Corrupt Schemes
Before moving into the next Aries Uranus, we must first analyze the formation of the Federal Reserve. Although it has ‘Federal’ in its name, the entity was not a foundational part of government but a later creation.
Congress had the power under the Constitution to coin money and regulate the value until they delegated the power to a corporation controlled by bankers as a central bank system.
After over seventy years without a central bank, financial markets were in trouble again. In October of 1907, a scheme to corner the copper market led to the failure of the Knickerbocker Trust Company and nearly collapsed the stock market. Consider the prelude for context.
On June 26, 1906, a new Jupiter-Pluto cycle formed at 22 Gemini 31. Saturn became stationary retrograde at 15 Pisces that day to square the Jupiter-Neptune cycle at 13 Gemini. It's good watch for events of consequence for at least three weeks of a new cycle.
Only three days later, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Hepburn Act to regulate (Jupiter) and rein in the abuses (Pluto) of the railroads (Gemini) as the new Jupiter-Pluto was square the Federal chart Mercury at 22 Pisces.158 (more on keywords)
On November 9, 1906, Venus became stationary retrograde at 14 Sagittarius square where Saturn had been stationary at 15 Pisces months before.
A group alliance of representatives from the major banking houses would meet to hammer out the central banking system in a clandestine meeting at Jekyll Island on November 22, 1910, six days after a Lunar eclipse at 23 Taurus.
Small family farms that expanded during the higher prices of World War I failed as falling prices combined with bank debts led to foreclosures and were replaced by large monoculture farms of wheat, corn, and cotton.
158. William R. Doezema, “Railroad Management and the Interplay of Federal and State Regulation, 1885-1916,” The Business History Review 50, no. 2 (1976): 165.
159. “Newspaper Opinions on Mr. Hearst Defeat; People Won’t Stand Corporate Corruption,” New York Times, November 7, 1906, 6; “May Be Big Strike On The Erie System,” The Sunday Star, November 11, 1906, 1; “Financier Warns The Government Against Policy,” Washington (DC) Herald, November 11, 1906, 1.
160. “Indicted for Forgery,” New York Tribune, December 29, 1906, 1; “How Railroads Increase Profits,” Washington Evening Star, January 5, 1907, 1.
161. “Trust Makers Arraigned by the Cardinal,” Washington Times, December 30, 1906, 1.
162. “Morgan’s Hasty Trip,” Washington Evening Star, March 12, 1907, 1; “Railways About Face,” Washington Evening Star, March 12, 1907, 1.
163. Ellis W. Tallman and Jon R. Moen, “Lessons from the Panic of 1907,” Economic Review Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 75, no. 3 (1990): 2-12; Robert Bruner and Sean Carr, The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2007), 47, 83.
164. William R. Nester, Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power: An American for All Time, (New York: Lexington Books, 2019), 144.
165. William G. Dewald, “The National Monetary Commission: A Look Back,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 4, no. 4 (1972): 930-956.
166. Charles Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster’s Guide to American History, 361.
167. Nomi Prins, All The Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power, (New York: Nation Books, 2014), 23-34; Murray N. Rothbard, A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II, (Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2002), 239-254; “GREAT GROUP TAKES THE NEW BONDS: Rothschild, Baring Bros., Kuhn, Loeb and Co. Buy $40,000,000 Pennsylvania Issue. SHARP RISE IN THE PRICE Significance of New Banking Connections Abroad—Way Paved for Same Bankers Taking Other Issues,” New York Times, April 23, 1908, 2.
168. Arsene Pujo, Report of The Committee Appointed Pursuant to House Resolutions 429 and 504 to Investigate the Concentration of Control of Money and Credit, 62nd Congress 3rd Session, Report No. 1593 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1913) 13,130-133.
169. Congressional Record, 63rd Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 51, (1913) 1446-1447; Fernand J. St. Germain, Hearings Before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs House of Representatives, 97th Congress 1st Session Part 1, Serial No. 97-26, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1981), 127.
170. “Affixes His Signature at 6:02 pm, Using Four Gold Pens,” New York Times, December 24, 1913, 1.
171. Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 668-669.
172. Congressional Record, 77th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, Volume 87 Part 13, A4263.
173. “The Southern Congress,” Washington Evening Star, May 9, 1861, 2.
174. Nicholas Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, 423. May 17, 1792 New York, NY 12:00 pm unknown time.
