Making the assumption that nothing derails Dr. Dean in the next few hours he can become 'The Leader' of the Democratic Party. Times have changed, the stakes have risen, so too the political playing field is no longer controlled by weak spined Beltway insiders that do not speak with the People's Voice.
The Democratic Party transit chart finds Chiron 29 Capricorn 17 inconjunct the DP Ascendent. The DP finds itself re-alligning its self image, redefining itself. The change was forced upon the DP after it died on November 2, 2004 when George Bush was freely "elected" and the DP party pronounced dead by television pundits universally. Ah, but here's the rub, unlike some of their personal philosophies on death, where rebirth isn't on the table, politics plays by universal rules and from death there is rebirth. The DP folks have spent their time gestating, their vast sea of 49 million angry blue folks found their voices in the blogsphere (gotta love Aquarius right now) while pundits reveled in disecting the death throes of the Democratic Party, their attitude served only to further energize the DP base rather than bury it.
As Howard Dean grabs the flying reins of the proverbial wagon before it plunges down yet another cliff lead by those of the Republican Lite Bush Bussed Demoncrats, pro lifers, lets send our children to die in the sands for oil types, a new Democratic Party can emerge. He has the T. Sun in this chart connecting to the n. DP Moon in Aquarius (people of the blogsphere are in big play), with the communication vehicle of Mercury in Aquarius conjunct the Sun and conjuncting the DP n. Pluto, a force for change, destruction and rebirth Howard has power and communication at his finger tips.
Another set of players in this chart bring the T. Neptune head to head in exact opposition to the DP n. Uranus in the DP 12th House which will amplify the loss and chaos that preceeds new birth. Lot's of whiney spinless whimps won't like rocking the boat, scaredy cats.
The transiting Moon (Power to the People!) is in parallel with the DP n. Mars. The new elected leader will have no problem articulating the platform of the Democratic Party. The anger that the roiling blue folks are bringing to the surface as we watch Social Security, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Palestine, off shoring, using torture as the norm, loss of free choice over our bodies, loss of freedom of speech, corrupt press, the raping of our environments, deployment a helter skelter foreign policy based on Charles Manson, on Bush goes day after day as the Republican Corporate Jaugernaut destroys America to rebuild it in its image. The list goes on and is long and ugly. Well this Moon/Mars parallel transit is a very powerful energy, at an all time high energy, as Henry Seltzer calls it, "A very damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" transit time.
Yupper's it going to be an important time in our collective history. It is up to the grass roots, so ya'll wakeup now Winter is near past and our Spring will be upon us, a time of new life.
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