{"id":62289,"date":"2012-11-06T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62289"},"modified":"2012-11-06T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:27:20","slug":"a-day-an-hour-the-1864-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astrology-with-len-wallick\/a-day-an-hour-the-1864-election\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day, An Hour — The 1864 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercury reaches an apparent turning point today, as does the United States. As far as Mercury goes, we know the outcome. Its apparent motion through Sagittarius will turn from direct to retrograde. As far as the United States goes, the outcome is not clear. One thing that is clear as regards to both the astrology and the politics, is that the situation today has striking connections to the presidential election of 1864.<\/p>\n

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Abraham Lincoln was the incumbent in 1864. The nation was divided, at war with itself. Millions were suffering. There was a lot of unfinished business. The outcome was uncertain. It was a day of decision, an hour of destiny.<\/p>\n

Today, Barack Obama is the incumbent chief executive. It is a position that President Obama wouldn’t have been able even to aspire to, had President Lincoln not been able to complete his single most important piece of business. That completion, as incomplete as it was, made this moment possible. Today, the United States is once again sharply divided, all but at war with itself. <\/p>\n

As Jan Seward expressed so eloquently in her Planet Waves blog yesterday, millions of United States citizens are even now suffering as though from war. Once again, there is a lot of unfinished business. Once again, the United States faces a day of decision, and an hour of destiny. That destiny, as is always the case in the course of human events, will be determined by human beings as the heavens watch, not the other way around.<\/p>\n

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While people do determine the course of human events, the Cosmos does offer perspective. That perspective comes, as the late, great astrologer Robert Blaschke, observed, through “observation and correlation.” Mercury was not retrograde on November 8, 1864. Uranus, what some call the higher octave of Mercury, was. More to the point, retrograde Uranus occupied 28+ Gemini on the day Abraham Lincoln was re-elected.<\/p>\n

As Eric has observed for us, 28+ Gemini is perhaps the most repeatedly auspicious point on the zodiac so far in this century. It is “the degree that shows up too often,” prominent in the charts of 9-11, Fukushima’s nuclear disaster and the Banda Aceh tsunami of 2004, among other recent events. When you consider that Uranus occupies this ‘Atlantis Degree’ only a few days every 84 years, the implied correlation is that the events surrounding Abraham Lincoln’s re-election are somehow flowing forward to our time, to be resolved in a way not immediately certain.<\/p>\n

Evaluating today’s fire trine from Mercury to retrograde Uranus near the Aries Point, financial astrologer Raymond Merriman recently noted that “With Uranus involved, you can never be certain of the outcome.” Yesterday’s voter opinion polls support that observation. One thing we do know from experience, is that trine aspects mean flow. Uranus and Mercury are talking, and the connection is not garbled. It is a symbolic connection from one octave to the next, and by correlation, from one historic interval to the next.<\/p>\n

So it is that the citizens of the United States are today testing whether their nation, as re-conceived by Abraham Lincoln, can long endure. Likewise, it is evident that those voting in today’s election are in fact attending to the unfinished work Lincoln left behind. What is being determined is nothing less than whether his dedication to freedom can be birthed anew, whether what made this moment possible shall ascend or perish. That is the message from the sky. We now await a message from the people.<\/p>\n

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Mercury reaches an apparent turning point today, as does the United States. As far as Mercury goes, we know the outcome. Its apparent motion through Sagittarius will turn from direct to retrograde. As far as the United States goes, the outcome is not clear. One thing that is clear as regards to both the astrology … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1714],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}