The Circle Game

I was recently reminded of the old Judy Collins song "The Circle Game"

                         And the painted ponies go up and down
                         We are captive in a carousel of time
                         We can't go back we can only look behind to where we've been
                         And go round and round and round in the circle game

Hearing the news about the demise of Bin Laden made me think again about this song. It also  makes the curious mind ask-why this and why now??  Astrology is really good for seeing the pattern in the timing of things. As we mentioned in our last post we talked about the placement of Saturn in the sky being in Libra and that the USA is having its "Saturn return".  We talked then of the nation being in a depressed mood. The placement of Saturn in the natal chart of the US on July 4th 1776 was 14 degrees and 48 minutes.  The position of Saturn today is 11 Libra 48 minutes. 

Saturn is in its retrograde phase, that is from our view point (earth) it is changing its relationship to the Sun. It was at 14 Libra 48 minutes for the first time December 4th, the 2nd time, March 23rd and will again pass that degree August 28th.  The strong effects of the Saturn return will not start passing away until September and not be completely finished until October 2012 when it moves into Scorpio. The US has the Sun (identity) in Cancer (homeland strong) in square (90 degrees) to that natal Saturn.  This gives us the impetus to be the disciplinarian, the defender because Saturn (rules) in Libra (the scales) demands justice.  Saturn only returns to this degree every 30 years. The effects of Saturn's sense of timing is as a laggard.  You do not always feel his effect on the date of exactness but later.  (That is why our Capricorn friends are late bloomers because they are ruled by Saturn).

The tie into September 11th and Bin Laden?  The moment the planes hit the first tower, 8:46 AM, the degree rising on the eastern horizon (we cannot see the stars when the Sun is out but they are there) was you guessed it, 14 Libra 21 minutes.  This is very potent if you remember that every 4 minutes a new degree of a sign rises up on the eastern horizon, because the earth always turning on its axis as well around the Sun. 
Which makes the moment of the Twin Tower attacks part of our collective destiny from our founding in 1776. The points in that chart are sensitive over and over again as they show up years later.  "We are captive in the carousel of time".