Before the first presidential term for Franklin D. Roosevelt began, the Twentieth Amendment changing the inauguration date of the president and vice president from March 4th to January 20th was adopted. Some view the January date as arbitrary chance, but there is significance in dates.
The House of Commons began on January 20, 1265, and on January 20, 1783, British, Spanish, French, and American representatives signed an agreement to end hostilities before the Paris Treaty was signed.198 A cooperative Congress also began the process of the Twenty-first Amendment to repeal prohibition. The inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt was at 1:06 pm on March 4, 1933.199
President Roosevelt inaugural address directly blamed the “the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence”.
He immediately called for a special session of Congress to address the banking crises as his Secretary of Treasury summoned the directors of the Federal Reserve and national business leaders. All states had banks closed under holiday orders or cash restrictions and the NYSE governors closed the stock market.
Mercury had been stationary retrograde with the Banking Act in order to halt gold from being exported out of the country. President Roosevelt had claimed war powers in the Banking Act to deal with the massive withdrawals of gold and currency from the banks, as tensions with Britain arose again.205
199. Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, March 5, 1933, 1; Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1933, 7. Cited 1:06 pm.
200. G. Gould Lincoln, “New Chief Executive May Demand War Time Power,” Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1933, 1-2.
201. Merrill Fabry, “The Law that Started The New Deal,” Time Magazine, March 9, 2016. Cited 8:30 pm signing.
202. George R. Holmes, “Roosevelt Asks Dictatorial Power To Close All Unsound Banks At Once,” Washington Times, March 9, 1933, 1.
203. U.S. Treasury Department, Documents and Statements Pertaining to the Banking Emergency Part I (Washington, DC: GPO, 1933), 10.
204. Craig K. Elwell, Brief History of the Gold Standard in the United States (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2011), 9-11.
205. David M. Ackerman, Presidential Emergency Powers: The So-Called “War Powers Act of 1933,” (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 1996), 1-6.
206. Herbert M. Bratter, “The Committee for the Nation: A Case History in Monetary Propaganda,” Journal of Political Economy 49, no. 4 (1941): 531-553; “Committee Offers Plan Of Inflation,” Washington Evening Star, April 7, 1933, C-8.
207. “Europe Jolted By U.S. Action,” Washington Evening Star, April 20, 1933, 1, 4.
208. Anna J. Schwartz, “From Obscurity to Notoriety: A Biography of the Exchange Stabilization Fund,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 29, no. 2 (1997): 135-152; The Times-News, (Hendersonville, NC) January 31, 1934, 1. Stated act was signed at 3:50 pm by United Press correspondent C. C. Nicolet.
209. “The Scarcity of Silver” The Republic, Washington, DC, January 29, 1851, 1.
