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Dear Friend and Reader,
Good morning; Rachel Asher here with your Tuesday edition. The Gemini Birthday Report is available today via Planet Waves Astrology News. One of the benefits of subscribing is having access to the archives, which includes close to a decade of articles and horoscopes. Today, I was clicking through those pages and stumbled across one from Independence Day, 2003.
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| The United States at night. Image: courtesy of NASA. |
It’s an apt piece for the moment, especially as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton make American history. This week, the first black Democratic candidate for the presidency emerged, and Senator Clinton, the first woman to come close, managed to bow out of the race gracefully.
Five years ago, Eric wrote about the struggle between the United States’ different identities. Our country’s growth is far from resembling a smooth igneous rock with hard, clean lines and solidified meaning. The United States is a conglomerate; sandy pebbles of civil rights achievements are cemented together by moments of hatred and bigotry: the possibility of political change jams itself against an era of war and conservative social policy.
Take a moment today to read this excerpt from “A Tale of Three USAs” — I’ve copied and pasted a bit below — and I think you’ll see that it takes on new meaning in current context. While forming a national identity is a constant process, we’re certainly in a high point of becoming right now.
Thanks for reading,
Rachel Asher
A Tale of Three USAs
Friday, July 4th, 2003 – Planet Waves Weekly
Doesn’t it often seem like there are two versions of the United States? One is the country where, in her main port, is a statue inscribed with an invitation to the tired, huddled masses to seek shelter and relief. The other is the land of Rodney King and other recipients of bigotry and hatred that characterize our national culture.
One is the land of Martin Luther King and the other is the land of the Klan and King’s assassins, and the police who turned mean dogs loose on him and his fellow civil rights marchers dressed in their Sunday finest in Selma, Alabama. One is the land of opportunity, freedom and justice, and the other is the country where the poor are systematically shut out of the economic and political process, where children starve needlessly, and where millions of African-American men sit in prison cells for possession of the same cocaine that is sniffed and traded regularly in the corporate and political halls of power. One is the land of equality. The other is the land of gross hypocrisy.
One is the nation that brings freedom to the oppressed people of the world. The other is the one that deceptively and brutally bombs foreign cultures for profit, sponsors death squads in East Timor and Central America, and hides Nazi officers in South America.
One might speculate that this split personality hinted at in the astrology of the United States.
If you scan the whole business of the USA’s charts on Lois Rodden’s Astrodatabank, you will likely get a good headache. Send an SASE to Planet Waves for some aspirin, and then check this link: http://www.astrodatabank.com/NM/USA.htm. This deck of charts offers not just a moment of true chaos, but also the lesson that becoming a country is a process. It’s not exactly like being born. But hey, becoming a person is a process. it also demonstrates that astrology is not an exact science. It’s an art, a craft and an inexact science. Just like history.
Oracle takes us to Feb 27, 2004 – Taurus – Weekly
It can take a long time to find your way to the truth about yourself, and it can also happen in a moment of clarity. The most important thing right now, as you well know, is for you to do what is right for you, and there has been quite the cloud around the facts that constitute that particular truth. But the clouds are clearing, and you have a measure of leverage at the moment that is allowing you to move certain obstacles out of the way and have enough admiration for yourself and what you’ve accomplished that your next step will be more than a flight of fancy.
Tuesday 10 June 2008
Sun (19+ Gemini) square Logos (19+ Virgo)
Juno (22+ Sagittarius Rx) semisquare Hidalgo (7+ Scorpio Rx)
Ceres (29+ Gemini) sesquiquadrate Nessus (14+ Aquarius Rx)
Vesta (22+ Aries) trine Juno (22+ Sagittarius Rx)
Juno (22+ Sagittarius Rx) square Uranus (22+ Pisces)
Vesta (22+ Aries) sesquiquadrate Pholus (7+ Sagittarius Rx)
Hades (26+ Gemini) opposite Galactic Center (26+ Sagittarius)
Venus (20+ Gemini) quincunx Jupiter (20+ Capricorn Rx)
Eros (29+ Gemini) sesquiquadrate Nessus (14+ Aquarius Rx)