Political Astrology of the US Election

I came across an interesting article on political astrology of the U.S. election day, Nov. 4, predicting Obama's win.

The celestial events taking place now are amazing. Pluto rules nations, and Capricorn rules governments. The last time Pluto was in Capricorn was from 1763 to 1778.This was the time of the American Revolution which culminated in the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.The next time that Pluto was to return to Capricorn was this November.
Today, the planet Saturn is in direct opposition to the planet Uranus. Saturn represents the status quo; and Uranus represents revolutionary change at a grassroots level. These two opposing forces meet each other head-on!
When you look at the charts ofMc-Cain and Obama, we see McCain is a Virgo, with moon in Aquarius and Pisces Rising.
Obama is a Leo, with moon in Gemini and Aquarius Rising.
Both these guys are successful go-getters. What will make the difference is which one of their charts has the strongest connection to the chart of the U.S. based on July 4, 1776, 2:24 p. m. I'll cut to the chase and tell you right off--it's the chart of Barack Obama, hands down.

Along with this being a once in a 250 year event Pluto in Capricorn means a major realignment of the world economy as well.

On November 27th Pluto goes back into Capricorn until 2023. If you ever wanted a signal that the world is in major reconstruction follow the path of Capricorn for the next fifteen years. The mantra that I give the transit of Pluto in Scorpio is ‘brick by brick and stone by stone’.

There's plenty of blame to go around for why the nation and the world finds itself in such a financial pickle. Greed. Lack of regulation. Too much easy money.
But some astrologers put much of the blame on that pesky one-time planet Pluto. Rumson astrologer Flo Higgins said Pluto is moving from Sagittarius (laissez-faire attitude, not following rules) to Capricorn (conservative, regulated).
"Things have got to be destroyed and rebuilt and that's what's happening in the world," Higgins said. "We're not doomed to eternity like this. It'll be okay, but we have to go through some life lessons.

Those who pooh-pooh astrological predicitions forget that they are essentially mathematical formula's, and their predictability is over the long term. And given their predicatability, they function well for long term global events. As for being irrational, as my skeptical friends like to dismiss them, nothing can be more irrational than Stock Market Capitalism.

For instance here is an interesting political astrological pre-election predicition.....

Saturn vs. Uranus: The Smackdown
Friday, October 31, 2008

On Tuesday, November 4th, Saturn in Virgo will be exactly opposite Uranus in Pisces. This hasn't happened since 1967, when the two planets were reversed -- Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Virgo. Again in 2008, the times are indeed changing, as Dylan said. Back then we had the Vietnam war and the summer of love: two distinctly opposing poles in a roiling paradigm shift. Now we have youth, charisma, and hope writ large in the symbol that is Barack Obama. He has inspired millions and gotten us to take to the streets in a living, breathing network of change-making. All the organization and grassroots fundraising he's done is a testament to these beautiful progressive values. It is indeed interesting that Obama has Aquarius rising (the sign connected to the planet Uranus.) On the other hand, we have John Mccain, whose Saturn in Pisces is opposed to the Cosmic Taskmaster's current placement in Virgo. He's also a Virgo sun, so Saturn is sitting right on top of his sign, affecting his health, happiness, and making him angry all the time. Americans have a major choice to make right now, and the world is watching with baited breath. We can choose hope (Uranus/Obama) or we can choose fear (Saturn/Mccain). Just a quick word about the insanity of election day aspects: it doesn't look like it's necessarily going to be over by midnight. The moon and Mercury both change signs that day, Mars squares Neptune, and Saturn dukes it out with Uranus, putting everyone on edge. Be vigilant, and vote early if you can in your state. If not, clear your schedule and wait as long as it takes on that line at the polls. Document your experience there with your cell-phone camera. Don't be cowed by anyone that tells you can't vote -- voting suppression will be out in full-force in swing states, but documentation of irregularities will go far to prevent another stolen election. Even if we have to wait days, weeks, or months for a final result, let's hope that it reflects our democracy's best intentions.

India is awash in astrologers as well as mathmaticians and theoritical physicists, all of whose predictions are based upon the Vedic system; whether mathematical or astrological. And they too predicted Obama's win.

Indian astrologers predict sweeping Obama win
AFP - 30 Oct 2008


I have posted before on political astrology....

The Monkey On Paul Martin's Back

Year of the Pig and the Liberal Green Alliance

Burma's Curse

And I am not the only one to note the signifigance of te political astrological impact of the American election....

Obama, by Jupiter!
If the stars were aligned today for the coronation of the king of Bhutan, what does the president-elect's horoscope foretell?
Jupiter is why former president Ronald Reagan, a keen follower of astrological advice, took office as governor of California in January 1967 at the bizarre time of quarter past midnight. The giant planet was then high in the sky, promising a prosperous term for the king of the B movies. So it proved.
Might Jupiter have been similarly shining down on the victory of Barack Obama two days ago? Actually, no. By the time Obama was greeting the crowd in Chicago's Grant Park, Jupiter and most of the planets were below the horizon.
However, those looking for astrological omens for the Age of Obama (quite a few people, as a glance on the web confirms) have already noted that his inauguration – at noon on January 20 2009 – finds Jupiter perfectly aligned alongside the sun at the peak of the event's horoscope.
Most astrologers would look at the chart of the event and find it promising. By contrast, the inauguration of George W Bush in 2000 came dominated by Mars, planet of war.


So lets look at the new leadership of the U.S.

Barack Obama Astrology Natal Horoscope Report

Michelle Obama's Astrology Chart: The New First Lady - SpiritNow

Joe Biden is a Scorpio and is well suited to be the watery fire sign, not unlike Michele's Capricorn which is a watery earth sign, to balance off Obama.

Like many celebrities, Joe Biden has a stellium (more than three planets in one sign) in his chart. He has four planets in Scorpio, meaning that this is not a man to be messed with. He has the sun, Venus, Mars and Mercury in Scorpio. This line up speaks of pure power, as Scorpios are very good at politics, but they are ruthless when crossed! This many planets in Scorpio would also account for his incredible charisma.

