Inspired by a talk given on September 12, 2001 Steffan Vanel has launched into this analysis of the lessons, potential and possible destiny of the USA. Beginning with the intense transits in effect on 9/11 and Vanel continues with the influences in the birth of the nation,factors leading to the Civil War, the Great Depression and Vietnam, economic and sexual/gender issues and predictions for the future.

This new edition has chapters on the Astrological Karma of George W. Bush and John F.Kerry, Conspiracy Theories and the Problem of Evil, 2012 and the End of the Mayan Calendar, and the Purpose of Existence.