175. Paul Boyer editor, The Oxford Companion to United States History, 20-21.
Stationary Saturn was a twenty-nine-year Saturn return to the restrictive Federal Saturn at 13 Pisces, conjunct the Federal Sun at 14 Pisces, and square Federal Chiron at 15 Gemini. (more on transits to nation charts)
The new Jupiter-Pluto cycle was conjunct the Declaration Mars at 21 Gemini and an emphasized Mars at 11 Cancer conjunct the Declaration Sun at 13 Cancer with Saturn square the Ascendant. (more on emphasized planets)
Venus opposed the Jupiter-Neptune cycle at 13 Gemini and aspected the Federal Sun, Saturn and Chiron. Three days later, Saturn changed direction to stationary direct at 08 Pisces square the Jupiter-Uranus at 10 Sagittarius. Events shift direction with the direction change. (example)
Newspaper headlines stated that the public would not stand for corporate corruption, financiers (Venus) pleaded against government restrictions (Saturn) on railroads, and workers threatened to strike.159 Saturn stationary was a fifty-nine-year return to when Mexico wanted peace talks. (more on stationary returns)
On December 9, 1906, Mercury became stationary direct at 29 Scorpio, then eleven days later, Venus also turned stationary direct at 29 Scorpio. Both would conjunct the Paris chart Moon at 29 Scorpio and oppose the Saturn-Pluto cycle at 29 Taurus.
On December 9, 1906, Mercury became stationary direct at 29 Scorpio, then eleven days later, Venus also turned stationary direct at 29 Scorpio. Both would conjunct the Paris chart Moon at 29 Scorpio and oppose the Saturn-Pluto cycle at 29 Taurus.
Railroad magnates were being investigated and indicted with talk of government ownership of railroads.160 The corruption of the railroads had been exposed, corporate trusts and financiers faced public accusations of criminality.161 The investing public no longer wanted railroad stock, by March 1907, the decline in railroad stock was hundreds of millions of dollars.
The fact that John Pierpont Morgan took his private train car on the evening of March 11, 1907, to seek help from President Theodore Roosevelt, confirmed that the stock market was in serious distress long before the Knickerbocker crises. Morgan arrived in Washington, D.C. by 9 o’clock and by 10 o’clock he was at the White House.
The fact that John Pierpont Morgan took his private train car on the evening of March 11, 1907, to seek help from President Theodore Roosevelt, confirmed that the stock market was in serious distress long before the Knickerbocker crises. Morgan arrived in Washington, D.C. by 9 o’clock and by 10 o’clock he was at the White House.
The financier suggested the President meet with railway presidents to “allay the public anxiety now threatening to obstruct railroad investments and construction.” London had dumped American shares and Berlin advised Germans to steer away from the market following the corruption exposures. The next evening Morgan was on a ship to Europe, implied as an annual trip, his name did not appear on the passenger list.162
Jupiter was stationary direct at 01 Cancer in square with Mercury stationary retrograde at 01 Aries aspected the NYSE North Node at 02 Libra. The Sun at 20 Pisces, Saturn at 18 Pisces and Mars at 19 Sagittarius formed a transiting square to aspect the NYSE Mars at 18 Virgo. Venus at 05 Aquarius was square the NYSE Venus at 05 Taurus.
The stationary Jupiter at 01 Cancer and Mercury at 01 Aries square aspected the Uranus-Neptune at 03 Capricorn as Pluto was also stationary. Both planets of the new Jupiter-Pluto cycle in Gemini were stationary including the Mercury dispositor.
The meeting sought resolution in the conflict between government regulation and corporate powers. The Hepburn Act had been signed near cycle formation and both planets stationary brought a peak.
The Mercury stationary was a forty-six-year return to the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861, also a time of crises.
The Knickerbocker crisis was triggered on October 16, 1907, as banks refused to cash checks of Knickerbocker Trust following revelations that the bank president was involved with shady Wall Street bankers.163
The Knickerbocker crisis was triggered on October 16, 1907, as banks refused to cash checks of Knickerbocker Trust following revelations that the bank president was involved with shady Wall Street bankers.163
Neptune of fraud and illusion was stationary at 14 Cancer in opposition to the (finance) Jupiter-Saturn (economy) at 14 Capricorn that brought bank runs. Transiting Mercury at 15 Scorpio opposed Saturn-Neptune at 16 Taurus. Transiting Venus at 00 Scorpio had transiting Mars in square at 01 Aquarius to aspect Uranus-Pluto at 29 Aries. Transiting Saturn at 21 Pisces 58 was square the Jupiter-Pluto cycle at 22 Gemini that formed near the regulating Hepburn Act.
