October 8th, 2002
Sally Cheyne McDonald
It must be in the water in Washington, D.C., bottled insanity.
As a reminder, the Astrological Chart of America represents the people as a collective, what they want and how they feel. Through that chart an astrologer can see what the collective mood of the people might be, whom they might choose as their leaders, and when they might change their mind. Mercury (what’s on our mind) in the US chart is in a stress aspect to GWB Midheaven. The US Mercury understands things differently than Mr. Bush, in spite of some balanced aspects between the country and the man. As our country moves through the years, we change, and that’s called “progressions.” Not only have we progressed our Sun to the Moon (the people) in Aquarius, but our Mercury has progressed to that point as well. Aquarius has humanitarian ideals for the individual and the collective, and we want our leaders to reflect that change. We intend to be heard, we intend to be respected and we intend not to be marginalized, we also intend to give our leaders the benefit of the doubt. Our President and many of our Representatives have not lived with “the people.” Not lived with the teeming masses, and their job seemingly cuts them off from those masses. It is the masses that are on the brink of raising their voices so they may be heard, and our politicians and Wall Street and Corporations have just about used up their “benefits of a doubt.”
What a year, what a month, what a week, and the wheel keeps on spinning. Let me recap the highlights. “The Torch” Torricelli of New Jersey resigned his chance at the Senate (for good reasons, he’s a crook) and the Republicans cried foul. The New Jersey Supreme Court said the state could put in another candidate and that gentleman is leading by 10 points in just one day of being placed on the ballot. This doesn’t look good for Mr. Forrester the Republican candidate but who knows. Mr. Forrester is taking it to the US Supreme Court and that body has developed an odd habit of over turning state election laws and the fight toward a conservative court increases over the next two years.
Down there, way down there, in Florida, Jeb Bush put his foot (size 21 and a half) in his mouth and the whole world heard him explaining a “devious” plan to get around a Florida law, by doing so, he managed to anger the Department of Education. He also gave a homophobic shot at some women involved in the case of a missing child, the women seem to be sisters but Jeb decided they were lesbians. It doesn’t matter if they are or not, it was a slap at gays in Florida, and elsewhere.
Not to be outdone, Mr. Perle of the White House suggested Mr. Schroeder, the Democratically Elected Prime Minister of Germany; step down because he disagreed with our President’s war on Iraq. And our President, himself, humiliated our only solid ally support on Iraq, Tony Blair by vetoing Mr. Blair’s peace talks between Israel and Palestine. Peace talks that our own Secretary of State, Colin Powell, supports.
There are anti-war demonstrations all over the country, growing by the thousands. And a CBS/NYT Poll tells us that two out of every three Americans don’t want this War, we, the people, are more concerned about an economy that has fallen to its worst level in over 10 years. Plus we don’t have firm support from any country in the world, but the troops on the Hill keep insisting we will have War, like it or not. They make these absolute statements four weeks away from Election Day when those same people will be voting them in or out.
Have our leaders succumbed to a mysterious illness causing insanity, and are we just slowly realizing it, or are we a willing enabler to this insanity, spurred on by fear.
The real culprit of this dissembling is of course Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto with a few minor players on the field, rounding out a call to America for a revolution of standing up and being counted. Taking them in order, this weekend we had a New Moon at 13 degrees Libra, squaring the US Sun, GWB’s Sun and the Republican Party’s Sun. Not to mention that this New Moon conjuncts the US Saturn, while transiting Saturn has begun its station just 2 degrees away from the Midheaven, which is the indicator of our leaders in America. This station should give us a good idea of what’s to come when it’s springtime in America. The New Moon in America’s tenth house of reputation points up the serious disrepute our political leaders have fallen, both at home and abroad. A New Moon in Libra is demanding balance in our world standing, the question becomes “can it be provided?” This coming month will give us an open look at our determination to control at all costs, and leading the charge will be our President and the Republican Party, while the people will actually fear this obvious push toward world domination. Saturn rules control through fear, bullying, supremacy, the government, and a determination to succeed at all costs. Our leaders will be affected by this New Moon period right up to the election.
There is a serious disconnect between our politicians and the American public. Uranus is keeping the people moving toward change as it makes its final turn toward the US Moon and progressed Sun, while the Washington Politicians of both parties seem steeped in fear and caution. When Election Day falls and transiting Moon squares the Uranus/Moon/Sun connection, the people will have a few surprises in store for these leaders who would rule. The people (Moon and Mars, ruler of the 4th) will begin the process of voting for “politics as usual.” In the Solar Arc progressed chart of America, no fewer than four planets are in Aquarius, including the Sun, Venus, Mars and Jupiter, at a very deep level of our collective unconscious we want a win/win for all. Other Than Republicans, Few in N.J. Feel Outraged (washingtonpost.com)
Neptune, while it has moved off the US Karmic South Node, it is still affecting our President and Vice President, covering them with illusions of grandeur, and most importantly the illusion that this vast country of ours, with its vast diversity can be controlled, compelled, coerced into seeing and doing things the way they determine is best. America will make up her own mind this year as well as 2004. On Election Day, the energy of Mercury will be in a stress aspect to Neptune, creating, once again an election of confusion and deceit, at least the attempt will be made.
Mr. Bush may have one or two successes through October into November, but those successes will be for him alone and will not quell the rising anger the people are beginning to feel over not being heard and we are beginning to place the blame for being shut out directly at his feet and the feet of our congressional representatives. Those who vote for a unilateral position in America will eventually lose that fight, as Americans want, really want, to get along with the other inhabitants on this earth through peace.
When the United States was at war with Mexico, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay taxes for a war he considered unjust and he went to jail. His friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, while visiting his friend said “Henry what are you doing in here? No Ralph the question is “what are you doing out there.”