Brothers Under the Skin
http://jessica-mothersky.blogspot.com/(snip)
Friday's New Moon (9/18) is no standard-issue New Moon. Up in the sky right now four planets are gathering together in opposition to Uranus.
This grouping gooses up the ongoing Saturn-Uranus opposition, signature of America's red-hot culture wars. The opposition reaches exactitude five times, and the hit today -- Sept 15th -- is the most critical of the five. The world body is quivering with the tension between two energetic poles: that of a white-knuckled holding on to the past (Saturn) and an explosive, liberating leap into the future (Uranus).
New Moons are always about getting another chance. Virgo is about tweaking and problem-solving. While it's true that the stakes are stringently high right now, it is also true that the task at hand is really quite humble and down-to-Earth: we're just being asked to think up workable solutions. The transits above are no longer about fist-pounding ideologues shouting each other down (they were until recently, but no longer). The question now is "What could actually work here?"
In this regard, I wonder about the ire that drives the more vocal participants in the health care "debate" (using that word for these dogfights feels wrong. It gives a bad name to those civil exercises we engaged in in high school, with their gentlemanly protocols and their strict rules about supporting arguments with facts.) I am curious about the generalized fear and loathing of "Big Government" that seems to be the central theme raising the blood pressure of those good citizens protesting health care overhaul. Are we to understand that the older members of this group spurn all Medicare reimbursements that the government gives them to pay for their blood pressure meds? Do the younger ones boycott state colleges, because accepting an education from Big Government rankles their libertarian pride?
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