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The Primaries and the Saturn Uranus Opposition
By Ellen Zucker | May 19, 2010
Watching the headlines is a wonderful way to learn astrology. And there was a lot to learn if you followed yesterday’s primaries. Analyzing the results shows the impact of the ongoing Saturn-Uranus opposition.
In the races that drew the most media attention, Arlen Specter vs. Joe Sestak for Democratic nomination to the US Senate in Pennsylvania, Blanche Lincoln vs. Bill Halter for Democratic nomination to the US Senate in Arkansas, and Rand Paul running for the Republican Senate primary against Trey Grayson in Kentucky, the establishment–and the center–lost.
In more normal times, the incumbents and the establishment candidates would have won easily.
Saturn, the planet of the status quo, the establishment, conservatism with a small ‘c’, tradition, has been opposing Uranus, planet of change, revolution, break up, breakthrough, and upset since the fall of 2008.
The extreme polarization and partisanship is one result. Flip flops in the party in power is another.
In the Kentucky race, the tea party candidate won, in the Pennsylvania race, a 30 year incumbent, Arlen Specter lost his bid against a more left-wing Democrat.
That race is particularly interesting. Arlen Specter was a moderate Republican throughout his Senatorial career. His voting record tended to be quirky and undependable. But as the Republican party moved right-ward he became more isolated.
His vote, one of only three Republican votes to support Obama’s stimulus bill may have kept the country from falling into an economic abyss, but it nailed his doom with the Republican party.
Shortly thereafter, he joined the Democratic party and has since voted reliably along Democratic party lines. Although enjoying staunch backing from the Democratic establishment from President Obama on down, many rank and file Democrats did not trust him and were unable to forgive him for his votes advancing the Republican agenda during the Bush years.
In Arkansas, the challenger, Bill Halter, also coming from the left, ran strongly enough to force that race to a runoff.
The upshot is when these candidates run in November, voters’ choices will be highly contrasted. In Pennsylvania, for example, Arlen Specter’s departure from the Republican party cleared the way for hardcore right-wing Pat Toomey to win the Republican nomination where he faces off against liberal Joe Sestak.
Rank and file citizens who have felt that their interests have been sold out in favor of the financial establishment and the well-connected are increasingly frustrated. The winner of that race will tell us a great deal about the direction that growing grassroots anger and discontent is playing out.
To be continued.
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