And it is interesting to note that Sarah Pallins chart, she is an Aquarian, reveals her true self, which is that because of her Uranian/Neptunian nature she is a trickster. She is not what she seems.Scorpio is Novembers sign and it was not good for Pallin. She stung herself to political death.

All of these "sudden revelations" about Sarah Palin do smack of Uranus, though, and sure enough using this chart we have transiting Uranus retrograding over her progressed Midheaven. That would fit perfectly with her being picked out of nowhere and then this rapid meltdown.

Irene Mack
October 28, 2008 12:37 PM
Her Aquarius planets square Neptune in Scorpio. Transiting Neptune is on her Sun, reinforcing the Neptunian energy. Am I the only person here who is seeing someone who isn't who she professes to be? It's obvious to me that she's a phoney. Unfortunately, with that Neptunian energy she has going, she does have some people hypnotized into believing she's the real thing. And Venus in Aries. Please.She loves herself first.


I have posted here before about how Obama models himself on Lincoln....so lets look at their astrological coorespondence;

Barack Obama vs. Abraham Lincoln
September 22, 2008 ·
Their career paths have been compared, and almost parallel in their meteoric rise from being state legislators to Presidents (in Obama’s case potential president). But what do their charts say. Are they similar? And if so how? Let’s take a look at the man who helped start the Republican party and the current lead Democrat.

Others have gone further in associating Obama with Lincoln and indeed with JFK through their astrological charts, let alone Obama's adoption of their political iconography.

Last March, prominent psychic, Gordon Michael Scallion, speaking to a group at the A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment, The Edgar Cayce Foundation) in Virginia Beach, channeled the information that Obama is a reincarnated Abe Lincoln-- a compelling if improvable thesis. Lincoln may have freed the slaves and defeated the Confederacy, but he did not live to complete his mission of reuniting the nation. Many of the deep divisions that persist today are the legacy of a reconstruction gone awry. Obama is passionate about uniting the country, as if to complete Lincoln’s unfinished business. His statement I don’t see red and blue states, I see the United States, echoes Lincoln’s sentiment to bind up the nation’s wounds. Pundits are already predicting that the electoral map will morph into the color purple. Obama often cites the motto on the Great Seal epluribus unum, out of many one. Unity is essential if we want to effect real political change and fulfill the founders’ vision.

And while saying Obama is the reincarnation of Lincoln is pushing it the political iconography being used by Obama of continuing the Lincoln legacy is psychically potent as a political metaphor within the American mindset as he well knows.

The Presidential Inauguration will be held on January 20, 2009. A week of festivities will include the Presidential Swearing in Ceremony, Inaugural Address, Inaugural Parade and a night of Inaugural Balls and galas honoring the new President of the United States. The theme for the 2009 presidential inauguration will be "A New Birth of Freedom," commemorating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The words come from the Gettysburg address, and express Lincoln's hope that the sacrifice of those who died to preserve the nation shall lead to "a new birth of freedom" for our nation. The theme is particularly appropriate in light of the historic election of Senator Barack Obama.

Words of Lincoln Will Be Woven Into Obama Inaugural Activities

And lets not forget that when Obama won his first primary we were still in the Chinese Year of the Pig...we are now in the last phase of the Year of the Rat...... by the time he takse power we will be in the year of the Ox.

A Rat Year is a time of hard work, activity, and renewal. This is a good year to begin a new job, get married, launch a product or make a fresh start. Ventures begun now may not yield fast returns, but opportunities will come for people who are well prepared and resourceful. The best way for you to succeed is to be patient, let things develop slowly, and make the most of every opening you can find.

the year of the Rat is still ruled by the cold of winter and the darkness of night. Those who speculate indiscriminately and overextend themselves will come to a sad reckoning.

In the Chinese zodiac, McCain is a rat and Obama is an ox. "2008 is a rat year, but next year is Year of the Ox and that favors Obama," says Weber. According to Weber the rat is a sign ruled by water and that makes McCain's personality one that conflicts with the energy of the coming year and explains much of his actions. "Looking at McCain during the debates, you could tell his emotions fluctuated and, like water, were more fluid."
Rats are considered positive, charismatic, hardworking and industrious and their negative qualities are over-ambition, ruthlessness, intolerant and scheming. If McCain came into office, it's possible that his emotions would get the better of him, as he's often known for a hot temper and quick reactions.
"Watching Obama in the debates showed his Ox qualities of being unflappable and steady," Weber explains. An ox is associated with the earth element and is known for being dependable, calm, methodical, and resolute and their negative qualities make them stubborn, materialistic, rigid and demanding.
According to Weber, McCain's rat energy would keep him from being effective in the Oval Office because the 2009 energy is earth and earth dams water. "It would be a "dammed" presidency from the start," she quips. Even so, rats are industrious and opportunity-driven and have great qualities for business, but with next year's energy, the rat energy isn't harmonious because water added to earth makes mud.
Obama, on the other hand, has earth qualities that will create a harmonious start with the earth energy of next year, and Weber explains, that next year has a double earth energy making the steady approach of the next president important in order to settle down the "rollercoaster we've been on" and take care of important things like America's standing in the world and investing in American infrastructure. "You could look at it as McCain's Year of the Rat is almost over, but Obama's Year of the Ox is the future. Speaking purely to the feng shui of time and energy, feng shui supports Obama over McCain."

A rat's life
For those who believe that the world is shaped by historical coincidence (a small minority populated entirely by sports commentators), a more worrying US election trend is also visible - 2008 is the Chinese Year of the Rat. In five of the last six Year of the Rat American elections - 1996, 1984, 1972, 1948 and 1936 - the incumbent president has been re-elected.
George W. Bush's greatest political asset has been his ability to win elections in which he seemingly had little or no hope either before or after the votes had been cast.
Let us hope that this Rat Year election proves a bridge too far even for him.

