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Week of 6 October, 2008
            Many cultures tell stories about someone clever with math bankrupting a kingdom. One of the classics is about sesame seeds on a chess board, with one in the first square, two in the second, and so on. There are not enough sesame seeds in the whole kingdom to keep doubling and reach the 64^th square.
            There is no such thing as unlimited growth. On a finite globe, nothing can be more than all the resources available to make it so. “Derived wealth” exists on paper, not on what is real, substantial. So many institutions are locked arm in arm. If one stumbles, all fall. The debt on much of this “derived wealth” is being called in, more to follow.
Superpower status, along with credit ratings, is shifting into a Post-American Era, with the EU rising, along with China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The National Intelligence Council says that by 2025, “Although the United States will remain the most important power, American dominance will be sharply reduced.”
Bush said he would spend all his political capital, and he has. Once saying the UN was irrelevant, it now returns the favour. His own party turned its back on him. He can call no favours. He has no credit. Fool me twice, what a shame.
Mercury retrograde asks for introspection, a reappraisal of one’s make up, one’s being and reason to be. Mercury at times can demand. When a system, perhaps a point of view, faces issues that system cannot answer, look at its premise, its foundation. It might need a change. It might demand one.
Monday’s Dark Moon (aspecting Neptune) glared at weakness and a lack of direction. The Bail was shot down. The biggest Deal in history and nobody could take the lead. Wall Street had a 7% one-day drop worth $1.2T, though it went through a 22% one-day drop in 1987 under Reagan.
The revamped New Deal was porked by another $150B, but resources are finite and propping up junk credit steals from better uses. Sales in the antique auto industry are down over 26% from last year, but, hey, it’s about jobs, bring on the pork. A Yale prof argues for a Global Buck Cop. The EU Pres, French Pres Sarkozy, wants a summit next month to discuss the same. Classical Astrology calls Mercury a thief.

This Week: On 28 April, 2004, the SEC set investment banks free from an old regulation limiting debt, keeping billions in reserve in case of losses. One of the five banks asking was Goldman Sachs, headed by Hank Paulson, now Treasury secretary. Mercury was retrograde.
            Mercury is retrograde, aligns with the Sun Monday, and both square (cross purposes) to Daddy Big Bucks (Jupiter) as the Financial Bridge to Wherever gets decided. Though the bill to save the already looted passed Friday, what to do with all the new loot still needs a going over.
A good idea about something this big coming under a Mercury retrograde? Somebody has to be kidding, and with the power-challenging aspect to Jupiter in his own Constellation, this roast couldn’t be coming from those at the centre of it all, could it?
The rest of the week is given over to unravelling these dumbfoundments, befiddlements, general bafflegab and more. Wednesday eve is the only ease. Thursday tries to bury the fine print and throw in a few payoffs. With Venus and Mars triggering the closing opposition of Saturn and Uranus, Venus bastes Porky as Mars keeps the fire hot right through Sunday.

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