Posted on 10/25/2008 11:12:57 PM PDT by Chet 99
By Jeremiah Horrigan
Times Herald-Record
October 26, 2008
STONE RIDGE — He's losing ground in almost every poll every day. Increasingly, the world's most sophisticated polling and demographic reviews are spewing out reams of up-to-the-minute bad news for Republican John McCain.
But McCain can take comfort from one all-but-forgotten predictive realm: the heavens. A small group of folks who practice the world's oldest form of forecasting decided this past week that the heavens favor John McCain for president.
Nearly a dozen predictive astrologers, members of the local chapter of the National Council for Geocosmic Research, spent more than two hours challenging and discussing each other's predictive assessments of both candidates' chances come November.
To an outsider, their rapid-fire talk of "oppositions," "ascents" and "transits" was akin to listening in on a macro-economic conference — a language of numbers, signs and symbols well beyond the ken of the casual listener.
But you didn't need a natal chart to determine that the conclusion the group reached was arrived at reluctantly; most of the astrologers were Barack Obama supporters. But the heavens, they said, are as immune to the vagaries of human opinion and preference as they are immutable in their movements. Divining their meaning, however, isn't always perfectly obvious even to the trained eye, one trained eye said.
Still, group moderator Ira Rubin cautioned that the accuracy of the information used to make the assessment — the candidates' birth charts — was under dispute. Several versions of both candidates' charts have surfaced because both men were born outside the continental United States and challenges have been launched to their constitutional right to serve as president.
"There's so much conflicting data, it's difficult to reach a conclusion," Rubin said. But, he added, he'd seen the group's reluctant assessment in McCain's favor echoed in several other similar meetings at other similar gatherings, including a total of about 50 astrologers.
What Rubin said was most disturbing about the way Election Day astrologically looked was the result of something called a Saturn-Uranus Opposition that, he said, portended a potential for "electronic breakdowns."
"It's a very dire time," he said, and to determine that, "you don't need to be an astrologer."
jhorrigan@th-record.com
PUMAs are going to save us...you know that. ;o)
Thank you so much for your post.
Lordy...maybe it should be a thread all unto it’s own?
Thanks, but no thanks. ;o)
You dont have to lay on hands. But it isnt a powerful if you dont.
It’s all baldrerdash. Basically touching lifts your spirits and caring touches your spirits.
Well duh. metaphysical folks have made a ritual if it.
New age mumbo jumbo
I volunteer to give Sarah Reiki!
Good
Whats going to save is is if people believe in the republic and the free market.
socialism causes sloth, Capitalism inspires challenge
is is= us is
Ping to Post 18.
Come on man, libs got to have some excuse even if it undermines their man (which they figure all us redneck racists won’t notice anyway).
Like, wow. Although I guess none of this really suprises me that much, except that the McCain campaign seems to think it has a real shot in New Mexico as well.
I couldn’t agree with you more.
Thank you for your post.
We all get sick of running on the hamster wheel but capitalism and property rights work.
When you have profit sharing, you get busy!
NM seems like a lost cause.
I don’t understand why we’re having a tougher time in CO than NV. I thought Bush did better in CO than in NV, plus CO still has a lot of Evangelicals.
STOP IT!
WHY do you let the media discourage you?
That is precisely what they want to do.
Chin up, or I will have you banned. lol and ;o)
You are so right.
Capitalism works, where ever it’s tried.
Look at S Korea/N Korea, E Germany/W Germany etc
Its plain as day!
You are such a smart person!
Thank you!
Garsh.... It werent that hard.. ;)
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