The Age of Reason - Who will win the election in 2008?

2008 will be a year of profound change. Not just because we will elect a new president and could thereby make a statement to the rest of the world about what it is that we really believe as Americans, but also because it is time for yet another astrological shift.

Back in 1965, ’66, and part of ’67, Pluto and Uranus were teamed up together in Virgo. Saturn was on the opposite side of the zodiac wheel opposing both of them. As many of the Baby Boomers know, this was a time of great importance for their generation. This is when they became “adults” and wanted their voices heard. From a global perspective, Uranus represents rebellion, chaos, but also teamwork, connectivity, science, networking, and the Internet. Pluto represents passion, sexual fidelity, trust, and seeking the truth. Together, these two represented the Baby Boomers view of themselves and the changes they wanted to make – brotherhood, global friendship, sexual freedom, and scientific enlightenment. Saturn represented the old ways of doing things, the old government, the old rules, the old leaders, and consequences for wild untamed actions. These two ideals clashed. I won’t give you a history lesson on how those concepts played out globally nor how they played out in many people’s personal lives.

In 2007 and 2008, Uranus is passing back and forth over that spot where Saturn was. And in 2008, Saturn is passing back and forth over that spot where Pluto and Uranus were. We have a yin-yang of sorts. History repeats itself. The Baby Boomers do not realize it, but they have become the “old ways” and there is a new generation coming of age that sees things quite differently. This is hard for the Boomers to comprehend because as a generation, they have always identified themselves as the fresh new youthful generation. They are now the old, outdated, unbending, and “unreasonable” leaders. And the new generation is desperately trying to “come of age.” This is one area where we will see great change begin to take place over the next year.

Now, Pluto has been much slower than Saturn and Uranus. He has not traveled nearly so far. However, he still plays a role in this transitional year. He is leaving Sagittarius and moving into Capricorn this year. Pluto takes anywhere from 13 to 32 years to pass through a zodiac sign. While in Virgo (in the ‘60’s), he focused our passion and truth seeking on medicine (birth control pills), usefulness (computers), and other Virgo topics. Then he passed through Libra and people wanted peace, love, and justice. Then he passed through Scorpio and the age of sex, drugs, and rock and roll really came into it’s own. Then he moved into Sagittarius and we began to look at exploring the world around us. We began to study other people’s religions, laws, universities, and the common man traveled like never before. Book sales, exotic travel packages, new age religions, and studying abroad all became quite popular.

So now what happens as Pluto leaves these loving, sexual, and open-minded zodiac signs to settle into Capricorn for the next 16 years? Most astrologers do not like Capricorn’s energy and therefore see it as a bad thing. But they are wrong. Capricorn rules over the tenth house. This is the area of the chart that deals with our public reputation. Because of that, Capricorn deals with leadership, achievement, fame, the Ladder of Success, tenacity, civic duty, awards, recognition, and karma. Most astrologers will tell you that when Pluto moves into Capricorn, that we are going to have corporations and governments (big brother) watching over us and dominating everything we do. They act as if Capricorn’s hard work and practicality mixed with Pluto’s passion and truth seeking is somehow going to mean that we will all become slaves of some big boss somewhere.

I don’t see it that way. I see it as a time to become passionate leaders. A time to take what we have learned and to create new systems that will serve us better. It is a time to look at ourselves honestly and if we are not being real leaders worthy of respect and admiration, then we need to get to work fixing ourselves and doing whatever it takes to become worthy of leadership roles. Yes, playtime is over, but we all knew that things were falling apart and that at some time we will need to clean up after the party. Clean up our planet, clean up our legal systems, clean up our schools, clean up our churches, clean up our dysfunctional families, clean up our political systems, and clean up our attitudes. It’s time to roll up our sleeves and get to work creating the positive changes we have all been talking about but not really doing anything about. With Capricorn’s sense of responsibility to the community and Pluto’s passion, we have the perfect energy for making big changes that bring real peace, real justice, and real love into people’s lives.

Saturn and Uranus will trigger their yin-yang catalyst so that we will all see a need for change. Then they will move on to focus on other things. Pluto will stay put working on showing us the truth about ourselves as leaders and as members of our communities. In 2024, he will move on to Aquarius and focus on brotherhood, teamwork, and friendship. And that too will be a good thing.

Will Hillary win since she is a Scorpio ruled by Pluto? Or will Barack win because he is representative of a new generation coming into their own? I cannot say. What I can say is that I am not at all surprised that both are in the race playing the roles they are playing. They could both lose and that would not reduce how important they were in changing the way we look at who is capable of becoming president of this country. The times, they are a changin’.

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