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Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the drafting committee

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."

- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1, 1948; Uranus at 28º Gemini

"...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

- Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln, 1863; Uranus at 24º Gemini

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."

- Declaration of Independence, 1776; Uranus at 8º Gemini

Ideals are like the North Star, guiding our direction but never an actual place to land. We can speak of social ideals, like respect and freedom for everyone and holding every person equally accountable to the law, but making these ideals real is a never-ending process requiring steady civil vigilance. When falling under threat, as freedoms always eventually do, a renewed effort is required to reforge what it means to be free. Primary examples of reforging a free society are the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, and World War II.

Geopolitical historian George Friedman has pointed out that the United States has consistently repeated a roughly 80 year "institutional cycle," where the institutions of governance enter a major crisis that leads to renewal. The three wars mentioned above fit into this cycle. Each war was like the punctuation at the start of a new cycle as the prior cycle ended. Each war lead to a stronger institutional system and a more progressive style of government, with laws reshaped to refine what it means to be free.

It so happens that a full cycle of Uranus around the zodiac also takes roughly 80 years. Each war occurred during the transit of Uranus through late Taurus to Gemini. And since the first war was already raging when the country was founded, that means that each subsequent war occurred during a "Uranus Return" for America.

Uranus has just entered Gemini again, and America's next Uranus Return is set to occur in about two years. Note that this is not a prediction of war, but that the time is nearing to reforge a new consciousness of freedom, and to again emerge victorious in the long quest to realize the ideals of liberty.