In November 2004 there will be a glut of 5th-harmonic aspects. What might it mean?

The logjam of 5th-harmonic contacts which will occur next November might be called a "Keplerian storm", because it was Johann Kepler who most famously studied these aspects. What will we see in the sky? The prevalence of 5th and 10th harmonics will last from 1 to 25 November but, to choose a good example, on 5 November 2004 UT Noon there are the following:

Mercury quintile Neptune; Venus quintile Saturn, biquintile Uranus, and quintile Pluto; Jupiter quintile Saturn, biquintile Uranus, and quintile Pluto; Saturn biquintile Uranus and biquintile Pluto; Uranus quintile Pluto. All will be within 42' orb or less.

Excluding Mercury and Neptune, these aspects involve a closed pattern or chain. Consequently there are associated midpoints at the same moment (with orbs in arcminutes): VE=SA/PL (3); SA=UR/PL (33); UR=VE/SA (19) and =JP/SA (6); PL=VE/UR (18) and =JP/UR (5).

While the midpoint contacts are calculated with the usual hard aspects (the "=" in this case means either a conjunction or an opposition with a near midpoint), the interpretation has to be influenced by the 5th-harmonic pattern. I have always taken such aspects to denote "imagination about" whatever the involved planets stood for. In mundane astrology, therefore, the pattern need not denote a real external event; the corresponding phenomenon might be something going on in the public imagination. Still, the pithy sayings of magus Germanicus - I mean Reinhold Ebertin - are a good place to start. The midpoints tell us of alienation, separation, an illegitimate relationship, a change of occupation, a sudden change in financial circumstances. Especially interesting is UR=JP/SA: "Damage to a building, a stoppage of motors..." Since this will be happening in the context of a US presidential election, might it be that the outcome will be influenced by the public imagining that a building has been attacked again, or that some vital machinery has been sabotaged, or (PL=JP/UR) that the economy is teetering on the edge of a cliff? In other words, might it mean that the election will be influenced by a successful game plan encompassing terror alerts and rumours of chaos?