12-29-2020, 05:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-29-2020, 06:05 PM by Eric the Green.)
We are looking beyond the framework of Election 2020, but perhaps we can see the election within a larger framework of a transition between ages and cycles.
We definitely see Trump as the final element in a Skowronek cycle. And naturally when I see an astrological correlation to a known cycle, I like to bring it out, and perhaps this fits more clearly and naturally than some might suspect. And usually, the astrologers saw the cycle first. But we all know there is a great conjunction going on, and that it happens every 20 years, and that it lines up with the 40-year Skowronek cycle, except there are are couple of variations to that; but the larger rhythm and the larger point is clear. Trump is the end in a cycle of presidential leadership; he represents the president who demonstrates the futility of continuing along the lines developed over the previous 40 years. It is clear in this case that this line is Reaganomics and neo-liberalism that took power in 1979-1981. So Election 2020 and Inauguration 2021 is the end of one cycle, and the start of another, leading away from neo-liberalism and back into progress.
We are also aware that Trump is part of the Crisis called the Fourth Turning, which many including myself and Mr. Howe date from the 2008 financial crisis and great recession and to last for 21 years. But in this case, 2020 is not the end of the cycle. The Fourth Turning has almost a decade left to run. The pandemic was the decisive event which defined the failure of Trump, who lost the electoral college by about 43,000 votes in 3 states, which is similar to how he won it by 77,744 votes in 3 states in 2016. But this narrow Biden victory, and probably the gridlock to follow to one degree or another with the neo-liberals and xenophobes still having much power, means struggles still lie ahead, and confrontations with the results of neo-liberal power still lie ahead and must be resolved. The modern saeculum and the 4 turnings of course correspond to the cycle of Uranus around the Sun every 84 years, which Strauss and Howe in T4T defined exactly as the archetypal length of their cycle without referring to Uranus, and which the great astrologer Dane Rudhyar defined for Uranus in exactly the same way as based on the average length of a human life.
The great conjunction in 2020 also marks a time when the Information/Cyber Age will be further developed, as industrialism continues to decline because of its assaults on Nature and human dignity and health. Astrologically, the shift in these conjunctions this year from materialist-centered earth zodiac signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) since 1802 and from 1842 through 1961, into mental and communication-centered air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius), with the preview of this in 1981, emphasizes the point.
In the larger cycle of civilization, the current assault and deadly infringement on Nature resulted in the long term from the break from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. The glory of God as the aim of civilization was shifted toward the ambitions of men. Perspective changed from gazing up into the heights, to exploring and conquering across the horizons. Humans were gradually liberated from subservience to faith over reason and science throughout the Renaissance and Enlightenment era, whose results speak well for the Renaissance humanist paradigm in many ways. To some extent, this liberation continues to be a foundation for our current age. But there has also been a break, since the turn of the 20th century. Ever since those times, when a new 493-year planetary cycle of Neptune-PLuto began, artists, scientists, philosophers and politicians have broken through the Renaissance worldview of the Earth as a horizon to conquer with peoples to subdue. Historians date our current era from the World Wars, which brought European dominance and imperialism to an end. The cycle of civilization proclaimed the break from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and it proclaimed the break from the Renaissance into the new global civilization dawning today.
In the sixties and seventies, both the dawn of the information age and the failure of American exceptionalism and industrial failures and the birth of new counter-cultures ended the "orange" industrial age and opened the "green" one of respect for diversity and green-peace. This is a new Revolution that supercedes the industrial and political Revolution of the late 18th century-- which again the astrological cycle confirms as well, this time with Uranus-Pluto conjunctions and oppositions. It also pushed further the end of the Renaissance paradigm.
But why should I mention the planetary and astrological cycles? Aren't the others sufficient? That's a long story, and I refer you to my posts on the thread that mentions astrology here. But suffice to say, I am not claiming that planets through some physical mechanical force cause humans to have certain characters and behaviors. Certainly, the cycles of the Sun, Moon and Earth affect us in measurable ways, and this is part of astrology too. But what astrology also says is that we human beings are not separate objects, but are connected and entangled with the cosmos around us. The planets have a certain kind of identity with which we resonate, and which are parts of us as holographic wholes. As above, so below. We have created these planetary archetypes through the 4 instrumental ages and through spiral and planetary-dynamic social evolution and discovery, as fully as the planets have done it for us. It is one tidal progression, and one process. If astrology works to an extent, which I confirmed for myself through experimental means, then it confirms the new paradigm that we need today, and which must dawn if we are to save ourselves from the pandemic that brought down Trump, as well as from the exploitation of Nature and human beings as objects which Trump represented, instead of being an integral part of divine spirituality within and beyond Nature, which is our true reality. We can debate this on the other thread. But clearly, the Renaissance and Enlightenment paradigm is not enough to carry us forward; nor is the industrial one which is its product. The new philosophy is needed. And astrology is an integral part of it; and so, for that matter, are all the other cyclic rather than merely linear views of the human process.
