Wednesday, September 22, 2010

November Election, A Shift in Stagnation

I find specific predictions in astrology to be lucky at best and discrediting, all too frequently, at worst.  So when I think about and engage in future considerations it is with thoughts towards energy patterns or energy waves (so well described in Understanding the Future: A Survivor's Guide to Riding the Cosmic Wave*The Major Astrological Predictions from Now to 2020 and How They Will Shape Our World - Paperback (Sept. 2, 2008) by Lyn Birkbeck).  The Tea Party is a perfect fit for a specific kind of energy wave coming more and more into play as Lilith approaches Uranus, leading to an exact conjunction in March of 2011.  Since the exact conjunction is a good ways out, I am inclined to think that Tea Party/Republican wins will be substantial, but not enough to move the gridlock in the American political scene that never wavered after the Obama election (only 58 Senators were Democrats, two were independents, then Edward Kennedy died and a Republican, Scott Brown, took his seat).  Republicans will need to pick up 17 seats to get to the majority needed to override Presidential vetoes.  I doubt this kind of change will happen, so we will essentially experience what I want to call a Shift in Stagnation.

The stagnation comes from the fact that both parties support a welfare state and debt.  For Democrats the welfare state revolves around Civil Service and for the Republicans the welfare state revolves around Military Service.  Actually, the Democrats don't have much luck cutting the welfare state of the Military, but the Republicans can seem to make inroads into cutting social programs.  Neither will make actual cuts to the overall budget; any cuts made will be to welfare programs of the other group or outside the big "untouchables": military, social security, and medicare.  What we will see is more removal of the old political guard, and we need that to happen so the American electorate can learn that old or new congressmen and senators DO NOT MATTER.  Governments are,  in essence, behind the times, slow to the game, sound and fury signifying ... well ... not much.  Why?  Because Democratic candidates and Republican candidates will get their campaign contributions from the same large pot (Corporations and Banks) and often from the exact same little pots (Merkel will give 1 million to the Democratic AND Republican candidate).   Really, what does it matter to a corporation or bank, which can move fluently worldwide, without much regard for borders, who PRETENDS to run the country so long as their agendas are covered based on campaign payments.

The Tea Party members will not be immune to this influence and their presence in politics will NOT represent a major shift in American economics.  For this reason, I do not see the impending energy shifts, begun first with Pluto's ingress into Capricorn, to be followed by Uranus' ingress into Aries (finally and fully in March of 2011) and Neptune's ingress into Pisces (finally and fully in February or 2012) as having their full on impact until the end of 2012 or 2013.  Since we are talking about some pretty big movements of energy, I am comfortable with a leeway of 2 to 3 years, observing as I do that rock bottom probably won't occur until 2014/2015.  If balance sheets in countries do not begin to show some kind of decline between now and 2013, the next Recession will be a Depression and the illusion of government "control", "policing", and "care of the public good" will be revealed in such a fashion that truly radical change may finally be possible.  Expect some violence to rear up during that time as it often does when times get truly desperate.

Now, can a dark scenario be prevented and even turned into a positive scenario?  Of course.  These energies are forming and playing out for that very reason, for humanity to take advantage of the lesson and emerge into a brighter future.  But we will face the toughest challenge of all, and its not about resources, technology, or "growing our way out of the problem", but about CHANGING BEHAVIOR, the most monumental of all tasks!  Hopefully Uranus in Aries is up to the task because Pluto in Capricorn is certainly putting to task all the "big structures" and their presumed hubris of being "too big to fail."  We will absolutely need a completely "new and shocking" way of thinking while Pluto and Uranus move in parallel in the cardinal signs of Capricorn and Aries until March 2019. 

1 comment:

  1. Glad to see someone using Lilith in mundane astrology. I do look at her but am not sure enough to interpret it in mundane events. Might start including mahjor aspects to Lilith in my monthly horoscopes to get a better feel for the influence. Marina will be impressed!

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