From: lmpm@teal.csn.org (L. M. P. McPherson)
Newsgroups: alt.astrology
Subject: Baby-Boomers on the Move
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:53:37 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.


There's a lot of talk in the press about how Clinton and Gore are
the first baby-boomers to lead America. The "baby-boomers" are
the generation born with Neptune in Libra, the "hippy" generation
whose ideals were/are peace, love, and harmony. Those ideals have
been on the back burner for many years because the old guard has
maintained control of "the establishment" in business and
government. This old guard consists primarily of people born in
the 1920s and 1930s, who have Pluto in Cancer (their deepest
concerns have to do with family and country and security) and
Neptune either in Leo (so leadership is their fondest ideal and
they are loath to give it up) or in Virgo (and so their ideals
are order, purity, chastity, and so on). The Neptune in Libra
generation, my generation, has watched society slip back into
intolerance, puritanism, sexism, racism, materialism -- all that
good stuff from a bygone era. 

But things are changing. The old farts are beginning to die off
or at least pass retirement age. They no longer have such tight
control of the establishment in business, and it now appears that
they are losing their grip on government. I first noticed that
the Neptune in Libra generation were becoming the establishment a
few years ago on network television. Suddenly, TV programmes
became less sappy, more realistic, more entertaining, and the
values underlying the dialogue and the plots were sixties values,
not forties and fifties values. The baby boomers had begun to
take over television. I then began to notice that TV
advertisements were aimed at my generation, from which I inferred
that many of us now had money to spend. 

Now we have our first baby-boomer in power in America. What
fascinates me about this is that his Libran Neptune is right on
his Ascendant, as if he were a living symbol for our generation.
He also has Libra's ruler, Venus, in the first house, in its own
sign and in the house it rules. And he has Mars almost exactly
conjunct his angular Neptune, as if to say, "I will *act* on your
ideals, my baby-boomer friends!" Wouldn't that be something? Talk
about a change! At the present time, Clinton does not strike me
as a man of *real* action, of drastic change, but his vice
president elect Al Gore, an Aries, must certainly be willing to
act, quickly and forcefully. I hope his influence on Clinton is
strong.

Ross Perot, although of the old guard, may also play a
significant role in promoting change. I notice that three planets
in his angular Cancer stellium of Jupiter, Sun, Moon, and Pluto
fall in Clinton's tenth house, with Perot's Sun almost exactly on
Clinton's Midheaven. He may lead the way for Clinton, inspiring
him to follow some of Perot's ideas. 

Why should Perot have such influence with Clinton? In yesterday's
election, he secured more popular support than any independent
candidate in the history of America, or, according to other
sources, than any independent since Teddy Roosevelt. Bush, on the
other hand, did more poorly than any incumbent president since
Woodrow Wilson (according to one TV station), and his political
career is over. Perot came in second in a number of states, and
35 percent of non-Perot voters interviewed upon leaving a polling
station stated that they would have voted for Perot if they had
felt he could win. Add 35 percent to the 19 or 20 percent of the
vote he actually received (a percentage much higher than
predicted on the basis of pre-election polls), and he would have
had 54 or 55 percent of the popular vote in a three-way race! If
everyone had voted their conscience instead of trying to pick the
winner, Perot would be the president-elect! Instead, the people
elected their second choice. Ain't human psychology weird??!!??
But I suppose the voters could not help themselves, given the
strong astrological indications that Clinton would win -- free
will aside. (Most people do not exercise their free will to any
great extent; they just follow instincts of an unknown source and
then attempt to rationalise their decisions.) With the election
over, Perot is thinking of forming a third party or at least
keeping his supporters together as some sort of organisation that
can push for the changes they support, such as massive reduction
of the deficit and giving government back to the people (versus
special interests and foreign lobbyists). There is already talk
of Perot running in 1996 if Clinton and Gore do not produce the
kind of change they talk about. Perot presents this possibility
as a kind of *threat*, and it is not without force. Given Perot's
strong showing in this election (which also brought out record
numbers to vote), voters in 1996 might be more willing to believe
that he could win, and might vote for him instead of for their
second choice: Clinton. In exit polls, many voters indicated that
they were not overjoyed at the prospect of Clinton as president,
but they had voted for him anyway. With so many people who voted
for Clinton preferring Perot in their hearts, Perot could be a
real rival for Clinton next time around. So Clinton would do well
to let Perot's Sun shine in his tenth house, to take inspiration
from him. Only in that way can he win the support of those
millions of people who now think that only Perot has what it
takes to produce real change.

Next fall, Jupiter in Libra will be trine Saturn, and the Uranus-
Neptune conjunction will still be very tight. If Clinton is
indeed the man to help us realise the Libran ideals of the baby-
boomers, then he should have brought about some real change by
then. I, for one, am looking forward to it with great excitement
(but just a little skepticism). My only worry is that Saturn will
be square Pluto at the same time, so dangerous underground
machinations may abound and/or violence may erupt during the
death throes of the old regime.

The digits in the year 1993 sum to 22, the number of the Fool
card in the Tarot. This card is also given the number 0;
it is the card that connects the World to the Magician;
it is alpha and omega; it is the end of one cycle and the 
beginning of another.


Maggie