The Nation of USA

The United States of America was born on the fourth of July, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress declared independence, and its chart tells the story of a homeland that runs on feeling. Its Sun sits in Cancer, the sign of the mother, so this is a nation whose deepest mission is to nurture, to protect, and to build a shell of home and belonging: the motherland, the mama bear, the crab that guards something soft inside a hard exterior. That Cancer Sun falls in the fifth house, the Sun's own joyful domain, which is why America shines through self-expression, creativity, risk and spectacle, a country of showmanship, entrepreneurship and Hollywood charisma that the whole world watches.

Its Moon in Pisces, tucked in the twelfth house, is the sponge, the dreamer, the ultimate empath: a national psyche tuned to ideals, faith and imagination, forever reaching toward something larger than itself, and forever vulnerable to escapism and illusion when those ideals blur.

The Pisces Ascendant is the mask of the mystic and the dreamer, the country of grand belief and shifting faces. Cancer heart, Piscean soul: a homeland built on longing, and on the endless promise of a dream.