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America: Down and Out… or The Phoenix?
By wisdom | October 19, 2011
We’re certainly living in interesting times, with Pluto opposing the U.S. planets, and Uranus squaring, and Mars having recently conjuncted, and Saturn having finished squaring (not quite done with our natal Mercury/Fortuna/progressed Node). Challenging is more likely a right word.
We have a weak and possibly corrupt administration; we have people beginning to demonstrate against the system – an opposite thrust from the Tea Party, but just as powerful on the progressive Uranian side; we have schisms in government, in Congress, that have almost paralyzed the country; and we have a stagnant economic picture. Nor does any of this even touch upon foreign affairs in the challenges that are springing up from tyrants with nuclear arms, governments in disarray, with liberation movements in the Arab world, with economic collapse in Europe, and with Israel’s eternal struggle for survival.
So what does astrology have to say about all of this?
Pluto against the U.S. planets represents a cleansing. In Capricorn, this conservative trend is demanding accountability for expenditures, limitations on entitlements and excess, and budget tightening in institutions as well as households. Pluto tends to dredge up everything that’s ugly – corrupt, subversive, dirty – but in bringing it into the light, it gives the opportunity to clean things up. “Sunlight is a great detergent.” When you open a can of worms, at least you can trash the dirt and clean the can! It’s an apt metaphor because when Pluto uncovers the junk, the most likely reaction is revulsion and disgust. Pluto is hovering around the first few degrees of Capricorn, and the U.S. Cancerian natal planets opposite it begin at 3 degrees with Venus. Venus always makes reference to finances and pleasures, and in the U.S. chart it’s an important planet as it rules the Midheaven and H6 – this goes directly to the economy. Next comes Jupiter, the U.S. Sibley’s chart ruler. Natally Pluto comes from the money house, H2, so we’re really being asked to focus on the ills in the economy as well as unhealthy dependencies on others – other nations, such as China – or excessive expenditures against our enemies, these planets being in H7.
Pluto oppositions also call for huge power struggles, so there are great tugs-of-war going on as to who rules, who is in control, who leads, who can pull the strings the hardest.
Then there’s the force of Uranus, now on our H4 cusp square to our early Cancerian planets. Well, this is just unrest in the homeland. Rebellion. Uprising. A clash between the status quo and the demand for newness, innovation, a new way to approach problems. Uranus would like nothing more than to upset the apple cart, overthrow the forces that be. Drastic change is what Uranus wants, and Uranus represents the people. In the case of rulership of H3, the media. Thank god for the internet! Uranus is all about technology. Instant communications, unlimited freedom of speech, and accelerated innovation as news zooms around the world through cellphones and on social networks. There is absolutely no stopping this force, so we will have to accommodate this – all of us, the human race.
Some announcers are gloomily predicting that America has passed its peak, and is on its way down and out but I don’t see that. First of all, America’s symbol, the eagle is, on another level, the symbol of the phoenix, or bird who rises again from its own ashes, reborn, reinvigorated, rejuvenated. I have no doubt that’s what will happen, America being the venue for whatever new human being comes out of these pressured and challenging times. A more compassionate and more savvy human being is arising who values the individual over large institutions, and who rearranges the true purpose that money should serve – which is to help all human beings become self-realized and pursue happiness and joy. America will receive trines from transiting Saturn when it reaches Scorpio – that’s not too far ahead – and is a very stabilizing, supportive and constructive aspect.
Meantime in a couple of years, transiting Jupiter will cross into Cancer and really bring opportunity to the stellium of planets that the U.S. holds in this sign. Luck, success, and certainly a thriving rejuvenated economy is inevitable. I don’t hold with forecasts of gloom and doom, which are likely to prevail as Saturn squares our Mercury (bad news) and we live through a few years of drastic upsets and chaos, because I see after that a safe haven.
I don’t believe it’s meant for America to fail. Yes, to learn lessons; no, to collapse. We need a strong America to usher in the new age. The world needs a strong America to model a more ideal society. That’s where we’re headed.
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