Our wake up moment and the role of guilt
At the beginning of the Bush presidency there was much analysis of his language, basic posture and actions being that of an abuser. Like most survivors of longterm abuse, we “got used to it,” we made the adaptations that were expected of us, and we tried to move on — dragging the past behind us, often ignorant of what it really was about. The interesting thing about abuse survivors is that they (we) are so often wracked with guilt — and this happens to be, on one level, the essence of Capricorn: the guilt associated with supposed obligation, and with breaking free of it.