By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
“I have a vision of a new America. I see an America that has turned her back on scandal and corruption and official cynicism … I see a government that does not spy on its citizens, that respects your dignity and your privacy and your right to be let alone … I see an American foreign policy that is as consistent and generous as the American people.”
— Presidential candidate James Earl Carter, 1976
Here I am again on a Good Friday, putting thoughts together that will, hopefully, make some sense and perhaps move the needle of our collective understanding of this period in which we find ourselves. As Eric tells us in this week’s excellent subscription edition, without Chiron’s influence in the coming Grand Cross, we might feel ourselves at a dead end. But with the Centaur lending vibratory input, no matter how dark the sludge we’re wading through now, we have options.
That’s worthy of an atta’boy, by the way. We’ve worked hard for a broader sense of ourselves over the decades — do feel free to discount the fuck-ups, they don’t resonate at the same rate — and we’re poised on discovering even more, the inevitable result of increased awareness. We’ll find more of that after we pass through this fourth of seven crosses, I suspect, headed for a new era despite all appearances.
Speaking of crosses, a friend — more than a passing acquaintance but one who knows a lot more about the Pea Patch and its cultural norms than about me — gave my son a gift to pass along, something he bought from a vender selling handmade stuff outside a country store. It’s a wooden cross, nicely finished and uncomfortably large, sporting two crossed lengths of wicked-looking barbed wire on top. Ghastly. After thinking it through, I decided to hand it back, gently suggesting it find a home elsewhere since I’m “not into the death penalty.” No sense pulling him through a spiritual wormhole he has little knowledge of, as, while he’s not religious, most of his family dance with demons as evangelicals. And I’m sure one of them would welcome such a disturbing icon.