Bipolar America

Sunday's NY Times book review section reviewed 3 books that speak to the polarization in current American politics.  The Republicans are in the process of choosing a candidate, moderate or conservative? The thrust of the thinking is that our future depends on which person wins the election in November, that that person will make  a difference, and to some extent it does make a difference;  but there is another consideration that also must be taken into account.

The moment the incumbent takes the oath of office is a moment in time, unique as any other, and foretells the course of events in that administration for the next 4 years. Whether it is Obama or the current Republican front runner Romney, the next president will be greeted with affairs conditioning forward from the moment he says "I do".  The planets are in one position at noon on the 20th and keep moving to create new geometric patterns to each other. As they do so "stuff happens".  I will give you 2 examples.

As you may recall in Obama's swearing in-he and Chief Justice John Roberts messed things up and the swearing in was redone the next day.  The moon at noon on the 20th was 29 degrees and 45 minutes of Scorpio and termed "void of course" where it is making no more geometric relationships to other planets before moving in to the next sign. When we do things during these times, which occur for varying lengths of time, we often have to do things over, or those events do not have the intended outcomes.

On May 2nd last year Osama bin Laden was killed by a special forces unit commanded by President Obama, a signature moment for this administration, which we should see following on from the moment he took office. In the chart for the 1st oath, Mercury, the planet symbolizing the messenger, the Midheaven- public recognition and the Sun-the leader or goal of the administration were moving into a exact conjunction with the planet of luck and success, Jupiter.  On May 2nd this progression had moved to within 30 minutes to lucky Jupiter.  (Only the MC and the Sun made it-Mercury was moving backwards in the zodiac-and ran into the progressed Moon for the 2nd of May-part of the story).

Venus, the planet of satisfaction, also had moved to within 2 minutes of the planet of surprises, Uranus.  So pleasant surprises anticipated from the moment the oath was taken occurred with the coming to exactness.   Faster moving planets move towards slower moving ones and marry them for a minute before moving on.  The geometric aspects that are forming are more powerful than those separating and indicate events coming in the future, rather than those that have already occurred.  (One can also see the great polarization that has occurred these last 3 years symbolized by the opposition of the planet of conservatism, Saturn, facing off against the planet of the progressives, Uranus in the oath taking moment in time.)

So back to my original thought, whomever wins the November election has to contend with the moment in time he takes office.  Assuming that moment will be noon on the 20th, and setting up a chart for then we see the Moon in Taurus is  the people, the people's mood, coming quite quickly in time to a 90 degree aspect to Mars the planet of war, anger, energy, violence, aggression, very visible and working 100%. The Moon likes to be in Taurus so the public's values are noble but the move into Mars indicates action of some sort.     Instead of having the Sun, the leader, surrounded by the MC, Mercury, Jupiter, the North Node, which affords a great deal of protection, as we have in the 2009 Inauguration chart, we have an angry populace,  the South Node which symbolizes a letting go or sacrifice and the planet of success and protection, Jupiter, very weak.

There are other factors coming into play here in 2012 which we have spoken of before and will again.  But at this stage in our evolution it is wrong to think that we will have a knight in shining armor come and rescue us.  The man who becomes president in 2013 will have to contend with the destiny of the United States.  There is a change of consciousness taking place, here and all over the planet, although you will not see it if you are not looking for it.  (4 million Americans doing yoga in 2000, 20 million in 2007-NY Times).  As Sai Baba says:
Each thought, each emotion, each new awakening of a human being towards the consciousness of God elevates the vibration of the planet. This might seem a paradox, due to the fact that the majority sees around themselves more hatred and misery, but this is not so.