Gary North's article on the insolvency of the US Social Security *System and Medicare is an eye opener well described astrologically by the recent transit of clear-eyed Saturn to US natal Neptune in Virgo, sign of Work and The Worker.
But I mentioned the transit and more Saturn/Neptune stuff in my previous post - things like deception and corruption (Neptune) in government (Saturn) - read Mr. North's article for a laundry list of deceptions concerning SS, Medicare, and the political can-kicking they've long duped us with.
He's talking about 'Social' (Neptune) 'Security' (Saturn)!
You know the US natal chart, Sibly version with '13Sag' rising, has Neptune 22Vir25 in 9th house and Saturn 14Lib48 in 10th house and their midpoint degree is 3Lib37; Mc 00Lib53. Tr Saturn in early Libra is stimulating our Sat/Nep midpoint off and on as I type. Perhaps Gary North is one of those now acting as Saturn's agent (a man with a bucket of cold water) as he asks us to deal realistically with these social issues.
At Ic 00Ari53 is revolutionary Uranus/Pluto 3Ari14, quite a pile-up of difficult energies, I must say, since whatever affects one cusp affects its opposite polarity.
There's no time this morning to discuss details on this interesting picture (as it relates to government, my usual topic of grumpiness) but I can say that the US natal Mercury/ASC midpoint is conjunct n Sat/Nep. (Mercury/Asc on a negative level can indicate wrong or misguided judgments.)
So considering that the Goals/Aspirations point (Mc) of any chart is the most visible position, therefore what one displays to the wider world, America's Saturn/Neptune is assuredly more obvious to others than it is - or has been - to Americans as a populace (with us being all insulated and all, and busy gazing at our own **beebos.)
And of course, Saturn in 10th house, its natural abode, gets really really karmic and rather nasty when an individual - or a nation - doesn't live up to its Saturnian responsibilities in the world. Then when the piper is paid, heavy accountability causes a world class fall from grace - which comes predictably and inexorably after the arrogant pride.
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*SS 'System' - July 21, 2009 Solar Eclipse 29Can27: 'systems fail.'
**'beebos' are bellybuttons and everyone has one.
USA Sibly chart: July 4, 1776 5:10 pm LMT Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Astrological comments on America, on Washington DC, and on the politicians who infest them...with a gentle sprinkling of world events
Dec 15, 2009
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I "believe" that Social Security and Medicare are failing. I believe that this is so because this "working man's" tax is and has been repeatedly raided by the "Master's of the Universe" for the development of their Empire and the weapons and war machines and sciences needed to take over the world.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that this can and will be turned around with better economies and stronger wills. I refuse to give up.
I read the earlier mentioned article on why Americans are so bovine at this juncture. I didn't really resonate to the writer's ideas but I sure know that something is up. Myself I think it is the Jupiter/Neptune thing that just makes us want to be rich and pampered even though we are exhausted and our children are falling apart from having incredible schedules to keep from infancy on and the horrible factory food that really only provides pretend nutrition, still I believe that this will turn around with Uranus in Aries after the anticipated fascist takeover which has already happened.
Agreed! i've thought for years that raiding of the funds was goind on.
ReplyDeleteLove your 'bovine at this juncture' but not its effects. What dupes we Americans are - and still paying for patrolling most of the world...and most citizens of other countries would prefer we Go Home.
i'd prefer we did, too. :-(