Where Doth Our Path Lead Now?
by Jude Cowell
Considering the major shift of direction now in progress in and for the United States of America under the chaotic, amateurish, near-whimsical leadership of maverick-in-chief Donald J. Trump and his GOP minions, I must ask you a question: is Trump fulfilling a role as America’s collective psychopomp? Perhaps an answer for those who adhere to astrological principles and practices may be found in a consideration of Mr. Trump’s natal Uranus, which is oriental @17Gemini in his 10th house of Public Status, for Mr. Quirky the disruptive ‘Sky God’ is Trump’s last planet to rise before natal Sun (22Gemini), and as such is considered his guiding planet leading the pack.
Now as you know, a psychopomp’s Mercurial themes suggest transition to an afterlife yet a psychopomp may also act as a guide into a new phase of life, opening a passage or doorway into a novel, unusual, or different way of living. The regressive policies of the Republican Party under Trump and Trump’s aggressive rhetoric are, in a sense, opening many doors as 2018 begins. Yet most of these are shadowy doors better left shut and this is what yours truly has continually fretted about: that Trump’s and the GOP’s idea of a ‘new way of living’ is much more authoritarian than most Americans who value democracy and freedom prefer or could possibly prefer–and more draconian than they knew they were voting for in November 2016.
But as noted, it’s 2018 and too late to easily undo the initial harm His Quirkiness is perpetrating upon our laws, freedoms, and institutions. Yes, perhaps our #resistance to Trump is only shouting into a storm, a very negative storm as it turns out. But can Mr. Trump’s style of ‘leadership’ somehow be for the best? Do our country’s regressive wounds need opening for resolution? To me this seems doubtful at this time yet reaching the other side of whatever Higher Forces have in mind for our nation and the rest of the globe must occur in some form or fashion, with or without Mr. Trump as guide. Plus, without him, the theocrat VP Pence will step into the guiding role (or perhaps he already has from behind the wizard’s curtain) so with either man, you know what old slogan must come tragically to mind now, don’t you?
‘Tis the blind leading the blind.
