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Mar 21, 2013, 08:29 AM »
Hi Mirta,
It is such a treat for me to experience your own ongoing development and capacity relative to EA. Your analysis was excellent, and your EA reasoning being extremely sound. This is how EA is meant to be done.
God Bless, Rad
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Re: JWG'S Planetary Method of Chart Interpretation ...
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Mar 21, 2013, 08:30 AM »
Sun analysis.
Here is what I was able to put together - I'll follow your feedback and other people's posts here and allow that to inform me. In gratitude.
Sun in Aquarius in the 2nd house. Sun crescent phase semi square IC and Venus and disseminating phase sesquiquad the MC.
Disseminating trine with Mars
First quarter quintile with south node.
Ruler Uranus conjunct north node in Scorpio in 11th house. Uranus ruler of skipped step planet, Chiron also in Aquarius in 2nd house.
The Sun's position, Aquarius in the 2nd house, correlates to a life purpose that is focused, on one level, to awakening the inner freedom to live in accordance with his innate natural values - and thus a current life focus to liberate from all kinds of past conditioning that has inhibited his own embodiment and ability to live. On another level, given his ea stage, it's about - through the process of deconditioning and liberation - objectively coming to see more of the total picture as it relates to survival - seeing his own body, sexuality, procreation, food, resources, the entire realm of survival from a higher, more encompassing objective perspective - and living that, even if it sets him totally a part from others.
So why that Sun sign then? That Sun, as well as the skipped step planet Chiron is ruled by Uranus which is on the North node. This correlates to an area in his soul that is highly developed, and yet also unfinished business - Chiron squaring that node. The ruler of that nn is Pluto which is naturally linked to the sn and to its ruler, Venus, which is on the IC. The Sun is in a crescent phase square with the IC and Venus, which is ruled by Mars in Libra in the 10th house which is in a disseminating phase trine with the Sun.
This correlates to a dynamic within prior lives wherein the soul has been actively pursuing it's own path of self discovery - which has often subjected the soul to criticism from society (Venus gibbous phase with Mars in the 10th, Mars and Venus in mutual reception too). This really emphasizes the stress of him following his own path and the need to form his identity and special purpose in a way that also integrates within society according to accepted social standards. This would relate in part to how he would set about gaining the necessary credentials - who to listen to, who not to listen to etc - in order to learn and do what his soul desired to learn and do. Also that the MC itself is gibbous phase inconjuct the sn.
This soul has perceived basic laws and principals (Pluto in the 3rd relative to it's polarity point as facilitated by the north node in Scorpio in the 11th) and has been rejected on the basis of those ideas - often experiencing the trauma of groups of people forming against him. This has taught him a lot about how groups think (Uranus on the nn 11th) and how to interact, socialize in a world full of people with various values (Mars in Libra in the 10th in gibbous phase with Venus on IC in Aries, ruler of sn). A lot of his past, which really makes the Sun position make a lot of sense, is where he was disillusioned by way of all kinds of beliefs that he wanted to believe in, only to realize at some point the imperfect, the non absolute nature of those beliefs. With the Sun in Aquarius in the 2nd, this is about finding the value and meaning of his own life in his own way. As I will describe below, there's a new phase semi sextile between Jupiter and the Sun. The Sun is anchoring this soul so that his cosmology comes from within him; organic and true to his own direct observations.
He has been learning how to cooperate in the world as an equal with others, not better than - this is one of the reasons why this soul has created and attracted the kinds of traumas that he has - to teach him, ultimately, the inherent equality of all souls. The strong Venus in Aries on IC and the sn in Taurus in the 5th, and all their gibbous associations to Libra in the 10th implies the lessons of humility and getting out of his own self oriented narrow point of view.
So the fact of Mars being disseminating trine to the Sun means that coming into this life this soul has become ready to creatively actualize his own path - to take destiny into his own hands and fully integrate his creative purpose with the existing social structures with respect to the lessons of social participation and listening as described above. The crescent phase semi square with Venus and the IC, the ruler of Mars and of the sn, points to the intention in this life for this soul, simultaneous to actualizing his purpose in a social sense, to becoming deeply internalized and self reflective as to the nature of his own special purpose. It also means his lesson was to limit his exposure to the ideas and the infinite array of possibilities in terms of what direction he chooses for his mind. This allows him to become ever more internal and to integrate and reflect on his own as to the meaning of his own discoveries.
In general, the phases between all the watery, imaginative and expansive Pisces 3rd house energy and the Sun is new phase, implying lots of new direction and exploration, and yet with Jupiter in a very new new phase semi sextile, its about a focusing and limiting of that direction so that definition can become more established in the thesis he is establishing.
This Jupiter is the ruler of his AC and his Saturn Jupiter - all of which are in a first quarter square with Mercury. Choices relative to how to understand and synthesize the data he is collecting about the environment. The first quarter emphasis implies something new coming forth - something that requires a new perspective that has not yet before been realized.
So bringing all of this back to the Sun it implies that this soul was ready in his life to focus entirely on actualizing his soul's purpose, on his own, through deep reflection so as to allow clear observations and correlations of all the data and research he had pursued. The need to internalize and begin to form a thesis is strong with Jupiter's new phase with the Sun (slowing down) and the square and first quarter phase with all the Sag planets relative to the Mercury and Jupiter in Pisces.
The Sun has a direct connection to the south node through a first quarter quintile. This implies of course that such a purpose has already been engaged. And as stated above, we already have a direct karmic connection to that Sun since it's ruler is on the north node. So there's a great degree of creative energy that this soul simply came into this world to continue where he left off.
Pallas Athene is in a new phase with the Sun - and Pallas kicks off the entire third house, which is ruled by the Sun's ruler - Uranus. So there's a sense of all this new scientific information coming through this soul from a higher source and for this soul to deeply internalize this on his own.
Lastly, the Sun rules the 9th house which then correlates to the nature of his creative purpose: to birth a unique cosmology though developing higher awareness of his own values, of survival, and via the 11th house linkage, the evolutionary dynamics of human beings.
I'm so grateful for this practice. I look really forward to reading what has been posted by everyone else and continuing to follow this process we are doing here.
With much love,
Ari Moshe
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Mar 21, 2013, 08:41 AM »
Hi Gonzalo,
This is simply brilliant EA work of great detail as to the inner dynamics and workings within the Soul psychology of Darwin that were the causative factors in all that he thought about and contemplated. Your EA analysis as to why Darwin chose the Sun sign that he did, and how he actualized it within the context of his Soul, is just brilliant work.
This is how EA is meant to be done.
God Bless, Rad
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Mar 22, 2013, 09:11 AM »
Hi Rad,
Finally managed to get time to write something down. But because it's been a bit rushed it's not written as clearly or as concisely as I would like. I also haven't read any of the others but hope I've properly understood what the requirement was. Thanks for such a great thread.
Why is the Sun in Aquarius in the 2nd house?
Pluto is in Pisces in the 3rd house, which reveals that this Soul is pursuing core desires related to the mind, and Mars in a disseminating sesquiquadrate to Pluto shows this to be the 5th primary life for this Soul in this series of lives based on these core desires.
However, we know that this particular life has been a long time in the making, and to enable a full context for the Sun's placement we will go back into the Soul's distant past, where we find the SN Pluto in Capricorn in the 2nd house. This relates to a very different series of lives with core desires revolving around 2nd house issues. At the most fundamental level the 2nd house relates to physical survival - resources or the lack of them, and being able to provide for oneself. It is a yin area of experience where we withdraw into ourselves to affect the sustainability of our body and our sense of self, and so denotes self-reliance, the ability to persevere without any dependency on anyone else to do so – stubborn endurance.
It also shows how we listen to ourselves, identifying via feelings what is important to us and therefore what we value. This is a highly subjective area, and also depends on a soul's evolutionary state. While some people may value material possessions more than anything else, generally people value themselves before anything else, and in these cases the 2nd house becomes in the first instance a measure of one's self-esteem.
The SN of Pluto in the 2nd is conjunct the Moon, indicating that the mother and perhaps children have been highly important to this Soul in the past. The Moon is square Mars in the 10th – indicating conflict with authorities affecting his family, with maybe injury or possibly even death involved (Libra can be extremes). Two other close major aspects are a waxing sextile to Jupiter in Pisces in the 3rd house and a waning semi-square to Saturn in Sag in the 12th, both indicating natural spirituality was important to the Soul. Saturn is also the ruler of the SN Pluto, and is conjunct Neptune and in the 12th house. This further reinforces an interest in the spiritual side of life.