The Year of the Rat has been a rough one for China's richest, with fortunes being dragged down amid a 60% plunge in mainland stocks and a 50% drop in Hong Kong shares in 2008. The combined net worth of the 400 richest dropped to $173 billion from $288 billion. The top 40 lost $68 billion, or 57%. The minimum net worth slipped $20 million to $180 million.

On the Western calendar, the start of the New Year falls on Monday, January 26, 2009 — The Year of the Ox.

The OX year is a conservative year, one of traditions and values. This is not a year to be outrageous. A slow but steady year.This OX year will bring stability and growth where patience and diligence pays off.
This is a year of Harvest - when we reap what we have sown. Take care of business this year, do not let things slide.


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POLITICAL ASTROLOGY 

THE YEAR OF THE YANG FIRE MONKEY

I have written about Political Astrology before and in particular about the impact of unexpected change created in the Year of the Monkey.      

It has been twelve years since the last one, and at that time I used it to predict the minority government of Paul Martin and his and the Liberals fall from power. That was 2004, I also used it as the basis of predication of the coming Obama campaign for POTUS and the auspicious birth it would have in the year of the Monkey.

With the topsy turvy politics that began a year ago with the totally unexpected win by the NDP in Alberta and later the Trudeau Liberals federally in Canada and the Trump and Sanders campaigns in the US change of the trickster kind, the unexpected is the norm, it flows right into the year of the Monkey. As I said back in 2004;

And why should we put such credence into the Year of the Monkey? Well it occurs on a twelve-year cycle, and in Canadian politics the year of the Monkey has seen the fall of many PMs and their parties.In the monkey year1992, Brian Mulroney stepped down as PM and was replaced by Kim Campbell, who went down to defeat in the 1993 election.In 1980 Pierre Elliot Trudeau came out of retirement to defeat PC Prime Minister Joe Clark, who had held his office for only a year. Of course PET had the year of the Monkey on his side having become PM in 1968, a crucial and revolutionary year of the Monkey.1968 is a quintessential year of the Monkey, with the Paris uprising of students and workers, the Tet offensive effectively defeating the Americans in Vietnam, the Chicago riots at the Democratic Convention which led to the election of two time loser Richard Nixon. The assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the Russian invasion of Chezslovakia.The Year of the monkey in 1956 saw John Diefendbaker elected Leader of the Progressive Conservatives who win the 1957 election with a Minority Government, the first minority government in Canadian history, which lasted only one year.

The Unexpected Should Be Expected should be the motto of this year of the Monkey as it is the norm.

Today we are seeing a much broader range of change occurring as this is the year of the Male Fire Monkey a much more active trickster. With a Jupiter nature, the Monkey Trickster spirit is sure to impact on mundane politics which Jupiter rules. The rise of both Trump and Sanders are reflective of this spirit. And so is the win by Leicester in the Premier League of Football, their first such win in 132 years, at 5000-1 Odds !!!

Hoary astrology is the practice of Political Astrology; it uses a base style of chart first developed in England by the father of modern political astrology William Lily who predicted the Great London Fire of 1666. I do not have those abilities nor do I use the standard astrological tools. I use an intuitive method looking at events that would fit in the spirit of this year of the Monkey.

Hanuman which is the Monkey God in Asia is the spiritual nature of Man the Trickster, which we find in other cultures with their tricksters; Set of the Egyptians, Loki of the Norse, Coyote and Raven of North American first peoples, the Fox in Aesop’s Tales and in Japan, and Mercury for the Greeks.  All of them turn the world on its head, spin the magician or shaman around the leave folks guessing. They do it with a laugh, either on you or on them. While the tricks can teach a lesson that lesson may not be benevolent nor without some pain or other form of unexpected event.

In this the campaigns of Trump and Sanders actually reflect that Fire Yang of this year’s Monkey Tai Sui the Grand Duke of Jupiter. Jupiter rules politics, the Twentieth card in the Tarot; XX The World or Aeon

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Both candidates for POTUS came from behind, with nothing but negative expectations and media prognostications the magick of the media appointing or anointing their winner and their loser, as though they were Thoth himself.

But here the truth of Ptah did not come from the lips of the media but rather from the people, change was in the air, as the saying goes. In the spirit of the Monkey King, the people decided to support these two politicians because they were not the usual kind of politician. One was a seventies anti war activist a self avowed Socialist, the other a racist bigoted businessman who was both a Democrat and a Republican.  Such Janus like archetypes now fill the imagination of the mass of the American public.

The seventies, which is when I became a young radical activist, have returned, to remind the yuppies, nerds and geeks that they are the baby boomers who lived in the seventies, making it a time of both mass anti war protest and organizing for a political revolution, a music and cultural upheaval and finally a spirit of change, that society as well as the individual could change, it was Yippie culture and Hippie culture combined, it was protest and self help/inward awareness, paganism and Buddhism began to expand in North America. All of the counter culture, freak culture of the Woodstock generation is wrapped in an old guy who was a hero of mine when I was a teenager and he was an anti war socialist elected mayor in Vermont.

This particular historical moment in time, on the way to the second decade of the 21^st. Century with its millennial generation is exactly where we were at fifty years ago, ironically. All the Occult and Revolutionary revival of the seventies is coming to be the norm in this new age. The concept of an alternative consciousness, a worldwide ascendant consciousness of humanity and the idea of a revolutionary consciousness baptized the new century in Seattle and Chiapas in 1999. And five years ago its zeitgeist became apparent to all of us with the Weltanschauung of the Arab spring.

Both Trump and Sanders reflect this zeitgeist in the year of the Monkey, the anti free trade movement has a left and right base and both these candidates reflect these bases, while their parties the Democrats and GOP do not.

They are the Left and Right of the same coin, a libertarian urge to social change for the good of the individual and for society. Unfortunately as we have learned from history this left right deviation occurred in the thirties and created fascism, which has returned as the zeitgeist of the Trump movement. White America is being swept up in final campaign, before it becomes a minority in the United States. 

