Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
Note: see yesterdays post.
I was wondering how to make clear to readers just how uncanny is the fact that yesterday’s exact conjunction between Mars and Neptune at 25° Pisces just happened to also exactly conjunct John Durham’s natal Sun, but then got interrupted by a totally unexpected interpretation of two words in the opening remarks of the prosecution in the Sussmann trial: “our FBI.”
Huh?
I will return to the uncanny in a minute, but meanwhile, here’s a very interesting post that aims to now have the key as to the entire strategy of the prosecution. And if you’re like me, you’re going to feel, shall we say, devastated?
So, according to Sundance (who tends to be a doomer, BTW), that phrase “our FBI” signalled that this trial is going to focus on only a few individuals, and that no governmental structure will be implicated. In other words, from an astrological point of view, Durham’s prosecutorial team is going to attempt to halt the momentum of Pluto in Capricorn’s first return to its natal position to the U.S. chart, during which all governmental structures, whether visible or invisible, are due to be at least significantly reformed, or, if necessary, eviscerated, blasted to smithereens.
If Sundance is correct, then my interpretation of Durham’s motive for narrowing his focus would be that he wants to preserve, as much as possible, the structures of our federal government, while stripping them of the corruption which, he assume, results from the actions of individuals.
So my question, is this possible? While I can admire the idealism of Durham’s Sun in Pisces, spiritual Neptune’s sign, the current transit of Mars to Neptune exactly upon his Sun is, I sense, pushing to reveal how everything and everyone is part of a giant confusing web; that to remove one thread from the web is well nigh impossible without perturbing all the rest.
And, I must say, the Sundance perspective makes me question my own benevolent (naive) interpretation of why Durham didn’t ask the judge to recuse himself, despite an apparent conflict of interest.
I’ve long been fascinated about how human-made structures, both visible and invisible, inevitably go out of balance, over and over again, and if not continuously corrected, can lose their original purpose entirely, and even end up espousing the opposite of their founder’s intentions. Though much of this dynamic may be due to bad actors who infiltrate the system to deliberately muck them up, even more, I sense, we need to recognize the fact that most humans, at least in western civilization, still worship the notion of “progress.” That both individually and institutionally, they tend to want to “keep growing,” bigger and bigger, more and more.
Just think. You’ve just gotten a job in some kind of organization. Sooner or later, if successful, you will advance to, for example, department head. In your new position, it behooves you to add new programs, and thus new employees over time, thus demonstrating how good you are at what you do, so that you may advance ever further up the corporate ladder . . . On and on. Just so do creeping bureaucracies insidiously devour whatever is around them.
And I’ve long sensed that this western bias towards endless growth is, on a deep unconscious level, due to our linear conception of time as a line pointing from the fixed past through the NOW point into the indefinite future. Despite the fact that each of us, eventually, begins to fade, moving from our prime tp experience decay and the dying process in the cycle of own lifetime, even so, as a culture we remain so terrified of death that we tend to automatically deny or ignore the second half of any cycle.
Even more so now, when transhumanists want to turn us into AI bots not subject to organic processes. Fat chance! And as each of us does indeed end up dead, so do empires die, sooner or later. The much-hyped American Empire, for example, has entered its death throes, that’s for sure; and if our beloved nation is to enjoy another 248 year Pluto cycle, it will be because we’ve learned the limits of “endless” growth, the limits of that kind of power, and have begun to return to our roots in mother nature where the primal power of Pluto signals the miracle of the life force itself, through which material forms emerge, grow to prime, decay, and die. No exceptions. Mother Nature knows best.
(I can remember as a kid growing up in the desert of Southern Idaho, how the wild rabbit population would bloom and at peak, begin to decay, due to the coyote population having grown too, due to the growing abundance of rabbits as their prey. So the desert would sway back and forth, too many rabbits, then too many coyotes, on and on, no end to it. Mother Nature knows how to balance, and that balance is always a balancing act, two forces in dynamic tension, back and forth, forever. )
Rather than worship any of our governmental institutions, for example, the FBI, during this very first every-248 year Plutonian opportunity, let us begin to consider all the structures we have created very carefully, and determine which, if any, actually deserves another cycle.
