Dear Friend and Reader,
Just a quick point in the direction of a TIME article that outlines very clearly and concisely all the major ballot initiatives and their results from the Tuesday vote.
The editorial team is currently working on the Friday edition which will be available to subscribers ofВ Planet Waves Astrology News, our weekly edition. Eric wrote a truly uplifting article, reflecting on this week’s history-making election and examining what it means for us as a nation.В
Judith Gayle, who features on this page and predominately on her Planet Waves blog, Political Waves, also contributes with her unique and insightful political analysis. Here’s a clip from her Friday article:
This isn’t just a four-year political victory, nor an eight. Not just a changing of the guard, a shifting of political parties. A sobbing friend called on election night to say it was two hundred years coming — I would suggest even longer than that. This was an unprecedented silencing of tribal drums.
The schism that has divided our nation in this latest flurry of culture war was born in the hippie era, the Vietnam days. John McCain ran his campaign on that thread of energy. His buzzwords — socialism, wealth-sharing, terrorist — didn’t find a niche in the majority’s consciousness. Those words were potent in the past; but the collective was ready to step into the future. You can literally scare some people to death, but we get tired of having our adrenal glands overloaded eventually. McCain’s rhetoric was about four years too late; we were finally ready for change.