Both Sanders and Trump reflect this, both are appealing to predominately white voters, and in both cases they are appealing to the working class, there is no middle class that was a socioeconomic myth of  sixties sociologists to confuse producers with consumers, creating new classes such as blue collar and white collar, to separate them into economic categories. Everyone wants to be white collar, middle class, a consumer, who may or may not be a direct producer, like auto workers, or secretaries, both jobs created for post WWII North America.

Trump appeals to the older white working class, while Sanders appeals to the new generation their children and grandchildren who now live in a pre socialist world of postmodern capitalism. Like Star Trek that my generation grew up with the advanced communications, social media, internet world which is very much the creation of the 21^st Century, is real change occurring instantly give or take a couple of months or years of development.

Apps reflect this change, this shift from consumer based capitalism, to active ameliorating capitalism on its way to becoming socialism, not just the conditions for socialism but actually shifting productive relations into socialist relations of production.

Everyone under advanced capitalism is becoming a producer user, even this blog is reflective of that change, by its very nature the blog allows me to create more than just an article but an actual autonomous media form, that can be spread everywhere on the internet, no different than the New York Times.

The modern technology being used by millennial’s attests to this sense of coming socialism, socialism of the association of free producers, artisans not wage slave labourers,  using apps they create and share. We have a sharing economy bursting through a capitalist economy, whether you and I like it or not. Revolutions are radical change whether people like it or not and we are in a period of revolutionary change unseen since after WWI.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Uber is one of these kinds of disruptive technologies it confronts the old taxi culture that grew out of the forties to sixties when a small group of capitalists dominated and created an industry based on ownership of state sanctioned cab licenses. 

The ultimate purpose of Uber and other such apps, is to eventually be used by us to call autonomous vehicles to our home, workplace or shopping mall, we will no longer own cars, but use a new form of public transit, privatized as it is now. It will change because we are now actually talking about socialism in North America. 

Currently Uber is destroying the taxi industry, and transferring that ability to drive people, to people themselves, taking it out of its specialized role in society, in much the same way the car itself replace the horse drawn carriage or the street trolley.

But eventually once Big Auto starts producing autonomous vehicles, there will be an app used to call up a vehicle, but there will be no need for Uber.

Cars would be leased and once they outlived their lives they would be returned for recycling and reuse, this idea has been in circulation for twenty years now.

Socialism is the natural result of the contradictions of capitalism, which is a failed economic model, based on continuous growth of at least 3% annually, as Prof DavidHarvey has pointed out. Socialism occurs when capitalism reaches the point of restricting the growth of technology, robotics, automation, which can free us from the drudgery of wage slavery. We move from an economy based on production and waste, to one that is that is green, that uses natural resources in a way that considers their finiteness, that then relies on reusing and recycling these products.

Green economics is one aspect of socialism it involves current research in areas like green manufacturing, green chemistry, etc. These are actual fields of research and development. The idea is to take responsibility for your product from cradle to grave and when we go to bury it we find ways of breaking it down and reusing it.

Autonomous production; the freedom to choose, that supposed gift of capitalism is actually central to socialism, the concept of the free association of producers comes with the change in technology, like 3D Printing. This allows for manufacturing at home, a return of home based work, an end of the factory.
The Internet of Things, IoT allows us to administer things, not people, Engels ideal of the socialist state.

Millennial’s understand this, they grok the potential in the social media they use, they live in and live with. They used this to create the Arab Spring, the first world wide revolutionary struggle since the Bolshevik and Spanish revolutionary  struggles in the twentieth century . This consciousness of change was not lost on them.

It is this spirit of hope and change of that revolutionary potential that makes them embrace Sanders call to political revolution and Socialism.

It is the fear of job loss, of destruction of the norm, of the end of power of the white race that drives their parents and grandparents to Trump.

Like the turn of last Century which saw a horrifying war of Capitalist expansion that cut short the lives of an entire generation in Europe, and the creation of Modernism as a result, we are in a period of change, where consciousness, our social and personal self awareness is aware that we and the times we live in are full of potential for change and are changing.

Unlike the lost generation of WWI our Millennial’s as well as members of Gen X, Y, Z are all here. And like the generation of revolutionaries, modernists, they are the voice of the future, of a socialism that is not 19^th or even 20^th century, but a new model of an advanced technology shared for free in open source. 

Where work is what we all do because it is something we want to do, not because we are selling our time to someone else. Technology is on the edge of history, like Marx predicted in his work the Grundrisse, we can transform capitalism into socialism, by using technology to free us from wage slavery.

The followers of Trump are the heirs of the post WWI reactionaries and traditionalists who also appear at this time with the futurist and modernists movements, they are the founders of Fascism. 

They are not quite conservative or aristocratic, though these values and images of power appeal to them, they are actually as much a part of the revolutionary change in consciousness that is occurring, their spokespeople on the right talk about dialectics, gnosis, Hegelianism, all the left topics that while they dispute them consider them important enough as an ideology to continuously confront despite their protestations that Socialism has failed, and is a failed ideology.

It is more than an ideology; it is a historical zeitgeist originating in capitalism once capitalism develops industry and technology to a level of autonomous use it transforms into the potential for a socialist political economy.

It is here that the conspiratorial ideologues of the right, like Eugene Volokh, influence the readers of both the National Review and the National Enquirer. 

This movement of radical traditionalism of Evola and Volokh appeals to the American conspiracy theory imagination which Trump uses very effectively.

 However the white working class, like the coalminers in Appalachia who have abandoned Clinton for Trump, do not see that their jobs, their lives, their very existence being sacrificed by their bosses but because of Free Trade deals.

 With a reactionary consciousness they look to the very same boss who sold them out to save them, the left and the Democratic party has failed them. But they too embrace Sanders political revolution from the right, and support Trump because he will end trade deals. He will save their jobs. Even if the Republican Party is the party of free trade the very reason they have lost their jobs, they do not care, they are not republicans they are Trumpites.

Sanders and Trump’s political revolution also calls into question the whole two party system and Trump more than even Sanders has exposed what a rigged game it is.