So. Back to the uncanny (i.e., extremely unlikely!) conjunction I spoke of earlier. In order to even begin to grok just why this three way conjunction at 25° Pisces — two transiting planets Mars and Neptune, and the other a natal point in Durham’s chart — it’s utterly necessary to get in the mental habit of bending all single lines into circles, cycles, spirals; i.e., to appreciate, and begin to automatically think, in cyclical time. As here:
Neptune has an approximate 165 year cycle. Mars has an approximate two-year cycle. Thus Mars conjuncts Neptune about every two years, but it does so each time a few degrees further along in Neptune’s own cycle. Mars conjunct Neptune at 25° Pisces happens how often? About every 165 years . . . I just looked up the last time Mars conjuncted Neptune at or about 25° Pisces, and it was on December 30, 1860, at 26° Pisces.
So you get an inkling of how rare this conjunction at this degree of the zodiac happens to be. Now notice again that John Durham’s natal Sun sits at 25° Pisces, and that it was stimulated by this Mars/Neptune conjunction on the very day that opening arguments for this historic? trial began.
I’m not surprised that I’m now confused (Neptune) by the implications of the Sundance article. And it may be that my own native idealism (Neptune at the midheaven of my chart) deceived me, filtered my perceptions through rose-colored glasses.
Sundance had another very interesting observation, which we need to keep in mind:
And finally, Robert F. Kennedy, on page 254 of his devastating book on individual and institutional corruption, The Real Anthony Fauci, quotes a less famous section (on page 254) from the same Eisenhower farewell speech that warned us to guard against the Military Industrial Complex:
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John Durham, the famous “Special Counsel” appointed by Barr in October prior to the 2020 election to ensure that his investigation of the FBI, begun in April 2019, could continue no matter who won — has, it appears, been pursuing the deep roots of the corruption that has infected the swamp since 2016. For three years, no one has seen or heard from him. There have been no leaks out of his office, wherever that is located. All along, we’ve seen only one photo of his stern, take no prisoners face.
Hell, he might not even be a real person! — opined the more cynical among us.
But then, the Full Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio/Taurus culminated, at around midnight, Monday, October 16th, and voila!, nine hours later, the first of Durham’s three upcoming trials, this one focused on ex-Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann, into the origins of FBI investigation of “Russian interference” in the 2016 election, began with jury selection in Washington, D.C., — and voila! There was the mysterious John Durham, walking into the courthouse.
Important to realize in an even-crazier-than-usual era where “objectivity” has gone by the wayside:
The judge:
Christopher Cooper, an Obama-appointee, is married to Lisa Page’s lawyer, and . . .

The Jury:
Here’s the chart for opening arguments, which begin Tuesday, this morning, at 9:00 AM.
Two configurations, in this chart, stand out for me. The first is that today is the day when Mars reached exact conjunction with Neptune in Pisces, at 24+°. (Keep this in mind. I’ll return to it later.)
BTW: that Mars/Neptune conjunction is only two degrees from the 22° midheaven, so very much in public view.
The other significant configuration: intrepid, stubborn, determined Sun in Taurus, currently forming a harmonious trine (120°) with death/rebirth Pluto in Capricorn — which is, as usual, busy destroying all structures, at whatever level, that have been corrupted —sits now only two degrees (or two days, since Sun moves one degree per day) from exactness. Might this trial last only three days? Or might it somehow culminate in three days? Clearly the power is on the side of the prosecution, especially since Durham chose a relatively minor crime to start the ball rolling, while still bringing in witnesses who will begin to clarify — for the jury, for the American public — various implicative threads within the poisonous Mars/Neptune web.
BTW: It appears that the always effective Kash Patel has decided to make the Sussmann trial front and center of this nation’s polarized, ultra-divided attention, via a brilliant PR move.
Remember Q? Remember a line from Q drop 1418, June 12, 2018?
“Kash yap Patel — name to remember.” Hmmm . . . Kash certainly does get around, and knows how to drive his arrows deep into the heart of whatever he targets.
Okay, back to that Mars/Neptune conjunction in Pisces, the sign Neptune rules — is there anything more confusing than the endless stream of news about the Russia Russia Russia investigation? From what I can gather, it appears that for fully three years Durham has been delving into making sense of the messy, confusing, deceptive, multi-layered (Mars/Neptune) web of clandestine and not-so-clandestine operatives that tried to nail Trump to the Russia wall and failed.
How does Durham do it? The entire situation would have driven me into lala land by this time.
But . . . wait for it! John Durham, born March 16, 1950, has his natal Sun at 25° Pisces — exactly conjunct today’s exact Mars/Neptune conjunction! What are the odds?
Sabian symbol for 25° Pisces:

”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
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Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).
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