"A house divided against itself"

Invoking the famous biblical words “A house divided against itself can not stand,” Lincoln declared “I believe this government can not endure permanently, half slave, and half free.I expressed this belief a year ago; and subsequent developments have but confirmed me....I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and put it in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawfull in all the states, old, as well as new...." LINCOLN in his 1857-8 discovery of the foundation stone for this nation--and ultimately for the world. The spirit of clever compromise which had been running for decades was increasingly displaying deep cracks and Lincoln, being rather philosophical, looked deeper to hunt out the core of the matter that troubled many. Now Neptune's orbital cycle is 164.8 years, so we presently experience the return of Neptune late in the sign of Pisces anew, in other words the return of the cycle of Lincoln's 1857 innovation. America again is divided: the clever compromising mode again falters as divisions deepen. This necessitates fresh creativity or invention and deep remembrancewithin the character and consciousness of man. The core issue turns upon principles rather than personalities. Some align one way, some few go deeper to seek out the fundamental truth that has been blurred out in the process of time. The cycle of Neptunem yes!--but Lincoln was Aquarian; he simply seized upon Neptunian awareness through his deep need and the new Republican Party's deep need for a rallying-point.

And so do I. -R, Siskiyou County, California