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.

One lawsuit described the gallery as ”nothing more than a Ponzi scheme,” and at least one artist’s family went to the police. via After Accusations of Theft, Art Dealer Is Indicted – NYTimes.com. Apparently Ponzi schemes aren’t endemic to investment bankers. Today is the New Moon and it’s conjunct Venus retrograde. As I wrote about…

One of the more notable astrological events of the past year was the ingress (changing of signs) of Pluto into Capricorn. Because of its long elliptical orbit around the Sun the last time Pluto entered Capricorn was in the 1760s. When we look back to that time we see the colonies in financial turmoil – they were being…