Interestingly enough, the SN of Saturn is also in the 2nd house in Capricorn conjunct the S.Nodes of Venus, Vesta and Mercury, and these are all also conjunct the Moon and the SN Pluto. Obviously in these distant times issues of survival and self-sufficiency were paramount, with probably heavy suffering at the hand of the authorities of the time, maybe having loved ones thrown into prison, poisoned, or tortured in some way (all these 2nd house points are square to Mars in the 10th, which is sesquiquadrate to Pluto, which is ruled by Neptune – back in the 12th house). So from this we know at the least that this Soul is well acquainted with 2nd house issues, and will have deep soul memories regarding them. We also know that back then the Soul was developing an interest in spirituality, (possibly even as a result of the likely 2nd house trauma it suffered). This soul has obviously been attracted to learning (Jupiter in 3rd in Pisces) religious concepts and scriptures (Saturn conjunct Neptune in the 12th in Sag), and probably clung to organised religion (Saturn/Neptune) as a means of survival (2nd house) and staying sane (Capricorn). The Soul may even have been in the preceding 2nd individuated state in those lives, and hence the clash with authorities creating survival trauma and wounding – a possibility anyway.
Nevertheless it's clear that this soul has awoken to religion and spirituality in the very distant past, from an inner security need (Saturn in 12th, 2nd house), approaching it from both a devotional and also a curious, studious perspective (Neptune in 12th in Sag, Jupiter in 3rd in Pisces). The SN of Jupiter is also in Capricorn but in the 1st, along with the S.Nodes of Mars and Uranus, so a spirit of independence was also clearly present, and probably encouraged the Soul to explore religion and spirituality further via independent and original action and enquiry. What would have started as an urgent need for security would have gradually changed into a new voyage - into a whole new world with more meaning (Neptune in Sag, Jup in Pisces), of more in life than just the material (2nd house). This would have great ramifications for this Soul at a later point in it's evolution (and is also at the root why this Soul had in their incarnation as Darwin so many planets in Pisces, the 12th or aspecting Neptune).
However moving on from those distant lives, a bit closer to the more recent series of lives represented by Pluto in 3rd in Pisces, we can see that the Jupiter is in balsamic phase to Mercury, both also in 3rd in Pisces - indicating a whole cycle of mental enquiry has been undertaken and almost completed regarding Piscean matters – unity & oneness, expressed as religion or spirituality. This enquiry has been of a very deep nature as Mercury is also in balsamic conjunction to Pluto. Obviously things have changed for this Soul along the way, and it has expended a great deal of mental effort in it's desire to learn all it can about things of a cosmic nature, and in the process developed a very formidable mind. This use of the mind has been driven by life and death issues at times (Mercury and Pluto conjuncted by Ceres), and with Mercury and Pluto in full sesquiquadrate with Mars in the 10th, and Jupiter quincunx Mars, clashes with authority have probably happened again, this time most likely over professed beliefs, announcements or arguments of a religious or spiritual nature. Despite the fact that this Soul had obviously become well equipped to understand complex issues on a large scale, it may not have exercised much humility, and with Mercury/Pluto squaring Sat in the 12th probably was thrown into prison again for challenging authority with it's version of the "truth" (Mercury/Pluto.) Not only that, Uranus in the 11th in Scorpio trines Mercury and Pluto indicating the ease with which this Soul could be traumatised when not being heard. Uranus rules Chiron in the 2nd house, and here we see the wounds that were caused by the 2nd house traumas from long ago. Now this wounded area is added to but in a different way, no longer because of any survival issues, but due to retaliation by the authorities for the challenging of religious opinions – resulting in a wounding to self-esteem. The S.Node of Neptune is also conjunct Chiron further indicating likely intense wounding to the Soul over time from various religious sources.
Now switching lenses and forwarding to current Pluto in 3rd series of core desires, with the S.Node in the 5th in Taurus and N.Node In 11th in Scorpio, we now have a skipped step caused by the accumulated wounding (Chiron in 2nd). In this signature we can see the remnants of the past wilful independence in the Moon's SN ruler, Venus, being in Aries. However it has obviously softened and humbled in stance somewhat since then, now being trine Saturn in the 12th and quincunx Uranus in the 11th. So if the past hardships, suffering from loss of loved ones, and fractured (Aquarius) self esteem from being silenced are the cause of the skipped step, what is the skipped step itself?
The Soul from it's initial curiosity (3rd house) regarding religious and spiritual matters (12th house, Pisces) has inadvertently wandered down a path of ever intensifying enquiry that has had the effect of gradually and literally opening it's eyes … to the amazing wonder of the phenomenal universe. It's interests had continually expanded as a result, ending up far beyond religious security, and extending into all of nature as well as heady philosophical realms e.g what is nature? how does nature work, does God exist? Along the way the Soul has formed it's own revolutionary opinions to these questions and projected these answers forcefully into society (Pluto conj Jup in 3rd, Jup FQ sesquiquadrate Uranus in 11th), and been continually persecuted, punished and ridiculed as a result (Sat/Nep in 12th, Mars in 10th sesq Plu). The irony (Aquarius) is that with such a developed mind the Soul no doubt had a great deal to offer, but was too full of itself, and not aligned with the relevant needs and necessary ways of interaction required with the societies in which it lived. The resulting backlash served to shock the Soul (Chiron in Aquarius) and damage it's self esteem (Chiron in 2nd).
By now, the accumulated wounding for this Soul shown by Chiron in the 2nd in Aquarius has had a very deep impact on the Soul.
It has tried to cope with this by alternating cycles of indulgence in material comfort and self directed pleasures (SN 5th house in Taurus, ruler Venus in Aries), and when bored with that alternating to socialising with intense interest groups who were radical, or antisocial in some kind of way (NN 11th Scorpio). Of these two alternatives that's seemed to be open to the soul, the later was more helpful in addressing the wound, as it at least helped restore some pride (5th house) to the soul because it's highly intelligent opinions and astute insights would have been accepted. This in turn would have allowed the Soul glimpses of the PPP in 9th in Virgo, which would have been like nectar to the Soul, it would have been a subtle yet exquisite sense of self-realisation (opposite so many 3rd house energies) – a great release of the mind, a satori-like experience.
But the wounded imprint held in the 2nd house was now this Soul's Achilles heel, an unconscious energy disturbance. It ate at Darwin constantly but he refused to see it. In previous lives he had suffered great hardship as a result of loss of love ones. He had also had the primeval instincts of his barbarian side, and his wilfulness, arrogance, and selfishness … all knocked out of him via the ongoing conflicts with authorities and resulting rejection, backlash, punishment, and persecution. Not being recognised by society for his mental contributions and prowess had been extremely deeply traumatic and painful for him (Uranus in 11th FQ square to Chiron). However whichever way the Soul had recently tried it couldn't consistently experience it's PPP, it's nectar, as it's low self esteem wounding would undermine it's whole energy structure. However because it was a deeply painful area of the psyche the Soul continued to avoid it.
The 2nd house is the inner fortification of the self, the substance and basic foundation of self that allows us to function normally. When it is dysfunctional it feels like we are a boat with a hole in it – its very hard to simply stay afloat, let alone do anything meaningful in life. So the skipped step is avoiding repairing this hole, not tending to the wound, so that the great talents (2nd house) and potential for opportunity (Jup new conjunction to Pluto) that this Soul had developed could be put to productive use in society.
Darwin first developed heart trouble as a young man even before sailing on the Beagle voyage, and from then onwards developed stomach inflammation, violent shivering, twitching and nerve spasms, migraines and general nausea. These ailments mostly tended to manifest symptoms when he was "stressed", which at it's worst was merely either socialising for 20 minutes or more, or simply working (which he normally loved). He had avoided his wounds for so long that they had all gone into his body. Physicians could find nothing wrong with him, no physical cause for his symptoms - because it wasn't in any way inherently physical – it was all psychosomatic. So this was his skipped step – not dealing with his psychological wounds over many, many lives. And the most recent of these wounds was the damage to his self esteem. He was in awe at prestigious groups and societies (Chiron in Aquarius), and although ambitious, he had no desire for fame itself, just recognition by other scientists (Chiron in 2nd).
So as a result of all this, by the time this Soul manifested itself as Charles Darwin, it had created a situation in which lifetimes of effort, and then topped off with some lives of eventual stagnation, non-growth, were brought to a head. All the talents were assembled ready and available for use. All the dysfunctions and impediments that had previously sabotaged the personality had been processed and transformed - Darwin was kind, good humoured, pleasant, unassuming and profoundly humble. Only the skipped step remained to be resolved, and the way for that to happen was to focus on the NN in 11th in Scorpio new conjunction Uranus. This was the crucial spot – where the potential for liberation resided. All that was needed was to focus there and stabilise, rather than fall back into the bad habits from previous lifetimes … flip flopping between nodes, of reaching for the PPP then falling back, then continuing round the same cycle again. Focus. Stabilise. Anchor. And the best place for that as a purpose for the whole life, the place where that could best be integrated from, was the 2nd house (stable, fixed) and Aquarius (fixed). Also this would force him to face his wounds rather than run away from them., keep his consciousness close to his reality, feet on the ground rather than trying to reach prematurely for the stars (with a leaky boat).
