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For months now, any thought of the midterm elections has left me feeling anxious and angry. How is it that a minority – white Christian Nationalists and their sympathizers, the election deniers and trump worshippers – are now trying to dictate the majority?
The corrupt supreme court stripped women of their right to an abortion. It’s not about fetal heartbeats or the alleged personhood of fetuses. It’s about men controlling women and their health care. How can Alito’s wife can stand the sight of him?
Thanks to the extraordinary work of the J6 committee, it’s now obvious that trump orchestrated the Jan 6 insurrection and intended it to end in a coup. Yeah, banana republic style. He didn’t succeed, but apparently hopes to give it another try in 2024.
Garland, I’m sure, has enough airtight evidence now to indict trump today. And last week and last month. Why is he supposedly waiting until after the election? Why adhere to any of the old norms when trump’s four years shattered most of them?
Which brings us to November 8. As one astrologer said, “Why does it seem that every major U.S. general election lately coincides with a clusterf#ck of intense, confusing astro energies? The presidential election of 2020 will seem like a streamlined, shining example of seamless democratic progress compared to the doozy of a midterm…”
Why?
Well, on November 8, there’s a lunar eclipse in Taurus. It’s conjunct Uranus, the planet of sudden, unexpected events. Saturn in Aquarius squares Venus, Mercury, and the sun in scorpio. Mars is retrograde in Gemini. What it all means? Chaos. Bedlam. A shit show.
Or, as this same astrologer – Michelle Perrin in Llewellyn’s 2022 Daily Planet Guide writes,“Surprise upsets are featured, along with secretive machinations and backroom alliances, all of which could threaten to upset the stability of the democratic system. Confusion abounds, and with Mars retrograde, no one is really willing to step in, take charge, and pick up the pieces. This bewildering situation continues on Wednesday and Thursday… Thee could be longstanding shady dealings lingering in the background that threaten to blow the whole thing up.”
We have become a country of US against THEM. Did you hear or read trump’s recent anti-semitic rant? Or how about his remarks after Charlottesville? You know, good people on both sides? US against THEM. Black and white, right and left, jew and christian, there has to be an other.
The repugs stand for oppression. Look what Ron DeSantis is doing to Florida public education. Banning books. Signing Don’t say gay bills. Trying to act like he knows what he’s doing in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. He’s another wannabe autocrat like trump. Do what I say…
Nearly 300 election deniers are running for office in these midterms. If even a fraction of them get in – as secretaries of state, governors, as senators – then we can expect more chaos, more rebellion, more insurrections, more election deniers. The pathetic truth is that repugs can’t win popular elections. They bank on the electoral college, which should be abolished for the antiquated tool it is.
Think of the world’s most repressive regimes now. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia…those are the ones that leap immediately into my head. That’s only a fraction. Living in any of those countries, as a woman…no thanks. I’d rather be dead.
But that’s where this country is headed if the repugs seize control. Under them, climate change will progress until much of the country is uninhabitable. Grocery shelves will be bare more often. Food may become scarce. Government will intrude more deeply into your personal life. Who you marry, who you love, where you can travel to and where you can live. Already, see in Palm Beach County, public high schools in Florida are mandating that female athletes have to report their menstrual periods each month. The mandate has been challenged.
Under the extreme right, we’ll be living how Venezuelans live now under the Maduro regime. How Chileans lived under Pinochet. How Cubans have lived since 1959. How Italians lived under Mussolini, how Spaniards lived under Franco, how Germans lived under Hitler. How North Koreans live under Kim Jong-un. How Saudis live under MBS.
Fun, huh?
Then again, the U.S. is experiencing its first Pluto return. It happens every 248 years. True to Pluto’s nature as the planet of profound and permanent change, the great destroyer. At the return, Pluto knocks down existing structures and then rebuilds from the ashes. Trump started that process by destroying the norms. Now his Big Lie has metastasized and spread throughout the country.
On March 23, 2023, Pluto enters Aquarius, where it will be until June 11, 2023 before it turns retrograde and slips back into Capricorn. In the third week of January 2024, Pluto enters Aquarius again and remains there until January 2044, with a few dips back into Capricorn along the way. So the period from 3/23/23 to 6/11/23, we all get a preview of what those years will be liken – for the human collective and for each of us personally.
