CREATING A NEW ECONOMY

In my last article, some of my readers may have thought that only doom and gloom loom in our future, given the dismal economic outlook.  If you are a greedy capitalist, the future does, indeed, look dark.  On the other hand, if you are like most people I know (who are gradually moving toward a simpler, less consumptive lifestyle), the future is bright and you can’t wait for avarice-driven, multinational corporations to collapse into oblivion.  I can remember accompanying my father when I was a child (in the 1950s) as he ran his errands.  Most of the stores we visited were locally owned and managed by the owner.  They called my father by name and knew his likes and dislikes.  These entrepreneurs of “the good old days” knew that if they treated their employees and customers well, their business would succeed, grow and prosper.  Do you think the board members and executives of huge corporations (they are the old economy) care about each of us consumers?  The answer is – only en masse.  All they really care about is their bottom line.  The objective of these people is to maintain power and make obscene amounts of money and it doesn’t matter whether they perform poorly or not in the process!

I promised earlier to reveal what all of the above presidential inaugurations have in common – they are all first terms, except Reagan’s in 1985.  All of these inauguration charts have Venus in Pisces (where Venus is very strong – Pisces is the sign of its exaltation and Venus is a ruler of the water triplicity), indicating the idealism of these presidential 1st terms.  Venus is in the 11th house of all of these inauguration charts so these are periods in our history (if a Democrat has just been elected) when our government is more caring and compassionate (Venus in Pisces) and the passage of humanitarian legislation (11th house) is more likely.  The collective good is emphasized.

What does the Saturn opposite Uranus transit in the U.S. birth chart (July 4, 1776 at 2:23 PM, the time pictured on the clock tower of Independence Hall on the reverse side of the $100 bill (read The Real U.S. Chart to see why Gary uses this time for the U.S. chart) say about our old and new economies?  These two “heavy” planets are in hard aspect to Mars in the U.S. chart (they both square it in 2008-2009 and Uranus continues to square it through much of 2010).  Mars symbolizes the military, warfare, manufacturing, the energy industry, developers, and law enforcement so the squares from Saturn and Uranus signify stress and further demands placed upon the U.S. military (hopefully not a new war), further contraction (Saturn) of the manufacturing and housing development sectors or drastic changes (Uranus), conflicts (the squares) over resources or interrupted (Uranus) or restricted (Saturn) supply in the energy industry, and greater demands (the squares) placed on fewer (Saturn) law enforcers.