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The Year Ahead
Mundane astrology and the idea of charting the course of nations has interested me as a concept. Astrology itself, though, hasn't really called to me, so I decided to try to adapt non-astrological methods to the task. With yesterday being July 4th, it seemed an opportune time to cast a chart for the coming year for the United States. This is my first time trying to do a reading for a nation (instead of one or a few individuals), so in the spirit of diving right into the deep end...
1st House: Coll, Ailm (R), Ifin
2nd House: ---
3rd House: Tinne, Coll (R)
4th House: ---
5th House: ---
6th House: ---
7th House: ---
8th House: ---
9th House: ---
10th House: Gort, Iodhadh
11th House: Ur, Iodhadh (R)
12th House: Saille
For the method I used to construct this chart, see my post on the Lansing method. The reversals are marked with an (R). So what does this chart suggest for the coming year?
Right away, we have two juxtapositions in this chart: one around Coll (hazel, wisdom) and one around Iodhadh (yew, longevity). For the first, it pits the media in the third house against the people in the first house. The media will embrace their role as professional nonsense-pushers even more enthusiastically. The people, on the other hand, will be drawn to the things that make sense for the day-to-day issues they face. In other words, they are less interested in what passes for a "national conversation" these days and more interested in, to borrow a metaphor from Voltaire's Candide, tending their own gardens.
The second juxtaposition concerns the President in the tenth house and the House of Representatives in the eleventh. Iodhadh tells us right away who'll get the upper hand here: the President will last, the House will not. Ur in the eleventh house suggests a pretty decisive failure. Gort is a bit more puzzling, but could be read as perseverance or tenaciousness. All in all, we can expect another turn of the ratchet in the long-term trend that political wonks sometimes refer to as the "imperial presidency" -- the tendency for more and more responsibility for policies and decisions to shift from the legislative branch to the executive. For those who feel especially opposed to the current president, it may help to keep in mind that this trend has been going on for many years and under both major parties. In particular, though, this does not mean an actual dictator emerges.
What makes this even more fascinating is Saille in the twelfth house, which governs bureaucracies or the so-called "deep state" among other things. In this latest wrestling match between the branches of government, the bureaucracy is going to acquiesce to the new order. Will we see individuals here and there still trying to undermine the president? Most likely. At an institutional level, though, that resistance is coming to an end.
As for other matters, such as financial markets, the real economy, and foreign relations? No major breakthroughs, but no major disasters either. Muddling along is what we have in store.
So to summarize:
* the major media will get even more ridiculous, but audiences will increasingly ignore the hysterics and focus on day-to-day life
* Congressional Democrats will continue their political fights with Trump, but they'll end up getting walloped thoroughly enough that the federal bureaucracies finally fall in line behind the president
* on other fronts, we'll be muddling along as usual
1st House: Coll, Ailm (R), Ifin
2nd House: ---
3rd House: Tinne, Coll (R)
4th House: ---
5th House: ---
6th House: ---
7th House: ---
8th House: ---
9th House: ---
10th House: Gort, Iodhadh
11th House: Ur, Iodhadh (R)
12th House: Saille
For the method I used to construct this chart, see my post on the Lansing method. The reversals are marked with an (R). So what does this chart suggest for the coming year?
Right away, we have two juxtapositions in this chart: one around Coll (hazel, wisdom) and one around Iodhadh (yew, longevity). For the first, it pits the media in the third house against the people in the first house. The media will embrace their role as professional nonsense-pushers even more enthusiastically. The people, on the other hand, will be drawn to the things that make sense for the day-to-day issues they face. In other words, they are less interested in what passes for a "national conversation" these days and more interested in, to borrow a metaphor from Voltaire's Candide, tending their own gardens.
The second juxtaposition concerns the President in the tenth house and the House of Representatives in the eleventh. Iodhadh tells us right away who'll get the upper hand here: the President will last, the House will not. Ur in the eleventh house suggests a pretty decisive failure. Gort is a bit more puzzling, but could be read as perseverance or tenaciousness. All in all, we can expect another turn of the ratchet in the long-term trend that political wonks sometimes refer to as the "imperial presidency" -- the tendency for more and more responsibility for policies and decisions to shift from the legislative branch to the executive. For those who feel especially opposed to the current president, it may help to keep in mind that this trend has been going on for many years and under both major parties. In particular, though, this does not mean an actual dictator emerges.
What makes this even more fascinating is Saille in the twelfth house, which governs bureaucracies or the so-called "deep state" among other things. In this latest wrestling match between the branches of government, the bureaucracy is going to acquiesce to the new order. Will we see individuals here and there still trying to undermine the president? Most likely. At an institutional level, though, that resistance is coming to an end.
As for other matters, such as financial markets, the real economy, and foreign relations? No major breakthroughs, but no major disasters either. Muddling along is what we have in store.
So to summarize:
* the major media will get even more ridiculous, but audiences will increasingly ignore the hysterics and focus on day-to-day life
* Congressional Democrats will continue their political fights with Trump, but they'll end up getting walloped thoroughly enough that the federal bureaucracies finally fall in line behind the president
* on other fronts, we'll be muddling along as usual