Polk had used hard bargaining tactics to convince the British that America willing to go to war over the Oregon territory. An explosive transiting Mars and transiting Uranus were in aspect to the Paris Mars at 14 Aries. Transiting Mercury at 29 Taurus, Jupiter at 28 Taurus, Neptune at 28 Aquarius and stationary Saturn at 00 Pisces formed a T-square to the Paris Moon at 29 Scorpio. (more on keywords)
Stationary Saturn was a fifty-nine-year return to the Constitutional Convention on May 29, 1787, when Articles of Confederation were debated in order establish the government, this stationary was to establish a border.125 (more on stationary returns)
President Polk offered to settle the Oregon border when stationary Mars was at 00 Pisces. The British response had stationary Saturn at 00 Pisces to halt the Mars threat of war. (making yearly event page)
The British opted not to engage on the northern border, they were aiding Mexico on the southern border with armaments. Mercury at 29 Taurus, Jupiter at 28 Taurus, and stationary Saturn aspected Uranus-Pluto at 28 Leo, Saturn-Neptune at 27 Aquarius and an earlier Lunar eclipse at 00 Sagittarius.
War Maneuvers
General Taylor moved toward Monterrey that was heavily defended by Mexican troops with better British artillery including 12-pounder cannons, confirmation of the old European monarchies' intrigues. His smaller forces still managed to compel the Mexican commander to surrender on September 24, 1846, after a four-day battle.126 
Transiting Venus was conjunct the Federal Midheaven with the stationary Jupiter conjunct Chiron of battle. The Sun at 01 Libra was also conjunct the Declaration Midheaven.
General Taylor agreed to an armistice to allow the surrendering Mexicans to retreat as he had lost many men and believed leniency would help peace negotiations. A serious miscalculation. When President Polk was informed of the armistice, he denounced it.
The Democrat president was not happy that both General Scott and the increasingly popular General Taylor were considered Whigs. On November 14, 1846, the president told his cabinet he had decided General Taylor was unfit to command, and deeply partisan. Unable to put a lower ranking Democrat over both generals, the president decided to weaken General Taylor by moving his best troops to General Scott, and later find a way to deal with General Scott.127
General Scott began commandeering over 9,000 of General Taylor’s troops in early January of 1847 and left him with raw, untried volunteers. Taylor was instructed to maintain a defensive post in Monterrey.
The Democrat president was not happy that both General Scott and the increasingly popular General Taylor were considered Whigs. On November 14, 1846, the president told his cabinet he had decided General Taylor was unfit to command, and deeply partisan. Unable to put a lower ranking Democrat over both generals, the president decided to weaken General Taylor by moving his best troops to General Scott, and later find a way to deal with General Scott.127
General Scott began commandeering over 9,000 of General Taylor’s troops in early January of 1847 and left him with raw, untried volunteers. Taylor was instructed to maintain a defensive post in Monterrey.
On January 13, 1847, Santa Ana’s scouts killed a messenger with a copy of Scott’s orders to take Taylor’s forces. The transiting Mars at 10 Sagittarius was square the Paris Sun at 10 Virgo as the transiting T-square of the Sun at 23 Capricorn the North Node and Chiron at 23 Libra and Pluto at 23 Aries aspect the Paris Jupiter. Santa Ana calculated this was an opportunity to make a quick victory over General Taylor.128 (more on transits to nation charts)
The transiting T-square of the Sun at 23 Capricorn, Pluto stationary at 23 Aries, and both the North Node and Chiron at 23 Libra also aspected both Saturn-Uranus at 23 Libra and Jupiter-Pluto at 23 Aries. Mercury at 03 Capricorn aspected Uranus-Neptune at 03 Capricorn and Jupiter-Uranus at 03 Aries as the transiting Saturn at 28 Aquarius opposed Uranus-Pluto so all four Uranus involved cycles were engaged for the unexpected.
