Neptune has entered Aries and will remain there for approximately 14 years. The last time Neptune transited Aries was 1862-1875, a significant time in US history:

- climax and end of the Civil War

- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

- opening of the Open Board of Stock Brokers (1864), which merged with the New York Stock Exchange in 1869

- Lincoln assassination (1865)

- ratification of Amendments 13 (1865), 14 (1868), and 15 (1870), which abolished slavery, guaranteed citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US, and granted black men the right to vote

- organization of the KKK (1865)

- completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, connecting the East and West Coasts (1869)

- Panic of 1873 (economic depression)

- Specie Resumption Act (1875), which aimed to return the US to a gold standard (what’s up #Bitcoin??)

- Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination in public accommodations

- Whiskey Ring Scandal (1875), which involved corruption in the collection of whiskey taxes

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