Tran­script of Radio Show: The USA and the 2020 Elec­tion – Biden & Trump

Biden Chart Analysis

The Human­is­tic approach to Astrol­o­gy, starts with the con­sid­er­a­tion of any chart by approach­ing it Holis­ti­cal­ly, to seek to under­stand the chart by first dis­cern­ing what pat­tern the plan­ets form with one anoth­er. The pat­tern of Joe Biden’s chart is called a Loco­mo­tive or Open-Angle Pat­tern. The plan­ets are spread around the wheel fill­ing in about two-thirds of space and leav­ing one-third emp­ty. The Loco­mo­tive type holds to a tem­pera­ment that is inher­ent­ly open to growth and tran­scen­dence. It can lead to a spir­i­tu­al or even mys­ti­cal qual­i­ty, and it indi­cates the abil­i­ty to move beyond the ordi­nary and con­ven­tion­al, so that the indi­vid­ual is open to wider and deep­er appre­ci­a­tions through what are called transper­son­al expe­ri­ences. The Loco­mo­tive type is high­ly moti­vat­ed and may feel that they have a mis­sion in life. But with the trine Aspect as the basis for the pat­tern, their tem­pera­ment can be very flow­ing and inspi­ra­tional, draw­ing peo­ple onto their path.

The lead­ing edge of the open angle pat­tern is a key indi­ca­tor, and for Biden it is the Moon. Not only is the Moon in Tau­rus lead­ing Biden, but it is also the ris­ing body for his chart. Those fac­tors, plus the pre­pon­der­ance of water place­ments in Biden’s chart, makes him a true sen­si­tive. He feels very deeply and is high­ly intu­itive and com­pas­sion­ate. Not only does he feel his joys and pains more than most, but he has such empa­thy and com­pas­sion that he tru­ly feels the pain and joy of oth­ers too.

The three most impor­tant place­ments in any chart, are the Sun, Moon and Ris­ing Sign. For Joe Biden, his Sun is in Scor­pio and it is placed in his 12^th house. Scor­pio is a Water Sign and is known for its pas­sion and deter­mi­na­tion. Scorpio’s are known for their pen­e­trat­ing insight, and they have a pro­nounced abil­i­ty to see through the appear­ances of things and uncov­er that which is hid­den from most. Scor­pio rules Unions, the process­es I call Alchem­i­cal, and that we know as Birth-Death-Rebirth.

Yes, the mir­a­cle of the birth of a child, and the agony of los­ing loved ones will mark Joe Biden’s life…and it has. He has earned his empa­thy and com­pas­sion with great loss­es, espe­cial­ly in 1972 of his first wife and his daugh­ter, Nelia and Nao­mi in a car acci­dent, (but luck­i­ly his sons Beau and Hunter sur­vived). He lat­er loss Beau to brain can­cer in 2015. We Astrologers like to tell Scor­pios that they are the strongest sign; we do not always have the heart to tell them why they will need that strength.

Biden’s Sun is in his 12^th house, which often leads a soul into peri­ods of deep intro­spec­tion and equal­ly seems to ask that indi­vid­ual to make some great sac­ri­fices in their life. Biden does not seek the lime­light for his own sat­is­fac­tion, as he prefers to work behind the cur­tain. Through his Sun trin­ing his Jupiter, Biden will appear to be for­tu­nate or lucky in his life to many, but what they are real­ly wit­ness­ing is the return of his very gen­er­ous spir­it of giv­ing to many, many others

Biden’s Moon is in Tau­rus in the 5^th house. This means he expe­ri­ences the ten­sion between time­less val­ues (Tau­rus), and the equal­ly ephemer­al nature of our mor­tal forms and lives (Scor­pio). With both his lights in Fixed Signs, Biden will be pur­pose­ful and con­stant, (as much as Trump is change­able and unsta­ble). With the Moon in the house of recre­ation, play and chil­dren, Biden will enjoy life, recre­ations, and chil­dren. The Moon in Tau­rus fos­ters a sta­ble, con­stant, and calm emo­tion­al nature.

Biden’s third essen­tial qual­i­ty is the Ris­ing Sign of Sagit­tar­ius. Biden will appear to be very direct and open, prone to telling it “like it is”, (some­times more so than he should). We often joke that when Sagit­tar­ius is ris­ing the per­son often opens their mouth only to change their foot! Sagit­tar­ius is the sign of the sto­ry­teller, and Biden is well known for his jovi­al­i­ty com­bined with his frank­ness. It can endear him to many, and it can make oth­ers cringe as he makes yet anoth­er faux pas. But fun­da­men­tal­ly, he sees him­self as some­one who is here to dis­cov­er and share the truth, and he will be direct and forth­right about it.

