Tony Blair is reported to have said at a 2001 Labour Party Conference "the kaleidoscope has been shaken, and the pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order the world."
A broken kaleidoscope is a perfect metaphor for what we have experienced and continue to experience since September 2001. Instead of beautiful beads of color shifting into a perfect pattern we have broken shards of glass slashing and cutting through the world and leaving all bleeding, fearing we will bleed to death.
In 2001 Pluto and Saturn broke the fragile cylinder containing the colorful pieces and Tony Blair and George Bush threw the pieces to the wind leaving the world to try and gather them up and try to put them back into some kind of safe pattern. In just a few weeks, Saturn will be opposing Neptune and perhaps blowing the "sands" of confusion away over this next year.
The March 19th partial Solar Eclipse with an emphasis on frustration and violence, gives a glimpse of what we can expect with the coming Saturn/Neptune opposition in June. Transiting Mars and the Moon set off that March Eclipse at 28 Pisces just this last weekend. While many of us had a happy mother's day, many of us did not. Violence rose between Pakistan and Afghanistan. More violence in Iraq with over 4,000 troops looking for the missing soldiers, now what do you think those over stretched and angry American troops are going to do to Iraqi's while they are searching?
Uranus at 17/18 degrees Pisces (the middle degrees of any sign are critical degrees) and Uranus here opposes the Uranus/Pluto conjunction of the 60's so a revisit of that time can be expected, including potential environmental accidents and a rise of a strong peace movement. After the death of JFK, Martin Luther King and RFK plus Vietnam people were really angry and that anger kept rising. It's obvious that today the anger toward this war and gas hikes is building. The September 2006 eclipse at 29 Virgo and March 19th Eclipse has roots in 1970 and 1971. These are key dates for Watergate, violence around Vietnam, Kent State and right on queue the Kent State shootings are being revisited and peace activitism is on the rise.
The Saturn/Neptune opposition will fall across GWB's Venus and bring a 2nd Saturn squaring her Mercury to Hillary, giving rise to personal scandals, slips of the tongue, mistaking the mood of the country. And what about the country and the rest of the world? The countries to watch over the next few years will be Turkey, France, UK, Mexico, China and of course the USA, unrest will rise and fall like the rhythm of a drum beat.
Saturn/Neptune will give rise to oil and gas (we are seeing that) paranoia regarding Iran (and the GOP will tap into that) xenophobia against world trade
and a backlash against immigration with violence breaking out across the world as immigrants pour across the borders of other countries. The recent election in France with Sarkozy the winner indicates the mood of that country against France's immigration policies and Sarkozy will come down on the immigrants with a heavy hand.
The good news is this administration will fail to achieve their "wildest dreams" but what they have achieved is still problematic for the US and they will continue to try and impose dictatorial controls and it will take an ever vigilant nation to stop them. I look at this administration and Congress (both parties) and think "who are these people and how did they get to be a country within a country?" They are living up there in Washington as a dictatorship within what is supposed to be a democracy.
We've been a delusional nation; believing ourselves to be the best of everything. We believed we had the best health care, the best military, the richest, the strongest, the most blessed and we allowed a delusional President to stay in office. While we are awakening to the reality of this so called democracy we can only hope our leaders will take the opportunity of Saturn/Neptune to do the same.
The next several weeks will be interesting to say the least. Next week finds Mars, transiting the US 4th House and squaring the US Venus and Jupiter (Venus rules the 6th house of the Military) it then goes on to square the US Sun (and GWB's) then on to Mercury in June; count on unrest in our country. When Mars reaches the zenith (midheaven) in GWB's chart in mid June, squares his Saturn at the exact time Saturn opposes a retrograde Neptune (on his Venus) this will be a gift he wouldn't want that keeps on giving to this administration. If there was ever a stripping of the facade astro aspects, this is it. I hope in this administration's wounding they don't lash out toward war with Iran, everyone will lose if they do.
As for politics, right now there are approximately 20 candidates from both parties running and several more chomping at the bits to step in to the melee and after the fall of 2007 this campaign will get ugly. Get your popcorn out. I don't think we will be happy with anyone who is elected or trust anyone, the country is in such a mess and no one can resolve it in four or even eight years.
The ball of twine set in motion over 200 years ago is unraveling back toward the nugget of gold envisioned in 1776 and that will take time and effort and patience.
I personally love kaleidoscopes and entertained myself for hours as a child, turning the cylinder over and over watching the infinite possibilities of beauty come into view. For now the broken shards of the kaleidoscope keep turning in chaos, but every step, every year brings the world closer and closer to the colors coming together in a rich and lovely pattern with infinite possibilities.