What does any of this have to do with Kamala Harris (and one could also ask with Amanda Gorman)?  To understand one has to turn to that much-maligned aspect of observational astronomy known as astrology.  This is not the place to go into a detailed explanation and defense of the “meta-science” of astrology but to use it to arrive at an explanation of what is to come.  Around the celestial equator – the earthly equator projected into space – there are 12 constellations.  Due to the counter-clockwise rotation of the earth’s axis each of these constellations rises at the dawn of the spring equinox for 2,160 years before being replaced by the constellation in front of it which, in its turn, will rise before the spring equinox for the ensuing 2,160 years.  This phenomenon is known as the “precession of the equinoxes”.  Since there are 12 such constellations, the equinox returns to the same constellation every 26,000 years and this is called the Great Year, 26,000 years long.  Every period of 2,160 years that an equatorial constellation inhabits the spring equinox is called an Age and every Age reflects the essence and impact of the constellation that rules it.  About 120 B.C. the constellation of Pisces, the Two Fishes, came to inhabit the spring equinox, replacing the constellation, and therefore the Age of Aries, the Ram.  Within 100 years after the onset of the Age of Pisces, the avatar known as Jesus Christ was born ushering in the Age of Christianity, symbolized by the double fishes.  Early Christians in fact were called “Pisciculi”, that is, “little fishes”.  In 2039, the constellation of Pisces will move away from the spring equinox and the constellation of Aquarius will take its place, making the “dawning” of the Age of Aquarius.  The approach of the Age of Aquarius is already being felt.  It has impacted the just- completed presidential election.

         To understand this one must understand that Aquarius, now represented as the ”Waterman”, was far more anciently the primordial Egyptian goddess Hathor-Nut.  Hathor in ancient Egypt was depicted archetypally in several guises:  the celestial Cow, the Moon, and the Tree of Life in Amenta – the Underworld – where she is seen pouring out water from a vase to the thirsty souls passing through Amenta.

Nut is the Egyptian sky goddess, the personification of the Waters of the Heavenly Ocean.  In reality, therefore, the Age of Aquarius is more fundamentally the Age of Hathor-Nut, archetypally the Cosmic Feminine.  The tangible influences of the Age of the Cosmic Feminine have been felt at least since mid-20th century with ever-increasing intensity.  These influences have been felt in all aspects of modern society – politics, the professions, and personal relations to name but a few arenas.  As we have seen, the political arena has been permanently impacted.

         Perhaps nothing has been so deeply affected as gender roles.  But what is lacking in all the millions of words written and spoken about this phenomenon is historical context.  Now – though change is underway - we take as given the rule of the patriarchy in family, business, politics and religion.  But it was not always thus.  Such evidence as can be unearthed showed that prior to the advent of the ascendant patriarchy 3-6,000 years ago, the matriarchy ruled, probably for 200,000 years.  Longer probably, and likely mediated by the female control over the production of new life.  Among other things, the first deities worshipped by human beings were undoubtedly goddesses and this primacy of the goddess held firm until Judaeo-Christian times in the western world.  Hebrew women in or around 600 B.C. told the prophet Jeremiah in no uncertain terms that they had no intention of abandoning the goddesses for Yahweh.  They could depend on and were valued by the goddesses unlike the emerging male deities of an increasingly masculinized religious universe.The goddess was marginalized where it was not outright suppressed and in the European Middle Ages untold numbers of women were burned at the stake because of their continuing adherence to practices and beliefs inherited from the ancient matriarchy.  But this terrible time was bound to pass and slowly it did. 

It is our contention that Kamala Harris’s rise is tied to cosmic events whether realized or accepted or not.  The Cosmic Feminine is itself re-arising after several thousand years of the being ignored and suppressed.  And not a moment too soon.  Donald Trump presented a clear and present danger not only to America itself but to the world.  If it is true that what we might call “higher forces” guide our individual and collective destinies, then we can say that they intervened before things really got out of hand in America. Donald Trump had to go and no mistake. Is it too much to speculate that President Joseph Biden sensed something in Kamala Harris that impelled his decision to run with her as his vice-presidential candidate?  Was she in some way chosen for him? Too much speculation I am sure.  However, what can be said without fear of contradiction is that both of them must be protected because their enemies are legion, as they say, a certain number of whom seem ready to cancel the election in the most violent way imaginable.


Charles S. Finch, M.D.
January 21, 2021

It was quite a spectacle, seldom – if ever – seen since 1776.  A large, roiling
 crowd of self-proclaimed “patriots” converging on the U.S. Capitol pushing past  the Capitol security force and surging into the Capitol building virtually without opposition or restraint.  Inside, senators and congressmen were locked cowering under desks in a room by security for their own protection because it seemed like the mob of “patriots” was intent on doing them bodily harm, especially to Nancy Pelosi and Vice-President Pence.   By taking over the Capitol these “patriots” thought they could take over the country.  
Perhaps the most extraordinary – and unthinkable – aspect of this whole event is that it was set in motion by Donald Trump himself, the President of the United States, a first in American history. There has never been an American president that ever incited a murderous mob such as this one.  To storm the Capitol building, the citadel of American democratic government; when it was over, five people had died.  Donald Trump has all the instincts of a Mafia mob boss and it still seems inconceivable that he could ever have been elected president, with a minority vote yet.  If ever the existence of the electoral college could show itself to be an undemocratic, out-dated, anti-American, even dangerous institution the election Donald Trump brought that truth into sharp relief.  Trump as president is a clear and present danger not only to America but also to the world-at-large, the one man who could launch nuclear missiles at a declared enemy such as Iran.  Clearly there must be more established constraints around the presidential office; there is too much potentially destructive power in the hands of one man.
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A fascinating aspect of the whole matter is that, while the Capitol police showed themselves to be totally incompetent, ineffectual, and fearful against this raging mob, one man, a black security officer inside the Capitol, stood his ground and managed to lead the advance guard of the mob up the stairs and away from Senators and Congressmen behind locked doors cowering beneath tables.  That man should be celebrated all across America.  Which brings up another point:  the mob was maybe 500 strong and there were no more than two black faces to be detected in it.  The racial animus that has simmered among a critical mass of white people for at least 60 years was on full display; these people seemed intent on starting another civil war.  This white mob attack on the Citadel of the country does not bode well for America, with all its outsized wealth and power.  We haven’t seen lynch mobs in America since the mid-20th century but what we saw on January 6th was, in effect, a lynch mob. 