Morgan supported a plan involving U.S. Steel that needed the approval of President Roosevelt to avoid antitrust issues. That approval was given on November 4, 1907, as Mercury was at 29 Scorpio again, except stationary retrograde instead.164
Bankers in 1907 were later credited by newspapers for saving the banking system by pledging their own money.
The Sun at 22 Libra was conjunct the Federal Neptune of fraud as the dispositor Venus was square the transiting Mars to oppose the Federal Uranus at 01 Leo.
Bankers in 1907 were later credited by newspapers for saving the banking system by pledging their own money.
The fraud and exposed corruption which had repelled the public from railroad stock to the near collapse of the financial markets are seldom mentioned.
Crafting Power by Law
After the crises, Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, head of the Finance Committee, passed the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908 which established the National Monetary Commission to study the banking systems of Europe for two years. This was part of a plan to educate the public in order to build support for banking reform by experts.165 Senator Aldrich appointed Charles A. Conant, for public relations. The Wall Street Journal launched a 14-part series on the front page ‘A Central Bank of Issue’ by Charles Conant as another necessary piece of the banking reform plan, an information campaign to convince the public to accept central banking.
On July 12, 1909, Congress passed a bill to amend the Constitution to collect income tax.166 Transiting Mars at 26 Pisces would bring focus to the transiting Pluto (taxes) at 25 Gemini where a Solar eclipse had occurred at 26 Gemini three weeks earlier.
On July 12, 1909, Congress passed a bill to amend the Constitution to collect income tax.166 Transiting Mars at 26 Pisces would bring focus to the transiting Pluto (taxes) at 25 Gemini where a Solar eclipse had occurred at 26 Gemini three weeks earlier.
Transiting Chiron at 27 Aquarius was square the Federal Ascendant at 27 Scorpio and conjunct the Federal Mars at 28 Aquarius as the transiting North Node at 16 Gemini was conjunct an emphasized Federal Chiron at 15 Gemini, an attack on the American public.
Transiting Jupiter at 11 Virgo conjunct the Midheaven at 10 Virgo enlarged government as the Sun at 19 Cancer was conjunct the emphasized Federal Jupiter at 19 Cancer with transiting Uranus in opposition at 19 Capricorn made the radical change through the use of law. The law would force the people to supply funds for whatever the government wanted and was sold to the public as a way to force the wealthy to pay federal revenues, not average Americans.
A group alliance of representatives from the major banking houses would meet to hammer out the central banking system in a clandestine meeting at Jekyll Island on November 22, 1910, six days after a Lunar eclipse at 23 Taurus.
Frank A. Vanderlip, who believed that the competitive free market must be replaced by central control of banking, and Nelson Aldrich were both Rockefeller men. Both Henry P. Davison, who went to England at the onset of World War I to make Morgan and the Bank of England fiscal agents of each other and Charles D. Norton were with J. P. Morgan. Paul Warburg, a German who had immigrated in 1902 was a partner with Kuhn, Loeb and favored the German Reich bank, as did the President of the Banker’s Association, George Reynolds. Paul Warburg was a representative of the Rothschilds banking dynasty and had been giving speeches calling for centralization of banking even before the panic of 1907. A. Piatt Andrew, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury also went to Jekyll Island to work on the draft legislation for the genesis of the Federal Reserve.167
The meeting at Jekyll Island had the Sun at 29 Scorpio with Venus at 28 Scorpio in a transiting square with Chiron at 27 Aquarius to aspect the Saturn-Pluto cycle at 29 Taurus and Saturn-Uranus cycle at 27 Scorpio.
The meeting at Jekyll Island had the Sun at 29 Scorpio with Venus at 28 Scorpio in a transiting square with Chiron at 27 Aquarius to aspect the Saturn-Pluto cycle at 29 Taurus and Saturn-Uranus cycle at 27 Scorpio.
Two Saturn involved cycles with Pluto and Scorpio would facilitate a plan of mortgaged debt on the nation as Chiron was again at 27 Aquarius. Mars at 10 Scorpio was conjunct the Solar eclipse weeks earlier as Mercury at 05 Sagittarius opposed a prior Lunar eclipse at 04 Gemini.
