When I think of America’s place in the world today,
the image that comes to mind is of a very large animal, perhaps a huge bull
elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long roamed as the unchallenged
king of its domain but has become trapped by its own missteps, as caught in a
tar pit or some quicksand, and it is violently flailing about, making a
terrifying noises in its effort to free itself and re-establish its authority. Any
observer immediately knows the animal ultimately cannot succeed but certainly
is frightened by the noise and crashing that it can sustain for a considerable
time.
I think that is the pretty accurate metaphor for
the situation of the United States today, still a terribly large and powerful
society but one finding itself trapped after a long series of its own blunders
and errors, a society certain ultimately to become diminished in its prestige
and relative power with all the difficulties which that will entail for an
arrogant people having a blind faith in their own rightness. America simply
cannot accept its mistakes or that it was ever wrong, for Americanism much resembles
a fundamentalist religion whose members are incapable of recognizing or
admitting they ever followed anything but the divine plan.
The US
Sibly is shown here. The current direction is
solar arc Sun [11pi] square the Ascendant [12sa] and the Hades/Kronos
midpoint [11sa]. The delineation for the TNP midpoint is as below [1]:
Hades-Kronos:
Mistakes made by leaders or government; humiliation through loss of position or
authority.
[1] The
Orders of Light; Martha Wescott Lang
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