While waiting for the Health Care Bill to pass to record the time, Mary Plumb looks at Sandra Bullock (with a quick nod to Nancy Pelosi).

Robert Blaschke takes a masterful look at the upcoming Jupiter-Saturn oppositions in relationship to the Grand Conjunction of 2000, the two planets’ 800-Year Cycle and its 200-Year Elemental Subcycle. The charts for the U.S. and Israel are included.

Guest blogger Eric Francis reports from this weekend’s NCGR Conference in Cambridge, MA.

Planets “at the bending” are an often underestimated point in a horoscope. Inspired by last week’s transiting Juno square the nodal axis, Mary Plumb finds examples from public life and her personal files.

Following up on Adam Gainsburg’s recent blog, Mary Plumb looks at the Venus-Sun synodic cycle with a few key events from the past few weeks.

Robert Blaschke takes his usual impeccable and detailed look at Tiger Woods and his connection to the US chart in his article An American Scandal: The Astrology of Tiger Woods’ Marital Infidelity.

Mary Plumb looks at the recent tragedy at Fort Hood and the U.S. Sibly chart.

Robert Blaschke writes on Pluto squaring Saturn as it crosses the U.S. Sibly chart Midheaven. He includes a look back to the last triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune in 1945 when a key legislation allowing state law to regulate insurance companies was passed. Congress is now deciding whether to repeal this law.

Mary Plumb discusses Michael Moore’s newest film, Capitalism, A Love Story, which goes to the heart of the economic crisis. Moore’s natal and progressed charts shows his strong connection to the fast approaching Saturn square Pluto.

Mary Plumb looks at the President Obama’s chart – complete with Mars yelling from the floor of Congress and Saturn and Uranus coming around again for a redefinition of the role of government.