John Newton was a terrible man. He joined the British Navy and was so bad they left him in Africa. Newton became a ship’s captain, plowing the slave trade, a fitting occupation for a man of Newton’s character.
One night in a storm at sea, Newton found God. He left the sea and became a minister of the Gospel and song writer. Newton wrote Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I first was lost and then was found, was blind but now I see.
I went to sea. In a storm, God’s hand was on my wheel, and not only that, during my two years at sea I saved six other lives from a watery grave. Coincidental with Newton, I emerged with a new life and purpose.
On Good Friday, 1975, I departed my old life—without noticing that I left on the day Christians remember as the day Christ was crucified. As I look back on my life, there have been several symbols that connect me with Jesus. Ahmabinejad’s brain-dead statement at the UN that the United States set up the 9-11 event reminds me that on September 11, 2001, the day Ahmabinejad’s murdering Muslim friends took down the World Trade Center, I was writing my memoirs. I had written about the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, which happened on the first date with my wife, Karen. We were hiking on a nearby mountain trail. I had connected that event with the legend of the Phoenix, a bird that after living several hundred years immolated itself on a pyre and from the ashes began a new life. It is a symbol of after the calamity, hope and renewal. My thinking was that the 9-11 event, the same, was an omen. Accept for Obama and socialist friends, we are coming around to that way of thinking.
For my 85th birthday, on September 17, Karen gave me The Scofield Study Bible and The 5000 Year Leap, the leap being from Jamestown in 1607 to today’s America. The residents of Jamestown had no more than the civilizations of 5000 years ago.
We read in The Scofield Study Bible that Jesus’ message was not about our hereafter in the kingdom of God but a new message of personal discipleship. Under The Sermon on the Mount (Mt.6:10), we read, “Thy kingdom come. (End of that thought.) Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. (Another thought.) . . .Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets (Mt. 7:12) . . . Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are raving wolves (Mt 7:15). . . Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Mt. 11:28).
It was the Constitution that gave me my bigger than life calling. I felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. It was those voices that placed me on the ocean away from all the influences of my past. It was the sea’s womb that gave me new life. It was at sea that I discovered the power that lies within me. From that point, my life got better and better.
The Miracle That Changed the World, The 5000 Year Leap, lays out twenty-eight principles America’s Founding Fathers adhered to. The first: “The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relationship is natural law.” The second: “A free people cannot survive under a Republican Constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong.”
America now faces the usual choice when an empire is near collapse: Individual freedom and self-reliance or cradle to grave poverty. What comes around goes around. A reminder is the fall of Rome and the thousand year Dark Ages.
It is astonishing how closely history follows astrology. We read in The Scofield Study Bible, astrologers were led by the Star of Bethlehem to Jesus’ birth. Jesus’ birth coincided with the beginning of the Age of Pisces, the symbol of which is two fish swimming in opposite directions. History in the past 2,000 years bears out what the symbol implies. We are now leaving the Age of Pisces, entering the Age of Aquarius.
Symbolic of Aquarius rising, the photograph on the front cover of The 5000 Year Leap, the planet Earth from space with the sun peeping over the horizon, I was born when the sun rose in the east on Aquarius. The planet Uranus is on the ascendant of my chart.
Uranus, my ruling planet, had transited to a position opposing itself, meaning significant change was likely, and so it was. I departed my old life. In The Rising Sign under “Aquarius Rising,” we read, “The planet Uranus is on the ascendant of the chart of the United States. Freedom of speech and opportunity was the cornerstone of the Constitution.”
We read in Astrologer’s Handbook, under “Aquarius,” “Individuals born under the sign of brotherhood and fraternity have as their symbol the water-bearer, who spills out to mankind the life-force and spiritual energy.”
Can we be our brother’s keeper and at the same time capitalistic? Not when government is our keeper. Under America’s free enterprise system, we are our own keepers—and we help those who can’t help themselves. We believe in faith, hope, and charity. The 5000 Year Leap lays out 28 principles that guided America’s Founding Fathers. The first: The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relationship is natural law. The second: A free people cannot survive under a Republican Constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong, the first and second principles eliminate socialism and support capitalism.
We read that Pisceans mentally absorb the vogue. They are easily influenced by external factors. They desperately want to do the right thing, but usually weak willed—Astrologers Handbook’s thoughts. “Too big to fail,” both Bush and Obama policy, is not capitalism; it’s fascism. Big means corrupt. This Aquarian hopes to soon see the bigger they are the harder they fall.
Pisceans are prone to be led down globalists Al Gore’s, Hillary Clinton’s, and Barack Obama’s corkscrew garden path. The indications are that globalists are on the way out in America, along with the Age of Pisces. The odds are good that the Age of Aquarius is in, an age of sound government, just human relationship, and natural law. We’ll know in a few weeks.
