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March 2007
By Norma Jean Ream
The Sun’s
entrance into Aries, the Vernal Equinox, marked the beginning of the
astrological year in Ancient tradition. It happens this year on March
20, two days after a partial solar eclipse (not visible in Hawaii) and
Mercury, the messenger planet turning direct in motion. These three
astrological events add up to intensify situations of national
importance for the next year.
Top political
issues include a dance of Congressional proportions. Presidential power
is high with Whitehouse rhetoric spun to support the established mission
in Iraq and to hold the “decider” position. Yet, the Democratic Congress
is struggling to hold on to the money (power) and still be seen as
supporting the troops. Rumblings of spreading out the war to include
Iran add new dimensions of “suggestive evidence” to influence deciding.
Negotiations with Korea over nuclear power continue to be ironed out.
Meanwhile, Presidential wannabes second guess the diplomatic path to
peace in campaign speeches.
There is enough
speech-making these days to keep us all confused over the issues and how
they are really being handled. Have you noticed that when things get
really intense politically, the news just happens to focus on more
‘personal interest’ stories that have an emotional grab? Of course, if
you think that these are the top news, you may not notice that
bigger issues are being shaded from too much notice by the general
public. Watch this late March into early April for some “social drama”
diversions to high level, international dramas.
The eclipse path
falls across northern China, Russia, and across the Bering Sea. The hard
interplanetary contacts of the time could be adding to already
stewing power struggles. Some terrestrial events such as earthquake
or powerful late winter storms could have some devastating effects in
these areas. The slow planets, Saturn and Neptune, are in the final
contact of their ‘full-moon’ phase or opposition. Their combination of
energies tends to be related to weather events of dramatic impact such
as the killer tornado across Florida in early February or the snow
storms of recent weeks across the mainland that stopped travel by road
and air. Their thirty-six year cycle began in the spring of 1989 with
terrible flooding through the mid-west states and Mississippi valley.
Their cycle also relates to democracy, idealism, socialism, and
philanthropy. The opposition phase is challenging to existing
institutions. In the USA chart, their passage is across areas
representing the two parts of Congress, or the two primary political
parties. “Can Congress control the President?” is a pertinent question
for this year.
Symbolically,
what was thought to be solid crumbles or disintegrates. When we apply
this to personal lives we have relationships ending, careers changed,
and sense of direction re-directed. Can we expect our leaders to be
either clear about decision-making or up-front about intentions with
these energies prevalent? NO. And we shouldn’t believe that they are
telling us what we need to know. Political mysteries abound.
2007 is a year
of political chess playing. The longer-range picture will transform
through the events of this year. We should listen to what politicians
say very carefully and critically. The President who takes the
leadership in 2009 will be stepping into expanded territory. Whether
this is like a lava shelf that could break off and fall into the ocean
is a question we can’t answer yet.
In a Republic,
the people are the stake-holders. In our country, we think that
we have a government by the people, but we also individually think that
our one voice, our one vote counts for little. I want to suggest that
the events of the next year will challenge us to use our voices and to
participate in maintaining a country of free speech and equal vote. In a
long ‘power’ cycle of 250 years, our country is experiencing a closing
phase, similar to the darkness a few days before a new moon. In this
phase, many things take place unseen that will influence the quality of
the new cycle in later years. There are twelve more years until the
completion of this cycle.
We must consider
what changes need to happen to make the new cycle better, more
conscious, and more evolved. Fossil fuels, overgrown and impersonal
institutions, a general disconnection from nature and a consumerism of
previously unknown levels, have taken our world to the edge. The chain
of economics will break us if we don’t break it. The leadership we
empower should empower our better world, not destroy it. |
