Willie (47 page)

The farm bill would raise the price of the farmer's product thirty
percent. It would cost the consumers three or four percent. The guy in the middle would pick up the difference, but since he's the one making all the money, he can afford it. It would also call for a moratorium on foreclosures and for restructuring the loans.

After three concerts, Farm Aid is a year-round operation that has spent millions helping farmers with legal aid or direct payments or whatever we can do.

Even though I'm not kidding myself that Farm Aid can bail out all the farmers who are in need, we have proven that a little creative imagination can bring forth dramatic results. Visualization leads to action and accomplishment.

We create our own misery and unhappiness. Our creative imagination tells us to get on the ball and use the higher mind to create positive conditions. The purpose of suffering is to make us understand we are the ones who cause it. The possibilities live within each of us. “Let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus,” is how St. Paul put it.

The world won't be changed by treaties or summit meetings. Physical conditions can't change until our minds change. The sum total of the power of all the thoughts of all the people in the world is what will change physical conditions.

After Jesus was baptized as the Christ by John the Baptist, Jesus was faced with three temptations. He could use his power to accumulate wealth, or he could use it to make a show-business circus out of his self-importance, or he could become the emperor of Rome. Instead he lived with his great power on the spiritual level, which is why we feel his power in our hearts today. The rest of us probably would have fallen for all three temptations—starting right away with the first one, worshipping the Golden Calf.

If you have a lot of money, pretty soon you realize it don't mean anything and that's a big step forward. But I really think that I instinctively knew that to begin with. When I was young they called me irresponsible because I didn't know the value of the dollar. Now that I have money and I still don't know the value of the dollar, they call me something else.

Money is energy. That's what true capitalism is all about. Money is energy that should be used for the good. Just think for a moment how much good could be done for our people with the billions our military blows on showing off in places like Grenada or the Persian Gulf. We send five or six destroyers to shoot more than 1,000 high-explosive shells at one Iranian oil platform that is forgotten the next day. For that cost, we could have cared for all the homeless in, say,
Seattle for a year. Instead of wasting all this money energy, why can't we apply it to our real problems.

There are people who have evolved higher than we are. Believe it or not, there are smarter people in the world than us.

They are the Masters, and they're out there walking among us now, going about their business, not interfering. A Master wouldn't necessarily be a holy man wandering down the road with robes and a cane. He could be the guy on the telephone pole fixing the wires, or the guy driving the cab. There are all sorts of Masters. Potentially we are all Masters. Jesus and Elijah and Moses and you and me—we all come from the same source.

Meanwhile I am just a troubadour going down the road, learning my lessons in this life so I will know better next time. In the field of love, some say I have loved too many people at the same time. They get confused and don't understand that love is what I live on.

Reading by Diane Eichenbaum, 1987

Willie is a Taurus with an Aquarius rising and a Cancer moon. Taurus rules the throat.

He has Venus the ruler right next to his Sun, so that even enhances the throat, the voice, and it's in the third house which is the house of communication. He is a born communicator. Taurus is the artist sign. It is a very grounded Earth sign. It has to do with primal instincts. Taurus people like to be safe. They like to be close to Earth and so their heart and soul really have a kind of magnetic quality. The Taurus has to do with Texas and cowboys and all that sort of thing. Parts of Texas are ruled by Taurus so it is apropos that he lives here. I always call Taurus people the princess and the pea because they are too sensitive to their environment, and Taurus men have a problem with that because they don't want to deal with it. So they will be in a family situation and they will have a lot of anxiety because they are picking up psychically on what is going on around them and they almost have to close their mind to it. They actually need a lot of space and when they learn how to accept that part of their nature as a positive then it becomes a very nurturing quality. But they have to learn how to take care of themselves.

Willie's chart starts separating a little bit because he has an Aquarian energy, which is a totally different kind. Aquarius is the eleventh house, Taurus is the second house. Willie is a Taurus in the Gemini
house, which is the primitive need to communicate through the mouth. Then we go all the way around to the eleventh house for his rising sun. The ascendant has a lot to do with how he projects himself to the world. Taurus is instinctive. Aquarius is abstract thinking, extremely creative and mental.

There are several things in Willie's chart that say that he is very intelligent, learns quickly, has almost a photographic memory. He is a quick study. Aquarius is a sign that is hard to know. They like distance, they like their space, and I would say that Aquarius people sometimes can't say what they mean. So he had to learn ways to get around that. At this period of his life he would be more comfortable with these two signs and they would be blended more comfortably for him, but in his early life there would have been a conflict. Aquarius is eccentric, nonconforming. Taurus is conformed. Taurus is very family minded, say let's be like my family, but Aquarius says I can't be like my family. There is the inner conflict. Aquarius is an energy that has to do with electronics, so there we go with the singing and the guitar and all that.

He has the planet Saturn in his first house. Saturn has to do with responsibility, it makes him more conservative and more private. Actually, psychologically, it could be somewhat repressed and Saturn in his chart squares his Sun and Venus so this says that no one ever helped him, he felt isolated, and that he had to take care of himself always, even as a boy. That pressure made him creative so in his chart there is a real longing to be integrated with friends and people and a real hunger for that. It has been one of his biggest lessons. Also, he doesn't want anyone to tell him what to do.

