The Libra Equinox and the Revolution

The Cardinal Ingress charts that correspond to the 4 seasonal points, set a tone for the duration of that seasonal quarter to come.  When the outer planets occupy Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn), these are indicators for change, innovation, and initiation.  This is because they have recently crossed and now occupy, the World’s axis.  Currently Uranus (in Aries) and Pluto (in Capricorn) have been stirring up all sorts of commotion in the world.

Uranus and Pluto are still in the early degrees of Aries and Capricorn, and therefore very volatile and dynamic in these Cardinal Ingress charts.  In the Libra Equinox on September 23rd, the Sun, Uranus, Pluto t-square was hugging the angles tightly.  Over the next few years, Uranus and Pluto will be even more exact.  They came close this Summer, but will not perfect until next June.  And then will do so 6 more times. 

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders ... and millions have been killed because of this obedience. ... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves ... [and] the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” ~ Howard Zinn

Uranus/Pluto are the harbingers of revolution, change, transformation.  In this Equinox chart, the Moon (the people) was closely aligned with Mars (anger) in the sign of Leo (children), and we saw throngs of people descend on Wall Street in order to bring attention to the greed and inequity in the American financial system.  Their civil demonstration took on dramatic and even violent overtones on September 24th, when police were caught on tape brutalizing demonstrators, and macing young women trapped in an orange mesh enclosure.

Hundreds of young people had been occupying a private park near Wall Street, for 8 days, before any sort of real media coverage ensued.  It was probably wistfully hoped that these young people would just fade away into the night if they were ignored.  However with the evident abuse on the 24th of September, the NYC police department (Pluto in Capricorn) kind of inadvertently ensured that they got the world-wide attention the demonstrators needed, and the movement has only been growing exponentially.   

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. ~ Malcolm X

The people holding the fort down on Wall Street are self-described as over-educated and under-employed.  In an interesting article entitled, “The Cancer Stage of Capitalism”, John McMurtry suggests that “our social immune system is being overwhelmed by a growing out-of-control money market cancer.”  He describes a ‘cancer’ as an uncontrolled and unregulated agent in the host body that:

• is not committed to any function of the host body;
• increasingly appropriates nutrients from the host body in its growth and reproduction;
• is not effectively recognized by the immune system;
• possesses the ability to transfer or metastasize its assaultive growth to sites across the host body;
• progressively infiltrates and invades the host body until it obstructs, damages or destroys successive organs of its life-system; and
• eventually destroys the life-host in the absence of an effective immune-system recognition and response.

These young people occupying Wall Street are a healthy immune response to the Cancer in our system, because they are drawing attention to its existence, so that the host body will recognize it, and then do something to correct it. 

Next week there is going to be a demonstration and occupation in Washington, DC, which carries the banner “Human Needs, not Corporate Greed”  and beseeches to: “get money out of politics” and “put workers before profits” as well as to “protect the planet”.

This general unrest is being felt globally, not just here in the US, with demonstrations erupting spontaneously everywhere, and in solidarity with the young people.  And this... is just the beginning.

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.  If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.  The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” ~ Thomas Jefferson