Where­as Trump has his Sun con­junct Uranus (and oppo­site to his Moon), Biden has his Sun oppo­site to Uranus. The dif­fer­ence is that for him­self (the Sun), Trump is an icon­o­clast, a break­er of norms; he is the shock­er and dis­rupter. But, with both his “lights” influ­enced by Uranus he is inher­ent­ly unsta­ble, there is no place of stability.

Biden is shocked by oth­ers, but is him­self very sta­ble, so he is chal­lenged to find con­struc­tive ways to respond to those who are not sta­ble. For­tu­nate­ly, he also has Venus con­junct his Sun, and with both Sun and Venus being in a trine to his Jupiter, he is both gen­tle and lov­ing (Venus) and guid­ed by good will and a strong moral pur­pose (Jupiter).

The plan­e­tary ruler for Scor­pio is Mars (though Astrologers will also look to Plu­to as well). For Biden, his Mars is also in Scor­pio, and it is in his 11^th House. Mars in Scor­pio makes for a pas­sion­ate war­rior, some­one you would want on your side, but you would be wise to walk away from if they are opposed to you. Mars in the 11^th house fights for social jus­tice, for pre­serv­ing and advanc­ing the hopes and dreams of others.

The Plan­et that is high­est in a chart, (often in the 10^th house) is also sig­nif­i­cant. For Trump it is Uranus, the plan­et of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom. For Biden, it is Nep­tune, the plan­et of Dreams, Com­pas­sion and Sac­ri­fice. Since the 10^th house is your “pub­lic life” or “office”, Trump with Uranus in his 10^th house would want to be free to do what­ev­er he wants to do; Trump is born to be an auto­crat. For Biden, he would see his career as a call­ing with Nep­tune, he would be inspired by a dream and be will­ing to sac­ri­fice him­self for the cause.

But he not a star­ry-eyed ide­al­ist, he is a very (as we astrologers like to say) watery per­son, with his Sun, Venus, Mer­cury and Mars in Scor­pio, and his Jupiter in Can­cer. Biden is sen­si­tive and real­is­tic, and he is moti­vat­ed to care for and nur­ture oth­ers. He may wish he were less sen­si­tive, but tru­ly Biden’s sen­si­tiv­i­ty is his strength.

Trump Chart Analysis:

I always begin to exam­ine a chart by look­ing at it holis­ti­cal­ly. After all, an astro­log­i­cal chart is a Sky Map, a pic­ture of the plan­e­tary posi­tions, as seen from a spe­cif­ic place on the Earth, on a cer­tain day and time. What we should do first is take a step back and look for the over­all mes­sage of the chart. When we do this what emerges is the pat­tern of the chart, and it reveals the first indi­ca­tion of the type of per­son we are examining.

Don­ald Trump’s pat­tern is called a Bowl or Hemi­spher­ic shape, with all plan­ets lin­ing up on one side of the chart, and the oth­er half remain­ing open or emp­ty. The bowl pat­tern implies a great degree of self-con­tain­ment, but often desir­ing recog­ni­tion; here we find a soul that is moved or affect­ed more by exter­nal cir­cum­stances than by inter­nal fac­tors. Because of this pat­tern, Trump frames his life by a strong sense of mis­sion, a sense that he pos­sess­es some­thing (the filled bowl), but that he equal­ly lacks or needs some­thing, (the emp­ty space). He will be dri­ven, pur­pose­ful and feel that he has a des­tiny to ful­fill. Because the pat­tern is fun­da­men­tal­ly based on the oppo­si­tion, the tem­pera­ment formed is dual­is­tic; Trump will have an “all or noth­ing” psy­chol­o­gy, he will see the world as divid­ed in two, into “us and them”.

