Today is Independence Day in the U.S. — considered the nation’s birthday, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Fittingly, today also features the Cancer Sun’s square to Uranus in Aries: a planet about upheaval, awakening and — in its square to Pluto — global revolution and evolution that will come to define this era for years to come.
The Sun’s square to Uranus is exact at 2:22:22 am EDT today. But the Sun has been engaged with the ongoing Uranus-Pluto square for several days now, and the news is reflecting that. Consider the protests across Egypt this week, possibly the biggest in the world. As of yesterday, they have culminated in the ouster of President Morsi by the military. Millions of citizens have been out in the streets since Sunday, both those calling for Morsi to step down as well as his supporters.
Over two and a half years ago, Egypt’s revolution was the crown jewel of the Arab Spring uprisings, which were the harbinger of the Uranus-Pluto square heating up. And now, with the Cancer Sun making contact with that aspect (and Jupiter in early Cancer — Aries Point territory), we’re getting another wave of this energy. People are standing up, taking action and creating change.
For example, an estimated 5,000 people descended on the Texas Capitol this Monday to protest Republicans’ attempts to revive the bill that was defeated via filibuster last week — a measure that would have would shut down nearly all of the state’s abortion clinics and ban abortion 20 weeks after fertilization. And on Sunday, more than 1,000 people marched in support of whistleblower Bradley Manning (whose trial has just wrapped up behind closed doors) at San Francisco’s LGBT Pride Parade. After the event’s board refused to let Manning be an official grand marshal, supporters dubbed him a “community grand marshal.”