Grim Reaper meets the

Lord of the Underworld — the Astrology of SATURN and PLUTO

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by Bob Marksfrom an NCGR Conference

By the way, I am a Capricorn Sun Sign and I have felt over the past couple of months as if I had Pluto transiting square my Sun. I had Pluto square transiting my Sun back in 1980 to 1982. I got into group therapy and I made great progress. Pluto is good for elimination. But with Saturn and Pluto opposite each other as they were recently, all Capricorns felt overwhelmed—and drained! All the Scorpios I bumped into felt depressed and blocked. That is one area where Sun-sign astrology does work. Now, what about the world? How does this affect the world?

How not to get reaped by the Grim Reaper… Saturn and Pluto, the planets of fun and cheerfulness—if you think that having one of them hitting something sensitive in your chart brings a lot of problems, just wait until they both start hitting at the same time…

Grim Reaper meets the Lord of the Underworld—the Astrology of SATURN and PLUTO

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Washington, D.C.—1852If you look at the relocated chart for Washington DC at that same time,

Chart Four, well, well, well…we have the same four planets and of course the angles between the planets are going to stay the same. But guess what? The T-Cross is still in angular houses. Mars is in the tenth house, right at the top. It is the most elevated planet. The Saturn-Pluto conjunction is in the seventh house, the house of open enemies. After 1852, the tension between the North and the South got stronger and stronger. There you have all these forces opposed to the rising sign, and the Rising Sign is the country. As a matter of fact, in the election of 1860 many Southern slave owners were in favor of succession. They were the ones that deliberately caused the Democratic Party to splinter. They nominated their own candidate and that enabled Lincoln to get elected. They wanted a Civil War—Uranus, Saturn, Pluto all together. All opposite the Ascendant by sign.

Even more interesting is the position of the Moon. Notice the Moon is just eight degrees away from forming a Grand Cross. Now if we use the standard measure of one degree equals one year, we get a Grand Cross

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A thousand years ago a group of Shiites decided the Sunnis had been in power long enough. So they created a group of warriors to fight against the Sunnis and to assassinate and kill their leaders. They had them smoke Hashish and who knows what other drugs. They told them that as soon as you die you are going straight back to heaven as long as you died for their cause. So they would send these people out: “We’ll behead you. We’ll torture you.” “Never mind, I’m going to kill the rulers.” But they did it with a smile on their face. And they were called: Hashihin, or Assassins. That is where the word comes from. And it is ironic that we have the remnants from the Sunnis now instead of from the Shiites. Remember, there are a billion Muslins in the world and this is a small portion. We can’t blame a billion people for what a few are doing. Let’s see…