January is named for Janus, the two-faced Roman God, looking both into the past and into the future. He is the god of beginnings, transitions, gates, doorways, endings and time. Our President certainly evoked Janus in his Inaugural address Monday by looking backwards to the Constitution's tenet "that all of us are created equal" and with his historical references to the progress we have made on social issues; and by looking forward to the work that still has to be done so that that phrase has meaning for gays, blacks, women, immigrants and all Americans, regardless of economic status. Civil rights in our founders time merely meant white land owning males. In the 21st Century it has to mean more. Why is this?
The dawning of the Age of Aquarius-some say it lasts 325, others 1,000 years. We are undoubtedly in it now as evidenced by the Presidents's speech and his redefinition of the words in the Constitution to include ALL the people. The dawning (few can agree as to the dates) might have begun around the time of the last Neptune and Pluto conjunction in the late summer and Fall of 1891 and Spring of 1892. These planetary cycles conjunctions occur once every 490 years and initiate huge political, social, cultural shifts.
If you take the meaning of the planets individually, Neptune is our faith in the Divine, the unseen, the unfathomable, the boundless, the longing for an idealistic world and Pluto is power shifts that slowly but irrevocably undermine the old way of doing things, we get a sense in this time period that human consciousness must be morphing into a more permeable state. With this might come an understanding that our supposed classifications, our arbitrary distinctions of gender, religion, creed, faith, color of skin, social class, ethnicity, geographic boundary, sense of separateness, individualism and narcissism do not actually exist.
In redefining for the 21st Century what "all of us are created equal" ideally means President Obama is paying heed to his innate Aquarian ideals, having that sign rising on the eastern horizon in his birth chart and which sign the Moon, representing the people, is in in the US birth chart. Those of us who have Aquarius in our natal chart-be it on the ascendant, as did Washington, Adams and Monroe and President Obama does,or whose Sun is there, Lincoln and FDR, (Jefferson had Sun connected to Uranus-a similiar dynamic) are humanitarians.
Aquarius is an air sign so connected with truth, knowledge,and communication to groups of people. The water carrier is a man, the only human zodiacal sign, spilling water out of the bucket to reach as many people as possible. Altruistic, with a strong sense of First Principles, they investigate, coordinate, synthesize, plan and reform. They can be unconventional, inventive, intellectual, detached and individualistic, but are there to support groups. There are some Aquarians who look backwards to Capricorn and therefore are more conservative, while others who look more forward to the next sign of the zodiac, Pisces, where understanding and sympathy reign. January, Janus' month, includes the beginning of Aquarius which began last Saturday the 19th at 4:52 PM EST.
Our Constitution dictates that the Presidential Inauguration always occurs on January 20th at noon, therefore always with the Sun in Aquarius. This year there were 2 oath takings as the 20th fell on a Sunday. This is interesting for cycles scientists or astrologers as we have 2 charts to look at to foretell what Obama's 2nd term will encounter when. Actually we can only guess at how the symbolism might play out, but we have a good suspicion of when. The Sunday chart is alot more heated than Monday's chart for the inception of the new term, as the Moon has left Taurus and its contact to a very prominent Mars and moved into Gemini which is about to meet Jupiter in Gemini and was very close to Obama's Moon during his Inaugural Address (which happens once a month).
The President was on his game on Monday with his speech defining not so much the specifics, but the forwarding looking philosophy behind his second term. As David Brooks said in his op-ed piece in the NYT yesterday, Tuesday the 22nd, President Obama made a case for a "pragmatic" and"patriotic progressivism". Patriotic progressivism sounds to me very much like our January god Janus, looking backwards and forwards at the same time. Go Aquarius- you humanitarian where the rights and dignity of all are respected equally.
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