Piscean and Aquarian age

Several years ago, I spoke of Barack obama as an "arching energy" between the outgoing Piscean age of intellectual domination and the new Aquarian age of cooperation and peacefulness.
These energies are reflected separately in all four of the political figures in the current Presidential race.
In a Universe of dual energies,light and dark, the dark side is called the SHADOW. The shadow of any issue is what is obviously hidden from plane view.
The out of balance Aquarian energy coming in is about fear and control of the masses. The issues are self-centeredness vs. selflessness, dedication to others or control. The bottom line is hypocrisy.
I have been particularly focused on Sarah Palin from an astrological and numerological point of view as she reflects intensely the energies in the Universe that are waning.
She is a perfect example of the fading attitudes of humankind. Her behaviors and attitudes are perfect examples of the shadow side (dark) of the Aquarian age and she herself, personally is the sign of Aquarius.
Thinking that I was all alone in my analysis, I was emailed a supporting article written by renowned Deepok Chopra saying the same thing connected to the Piscean/Aquarian shift and Sarah Palin.
Keep in mind that the outgoing Piscean age energy subjugated women!
I am including a portion written by Chopra on Sept. 9, 2008:

"Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City.
She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other."
For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them.
He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind.
I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin's message.
In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision.
Look at what she stands for:
--Small town values -- a denial of America's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.
--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America's image abroad.
--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.
--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.
--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.
--"Reform" -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn't fit your ideology.

Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us" pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat.
The radical right marches under the banners of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as it is."
The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time.
She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress.
The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good.
The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.

Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light. www.deepakchopra.com
I (Chopra) thought it would be worthwhile to talk about how one deals with the shadow once it breaks out and begins to disrupt things.
The emergence of Gov. Palin wasn’t simply startling — it was inexplicable. How could 20% of women voters suddenly turn toward her when Palin stands for erasing forty years of feminism?
How could the mentality of a small-town mayor morph into a potential President making global decisions?
To explain her meteoric rise, I offered the idea that each of us harbors a shadow, a place where our hidden impulses live. By appealing to fear, resentment, hostility to change, suspicion of “the other,” and similar dark impulses, the Republicans have been the shadow’s party for a long time. Sarah Palin put a smiling face on feelings that normally we feel ashamed of.

The shadow is irrational; it thrives on gut emotions. Bringing a campaign down to the gut level means bringing it down to the level of the shadow.
Instead of listening to an intelligent, persuasive, charismatic man with one African-American parent, people get to say, “I just don’t like blacks. They’re scary; they’re not like me. It’s a gut thing.” Only it’s not. It’s a shadow thing that each of us, not just the right wing, must deal with.
Reacting to Palin with fear, confusion, panic, and lashing out also comes from the shadow.
People who were shocked and dismayed by the Palin effect generally don’t know how to handle shadow energies. Here are a few salient points:
If you don’t encourage them, these energies dissipate.
The bottom line is that the 2008 election isn’t about change versus experience or a noble candidate who may lose to one who plays dirty.
This election is about consciousness.
Since the Reagan revolution, consciousness has been sleepy and dull in politics; ideals have been tarnished by cynicism; inner decay has sapped the party in power of its original purpose, leaving only a pointless morass of defensiveness that expresses itself in negativity.
If the majority of the electorate wakes up and feels inspired to turn the page, that will happen. Obama has sounded the call; few people missed the message. Now it’s a matter of dealing with a phase of fear and resistance before we discover if stuck consciousness is ready to move ahead." www.deepokchopra.com
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