There is great irony in this Soul's journey up to here, and in this life. Darwin's real mission was to find himself, to become self-realised, enlightened. Once he got over clinging to religion for security via conditioned devotion, and starting a mental journey exploring nature and spirituality, this was his original attraction. And because of his wounds he haphazardly moved around in focus from left to right brain, mercury to jupiter ... and back again. Thus he inadvertently developed a most unusal mix of logic and intuition, a fantastic ability for inductive logic, to gather any diverse number of facts and arrange them in generalised groups. It was his proficiency and love of doing this, always wanting to order details into larger meanuingful wholes, that he had developed by accident simply as a very indirect coping mechanism for avoiding his wounds. And these wounds culminated in his life as Darwin as a skipped step, and so he was forced to resolve the skipped step, and the way to do that was to actually get the recognition that he so desperately needed from those intellectuals and scientists that he respected so much. And the way to do that was to focus on the facts of the phenomenal world, nature as it appeared in everyday life, without creating any theories about what they were all about (avoid the PPP) and simply investigate (NN in Scorpio) just what was the factual case and classify it, order it (Pluto in 3rd), and accumulate as many facts as possible. And let this ordering process of the facts induce it's own meaning naturally (and finally by itself the PPP appears). And via this process he discovered what he did, and transformed our understanding of how biological nature works. But he would never have developed the particular mental capacities and skills to do all this, if he hadn't been creating and then needing to resolve his skipped step!
Given his destiny, there were also other benefits from having a 2nd house Aquarius Sun. .
- He needed to do a lot of painstaking and meticulous work, so a patient, steady 2nd house Sun would be ideal for that
- He had a special mission to fulfil, so on a larger scale he needed to have a certain fixity of purpose – Aquarius 2nd house would have been very good for that
- He was destined to change the world with revolutionary ideas that would greatly impact the church, the scientists and the established public consensus. Inevitably he was going to face criticism, rejection, rumours, and public attacks etc for his statements. He needed to be somewhat insular from all these goings on, so that he was not unduly affected and could carry on. Aquarius detachment and 2nd house ability to withdraw into oneself would serve him very well in these situations
- His Sun also has a disseminating trine to Mars in the 10th - perfect for working with others to bring his work to fruition.
- It's ruled by Uranus (new conj NN) and has a biseptile to Uranus. This makes it easy for him to keep in touch with his resolution node, and to bring the full powers of his scientific abilities into play.
- Its conjunct Pallas in 3rd in Aquarius - this gives him access to an ability for psychic visions, or at least glimpses
.. and no doubt many other reasons, but its very late and I must stop.
blessings Upasika
Last Edit: Mar 25, 2013, 03:38 AM by Upasika
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Mar 22, 2013, 11:05 AM »
Hi Ari,
Thanks for making the effort you have to do the EA of why Darwin chose his Antiquarian Sun sign. Your EA analysis was very succinct, accurate, and the EA reasoning employed very sound.
This is how EA is meant to be done.
God Bless, Rad
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Mar 22, 2013, 11:14 AM »
Hi Upasika,
Thanks for taking the time you have to do the EA of why Darwin chose to have the Aquarius Sun that he did. Your EA analysis of the past that brought him to the life as Darwin was simply exceptional EA, very accurate, the extremely well reasoned. That background is essential in understanding the 'why' of his Soul's choice as to the Sun sign he did choose.
Exceptional EA work Upasika. Bravo.
God Bless, Rad
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Mar 22, 2013, 11:16 AM »
Hi Upasika, Gonzalo, Kristin, Linda, Mirta, Gray , and Ari
All of you have done wonderful EA work on Darwin's chart to date. I would encourage you and all others who are reading this thread to read all of what you each of you has written for it portrays a complete and accurate understanding of the Soul of Charles Darwin to date.
Next week will begin again.
Until then God bless all of you , Rad
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Mar 25, 2013, 03:14 AM »
Hi Rad,
I was wondering about Venus. I have been thinking there is a reasonable likelihood that Venus was actually in the 4th house.
For that to be the case the birth time would only need to be 2 minutes earlier. Which as you've mentioned before also is very plausible, as at the exact birth occurrance itself those present are often fully focussed on that, and its only immediately after that they remember to glance at the clock and that's the time that sticks. Hence in this scenario birth would have been at 2:58 (say), but the clock wasn't sighted until immediately afterwards at 3pm.
I'm also always initially questioning of birth times that occur excactly on the hour, I always suspect that they may have been rounded off to that, although of course it's as possible as any other time.
But the reasons I feel it's likely Venus was in the 4th are...
a) Darwin had decided to marry because, although he knew it would rob him of a great deal of time that he would rather use for doing science, he felt that a wife and family would be a great source of nourishment, both while he was doing his work, and also he knew that as he got older and more vulnerable the children would in turn support him and his wife. Also he did not fancy being alone without a companion when he was older. So for these three reasons he decided to marry. And during his whole life he was always very much a genuine family man. He loved his wife very much, and also all his many children, of which he had quite a few.
b) It also correlates very well with his love of geology. On an external level the 4th house can correlate to real estate, and land in general, and Darwin loved (Venus) exploring land formations.
c) The 4th house is also about attaining inner emotional security. Darwin's mother died when he was 8, which at that age would have removed a major source of external emotional security. He also couldn't talk about it with his sisters as they were too traumatised by her death. So he was thrown back onto himself regarding it, to such an extent that as an adult he realised had lost almost all memory of her, including what she looked like.
I thought I'd ask now before we got any further into it, in case you felt there was any validity in the possibility and it was worth making the adjustment...
thank you & blessings,
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Mar 25, 2013, 06:55 AM »
Quote from: Upasika on Mar 25, 2013, 03:14 AM
Hi Rad,
I was wondering about Venus. I have been thinking there is a reasonable likelihood that Venus was actually in the 4th house.
For that to be the case the birth time would only need to be 2 minutes earlier. Which as you've mentioned before also is very plausible, as at the exact birth occurrance itself those present are often fully focussed on that, and its only immediately after that they remember to glance at the clock and that's the time that sticks. Hence in this scenario birth would have been at 2:58 (say), but the clock wasn't sighted until immediately afterwards at 3pm.
I'm also always initially questioning of birth times that occur excactly on the hour, I always suspect that they may have been rounded off to that, although of course it's as possible as any other time.
But the reasons I feel it's likely Venus was in the 4th are...
a) Darwin had decided to marry because, although he knew it would rob him of a great deal of time that he would rather use for doing science, he felt that a wife and family would be a great source of nourishment, both while he was doing his work, and also he knew that as he got older and more vulnerable the children would in turn support him and his wife. Also he did not fancy being alone without a companion when he was older. So for these three reasons he decided to marry. And during his whole life he was always very much a genuine family man. He loved his wife very much, and also all his many children, of which he had quite a few.
b) It also correlates very well with his love of geology. On an external level the 4th house can correlate to real estate, and land in general, and Darwin loved (Venus) exploring land formations.
c) The 4th house is also about attaining inner emotional security. Darwin's mother died when he was 8, which at that age would have removed a major source of external emotional security. He also couldn't talk about it with his sisters as they were too traumatised by her death. So he was thrown back onto himself regarding it, to such an extent that as an adult he realised had lost almost all memory of her, including what she looked like.
I thought I'd ask now before we got any further into it, in case you felt there was any validity in the possibility and it was worth making the adjustment...
thank you & blessings,
Hi Upasika,
Of course any birth time that is reported can be off a few minutes, or more. But this is the time reported for this birth chart. To not use that time would then become nothing but speculation. Relative to your reasons for considering that his Venus may be in the 4th just take those statements and now link them to his 2nd House Moon not to mention all the various S.Nodes of planets there, Chiron, and his Sun. His Moon also squares the 10th House Mars in Libra which of course rules the Venus in question which is also conjunct his natal Vesta IN THE FOURTH. All of these symbols, when combined, equal to me the various points you have made.
God Bless, Rad
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Mar 25, 2013, 07:18 AM »
Hi Upasika, Kristin, Ari, Linda, Gonzalo, Gray, and Mirta ...
First I wish to commend all of you again for doing just incredible EA work, and for taking the time you each have to commit to developing this thread on JWG's Planetary Method of Chart Interpretation. All of you are also helping many others understand this method, others who simply come here to read this thread. So bravo to all of you.
We are now ready to continue on in developing the next step in our planetary method.
From JWG:
The next step after understanding the integrative principle of the Sun and the purpose and meaning it is giving to life experience in general, our very next step is then to move to the moon itself. Why? The current life moon, the natal moon, and the nodes are going to reflect a spiritual law, the trinity, from the earth point of view the phenomenon of past, present, and future. We have the north and south nodes of the moon and what this is correlating to psychologically is a universal experience we call the dynamic tension that exist in all people between the past and the future, as experienced in each moment of our life. That's the natal moon in relationship to its nodal axis. We have an evolving ego, i.e. from south node to north node. How that evolving ego is integrated on a consistent basis (moon) is the natal moon itself by house and sign.
Audience: Could you go over that again?
Jeffrey: We have a thing called the dynamic tension between the past and the future that we all experience, yes? That dynamic tension as experienced in each moment of our life is contained in your natal moon. How we integrate the potential insecurity linked with our past and our future experienced in the moment is our natal moon. It creates cohesion, self-consistency, understand? It's that place in you, the dynamic in you, that can say, "This is who I used to be, this is who I am trying to become." That voice is your natal moon; do you understand my point?
