{"id":9978,"date":"2009-01-21T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2011-06-08T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T20:44:07","slug":"astrology-bush-obama-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/astrology-bush-obama-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"The transition of power: a miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

All the astrology aside — but not too far aside — I hold it as a miracle that the United States successfully transferred power to a new administration yesterday. I hold it a miracle that the election went as well as it did last November, and that yesterday’s events proceeded based on 100% protocol. Looking just at the astrology, or at the history of the past decade, there was every reason to think that things would go badly. Here is an article I wrote cautioning<\/strong><\/a> about the election astrology more than a year ago.<\/p>\n

I am not inclined to put mystical causes on the events of the Earth, so when I use the word miracle I mean it in the sense of a connection. I can tell you that from the look of the charts, there was no reason to predict that things would have gone as well as they did, on Election Day, on Inauguration Day or the many days between. There were many reasons to believe they would go badly.<\/p>\n

But the living tarot card may explains why things went well seems to be Dick Cheney being wheeled from the White House in a wheelchair; seeing George HW Bush walking on a cane; and not hearing Karl Rove’s name once. Newt Gingrich and Jack Abramoff, men who bought and sold the country many times over, were nowhere to be seen. These perfectly evil men may have finally run out of mojo to cause kinds of havoc with the entire country that they made their names doing. The Republican Party’s leadership has been destroyed by the antics of the so-called Neoconservatives, to the point where Sarah Palin and John McCain were the best candidates they had to offer.<\/p>\n

I feel in my heart that the promise of JFK in Inauguration Day of 1961 — that the flame has been passed to a new generation — came to fulfillment yesterday, but this is only the beginning. Humans are excellent at starting things and somewhat less excellent at finishing them. Then there is the limited extent to which the movement forward of society affects the people who need that movement the most, and the ones who have been discarded in the wastepaper of greedy and selfish social policies for generations — like tax cuts for the rich while people are starving in the streets.<\/p>\n

I feel deeply that there is only so far that optimism can go to remedy deep and hardened cynicism that has been shot at us day after day and night after night relentlessly for more than a decade. Barack Obama seems sober in his recognition, and his statements, that the real work is ahead. I believe he knows that it’s easy to win a campaign and it’s difficult to run a country; and to participate in world government at a time when we are admitting that human life on our planet is threatened by many perils for which we have no easy answer.<\/p>\n

To me a change has come to the United States, and it’s very helpful to see fresh, open and honest faces in the White House. It has been beautiful to feel the groundswell of support, and to see the millions who came out to witness the inauguration in person. I know what this turn of history means to any conscious African American, whose plight has been one of the great travesties of our supposedly enlightened nation.<\/p>\n

I believe a change as come, but it’s more subtle than we think, and more fragile. And if you know where you fit in, you’re truly fortunate.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: All the astrology aside — but not too far aside — I hold it as a miracle that the United States successfully transferred power to a new administration yesterday. I hold it a miracle that the election went as well as it did last November, and that yesterday’s events proceeded based … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}