Summer in the City August 29, 2004, New York City Full Moon 21 Pisces By Morgana Seawalker
				Summer in the City The Lovin' Spoonful (John Sebastian - Mark Sebastian - Steve Boone) Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city All around, people looking half dead Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
			The sounds of hundreds of thousands of Anti-Bush voices will echo in the canyons of Manhattan's skyscrapers.  Their chants, civil disobedience, banners and signs carrying the message that Bush lied, the People died and no amount of blood can wash his sins away.  As She waxes full on this hot steamy night in the City on the eve of the Republican National Convention the idealism of a Pisces full Moon washes across the landscape.  Yet rising in the night sky a T Square forms like a dark apparition.  It's focal point, Pluto.  Plutonian energy once more moving in direct motion again setting the stage for radical change.
				The People, protester and delegate alike are being energized by the Moon's square to Pluto.  This makes for extreme emotional volatility.  When participants are grabbed with this energy their goal is the only thing they have in mind, nothing, nothing will impede them or stand in their way.  The other players in this volatile T Square mixture are Venus conjunct Saturn in Cancer (what more bitter water?), and both are in opposition to Chiron 20 Virgo, rather like a scalpel run amok. The full Moon then forms a trine to Venus and Saturn promising a shark feeding frenzy in the blood scented waters sating the hunger of television journalists.  To further add to the carnage and angst Pluto 19 Sagittarius forms inconjuncts with the Full Moon chart Ascendent 19 Taurus and again to Venus and Saturn. Venus conjunct Saturn here will manifest all the bitterness, anger, frustration of the People for the media to feed upon and the whole world to witness.  (Full Moon Chart) Running up to this Republican spectacle we find Feith hip deep in the Israeli spy scandal and dragging Rummy with him by association... FBI investigates alleged Pentagon spy Senior official believed to have passed documents to Israel "The Associated Press, quoting two federal law enforcement officials, reported that the person works in the office of Douglas J. Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy. Feith is a key aide to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, working on sensitive policy issues, including U.S. policy toward Iraq and Iran. No arrests are imminent, but the investigation is nearly complete, authorities said. “It’s a big deal,” one of them told NBC News. Agents said they had evidence that the official passed sensitive information, including draft policy documents and presidential policy directives, to Israel through the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5844415/ Can we say bye bye Rummy bye bye?  Then there's the Cheney Rumor!  Big story on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/27/fri/index.html And finally today, we offer you this unconfirmed gem of a rumor from the New York Post, our favorite newspaper in the whole wide world. Apparently the good folks at Page Six are told by their well-placed sources that GOP delegates are all abuzzagogg that Dick Cheney will resign at the convention for health reasons. That's right, he's gonna resign, sparking a prime-time floor battle that will result in a draft movement for Sen. John McCain, described by the Post as a "bigger war hero than John Kerry.
		These are roiling energies feeding into the opening of the Republican National Convention.  Pass the popcorn!  Retro Mercury adds more chatter by (continued)