Astro updates, Obama: The New Foundation/more

[katty]

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NewsScope for May 18, 2009

by Michael Wolfstar
The New Foundation

The New Foundation is becoming the Obama Team's slogan in the same way that FDR called for a New Deal. The phrase was first used during Obama's inauguration on January 20, but didn't catch on until his much-praised speech on April 14,when he used the phrase "new foundation" so many times to describe his new programs that it became known as "the New Foundation speech".

Astrologically, the fourth house in a horoscope is often referred to as the foundation. In the U.S. Scorpio Rising chart, the Aquarius Moon resides in the fourth house, and represents the people's security needs, and especially their economic concerns. Over the past week, Obama used "new foundation" to describe health care reform, education, and consumer protections – all as transiting Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune were less than one degree from the U.S. Moon.

FDR first promised a "New Deal" during his nomination acceptance speech on July 2, 1932. At the time, Uranus and Pluto were squaring each other, presenting the revolutionary celestial climate that his phrase captured. Similarly, Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal", which promised to find a balance between labor and business, was coined in a speech on September 7, 1903, and was celestially mirrored in a Uranus-Pluto opposition.

FDR's New Deal was meant to resonate with TR's Square Deal, which unfolded precisely one Saturn cycle later: Saturn was at 3º Aquarius in both cases. Obama coined "New Foundation" as Jupiter was at 3º Aquarius, which evokes the previous grand-scale programs. However, we won't enter into the rare Uranus-Pluto dynamic until 2011 when "New Foundation" may become the label marking an historic era of social engineering.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. You're in for a tidal wave of ridicule, you know

There are at least fifty people in these parts who feel that it's their sworn duty to whip the behinds of all "Woo Woos" with Occam's razor strop. And Astrology counts as "woo woo". (They have a Secret List of All Things Woo Woo. They'll deny it, because it's secret.)

I'm not a big believer in the stars myself, but to each their own; I'm not a crusader, and I never thought of astrology as being even half as bad as, say, smoking, or speeding up on a yellow light.

And who knows -- I might even be wrong about that. Well, not the part about smoking. I don't smoke, and by the way, I also wear sunscreen as often as I can when I am out doors. If Leo is the sign that rules the Sun, would that make Aquarius the sign ruling sunscreen?

Well ... good luck. I'm off to get a fresh bag of popcorn.

:evilgrin:

--d!

[gcomeau]

2. Personally, I've decided on ignoring instead of ridicule today.

Although any attempt to take astrology seriously is much deserving of the latter, just watch me bite my tongue and walk away...