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Date: June 3, 2006 12:09:00 PM PDT
Subject: (5) The 20-Year Cycle of Presidential Deaths in Office

After posting a few items expanding on this subject, I would like to conclude with some observations from my own astrological research conducted after the failed assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981 (followed by two attempts to assassinate ex-president Ford).

As a rule, astrologers attribute those deaths to the malefic effects of Saturn conjoining Jupiter for two logical enough reasons: (1) the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn has [except in the earliest years] regularly occurred at the (first) election of each president who has died in office by assassination or from "natural causes," and (2) the 20-year Jupiter-Saturn conjunction cycle is an essential element in the 60-year cycle in which those two planets, along with all the inner planets, return to almost identical zodiacal positions, which fact led the ancients to glorify 60 years as the "life cycle" (aeon, "life-span") defining the historic succession of generations, e.g., in "dynastic" changes, such as those symbolically attended --by human intervention, if not naturally occurring-- by a dramatic double ceremony: the funeral of the older generation's ruler AND the "coronation" of the younger generation's ruler, his son or grandson [originally celebrating conception or birth of a child as his heir].  (Cf. New Year's Eve imagery of the old man of the year past and the infant new year.)

However, due to their fixation on Saturn-Jupiter influences, astrologers tend to overlook the role potentially played by a different, larger cycle which is analogous but on a scale far more "historic" -- the 180-year cycle between conjunctions of Uranus and Neptune, planets only recently discovered and presumably unobserved by the ancients.  (Encompassed by it, by "coincidence" easily confused with it, are three 60-year cycles or nine 20-year cycles.)
So, the first thing that struck my attention while investigating the astrological signatures of US presidential deaths in office was that, looking only at Saturn-Jupiter influences, the "timing" was off, i.e., the correlation between planetary positions/aspects and the dates of actual events wasn't precise enough to support direct, primary connection -- the supposed connection was pretty "loose," in fact, and more symbolic than mathematically arguable.
Turning next to the outer planets, searching for other variables to satisfy the hypothetical equation, I discovered that both Uranus and Neptune, together and separately, provided numbers that were much more in sync with the timing of observed effects -- a tighter fit.

Let me outline here the "big picture" which I saw revealed then, in brief and simple terms, allowing some leeway in exactitude of numbers (astrological degrees, calendar dates) because I wont be consulting charts for every instance I shall make reference to here.
Uranus and Neptune were in conjunction, at 1 degree Capricorn, exactly in 1821-1822 (moving so slowly, the two planets remain tightly aligned for a few years before and after) and returned to conjunction --marking the end of one cycle, the beginning of the next-- in mid 1993, during the first year of Clinton's presidency.  (The Uranus-Neptune cycle is only "ideally" 180 years long.)  The 1821-1822 period in US history has been described as the "Monroe era," which signalled the end of the Revolutionary era and, thanks to the War of 1812, marked the beginning of the United States as a distinct entity, more or less unaffected by the course of events in Europe.  In our history, from that period on, two main themes began to predominate: industrialization and territorial expansion, both of which underlined psychological, cultural and ideological conflicts between the North(east) and South(west), slavery becoming a central issue, symbolic of all.  During the same period, another issue --likewise rooted in the duality of centralized power and elitist rule versus greater local (state) autonomy and more "democratic" rule-- was the disproportionate role in national politics played by Masons, elitist secret societies, and an older-generation Revolutionary-era sense of "tradition" more rooted in European history (favoring "foreign influence") than native provincial-colonial conditions.  For some, then, 1821-1822 marks the birth of "populism" (sometimes "mob-rule") and demagoguery, the exaltation of "pragmatic" interests (like seizing neighboring territories) over principles or philosophical ideals, and the increasing dominance of anti-libertarian (e.g., "privileges" vs "rights") as well as anti-authoritarian (i.e., nonconformist, anti-federal) sentiments in the American body politic.

Now, on to the deaths that seem to mark the beginning and unfolding of this era as a cycle.
After conjoining at 1º Capricorn in 1821-1822, Uranus and Neptune were slowly separating during the two decades in which we note several unusual deaths on or around July 4th, to which I've referred elsewhere.  On July 4, 1826, when both Jefferson and Adams died (albeit of "natural causes," in old age), Uranus and Neptune were still within a 10 degree orb, but Neptune, still in Capricorn, was in exact opposition to the sun on that day.  The death of James Monroe, "father" of the era, occurred 5 years later with Neptune opposing the sun within 11 degrees, a much looser aspect.  Neptune's effects, "fuzzy" at the beginning?
 
[Note to technically-minded astrologers: Below I refer to the 135-degree aspect as a "semisquare," simplifying the nomenclature of "negative aspects" --all multiples of 45 degrees-- as oppositions, squares and "half"-squares.]

