Taking the Bull by the Horns…
Written on January 29, 2008 by Dharmaruci
Mars in the sky has been stationing between the tips of the horns of the Bull for the last week or so, and will continue to do so until early next week. What a place for Mars to station! Astrology is the art of banging symbols together until something comes out of your mouth. And in this case, you don’t need to bang very hard. Things can really happen. Bold steps can be taken. Mars can give accuracy to the blind charge of the bull: he has control of the bull’s weapon, the tips of his horns, the bullet in the gun.
So think Bull. Last week Hamas took the bold step of knocking down the part of the wall around Gaza that borders with Egypt, and their people flooded through, desperate for provisions. It was a political coup. And what did they use? BULLdozers!
Last week the Federal Reserve took the bold step of knocking ¾% of interest rates, the biggest cut for 26 years. It helped stabilise the markets. When Mars was last there in mid Sept, they lopped ½% off interest rates. And what figure do we find in Wall St? A BULL!
It’s risky playing with Bull energy, for it can go wrong. Be careful of cows until the middle of next week! Yesterday a friend was doing some TB testing on her cows, and an aggressive one knocked her over and almost managed to trample her head.
The ex-President of Indonesia, Suharto, who was brutal (and economically successful) in his rule, died last week. I had a funny feeling that his death had to do with Mars. So I looked up his birthdate: June 8 1921. And there was Mars between the tips of the horns of the bull!He also had Mars conjunct Sun and square Saturn, so there was a violent (Mars) signature to his life and leadership (Sun and Saturn). He died at the completion of a Mars cycle, which is fitting for such a person. His natal Saturn was underneath the belly of the lion, an appropriate place for a ruler, and it is back there in the sky now at his death, another cycle completing.
Politically, this week sees the grand showdown between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, each fighting the other for the Democratic nomination. Feb 5 is Super Tuesday, when 20 states vote, and this can determine the outcome of the race. So what better symbol for this fight than Mars between the tips of the horns of the bull. The symbolism is saying that this fight could get deadly. 
We also have Jupiter in the face of the Archer at present. So it is a battle of ideologies, it is going to be exceptionally fierce, and it could get really dirty. Just watch them over the next week! And also keep a look out for bulls!