Audience: Can you give an example of that?
Jeffrey: All of you in this room know as your life experience that you are in a dynamic state of becoming, yes? You know you have a past; you know you have a feeling to go into--toward--your future, which is the experience of the moment, yes? The experience of these two things in the moment is your moon. How you experience that is your natal moon by its own house and sign.
Audience: Let's say the moon was conjunct one end or the other of the nodal path, for example, the north node, would there be more orientation toward the future than the past and really more conflict about trying to integrate the south node somehow with Pluto?
Jeffrey: Each case is unique and you have to always overlay this with karmic evolutionary requirements. The experience of it depends on the person, including the observed evolutionary state; one size does not fit all. If I had the moon on the south node and I am in consensus state, for example, how I am responding to that inwardly would be vastly different than if I had that moon /south node and I am in, say, an individuated state, or a spiritual state, you see. In all cases you are looking at the phenomenon of something being unresolved in a prior life, at an emotional level, that the person is bringing forward into the current life in order to re experience with the intention of resolving it.
If you have moon square the nodes, and really anytime you have a planet square the nodes, including the moon or Pluto, in evolutionary terms you have what are called skipped steps. And in the current context the person has been flip flopping back and forth, back and forth. And in evolutionary terms, karmic requirement, the person must recover those skipped steps in order to evolutionary proceed. Until that recovery is made they are blocked, you see my point now? Are we clear on the methodology as we are proceeding? That's my main intention at the moment, are we clear at the moment? Anybody still not clear? Good!
Now, another way of looking at this is why we are going to be using the moon in this sequence. The moon is how each of us lives with ourself inwardly on a moment-to-moment basis. It is how we are giving personal form and definition to what we call our reality. It is way for us to make it personally secure. All human beings have a need to feel secure. Of course the issue is what constitutes security. But the phenomenon of feeling secure is a constant for all human beings. It is like the need to put an anchor in the sea instead of just letting the boat drift where it wants to go. That is your ego. That is your anchor in the sea. That is the anchor into your unconscious. That is the anchor into your soul. Do you understand my point?
That is the way for you to personally relate to what your evolutionary intentions are relative to the purpose that is described by the Sun. It is a way for you to live with it, to feel emotionally secure because of it. The house and sign of your moon and the aspects it makes describe how that process is done. It is that simple. Yes?
Audience: I'm sorry, is that the security………(Inaudible)…………
Jeffrey: Yes, this is why we have a triad among Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. See this is the ultimate meaning when we have the moon linked with Scorpio and Pisces. We have this natural triad, and very few astrologers will tell you that the ultimate secret of Cancer and the moon is to realize that the moon itself is the source of its own insecurity. This is why it is a Cardinal archetype, two steps forward and one step back. We want to initiate change and we freak out and we want to recover…(Inaudible)……
But the ultimate teaching of the moon is reflected in the dark side of the moon, the side we never see. And the reason that the moon creates its own insecurity is to ultimately realize (Pisces) security from within, linked with an inner reality that has nothing to do with the external environment. When you link this through Scorpio, this is why all of us at various points in our journey misapply our trust into people--in order to experience emotional betrayal, abandonment and loss to enforce inner security. This is why.
Audience: That wouldn't…(Inaudible)…… It seems to be reinforcing what you developed in the past.
Jeffrey: No you are not listening; you're not interpreting right. You don't understand reality unless you listen carefully and objectively to the words. What you have just heard is that the ultimate intention of the Cancer/Scorpio triad is to learn absolute state of inner security from within. Now you have heard it rightly.
So what we want to focus on now, first of all, is the Moon's direct correlation to egocentric structure of the Soul for Darwin: past, present, and future. We have already developed the S.Node of the Moon with it's ruler Venus in Aries with the various aspects to it. This of course will correlate to the past lives egocentric structure that the Soul of Darwin created for his Soul that allowed for personal "I" to be formed relative to the evolutionary intentions for his Soul.
In the life of Darwin his Soul chose to have a Capricorn Moon in the 2nd House that is forming various aspects to other planets including his Mars in Libra in the 10th that is ruled by his Venus which is the ruler of his S.Node of the Moon. So we can see here the continuation of the egocentric structure of Darwin from those past lives leading the current life. Additionally, his Moon is conjunct the S.Nodes of Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn, Vesta, Venus, and Mercury. All of these are ruled by Saturn of course which is conjunct Neptune in Sagittarius in his 12th which trine that natal Venus in his 3rd.
So at this stage let's do an EA analysis of the egocentric structure that Darwin chose, and why. What type of egocentric structure is it ? How does this egocentric structure correlate to Darwin's underlying evolutionary intentions for the current life, and how the past life dynamics are continued into the current life of Darwin.
How is the dynamic tension of the past, future, and manifest in each moment experienced by the egocentric structure of Darwin ? How is the ultimate evolutionary need to learn inner security being worked upon by the Soul of Darwin in this egocentric structure ?
How does Darwin SEE HIMSELF FROM WITHIN ? Linked with his Sun how does the current life egocentric structure inwardly identify with his current life purpose ? How is that purpose creatively actualized in the context of Darwin's egocentric structure ?
What are the nature of his emotions and why .. i.e. the basis of his emotions ? How does he emotionally relate to himself and others ? The Moon, among other symbols, correlates to the type of parents and the environment that the Soul chooses to be born into for relative to it's evolutionary intentions. What type of environment did Darwin choose, and why ? What type of parents did he choose, and why ? How does this early life conditioning then affect the egocentric formation of Darwin ? How does this affect his own capacity to parent ? And what type of parent would he be ?
Within all of this we also need to consider his N.Node of the Moon for these directly correlates to the ever evolving egocentric structure wherein the very nature of that necessary evolution reflects to underlying, and ongoing, evolutionary intentions of the Soul itself. Thus we need to understand how the S.Node of the Moon interacts with the natal Moon, and how both of these interacts with the future evolutionary pull of the evolving ego as symbolized by his N.Node of the Moon in Scorpio. And for him he has natal Uranus conjuncts that N.Node. This means, as we know, that that N.Node has already, prior to the current life, been in the process of being developed by the Soul.
So let's try to put all this together in our EA analysis of the Moon in Darwin's chart.
This are some of the core dynamics that we will need to address in our next step.
If you have any questions please ask them of me now.
God Bless, Rad
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All of these symbols, when combined, equal to me the various points you have made
Hi Rad,
Well it was just an idea I had been wondering about, as I thought perhaps Vesta in the 4th might not have been enough. But then I knew, and as you've pointed out, "treasure thine family!" would have been indelibly stamped on his Soul from that 2nd house time long ago ... plus the Moon-Mars-Venus connection you referred to adds a link to his love for his family. So thanks for clearing it up.
blessings Upasika
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Hi Rad and everyone - checking in, my intention is to post here the next step on the Moon by this weekend.
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Hi Mirta, Linda, Gonzalo, Kristin, Upasika, and Gray
Please let me know where you are all at concerning this next step in our analysis of this chart.
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Hi Rad
I'm working on it, and hope to post soon, either during the weekend or early next week.
God Bless,
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Hi Rad,
This is a very busy time for me on various fronts, and I haven't had any time to look at it yet. Hoping to be able to post by at Friday latest, but aiming for mid week or sooner if I can. (But if it does take me all week I'll understand if you need to move on, and I'd catch up somehow).
blessings Upasika
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The principal owner never owned a sports franchise, let alone a baseball team.
He hired a team president with no sports background and an executive vice president of baseball operations with no experience in the field.
Then the executive vice president of baseball operations -- who has the role of a general manager on the 29 other major league teams -- then hires a longtime minor league coach who never played or managed in the big leagues as the team's manager.
It could not have turned out much better for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Stuart Sternberg changed the nickname and team colors when he purchased the franchise from Vince Naimoli in May 2004 and took over in November 2005.
Sternberg also changed the way things were done, not only in Tampa Bay, but in all of baseball.
In the process, the Devil Rays went from a rag-tag bunch to the Rays, a solid contender the past five years.
Sacrificing the 2006 and '07 seasons to determine the core group of players they wanted to keep and then fill in the missing pieces, the Rays have averaged nearly 92 wins the past five seasons, reaching the playoffs three times and the World Series once, while doing it under tight fiscal constraints.
"It's certainly better than I could have thought or anybody," Sternberg said Sunday during his first 2013 visit to spring training.
A retired Wall Street investor, Sternberg hired Goldman Sachs partner Matt Silverman as team president and Andrew Friedman as executive vice president of baseball operations. Friedman, in investment banking, met Sternberg through Silverman.
Friedman served as director of baseball development before taking over for general manager Chuck LaMar at the age of 28 in 2005.
Just do not refer to Friedman as general manager.
One of his first orders of business was replacing Tampa-area icon Lou Piniella as manager with little-known Joe Maddon, a bench coach with the Los Angeles Angels.
The organization wrote off two seasons to rid itself of unwanted players, identify a nucleus and build around it through drafts and trades, selling high and buying low, like good Wall Street investors.
