Post by Rose on Jun 4, 2008 0:52:50 GMT -5
From the AP wire, June 3, 2008
The principle that all men are created equal has never been more than a remote eventuality in the quest for the presidency. But with the Democratic nomination finally in Barack Obama's grasp, that ideal is no longer relegated to someday.
Someday is now.
It is a history-making moment — though Obama is not necessarily the candidate many might have expected to make that history. He is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. He's too young to remember the civil rights struggle, let alone to have been a soldier in the fight.
"He was impossible to anticipate," says Shola Lynch, director of a documentary about the 1972 campaign waged by Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the New Yorker who was the first black woman to vie for the presidency.
In a country whose self-identity has been warped by racial prejudice since the beginning, this moment has taken an eternity to arrive. Or, viewed over the spectrum of a long, painful history, relatively little time at all.
After MLK
After all, it has been just 45 years since Martin Luther King Jr. declared his dream for a colorblind America, just over 30 years since Mississippi disbanded the sovereignty commission that fought to maintain segregation and deny blacks their rights.
Other notable black candidates have run for the highest office. Some waged serious campaigns that, at least when it came to the prospect of winning the nomination, were never taken seriously.
"I grew up and matured in the height of the civil rights movement and there was no thought then of a black man being president of the United States. We had barely begun to vote then," says Ronald Walters, who served as deputy director of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's run for the presidency in 1984.
"It was hard for us, even in the Jackson campaign, to get our arms around this, the fact that there would be a black president of the United States — even though we were running," says Walters, now a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland.
Nomination milestone
But even as they marvel at Obama's rise, Walters and others say it will take time to appraise what it says about the nation's political and cultural state of mind. Can he be elected? How long will it take before other viable black candidates — not to mention women — compete for the presidency?
Today’s New Moon is a Super Moon and it seems to have delivered a front runner for the US Democratic party. This New Moon falls in Barack’s 4th house, a new chapter begins. How will Mercury retrograde play out? Mercury retrograde will cross the Sun on June 7, (moving from New Phase to Balsamic) before Venus perfects her conjunction with the Sun by a 7 hour spread. Interestingly, when you convert this 7 hours into 7 months, you arrive at Jan 2009 when the New presidential team takes office (who ever that may be.)
Note, the transit of Uranus has been opposing Barack’s Moon, which has brought him public exposure. But does he represent the new direction for the collective?
Have we seen the last of Hillary yet? This Super New Moon has fallen in her 7th house (using the birth time of 8:03 am, 22 Scorpio rising), which in horary would give the power to the opponent (house of the openly visible or “public” enemy). Also, she is experiencing a Mars return. Today’s Mars 14 Leo 01 perfects a New Phase conjunction with her natal Mars. Interestingly, the transiting Mars will conjoin Hillary’s Pluto two days from now (June 5) – what resurrection will we see? The media certainly has not wasted any time speculating that Hillary will be offered the second in command position on the ballot, even though she has apparently vehemently denied interest in sharing the bill with Obama (not to mention all the campaign mud slinging between the two).
And what of John McCain? This Super Moon falls in his 8th house (wonder what’s hidden in his wallet); he also has Mars in Leo (12 degrees, the transit of Mars is already in New Phase). Transiting Uranus, now at 22 degrees of Pisces opposes his Venus at 22 degrees of Virgo (Aug 23 -Sept 22). Is the previously labelled “wrong colored”– Venus in Virgo - be what the public wants? Will McCain’s religious principles, which support the anti-gay marriage bill (Venus in Virgo in 12th – the “unholy”) be his ultimate undoing in this race? Will the transiting South Node of the Nov election conjunct his 10th house Mars win McCain the top dog position, or is it the transiting South Node on Barack’s 6th house Sun (if/is the birth time of 7:10 pm correct??) be powerful enough to see the inferior rise to power?
There are many interesting things to look at in these charts, but ultimately, the winner of the race will be the one that embodies the collective’s desires and needs – picking who is similar to trying to figure out when a baby will be born. We can’t really know for certain – it’s the karmic piece that we have yet to discover….
Please feel free to share your thoughts...
Barack Obama,
Aug 4, 1961 7:10 pm Honolulu, Hi
14:00 Aquarius Rising
Hillary Clinton,
Oct 26, 1947, 8:03 am Chicago, Ill
22:20 Scorpio Rising
John McCain, Aug 2, 1936, 8:56 am Cocosolo, Panama
16:56 Libra Asc
Blessings,
Rose
The principle that all men are created equal has never been more than a remote eventuality in the quest for the presidency. But with the Democratic nomination finally in Barack Obama's grasp, that ideal is no longer relegated to someday.
