It’s been a weird Mercury retrograde since right around Christmas, though considering it came with a lunar eclipse and the beginning of Mars retrograde, it’s been pretty mellow, at least in public life. Most of the drama — and it is simply drama — has surrounded the Underwear Bomber and related investigations and revelations — though this would have another, more defeatist flavor of Flight 253 had gone down.
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And, given the good fortune that those people lived and that we had a holiday with news of a failed attack rather than a successful one, we can afford to reflect a little. This whole incident is mellow enough that we can afford to assess our maturity level as a country dealing with these kinds of problems. And we can consider how we are responding as a world; this is the problem of no one country. The whole western world is involved; and a good bit of the rest of the world.
I know that Barack Obama is not the most popular guy right now, and I chalk a lot of that up to plain immaturity and disrespect for leadership. If we as Americans or as a world are going to expect Big Daddy to come and clean up the mess that we made and that we allowed to happen, we might show some reverence for how hard a job that is. I would refer back to my article on Obama just before the election of 2008, which looked at the position of the planet Damocles in Obama’s chart.
Better yet, we might want to take some responsibility of our own, rather than whine that things are not going well. This is really, really basic. I don’t envy the position that Obama is in: for way too many people, such as people who can clap their hands and get on television, he can do absolutely no right. Particularly given the astrological circumstances of the past couple of weeks, he’s doing great and things are going really, really well. I know there are some pretty serious points of sell-out: the banking issue for example, and that may be serious. But frankly nobody in particular is standing up and speaking about that issue. Obama cannot get tough on the banks because he’ll be crucified and we, the people, are not backing him up.