"It was the way we set out to do things when we started," Sternberg said. "And it was definitely unorthodox at the time."
The Rays lost 101 and 96 games the first two years of Sternberg's tenure.
"They were learning years," Sternberg said.
During his second season in '07, the Devil Rays had an 11-game losing streak just before the All-Star break and were 40-66 through July.
Then, Tampa Bay went 15-14 in August and 11-15 in September.
"That was the turning point for me was after the All-Star break in '07," Sternberg said.
"People had a little more belief in us going into '08. Some even picked us to win in the upper 80s. How do you go from winning 60-some to that?
"And we outperformed that."
In 2008, the Rays won 97 games, defeated the Chicago White Sox and Boston in the American League playoffs, before losing to Philadelphia in five games in the World Series.
"We all took the wind at our backs from that point and have been running with it ever since," Sternberg said. "We learned what to do."
Tampa Bay has been able to maintain its level of success with one of the lowest payrolls in baseball.
Working under budget limitations, Friedman and the front office drafted well, found players with high ceilings who have not reached their potential, all while keeping an eye on the future.
Maddon has meshed personalities on the field and in the clubhouse with a quirky, no-rules policy.
All the manager asks is to be on time, play the game hard and properly and run hard to first base.
"I talk about the freedom we give the players here and how it's a big part of our success," Maddon said.
"We as a staff and the people in the front office feel the freedom coming from him. ... It's more of an open situation that permits creativity. We feel that from the ownership and the players feel that from us.
"A lot of it has to do with good business acumen that infiltrates our organization. And you morph together the baseball side. I understand where they are coming from.
"They understand where we are coming from here. We've come together in the middle. We both learned from each other. An optimal situation."
A two-time Manager of the Year, Maddon has rebuffed opportunities to leave for more money and a team with a higher payroll, remaining loyal to the people who gave him his first opportunity to manage at the big league level.
"When you have an owner like that and can communicate between texts or phone call whenever you want with that owner, it's kinda nice," Maddon said. "I know every manager would not feel comfortable saying the same things.
"A supportive owner, understands the game and is also a fan of it. He treats us all like family."
Maddon came from a similar situation with the Angels, when they were owned by Gene Autry.
"It feels a lot like that, as opposed to the corporate ownership, where you never really see anybody or the group shows up all at once and you never see them again," Maddon said. "His hands-on approach with us is felt. You feel like you are part of this larger family.
"That's a big part of our success. It always starts at the top. No good group or organization has bad leadership or owners. It starts right there and the trickle�down effect occurs. Not only him, but the rest of the group. The interaction is fantastic. We are very comfortable with each other and the relationships are there.
"If we couldn't do all the things we do here, I don't think we would be as successful right now."
As the Rays enter the 2013 season, expectations again are high for a team with a $61 million payroll, one of the lowest among the 30 teams.
"It's certainly better than I could have thought," Sternberg said of his tenure with the Rays.
"The expectations of our fans, the people who follow baseball around the country and around the world have come to believe in our way of doing things. We've been extraordinarily fortunate, and it's shown itself on the field.
"The thing I'm most proud of is our consistency in the front office and on the field."
A stellar 'Stu'wardship
The principal owner never owned a sports franchise, let alone a baseball team.

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Hi! Before I'm off to start our weekend escapades (glorified duty free trips and you ought to know how much I love it there!), I'd like to give love (for the nth time) to SkinFood.I have to say that the cleansing gel works generally well in removing makeup (BB Cream, lipsticks, blush, non-waterproof eye makeup), just remember to keep your eyes shut close, if you're working in the eye areas. It doesn't promise a tear-free application. I accidentally opened my eyes last time, and felt initial onset of stinging, so I rushed to wash it off. With that, I'm not braving to use this when removing my stubborn, hard-to-remove, true to themselves waterproof eye makeup a la Majolica Majorca's mascara. Overall, it's now my go-to everyday makeup remover, I like it because it truly leaves off fresh and clean feel. Will I repurchase? Definitely.
|Featuring my SkinFood Facial Wash(es)...SkinFood Tea Trea Cleansing Foam, Green Tea Milk Cleansing Gel, and Green Tea Milk Cleansing Foam
These are what I'm currently using, although hubby finds himself using the Green Tea Milk Cleansing Foam too, he likes it because it's non-drying unlike his usual facial wash. So yay, he's willing to buy more of it. The Green Tea Milk lines come highly recommended, naturally Green Tea + Milk = Milk Tea Love. :-D These are my 3rd, 4th, and 5th facial cleansers from Skin Food. A while back, I finished the WildBerry Milk Cleansing Cream first, and then went to get the WildBerry Milk Cleansing Foam next. You don't really need that much, so cleansers lasted me a long time, so I got my money's worth.
|SkinFood Tea Tree Cleansing Foam: A foam cleanser that gently removes makeup with a refreshing feeling. Contains tea tree extract, a natural antibacterial agent, and AHA to effectively exfoliate dead skin with deep cleansing.
The Tea Tree with the Green Tea Milk Foam were included in my Myeongdong Korea Shopping Haul. The Tea Tree sells for 5700 KRW. This one stays in our shower area, I reach for it every other day, for prevention and cure, for those seasonal bad face day. The scent is distinctly Tea Tree-ish, it gets a bit overwhelming.
|SkinFood Green Tea Milk Cleansing Foam: A refreshing cleansing foam combines fresh green tea extrct with smooth milk extract to wash away dirt and oil, leaving the skin pure and clear.
I got it for 4700 KRW in Seoul. Noticed the added Fresh labeling vs. WildBerry Milk's Moist, although I couldn't really distinctly tell the difference, since my skin feels the same, but naturally the Green Tea Milk seems to work best for oily skin, while the SkinFood WildBerry Milk's line has reinforced nourishing and moisturizing benefits for dry skin. But since, I have combination skin, they both work fine with me.
|SkinFood Green Tea Milk Cleansing Gel works similarly with the Cleansing Foam except it comes with a reinforced makeup removal function. I bought it at my fave and ever reliable Korean eBay seller for Php 280.
|Swatch. SkinFood Green Tea Milk Cleansing Gel and Majolica Majorca's Automatic Eyeliner (which I applied at the SM Megamall Department store counter)
|Majolica Majorca's is best known for its long lasting eye makeup (mascara and eyeliners), so it's not really effortless when I tried removing it. But the gel does work.
Yay! Much love goes out to SkinFood again. ;-D


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Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen, First of all, let me express my gratitude to Lars Thunell, Chief Executive Officer of the International Finance Corporation, for giving me the opportunity to share with you a few thoughts on sustainable employment in the context of the current economic crisis. Whether or not it is true that "nothing will ever be the same" after the current turmoil subsides, I think one primary action, indeed a duty, for all of us should be to reflect on how best we can pass through these difficult times. What measures can we conceive, what processes can we initiate, that will give reasonable hope that the picture, after the crisis, is not bleak for those who have lost their jobs and for those entering the job market having completed their education? The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), is primarily active in the Third World, and particularly in Sub Saharan and West Africa, the Middle East and Central and South Asia. In most of these countries, the effects of the current crisis can be compared to those in the wealthier countries of the West and indeed, in many cases, they are probably worse: businesses, with profits shrinking and cash flows that are all too frequently stretched to breaking point, are laying off employees at all levels. And this is happening within a context that was already difficult to begin with, one of substantial unemployment and underemployment, of economies that are largely agrarian, with difficult climates where the people frequently work small holdings, contend with arid soils and have a limited capacity to increase their productivity. Moreover, these areas are plagued by a lack of skilled labour, low standards of education, frequent currency devaluations, weak infrastructure, cumbersome legal systems and, all too often, rampant corruption at many levels. These countries suffer from a difficult and unpredictable business environment even in good economic times. Moreover, given their limited industrial capacity and productivity, the lower net private capital flows and monetary tightening that are now taking place are seriously reducing the liquidity available to nascent small and medium-sized enterprises – a sector whose development is essential if employment is to be increased and the national economies of these countries is to be strengthened. Even microfinance institutions are currently experiencing serious liquidity constraints after several years of asset growth, and the whole progression up from micro economic initiatives through small and medium-sized enterprises to larger scale economic activity is being constrained and constricted and, with it, the opportunities for entrepreneurship and for private enterprise. The rising poverty levels in many of the countries of the developing world, frequently accompanied by social and political instability, is leading to a mounting dependence on overseas development aid and direct foreign investment and, in some cases, even food aid. And yet, over the past two years financial flows have dropped precipitously [from some 890 billion US Dollars to 141 billion]. In the West, we are seeing lower contributions to development assistance, decreasing discretionary funds to multilaterals and, generally speaking, a reduced readiness to embrace new initiatives. Jobs, and the creation of jobs, in both traditional and new sectors in these countries have become more important and urgent than ever. This is the essential element for improving the quality of life of the citizens of these countries. We know, from past experience, that improving the quality of life of the poorer populations is the best guarantee of achieving political and social stability and of avoiding an even longer list of failed democracies. It is my view that to achieve sustainable employment in the Third World, it is necessary to embrace a broad philosophy of development that brings together social, economic and cultural initiatives. Single sector initiatives, though certainly useful, have to be placed in a wider context if they are to have a lasting effect on the quality of life of populations and if those populations are to embrace them as reflecting their own aspirations and are to carry them forward so that the desired multiplier effect is achieved, and mutually reinforcing improvements far exceeding initial inputs or investments are attained. High on the list of requirements is education, which must include technical as well as adult education. It must also include women so that they, too, can play an appropriate role