Racial Healing and John McCain

<p>Few issues have impacted American culture and society more than race. From the beginning of the country, to the Civil War, to the Civil Rights Movement, it has&nbsp;blanketed the collective psyche in issues of power, discrimination and oppression. Now with the election of Obama, it apprears that we are at another juncture -- one of healing.</p> <p>I am touched by the reports that people of all races, strangers even, embraced when Obama&#39;s victory became official. The last time strangers hugged was 9/11, and that was for vastly different reasons. Now,&nbsp;Martin Luther King&#39;s dream seems like it can, in fact,&nbsp;be realized.&nbsp;</p> <p>I have discussed Obama&#39;s connection to Lincoln; what about John McCain&#39;s role in race relations? I don&#39;t think McCain is anywhere near being a&nbsp;racist. In fact, he refused to overtly race-bait in his campaign,&nbsp;said no&nbsp;to airing incendiary ads&nbsp;with Reverend Wright, and&nbsp;even defended Obama at his rallies as a decent man when the&nbsp;racial thermometer&nbsp;got hot. He is rightly commended for this, and more. </p> <p>Some may not know that&nbsp;in family lineage, the&nbsp;McCain family were slave&nbsp;owners&nbsp;(as were many at the time). I remember reading a Wall St. Journal article about&nbsp;descendants of slaves named McCain (from John&#39;s family history) who are passionate about an Obama win.&nbsp;Seeing black people named McCain brought&nbsp;to mind that this issue still lingers today, and can in fact be healed. The two presidential candidates symbolically have a role in this process.</p> <p>The astrology of election night does indicate racial healing. In my first blog, I&nbsp;discussed how Uranus/Venus pertains to relating to others in terms of unity rather than as&nbsp;members of groups. The T-square with Saturn&nbsp;for the election brings this to an historical (Saturn) context. Saturn/Uranus&nbsp;is&nbsp;a titanic clash between the old ways and a new paradigm, with the addition in Venus in Sagittarius, it takes the form of joining together (Venus) in collective purpose (Sagittarius). </p> <p>John McCain&#39;s progressed Venus is at 21 degrees Sagittarius in his Tenth House, exactly where transiting Venus was on election night. This shows how his development (progression) in terms of social dynamics (Venus),&nbsp;in his&nbsp;public life&nbsp;(Tenth House), is conjoined with the spirit of the Uranus/Saturn/Venus configuration described above. McCain also had the Uranus/Saturn opposition&nbsp;sitting on his natal Venus in Virgo. </p> <p>McCain natally has a Cancer South Node in the Fourth House. This pertains to soul lessons about his family history.&nbsp;We know that&nbsp;he is part of a long&nbsp;family history of military service. Also, his powerful&nbsp;family&nbsp;was a part of slave ownership.&nbsp;His Tenth House North Node in Capricorn&nbsp;is an intention to forge a solid career on his own terms. Furthermore, his Saturn in the First House&nbsp;(the North Node ruler) is in Pisces: sign of healing, compassion and endings. Transiting Uranus (breakthrough, progress) has been conjunct his Saturn for the entire election season.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>I think that somewhere deep, and likely&nbsp;unconscious, McCain knew that&nbsp;his appropriate role in our collective evolution&nbsp;was to lose this election to a black man, gracefully, and with integrity. The astrology supports the idea that he could play a central role in the process of healing, not only for us, but for himself too. I was moved by the beauty of his concession speech, his authentic outreach to African-Americans, as much as I was stirred by&nbsp;seeing President-elect Obama. McCain really is an American Hero, regardless of his military service.</p>Discover your role in making the planet a better place with Astrology.com&#39;s&nbsp; <a rel="nofollow" href="http://shop.astrology.com/scripts/runisa.dll?AO:FREEWORLD::YHBLOG,offer=null&par=astyh%7Cblog">free sample World Peace Reading</a>!