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The end of the fiat dollar



The dollar's role as the world's reserve currency was first established in 1944 with the Bretton Woods agreement. The U.S. was able assume this role by virtue of it then having the largest gold reserves in the world. The dollar was pegged at $35 an ounce -- and freely exchangeable into gold at that rate. But by 1971, convertibility into gold was no longer viable as America's gold resources drained away. On Aug. 15, 1971, Nixon disconnected the dollar from the gold standard  making the  dollar a pure fiat currency (decoupled from any physical store of value). The announcement by the President was made  at 9 pm  from the Oval Office in Washington, DC [1]. A chart for that moment may be looked upon as the birth of the Fiat Dollar. Notice that the Sun was square a Jupiter-Neptune conjunction which in turn was opposite Saturn.








Transit Saturn has just entered Sagittarius and will be transiting over the  radix Jupiter-Neptune conjunction opposite Saturn in 2015. Saturn transits are always some kind of a reality check.  Combine this with Martha Wescott’s key sentence to describe Jupiter-Neptune and we know what is happening.

People who built their castles on sand are  discovering that the tide has changed (and that piddly little bump is  where their fortress used to be.)  

Also notice that the progressed solar arc Ascendant [28ar] forms a temporary Yod with the Jupiter [27sc] – Pluto [ 28vi] sextile.  Progressed Yods create turning points in life as though one has reached a Y in the road and must now take a new path. Here the dynamics of a troubled Jupiter-Pluto interaction is described by Steven Forrest as follows:

Perhaps someone has gone down a road for the wrong reasons. Under hard aspects illusions are challenged. The trick lies in realising that your life as you are living it is inadequate to meet your spiritual and emotional needs, and that half the reason that’s true is that you have believed far too many lies all your life. The other half of the reason is that you’ve grown and changed, and what used to be satisfying and believable is now barren and false. Comforting but phony elements of life must be released and new possibilities seized under less than auspicious circumstances.


Finally, Pluto [28vi]  is conjunct the star Alkaid and Nick Fiorenza’s description of the dynamics in this area tells us what really happened and what is at stake now.

Benetnasch (Eta, Ursa Major) is the Tail of the Great Bear. The Arabic name for Benetnasch is Alkaid, which means "the leader." Benetnasch expresses one of the classical seven rays. Benetnasch teaches that leadership is about facilitating the self-empowerment and freedom of others rather than about exerting manipulative force that controls others, mistaken as leadership and being in power.

Benetnasch expresses the old dictatorial and totalitarian stream of consciousness that was predominantly dominant when Earth's polar alignment was tilted (had fallen) furthest from the galactic plane in Earth's great precessional year (about 6000 years ago). Thus Benetnasch is of this long-established totalitarian governing paradigm--generally of a patriarchal nature. It is of political-religious factions of big business.

In its old form and when expressing with influence of the stars of late Leo (the tail of the Lion, the racket of Canes Venatici and the hot air of Antilia), Benetnasch articulates those who tend to act as manipulating and controlling godheads, which perpetuates a dogmatic societal structure that keeps individuals from becoming self-responsible, and from evolving into their own self-mastery. It is of leadership that dictates what is right for people and what they should do by using dramatic and diversionary propaganda, rather than supporting others to make their own choices in freedom. It can be of the self-proclaimed saviors of the world who try to amass their blind followers for their own interest in maintaining a position of power and wealth. The days of dictators, gurus and followings, perhaps at one time served the sleeping masses, but they are now manipulative and suppressive to the emergence of a new soul-aware consciousness on Earth.




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