In a sense Trump as post modern aristocrat has stepped down from his lofty heights to save the people. His politics are not of reform or revolution but of the great man in history no different from Mussolini or Bismarck who created state socialism in order to unify Germany.

Sanders political revolution harkens back to the seventies, to the ideals of the anti war movement which was the first post WWII movement to seriously threaten the establishment, even more so than the very successful CND anti nuke movement that it originated from.

He has not announced its structure, because as a transitional program it is made up of demands like #Fightfor15, ending Big Money in politics, etc. are all tactics for change, they are not a real program for socialist change. He is using this campaign like a big anti-war teach-in.

America’s political system is broken, this election has proven it.

 

And the Monkey King knows it and is only too glad to show it.

Russians turn to astrology as they peer into future amid Ukraine conflict

As the country reels from a barrage of unprecedented sanctions over Ukraine, more and more Russians are turning to astrology as they peer into the future.

Agence France-Presse

Moscow

July 5, 2022

Astrologers, psychics and mediums have for years been popular in Russia. (Representational image)

Will there be nuclear war? Will Russia win the Ukraine offensive? Will my son survive?

As the Kremlin presses ahead with its military intervention in the pro-Western country, more and more Russians are turning to astrologers.

In Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, bespectacled Elena Korolyova receives clients in her apartment, where two cats prowl between piles of books.

"People want to know what will become of Russia, cut off from the rest of world," the 63-year-old told AFP.

Astrologers, psychics and mediums have for years been popular in Russia, and particularly turbulent years have seen demand for their services increase.

As the country reels from a barrage of unprecedented sanctions over Ukraine, more and more Russians are turning to astrology as they peer into the future.

Korolyova, a grey-haired philologist by training who rose to fame in the former imperial capital through word of mouth, seeks to reassure her clients.

She predicts that Moscow will not only survive the economic storm, but also emerge victorious.

"The global cataclysm will intensify in September, but Russia will come out of it stable and prosperous," she said.

Korolyova charges 5,000 rubles ($90) per consultation and says -- without wanting to reveal any numbers -- that since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine on February 24 requests from clients have increased.

In the first week of the conflict, the number of searches for "astrologer" more than doubled on Russia's main search engine Yandex -- from 42,900 on February 19 to 95,000 on March 5, according to the company's keyword statistics.

POLITICAL ASTROLOGY

In Moscow, another prominent astrologer, Konstantin Daragan, who made a name for himself by claiming to have predicted the coronavirus pandemic, also says Russia will win on the ground in Ukraine and in its clash with the West.

"Russia will become the centre of the world after the conflict," he said on social media recently.

Originally from Ukraine's eastern region of Donbas that the Russian army has been seeking to conquer, the aeronautical engineer turned astrologer claims to have advised ministers, bankers and even members of Ukraine's secret services in the past.

Having left for Moscow after pro-Western authorities came to power in Kyiv in 2014, he supports the Russian military intervention, even if his hometown of Lysychansk has been ravaged by fighting.

For him, too, business is booming.

His "School of Classical Astrology" doubled its student numbers since Putin launched the Ukraine intervention, now counting around 200 in Moscow.

STAR WARS

Sociologist Alexei Levinson of the independent Levada research centre said that an attempt to read the stars is a way of making sense of reality for many "confused" Russians.

"Faced with a universe that has collapsed, some prefer to take stars as guides rather than their leaders," he said.

"Astrology today is a kind of psychotherapy or new religion."

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Anna Markus, one of Daragan's students in her 50s, said she looks to the stars for "logic in events on Earth".

"Russia is designated as the only culprit of the conflict, but it is obvious that a third country is the real culprit," she told AFP.

She has a star chart that she claims proves the United States is guilty.

Over the border in battered Ukraine, the stars, predictably, show the opposite.

Astrologer Vlad Ross, who is popular in Ukrainian media, says that Putin is "gravely ill" and "will not survive past March 2023".

"Saturn is the sign of Russia against Uranus, the sign of Ukraine. Our victory is imminent," assured another star Ukrainian astrologer, Angela Pearl, in a video viewed more than a million times since mid-May.

Desperate Ukrainians are turning to astrologers for a sign that their loved ones on the front will survive or if they will have to flee advancing Russian troops.

Ukrainians want to know "if nuclear war will happen, if they should leave their country, if their loved ones are in danger", astrologer Olena Umanets told AFP.

"Russia will explode in March 2023," predicted the 38-year-old former musician, who fled Ukraine for Switzerland.

Her $100 online consultation reassured one client, a 46-year-old television producer in Kyiv named Kristina, worried about her husband who is fighting on the frontline.

"My husband just called me. He thanks God for having survived the night," she wrote to her astrologer in June.

"Thank you for having encouraged me to pray for him, it relieved me to share this responsibility with the stars.

A Rare Jupiter-Neptune Conjunction Is Here To Change Everything

During our existence, we experience many once-in-a-lifetime moments: our first steps, our first love, our first Jonas Brothers concert. But beyond these Earthly encounters, there are other once-in-a-lifetime astrological events that happen far, far above us in the solar system — and while we can’t see them, we can feel them. This month, a rare occurrence is upon us as lucky Jupiter connects with intuitive Neptune in Pisces on April 12.


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“Jupiter visits Pisces once every 12 years — however, Neptune takes much longer breaks to visit Pisces due to its extremely slow movement around the Sun,” says Narayana Montúfar, senior astrologer for Astrology.com and author of Moon Signs: Unlock Your Inner Luminary Power. “For this reason, Jupiter and Neptune have not met in Pisces, the sign they share rulership over, since 1856 — and it won’t happen again until 2188!”

While Jupiter and Neptune meet every 13 years, this particular get together is exceptionally special because these two planets co-rule the sign of Pisces — Jupiter in traditional astrology, and Neptune in modern astrology, according to Montúfar. This means that they’re both very happy to be there right now, and combined, their energy is incredibly strong, positive, and magical.

