WTF USA? Culture Wars: Race with Tasha Beg and Diana Vanessa

In this episode of WTF USA? The Astrology Behind the Madness, astrologers Tasha Beg andDiana Vanessa join me for a wide-ranging, unflinching conversation about race and power in America and the astrology underneath it. We dig into transit Pluto in Aquarius conjunct the USA's South Node, which is occurring as the demographic makeup of the country shifts into a direction triggering racist backlash. We trace a direct astrological line from the 1950s Saturn-Neptune cycle in Libra (Brown v. Board of Education) to today's Saturn-Neptune in Aries squaring the US natal Sun, and we talk about whose story the Sibley chart was really built to tell. It's heavy, it's honest, but it ends somewhere hopeful.

Biggest Takeaways

• Transit Pluto conjunct the USA's South Node in Aquarius tracks with a real demographic shift: by the end of this transit, the country's racial majority changes and much of the current political backlash reads as a subconscious reaction to that
• The Sibley chart itself carries a non-neutral perspective: Tasha frames it as the chart of "whoever's in charge," built by and for the people who broke from Britain. Conceptually, it wasn't a chart that was ever built to represent everyone demographically speaking
• My point of view on narrative control: Hans Christian Andersen (the source of nearly every fairy tale we grew up on) who had his Lunar North Node in Capricorn speaks to a bigger pattern of whose stories get framed as THE quintessential cultural story and whose don't
• The Saturn-Neptune in Aries transit squaring the USA natal Sun directly echoes the 1950s Saturn-Neptune cycle in Libra that produced Brown v. Board of Education and integrated schools. This current transit seems hellbent on upending what came before
• Diana's framing of the USA as "an eighth house country" sustained by resources extracted from others, historically and presently
• The hopeful counterpoint: New York City. With its Cancer Lunar South Node and this year's prior Jupiter-in-Cancer transit, Mamdani's win and the cultural momentum there is a real, live example of where seeds of change are already taking root in the whole country and where Cancer’s tribalism can actually be unifying

Connect with Tasha Beg:

• Website for 1-on-1 sessions: https://www.agentofpluto.com/

Connect with Diana Vanessa:

• Website for discovery calls and sliding scale sessions: https://www.dianavanessa.com/

Connect with me:

• Website: https://www.clarissadolphinexplainsitall.com/

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