During its initial ingress into Capricorn, transit Pluto held a stationary square (within a one degree orb) to the USA Sibly MC from 28 January 2008 to 11 June 2008.

It was rather shocking, even if expected, to witness its immediate impact on the USA economic structure and the subsequent survival response by the federal government (proposal of bail-out programs).

Regarding President-elect Obama, the transit of Pluto in opposition to his IC ruler, Venus, appears to be at the root of the surfacing of his past Chicago political connections with its cast of sleazy characters.

C.E.O. Carter wrote of the Sun-Neptune square that Mr Obama possesses: “The tendency of Neptune to produce scandal is often seen; sometimes the native is to blame, sometimes apparently not. Often the whole affair is involved in mystery, and no one seems to know the truth about it.”
(The Astrological Aspects; L.N. Fowler & Co., Ltd.; London; 1930)

At midnight EST on 21 December 2007 the Moon was in 19* Taurus 15′ 44″. At midnight EST on 22 December 2007 the Moon was in 04* Gemini 13′ 50″. Thus, her 24-hour orbital travel on the day of that Winter Ingress was 14* 58′ 06′ (much faster than her mean daily motion of 13* 10′ – a year of many changes).

Dividing that 24-hour lunar motion by 12 we get 1* 14′ 55″. This is the amount we add each month to the lunar position of 04* Gemini 56′ in order to progress that Ingress Moon through the year.

Three months into the Ingress year (21 March 2008) the progressed Ingress Moon would have been in 08* Gemini 40′ 45″, about 3-4 days past her perfection of the square to Saturn in 08* Virgo 33′.

In fact, it was on 17 March 2008 when Bear Stearns, the first of the five major U.S. investment banks to become insolvent in 2008 because of its leverage ratio of 35.5 to 1 in derivatives and mortgage securities, was given an offer by JP Morgan Chase to be purchased for $236 million ($2 per share) just before it faced forced liquidation.

This precision when progressing that Ingress Moon 1/12th of her 24-hour orbital travel on the day of the Ingress per month is rather impressive for predictive work, yes?

What do you make of the opposition of the New Moon/Pluto/Capricorn Ingress to Venus in Obama’s chart which also squares the MC in the Sibley chart?

Here is Libra 16 from Sepharial’s translation of La Volasfera:

An iceberg, at the back of which is seen a display of the aurora borealis.

“It denotes a person of immense reserve forces, of much activity, energy and brilliance: a quick, alert and original mind, which will win for the native some distinctive honours. The native will be disposed to travel to distant northern countries, and may explore arctic regions or pursue electrical science. It is a degree of FORCE.”

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