Toward Ecosophy

Can you expand a little bit on how much the first house of this chart predicts the conditions of the general populace? I'm a little confused by that--how does this differ in being an inauguration chart, and therefore more about the presidency, versus an ingress chart that is cast for the nation as a whole? You write "This suggests that the great contentions of the time will have little immediate impact on Americans in general" in regards to the first house--but should we take that as a broad statement about average Americans being largely unaffected by the events in the chart, or somehow narrow that down the the presidency itself? You seem to be saying more the latter in your comments here.

It all feels a little incongruous, the many bad portents in the chart and then the idea that it will not have great effect on the populace. That does make me think that this is not predicting a civil war--or even a major domestic insurgency--as I don't see how that could remain divorced from the well-being of the general population. I am reading this more as there being a lot of sturm und drang in regards to the politics of the next however many years, but that it will not spread out into the full country to the degree that most people don't continue to go on with their lives with the background chaos of a politics gone mad. Would that be a proper interpretation?

I am similarly curious about your statement in the second house that "The background of economic life can thus expect to improve where the turmoil predicted by the aspects does not bear down too heavily." Granted, it's a pretty qualified statement (if the turmoil is extreme, it may bear down heavily in many places!) but should we take that as a somewhat decent outlook for the economy for the next presidency, or is this a bit more about how much the national economy will effect the presidency specifically?

Thanks for any clarification you can provide!