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Just 6% Americans trust the media


The Virgin and the Crow


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Trust in the news media is being eroded by perceptions of inaccuracy and bias, fueled in part by Americans' skepticism about what they read on social media.Just 6 percent of people say they have a lot of confidence in the media, putting the news industry about equal to Congress and well below the public's view of other institutions. In this presidential campaign year, Democrats were more likely to trust the news media than Republicans or independents. http://goo.gl/6yCR7x





The Sun crossed the equator on March 20, 2016 at 12:31 am EDT, marking the beginning of the Spring Season.  Some  astrologers  use the Aries Ingress as the chart for the year as it officially begins the growing season. Cast for Washington, D.C, the Aries chart is quite powerful with a Saturn-Jupiter-Neptune T-square straddling the meridian.

In his essay Saturn in Sagittarius: Finding Our Authenticity and the Transparency of the Soul,  Gahl Eden Sasson writes:

For the next three years, Saturn will demand the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the Truth. Saturn in Sagittarius is a polygraph, a cosmic lie detector. When we are not authentic, it will start beeping and when Saturn beeps, it sounds more like a deafening siren.

Since Saturn squares Neptune, the planet  associated with falsehoods and deception, we can see that the Aries Ingress at Washington is applying pressure that the truth be revealed. We can see that in the recent  efforts by Congressman Bob Graham seeking the release of the redacted 9/11 documents.  The 28-page chapter of the final report of a congressional investigation that  has been withheld from the American people for almost 13 years. This was not a cover-up. It was the result of aggressive deception. The US government has purposely used deceit to withhold the truth.






But coming back to the news report from the Associated Press about the results of a recent poll which reveal that most Americans are now  aware of the staggering dishonesty and reality twisting that the mainstream, corporate news media engages in on a daily basis. The AP news is dated April 18. If we now progress the Aries Ingress chart to April 18, the progressed meridian triggers the Uranus-Pluto-TNP Zeus T-square.  Conjunct  Zeus on the MC are stars of the Virgin and Corvus, the Raven:

Corvus is the Latin name for both the raven and the crow and these two birds are usually paired together in mythology. From the same family, their obvious intelligence and ingenuity, as well as their distinctive caw, has given them a widespread association with trickery, storytelling, the relaying of messages, and the serving of self-interest. But the colour of their plumage has also drawn a universal connection with malevolence, sinister forces, and ominous warnings. The stars of Corvus share this reputation and the classical myths that relate to the constellation speak of mistrust, shameful motives, insincerity, glorification in the misfortune of others, and the bearing of bad news [1].

The Crow  is a talking bird, and these are people in love with gossip, tidings, what’s happening, what’s new, what’s up – many journalists, newsmen and media people are born under these stars. The worst of them become greedy, scavenging and exploiting opportunists.  But also here are the stars of the Virgin which longs for “truth” and “purity”.  Few other skyscapes are so polarized between light and dark, clear air and suffocating darkness, with a tremendous conflict between the Virgin’s honest, upright will-to-do good and the Hydra’s dark lair of greed and arrogant self-interest [2].

Here the Uranus-Pluto square  represents a  clash: courageous/warrior-like actions of alternative media  working on behalf of the people's liberties (Uranus in Aries) vs. an intensification/consolidation of power by institutional structures like the established western MSM facing threats to their authority (Pluto in Capricorn). In the light of the dynamics of the stars involved it is not too difficult to see why the ‘lying’ Raven is being confronted by the ‘truth seeking ’ Virgin   and we can clearly see who is winning.


[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.78-80)

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