More Evidence a Month Later

Writing this Thanksgiving Sunday, a month after my last blog, I am noticing all the mounting evidence for this last gasp of Neptune's passage through the end of Aquarius, that we discussed (see previous blog).  "Occupy Wall Street" has become "Occupy Everywhere".  The Nation Magazine and the New School held a forum with that title November 10th.  The "Occupy Everywhere" panel was about the next steps and the continuing possibilities in the movement against corporate power.  When people criticize the movement and do not see it as successful, as the occupiers made no demands, they are missing the point. 

The movement is surprisingly successful only to those not following the astrological trends; spreading all over the country in small cities like Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Nevada City, California where 400 people showed up at each place at a moments notice to the small cities in Greece where local occupy movements can address specific needs.  The movement doesn't need one location, it is spreading all over the world like fire because it is part of the zeitgeist and has struck a chord that is resonating everywhere. 

There is an Occupy Harlem movement for helping people not have their heat shut off, an Occupy Bronx movement to help people not get evicted from their homes;  there is talk of Occupy the Food Movement to bring attention to the corporate takeover of our food supply and  Occupy Roof movement to highlight the importance of solar energy.  It can happen anywhere at any time. As was said at this forum, "they have permission to be their own leader".  This is the essence of  Aquarian ideals -everybody and nobody is in charge.  It is the "people" who rule in direct democracy just as these occupiers are demonstrating. 

Any movement's goal is to shift public will by changing the conversation. The Occupy Wall Street movement has done just that by changing the media focus.  A month ago the news reports  were all about raising the debt ceiling for the 103rd time.  Today on the front page of the NYTimes was a investgative piece on Ronald Lauder, heir to his mother's cosmetic company, worth $3.1 billion. Lauder hides all his assets in tax shelters, foundations and tax avoiding schemes that are only available to the very rich.  "There's real truth that the taxcode for the 1% is different from the tax code for the 99%", says Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the U of Colorado.  Now instead of the debt ceiling distraction conversation, you hear stories about economic equality, the conversation has changed; inequality the 1% vs 99% -the real issue has taken center stage. 

Why now?  The Moon in a country's natal chart describes the public and its mood.  In the July 4th 1776 chart for the USA the Moon was at 27 degrees of Aquarius. We are a people that have a real sense of the brotherhood of man, as the founding fathers said and promised,"where all men are created equal". The planet Neptune has been sitting on top of our Moon since April 2009, symbolically bringing clouds and fog over us all and obscurring our core issues.  Apathy, despair and a sense of  loss (real too) are associated with Neptune's passage.  The Moon symbolizes your home, so we have been suffering from a loss of our homes and our Aquarian values. 

When Neptune began its forward motion as we view it in relation to the Sun in the beginning of November, it began to leave the Moon and so just as the fog lifts to reveal  what was there all the time but we could not see it, so in Neptune's moving on from our Moon,  the American people come out of the doldrums, and our core need  for economic and social equality comes to the forefront.  How often is it said that you never really know how much you value something until you lose it. 

One can also attribute the White House's decision made November 10th to delay the determination on whether to build the Keystone XL pipeline to the Occupy Movement.  Although this civil disobedience action started demonstrating  in Washington in August, it spread as rapidly as the Occupy movement.  The TransCanada company has already been working on permits for two years and it was wildly regarded as a shoe-in for the next ok. But in a surprise move, President Obama delayed it.  During his cross country jobs tour in September and October, he was confronted by hundreds of signs reminding him of his campaign pledge to "be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil". The people began waking up to the collossal environmental disaster that pipeline would be.  It is not only a question of economic inequality but the collusion between the government and corporate interests that the current system fosters to the detriment of the common people.

Slowly but surely we are seeing a cultural shift happening, here and all over the world.  Who would have thought that Mayor Bloomberg would let the occupiers stay there for 2 months? How many heads of state have been replaced this year?  I mowed the lawn this Thanksgiving weekend and took some pink roses from the garden to sit beside the Indian corn on the table.  Movements, uprisings, demonstrations, revolutions and occupys can happen very quickly thanks to the technology.  Masses of people come together. This is what Aquarius is all about-social and economic parity.  Ideas are becoming the new commodity.  You do not need demands when you have a movement with an idea whose time has come.