States’ Rights Is Rallying Cry for Lawmakers – NYTimes.com.

“Whether it’s correctly called a movement, a backlash or political theater, state declarations of their rights — or in some cases denunciations of federal authority, amounting to the same thing — are on a roll.”

The Great Experiment, aka the democracy of the United States, is once again in flux. Pluto is the planet of transformation, evolution, regeneration. Pluto is now moving through Capricorn, the sign that represents government, and the sign Pluto was moving through in 1776 as seen the in the chart for the United States. Over the next fourteen years while Pluto makes its way through Capricorn we can expect to see major shifts, corrections, and re-calibrations of our political systems and how we choose to govern ourselves.

Pluto is in the early degrees of Capricorn (5 degrees of this writing) and that’s where it was in 1764. There was a lot happening in this country back then. The Sugar Act was passed, which was the basis for the colonists outrage over “no taxation without representation” (along with the Boston Tea Party in 1763). The War of Regulation (1764-1771) was happening in North Carolina where citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials. The French and Indian War had just ended and helped to bring the states into a closer coalition with one another.