Astrology and Health Care Reform

[Why Syzygy]

Health Care Reform

As discussed in last month’s Skywatch, Neptune (drugs, hospitals) goes retrograde at the end of this month, in Aquarius (medicine). This station represents the peak of the most powerful conjunction of 2009: that of Neptune (universality) with Chiron (wounds) and Jupiter (social reform). The symbolism is crystal clear. Given this transit, there’s no way the explosive issue of universal health care can be put off any longer. It was fated to go public in a new way this year.5

What does it mean that this transit hits the Moon in the US chart? The Moon is the collective Inner Child. The reason this issue is so emotionally charged is that it evokes our most poignant need: that of being cared for when vulnerable.

Moreover, when we factor in the transit of Pluto opposite Mars that kicked off this calendar year, we can better understand the implications of the political power plays involved in health care reform. 6 Forces intent on total control are circling this issue like dark clouds announcing a storm. Any challenge at all to the entrenched American insurance industry constitutes the premier David-and-Goliath battle in a year that is being defined by such battles.

Locked Out of the Debate

One of the gravest disappointments Obama has dealt his supporters so far is his “taking off the table” the eminently rational system of single-payer health care. The reason for its removal from public debate is clear: it would eliminate private insurance companies.

Under the plan Obama has just removed from discussion, the public would still get their choice of doctors and hospitals; but the exorbitant administrative costs and obscene profits that insurance companies add to the health-care bill would be eliminated. This is, of course, how it works in much of Europe, where health care does not number among life’s worries. Is it any wonder that the powers-that-be don’t want us to think about it? For Americans to spend any time at all imagining how their lives might feel without the constant threat of falling ill and going bankrupt might make the for-profit system we have now seem too absurd to tolerate for one more day.

Its cost-effectiveness, fairness and workability make the idea of single-payer health care one of the most dangerous threats that exist to the current plutocratic system. It is for this reason that the media almost never mentions it.7 The only mainstream context in which it comes up is when ill-informed, corrupt politicians indirectly allude to it in their bizarre rants against “European-style socialism.”

Guerilla Theatre

Also in play is the other major influence of this period: the ongoing opposition of Saturn and Uranus, whose message is that if real change is to occur, it will not be through established channels. 8 It will be through ordinary citizens thinking creatively and acting surprisingly.

Russell Mokhiber, editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, is an example of the Uranian archetype in action. Mokhiber plans to station himself outside the American Health Insurance Plans convention and burn his insurance bills. He and his cohorts are carrying forward the torch of the Viet Nam war protesters a generation ago, who lit their draft cards on fire when conventional means of arguing against the war hit a brick wall of establishment corruption and popular apathy.9

Guerilla theatre is Uranus’ cup of tea. And as Grand Cross watchers know, the Great Trickster is moving into Aries, the sign of sparking and igniting. What is happening to the popular mood will feel familiar to those of us who danced in the streets a generation ago. There is a clear astrological parallel between the creative disruption we will now be seeing and the wild antics of the 1960s. 10

Let the games begin.

http://www.mothersky.com/skywatch.html

[Cleita]

1. I like the Guerilla Theatre idea.

I think we are focusing too much on badgering our Congressmen, Senators and the President. Maybe it's time to start demonstrations or protests of sorts against the insurance companies as well. I think Guerilla Theatre tactics would be useful there.

[Delphinus]

2. Well, if you're interested,

keep your eyes and ears open. There's a thought about a massive descending upon Washington the end of June.

I just participated in a rally in Indianapolis ... perhaps demonstrating is the way to go. Maybe the California Nurses Association and all its affiliates, and all the doctors in Physicians for a National Health Program, and all the Unions involved, and all the citizens involved, and all the now uninsured because of being unemployed ... perhaps everyone could either descend on Washington or call in for a sick day - kind of like a blue flu.

[Cleita]

4. Wish I could, but Washington DC is a pricey little trip for me from

California. However, I do plan on attending any demonstrations locally. We do have them but since we are a rural county they are more like a gathering of neighbors at a barbecue. At least our local news stations and newspaper does cover them. I'm actually meditating on some ways of doing it from our computers. I think targeting the CEOs of the major health insurers and HMOs might be feasible. What form of cyber attack it will take, I'm not sure yet. The point would be to keep disrupting their business like having sit ins in the lobbies and offices of their headquarters but on the internet, but I wouldn't want to do anything illegal like hacking into their computers.

[Why Syzygy]

6. Cleita .

in her interview on Conscious Media Network, Jessica Murray refers to Saturn and Uranus as the lightening striking the Tower.

http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/jmurray2.htm

[northernlights]

3. it might help to make more clear

to the political class that while single payer cuts into corporate health insurance, it does not eliminate them. At least in France, while everybody gets basic healthcare via single payer, many people also opt to expand their coverage with private insurance.

So the industry will not necessarily be wiped out. Just downsized...like the rest of us.

[Cleita]

5. This is true. Also in France they can't offer the same coverage as the basic

government plan. Our insurers are even unwilling to do this, even though it probably would make them more money in the long run because they could cherry pick the healthy and wealthy to their heart's content without incurring very much risk. But since when did the corporate, greed is good, crown have any brains to think about the whole picture.

[eilen]

7. Interestingly, these spiritual encounters..

In the past year I have been attracted to Guerilla Art in all its forms from Guerilla gardening (one blade revolution) to Bill Talen's Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. Doing things out of the ordinary to disrupt the programmed thought patterns.

Last patient I went to see a wound vac placed on-- I told him "thank you for allowing me to learn from your misfortune"-- he gave me a startled look having not thought of this before.

Most all my patients have single payor in the form of Medicare and/or Medicaid.

One thing about single payor is to consider, do we have the medical infrastructure to take on another 60 million patients? The hospitals are filled now. All these states that have closed hospitals in the more rural areas stating they are not needed will be in for a big surprise. Truth is, people just don't access healthcare when they need it if they don't believe they can pay for it. Only uninsured (or in hospitalspeak "self pays") emergent cases show up at ED's; it is mostly medicaid that show up for sore throats and incidental health issues because they have problems finding primary care clinicians who will take medicaid patients.