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January 7, 2024

Into The New Year


The planets don't care about the New Year. There's no celestial celebration as our man-made calendar marking the change.  Yet, we naturally consider what the New Year brings to distinguish our past year's situation and consider from the future year looks like, or can be.

There's obviously major, inexplicable, even transformational change in this year's transition from one year to the next  -- even though the worldly seas truly continue a long tempest.  Primary culprits are continued global warming and the Trump cult.  We truly don't cross any border entering 2024.  That, then, is the first prognostication for 2024.

The second observation in this Into The New Year forecast is the ocean of karma remains turbulent in an unending and continuous barrage of heavy karma.  Acceptance is necessary to avoid unbearable stress.  If you don't bend, you break.

Third, with so much disturbance for so long, and no dawning of serenity on the horizon, the mind is fatigued, and a respite increasingly needed.  We can't take any more bad news but are too fearful to turn off the computer or TV.  Unlike other times, there's no vacation from the world.  We can't escape from conflicted issues. big or small.  So, we feel stuck and powerless, instigating a fear that drives out any good feelings.  Life is a hangover.

Fourth, we have to accept we're all pulled into these dramas and must act to safeguard ourselves, family and community.  Certainly leadership by example is helpful, but that's tacit and only influences some few others, not the overall situation.  Action, hopefully proactive, is the remaining choice, but what to do?  Our options about dealing with global warming and Trump are limited in number and scope, such as my recent decision to keep my home generator actively ready at all times.  Any action is better than inaction when your existence is threatened.

Fifth, we are all threatened with climate and political consequences.  We can't know what climate disasters will befall us, but we know these are inescapable and growing.  And the Trump cult also seems unpreventable.  Remember the March 19, 2023 First They Came?

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me



Change is inevitable, and while our increasingly old population resists change as threatening, we have to accept it, embrace it and do what we can to lift up the future.  We can't hide any more than a turtle, which can still be eating by a predator or crushed on a roadway.

The Celestial Wheel has mapped out likely patterns and results for 2024 in the River Of Life forecasts -- November 7 and 24.  Use the Celestial Wheel, particularly now for, these forecasts, help guide your journey.  That's why I write them.  One can pray day and night, which is good for the soul, but is not useful if you're trying to hold back the floodwaters or are a member of any minority --or a woman.  The Trump brown shirts are now coming after anyone who is not male white, straight and Christian.

Finally, you may notice the masthead here is a little different.  Vedic Chart Readings in gone.  Change in this astrologer's life, partly as a result of the worldly turbulences discussed here, instigated this elimination.  I've done personal Vedic readings for a long time, since 1998.  It's best to use my elderly energies on only the Celestial Wheel, which is a greater support to humanity, and which also, I love to do!  The Celestial Wheel gives my life meaning and uses my education, worldly experience and Vedic training to produce the best insights possible.  

 

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The Celestial Wheel 2002-2023©
Doug Riemer

 

January 14, 2024

Quick Prediction Check



Below are two recent predictions about the U.S. and Trump with corresponding news articles.  (emphasis added)

U.S.

The November 7 The River Of Life stated,

Coming up in just a week is the Mercury Antardasa.  Because Rahu and Mercury are both in the calamitous eight house, there are tremendous mental and physical stresses, upwellings of subconsciousness karmas and fears.  (Look for not just calamities but also scandals, secrets revealed, sexual issues...)  This is probably the worst Dasa/Antardasa combination in this entire transformational Rahu Dasa.  It lasts from November 13, 2023 to June 2 2026 --  2 /1/2 years.


Today's New York Times article,  On the Ballot in Iowa:  Fear. Anxiety. Hopelessness addresses these negatives,

Four years ago, voters worried about a spiraling pandemic, economic uncertainty and national protests.  Now, in the first presidential election since the siege on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, those anxieties have metastasized into a grimmer, more existential dread about the very foundations of the American experiment.


You get the feeling in Iowa right now that we’re sleepwalking into a nightmare and there’s nothing we can do about it,”


Trump

The December 29 Almost There

Trump's Dasas are really difficult being Jupiter/Ketu since October 22 (to September 27, 2024).  Trump's Dasas (planetary cycles) alone result in his living by his emotions, losing rationality and diving into his own mystical paranoia.

Add in the (current) Mercury/Mars transit energy on his overly sensitive Moon, and he's been been even more excessive this holiday season.  For example, his daily barrage of statements and legal motions have both increased in number and viciousness and are strangely repetitive -- presidential immunity, election interference,  I did nothing wrong...-- even though the courts have ruled against these motions repeatedly.  Trump is repeating the same action and expecting a different result.  He is digging himself into a deeper hole with the courts and the public daily.  

It could be Trump falters, or even fails, during January.



The January 12 MSNBC Trump's crazy is crushing his comeback,

... Jonathan Lemire suggested Trump's being back in the spotlight is reminding people that he is not all there and the "crazy" is coming out again.

...now that the former president is in the news on a daily basis due to his crushing legal problems, people are recalling the chaos that accompanies him — and they are balking at voting for him.


Think about how the U.S's planetary karmas and resulting behaviors are responsive to Trump's craziness.  Is the nation being pulled into Trump world or rejecting it?  It seems the latter is more likely, though the former will certainly exert itself.

 

 

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The Celestial Wheel 2002-2023©
Doug Riemer