There was something Hitlerian about this whole thing with the fascist-leaning provocateur Donald Trump sending out the modern equivalent of Nazi brown-shirts to take the government by a storm.  The man should be in jail and no mistake; he is a traitor and a criminal.  Craven Republicans cannot do what is necessary, their loyalty to their party and to the President “trumping” (pun intended) their loyalty to the country.  The matter is not finished, with state capitols all over America surrounding themselves with armed protection in the expectation of similar attacks against them.  There was a Ft. Sumter mentality among those mad men and the rest of us must get ready for what is to come.
 
Charles S. Finch, III
January 18, 2021

​There can’t be anyone who can’t vicariously experience the horror of the breath and life of George Floyd being choked out of him by a policeman kneeling on his neck.   All anyone has to do is jump into any deep pool of water and try to hold his breath for more than three minutes.  At the end of that three minutes a dire panic sets in as the body frantically searches for the breath of air that will sustain life.  Though difficult to say but getting shot in the heart or brain couldn’t possibly generate the same sheer terror of feeling one’s breath and life steadily ebbing away as the knee of that burly cop, Chavin, chokes off the windpipe of George Floyd.  For what?  A counterfeit $20 bill that wasn’t actually counterfeit?  Even if it had been, the most that should have happened is handcuffs behind the back and the presumed offender, Floyd, ushered into the back of the patrol car.
 
It is hard to escape the conclusion that Officer Derek Chauvin was trying to deliberately strangle George Floyd.  He had to know what he was doing, especially after the man on the ground pleaded with him by saying through his strangulation “I can’t breathe”.  Chauvin kept maximum pressure on the windpipe for 8 minutes 40 seconds when the human organism cannot sustain life deprived of oxygen for more than four minutes.  So what was it that provoked Chauvin to murder?  He apparently had a history of excessive force and violence against suspects but on this occasion he seemed to be possessed by a murderous intent.  Of a black man.  When is the last time a white suspect or perpetrator was deliberately strangled to death because this murder of George Floyd had to have been committed with deliberate intent.  
 
The whole event was captured live on video and broadcast to the world.  Not to  put too fine a point on it the incident put America in a rather bad light in the eyes of the world, undoubtedly the reason that Chauvin and his enablers, the three other cops standing around him watching him commit deliberate murder, were arrested, Chauvin being charged with second-degree murder.  Lest the above-mentioned international “bad light” for America not be taken seriously all one has to do is turn on to the news stations and watch massive demonstrations involving hundreds, even thousands of people, erupting spontaneously in the major cities of the world.  George Floyd and Derek Chauvin are now names on the lips of people everywhere and justice for George Floyd cries out everywhere.  What is striking about the police strangling of George Floyd is that it has happened to untold numbers of black men ever since the end of the American Civil War in 1865.  In the century following the so-called “emancipation” of black people from slavery, lynchings of those same “emancipated” people in the American South became a routine all over the region, usually without any provocation whatsoever.  Why the outrage over George Floyd today?  Perhaps because the deliberate strangulation of a man who had committed no crime by Officer Chauvin was videotaped in real time and viewed over the entire world in a way that had never happened before. It brought back into focus a murderous, racially-motivated police assault that many assumed had disappeared from America permanently.  The authorities, forced to arrest one of their own, knew that there was no glossing over or ignoring this police murder.  Chauvin was no longer a police officer, he was simply a homicidal “perp”. 
 
Will any lessons be learned by those in power, especially those accustomed to treating black people like animals to be hunted?  Doubtful, very doubtful.  These patterns of behavior toward black people specifically and people of color generally are too deeply ingrained in white people as a whole ever since 1619 (we won’t even talk about the historical plight of the American Indian).  We can all agree that the vast majority of white people would never dream of acting like Chauvin but within the “herd” of white people the willingness and mentality to maim, wound, and kill black people circulates as a sub-terranean current and erupts in unexpected fashion often against black people like Arberry and Chauvin who are minding their own business, going about their daily lives with no thought that mortal disaster is about to descend upon them.  And Malcolm used to say it doesn’t matter if, as a black person, you are doctor, attorney, professor, preacher, or president you are at mortal risk.
 
The solution?  Mass, disciplined, committed organization for people of African descent with common goals spelled out and enacted.  Especially the goal of protecting ourselves not only for the moment but for far into the indefinite future.  We weren’t brought here in the hellish holes of the slave ships to face our “final solution”.  Using another cliché we are not meant to go “gently into that good night”.  We have done enough dying in America and for America.