Hi, Lynn. Great post, as usual.
I’ve been thinking about the Tea Party movement in terms of Pluto in Capricorn too, especially in square to Saturn.
I looked back into the American Revolutionary times and sure enough, at the time of the Boston Tea Party, Pluto was in Capricorn and Saturn in Virgo, exactly as it was at the advent of the current movement.
Other correspondences between that time and now are revealing, too. President Obama has been using the phrase, common sense, alot lately,and that was the name of a prominent pamphlet written and distributed at that time.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence was ratified under Pluto in Capricorn and Saturn in Libra. I wonder what our current version of that will be? Something of the same order of magnitude?
I’ve been studying and comparing our time to the American revolutionary time and will blog about it. But I wanted to let you know I agree with your Pluto in Capricorn assessment for the Tea Party movement.

Lynn, the post above was from me but it doesn’t list my name for some reason. So I wanted to add, submitted by Ellen Longo

If Obama is using the phrase “common sense” lately, it is probably because Glenn Beck has been using the phrase for a longer time and also has a book titled “Common Sense.” Which is a study on the original pamphlet. Maybe Obama is using it because he knows how popular Glenn is now.

I don’t know where that excerpt on the Tea Party Movement was taken from, I’m guessing some left-wing blog. That is certainly how it reads. If one is able to keep their own biases out of analysis, as an astrologer, it’s helpful and I think it is plain to see that the Tea Party Movement is not about coffee mugs and bumper stickers. It’s a revolt against the status quo, against the entrenched big govt. It sprang up spontaneously among two groups: Ron Paul Libertarians and disenfranchised Conservatives. There are also some Hillary types in the mix.

Earlier that same day three employees of the Tesla Auto company crashed in a small plane too in Menlo Park. Somehow that didn’t make the national news. for which I’m very sorry! Seems like once more the creative forces outside the mainstream seem to have been foiled. :>((

I was a captive audience to a conversation about the Tea Party movement on Friday. It was hard to escape since it took place right next to my desk. The two guys, both white conservative Republicans in their 50s, are in genera agreement that Obama is a disastrous Communist/Socialist/Marxist whatever president, Congress is a joke and it’s time to throw the rascals, including our senators and representative, out and that health care reform will destroy the country. The one guy did say, in all seriousness, that some of the tea party movement is going too far and will make “normal” people like them look bad if they get too out of hand. I’m assuming he was referring to the sort of people who compare Obama to an African witch doctor and keep insisting he wasn’t born in America. My general impression is that the tea party movement is a mishmash of restless anger and dissatisfaction with anything and everything that’s happening in Washington and with the economy and life in general. It’s ephemeral and I doubt everyone shares the same ideas about what’s wrong or how to fix it. They’re moderate to conservative Republicans and Democrats and libertarians and when they’re fed up with the economy, they generally blame government and liberals, not small business, though I don’t think there’s any great love for Wall Street in general. But yeah, everyone’s angry, very angry, and if someone figures out how to direct all of that anger in a purposeful manner, I don’t know what the end result will be. I’m not sure how that fits into your theory.

I think you are right on and I think it is very important for astrology to help explain many of the things that are happening today in this country. Tea baggers and Timothy Mcvey type philosophies, which are definitely in the same selfish crazy barrel of nut cases, are the real terrorists in this country.

I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration, Ann’s, given that we’re at war on two different fronts and there have been incidents in the last few months of Islamic extremists attempting to blow up domestic flights. The Tea Party movement is populism, with some crazy racists and Tim McVey wackos at the fringes and angry, disenfranchised people who’ve lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs or seeing the country change overnight at the center. To the left of Obama we have crazies of the liberal persuasion, probably the sort who threw paint on people wearing fur coats a decade ago or protested and vandalized stuff at World Trade Organization meetings. Both sides are fond of calling each other’s leaders Nazis, a colossal insult to the millions of people who died at the hands of the real Nazis. Same song, different verse. Spare us all from fanatics and violent nuts of any persuasion.

I wonder why they got angry all of a sudden. It’s not like things are any much different than when Bush was president. To me the Tea Baggers have selective memory. And I haven’t seen any ideas of how to fix things come out of them. Lots of wind, blowing in all directions = no direction.

I see them as racist taking cover in another word. They are legitimizing hating. It has nothing to do with politics or what most Americans value. They extremist white male that has discovered a new way of expanding and tending to hate in a way that has never been done before. They will never be happy until another holocaust is preformed or enough anger is generated to attack another county. Our history is full of these events. Is a shame that passionate caring people allow them to proliferate in the name of doing right? Our only choices to weather these events and choose leadership in our self that insure their number do not expand.
tom

This is suppose to be about astrology not obamaloonies!! these people that follow him are racists thenselves. obama and his wife sat in a hate white church for twennty years. he’s destroying this country. worst prez ever.hopefully the normal people in this country will vote them all out in november and 2012! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

It’s frightening to live in liberal san Francisco and say anything critical of Onama. I’m not kidding! Any type of critic is labeled a racist or fascist or worse. I think there is so much hysteria around making Obama a saint it is bordering on hitlermania. I don’t think we want to make this site political, but if we do, the first thing to investigate should be the fanatical and messianic followers of Obama who seem to be in the majority. What does it mean when anyone is such uncritical worship? And the worshipers are in total denial about it!

I don’t want to censor anna’s comment, but this is the last nonconstructive comment I’ll allow here. Anything else and I’ll come in with my carving knife.

“Watery Grand Trine people can sometimes find it difficult to have any objectivity with respect to their emotion, and his chart is very short on the air element which would provide that objectivity.” Spoken like a Mars in Cappy I have one too, a Grand Trine in Water (Saturn/Neptune/Jupiter), and my Aquarian Moon is my only Air planet. I don’t have that same lack of objectivity, although I do work at it. I think it is the other aspect that you suggest mostly, the Saturn-Pluto Square hit by the Chiron/Neptune conjunction.

Just started browsing this site and comments such as Annas should be removed from this site forever! First of all they are unfounded and second this is in fact about astrology! Thank you!