Blog #2 – Astrological Look at Obama’s Transition to Power
Obama President Elect 2008
Barack Obama is the new President Elect and faces taking on the crisis of economics and the challenged reputation of our ailing nation. While the world rejoices at America’s choice, many critical areas of life will demand attention. Obama is giving his first focus to the people and the need for a stimulation package to create jobs and ease the general anxiety of the thousands of family facing dramatic financial impact from the Wall Street fallout.
Obama’s influence on the shift happening in America comes from his personal experiences. He is not a silver-spoon aristocrat. He brings personal experience of being different from the majority of his neighbors and peers growing up in Hawaii. He was raised by a single mother, and with the support of loving grandparents. He is of mixed race and born at the time of America’s drama of the civil rights movement. Our social themes are reflective of the events of 1965 to 1967. We should look at this as the maturing process of the larger social choices that create this level of world change.
The time of Obama’s acceptance speech in Grant Park, in Chicago brought people to tears. The chart of this time reflects that Obama will put his strongest intentions on influencing the quality of life for Americans who are the backbone of this country. We may finally have a President, a leader of the American people who is one of the people.
The connections between the chart of Obama’s acceptance of the Presidency and his natal chart have many direct contacts. The planet most aspected by the event in Obama’s natal chart is his Mars. Mars is the planet of action and motivation. Over the next several months, transiting Saturn and its dance with Uranus intensify in contact to Obama’s Mars. Transiting Jupiter is in contact to Obama’s Mars as the support of the creative element of opportunity and the backing of Congress. There is hope that Congress can work in a bipartisan agreement that focuses on the best for the people and gives much less support to big money lobbyist. Obama knows the anxiety of the people. A large percentage of America’s adults make much less than the $250,000 a year. Obama knows the struggle of raising a family with little resources and lacking the health insurance to meet crisis needs. These are his priorities for the beginning of his term.
The Inauguration chart for January 20, 2009 has the promise of improved international relations. The potential for peace is strong in this chart. There are problems to face in the transition, but Obama has the intelligence and problem-solving style of thinking that will bring a strong approach to healing the country.