Imagine a circle divided into 8 equal parts, i.e., four quarters and the midpoints between them.  That circle is a "clock" that is now ticking, the hour hand (Neptune) starting at midnight (conjunction) ca. 1820, proceeding to 1:30 (semisquare) ca. 1840, 3:00 (square) ca. 1860, 4:30 (semisquare again) ca. 1880, 6:00 (opposition) ca. 1900, slowing down a bit at 7:30 (semisquare) ca. 1920, 9:00 (square) ca. 1940, 10:30 (semisquare) ca. 1960, and creeping toward midnight (conjunction) again...
 
Harrison d. April 4, 1841 -- Transiting Neptune at 17º Aquarius (Semisquare to point of conjunction with Uranus at 1º Capricorn, just 1 degree off)

Lincoln d. April 14, 1865 -- Transiting Neptune at 8º Aries (Squaring 1º Capricorn, 7 degrees off, PLUS transiting Uranus at 26º Gemini (opposition to 1º Capricorn, 4 degrees off)

Garfield d. September 19, 1881 -- Transiting Neptune 16º Taurus (Semisquare EXACT)

McKinley d. September 14, 1901 -- Transiting Neptune 1º Cancer, in EXACT opposition to its point of conjunction with Uranus at 1º Capricorn

Harding d. August 2, 1923 -- Transiting Neptune at 17º Leo (Semisquare, 1 degree off)

Roosevelt d. April 12, 1945 -- Transiting Neptune at 4º Libra, Square, 3 degrees off

Kennedy d. November 22, 1963 -- Transiting Neptune at 16º Scorpio (Semisquare EXACT)
Astrologers correlate the expectation of death in office --as much as 6 years later-- with a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in or cnear the year of the victim's (first) election to office, but a Neptune hard-aspect transit to its own position in a Uranus-Neptune conjunction is more precisely linked to the actual event -- the death itself (by assassination or otherwise).

THEN: Reagan shot but survived March 30, 1981 -- Transiting Neptune at 24º Sagittarius, 6 degrees short of exact conjunction with the 1º Capricorn point of the ORIGINAL Uranus-Neptune cycle in 1821-22, but out of range of any aspect to the NEW Uranus-Neptune cycle beginning with a conjunction in a later degree of Capricorn 11 years ahead in the future.

Apparently, just as the effects of the Uranus-Neptune were "fuzzy" in the first couple of decades before Neptune formed its first hard (negative) aspect to that "seed" position, when Uranus and Neptune have separated to maximum extent and begun to approach each other again on the way to a new conjunction, the effects of Uranus-Neptune in the decades BEFORE conjunction are likewise "fuzzy," their influence "evocative" yet not definitive.

We probably see that rule at work, likewise, in the planned-but-failing assassination plot against outgoing President George HW Bush in April of 1993 (coinciding with the EXACT conjunction of Uranus and Neptune!) and one (allegedly TWO) planned-but-failing assassination plots against President Clinton, possibly in Sept 1993, definitely in 1994. 

Another item of interest: Three of those who died in office were born in, or close to, the year in which ANOTHER death in office occurred, thus "coincidentally" linking SIX of the victims.  Harrison died 1841; McKinley born 1843, two years off.  Lincoln died 1865; Harding born 1865.  Garfield died 1881; Roosevelt born 1882, one year off.  (Translated into astrological calculations, one or two years is negligible in terms of the positioning of outer planets.)     


The planet Neptune, after all, "rules" the Age of Pisces -- the Christian era, symbolized by a Divine King, hated and scorned, betrayed by a conspiracy and dying a sacrificial death.

Neptune, astrologically, rules the Church as a body of believers, religion and any mass-belief structure, socially-mediated emotionality in general (bonds of collective identification), delusions, "hypnotic trances," and any "influence" which primarily appeals to the emotions by artful manipulation of emotionally-evocative images or symbols, whether in religion, advertising ("con men"), political demagoguery, or in cinema or theatre.  For the same reason, the "Neptunian" influence is felt also in deception, dis-illusionment and a sense of betrayal, criminal plots and political conspiracies (aiming to realize big "dreams").  Neptune (Gk. Poseidon) the god, in classical mythology, governed all those symbols evocatively portrayed in the environment of Jesus in the Gospels: that mysterious watery element the sea, waves, baptism or anointment in water or with liquids, sailors and fishermen, the mystic ritual of "fishing" (see Hemingway's "The Old Man and Sea" for the mood), nets, as well as all creatures of the sea, dolphins, fish, etc.  To whose who worshiped him as god, Neptune brought unexpected good OR bad luck (being a notoriously tricky deity), dreams (and nightmares), visions or prophecies, presided over consciousness-altering liquid substances (including alcohol), and in that respect shared many qualities with the demigod anciently reputed to be his Son, Dionysus -- the dying/reborn sacrificed god who was accepted as the mirror-image of "Christ" in contemporary Hellenistic culture.
Same archetype, different symbols: the universal vs the "local," differentiated by culture. 
 
All of which may account for the "transcendental" emotion, "shock and awe" --essentially religious-- which crowds experience whenever a charismatic authority-figure is murdered.     

   

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