The Federal chart Ascendant of 27 Scorpio and Mars at 28 Aquarius were aspected by the transiting square of the Sun at 29 Scorpio, Venus at 28 Scorpio, and Chiron at 27 Aquarius.
The transiting Sun and Venus of finance on the Ascendant would affect all across the nation and be vulnerable with the square of Chiron at 27 Aquarius while the transiting Mercury at 05 Sagittarius opposed the Federal Moon of the masses at 04 Gemini, where the earlier Lunar eclipse occurred.
State legislatives ratified the Amendment to collect income tax on February 3, 1913, with a stationary direct Saturn at 27 Taurus to burden the people with debt. Saturn opposed its own position in the Saturn-Uranus cycle at 27 Scorpio and was nearing its return to the Saturn-Pluto cycle at 29 Taurus to focus the Pluto power of government. The Sun at 14 Aquarius was square another Saturn cycle, Saturn-Neptune at 16 Taurus with Venus at a critical 00 Aries square Uranus-Neptune at 03 Capricorn.
The stationary Saturn would be square the Declaration Moon at 27 Aquarius and Lilith at 27 Leo and oppose the Federal Ascendant at 27 Scorpio, both are points to indicate effects across the masses. States would follow to add a state tax to enlarge their own funding.
The Pujo Committee issued their investigation report on February 28, 1913, which cited the danger of concentrated money and credit in the hands of the few and recommended regulations on both banking and the New York Stock Exchange.
The Pujo Committee issued their investigation report on February 28, 1913, which cited the danger of concentrated money and credit in the hands of the few and recommended regulations on both banking and the New York Stock Exchange.
The press inspired public support for the Federal Reserve Act legislation that was sold as a force to break up the banking monopoly, a law that had been quietly written by bankers.168
On passage of the Federal Reserve Act, Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh criticized the law on record saying, “This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth, such as the Sherman Antitrust Act would dissolve if Congress did not by this act expressly create what by that act it prohibited. When the President signs this act the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be legalized.”
On passage of the Federal Reserve Act, Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh criticized the law on record saying, “This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth, such as the Sherman Antitrust Act would dissolve if Congress did not by this act expressly create what by that act it prohibited. When the President signs this act the invisible government by the money power, proven to exist by the Money Trust investigation, will be legalized.”
Lindbergh spoke plainly on what to anticipate, “The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation.” He also addressed the way the people were being deceived by this act, “The grandiloquent attempt being made to make the people believe that the control of the money system is being taken out of the banks and placed in the Government. There never was a more deceptive attempt than this.”
Lindbergh drove home the point when he stated, “This bill empowers the banks to get more money on the credit of the people so as to collect more interest.”169
The Federal Reserve Act was signed at 6:02 pm on December 23, 1913, the legislation had been very careful not to use the term ‘central bank’.170 The Federal Reserve was expected to mitigate financial panics and bank runs to protect the economy as a lender of last resort.171
The Federal Reserve Act was signed at 6:02 pm on December 23, 1913, the legislation had been very careful not to use the term ‘central bank’.170 The Federal Reserve was expected to mitigate financial panics and bank runs to protect the economy as a lender of last resort.171
The transiting opposition of Mercury at 13 Sagittarius and transiting Saturn at 13 Gemini aspected the Constitution Chiron at 13 Gemini as the transiting Chiron at 10 Pisces opposed Mercury at 11 Virgo when Congress gave its power of monetary control and valuation to a board of bankers.
The double whammy of Mercury commerce would be vulnerable to economic warfare with Chiron. The Sun at 01 Capricorn opposed the transiting Pluto at 00 Cancer 05 to aspect the Constitution North Node at 01 Capricorn and Mars at 03 Cancer. Transiting Lilith of betrayal at 16 Aries and transiting Mars at 19 Cancer aspected the Constitution Neptune at 17 Libra.
Banking on Pain
Later revelations would confirm Congressman Lindbergh’s Federal Reserve predictions. After a period of currency and credit expansion, the ‘A’ directors of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks would hold a secret meeting on May 18, 1920, in Washington, D.C. The rediscount rates, which had previously stayed around 2% per annum, suddenly jumped to 4, then to 6, to 8 or 9 with call rates up around 20% that brought a wave of calling and loan cancelations. Scores of businesses failed with thousands of farms lost.172 The secret meeting occurred on the day a Solar eclipse at 27 Taurus opposed the Saturn-Uranus cycle at 27 Scorpio as dispositor Venus at 14 Taurus opposed the Lunar eclipse at 12 Scorpio two weeks earlier. Saturn of limitations was stationary at a critical 04 Virgo in a fifty-nine-year return to the Confederate Congress passage of a bill recognizing the existence of war with the United States.173 The return echoed the theme of war.