His moon is in Cancer. The moon rules Cancer. It is very strong in that sign, very intuitive. Cancer is the sign of the mother and when a man has strong Cancerian traits, it says he is extremely psychic and sensitive. So you have got the Cancer, sensitive moon, the Taurus on a primitive, emotional, creative person, and the Aquarius ascendant. That is the conflict of the chart. There would be a strong, emotional tie to the mother, and sometimes that is almost too much, to have your moon in Cancer. Also, he has a real love of women. A moon in Cancer loves women, and looks for a strong woman, who has nurturing, motherly qualities, but it could be a woman who is an authority, and he would have conflict with it. Willie has had a lot to work out with the women in his life. He would have to be married more than once. There is a kind of desire for fuel, something has to be happening all the time. Looking at his chart, we
see compulsive energy. Like if you get tired, you can't stop. Now that moon aspect squares his money out so it says that he has conflicts with his money house.

He would be a person who would attract money. Taurus people do. The planet Jupiter, good luck, has moved into his money house this year. He has got a big enterprise and it takes a lot to keep it going. It is something that he likes, and yet it can run him, and he sometimes doesn't know how to get out of that. He loves his home and he wants his home, but it is like he wants to have his cake and eat it too. A lot of Taurus people are like that. It is almost an adolescent attitude.

Willie was born old, he is a very old soul, but his child in his personality is the creative part. It can still run him and get him into trouble. This is something he is learning. How to be adult without being negative, how to combine the adult with the child. He is getting to the age that he is more likely to do that, and actually he will be younger as he gets older.

The chart shows that he would have a large family. He is two people. He is a down-home family man. And then he has got another side of him that comes like an alter ego, it has made his life exciting, but sometimes with a lot of conflict. He is under an aspect today that says he is going through an emotional change, and it is on his fifty-fourth birthday. The planet Pluto takes 250 years to go around the chart. Consequently it only moves about a third of a person's chart, so this aspect has never been here before. Pluto is opposing his sign in Venus and when you get Pluto in contact with your personal planet it causes an emotional deepening. In some ways, it could be like a purge because it forces you to deal with your own feelings and because he is such a deep, emotional person with a Taurus energy, this might not be easy. But he is going to have a major emotional change in the next year and a half. This is very positive. It is changing his attitude about himself and certain areas of his life. It is like an opening up spiritually, and psychologically. He is going to go through a very productive, creative period in his music. He writes all the time, so this is a very profound aspect. He is understanding his place in the universe and not trying to control everything, going with the flow. He attracts some very positive work situations again.

His values change. This is spiritual. He is more willing to be with himself and easier to communicate and explain himself to others on a personal basis. But it comes through as something creative in his work. He is almost religious, a very spiritual person. He probably had a very conservative, religious upbringing. This would have meaning
for him now not in the same way he was taught, but in other ways. This has just started this year, and he will be feeling it.

Out of ten planets, he has five in Earth. Earth people are practical. They want to look at things realistically. Actually, it is too much Earth, it is a little negative. When he was younger, he was so secretive and he tried to be so adult and grown, he didn't learn ways to process his information sometimes and he would be too heavy and maybe too profound. A lot of Earth people have to watch out for depression. He doesn't have the aspects that say it would be a chronic, terrible depression, but there is a tendency to be heavy or worry about things. When you have that much Earth and you have out of ten planets, seven of them in feminine signs, you are what is called a magnetic person. Generally, men are dynamic, or they are supposed to be. Dynamic energy being going out into the world and linear thinking, and objective pioneering and all this sort of thing. His best energy is magnetism. He is the type that all he really has to do is know what he wants and set it in motion and it comes to him.

He is a born psychic. He has been psychic since he was a boy. He would know what it is, he understands it. It is more of an instinctive, Earth-type psychic, but he also has the ability to be clairvoyant and see pictures. It really has to do with being able to tap into the universal consciousness, the spiritual aspect, the unconditional love. That psychic, creative aspect is being set off right now. Neptune is in his marriage house so he would not know who he was marrying. He would think he did, but he didn't. He would see them the way he wanted to. With his first wife he married someone he loved, but he didn't know her totally and it wouldn't work.

But he has three planets in his marriage house and he has Jupiter in there, and Jupiter says he will marry until he gets it right. The second marriage would be maybe worse than the first, and there would be no real understanding and no real depth.

The eleventh house, which is the present marriage, is the house of friends. Taurus really likes passionate love affairs, but Aquarius likes relationships that are like buddies. So, whoever was pulled in on this pattern has a more easygoing nature than the person he had married before. She doesn't have to be in control. The other two marriages had control signs.

With his Aquarius rising Willie would be the type of man that always had two relationships. He is two people, he is salt-of-the-earth family man and he is also totally free and always has love lessons, always. Whether this is a divorce aspect or not is hard to tell. It is like his wife's personality changes and moves off into another direction.
If he has another woman in his life his wife may have always thought about not saying anything but she might finally say something. It is like he has a lesson with his love life and what he values. He is going to have that pressure this year and next year. There is a decision about his love life. What does he value? Do the two people get together and make a commitment? He might not be able to. He might not be ready for that sort of thing.