Jupiter is growth-oriented and loves to expand our minds, while Neptune brings us intuition and dreams. “Being that these planets are in Pisces, they can bring out a lot of mystical and transformational energy,” says Lisa Stardust, author of Saturn Return Survival Guide and The Astrology Deck. “Pisces is a very fluid sign who has a lot of magical components to it — therefore, it is a great time to manifest our innermost streams and passions that we’ve been keeping within ourselves for a long time.” Our spiritual sides will be easier to access, and our creativity will be flowing.

The energy here is pretty serious — so serious, in fact, that Stardust says this is the best day of your entire lifetime for manifesting your dreams. Get out that manifestation journal, try out the 369 method, or just spend the day putting forward the energy you want to receive back from the universe in the future. It can’t hurt.

This conjunction is “bound to inundate our collective consciousness with the characteristics of the water element,” Montúfar says. Specifically, we’ll be feeling all of the Pisces energy, which rules romance, music, film, pop culture, art, creativity, intuition, and spirituality. “This conjunction will set in motion a big transformation in culture that will develop over the 166 years, which is when these two planets meet again in Pisces,” she says. Think of this astrological event as the start of a new phase in these Piscean areas of rulership — our creative sides will be able to evolve into something entirely new.

We’ll also be inclined more toward humanitarianism, and feel inspired to help people, says Iva Naskova, astrologer at Nebula. “It is a good time to handle law affairs and matters of authority,” she says, “but most importantly, it is a time of magic and spiritual guidance from the universe.” Naskova says that we’ll slowly feel like things are coming together and steering us towards our higher purpose in life.

Good vibes are all around us. “You could feel inspired to follow through on something you have dreamt of for years or pursue a cause that is close to your heart,” says Leslie Hale, psychic astrologer at Keen.com. “The compassionate, easy going and ethereal nature of this aspect may allow things to flow quite easily.”

To make the very best of this conjunction in our personal lives, Montúfar says we must cultivate stillness, “as it is during the quiet moments of deep meditation that we are open to receiving the messages it has for us.” Although this planetary connection is dreamy, take time to meditate or relax this day and listen to what’s going on the world around you — you may just have an epiphany.

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Kepler and the Witch

 November 26, 2019 Chad E. Brack

This is an essay I wrote for my “Magick, Religion, and Science” class at ASU. I discuss how Johannes Kepler used the power of reason to both discover the laws of planetary motion as well as to save his mother from being convicted of witchcraft.

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According to Carl Sagan, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was the last scientific astrologer.[1] Although people still believe in and practice astrology today, Kepler effectively separated the belief system of astrology from the science of astronomy. Before Kepler, scientific astrologers thought the stars reflected what happened on Earth, but astrology actually had little connection to reality. After Kepler, astronomy presented real physical forces that governed the motions of the planets.[2] A devoutly religious man, Kepler had every reason to put his beliefs before his observations. He even “described his pursuit of science as a wish to know the mind of God.”[3] He was a successful scientist, however, because he accepted the facts over his preferences.[4] Instead of assuming first principles, which was the common practice, Kepler (along with Copernicus and Galileo), pioneered the scientific method by devising theories in accordance with observations of nature itself and translating those theories into mathematics.[5] Kepler believed in a rational and predictable natural world, but he lived in a time of social unrest. In Kepler’s day, the boundaries of magic, religion, and science were undefined and prone to significant overlap. Kepler stands out because he refused to let his preconceived beliefs dictate his findings. In fact, he used his keen intellect, informed by careful observations and reason, to conquer two fallacious arguments that loomed over him. The first led to the discovery of his three laws of planetary motion and the subsequent rejection of the orbital perfection he wanted to believe. The second defeated the formal accusations of witchcraft that had led to his mother’s imprisonment and ultimately saved her life.

Kepler was born in 1571 and raised as a Lutheran during the Protestant Reformation. At a young age, he went to a Protestant school to be educated for the clergy but ended up becoming a mathematics teacher in Graz. Kepler was trained in Greek, Latin, music, and mathematics. During his studies at the University of Tübingen, he learned about and adopted Copernicus’ heliocentricity.[6] Kepler was curious about the divine plan for the world and was obsessed with understanding the mind of God. He thought of geometry as somewhat synonymous with God’s way of thinking, and he tried to use Pythagoras’ perfect solids to describe the orbits of the known planets. For Kepler, astronomers were “priests of God” who revealed divine order through nature.[7]

In Kepler’s day, astronomy and astrology were interlinked. Astrology had been used all over the world for various purposes, such as divination, calendrical construction, and fortune telling. Greek scientists collected and refined knowledge of astrology, mathematics, and science from other parts of the world to develop practical tools and to set up a mechanistic universe. In the second century CE, Claudius Ptolemaios (Ptolemy) wrote a compendium of Hellenistic astrology and astronomy. He described the cosmos as Earth-centered with perfectly circular planetary orbits. Though his system failed to address retrograde motion, which is impossible in a geocentric model with a motionless Earth, it became the scientific paradigm for the next 1300 years. Later Muslim philosophers, such as Avicenna, argued against the efficacy of astrology and attempted to correct Ptolemy’s errors in order to develop a purer astronomy. In 1543, Copernicus revived heliocentricity from the works of the Hellenistic astronomers, consulted Muslim criticisms of Ptolemy’s model, and mathematically proved that the Earth and planets orbit the Sun.

