Each country has a birth chart. America's July 4th birthchart gives us a Cancer Sun, an Aquarian Moon and a Sagittarius ascendant. Cancer Sun speaks to our purpose – to nurture the new vision of freedom and equality that our founders stood for. We have become a beacon of freedom for the world. Our Aquarian Moon speaks to our independence, interdependence and humanitarianism. Our Sagittarian Ascendant denotes our forward-looking national spirit as well as our search for higher truth.
Obama’s chart fits well with America’s. His Venus is within degrees of America’s Venus and Jupiter. So his values (Venus) are America’s values. He loves America! He represents the best of what America can ‘grow’ – a responsible adult with a sense of play and possibilities.
His Mars is exactly conjunct America’s Neptune. America’s Neptune is the most elevated planet in the chart, indicating our love of fantasy, Hollywood and dreams of abundance and fulfillment. So Obama fits our longing and fantasy of what an American Man (Mars) could be – intelligent, charming, confident, egalitarian, discerning, humble, athletic and willing to serve the common good. He’s the stuff of our dreams, the practical idealist (America’s Neptune in Virgo).
One of the reasons so many of us look up to him is that he represents what many of us (especially women) want a man to be. And most importantly, his South Node of the Moon (where he’s come from) is conjunct America’s Aquarian Moon. He understands the people (Moon) – he’s one of us. But his Leo Sun and North Node demand that he be a leader – our leader.
His Saturn/Jupiter conjunction sits on America’s Pluto in Capricorn. And they both sit at the top of the Inaugural chart, giving this Pluto prominence. Many astrologers see that Pluto (located in America’s 2nd house of money and values) as the plutocracy of wealth that really rules America. But this year could be the year when instead of upholding the power of wealth and corporations, Obama will use Pluto’s power to transform the culture through his Saturn in Capricorn and Jupiter in Aquarius. He could just make us understand that Pluto in Capricorn also calls on all Americans to constantly transform the culture and its corporations – Jefferson’s continual revolution.
Now let's look at the Inauguration chart for Barack Obama, and see what the formative energies of his administration look like.
I might as well get the most obvious issue – at least for astrologers – out of the way. There is a void of course (VOC) Moon at 29 Scorpio until 12:29pm on January 20th. A Void-of-Course transit of the moon is a period of time between the last aspect the Moon makes to a planet while transiting in one sign and the time that the Moon enters the next sign.
Astrological wisdom says that nothing prospers during a VOC Moon because the time will be misspent or the task will be done incorrectly and need to be redone later. This "loss" may be caused by an inattention to details or missed information. But I don't know if I agree with that age-old belief. After all, the Moon goes void-of-course every few days. And it is our choices that determine whether or not we make things happen. It just means we have to be vigilant.
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