By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
It’s been an emotional few weeks, and that’s a productive thing in a national climate gone arid with dry intellect and counter-intuitive denial. In fact, there’s enough water-signature in our current astrology to put a bit of slosh in our gates, a flutter in our hearts and an unbidden tear in our eyes. Mars in Cancer will continue to encourage our feeling natures, not just creating steam when we’re thwarted but, in its higher frequency, infusing empathy into our thought processes. We’ve already seen some lower level hysteria — mostly on the radical aisle — but overall, I’m impressed that we’re gaining a bit of ground as an adult population, able to discard the nonsense and get to the heart of matters.
On the other hand, our continuing inability to impact our entrenched political power structure has created a sociopolitical loggerhead reminiscent of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s lament in his classic poem, Rime of the Ancient Mariner: “Water, water, everywhere and all the boards did shrink, water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.” Indeed, the search for compassionate governance and concern for the commonwealth has revealed the weight of the self-serving, corporate-loving and complicit leadership that’s been hung around our necks like Coleridge’s infamous albatross. We’ve yet to find a way to quench that thirst.
With so much of what Obama promised from his populist playbook passed but under-funded, unconfirmed and unmanned, we’re looking for the touchstone that will unlock obstruction, examining the shaky logic that holds it in place, slowly gathering the activism to push this disturbing mistrust of modernity out of the way. The startling fact that we have not approved a national budget since the last decade should make clear our inability to proceed normally in this nation, dragging the weight of devolution behind us. The notion that there are not enough resources out there to supply our flagging economy needs to be filtered through some of the political realities unearthed recently as “secrets.”