in the development effort, just as it must help the older generation to play their part (and a more independent part) in that effort. Equally, solutions are needed to the problem of educated young people having to go abroad to find suitable employment and career development. Educational programmes should encompass teaching teachers and training trainers to increase the national pool of skilled and qualified persons, especially in outlying on rural areas. They should concentrate on areas of economic activity that are recognized to be labour intensive (infrastructure is an example and seems to me to constitute a priority area), as also on the creation of cadres of entrepreneurs, people who will be capable of setting up and running, successfully, small and medium-sized enterprises. Non-traditional fields of practical expertise also offer new sources of employment and are critical in the developing world: for instance so called "green" technologies need to be applied in construction and other industries in order to mitigate the lack of local sources of energy, the rising insufficiency of water and chronically difficult living conditions. I think it can be argued that investments in education and in appropriate training offer the only sustainable long-term solution to increasing and ensuring employment. The health sector is another one where increased human capacity is necessary and employment opportunities could be created, providing more nurses and doctors in the cities and more medical staff in outlying and rural areas. Referral systems (the so-called hub and spoke systems) offer the most promising solutions to the medical needs of most developing countries and they imply, despite a growing recourse to telemedicine, that a substantial increase in manpower become available. In almost all the countries in which we work, there is a marked insufficiency of primary health facilities just as there is a lack of schools offering pre-primary, primary and secondary education and yet improved health, education and living conditions are all basic elements for improving quality of life. As I have said earlier, creation of a growing number of viable small and medium-sized enterprises is also a sine qua non to creating jobs and to forming a strong back-bone for a stable national economy. Microfinance is a basic requirement, but it must reach down to the ultra poor and means must be found to accelerate the creation of small and medium sized enterprises keeping in mind the risk element inherent in them. Sound business practices and good governance are essential in this endeavour and the challenge is to define and ensure these. Here too trainers and supervisors are required. Many of the Third World countries are gifted with cultural treasures, the restoration or conservation or reutilization of which can underpin the development of a new or expanded tourism industry, and other culture-related industries, such as handcrafts. These activities are not only labour-intensive, themselves, but they create even more jobs in fields such as infrastructure and services. The tools for initiating and implementing the initiatives I have listed are numerous. Perhaps the most important of these is the creation of viable, credible and transparent civil society organizations. Such organizations could include Rural Village Organizations, setting their own priorities and implementing those priorities through essentially self-help initiatives which are aided and guided by limited outside advice and input. Or they could take the form of Advisory Services on investment opportunities. Or they could involve purchasing and selling cooperatives. The possibilities are manifold. Civil society organizations can be vehicles of economic recovery just as they can launch social and cultural initiatives, and they form a crucial tool in countries with weak or dysfunctional governments. The general framework for the creation and efficient operations of such Civil Society Organizations lies, in our view, in what we call an Enabling Environment and here local governments have a role to play, by ensuring legislation and its enforcement that encourages and protects private initiative and entrepreneurship and by supporting, with all the means at their disposal, the creation of an active and buoyant private sector. Furthermore there are possibilities for collaborative efforts which bring Government and the private sector together in public/private partnerships. These are proving to be an increasingly useful tool, one that is resilient and permits the assets and abilities of each party to be most productively used. Public private partnerships have launched in many instances quick improvements in both the health and education sectors. Cross-border partnerships and initiatives are another tool just as are regional approaches despite potential political complexities. They also have, as often as not, an effect on precisely those parts of national populations that are poorest or most ex-centered, while allowing the surplus assets of one country to improve the quality of life of a neighbouring country. Obviously, they are also a means of increasing trade and of easing the tensions that may have resulted from arbitrarily drawn borders. For instance while it takes up to 30 hours to drive a truck down an uncertain road from Dushanbe to Khorog in the Pamirs, it takes less than half that time, to take it from Khorog to the urban centres of neighbouring Afghanistan. In the same manner area development plans and programmes, particularly if they are multi-input, permit inter-locking development requirements to be approached by interdisciplinary teams and such programmes stimulate buy-in, and ultimately take-over, by the local peoples concerned. I am struck by the evolution, for instance, of our rural support programmes in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The greening of entire valleys and hillsides and the creation of food self-sufficiency has stimulated and has been amplified by the creation of new health and education facilities and the construction of new roads and mini-hydroelectrical plants. My view is that, similarly, when we restore one of the mud mosques in Mali, for instance, we must look into the up-grading of the infrastructure in the area surrounding the Mosque, we must review the health and education facilities in that area, we must provide a microfinance programme for the local residents and we must consider forming a residents group or committee to help implement and then to manage this multi-input area development initiative. The hope is that such an initiative will be copied by other groups elsewhere in town and will thus effectively play the role of a pilot project. It seems to me that institutions such as IFC should consider broadening their mandates to include a wider spectrum of "social" interventions and could give greater emphasis to multi-input approaches. I would welcome too an increasing IFC activity in helping us put together groups of shareholders. And all of our economic initiatives should be required to undertake and to report on corporate social responsibility or outreach programmes. Perhaps the most essential tool, however, is the resilience and determination of people to improve their own condition, their own quality of life. In many ways development assistance is about giving people hope and giving them the courage to take charge of their own lives and well-being. A recent example comes to mind. AKFED launched, some 35 years back, a tourism venture which now boasts some 29 hotels, lodges and resorts, the majority in Africa and Asia, known under the brand name Serena. In East Africa alone Serena employs some 3 000 local workers and only one expatriate. Like most other companies in the hotel industry, Serena has experienced a drop in both occupancy and revenues this past year. But while in other companies large-scale lay-offs have taken place, or various types of voluntary separation schemes have been experimented, the staff at Serena in East Africa, independently and of their own volition, informed Management that they had decided to ask for a pay-cut until sales improved in order to maintain their jobs. Management thanked them for this initiative and undertook to reimburse them their sacrifice as and when demand started to return to previous, normal levels – and then Management itself felt obliged to take a pay-cut. The incident takes on its full significance when one remembers that the Serena chain provides livelihood for literally tens of thousands of local people when the family of staff, suppliers, small businesses, artisans and handicraft-makers who depend on Serena are included. I think it is appropriate that I should finish this talk by offering congratulations to IFC, who have been an admired and valued partner of AKFED for over 40 years. IFC has concentrated over all those years on a number of significant objectives: on advancing the private sector in developing countries, on developing local, financial markets, on new initiatives in microfinance, trade and infrastructure and on the creation of truly sustainable, viable entities. These efforts have all been of vital importance for job creation. May I commend you for your efforts and thank you for this opportunity to join in your discussions? Thank you


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Zeta Beta Tau's national leadership confirmed Tuesday that Columbia has rescinded ZBT's brownstone. Columbia's ZBT chapter will remain a recognized fraternity, according to a statement sent to Spectator by ZBT Executive Director Laurence Bolotin.
Interim Dean of Student Affairs Terry Martinez decided to revoke ZBT's brownstone, on 115th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive, after members of the baseball team—which constitutes most of ZBT's membership—held a party on May 4 to celebrate winning the Ivy League championship. According to the ZBT statement—which was first reported by the Columbia Lion—administrators determined that this celebration was an unregistered party, and thus a violation of ZBT's social probation.
"A group of baseball players held an impromptu celebration at the ZBT house in the private room of two ZBT baseball team brothers who had been disciplined following a membership review which took place near the end of the Spring semester," the statement read.
ZBT had been placed on social probation following an hazing incident that took place in the fall. The ZBT national statement noted that the fraternity had been placed on probation following "a Fall incident which took place at the house that involved and that was initiated by students not affiliated with the fraternity," seeming to substantiate persistent rumors that ZBT was not entirely to blame for the unspecific hazing incident.
Columbia Student Affairs spokesperson Katherine Cutler confirmed the fall hazing incident Wednesday.
"It was brought to the University's attention that an incident occurred during the fall 2012 semester in the ZBT residence that may have involved hazing. Student Affairs initiated a thorough review of the organization and individuals involved with the case, and it was determined that an act of hazing took place in the house. As a result, all individuals found responsible received judicial sanctions," Cutler said in an email.
The Inter-Greek Council Judicial Board had originally recommended in January that ZBT lose its charter and housing, but after the fraternity appealed the sanctions, then-Dean of Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger reversed the decision, allowing ZBT to keep its charter and brownstone pending the completion of an action plan.
That action plan stipulated that if the fraternity was found responsible for any additional violations—or if it failed to receive satisfactory ratings on its Alpha Standards—its charter would be revoked and its members immediately removed from the organization's brownstone. The unsanctioned celebration on May 4 was deemed a violation, according to the ZBT statement.