The crit­i­cal or high focus part of the Bowl pat­tern is formed by the lead­ing plan­et or edge of the bowl. In Trump’s chart, that lead­ing plan­et is Uranus in his 10^th house of career, pub­lic life, and pur­pose. Uranus is the “Awak­en­er” and brings about change through shocks and upsets. Not only is it his lead­ing plan­et, but it is also the upper­most plan­et in his chart, and most sig­nif­i­cant­ly, it is next to his Sun and oppo­site to his Moon. If you want to under­stand a very great deal about Trump, you only need to under­stand this influ­ence of Uranus and these oth­er two fea­tures: that his Sun is in Gem­i­ni, his Moon is in Sagit­tar­ius, and he has Uranus con­junct his Sun and oppo­site to his Moon.

Gem­i­ni is an Air Sign, known for its intel­li­gence, curios­i­ty, adapt­abil­i­ty, and rest­less­ness. Gem­i­ni rules the mind in its capac­i­ty to con­sid­er things from more than one point of view or per­spec­tive, to per­ceive the world through mul­ti­ple “lens­es”, to assume mul­ti­ple posi­tions in order to con­sid­er which view or views seems most mean­ing­ful, reveal­ing or excep­tion­al. When applied in right ways, Gem­i­ni is our fac­ul­ty of Intelligence.

Gem­in­is love to “stir things up”. They can hold one posi­tion and then swing to the oppo­site posi­tion with­out skip­ping a beat. Gem­in­is are often “high-strung, ner­vous types” with a con­stant need to take in and push out infor­ma­tion. Their avid­i­ty and thirst for infor­ma­tion, and their insis­tent need to share these mul­ti­ple thoughts can push the enve­lope of rea­son to that razor’s edge that lies between genius and insan­i­ty. Keep­ing up with and fol­low­ing the stream of con­scious­ness of some Gem­in­is can be fas­ci­nat­ing, but some­times frus­trat­ing and fruit­less; often­times with Trump, it will be pointless.

Being born at the Full Moon, Trump has his Moon in the oppo­site Sign of Sagit­tar­ius. The Moon rules the emo­tion­al life, the emo­tion­al needs, the ingrained and uncon­scious habit pat­terns of reactions/interactions and will reveal how a per­son will act or react with­out think­ing. (And though we humans like to think of our­selves as mind­ful, intel­li­gent and self-aware, we actu­al­ly live a great deal of our lives on “autopi­lot”, so that when some­thing hap­pens, we will often react with­out much thought at all).

The Moon in Sagit­tar­ius is very free-wheel­ing, open and out­spo­ken, so that it leads to a per­son who will feel and speak with lit­tle or no restraint. There is basi­cal­ly no fil­ter at all. What­ev­er is in their feel­ing-think­ing in that moment is what you are going to get.

The oppo­si­tion of the Sun and Moon, (the two prin­ci­ple indi­ca­tors of our Male and Female natures), will cre­ate a crit­i­cal con­flict and imbal­ance between the Thoughts and Feel­ings for Trump. The result will be a pulling and push­ing with­in him­self, often lead­ing to wider (and wilder) swings between cold intel­lect and emo­tion­al­i­ty. If the spir­i­tu­al-psy­cho­log­i­cal work of accept­ing and inte­grat­ing his male/female halves is not achieved, he will be sub­ject to extreme rest­less­ness, impul­sive­ness, and impatience.

This com­bi­na­tion of Gem­i­ni and Sagit­tar­ius could be har­nessed and bal­anced if oth­er fac­tors in his chart were to bring in some restraint and ground­ing. There are some fac­tors in his chart that could help Trump. How­ev­er, the prin­ci­ple plan­et affect­ing both his Sun and Moon is the plan­et that rules the “earth­quakes of life”, Uranus.

The con­junc­tion of the Sun with Uranus means that Trump will stand out, and nev­er blend in. His life will be unusu­al, full of excep­tion­al moments that break through bound­aries. Born to rebel, he would have been inde­pen­dent and defi­ant as a child, and he would have devel­oped a view of him­self as not sub­ject to nor­mal rules or expec­ta­tions. He can exhib­it bril­liance and flash­es of great insight, but he will at times be equal­ly unable to restrain him­self from dis­trac­tions and errat­ic behaviors.

Again, even this chal­leng­ing set of fac­tors could have been com­bined with ground­ing ele­ments to mod­u­late and sta­bi­lize his nature. But in Trump’s chart the ener­gies of insta­bil­i­ty (and chaos) are mag­ni­fied by Uranus because it is also in oppo­si­tion to his Moon. Trump will look upon feel­ings (and women) with great dis­trust because they are for him so unpre­dictable and unknow­able. He will be dis­mis­sive of and not in touch with his feel­ing nature. The result is that Trump will swing wild­ly between his rest­less intel­lect and inse­cure emo­tions. His thoughts will lack real empa­thy and com­pas­sion; and his emo­tions will be unin­formed by rea­son. Trump will be capa­ble of some moments of bril­liance, but he will lack empa­thy; he will put on a dis­play of sen­ti­ment, but he is tru­ly uncar­ing. Trump will remain divid­ed with­in him­self; he has remained through­out his life a very unset­tled and unsta­ble individual.

