Dear Friend and Reader:
TONIGHT John McCain and Barack Obama will meet in their final of three Presidential debates in Hempstead, New York. Just hours after Mercury has stationed direct in Libra, we begin what should be the final sprint to the presidency.
The candidates come into the debate with Obama-Biden in charge at the polls and McCain-Palin negatives high. The economic downturn is pointing a big fat red arrow at the cost of thirty years of Reagan Era de-regulation, and big government in cahoots with corporate greed — all chickens coming home to roost. Republican party officials are worried about down-ticket races — having possibly conceded the presidency.
It is in this atmosphere with McCain having nothing to lose, and an attack dog VP without a whit of shame or remorse — that we re-enter the story of McCain vs. Obama in their last verbal matchup before the Saturn Uranus opposition on Election Day. The astrology does not give any indication of this being a sleep-inducing event. On the contrary — the gloves will be off on both sides.
A reader wrote in recently, commenting on Planet Waves’ coverage of the election astrology, proposing that McCain is represented by Uranus retrograde in Pisces (lacking focus, erratic, full of surprise moves) and Obama is represented by Saturn in Virgo (steady, intelligent, intellectual and well groomed). We shall see; in the early Greek mythology, it is indeed Kronos (Saturn) who unseats Ouranos (Uranus) from his role as sky-god.
Looking at the last few weeks in this campaign, I was reminded how horribly sick I felt back in January of this year, the week before the South Carolina primaries when the Clinton and Obama campaigns engaged in some heavy-duty artillery fire using race-baiting, sexism and fear-mongering tactics, mostly between campaign surrogates.