However, students were not removed from the brownstone immediately. The statement said that "due to timing of that membership review and of final exams, the Fraternity and University decided together to allow these individuals to remain in the property through graduation in mid-May."
"University officials were aware that the Chapter's leadership was not involved in organizing the celebration and of the progress made on its action plan to again meet the University's 'Alpha Standards,'" the statement added.
In addition to the delayed rescission of housing, the fraternity's charter has not been revoked.
"ZBT will continue to be recognized on campus and participate in all IGC activities and events, including recruitment this fall," Cutler said.
News of the fraternity potentially losing its housing surfaced on Wednesday, when Bwog reported that at least one transfer student had been assigned to live in the 115th Street brownstone. Several incoming transfer students have posted on Columbia Facebook groups that they have received housing assignments in the brownstone.
The brownstone will be used for general housing assignments this year, Cutler said, although there have been no discussions about future plans for the residence. Cutler added that all members of ZBT who were scheduled to live in the brownstone for the 2013-14 academic year will have guaranteed housing.
"Student Affairs will work closely with each member and staff in Housing Services to ensure as smooth a transfer process as possible," she said.
It is unclear where ZBT might look for future housing, especially now that the University has awarded three 114th Street brownstones—and several East Campus townhouses—to other Greek organizations and student groups. The chapter will work with administrators to determine future housing options, according to the ZBT statement.
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Bay Community School hosts art show Friday
Bay Community School, a community based pre-school in Apalachicola, is hosting its Art Show and Silent Auction this Friday, May 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Apalachicola Center for History, Culture and the Arts Center, on Water Street. All the artwork is done by the children. Come and have dinner prepared by Tamara's Caf� and have fun while supporting a great cause. Tickets are $20/person for dinner and drinks.
Bay Community School is also looking for community sponsors to help supplement the cost for the event. Individual and/or business sponsorships are $100 and include a dinner ticket and you will be recognized at the event and on our website, www.baycommunityschool.com .
Founded in 1996, Bay Community School has provided quality childcare and pre-school services to children ages 2 to 5. Located at 269 Fred Meyer St. in Apalachicola, it is not-for-profit center that meets the needs of a diverse population of families in Franklin County. The teachers are certified and it provides the State VPK (Volunteer Pre-Kindergarten) to 4 year olds. Proceeds from this event help cover the basic costs of running the school.
Putt-Masters tourney set for May 31
May 31 marks the fourth annual Putt-Masters Tournament, the signature fundraiser that benefits the Franklin County Public Library. Some 20 plus businesses, groups, and individuals sponsor four-person teams, which tee off at noon and play throughout the afternoon. After the tourney ends at 5 p.m., there will be a ceremony to see who will take home Green Champ caps and a beautiful trophy. The competition is serious for some. Many returning teams have improved their "putt" over the years. Others just play for fun and enjoy good food, drink, and the company of friends.
The Red Pirate Family Grill and Oyster Bar in Eastpoint hosts the event, where owners Shirley and Jimmy Sapp provide a beautiful 18-hole course with a water feature for an entire afternoon of putting fun! Players, fans, and library supporters can quench their thirst and enjoy delicious food while having fun and raising money for our library.
Various levels of sponsorship are available. If you would like to participate or volunteer, contact your library branch to reach a Friend of the Franklin County Public Library. In Carrabelle call 697-2366 or in Eastpoint call 670-8151, or contact Anna Carmichael, (850) 273-1174, email@example.com
The library is a vital county resource. The services provided are free, but funding is limited. The Friends of Franklin County Public Library is proud to help fund both the Carrabelle and Eastpoint branches of our public library system. Without help from businesses and individuals throughout the community and their participation in our efforts, this would not be possible.
Books, e-books, games, CDs, DVDs, audio-books, free Wi-Fi, computers and computer classes, youth programs, community meeting rooms complete with a smart board, are just a few of the services you will find at your public library. Go visit your local branch to see what�s happening, you will be proud as well.
Guardian Ad Litem offices moving
In a recent meeting Debra Moore, Guardian Ad Litem circuit director, informed Director of Administrative Services Alan Pierce that the supervision for the Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) program will be switching to Panama City from Tallahassee.
She also said GAL would comply with the county commission�s request for a 2 percent reduction in its budget request.
Governor Stone to get more restoration
The Governor Stone, a National Historic Landmark built in 1877, began a new chapter in her history on Monday.
The Friends of the Governor Stone are dedicated to preserving the vessel and continuing to share her history and beauty with the communities of the northern Gulf Coast. In order to do this, the Governor Stone traveled by tow to Diberville, Mississippi for additional restoration work by Master Boat Builder Bill Holland, who has done work on the Governor Stone in the past and was a valuable consultant for just completed restoration project.
�The Governor Stone is a national treasure, a living museum that must be preserved and maintained for future generations,� said Friends of the Governor Stone President, Katie Cherry. �The tours and opportunities to sail on this vessel return us to a time in history that can only be appreciated by actually experiencing the wind in the sails.�
The trip to Mississippi will cover 193 nautical miles over a period of at least four 4 days with overnight stops at The Landing in Ft. Walton Beach, Pensacola Yacht Club and Gulf Shores Marina along the way. Once Holland completes repairs at his boatyard. the Governor Stone will sail back to her homeport of St. Andrews.
The 136-year-old Gulf Coast Bay Schooner underwent an eight-month historical restoration that was completed in March at the Bay County Boatyard in Panama City. The restoration work was completed by local craftsmen and volunteers and restored her appearance to a more accurate representation of her look when she was built in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
The Governor Stone is owned and supported by the Friends of the Governor Stone, Inc. a 501c3 nonprofit volunteer organization. Please visit www.governorstone.org or our Facebook page Governor Stone.
Franklin is �Purple Heart County�
At the May 20 county meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to recognize Franklin County as a �Purple Heart County� in honor of the large number of decorated veterans living in Franklin County.
Chairman Cheryl Sanders suggested the county invite all residents who have won a Purple Heart to visit a commission meeting.
Funds sought for online county map
At the May 20 meeting, county commissioners voted unanimously to re-apply for a technical assistance grant from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity for $25,000 to create an online county GIS map to assist in the public accessing the flood insurance maps, and other planning layers.
The county applied for the project last year and was not chosen for funding.
Lake Morality contracts awarded
At Tuesday�s county meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to award the contract to add signage and re-mark Lake Morality Road to Southern States Pavement Markings, Inc. of St. Augustine.
The cost of the work is $58,557. Southern States was the only company that bid on the project.
Commissioners also voted unanimously to award Preble-Rish Engineers of Port St. Joe the contract for construction, engineering and inspection on the Lake Morality project.
All fees will be paid out of Florida Department of Transportation funds.
Commission orders maintenance for SGI fishing pier
At the May 20 meeting, county commissioners unanimously voted to earmark up to $6,000 for the re-staining and maintenance of the handicap entrance ramp to the St. George Island Fishing Pier, and up to $6,000 for the staining and maintenance of the recently re-constructed section of fishing pier. Both projects will come out of the St. George Island Bridge Maintenance Fund..
County Planner Alan Pierce said the projects are necessary to maintain the wooden structures exposed to the sun and salt air. He said the newly constructed portion would be refurbished first. He said that work on the pier had been postponed due to wet weather.
Update on the SHIP program
On May 20, County Planner Alan Pierce told county commissioners the proposed legislative budget contains $350,000 for the Franklin County State Housing Initiative Partnership (SHIP) program. He said this is the first time in several years the program has been fully funded.
Commissioners also voted unanimously to use up to $5,000 to repair a roof damaged in recent heavy rains.
Pierce said Governor Scott issued an executive emergency order that allows Lori Switzer, SHIP coordinator, to receive applications from qualified residents whose houses have been damaged. SHIP has received one application for a roof repair and the cap on the amount of funds is $5,000. Repairs will be paid for with money set aside for hurricane damage last year. The funds are available because there were no storms.
Simpler Built wins visitor center bid
At the May 20 meeting, county commissioners voted to award a bid for renovation of the old state highway patrol building in Eastpoint to Simpler Built of Tallahassee for their bid of $65,657.
Commissioner Noah Lockley opposed the decision. R.W. Thomas Construction of Eastpoint submitted a bid of $75,000.
Lockley asked if the county had approached R.W. Thomas to negotiate his fee. The commissioner said he would prefer a local contractor do the work.
Chairman Cheryl Sanders said the county needed to observe normal business practices when processing bids to avoid the appearance of unfairness.
Benson awarded HVAC contract
At the recommendation of architect Warren Emo, on Tuesday, county commissioners voted unanimously to award a contract to replace the north HVAC unit on the main courthouse to Benson�s Heating and Air Conditioning Inc., of Tallahassee.
The replacement will be paid for out of the courthouse maintenance fund.


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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is leading an online poll being conducted by Contract From America as the conservative pick for president in 2016.