Many com­men­ta­tors have assumed that Trump’s demeanor is pure­ly an act, and that he employs his “prin­ci­ples of chaos” as a strat­e­gy, shock­ing his adver­saries to achieve his ends. What his chart reveals is that this is no act. Trump is unsta­ble by nature. He is sim­ply unpre­dictable because he can­not con­trol himself.

The plan­e­tary ruler for Gem­i­ni is Mer­cury, which for Trump is in the sign of Can­cer. Though he will con­sid­er him­self to be a man of rea­son, pos­sess­ing a great range of ideas and knowl­edge, and that he comes to his facts and opin­ions via his supe­ri­or intel­lect, much of his think­ing and deci­sion-mak­ing is uncon­scious­ly influ­enced by his emo­tions. He will believe that he is being “rea­son­able” when he in fact he is often being blind­ed by his emo­tion­al biases.

But much more trou­bling is that he also has his Mer­cury squar­ing his Nep­tune, the plan­et of Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion. Nep­tune is also, when mis­ap­plied or mis­un­der­stood, the plan­et that rules fan­tasies, delu­sions, and decep­tions. Mer­cury squar­ing Nep­tune, if you can mas­ter your­self, can be won­der­ful and make you a great sto­ry­teller, it is gift for painters and poets, allow­ing one to slip beyond the bound­aries of real­i­ty for inspiration.

But when com­bined with the inher­ent insta­bil­i­ty of his chart, Mer­cury square Nep­tune means that Trump will say any­thing, and mean noth­ing. He will make some­thing up and turn around and say the oppo­site. And then he will prob­a­bly turn around again and say some third thing. He will employ “smoke and mir­rors”; he will claim to speak plain­ly and accuse oth­ers of being untruth­ful. He will sow doubt and con­fu­sion, he will often promise and not deliv­er. He is prob­a­bly not to be believed or trust­ed much of the time.

One of the more chal­leng­ing aspects a per­son may have in their chart is a hard con­tact between Venus and Sat­urn. Trump has his Sat­urn con­junct Venus, which means he expe­ri­enced only con­di­tion­al forms of love as a child. Rather than being loved tru­ly, he was exposed to “love” that was giv­en or with­held as a tool for reward or pun­ish­ment. This is not love, this is the abu­sive pow­er wield­ed by an author­i­tar­i­an par­ent, most like­ly his father. More­over, when Sat­urn makes this hard aspect to Venus, the child is exposed to the deval­u­a­tion of women by their father.

With­out sig­nif­i­cant help to heal this wound, Trump would have no true expe­ri­ence of healthy “self-love”, nor would he be capa­ble of gen­uine­ly lov­ing anoth­er. He would need oth­ers to love and admire him to fill the aching hole in his soul. But he would be unable to show real love to anoth­er. Trump can only take from oth­ers; he has no love to offer. He would be ungen­er­ous, unchar­i­ta­ble and treat oth­ers as “objects”, as he can be the only “sub­ject” in any relationship.

This aspect in a chart may indi­cate and form the con­di­tions for devel­op­ing “nar­cis­sis­tic per­son­al­i­ty dis­or­der”. It has been not­ed that many of the actions and over-reac­tions that Trump has dis­played in his pub­lic life seem to con­form to the clas­sic behav­iors asso­ci­at­ed with what is called nar­cis­sis­tic per­son­al­i­ty disorder.

In short, these delin­eations from Trump’s chart point to an indi­vid­ual who appears fun­da­men­tal­ly unsta­ble, often untruth­ful, and with a heart that is bro­ken and inca­pable of love.