General Taylor saw the orders to take his troops as political maneuvering and decided to consider General Scott’s order to Monterrey as advice. Jupiter had been stationary on General Taylor’s Monterrey victory in September. Jupiter changed direction and on February 5, 1847, Taylor took 4,800 troops further south, just miles from where Santa Ana was assembling 15,000 troops in anticipation of an easy conquest on Taylor. (more on stationary orbs)
At Buena Vista on February 23, 1847, General Taylor was once again heavily outnumbered, and yet still triumphed. He forced Santa Ana to retreat.129 After Buena Vista, General Taylor became even more popular with the public but in disfavor of the administration. He received a reprimand from the Secretary of War and was forced to remain idle in Monterrey.130
On April 15, 1847, the first Aries Solar eclipse since the Uranus entry was at 24 Aries, conjunct Jupiter-Pluto at 23 Aries and in opposition to Saturn-Uranus at 23 Libra with Mercury stationary at 03 Aries conjunct the Jupiter-Uranus cycle at 03 Aries in square to the 03 Capricorn Uranus-Neptune cycle. The first Solar eclipse during the colonial Aries Uranus was at 23 Aries followed by a Solar eclipse at 24 Libra eighteen years later at Yorktown.
The war had given General Taylor strong name recognition as an American hero outside of the establishment elite of West Point. His popularity after the defeat of Santa Ana led to requests from party leaders, governors, and members of Congress, attempting to convince him to accept nomination for a presidential run. Responses were sent declining with his thanks, stating that one more qualified could yet be found in 1848.131
On July 8, 1847, a group assembled in Detroit, Michigan to promote General Taylor for President and adopted thirteen resolutions for a broadside. The third resolution addressed the rising polarization during the period and put the blame squarely on partisan newspapers for misusing the freedom of the press to divide the people.
“That the feverish efforts of leading newspapers connected with the two great parties which have heretofore divided the country, to deter the people from the expression of their feelings in favor of General Taylor, are at war with the freedom of popular thought and action, and entirely incompatible with that republican liberty which the press was established, and constitutionally secured in the utmost latitude of discussion, to advance and support.”132
The broadside was fourteen years before the start of the civil war, but the divisions were already stifling public discourse. Censorship and polarized divisions of the citizens were also issues in the colonial period.
On April 15, 1847, the first Aries Solar eclipse since the Uranus entry was at 24 Aries, conjunct Jupiter-Pluto at 23 Aries and in opposition to Saturn-Uranus at 23 Libra with Mercury stationary at 03 Aries conjunct the Jupiter-Uranus cycle at 03 Aries in square to the 03 Capricorn Uranus-Neptune cycle. The first Solar eclipse during the colonial Aries Uranus was at 23 Aries followed by a Solar eclipse at 24 Libra eighteen years later at Yorktown.
The war had given General Taylor strong name recognition as an American hero outside of the establishment elite of West Point. His popularity after the defeat of Santa Ana led to requests from party leaders, governors, and members of Congress, attempting to convince him to accept nomination for a presidential run. Responses were sent declining with his thanks, stating that one more qualified could yet be found in 1848.131
On July 8, 1847, a group assembled in Detroit, Michigan to promote General Taylor for President and adopted thirteen resolutions for a broadside. The third resolution addressed the rising polarization during the period and put the blame squarely on partisan newspapers for misusing the freedom of the press to divide the people.
“That the feverish efforts of leading newspapers connected with the two great parties which have heretofore divided the country, to deter the people from the expression of their feelings in favor of General Taylor, are at war with the freedom of popular thought and action, and entirely incompatible with that republican liberty which the press was established, and constitutionally secured in the utmost latitude of discussion, to advance and support.”132
On the day of the resolutions, the Sun at 15 Cancer, North Node at 14 Libra and Mars at 14 Aries formed a transiting T-square as Mars returned to the Paris Mars at 14 Aries with the press accused of being at war with the thinking of the people. Transiting Venus at 00 Virgo and propaganda Neptune at 00 Pisces were square the Paris Moon at 29 Scorpio.
Just prior to the publication, Saturn of censorship had been in stationary orb and changed direction.
Notes
124. Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and other International Acts of the United States of America Volume 5, 73-74. 125. Charles Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster’s Guide to American History, 76.
126. Richard W. Stewart, ed., American Military History Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 2009), 181.
127. Mark E. Neely Jr., “War and Partisanship: What Lincoln Learned From James K. Polk,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 74, no. 3 (1981): 210-213.
128. John C. Frediksen, The United States Army A Chronology, 1775 to the Present (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2010), 115.
129. John C. Frediksen, The United States Army A Chronology, 1775 to the Present, 117.
130. Charles Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster’s Guide to American History, 185.
131. Oliver Otis Howard, General Taylor, 295-297.
132. The Friends of General Zachary Taylor, General Zachary Taylor, Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.08400300/.