Astroworld

The collective Congress of the United States has a couple of charts to consider. One chart is the original Congress (but there isn’t a lot of difference) April 6, 1789, 12pm in New York, NY. The second was when they made their new home in Washington, DC on November 17, 1800 at 9:00 am; the House and Senate were sworn in together both times. Although the Suns and Moon are different, there are important astrological signs that point to a seamless transition. The Sun in the 1789 chart conjunct the NN in the 1800 chart and transiting Pluto in the 1800 chart is squaring the 1789 Moon indicating an emotional break with the original Congress. For those reasons I feel confident in using the 1800 Washington DC date as the origination of our present day Congress and for the first time in their history, Pluto went over their Ascendant and Venus last year and is resting in the first house.

We know what Pluto in the first house can do to an individual or a country; destruction then change and rebuilding. Venus is in the first house of this chart and conjunct the Ascendant so transiting Pluto hit that point and Venus rules the mid-heaven. The interesting thing about Venus in the 1st house is the tendency to promise more than can be delivered, I would say that covers Congress. Their Mercury is in Sagittarius falling into the 12th, so does the Moon. That entire combination of Moon, Mercury, Venus in Sagittarius, covering the 12th and the 1st, adds up to talk a lot and drop the ball a lot and steeped neck high in hidden agenda’s. Their Scorpio Sun on the 12th house cusp helps them to keep those agenda’s too well hidden. Jupiter is in the 8th and trine the Moon in the 12th, with the Moon ruling the 8th. They are very very adept at taking and using other people’s money (taxes) in fact the people who give that money (us) may grouse and grumble but we gladly give those taxes in the belief we have hired people who know what they are doing and we don’t have to look at the fact we are being robbed blind.

Congress breaks down into fundamentally two very weak parties that seem to serve each other and/or fight each other like fractious children. Progressed Pluto (the control planet) is getting ready to square the natal Moon over the next several months, transiting Uranus was conjunct p-Pluto and square n-Moon last year, signaling to Congress that their illusion of control over the people was going to be challenged and it absolutely will be challenged this next election cycle, with perhaps “the people” losing one more time, or Congress losing their power for this 230 year round. Some would say they already have lost their power. One thing for sure is this election cycle will be an emotional one for all involved in those hallowed halls.

While the cosmic design contains a variety of asteroids, fixed stars, black holes, quasars, and unnamed planets that impact our earthly existence, there are the traditional 10 planets plus Chiron that astrologers track to gain a mathematical picture of people, countries and events there are two planets standing above all the others in reading a chart. Those planets are the Sun and Moon; nothing takes their place in importance.

The Sun is the heart of a chart and the Moon the soul or spirit, what happens to them is the major definition of a person or an entity’s energetic experience of this life. In 1992/1993 transiting Pluto was conjunct the Sun and square Saturn in the chart of the US Congress. Newt Grin rich and the GOP broke the back of Congress, the Democrats and checks and balances in this country. The GOP doesn’t realize it but there was as much damage done to their party, their integrity and their power as to the Democrats with their “New Contract with America.”

You’ll find an interesting phenomena in a progressed chart, with the Sun and Moon; when the progressed Moon conjuncts the progressed Sun, there is a simultaneous ending and new beginning within the psyche of the spirit. The applied conjunction of the Moon to the Sun is the ending; the separating conjunction is the beginning and commencement of a 14 year seeding cycle. When the Moon reaches the opposition, one begins reaping what they have sown. The United States Congress is in their ending cycle with an applied progressed Moon conjunction to the progressed Sun in Gemini. They must begin something new within the next two months. Right now they are floundering and they feel their unstable attempts to bring “their” reality back into focus, but it’s gone. The movement they feel under their feet is the new generation saying “lead, follow, or get out of the way,” and the power struggle for “the people’s” Congress is underway.

This weekend the bloggers held The Yearly Kos in Los Vegas, just as the South Node passed over the Congress Uranus. The South Node over Uranus in a chart is an indication of an event, everyone is aware of the event but they don’t know exactly how to interact or exactly what it means, they are only aware that something unusual has occurred. And something ‘unusual’ did occur this weekend that will have profound and unexpected consequences for our US Congress and for those they are supposed to govern-us.

As for the respective parties and this election, the Democrats will have to stand up and 1) find out what they still believe and 2) stand up and fight for what they believe and 3) demand investigations into election fraud or they are set to lose another election in 2006. We need to help them find their voice.

This was a very difficult article for me to write, it’s mostly a cut and dried astrological article. I’ve looked at the charts of Congress, the US, the Democrat Party, the Republican Party charts. In all astrological charts I do, I look for the spirit of the entity, the country, the event, the person, the spirit in these charts are gone, except in the chart of America and that’s confused. It’s almost been like looking at empty wheels, blank slates. But, blank slates can be written up, the spirit can be revived. We’ve lost our way, our leaders have lost their way and the very fact that we see it indicates we can heal and grow. In 2004 it was Moveon.org that inspired and pushed us forward. Now we have Daily Kos with Marcos and MYDD with Jerome, their prescient book “Crashing the Gate” that is supplying the inspiration to move us forward and give us tools to take control of the destiny of our country, our lives, I don’t know who will be the voices in 2008, but there will be others. In a book by Todd Siler “Think Like a Genius” he talks of “matter, energy and meaning.” In relating to Einstein’s special theory of relativity and Einstein’s belief in matter being frozen energy, but unfrozen, subatomic particles become hugely powerful, like the energy released in a nuclear explosion. I feel this country, and I suspect the rest of the world, is in a suspended state of frozen energy, eventually the right voice, the right message will thaw that energy and the power of it will be felt throughout the earth, beginning first at the sub-atomic level.

With the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Chiron, all traveling the universal signs of Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces we are and will be continually forced to dig deeper and deeper for truth and meaning, including our Congressional leaders and bless their hearts, we’ve grown out of platitudes and rhetoric. The planets in the universal signs pretty much rip away our vanities, our masks, our shallowness. You will see Congress as a whole circle their empty wheel and wagon, and then one by one the brave ones will move into the open with the hands up asking “don’t shoot.” Another year of this incompetence at the top and we will all work together to find a new type of leader. One thing that bends me toward Al Gore or John Edwards is they got out of the beltway and have been living and working with real honest to gosh people, and have had the opportunity to do a little self-examination. Those on the “inside beltway” and that includes media, corporate lobbyists, and politicians have finally gotten what they wanted, nearly complete isolation from the people. Now they have their own private Alcatraz in Washington.

The Full Moon in Sagittarius and Gemini eclipsed the progressed Sun in the Congress 1st Sitting chart, they will have to make changes and find their spirit once again because they've been shut out. The game is up for them and their "sting operation" is all but over - oh happy day.

I do have a little suggestion to help us all find those leaders; begin looking at yourself and others as having color, bright vibrant colors and define your own personal universe.