2020 for Biden and Trump 

When con­sid­er­ing the astro­log­i­cal con­di­tions in anyone’s chart for a year, I will look first to their pro­gres­sions and then look at their major tran­sits. What is remark­able about the two can­di­dates for office this year, is that they are at the same stage in the pro­gressed Sun/Moon cycle. They both are in a “New Moon” phase, (Biden’s was in May 2019, in Aquar­ius and in his 3^rd House, Trump was Sep­tem­ber 2019, in Vir­go and in his 1^st house). That is quite a coin­ci­dence. A seed has been plant­ed for them both and is now ger­mi­nat­ing; for Biden it is focused upon ques­tions of Rea­son and Intel­li­gence, and for Trump it high­lights Per­son­al­i­ty and Presence.

What is also inter­est­ing is that the Plan­et Plu­to is lin­ing up in both their charts. For Biden, he has Plu­to mak­ing a sesqui­quadrate (90 plus 45-degree aspect) to his Sat­urn in 2020 and 2021. The mes­sage is that he is fac­ing dif­fi­cul­ties in work­ing to trans­form his per­son­al under­stand­ing of real­i­ty to deal with the dis­rup­tive changes in the world. What he will need to do is to work steadi­ly and patient­ly towards progress and trans­for­ma­tion with­in him­self, and that way he can also meet the need of the times.

For Trump, as I have point­ed out for some time now, he is fac­ing sev­er­al chal­lenges from Plu­to. I have called these tran­sits his “test of pow­er”. Plu­to is still Incon­junct his Sun, (from 2019 through 2020), and he also has Plu­to Oppo­site his Sat­urn in 2020. It is quite inter­est­ing, that the mir­ror of this tran­sit, Sun Incon­junct Sun, hap­pened for Trump in 1991 and 1992, when he went through his first and then his sec­ond bank­rupt­cy, and it hap­pened again with Plu­to oppo­site his Sun in 2004–2005 and his third bankruptcy.

The Plu­to to Sun tran­sit is forc­ing Trump to ques­tion his sense and source of pow­er. A nor­mal per­son might become dis­en­chant­ed with their posi­tion. For Trump, he is once again being con­front­ed with his (lack) of under­stand­ing as to the nature of pow­er and author­i­ty. He is expe­ri­enc­ing, time and again, that he does not have the pow­er he thinks or thought he had (or should have). An ordi­nary per­son might just let it go or walk away from their role which is no longer work­ing for them.

Plu­to oppo­site Trump’s Sat­urn for 2020 is per­haps as chal­leng­ing, if not more chal­leng­ing as Plu­to to his Sun. Sat­urn is the plan­et of real­i­ty and con­sti­tutes for an indi­vid­ual what you think will or can­not change. But Plu­to brings trans­for­ma­tion, it brings death (and the pos­si­bil­i­ty of rebirth), and Trump is faced with events and cir­cum­stances that keep show­ing him that his real­i­ty is not what he thought it was. For Trump, he can no longer run on a strong econ­o­my, he can­not force peo­ple to ignore the pan­dem­ic that is killing their fam­i­ly and friends. He is unable to address the divi­sions with­in the coun­try because his source of pow­er comes from play­ing one side against the oth­er, and the greater Real­i­ty of America’s reck­on­ing with it past is some­thing that he can­not under­stand or allow.

But he does not have the pow­er, not per­son­al­ly as he would see or under­stand it. Our Con­sti­tu­tion is based on rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­er­nance; the peo­ple have the pow­er. Lead­ers are here to lead by inspi­ra­tion, by set­ting an exam­ple; they serve and sac­ri­fice for the greater good. Giv­en Trumps’ nature, he is not fit to lead. In our sys­tem a leader’s pow­er comes from the con­sent of the gov­erned, and Trump has lost most of the peo­ple because he has sought to rule by fear and divi­sion. Now his lack of sup­port, and his loss of pow­er reveals that his only hold over his sup­posed polit­i­cal allies is through fear, and this is forc­ing a real­i­ty check that he can­not grasp.

This point is real­ly being brought to bear with anoth­er dou­ble-tran­sit to Trump’s chart, Uranus squar­ing his Plu­to, and Uranus semi-square his Sun. This is formed by the fact that in Trump’s chart, he has his own Sun semi-square to Plu­to. This natal aspect indi­cates that Trump was fat­ed from birth to learn the les­son about the Will (Plu­to) and the Self (Sun). We must all learn this fun­da­men­tal les­son, that Pow­er does not come from the Self; Pow­er flows through the self to the extent that one has achieved self-mas­tery and equal­ly respects the sacred cen­ter of every oth­er. Then, what­ev­er pow­er comes to and through that per­son will be deter­mined by what­ev­er posi­tion they hold. Whether you are the head of a fam­i­ly, com­mu­ni­ty, com­pa­ny or coun­try, the pow­er you wield is not yours, it is only to be used to serve the source of pow­er, and nev­er yourself.