Someday is now.
It is a history-making moment — though Obama is not necessarily the candidate many might have expected to make that history. He is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. He's too young to remember the civil rights struggle, let alone to have been a soldier in the fight.
"He was impossible to anticipate," says Shola Lynch, director of a documentary about the 1972 campaign waged by Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the New Yorker who was the first black woman to vie for the presidency.
In a country whose self-identity has been warped by racial prejudice since the beginning, this moment has taken an eternity to arrive. Or, viewed over the spectrum of a long, painful history, relatively little time at all.
After MLK
After all, it has been just 45 years since Martin Luther King Jr. declared his dream for a colorblind America, just over 30 years since Mississippi disbanded the sovereignty commission that fought to maintain segregation and deny blacks their rights.
Other notable black candidates have run for the highest office. Some waged serious campaigns that, at least when it came to the prospect of winning the nomination, were never taken seriously.
"I grew up and matured in the height of the civil rights movement and there was no thought then of a black man being president of the United States. We had barely begun to vote then," says Ronald Walters, who served as deputy director of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's run for the presidency in 1984.
"It was hard for us, even in the Jackson campaign, to get our arms around this, the fact that there would be a black president of the United States — even though we were running," says Walters, now a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland.
Nomination milestone
But even as they marvel at Obama's rise, Walters and others say it will take time to appraise what it says about the nation's political and cultural state of mind. Can he be elected? How long will it take before other viable black candidates — not to mention women — compete for the presidency?
Today’s New Moon is a Super Moon and it seems to have delivered a front runner for the US Democratic party. This New Moon falls in Barack’s 4th house, a new chapter begins. How will Mercury retrograde play out? Mercury retrograde will cross the Sun on June 7, (moving from New Phase to Balsamic) before Venus perfects her conjunction with the Sun by a 7 hour spread. Interestingly, when you convert this 7 hours into 7 months, you arrive at Jan 2009 when the New presidential team takes office (who ever that may be.)
Note, the transit of Uranus has been opposing Barack’s Moon, which has brought him public exposure. But does he represent the new direction for the collective?
Have we seen the last of Hillary yet? This Super New Moon has fallen in her 7th house (using the birth time of 8:03 am, 22 Scorpio rising), which in horary would give the power to the opponent (house of the openly visible or “public” enemy). Also, she is experiencing a Mars return. Today’s Mars 14 Leo 01 perfects a New Phase conjunction with her natal Mars. Interestingly, the transiting Mars will conjoin Hillary’s Pluto two days from now (June 5) – what resurrection will we see? The media certainly has not wasted any time speculating that Hillary will be offered the second in command position on the ballot, even though she has apparently vehemently denied interest in sharing the bill with Obama (not to mention all the campaign mud slinging between the two).
And what of John McCain? This Super Moon falls in his 8th house (wonder what’s hidden in his wallet); he also has Mars in Leo (12 degrees, the transit of Mars is already in New Phase). Transiting Uranus, now at 22 degrees of Pisces opposes his Venus at 22 degrees of Virgo (Aug 23 -Sept 22). Is the previously labelled “wrong colored”– Venus in Virgo - be what the public wants? Will McCain’s religious principles, which support the anti-gay marriage bill (Venus in Virgo in 12th – the “unholy”) be his ultimate undoing in this race? Will the transiting South Node of the Nov election conjunct his 10th house Mars win McCain the top dog position, or is it the transiting South Node on Barack’s 6th house Sun (if/is the birth time of 7:10 pm correct??) be powerful enough to see the inferior rise to power?
There are many interesting things to look at in these charts, but ultimately, the winner of the race will be the one that embodies the collective’s desires and needs – picking who is similar to trying to figure out when a baby will be born. We can’t really know for certain – it’s the karmic piece that we have yet to discover….
Please feel free to share your thoughts...
Barack Obama,
Aug 4, 1961 7:10 pm Honolulu, Hi
14:00 Aquarius Rising
Hillary Clinton,
Oct 26, 1947, 8:03 am Chicago, Ill
22:20 Scorpio Rising
John McCain, Aug 2, 1936, 8:56 am Cocosolo, Panama
16:56 Libra Asc
Blessings,
Rose