With 190,000 votes cast as of Monday morning, Paul leads, with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio rounding out the top three. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are running in last place, ranked 32 and 31 respectively…
Rand Paul leads the poll, winning 80 percent of his match-ups, with Walker winning 76 percent and Rubio winning 73 percent…
Hecker said that Rand Paul was the clear favorite from day one of the poll, even before the senator's dramatic filibuster last week, but "given Rand Paul's passionate performance … it's understandable that the base is so supportive of him."
"Under duress and under public humiliation," Mr. Paul said with a smile, "the White House will respond and do the right thing."
Yet there was more than just a simple answer to an elementary question. The stand taken by the spry young pups of the Senate, while the fat old dogs dined with the president, proves there are some new pack leaders in town. No longer will a president chew up the Constitution — not as long as we're here, the alpha pups said. And we don't need to ask nicely over and over and over — we'll just stand here, all of us, until the president answers.
So if old dogs really can learn new tricks, they better learn 'em, and quick, 'cuz these new dogs are growling and showing their teeth. And one thing is clear: Their bite is worse than their bark.
That means picking the right battles, something Paul especially has done well, demonstrating a political savvy that his more combative father never achieved, nor seemed to care about. Paul launched his filibuster in search of an answer to an extremely narrow question about the limits of executive power — whether the president can authorize the killing of American citizens, via drone, on American soil, even if they don't represent a truly imminent threat. In doing so, he rallied Republicans to his cause even though they might otherwise be hesitant to support his broader, more libertarian, views on foreign policy.
"I think Rand demonstrated last week that when you stand for principle it can unify Republicans," Cruz says. "The filibuster captivated a great many people across the country, who were heartened to see Republicans standing up, not rolling over, in the face of this administration."
Constitutional conservatism may not be the sexiest strain in American politics, but these three are intent on bringing it back, and are uniquely suited to do it. Lee and Cruz are both lawyers deeply versed in the Constitution, as well as talented interrogators, capable of bringing out important points through relentless and logically vigorous questioning during committee hearings. Paul, an ophthalmologist by trade, is not a lawyer. But he clearly is no intellectual slouch on these issues either — as the son of Ron Paul, he was reared on the Constitution. "Rand Paul is the heart, Mike Lee is the head, he brings the intellectual, constitutional heft, and Ted Cruz is a little bit of both," says a conservative aide.
Paul doesn't want his filibuster of John Brennan's nomination for director of the Central Intelligence Agency to be remembered as a random moment, but as the beginning of his push to shift the party.
To Paul, now is the right time to push within the GOP for less foreign intervention. "When you saw the debate between President Obama and Romney on foreign policy, they sounded pretty similar. In the vice-presidential debate, Biden was more assertive, but Ryan didn't disagree with most of his positions," Paul observes. "It was sort of like, 'We'll either come a little bit slower out of Afghanistan, or we'll do this.' But Biden had a good response, 'We're coming home.' And I think that's what people want; I think that's what people are ready for, that we're coming home."
When asked to explain why many Republicans are open to moving away from the Bush-Cheney approach to foreign policy, Paul offers two words: "war weariness." After more than a decade at war, offering only slight modifications to the Bush agenda — in his view, what the Romney-Ryan platform amounted to — will not be enough to win new voters. Many Republicans, he adds, have privately complained about the direction of the party for years, but only now, after the Romney defeat and five years after Bush, are they willing to consider fresh perspectives on the Republican worldview.
Paul's filibuster of Brennan was based on a specific issue — the White House's drone policy — and he says that made a difference. As much as he is eager to make a case for a new GOP foreign policy on several fronts, he predicts that his fight, and any victories, will be incremental. "There will be a place for people in the party who believe in a less aggressive foreign policy," he says.
[G]iven how Republican foreign debates have proceeded in the recent past, I still tend to think the legitimization of Rand Paul as a right-wing folk hero has implications that extend beyond the narrow hypothetical where he chose to plant his filibuster flag. That's because, as I've argued before, the relative sterility of the foreign policy conversation on the right doesn't reflect a deep conservative uniformity on national security questions; rather, it mostly reflects the fact that the potential standard-bearers for a less interventionist worldview have been relatively easy for hawks to delegitimize as cranks, Israel-haters, RINOs, etc. And so the fact that a lot of the support for Paul from his fellow Republicans is opportunistic and confined to a narrow policy hypothetical matters less than the fact that the support exists at all — that a politician who has consistently advocated a more militarily-restrained foreign policy is suddenly being supported, elevated, and extolled at the expense of his more interventionist critics within the party.
None of this means that the entire party is about to tilt dramatically toward realism. But legitimizing, as Real Conservatives (TM), politicians who advocate restraint is a necessary precondition to broader policy change. Opportunism follows influence, and creates it — and right now Paul has more influence within his party than every other realist, paleoconservative and libertarian Republican of the last decade put together.
Ron Paul vaulted to prominence and jump-started a political movement by lobbing rhetorical bombs against war from the foreign policy margins, then watching as the bipartisan consensus recoiled in horror and a new coalition of fed-up anti-war voters came out of the woodwork. The single most frequent question longtime Republicans would ask about Dr. No was one that showed they fundamentally did not understand either him or his appeal: Couldn't he, you know, just tone down the blowback rhetoric a bit?
That's where Rand Paul comes in, to the occasional chagrin of Ron Paul's fan base. While Sen. Paul has fought to de-authorize the War on Terror and explicitly delink sanctions from war as a response to Iran's nuclear ambitions, he also voted yes on the sanctions. While he repeated Ron Paul's position about ending foreign aid to Israel, he has prioritized ending foreign aid and military sales to Israel's enemies first and even declared in January that an attack on the Jewish state should be treated as an attack on the United States. In a major foreign policy address in February, he made clear he was not a carbon copy of his father. "There are definite differences," he declared.
Paul's speech, in which he advocated a George Kennan−style "containment" to cope with "radical Islam" and stressed the constitutional separation of war powers between Congress and the president, was not the kind of anti-imperialist critique that audiences have come to expect from Ron Paul. He framed it as an attempt to seek a third way between "isolationism" and constant intervention. But his vision of a smaller overseas commitment and greater skepticism about American omniscience, however vague, represents one of the most radical foreign policy rethinks the Senate has seen in decades.
Given its track record since 9/11, the Rush Limbaugh right is obviously totally unreliable when it comes to civil liberties, executive power, and foreign-policy realism. At the same time, its capacity for cognitive dissonance, hatred of Democrats, mistrust of Obama, war-weariness, paranoia about tyrannical government, and ideological predisposition to Constitution-citing rhetoric makes the block as suited to following Rand Paul as John McCain or Bill Kristol, especially if the latter men are ultimately arguing — as they must if they want to be coherent — that Obama should be trusted to wield extreme power, in secret, with good judgment and moral rectitude…
I don't want to exaggerate the size of the Rush Limbaugh right, which seems to end up every four years with the GOP presidential nominee they least desire. The behavior of moderate Republicans matters more. What I do want to make is the modest claim that Limbaugh giving this treatment to the "Paul vs. McCain" divide — even highlighting rather than glossing over the larger foreign-policy divisions at play — shows that the whole GOP is already in a very different place than it was prior to Election 2012, when every primary candidate with any chance of ultimately leading the party competed to stake out the most bellicose, hawkish positions possible, led by Mitt Romney, the eventual victor. I can't help but wonder how events might've unfolded if the GOP hadn't wasted four years on the wrong critique of Obama's foreign policy.
Paul's chances of winning the Republican nomination are probably far better than many would think. Paul's main appeal is based on positions and an ability to articulate those positions in a way that brings people over to his side. One can see this not only in the willingness of fellow Republicans to praise his filibuster, but Paul's 2010 senate victories.
In 2010, Paul overcame establishment opposition to win the Republican primary by an astounding 23 points. He then went on to defeat a solid opponent in Jack Conway in the general election by a solid 12 points…
Rand, in my opinion, will likely inherit much of his father's organization. Assume that can give him 21% of the vote in Iowa and 23% of the vote in New Hampshire. It's quite possible that only high 20s are needed to win both states. One has to think that given Rand's political abilities, which his father failed to posses, he can win that extra 5% of the vote in each state to put him over the top.
Rand Paul winning either Iowa or New Hampshire, let alone both, would make him a big time power player for the 2016 primary season. It might even put him in a position to, dare I say, win the nomination.
He then called for an end to the war in Afghanistan: "I think we've accomplished our goals there. We got [Osama] bin Laden. We disrupted the Taliban that was harboring him. We disrupted the government that was harboring him. I think we've achieved our goals, and I think it is time to come home."
Asked what sort of withdrawal schedule he desires, the libertarian-leaning senator flatly said, "We've been there nearly 12 years. I think it's time to come home," adding that an expedited timetable would have to be formed in conjunction with the generals involved in the process.


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Life is so simple when you are at the back of the pack. No one picks on you, and no one picks up on your gaffes. When the Democratic presidential race started to take shape a year ago, few bothered to attack the quirky doctor who was an ex-Governor of a small New England state. He barked and blustered, but the Democratic establishment and the media saw in him little more than entertainment value. He stood on the wrong side of a popular President's war and outside the party establishment, within which the winner would be anointed in due course.
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