Astrological Analysis of Politics and Current Events -- Feature Series: The Rise of Obama

"Planetary cycles remain the basis of a cyclic time where, from one conjunction to the other, a return of the same occurs, which gives a sense of history as a continuous link of events stretching across time and space. It is upon the Uranus Neptune conjunction in the first degrees of Sagittarius in 1479, through which Jupiter and Saturn also moved from 1485 to 1488, that the great explorers take over the oceans: Dias passes the Cape of Good Hope and Christopher Columbus is just about to land in America (1492).