| There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - | | | | Right now, as in 1952, the nodes are suggesting |
| and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer | | | | that mankind is confronted with a choice on a |
| credit terms. - Adlai E. Stevenson (1952 / | | | | path between a south node Leo foundation and a |
| Democratic Presidential Candidate) | | | | north node Aquarian destiny. Without intending this |
| I despise people who go to the gutter on either | | | | to sound judgmental, one may think of Leo as |
| the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the | | | | representing every human endeavor that grants |
| center. | | | | preeminence to personal predilection and |
| - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1952 / Republican | | | | self-satisfaction. Aquarius, the diametric opposite |
| Presidential Candidate) | | | | of Leo, is emblematic of selfless social |
| Can you imagine Barack Obama uttering the first | | | | consideration and preeminence granted to the |
| quote? What about John McCain as the deliverer | | | | requirements of the collective. |
| of the second? Neither is a stretch, is it? | | | | Now it has rarely been a smart bet to push all of |
| A recent business event at which gifted political | | | | one's chips onto the self-sacrificing |
| pundits Tucker Carlson and James Carville squared | | | | community-mindedness square of the humanity |
| off for some lively chat about the upcoming | | | | craps table. This is especially true at an |
| election brought this thought to light. It was | | | | astro-historical moment that emphasizes how |
| Carville, a Hillary supporter who now puts her | | | | familiar and comfortable (south node) it feels for |
| prospects of becoming the Democratic nominee | | | | humanity to be selfish. When one factors in the |
| as akin to drawing to a 16 in blackjack, who | | | | sheer anxiety of the times, how can anyone be |
| noted that an Obama - McCain duel resonates | | | | blamed for worrying about numero uno? |
| with nothing so much as the Stevenson vs. | | | | The answer in 1952 was, of course, to go on a |
| Eisenhower election of 1952. Certainly there are | | | | frenzy of production and consumption and baby |
| some mammoth differences---most significantly, | | | | making...and to elect as president a retired general |
| at the earlier election the Democrats had | | | | who history suggests would rather golf than |
| controlled the presidency for two straight | | | | govern (although some historians celebrate the |
| decades---but one gets the gist of Carville's | | | | generally laissez-faire Eisenhower for not breaking |
| observation in the elevated populism of the highly | | | | anything, including the peace). It is now fashionable |
| educated Obama and the iconoclastic centrist | | | | to disparage the values formed with the advent |
| tendencies of former military-man McCain. | | | | of Ike's election as selfish but, dammit, everybody |
| True political history fans will note a number of | | | | was war-weary, anxious, and ready for the |
| nifty in-fighting parallels in the respective | | | | pay-off promised by victory in WWII - The Big |
| nomination processes of Stevenson/Obama and | | | | One. It was about time for life to provide a nice |
| Eisenhower/McCain, but there are certainly far | | | | car, and a decent payment schedule, and an |
| more compelling cultural kinship ties between 1952 | | | | interstate highway system to facilitate suburban |
| and 2008. One can see the correspondences in | | | | living and personal adventure. |
| the entropic drag of unpopular ideology-driven | | | | So where do we go this time around? Does a |
| wars (Korea, Iraq) and in the bullying domination | | | | less promising environment for economic growth |
| of 'right-thinking' political forces (McCarthyism, The | | | | force our hands? Do we have to become |
| Patriot Act). And surely the bogeyman of | | | | socially-concerned citizens because we've run out |
| terrorist attack that is paraded before us on a | | | | of stuff...or maybe even the desire for stuff? Is |
| daily basis today is somewhat resonant with | | | | social concern where we have to go inevitably, |
| America's first test detonation of a hydrogen | | | | whether we want to go there or not? |
| bomb, 30 more times more powerful than the | | | | Now a truly wise person might suggest that the |
| Hiroshima A-bomb, in November of 1952. | | | | issue of the nodes is not a case of either/or but, |
| Quite thrillingly (if one is an astrologer) the | | | | rather, one of both. May we not simultaneously |
| strongest cosmic tie between the two years is to | | | | be wise stewards of our personal desires and our |
| be found in the identical placement of the nodes | | | | social obligations? Is the hybrid car a sort of |
| of the moon. Now as much as I'd like to get all | | | | religious object? |
| astro-pedantic here, suffice it to say that the | | | | Anyway, the suggestion here is that McGovern |
| moon's nodes, which astronomically have to do | | | | may be best understood as a symbolic step back |
| with orbital inclination and intersection, are an | | | | towards Leo, and that Obama may be a symbolic |
| essential calculation in any horoscope cast by a | | | | step towards Aquarius. But don't count out Hillary |
| reputable astrologer. These extremely powerful | | | | just yet. As Tucker Carlson was prepared to |
| points are said to deal with evolutionary direction, | | | | concede, "Hillary Clinton is the toughest person |
| from the south node (where we have been, what | | | | who has ever lived...she's been attacked for |
| we know, and where we are most comfortable) | | | | everything since 1978 and she's still a game |
| to the north node (where we must go, what we | | | | fighter who expects to win." |
| must learn, and where we are challenged to | | | | What else would you expect from a Scorpio? |
| grow). | | | | |