The United States Is Having Its First Pluto Return!

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8. I Just Did Some Astrological Research on the American Civil War

And found out that its start, in April 1861, with the attack on Ft. Sumter, pretty much coincided with the first Uranus return of the United States. "Four score and seven years ago..." declared President Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address... Well, it just so turns out that Uranus has an eighty-four year orbital cycle around the Sun.

In astrology, Uranus is the planet of spiritual freedom and individuation, of becoming more and more your true self and living up to your spiritual ideals. And so, there was the growing tension between our nation's founding ideals, as voiced in the Declaration of Independence, and this little thing called slavery, which was an affront to those some ideals; various compromises were tried to accommodate this tension, but they finally broke down and erupted into the civil war, in which slavery was defeated and America moved one step closer towards putting those high ideals of freedom and equality into practice.