Is the USA heading for civil war? The inflammatory Steve Bannon is drawing comparisons with 1860 when the election of Abraham Lincoln led to the southern states seceding and the civil war followed a few months later. More serious and credible voices are also raising concerns that political instability is likely to worsen without reform of immigration and inequality, perhaps peaking around 2020, making the USA “particularly vulnerable to violent upheaval”. (See URL below).
Historian Victor Hanson commented that history has repeatedly shown that “zealous and sometimes warring tiny minorities can escalate tensions, nullify opposition and bully the silenced majority to sanction — or at least not object to — violence”.
The 2021 Inauguration chart certainly looks extremely volatile and combustible with a Mars Uranus square Sun, Saturn, Jupiter. But is nothing like as brutal as Abraham Lincoln’s Inauguration on 4 March 1861 which had a Mars Pluto in Taurus conjunction trine Saturn; and Uranus in early Gemini on its first Return to the USA 1776 chart in a conflicted square to Saturn.
The USA First President chart 30 April 1789 12.45pm shows up the Civil War most clearly with tr Pluto moving to conjunct the Taurus Sun which is a classic break-up influence; with the Solar Arc midheaven conjunct Uranus to within half a degree. There is certainly high anxiety on this chart in the run up to the 2020 election with tr Uranus conjunct the Sun from July 2020 onwards, into early 2021. Which isn’t as strong as tr Pluto in 1860/61, but will produce considerable tensions bringing troublemakers and revolutionary spirits to the fore. There will also be major panic and concern from tr Neptune hovering around the conjunction to Solar Arc Uranus and the natal Saturn. With more upheavals as tr Pluto opposes the Uranus in 2023/204 and a serious setback in 2024 with Solar Arc Saturn opposing the Sun.
The USA 1776 chart which lacks an accurate start time though I use 11 am had on this time tr Neptune conjunct the Descendant and square the midheaven over the start of the 1861 Civil War; with another high-tension Saturn Uranus collision.
The fanatical Mercury opposition Pluto in this chart which spawned Mcarthyism and Watergate amongst other eruptions when it was triggered, is directly in the line of fire of the tr Saturn Pluto Jupiter over the 2020 election. And has tr Neptune square the USA Mars from March 2021 onwards into 2022 which is panicky failure. With indications of a destructive setback in 2024 when the Solar Arc Saturn in conjunct Mars. And the Pluto Return running in 2022/23.
So no solution in sight for a healing of the fault lines which have widened catastrophically with Trump’s hate rhetoric.
Bannon, 27 November 1953, who’s been jaunting round Europe stoking up the far-right populist parties, is becoming more fanatical over the next four years with his Uranus, North Node, Neptune T Square being pounded by tr Pluto – which could end up in devastation for him or megalomania running rampant. He looks disappointed now into early 2019; scattering wildly in 2019; pushing ahead with high confidence in 2020 but running into road blocks in 2021. Like Trump he’s always lived in excited and aggressive chaos, with his multiple schemes usually ending in failure. Which doesn’t mean he couldn’t cause damage before he implodes and moves on.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/america-is-edging-closer-to-civil-war-jqvnv8f0n