The warning drums are beating in Sacramento, California.
Saturn is in Leo now, and will be for another 30 months. As I have already written in earlier articles, it holds an important message for people with significant placements in Leo, especially Sun, Moon or Ascendant. The message - do right or you will get disciplined. It is time when if you have done the right thing in the past you will see rewards now; if you have not, you will feel the Lord of Karma sitting on you.
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a Sun in Leo. He already began having some rather painful and less than meritorious secret past deeds exposed while Saturn was in Cancer. He has a Cancer Ascendant. Now that Saturn is in Leo, it seems he is facing a full-on blast of the message to atone for secretive deeds, to not make secret deals that are in any way unethical or smell of such, and to act in a straight-forward manner. Saturn is delivering the message that ego will no amount of roaring and seeking of the spotlight will win friends and influence people in a positive manner. Across California and the national spotlight people are citing what was a closed door (secretive) plan Schwarzenegger had to discredit teachers, nurses, and firefighters and turn public sentiment against them so he would achieve his financial goals. The plan was exposed and turned against him, with daily commercials featuring actual California teachers, nurses and firefighters at work talking about the plan to blame them for the state's financial woes.
Then it was revealed that he had forged a 5-year/$1 million per year deal with a magazine publisher. He ended the deal but said he is keeping the two years of income he got from it thus far.
Now the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press are reporting a new revelation: about that secret deal and it ties into his race for governor in the recall election of 2003: two women who could have testified about having extramarital affairs and/or connections to him during several years of his marriage to Maria Owens Shriver, were signed to a confidentiality agreement (one for $20,000 and one for $1,000) by American Media, the same company which then offered Schwarzenegger the multi-million dollar publishing deal. This was done on while Saturn was in secretive Cancer, on August 8, 2003, only two days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy.
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A tabloid publisher that was negotiating a business deal with Arnold Schwarzenegger arranged a $20,000 confidentiality agreement with a woman who said she once had a relationship with the actor, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Malibu resident Gigi Goyette signed the deal on Aug. 8, 2003, with American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, Star and other celebrity tabloids. That was two days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy in the recall election against then-Gov. Gray Davis, according to the Times.
Later that year, American Media reached an agreement with Schwarzenegger that made him editor of two of the company's fitness magazines. Schwarzenegger was to be paid at least $1 million a year for five years under the deal. The governor severed his financial relationship with the company last month after conflict-of-interest concerns arose, although he continues to write columns for the magazines.
The Enquirer in 2001 published a cover story about an alleged seven-year sexual relationship between Goyette and Schwarzenegger during his marriage to Maria Shriver. But American Media never sought additional information from her after she signed the confidentiality agreement, Goyette told the newspaper.
The publisher also signed Goyette's friend, Judy Mora, to a similar contract for $1,000, the Times reported.
Goyette, who worked as an extra on Hollywood film and TV productions and acts occasionally in commercials, told the Times she thought the contract would lead to a deal for a book about her life. She said she didn't think American Media would buy the rights to her story but do nothing with it.
"In my mind, it was trying to seal a deal so I wouldn't do the book with anybody else," she told the Times.
American Media referred calls Friday to New York attorney Stuart Zakim, who did not immediately return telephone calls from The Associated Press.
Schwarzenegger spokesman Rob Stutzman told the Times he believed the governor did not know of AMI's deals with the women and denied a link between their confidentiality agreements and the governor's own contract with the media company.
Schwarzenegger is on vacation and unavailable for comment, Stutzman said. On Friday, the governor's staff said it would have no further comment.
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What comment can you make and come off smelling like a rose when Saturn in Leo has taken up long-term residence in your home? It sounds like the message to do the right thing still is wending its way to Sacramento and the Schwarzenegger home and hearth in Los Angeles.
It remains to be seen whether the special election that he has called will take place in November. With three of four ballot questions removed by the state (Saturn restricting and making things smaller in the interests of truly righteous discipline) who knows if it will take place. It will cost millions of dollars that the state could use for other things and some are calling for the one remaining question to be moved to the June 2006 primary election. With Schwarzenegger's reputation sinking dramatically and sitting at new lows in the polls, even members of the Republican Party, his political party, are calling for that move.
Will the call be heard over the loud roaring of a Hummer-sized ego that some would say needs downsizing to a more economical mode of expression?
I can see my grandmother sitting at the kitchen table, rolling flour to make a crust for a homemade peach cobbler and shaking her head while saying "God don't like ugly" and "Well, now, his chickens came home to roost, didn't they?" When it comes to secret deals, extra-marital affairs and coverups, those statements bear some significant truth. Grandmommy told it like it was.
God acts through this universe of ours and we are wisest and most successful when we listen to the message. For now God is speaking through the movement of Saturn in Leo, whether one scoffs at astronomy/astrology or not.
God, through Saturn in Leo, is watching.............
