USA goes big

The USA has a long history of devoting its massive resources abroad, to its own benefit but also that of others. 

 Joe Biden has now announced the spending of a massive 200 billion US dollars on an infrastructure project to counter China's infrastructure project abroad. 

As Biden explained at the G-7 meeting in Austria yesterday: 

"This isn’t a charity. It’s an investment that will deliver returns for everyone, including the American people, the people of all our nations. It will boost all of our economies, and give a chance for us to share our positive vision for the future," Biden said. "To let communities around the world see for themselves the concrete benefits of partnering with democracies, because when democracies demonstrate what we could do, all that we have to offer, I have no doubt that will win the competition every time." 

Moreover, today it has been announced that NATO will dramatically increase forces on high alert in NATO countries on Russia's border to over 300,000 from 40,000 amid the Russia threat. Around one-third of these is US armed forces.

This demonstrates again, during the onset of the Moon period, what was written about the SAMVA USA chart in Dec. 2007:

"The characteristics of Cancer as a rising sign and the many auspicious placements are quite consistent with a nation that first liberated Europe from the danger of Nazi fascism and then came to the rescue of the destitute countries of Europe after World War II with the Marshall Aid package that helped quickly rebuild the lives of the citizens and thereby also prevented another threat from gaining a foothold, Soviet Communism."

In the SAMVA USA chart, transit 3rd lord Mercury, ruling action, and transit 1st lord Moon, ruling the self, were in the most effective point of the 11th house, of plans for the future and foreign alliances. 

At the same time there are several challenging aspects in the SAMVA USA chart, consistent with the pressure this places on the finances of the US Treasury, but also political opponents who would prefer to devote such huge resources on solving pressing problems at home.

1972 revisited

Jane ROE v. Henry WADE

The June 2010 article "1972" was published on this blog to document the many significant events that took place in the national life as the Mercury major period dawned in the SAMVA USA chart.

These included the Breakdown of the Bretton-Woods International Monetary System and the Floating of the US Dollar, Détente and Nixon's trips to Moscow and Beijing, Shuttle Diplomacy, End of the Vietnam War, the Apollo-Soyuz Program, the Panama Papers, the Independence of Print Media and the Watergate Scandal, the birth of the Semiconductor Chip and Personal Computing, the Beginning of De-Industrialisation of America (a/k/a the Hollowing Out of Industry, later known as Outsourcing of Better Paying Manufacturing Jobs) and the penultimate Victory of US Chess Champion Bobby Fischer over the Soviet chess machine in Reykjavik, Iceland). 

Indeed, such a fit is only possible with this veritable national horoscope of the United States of America.

In addition to the above noted events is another no less significant event, which also took place at the beginning of the Mercury major period in April 1972. It is the act of the Supreme Court of the United States to decide on Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). The case was

• Argued on December 13, 1971
• Re-argued on October 11, 1972
• Decided on January 22, 1973

Indeed, Roe v. Wade was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion. The decision struck down many U.S. federal and state abortion laws, and fueled an ongoing debate in the United States about whether, or to what extent, abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, and what the role of moral and religious views in the political sphere should be. It also shaped debate concerning which methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication.

The case liberalised abortion, without much of a moral judgement, ruled by the 5th house, being made. Rather, the decision fitted the neutral nature of Mercury, which is placed in the 7th house of others.

At the time the court decided the case, the Mercury-Mercury period was operating. Transit Rahu was conjunct natal 3rd lord Mercury in the 7th house. Transit 3rd lord Mercury was at 22° Sagittarius and 6th house of court cases, which is aspected by Rahu in the most effective point of the 10th house. This suggest a pronounced material influence was strongly influencing the dual period lord. As transit Mercury was also conjunct natal 4th lord Venus, the decision would have been pleasing to women. Transit 8th lord Saturn, a Rahu-like planet and lord of death, was conjunct natal 1st lord Moon, ruling maternity, in the 11th house of future plans.

Interesting accurate prediction

Some commentators are already reporting on the significance of the Roe vs. Wade reversal decision by the Supreme Court of the USA (SCOTUS) on June 24, 2022. 

 Here is one American returning from travels abroad:

"Apparently I’m coming home to a different country from which I left."

Because of several recent major decisions by SCOTUS, Townhall declares:

"America is a new nation today".

The article New Age of Progress, about the Moon period, was published on April 11, 2022. This was many weeks before the pending surprising SCOTUS decision was leaked on May 2, 2022. Interestingly, for this article I had selected a photo of a young pregnant woman with the Moon as a backdrop.

In the article I had noted that "A change to a new major period or the entry of a slow-moving planet into a sign involves a TREND SHIFT in the national life. In mid April 2022, the USA enters the Moon major period, which lasts for ten years..." 

The title refers to social changes expected in that strong and favourable major period, which began that month.

"...the Moon, the most feminine and MOTHERLY of all the planets, is in mutual aspect with the male oriented 10th lord Mars, at 10° 05' Scorpio and 5th house. This is likely to bestow fame, technical mastery, military and exploratory success, and intelligence in the national management. The Moon is also in mutual aspect with another male oriented planet, 6th lord Jupiter, at 4° 25' Scorpio and 5th house, adding an element of expansiveness, optimism, RELIGIOUSNESS, and determination of not backing down in the face of provocations. Both aspects bring out the polarity involving the 5th house of MORALS, CHILDREN and creativity and the 11th house. This may bring a new age of progress, such that the UNETHICAL policies of the past, ..., are not likely to make headway at this time." (Words in BOLD letters for emphasis).

Indeed, many are apprehensive about the changes, viewing them as setback. 

In the long run, however, they may result in more thought and care being given to decisions involving  

• birth control measures, 
• the sexual relations of young people, 
• medical guidance on the health of mother and fetus/child during pregnancy 
• other factors involving the decision to terminate, 
• support to single young mothers, as well as 
• family planning. 

Moreover, as the attitudes of Red and Blue States differ on such socially sensitive issues, it may ease national conditions that the States will now have more say in them.

In other words, positive trend changes are to be expected, although adverse transits will tend to go the other way, but only during their shorter occurence. Divisiveness may nevertheless be especially pronounced in USA during the fall of 2022. 

Finally, good astrologers do not rely on psychic insights like they are watching a television set. However, by closely reading the SAMVA USA chart, they may gauge fairly well the nature and timing of important shifts in the national life, as is the case here.