with me." -- BP CEO Tony Hayward flew over the Gulf. BP said the disaster has cost the company $930 million. The next day BP reported that the complex "top kill" maneuver to plug the well had failed, crushing hopes for a quick end to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
By June 3, when Venus arrived at the spot where the Moon was at the time of the blowup, BP shares had dropped to one-third of their value before the incident. Evidence of behind-the-scenes chicanery abounds. Goldman Sachs sold off 44% of their BP stock portfolio just 3 weeks prior to the blowup. http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/month-oil-spill-goldman-sachs-sold-250-million-bp-stock/
Another report from one of the survivors on the platform testifying before a congressional commmittee indicated that there was a meeting of crew members the morning of the blast. They all knew the well was “bumping” like a kettle of water starting to boil and that pressure had to be relieved. Local crew members wanted to proceed one way but were overridden by a BP executive who said they had to do it his more economical way or be fired. We all know what that led to.
BP Chief Executive Tony Hayword sold off 223,288 of his shares in his company, worth £1.4 million weeks before the spill. He paid off the mortgage on his mansion. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7804922/BP-chief-Tony-Hayward-sold-shares-weeks-before-oil-spill.html
It will take until July 4 when Mercury gets to the 17th degree of Cancer before the extent of what we are all dealing with starts to become really apparent.
There is plenty of room for skulldrudgery, greed, lies, ineptitude and perhaps hidden agendas, but let's get to the point. What’s important is that the fifth and final opposition of Saturn and Uranus will occur on July 26. This will be the final and most critical of the oppositions. The first four were in Pisces/Virgo. The last one will be at zero degrees of Aries/Libra. This is the opposition that will propel us into the next 40 years of the cycle. The zero degree of Aries/Libra is at what is known as a cardinal point. There are 4 cardinal points and each one is where the sun is at the first day of the new season (the Aries/Libra axis is on the first days of spring and fall). The time around the Saturn/Uranus opposition (July 26) is “one to watch”. The opposition is tightly squared by Pluto in Capricorn, the sign of austerity, meaning that tough decisions will have to be made that affect us all for some time to come. The open spot in the T-square is at 0 degrees of Cancer, implying that the common man/woman will have to take up the slack. We will all be squeezed; and, at the same time, we will step up to the plate and perform beyond expectations and hold everything together.
In the meantime, there is plenty of other activity of note. The partial eclipse of the Moon on June 26 is less than 1 degree from Pluto, emphasizing the need for all of human society to rethink how wealth, energy and our future path are proceeding.
As we speed towards the end of the Mayan long count cycle on December 21, 2012, it is hard to ignore the Hopi prophecies of the end times. http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi2.html
"This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and many living things dying because of it."
Sometimes I have prophetic dreams, and it seems that the more catastrophic the event in the dream is the further in the future it happens after I dream about it. I dreamed about the Bhopal catastrophe in India the night before it happened. I dreamed about the tsunami in Southeast Asia three weeks before it happened. Several months ago, I dreamed I saw a black mushroom cloud visible to the south and east of Sedona. I have wondered about that dream ever since. Was something going to happen just south of here in Phoenix? Now, it seems clear. It is about the environmental bomb that has gone off in the Gulf of Mexico. In my dream, the place I saw the cloud was over the mesas to the south and east of here, which is where the monsoon clouds start to build up in July and August. Theses clouds bring moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico. will this summer’s monsoon and hurricane season bring an environmental holocaust equivalent to a nuclear blast?
The Deepwater drilling rig is located not far from where the asteroid hit that did in the dinosaurs. Will this catastrophe on our Earth be a species-ending event? There was a similar spill off the east coast of Mexico in 1979. Engineers went through the same scenario as the BP engineers have this last month. They never capped that gusher in 1979; it simply ran out of oil. The Russians have successfully stopped four or five runaway gushers using nuclear devices. The explosion is so hot it melts the rocks and when they cool it plugs the hole. They have offered their expertise, but all of their successes took place on land. Could this be attempted underwater? One thing for sure, it will be a long time before we see the end of this deep water disaster.
Why are we still drilling for oil tens of thousands of feet beneath the ocean bottom? As a people, we are addicted to oil. A hundred years ago, most people still walked where they wanted to go. Horses pulled heavy wagons. The first oil well wasn’t drilled until 1859 and that was to get fuel for gas lamps.
What happened in the ocean on April 20, 2010 that, along any shore, touches us all is far more than a hiccup in the oil-drilling industry. It is time to reevaluate our lifestyle and our attachment to our planet. Viewed from the Galactic center, the Earth is bleeding. How can we help heal this tremendous wound?
The Hopi prophecies go on to say that we are transitioning from the 4th world to the 5th. They say that the transition will be finally marked when the Blue Kachina (the star Sirius) dances in the plaza and removes his mask. The total solar eclipse of July 11 is very near Sirius. The Moon was at this spot at the time of the Deepwater Rig explosion. There will be more to this in the years to come. The Galactic Doctor may be on the way to stop the bleeding and send us all on to the next world. This event is part of what has been described as the Earth’s ascension, and we are part of the Earth so we ascend too. Moving to the 5th world does not mean abandoning the 4th, it means that our focus changes. If we focus on the highest good for all then that’s what will happen. Think positive things and positive things will happen. Astrology provides a map. It is fun and interesting to watch and see what happens in the world and our daily lives as the planets line up as they do. But, like any map, we drive the road as we see fit. Those who ignore the sharp turns and go too fast just might go over the edge. Those who temper their driving to the conditions and follow the most expedient route can arrive at their destination safe, invigorated and on time. Or, as Yogi Berra once explained: “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up somewhere else”.
Hold on to your hats and your heart, for the winds of time are changing…Come along…Won’t you come along…?
© Rick Riedel
June 13, 2010