210. Edmund Morgan, The Birth of the Republic 1763-89, 3rd edition, 193.
Closing the New York Federal Reserve under a bank holiday prevented withdrawal of its gold reserves by either foreign or domestic agencies to halt gold exported out of the country. Roosevelt announced he would demand war powers if necessary to deal with situation.200
The banks reopened after the first part of the New Deal, the Emergency Banking Act was signed on March 9, 1933, at 8:30 pm.201
Mercury was stationary retrograde at 06 Aries square the Paris Saturn at 05 Capricorn and in opposition to the Paris Neptune at 08 Libra. (more on stationary orbs)
Transiting oppositions of Mars at 07 Virgo, the North Node at 07 Pisces, Venus at 08 Pisces, and Neptune at 08 Virgo aspected the Paris government Sun at 10 Virgo with the transiting Sun at 19 Pisces conjunct the Paris North Node at 18 Pisces in a double whammy with the transiting Jupiter in opposition at 18 Pisces. (more on transits to nation charts)
The cluster of transiting oppositions of Mars at 07 Virgo, the North Node at 07 Pisces, Venus at 08 Pisces, and Neptune at 08 Virgo would aspect the new cycle of regulation Jupiter-Neptune idealistic at 08 Virgo and a 1932 Solar eclipse at 08 Virgo. (more on keywords)
President Roosevelt stated the act “will not only lift immediately all unwarranted doubts and suspicions in regard to banks which are 100 per cent sound but will also mark the beginning of a new relationship between the banks and the people of this country.”202 The act gave the Federal Reserve a more liberal provision in issuing currency to banks.203
Gold Ownership Forbidden
Eighteen months after Britain dropped gold; President Roosevelt would issue Executive Order 6102 on April 5, 1933, forbidding ownership of more than $100 gold to reportedly stop hoarding. The order nationalized private ownership of gold. People were forced to surrender their gold to the Federal Reserve for $20.67 an ounce under the threat of fines or prison.204 Mercury had been stationary retrograde with the Banking Act in order to halt gold from being exported out of the country. President Roosevelt had claimed war powers in the Banking Act to deal with the massive withdrawals of gold and currency from the banks, as tensions with Britain arose again.205
Mercury changed direction to stationary direct at 24 Pisces on the day of this order in opposition to Jupiter-Saturn at 26 Virgo, with both Mars and Pluto stationary with the North Node at 07 Pisces to oppose the Jupiter-Neptune at 08 Virgo and Solar eclipse.
Simultaneous stationary Mars and Pluto occurred when British troops arrived in Boston, the Lexington Battle and when Britain rejected the Oregon offer. The stationary Mars was a stationary return (79x2) to Lexington. (more on stationary returns)
Stationary Mercury at 24 Pisces was in opposition to the Paris Mercury at 23 Virgo. Stationary Mars at 01 Virgo was square the Paris Moon 29 Scorpio for the aggressive move as the Sun at 15 Aries was conjunct an emphasized Mars at 14 Aries for a declaration of economic war. (more on emphasized planets)
The double whammy of Venus and Uranus brought the radical change of criminalizing gold ownership with transiting Venus at 11 Aries square Uranus at 11 Cancer while transiting Uranus at 22 Aries opposed the Paris Venus at 24 Libra.
Two days later, on April 7, 1933, the Prime Minister of Great Britain accepted an invitation to visit President Roosevelt. That same day, a private group who gave themselves the lofty name of ‘The Committee for the Nation’, undertook a massive media campaign to get the country off the gold standard.
Two days later, on April 7, 1933, the Prime Minister of Great Britain accepted an invitation to visit President Roosevelt. That same day, a private group who gave themselves the lofty name of ‘The Committee for the Nation’, undertook a massive media campaign to get the country off the gold standard.
A five-step plan was put forward by a “directing committee” signed by business leaders and economists such as Frank Vanderlip of the Jekyll Island meeting. Part of the inflation plan was the United States Treasury to revalue the gold nationalized from the public at $20.67 an ounce to $36.17, and use the profit to create a ‘Stabilization Board’.206
In a press conference before the meeting with British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on the anniversary of Lexington, April 19, 1933, President Roosevelt announced the United States was off the gold standard which shocked Europe.207
In a press conference before the meeting with British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on the anniversary of Lexington, April 19, 1933, President Roosevelt announced the United States was off the gold standard which shocked Europe.207
The trade advantages to British economy following their departure from gold would cease, there was anxiety that a bitter trade war between the countries could develop. France was still on the gold standard, over the last four months Britain had been draining French gold mostly to the Bank of England.
Exchange Stabilization Fund
On January 30, 1934, at 3:50 pm, President Roosevelt signed the Gold Reserve Act which transferred ownership of all monetary gold to the Treasury and created the secretive Exchange Stabilization Fund with the gold profits, as the corporate leaders had recommended. 
There was a Lunar eclipse that day at 10 Leo with Mars at 26 Aquarius and Chiron at 28 Taurus to aspect Saturn-Uranus at 27 Scorpio and a Solar eclipse at 27 Leo. The ESF was designed in response to an equally secretive British counterpart, the Exchange Equalization Account or EEA, which began on July 1, 1932, with eighteen months between the creation of the ESF and the British EEA. (Recall the eighteen-month periods before the crash in 1929.)