For Kepler, “only quantitative mathematical proof is a characteristic of objective science.”[8] He agreed with Copernican heliocentricity and rejected most of traditional astrology.[9] Kepler decided that celestial bodies have no influence aside from their light and that astrological effects are due only to the reactions of people’s souls to God’s harmonies or proportions in nature.[10] Though he saw many nonsensical aspects to astrology, Kepler thought there may still be some philosophically interesting astrological realities due to these harmonies.[11] He completely rejected the “low” astrology of folklore, but still practiced the “high” astrology of large-scale matters like weather, which he believed to be part of physics.[12] According to Kepler, much of the content of astrological calendars was mere superstition, but he did not reject astrology as a whole—he wanted to reform it.[13]

When Kepler failed to explain planetary orbits in terms of perfect solids, he thought the problem must have been due to inaccurate observations.[14] To correct the errors, he began working with Tycho Brahe, who had access to the most accurate observations to date. Brahe was known to publicly attack Copernicus’ heliocentricity but privately tried to merge it with Ptolemy’s models. Brahe had the data but needed Kepler’s mind to understand it.[15] After Brahe died, Kepler used his tables to confirm Copernicus’ model, but he was unable to match the data to circular orbits. Kepler was thus forced to reject the idea of circular orbits in favor of elliptical orbits, which showed retrograde motion to be an illusion and matched Brahe’s tables “perfectly.”[16] Though the Church officially endorsed Ptolemy’s model for well over 1000 years and Kepler was upset by the results, he fully accepted the data and discovered the first two laws of planetary motion:

1st Law: A planet moves in an ellipse with the sun at one focus.

2nd Law: A planet sweeps out equal areas in equal time.[17]

After discovering the first two laws, Kepler spent 10 years trying to understand how they related to God’s harmony. He “loathed the ‘imperfect’ ellipses.”[18] Finally, in 1619, he discovered the third law and believed it to reveal the divine mind in creation. He said “I let myself go in divine rage” over the achievement.[19]

3rd Law: The squares of the periods of the planets, the time for them to make one orbit, are proportional to the cubes, the 3rd power, of their average distances from the sun.[20]

For Kepler, cosmological harmony was a consequence of God making the universe as beautiful as possible.[21] The harmony he found turned out to be something he had not expected, but it was the data that let him to his conclusions—not his predetermined beliefs.

Kepler’s discoveries would spell trouble in the Christian world. His elliptical orbits challenged conventional theology and, some believed, could possibly lead to disbelief in, or even disproof of, God. Aristotle had pronounced perfect circles as a sign of perfection. Ptolemy had used perfect circular orbits as a fundamental part of the world. Furthermore, Copernicus’ heliocentric model removed the Earth as the center of the universe. Kepler’s ideas challenged both the perfect nature of God’s creation as well as the authority of the Church. He had mathematically proven that Church doctrine was wrong, bringing to question what other errors the Church had made. Kepler was eventually excommunicated from the Lutheran Church for his beliefs,[22] but his entire life was punctuated by religious conflict and strife. He had grown up during the Protestant Reformation, which pitted Catholics and Protestants against each other throughout Europe. While a math teacher in Graz, he was exiled by Catholics who took over the city in 1598. He fled to Prague to work with Tycho and the Thirty Years War began while he was there; his wife and son died from disease spread during the war.[23] Kepler even experienced the “tidal wave of witch-hunting” in Germany, which consumed thousands of victims, mainly old women.[24] Toward the end of his life, Kepler put aside astronomy to defend his mother against accusations of witchcraft. He would be successful by using the same method of observation, reason, and meticulous explanation that he had used to understand the cosmos.

From the 1590s-1650s, a witchcraft craze swept Germany. Scholars disagree about why it took place, and explanations range from a cleansing of pagan traditions or budding capitalism to a “sex war” or syphilis outbreak.[25] Hartmut Lehmann suggests that the persecution took place to “restore order” to society during the Reformation.[26] Regardless of the cause, people seemed to truly believe that witches existed and that witches were dangerous. Those accused were generally considered guilty qua accused. In 1615, Katharina Kepler’s vindictive neighbor, Ursula Reinbold, accused her of witchcraft. Reinbold claimed that Katharina had bewitched a drink, causing her chronic leg pain.[27] Katharina’s husband, Heinrich, had run away in 1589, leaving her to fend for herself.[28] According to Carl Sagan, Katharina was a “cantankerous old woman” who annoyed local nobility and “sold drugs.”[29] The jury was against her from the beginning and took her emotional resilience as an argument for guilt.[30] Her family members successfully minimized her hardship and prevented torture, but Katharina spent 14 months incarcerated.[31] She finally gained her freedom due to Johannes’ meticulous defense. Kepler identified three main, interlinked causes for his mother’s predicament: enmity, fear against old women, and a new government eager to act. He set out to “discredit every witness through legal reasoning.”[32] He attacked the reliability of witnesses who were too young or had based their claims on hearsay, revealed inconsistencies in witness’ testimony, showed that Ursula had taken the wrong medication, distinguished between natural and unnatural illnesses, and systematically dismantled every claim against his mother. Furthermore, Katharina had taken her own medicine without ill effect and had raised her children to be good Lutherans.[33] According to Ulinka Rublack,[34]

Every element of seemingly damning testimony was therefore addressed and explained in its wider context—of natural disease, a person’s bias, family quarreling, or simple mishaps.

Kepler even argued that old women used folk medicine based on experience which formed a basis for reputable knowledge. In other words, he showed his mother to be a normal person and a pious citizen rather than a superstitious old woman.[35] When confronted with Kepler’s rebuttal, the Tübingen lawyers could no longer justify the charges. As a final attempt to frighten a confession out of her, they gave Katharina a tour of the torture chamber before her release.[36] Unfortunately, she died only 6 months later.[37]

Racked with guilt after his mother’s death, Kepler thought back to the unpublished fantasy he had written in which an Icelandic astronomer, Duracotus, traveled to the moon using magic from his mother, Fiolxhilde.[38] Kepler had given a copy to the teenage baron of Volkersdorf in 1611 and imagined it being circulated to Ursula Reinbold via her brother.[39] He became obsessed with Somnium and decided to publish it as punishment for those who had taken it as a factual account of him and his mother. He footnoted every source from literary works to clearly demonstrate that it had nothing to do with reality.[40] It is uncertain whether the unpublished fantasy did contribute to Katharina’s arrest. Her accusations were clearly a matter of her interactions with the local community, not Kepler’s ideas,[41] but it is possible that his work of fiction played a role. Such a literal interpretation of Somnium exemplifies the melding of magic and science in Kepler’s day.

