The Selective Training and Services Act of 1940 was signed by FDR on September 16th, the very day the nation’s progressed Mars entered Libra and its 11th house by whole sign, which is considered a “difficult” and political placement by sign and corresponds to the internet by house. Even more challenging: Mars has been retrograde by progression since July of 2006 and will continue so until 2086 when it stations at 0° 01′ Libra conjunct the USA Midheaven 0° 03′.
On display today: 2020 Democratic candidates via Twitter politicking at one of the largest and most political state fairs in the country which has hosted a soapbox since its centennial year in 1954 and today feels as much about 2120 as 2020 when Mars will progress again in forward direction and at only the degree it was back in 1955, with much further yet to go in the sign before it fully egresses, all of which corresponds to those first six months in the year 1777.
What a conundrum for an action-oriented planet, and perhaps a paradox when considering the U.S. Sun in Cancer and the natural momentum of a crab.
Progressed Mars through USA Chart:
July 4, 1776 (Mars 21° 23′ Gemini)
March 31, 1789 (Cancer for 46 years)
March 30, 1835 (Leo for 49 years)
June 24, 1884 (Virgo for 56 years)
September 16, 1940 (Libra for 66 years)
July 21, 2006 (stations at 18° 42′ Libra, then Rx for next 80 years)
March 29, 2086 (at 0° 1′ stations direct to progress Libra all over again)
November 5, 2165: Mars, Saturn, Lot of Fortune, and Midheaven all by progression at 26–27° Libra
Times: UT
Transits, Tuesday, November 5, 2165, 00:00:
Neptune 6° 36′ conjunct Uranus 7° 15′ Aquarius
Neptune/Uranus quincunx Pluto 8° 51′ Rx Cancer
Natal progressed Mars through Libra (and 11th):
January 1969–April 2016