By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
It’s that time. This is that moment when we look back at our annual accomplishments and defeats, decide if we’ve gained or lost ground, and pause to reconsider our options. This yearly practice fits into the newly arrived Capricorn signature, assessing where we are in order to reposition ourselves for a new push forward. The point of power in Capricorn is to accept the distilled wisdom of time-honored tradition without carving it in stone. No small task for those of us who stand at the brink of a new year, staring down the seemingly immovable and nonfunctional, hoping against hope that the inflexible Pluto in Cappy gates will fling open to progress and change.
Capricorn represents authority, it rules the Tenth House and begs our wounded sensibilities to ponder the unstable, obsolete infrastructure we’ve depended upon to sustain us. The Pluto signature points us at a Congress that has become infamous for collecting six-figure salaries and accomplishing nothing, at the bloated CEOs of this century feeding mindlessly at the trough of corporate plunder, and at the ongoing systemic misuse of governmental power. Taking our pulse as 2013 rolls over only illuminates our continued need for emergency care.
I suspect it’s likely that this kind of year-end assessment adds to our post-holiday blues. And, considering all we’ve been through over the last dozen or so years, I expect that we come to this practice with trepidation, both personal and public. After all, we haven’t partied like it’s 1999 since — well — 1999. The real change, it seems to me, is what happened between then and now. There have been fundamental changes in not only how the world sees Americans, but how Americans see the world.