An unusual dilemma lies at the astrological heart of our US presidential inauguration date. Originally, 233 years ago, Election Day was set for the first week of November. March 4 of the year following an election was chosen by the Founding Fathers as Inauguration Day. The four-month gap was not an unusual election because the times and travel were overwhelming for the winners of all federal elections, for those taking the oath of office, as well as for the incoming and outgoing Congress and those who administered and witnessed those elections. oaths. Four months were necessary between the election and the inauguration and that time was also used for organizing efforts. We were a country in expansion, with men who had businesses, farms, jobs, families, other responsibilities, who had to travel great distances in difficult conditions with quite primitive means of transportation and communication.
As we developed and the industrial age improved communications and transportation, Congress decided that four months were no longer necessary and Inauguration Day was reset to January 20 of the year following an election. That allowed two and a half months for the incoming president to get organized, select a cabinet and top staff, educate himself on the state of the nation, get his personal business affairs in order, pack his family for the move, and generally get ready in the moment of the oath to assume the direction of the country. The first president to take office on the new date was Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 for his second election. During his first term, he took us through recovering from the Great Depression and rebuilding the American economy, as well as dealing with Germany’s Hitler, who had begun his path to world domination and World War II. . But step back a bit: can you imagine what FDR inherited in 1933 in his first election and what he faced when the German war machine emerged? Does it remind you of a current economic crisis?
So far, this description of the inaugurations sounds like the normal functioning of the country, but there is an underlying story that must be revealed. It is well known that several of the Founding Fathers were Freemasons, a rather secretive intellectual fraternity or society heavily influenced by symbolism and ritual. Over the years, some of its esoteric secrets have been revealed, but many questions remain unanswered. These Masonic practices are believed to have influenced the founding of the United States of America (USA) through the involvement of the Founding Fathers themselves. It is the symbolism and astrological influence that interests me for this article and it is quite prevalent in drawings and documents now in the public domain. For example, there is a well-known drawing of George Washington in his Masonic apron at the groundbreaking ceremony for the United States Capitol. Our first military leader and president had risen to a high degree of Freemasonry.
For this article, I will assume that at least some of the Founding Fathers were Freemasons, well educated in symbolism and metaphysical and astrological lore, and that their belief system entered into their choices for the new country they were founding. If you are interested, study the symbolism inherent in our founding, development, design and buildings of the capital city, the seal and currency of our country and you will find proof of my assumption.
There is an astrological aspect that is considered “lucky” or fortunate and is typically used when selecting a date and time to begin an important project such as the birth of a country that will have a positive influence when selected or activated. The aspect is called a trigon, which is a 120-degree mathematical measure of the distance between two positions on a graph. This trine is considered strongest when Jupiter and/or Venus are involved. Jupiter (the slow moving giant) is called the major benefic and Venus (the much faster moving and smaller rocky planet) is called the minor benefic. Benefit comes from the word benefit that should not require explanation.
The US birth chart has a beautiful Venus/Jupiter conjunct Cancer right at the top of the Virgo rising chart. In English please. The two benefits (Venus and Jupiter) are holding hands (conjunction) and are strong (close) and getting stronger (applying) in the sign of the clan, family, country (Cancer), high in the sky pouring their blessings on our 10th. house (arena) of goals, achievements, achievements and stature. The Sun is close also on the 10th. It just doesn’t get any better than that for any graphic and it’s our country’s graphic for our 4th of July birthday.
Now that I have explained the concept of the trine, we can take it one step further. If there are multiple trines in a chart, luck or good fortune is considered to repeat regardless of which planets or points are involved because the aspect itself is lucky. It is possible to have three of these trines connected to each other, forming what is called a grand trine, three connected trines of 120 degrees each around the 360 degree wheel. Our country doesn’t have one of these in the birth chart itself, but our incredibly smart and futuristic Founding Fathers found a way to give us one of those babies anyway. I didn’t realize it at first, but once I realized what they had done, I saw the grand trine working in and for our country. Or should I say it worked for our country until it was changed by well meaning politicians.
The dates themselves are the grand trine and were meant to continue in perpetuity for our country. July 4th is the date of our birth and our birthday each year at approximately 13 Cancer, the position of the US Sun. The choice of the first week of November puts the Sun around 13 Scorpio, give or take. a couple of degrees (orb). March 4 is the date the Founding Fathers selected as the inauguration of the incoming president, approximately 13 Pisces. Thus, 13 Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces represents a grand trine of dates and signs with Lady Luck smiling at us.
I have cast all the letters of inauguration of each president, elected or elevated by necessity. Putting aside inaugurations that were caused by the untimely death of a president-elect, which just can’t fit into the intended pattern, the Piscean qualities of traditional inaugurations are astounding. From the Sun as a single to incredible multiples of Pisces energy, the first 148 years of our country’s existence were dominated by that Piscean influence with that wonderful Grand Trine giving us as much protection and comfort as possible. Our Founding Fathers bestowed upon us a legacy of perpetual good. However, regardless of how much good those heroes have bestowed upon us, we cannot protect ourselves against ourselves.
When a later well-meaning Congress with little or no symbolic or astrological knowledge changed the opening date to January 20, they inadvertently destroyed the grand trine provided by our ancestors “in the know.” Our grand trine and protection as we knew it is gone and we have had a completely different birth/election/inauguration pattern since the 1936 election with its resulting 1937 inauguration. The date of January 20th moved the inaugural Sun to 00 Aquarius and the New Age was upon us, the Age of Aquarius, supposedly about “the humanity of man for man.” As I look around me in the current experience, I don’t see that we reach that lofty goal yet, but now it is our signature.
Now we know what we lost; there is no longer a great pattern of beneficial aspects that protect us. What we win? July 4 to the first week of November, birth of choice, maintains the unique trine and that’s good; three are better, but one is still good. The date of choice for the inauguration is 77 days or degrees of travel from the Sun, no aspect in particular. The opening date to birth is 163 days or degrees as the Sun travels, another non-aspect. There is no help there. What about the Aquarius theme mentioned above?
From the agricultural society of our Founding Fathers, through the industrial revolution and its ramifications, society moved from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy. The needs and expression of the country and its citizens changed. Since 1937 and that impending world war, we have entered the age of computers and communications. International and space travel is available, international borders are slowly dissolving as we become a global citizenry. We have moved into the future and the future “R us”. All of this is very Aquarian. Uranus was discovered, not invented, when our emerging colonies became a “working” country. In the 233 years since we were born, we have seen the world change dramatically as invention and expansion carried us into the future. From its position at the top of our national chart, Uranus leads our nation with its influence of freedom, individuality, insight, invention and search for the future, our eyes on the stars, and our drive for all humans to be free. Therefore, the new inaugural energy actually serves our current purpose. What we have lost by sheer luck we must make up for with effort.
I believe in a purposeful universe, not chance or chaos, so there was no mistake, there was just change. We may have lost that protective energy provided by our Founding Fathers, but we are their descendants. We must take ourselves to the future regardless of the risks because life always moves forward “and does not dwell on yesterday” (Kahlil Gibran in The Prophet). We are the children and citizens of the new Age of Aquarius, emerging into the world and perhaps into galactic citizenship in the not too distant future.
If we respect our history, our lessons and our progress but keep our eyes on the future, we will succeed. We cannot succeed by looking back while moving forward. This is a choice we must make individually and collectively. We, as a people, are bright, talented and brave enough to confidently move forward into our future. We can do this. We have to create our own Grand Trine!