American Generations

Astrology naturally divides America's history into distinct generation-sized eras. About every 27 years, the Secondary Progressed Moon finishes another 360 * circuit of the natal chart and returns to the place it began, and the chart of that Lunar Return describes the subject's life over the following 27 years. This ancient practice of reading the first few Lunar Returns after birth as reliable 27-year snapshots of the person's lifetime was widely used in ancient times, but has been all but forgotten in modern astrological circles.

This valuable practice of examining the first Lunar Returns of a subject's life is even more useful in studying the astrology of nations, which often survive for many hundreds of years. In America's horoscope, there have been just eight of these Secondary Progressed Lunar Returns (SLRs) so far, each of which describes a separate 27 year cycle. A new SLR often arrives just before a major turning point in American history. For example, the 1803 Secondary Progressed Lunar Return ushered in the Louisiana Purchase, the 1858 SLR ushered in the Civil War, the 1913 Return chart ushered in World War I, and the 1940 chart ushered in our entry into World War II. But the connections between these cycles and America's history go much deeper than that, for each SLR provides a unique in-depth overview of the conditions and changes that America experiences during its 27 year cycle.

The patterns that show up in these charts are so consistent with our nation's history that they stand on their own as compelling evidence that the July 2 1776 Liberty Chart is America's true horoscope. For example, every SLR period with the Sun on an angle (including the current SLR) gave us an exceptionally famous and popular President (Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Obama). The only two SLRs with Jupiter rising opposition Pluto saw the two bloodiest conflicts in our history (the Civil War and World War II). The SLRs with afflicted 8th houses always brought America's worst economic depressions, and the SLRs with Jupiter rising always witnessed our greatest periods of expansion. All our Presidential assassinations occurred when the SLR Sun was afflicted by Saturn or Neptune, and the only times in our history that any enemy nation ever launched an attack on American soil (the War of 1812 and the Pearl Harbor attacks), we were in a SLR cycle with Mars conjunct an angle.