We definitely see Trump as the final element in a Skowronek cycle. And naturally when I see an astrological correlation to a known cycle, I like to bring it out, and perhaps this fits more clearly and naturally than some might suspect. And usually, the astrologers saw the cycle first. But we all know there is a great conjunction going on, and that it happens every 20 years, and that it lines up with the 40-year Skowronek cycle, except there are are couple of variations to that; but the larger rhythm and the larger point is clear. Trump is the end in a cycle of presidential leadership; he represents the president who demonstrates the futility of continuing along the lines developed over the previous 40 years. It is clear in this case that this line is Reaganomics and neo-liberalism that took power in 1979-1981. So Election 2020 and Inauguration 2021 is the end of one cycle, and the start of another, leading away from neo-liberalism and back into progress.
We are also aware that Trump is part of the Crisis called the Fourth Turning, which many including myself and Mr. Howe date from the 2008 financial crisis and great recession and to last for 21 years. But in this case, 2020 is not the end of the cycle. The Fourth Turning has almost a decade left to run. The pandemic was the decisive event which defined the failure of Trump, who lost the electoral college by about 43,000 votes in 3 states, which is similar to how he won it by 77,744 votes in 3 states in 2016. But this narrow Biden victory, and probably the gridlock to follow to one degree or another with the neo-liberals and xenophobes still having much power, means struggles still lie ahead, and confrontations with the results of neo-liberal power still lie ahead and must be resolved. The modern saeculum and the 4 turnings of course correspond to the cycle of Uranus around the Sun every 84 years, which Strauss and Howe in T4T defined exactly as the archetypal length of their cycle without referring to Uranus, and which the great astrologer Dane Rudhyar defined for Uranus in exactly the same way as based on the average length of a human life.
The great conjunction in 2020 also marks a time when the Information/Cyber Age will be further developed, as industrialism continues to decline because of its assaults on Nature and human dignity and health. Astrologically, the shift in these conjunctions this year from materialist-centered earth zodiac signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) since 1802 and from 1842 through 1961, into mental and communication-centered air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius), with the preview of this in 1981, emphasizes the point.
In the larger cycle of civilization, the current assault and deadly infringement on Nature resulted in the long term from the break from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance. The glory of God as the aim of civilization was shifted toward the ambitions of men. Perspective changed from gazing up into the heights, to exploring and conquering across the horizons. Humans were gradually liberated from subservience to faith over reason and science throughout the Renaissance and Enlightenment era, whose results speak well for the Renaissance humanist paradigm in many ways. To some extent, this liberation continues to be a foundation for our current age. But there has also been a break, since the turn of the 20th century. Ever since those times, when a new 493-year planetary cycle of Neptune-PLuto began, artists, scientists, philosophers and politicians have broken through the Renaissance worldview of the Earth as a horizon to conquer with peoples to subdue. Historians date our current era from the World Wars, which brought European dominance and imperialism to an end. The cycle of civilization proclaimed the break from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and it proclaimed the break from the Renaissance into the new global civilization dawning today.
In the sixties and seventies, both the dawn of the information age and the failure of American exceptionalism and industrial failures and the birth of new counter-cultures ended the "orange" industrial age and opened the "green" one of respect for diversity and green-peace. This is a new Revolution that supercedes the industrial and political Revolution of the late 18th century-- which again the astrological cycle confirms as well, this time with Uranus-Pluto conjunctions and oppositions. It also pushed further the end of the Renaissance paradigm.
But why should I mention the planetary and astrological cycles? Aren't the others sufficient? That's a long story, and I refer you to my posts on the thread that mentions astrology here. But suffice to say, I am not claiming that planets through some physical mechanical force cause humans to have certain characters and behaviors. Certainly, the cycles of the Sun, Moon and Earth affect us in measurable ways, and this is part of astrology too. But what astrology also says is that we human beings are not separate objects, but are connected and entangled with the cosmos around us. The planets have a certain kind of identity with which we resonate, and which are parts of us as holographic wholes. As above, so below. We have created these planetary archetypes through the 4 instrumental ages and through spiral and planetary-dynamic social evolution and discovery, as fully as the planets have done it for us. It is one tidal progression, and one process. If astrology works to an extent, which I confirmed for myself through experimental means, then it confirms the new paradigm that we need today, and which must dawn if we are to save ourselves from the pandemic that brought down Trump, as well as from the exploitation of Nature and human beings as objects which Trump represented, instead of being an integral part of divine spirituality within and beyond Nature, which is our true reality. We can debate this on the other thread. But clearly, the Renaissance and Enlightenment paradigm is not enough to carry us forward; nor is the industrial one which is its product. The new philosophy is needed. And astrology is an integral part of it; and so, for that matter, are all the other cyclic rather than merely linear views of the human process.