The Solar eclipse opposed the Federal Ascendant at 27 Scorpio in square to the Federal Mars at 28 Aquarius as the emphasized Mars at 22 Libra was conjunct the 22 Libra Neptune of intrigue. Stationary Saturn at 04 Virgo square the transiting Uranus at 05 Pisces aspected the Moon at 04 Gemini to affect the public at large.
The Solar eclipse was conjunct the Sun of the NYSE at 27 Taurus that had been established 128 years earlier. Mars at 22 Libra was conjunct the NYSE Jupiter at 22 Libra with major consequences.174
The plans that began a decade earlier at Jekyll Island had the Solar eclipse at 27 Taurus in opposition to the Sun and Venus as Mars of action at 22 Libra squared the Jekyll Island Uranus at 22 Capricorn and Neptune at 21 Cancer.
The excess production and reduced foreign market brought a severe agricultural depression in 1921 as the Venus retrograde at 10 Taurus was square the Jupiter-Neptune cycle at 10 Leo of expansion and illusions.
Eight years later in 1929 the next stationary Venus aspected the cycle again to prolong the downturn.175 The stationary Venus retrograde in 1906 had also aspected the Jupiter-Neptune cycle when the railroad financiers were in trouble.
A Federal Reserve board member would later admit before Congress that they were responsible for the expansive credit in 1927 and 1928 followed by the contraction in 1929, that affected the stock market.
159. “Newspaper Opinions on Mr. Hearst Defeat; People Won’t Stand Corporate Corruption,” New York Times, November 7, 1906, 6; “May Be Big Strike On The Erie System,” The Sunday Star, November 11, 1906, 1; “Financier Warns The Government Against Policy,” Washington (DC) Herald, November 11, 1906, 1.
160. “Indicted for Forgery,” New York Tribune, December 29, 1906, 1; “How Railroads Increase Profits,” Washington Evening Star, January 5, 1907, 1.
161. “Trust Makers Arraigned by the Cardinal,” Washington Times, December 30, 1906, 1.
162. “Morgan’s Hasty Trip,” Washington Evening Star, March 12, 1907, 1; “Railways About Face,” Washington Evening Star, March 12, 1907, 1.
163. Ellis W. Tallman and Jon R. Moen, “Lessons from the Panic of 1907,” Economic Review Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 75, no. 3 (1990): 2-12; Robert Bruner and Sean Carr, The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm, (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2007), 47, 83.
164. William R. Nester, Theodore Roosevelt and the Art of American Power: An American for All Time, (New York: Lexington Books, 2019), 144.
165. William G. Dewald, “The National Monetary Commission: A Look Back,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 4, no. 4 (1972): 930-956.
166. Charles Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster’s Guide to American History, 361.
167. Nomi Prins, All The Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power, (New York: Nation Books, 2014), 23-34; Murray N. Rothbard, A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II, (Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2002), 239-254; “GREAT GROUP TAKES THE NEW BONDS: Rothschild, Baring Bros., Kuhn, Loeb and Co. Buy $40,000,000 Pennsylvania Issue. SHARP RISE IN THE PRICE Significance of New Banking Connections Abroad—Way Paved for Same Bankers Taking Other Issues,” New York Times, April 23, 1908, 2.
168. Arsene Pujo, Report of The Committee Appointed Pursuant to House Resolutions 429 and 504 to Investigate the Concentration of Control of Money and Credit, 62nd Congress 3rd Session, Report No. 1593 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1913) 13,130-133.
169. Congressional Record, 63rd Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 51, (1913) 1446-1447; Fernand J. St. Germain, Hearings Before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs House of Representatives, 97th Congress 1st Session Part 1, Serial No. 97-26, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1981), 127.
170. “Affixes His Signature at 6:02 pm, Using Four Gold Pens,” New York Times, December 24, 1913, 1.
171. Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 668-669.
172. Congressional Record, 77th Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, Volume 87 Part 13, A4263.
173. “The Southern Congress,” Washington Evening Star, May 9, 1861, 2.
174. Nicholas Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, 423. May 17, 1792 New York, NY 12:00 pm unknown time.
175. Paul Boyer editor, The Oxford Companion to United States History, 20-21.