Pumpkin Week
Sunday 26 October 2008 at 07:04 am
The week before Halloween is Pumpkin Week, the week when the streets explode with orange-orange leaves, bright orange plastic pumpkins, and the muted orange of the real ones, candy corn, and sometimes orange traffic cones as last-minute road work gets completed. People either shiver with delight or the cold as winter makes its first nippy arrival. Every four years, the shiver falls on the losing party in the Presidential Election, the first sign that the next term will be another one out in the cold.
So what does Pumpkin Week have in store this time? For America, it's transiting Neptune inconjunct natal Neptune by transit. America is getting a second look at all old fearmongering and is having to adjust to new realities and discarding the old fears. Tinfoil is the style as people contemplate missing ballots and misprogrammed electronic voting machines.
Obama's has transiting Neptune in the first, so much of the fearmongering is about him and his "mysterious" past (re his birth-First house) He supposedly has "mysterious origins". He is also the target of all of the Neptunian fearmongering as well. Fortunately he's level-headed, so the effect makes him more glamorous and not fearful.
Sunday 10/26, Venus conjunct Obama's Point of Fortune: While points aren't planets, it is a sensitive place. Obama gets good luck today.
October 10/31-Mars squares ASC-Obama should be careful how he handles some of the more tifoil hatty material he may hear today.
So there is going to be shivers-hopefully just from the cold this week reflecting off of the roofs, and not from the many tinfoil hats people will be wearing instead of good old fashioned wool.
