Letters to the Editor

My letter to the Mountain Astrologer magazine published in the Oct./Nov. 2007 issue.

Dear TMA:
Love your magazine.
Phillip Brown's thoughtful article, "Mars, War, and the 2008 Election" (TMA June/July 2007) mentions the contacts from retrograde Mars to the U.S. Sibly(7/4/1776) planets in Cancer and the Scorpionic America(11/15/1777) Mars-South Node conjunction. Yet another powerful link between this Mars cycle and U.S. military affairs is shown by the chart for the actual station retrograde of Nov. 15, 2007, at 3:26 am, EST (8:26 GMT). When the chart is cast for Washington, D.C., Mars is precisely on the Midheaven. (The Midheaven is 12 Cancer 26, and Mars is at 12 Cancer 27!)

The dramatic culmination of stationary Mars over the capital confirms the significance of this period for the United States in re-evaluating the deployment of it's armed forces in Iraq and elsewhere.

David Crook
San Francisco