Plu­to teach­es that the only thing you are here to mas­ter in this life, the only thing you are here to con­trol, is your­self. Trump does not under­stand that his lack of self-con­trol, his dis­re­spect and den­i­gra­tion of oth­er sources of pow­er, reveals that he is inca­pable of man­ag­ing him­self let along lead­ing a nation. Unfor­tu­nate­ly for Amer­i­ca, it has brought us to a very per­ilous and painful peri­od, and many, many lives have and will be lost that could have been saved.

Look­ing to Biden, anoth­er major tran­sit in Joe’s chart is Nep­tune mov­ing into his 4^th house. Giv­en that Nep­tune is in Biden’s 10^th house of pur­pose and mis­sion, and the 4^th house is the source of your roots and foun­da­tions, this will be quite an impor­tant time in Biden’s life. Nep­tune is the “Uni­ver­sal Sol­vent”, as it dis­solves the bound­aries between lay­ers and realms to reveal the Uni­ty of the Uni­verse. What this means for Biden is that he is being asked to dis­solve or let go of his old sense of ances­tral and cul­tur­al roots and move into a more Uni­ver­sal sense of being Cen­tered in a greater under­stand­ing. Expe­ri­ences will help Biden to cre­ate a wider and more inclu­sive foun­da­tion; this year is a time when Biden will reimag­ine and go deep­er into the truth of what lies at the root of one and all, and then draw upon that to chan­nel these feel­ings in his pub­lic life.

And final­ly, it is quite inter­est­ing that both Trump and Biden have Uranus squar­ing their Pluto’s in 2020. How­ev­er, since their Birth Charts indi­cate very dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ences of the test of Plu­to, (Trump has the dif­fi­cult semi-square of his Sun to Plu­to; Biden has the very sup­port­ive trine of his Sun to Plu­to), each has had a very dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence of Plu­to in their life; each has faced the test of the Will and Self-Con­trol in quite dif­fer­ent ways; and, they will react to this chal­lenge very dif­fer­ent­ly as well.

Giv­en that any­one with these zodi­a­cal degrees of Plu­to is going through this, this tran­sit of Uranus squar­ing Plu­to is very much a gen­er­a­tional expe­ri­ence. For all who were born in the ear­ly to mid-1940s, it will be a peri­od when what they have built up by their use of their will is test­ed and dis­rupt­ed. Sud­den changes brought about by Uranus will take the form of social and eco­nom­ic upheavals that are beyond anyone’s con­trol, forc­ing all to con­sid­er how and what to pre­serve, but also to face what must change in their pri­vate and pub­lic lives. Some will be able to rise to the occa­sion, some will cope as best as they can, and some will cer­tain­ly fail.

For Trump, giv­en his tem­pera­ment and nature, this square to his Plu­to will just inten­si­fy his frus­tra­tion and his defen­sive reac­tion and impulse will be to be even more extreme in his attempts to manip­u­late oth­ers and use his pow­ers in self-serv­ing ways in order to pre­serve what he has. Giv­en the oth­er major tran­sits he is faced with, it does not seem like­ly that he will pre­vail as events will shat­ter the illu­sion that he is in control.

For Biden, giv­en his pos­i­tive Sun/Pluto arrange­ment, he is more in touch with the les­son of Plu­to, that the only con­trol you will ever have is Self-Con­trol or Self-Mas­tery. He will choose a response rather than react to events. He will not try to con­trol, manip­u­late and divide; he will seek to remain self-mas­ter­ful and encour­age oth­ers to do the same. He will under­stand that real pow­er comes from indi­vid­u­als join­ing into asso­ci­a­tions, and groups join­ing with oth­er groups to main­tain and secure their com­mon pur­pose. He will remain cen­tered with­in him­self, and serve the source of his pub­lic pow­er, the people.

True pow­er comes from the peo­ple; and when a peo­ple are unit­ed, when they find their com­mon pur­pos­es and equal­ly cel­e­brate their diver­si­ty, when they are strong, sen­si­tive, and cen­tered in their wills so that they will nev­er tres­pass upon any oth­er, they will nev­er be defeated.

Let Amer­i­ca be what it was meant to be, “Out of many, we are one!”