The ESF was under the control of the Secretary of the Treasury with the approval of the President; all transactions could be done without public or Congress disclosure or criticisms.208
The stationary Jupiter at 23 Libra would form a transiting cardinal T-square with Uranus at 23 Aries and Pluto at 23 Cancer to be a powerful Grand Cross to the Paris Venus at 24 Libra and Paris Jupiter at 22 Capricorn 59.
The Lunar eclipse that day opposed the emphasized Paris Pluto at 08 Aquarius in the economic power moves. Transiting Mercury at 17 Aquarius, emphasized Venus at 18 Aquarius, and Saturn at 17 Aquarius opposed the Paris Midheaven at 17 Leo.
The transiting North Node at 19 Aquarius was square the emphasized Paris Chiron at 20 Taurus as transiting Chiron at 28 Taurus opposed the Paris Moon at 29 Scorpio to form the ESF. (emphasized planets)
The eighty-three-year stationary Jupiter repeated a theme of coinage exportation to foreign countries from January 29, 1851, on the front page of a Washington, DC newspaper. The article noted how a corporation had established a “paper money mint-by which to drive out of circulation the coins issued by the United States mint” and went on to argue “So long as this system continues we shall be coining money for the benefit of foreigners, and not for the benefit of our own people; for every dollar note that is issued causes a gold or a silver dollar to be exported.”209
The eighty-three-year stationary Jupiter repeated a theme of coinage exportation to foreign countries from January 29, 1851, on the front page of a Washington, DC newspaper. The article noted how a corporation had established a “paper money mint-by which to drive out of circulation the coins issued by the United States mint” and went on to argue “So long as this system continues we shall be coining money for the benefit of foreigners, and not for the benefit of our own people; for every dollar note that is issued causes a gold or a silver dollar to be exported.”209
A similar theme had arisen on February 11, 1768, with the Massachusetts Circular Letter during the Jupiter stationary in reaction to the Townshend Acts for the purpose of exporting funds from America to Britain.210
Notes
198. Nicholas Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, 337; Charles Van Doren and Robert McHenry, Webster’s Guide to American History, 70.
199. Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, March 5, 1933, 1; Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1933, 7. Cited 1:06 pm.
200. G. Gould Lincoln, “New Chief Executive May Demand War Time Power,” Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1933, 1-2.
201. Merrill Fabry, “The Law that Started The New Deal,” Time Magazine, March 9, 2016. Cited 8:30 pm signing.
202. George R. Holmes, “Roosevelt Asks Dictatorial Power To Close All Unsound Banks At Once,” Washington Times, March 9, 1933, 1.
203. U.S. Treasury Department, Documents and Statements Pertaining to the Banking Emergency Part I (Washington, DC: GPO, 1933), 10.
204. Craig K. Elwell, Brief History of the Gold Standard in the United States (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2011), 9-11.
205. David M. Ackerman, Presidential Emergency Powers: The So-Called “War Powers Act of 1933,” (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 1996), 1-6.
206. Herbert M. Bratter, “The Committee for the Nation: A Case History in Monetary Propaganda,” Journal of Political Economy 49, no. 4 (1941): 531-553; “Committee Offers Plan Of Inflation,” Washington Evening Star, April 7, 1933, C-8.
207. “Europe Jolted By U.S. Action,” Washington Evening Star, April 20, 1933, 1, 4.
208. Anna J. Schwartz, “From Obscurity to Notoriety: A Biography of the Exchange Stabilization Fund,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 29, no. 2 (1997): 135-152; The Times-News, (Hendersonville, NC) January 31, 1934, 1. Stated act was signed at 3:50 pm by United Press correspondent C. C. Nicolet.
209. “The Scarcity of Silver” The Republic, Washington, DC, January 29, 1851, 1.
210. Edmund Morgan, The Birth of the Republic 1763-89, 3rd edition, 193.