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The discovery
of this planet explained the unusual restlessness in America and the
disruptions of European society in strange and unusual ways. A scientific
revolution was in progress that threatened all that humans had believed
in for centuries. People began to talk about the rights of humans. They
criticized their betters, their government, their religion. They printed
newspapers with their own ideas and views.
Neptune came along later in 1846, and appeared in the fourth house of
the U.S. chart, affecting family roots, emotional well being, and a
new and dangerous energy: oil. Neptune rules strong occult knowledge
and almost fanatical beliefs. The planet often brings unusual talent
out through an individual or uses that same individual as a scapegoat.
It is a planet of impotency and emasculaton. It rules the movie industry,
an escape for the average American. Because Neptune makes a close square
of crisis and challenge to Mars energy, which is rising in the U.S.
chart, the nation and men in particular must find some outlet for sexual
energy. Uranus demands change and excitement so the country has always
found an outlet in substitutes such as speed, war, rape of the environment,
heroism, and pioneering new frontiers. Because the ascendent is Gemini,
there is an accent on engineering, science, and religion. This is a
dangerous square, never satisfied and often cruel and ruthless because
sex in America is blanketed by a
The third outer planet, Pluto, emerged in 1930, forming a Pluto-Uranus-Saturn
T-square, bringing constant tension as it conjuncts the U.S. Cancer
sun. Possessions, money, power and sexual appetites are emphasized.
The atomic bomb was the brain child of this Plutonian energy and filled
the need for a powerful masculine sexual release. Since the religious
morality of the United States denies such a release, the energy turns
negative as it moves guiltily into mass consciousness.
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