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Not so United, then, are we? On the flip, Kamala Harris is then elected to high office, securing title as the first female, Black and Asian Vice President. TrumpвЂ™s politics magnified the ugliness of racism already imbedded within our culture and revealed how polarized we are as a nation. After 8 years of Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton won the popular vote and was almost sworn in as the first female president (which would have been another significant stride of progress), although we ultimately ended up with Trump, who built a political following by conjuring racist vitriol toward Obama in the questioning of his birth certificate.

The Occupy Movement was important, is it helped us all realize how direly systemic the economic disparities had become. Simultaneously, our economy tanked, revealing heaps of corporate favorability over the economic wellbeing of the people. Pluto first returned to Capricorn in 2008, the year in which our very first Black President was elected to office. The more I reflect on the United StatesвЂ™ Pluto return, the more IвЂ™m inclined to view this process through the same lens.

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Most astrologers would conceptualize the Saturn return passage to last for the full 3-year sign-based duration in which Saturn returns to the same sign it holds in the natal chart вЂ“ peaking at the exact degree-based returns. As the third quarter of any cycle carries within it the cracks of eventual breakdown, looking back to this time, we can clearly see that some of the core issues we face now at the Pluto return stem back to this period. As I write this article, billionaires are having their own little space race while the rest of the planet literally burns. The rich got richer, and the middle class completely deteriorated along with the American Dream. Reagan proposed that by giving huge tax cuts to corporations, the funds would вЂњtrickle-downвЂќ and benefits workers and families. This was the same year that President Reagan implemented trickle-down economics. At this exact moment, Saturn also conjoined Pluto, a cycle which deals with power structures, authority and control. The United StatesвЂ™ Pluto entered its 3rd Quarter phase (closing square) in 1982 from the late degrees of Libra. However, IвЂ™d argue that we are already deeply steeped in the Pluto return, and that weвЂ™ve been witnessing the slow erosion of the вЂњAmerican DreamвЂќ now for decades. We will experience our exact degree-based return three times in 2022: February 20th, July 11th, and December 28th. The United StatesвЂ™ natal Pluto occupies 27вѓ2вЂ™ Capricorn. With an orbital period of 248 years, Pluto returns occur every two and a half centuries! When it comes to the pool of entities capable of holding such a tenure, nations are front runners.ДЄ Pluto return occurs when transiting Pluto returns to the same zodiac sign and degree as it holds within the natal chart. The United States is experiencing its first ever Pluto return вЂ“ a once every 248-year event which facilitates a major break-down and rebirthing process. Nevertheless, we have front row seats to a Pluto return unfolding right now. Unless, perhaps, we become cryogenically frozen, or get abducted, or something. Indeed, Pluto returns are so rare because you and I will never, ever experience one in our natal charts. The mainstream is starting to catch wind about an exquisitely rare astrological transit: The Pluto Return. Naturally, with the season only finishing up the scripting stage, there's no date yet, but we can imagine Netflix wanting to have it ready potentially for next April, in line with when the first season launched.In this article, we will discuss the current Pluto Return of the United States and recall prior Pluto Returns experienced by other nations. Now we'll get to see more of what happens with Alina, Malyen Oretsev (Archie Renaux) and General Kirigan, played by Ben Barnes, who was revealed to be something much more than he seems as the season went along.

There are dangerous forces at play, including a crew of charismatic criminals, and it will take more than magic to survive. But as she struggles to hone her power, she finds that allies and enemies can be one and the same and that nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha.

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Adapted from Leigh Bardugo's books by Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer, the series is set in a war-torn world where lowly soldier and orphan Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free (as the trailer now makes clear, she's a 'sun summoner' who can control light).

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