Robert S. McNamara and the hubris of logic

Today's #pmtarot card is the King of Swords reversed.

The Swords cut. Logic without compassion can be very cutting indeed. And in the words of one wise woman friend of mine, "you can have all of the information and do all of the analysis and still miss the boat."

Perhaps it is appropriate that intellectual wunderkind and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara died this morning. He and his staff elevated the rule of logic to grand heights. And yet, as we know too well, his handling of the Vietnam war was a failure causing the deaths and suffering of many.

It is a lesson best heeded by our current president whose administration was handpicked from the "the best and the brightest."

Astrological conditions suggest a curbing of hubris might be in order. We are in the eve of a powerful lunar eclipse in the signs of Capricorn and Cancer suggesting that some secrets about the established order are about to be revealed. Watch the headlines.

And Mars is squaring the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction: excessive and ill-considered action. But we can also use these conditions as an opportunity to open up to a higher spirit.