According to Arthur Beer, “Kepler stands squarely between the prescientific age, with its magical-symbolical description of Nature, and the new science.”[42] Robert Hazen points out that “in spite of the mathematical logic and order that Kepler brought to the heavens, he still had to contend with a superstitious world.”[43] Kepler was a religious man who believed in God and was driven to understand how the world works. He was raised and educated in the Church. He saw persecution, war, and even his own mother’s arrest grounded in religious beliefs. He used science to separate the realities of nature from the fallacious conclusions and superstitions of everyday life. Where others sought evidence to support preconceived beliefs, Kepler formed his conclusions based on observation and mathematics. He thought science had “sprung from superstition in the first place,” and astronomy had grown from a need to foretell the future,[44] but he rejected astrology as based on the choices of humans rather than signs that reflect the nature of the cosmos.[45] He was able to make such distinctions while retaining his core religious beliefs.

When Kepler’s discoveries overturned the accepted, authoritative view of his religious tradition, he sided with the data over what he wished to be the case. He demonstrated that the planets are not deities or personal, he showed that they are not perfect and do not decide the fates of men, and he also explained how their orbits actually work. Although his three laws of planetary motion described the planets as bound to physical, mechanistic forces that did not comply with the geometric perfection expected from a perfect god, Kepler accepted the observations. He was able to adjust his religious beliefs to the revelations of nature. His science was correct and inspired future discoveries. In similar fashion, his skills at observation and reasoning directly resulted in his mother’s freedom. Although Kepler never addressed his belief or disbelief in the existence of witches,[46] he knew his mother’s arrest was based on false accusations. The arguments against her simply did not support the charge. His rebuttal not only proved his point, but also changed people’s minds.

Kepler suffered many hardships and setbacks due to the constant political and religious flux in Germany during his life. As Lutherans and Catholics fought for power and territory, Kepler found himself caught in the middle. When fear of harmful magic from witchcraft swept through the area, his family suffered. Throughout the ordeals, Kepler continued his work separating science from pseudoscience. According to Rublack, human nature is rooted in needs that are difficult to classify neatly as “religious” or “magical.”[47] Kepler believed God put people on Earth so our perceptions would constantly change, and he thought that natural knowledge could not be wholly removed from emotion. That said, reliability was key.[48] He developed a reliable method to explain and predict the celestial motions of planetary bodies that was devoid of magic or hidden influence. As he sought to understand the mind of God, he successfully described the natural world by stripping away ideas that did not fit concrete observations. Kepler paved the way for the dedicated discipline of astronomy without the baloney of astrology attached. He clearly showed, that both astrology and witchcraft, at least in the case of Katharina, were matters of personal fears, desires, and superstitions—not manifestations from supernatural forces able to determine what occurs in people’s lives or to influence the actions of nature.

1. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” Directed by Adrian Malone. Written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter (Cosmos Studios, Inc., 2000 [Originally aired September 28, 1980]). ↑

2. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

3. Carl Sagan, The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. London (HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING, 1997), 294. ↑

4. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

5. Robert Bucholz, Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World. Course Guidebook (The Great Courses: The Teaching Company, 2006), 56-57. ↑

6. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

7. Patrick J. Boner, “Beached Whales and Priests of God: Kepler and the Cometary Spirit of 1607.” Early Science and Medicine 17, no. 6 (2012), 590. ↑

8. Arthur Beer, “Kepler’s Astrology and Mysticism.” Vistas in Astronomy 18 (1975), 416. ↑

9. J.V. Field, “A Lutheran Astrologer: Johannes Kepler.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 31, no. 3 (1984), 225. ↑

10. Beer, “Kepler’s Astrology and Mysticism,” 412. ↑

11. Beer, “Kepler’s Astrology and Mysticism,” 417. ↑

12. Field, “A Lutheran Astrologer,” 190. ↑

13. Field, “A Lutheran Astrologer,” 196. ↑

14. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

15. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

16. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” Robinson points out that Kepler’s laws only hold up in the “ideal world of mathematics … In the world of actual physical things, there are discrepancies.” Daniel N. Robinson, The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition. Course Guidebook (The Great Courses: The Teaching Company, 2004), 130. ↑

17. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

18. Alan Charles Kors, “Galileo and the New Astronomy.” Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition. Course Guidebook (The Great Courses: The Teaching Company, 2000), 131. ↑

19. Kors, “Galileo and the New Astronomy,” 131. ↑

20. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

21. Field, “A Lutheran Astrologer,” 225. ↑

22. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

23. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

24. Hartmut Lehmann, “The Persecution of Witches as Restoration of Order: The Case of Germany, 1590s-1650s.” Central European History 21, no. 2 (1988), 107. ↑

25. Stanislav Andreski, “The Syphilitic Shock.” David Hicks (ed.). Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion, 3rd Edition (Lanham: Altamira Press, 2010), 367. ↑

26. Lehmann, “The Persecution of Witches,” 108. ↑

27. Adam Richter, “Kepler in a Witch’s World.” Review of Ulinka Rublack The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for his Mother (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). Metascience 26 (2017), 191. ↑

28. Ulinka Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 39. ↑

29. Cosmos, “Harmony of Worlds.” ↑

30. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 203. ↑

31. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 268. ↑

32. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 245. ↑

33. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 247-253. ↑

34. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 251. ↑

35. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 254. ↑

36. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 263. ↑

37. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 269. ↑

38. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 274. ↑

39. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 276-277. ↑

40. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 277-280. ↑

41. Richter, “Kepler in a Witch’s World,” 192. ↑

42. Beer, “Kepler’s Astrology and Mysticism,” 408. ↑

43. Robert M. Hazen, The Joy of Science. Course Guidebook (The Great Courses: The Teaching Company, 2001), 16. ↑

44. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 288. ↑

45. Field, “A Lutheran Astrologer,” 201. ↑

46. Edward Rosen, “Kepler and Witchcraft Trials.” The Historian 28, no. 3 (1966), 449. ↑

47. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 288. ↑

48. Rublack, The Astronomer and the Witch, 287-288. ↑K

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