{"id":4188,"date":"2012-01-30T07:34:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2012-02-01T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T22:35:53","slug":"the-astrological-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2012\/01\/the-astrological-state-of-the-union.html","title":{"rendered":"The Astrological State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"astrological<\/a>Like people, countries have astrology charts that are based from the date and time of their inception. \u00a0There is a great deal of argument among astrologers over which is the “real” chart for the US, and if you like you can read more about that argument and why I use the Sibly chart\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In my Astrological State of the Union<\/a> post from 2009 I wrote:<\/p>\n

The United States is at an astrological crossroads. \u00a0The US progressed Mars turned retrograde last year, and is searching for a new direction. \u00a0Pluto, god of transformation, has been challenging the US Midheaven, the point of public perception. \u00a0The qualities that gave the US its power over the past 400 years will not work for the next 400, and the nation will have to adapt. \u00a0Economic systems are changing and becoming much more tenuous and fluid as they go global. \u00a0Traditional social systems are weakening and require a new way of looking at the way humans form families and cultural groups. \u00a0As a people we must become more lithe and limber so that we can adapt to the changing collective, or we will not survive the 21st century. \u00a0This is not a time to look back and long for the conservative values of the 1950s \u2013 those days are over. \u00a0There is a new day dawning, and we will have to be ready for it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is no less true today. \u00a0The transit of Pluto, planet of destruction and regeneration, in a square to the US Midheaven oversaw the breakdown of much of American life which resulted in the appearance of a decline in the American role as world superpower<\/a>. \u00a0Uranus, the planet of radical change and revolution, is preparing to transit in opposition to the US Midheaven. \u00a0Uranus is known as the “awakener” because it stimulates a view that is different from the everyday world view that keeps our lives in order. \u00a0Under this Uranus cycle there will be a growing awareness among the common people that the lives that many of us knew have been irrevocably changed, and there will be a growing unease about the future.<\/p>\n

Uranus and Pluto are getting ready to face off in a powerful cycle such as the 1960s when the alignment of these two stimulated the social change and upheaval of that period. \u00a0In 2014 and 2015 the square (90 degree aspect) between these two planets will reach the degree of the Sun in the US chart and stimulate some radical events that are likely to continue the ongoing battle between the forces that seek to return to the ways of the past, even though the bridges have burned behind them, and the forces that demand change in a radical and perhaps unsustainable form.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, though, there is a “double whammy” of Uranus and Jupiter events beginning with a square of transiting Uranus to the US Jupiter this year beginning in April. \u00a0Jupiter in a national chart represents the national ideology and belief system, and with Uranus demanding a radical departure from the past we are likely to see a further splintering of religious dogma and organized religion over the next year. \u00a0But this cycle will also stimulate excitement and greater readiness for the changes that are necessary in order to move into the next phase of the nation’s ability to sustain itself. \u00a0Then Jupiter will conjoin Uranus beginning in July (through next February) which could stimulate greater innovation and new ideas.<\/p>\n

The death of an old way of living leads to a new beginning, but only if we can let go of the past and move forwards. \u00a0This Uranus\/Jupiter “double whammy” can provide the fuel for this to happen if we allow the change to unfold. \u00a0If we cling to the past, things will not go well under this influence. \u00a0Change is inevitable.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2012 there is a large number of Jupiter cycles which will create expansion and help the changes to find their ground and become anchored in the new reality. \u00a0After that point the transits are generally favorable for growth and national confidence that can put the nation’s finances back on track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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