Monday 8 March 2010
Saturday 6 March 2010
Events in Greece, and Internationally
It is almost as if it has been set up as an example; or, if not, as the first of a great series of falls, spectacular collapses of such proportion that they reverberate around the world, like the recent earthquake in Chile.
The land of such central historical importance to the whole project of Western civilization is teetering on the brink, and there seems to be no positive outlook ahead.
The global capitalist society is moving into a new phase, not just weapons and disaster profiteering, but impinging directly on the sovereignty of the nation-state.
People are frightened – there is great instability prevailing. When masses of people, whole populations, become united in rage, the force unleashed is of immense potency, sending tremors through the planet, with their cascades of spin-off emergencies in their wake.
We’re practically at the Cardinal Climax now – 4 months to go. Watch the first 8 degrees of cardinal, everywhere – in people, in places, in political structures, in economic structures – as the vast tsunami of concentrated initiative lifts and carries away all in its path.
Greece is in ferment; massive strikes, riots, civil disobedience.
Look at the chart for the modern Greek state. Isn’t that Piscean Jupiter up at the midheaven so symbolic of the nation famous for its age-old seafaring culture, philosophically sophisticated, echoing perenially in the deep bass of our cultural soundscape, providing the backdrop to so much of our assumptions about the universe, like the root contextualizing the chord?
So much in first-decanate cardinal points: Moon, Venus and Pluto, all being hit by transiting Pluto, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter. That’s the Moon (the people and their needs, the feeling of being Greek, belonging, and protecting the nation, popular opinion), Venus (wealth, property, resources, fairness, justice, relationships) and Pluto (organised crime, putocracy, deep power, urge to ruthlessly transform).
Look at Mars, about to station direct on the chart’s Sun. Flaring up and adding the dry hotness of flame to the already fiery spirit of sovereignty.
And transiting Uranus sitting on the midheaven, as revolutionary shocks are crackling around Athens like bolts of lightning on the Acropolis.
And the Chiron-Neptune conjunction exactly opposite Mars – this is real anger at the shameful pain of being done over, of being duped by gangsters in suits, and the feeling of being attacked by something which is turning out to be a conspiracy of such vast proportions that it exhausts belief.
Points in the first cardinal decanates are also prominent in other charts that are resonating like a cacophany of bells at the moment. Look at these tables to see. More anon.
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Corruption in High Places
As 2010 gets underway, it is possible to see the political temperature rising as governments recognise that the governed are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the circumstances in which they are living. As Pluto inches forward to 4 degrees of Capricorn, currently approaching its second exact square from Saturn (of three), measures are being taken of a most extraordinary kind to prevent any possibility of popular control of the unfolding of public events. Pluto’s placement in Capricorn until 2023 is coinciding with increasingly authoritarian behaviour by the elites, as they struggle to maintain their positions of power. Capricorn is symbolic of the public realm, and the desire to act in the public realm in order to achieve one’s vision of cosmic order. Charles Carter wrote:
Pluto’s action in any sign is to expose its mode of functioning, or its characteristic themes, to the lowest common denominator; to subject that sign’s essential meaning to the unforgiving and brutal forces of putrefaction and destruction, so that only the core truth remains, purefied of accumulated dross. Authority, especially governmental authority, is now starting to struggle with the inevitable changes that are coming. Increasingly desperate to maintain control, it is resorting to tactics that are as blatant as they are corrupt.
As Saturn transits through Libra (albeit now retrograding back into Virgo, in which it will stay between 8 April and 22 July 2010 before returning to Libra), our principles of natural and social justice are being tested. They are being tested for their integrity, their inherent strength and capacity to endure. What are the limits in Libran affairs? How far can justice be stretched before it ceases to be just? When is fair no longer fair?
Look to current events to bear out the meaning of the Saturn-Pluto square this year. Of course, events will also bear out the prevailing Saturn-Uranus opposition, the upcoming Jupiter-Uranus conjunction and a host of other important aspects, especially around and after the Cancer Solstice. But it pays to examine the complex interference pattern of these major archetypal forces as they interact, and to do so slowly and carefully, teasing out the elements as they sweep over us.
Dr David Kelly was a British scientist and expert in weapons of mass destruction who advised the British government, prior to the start of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction. Some three months after the illegal invasion, the BBC reported that the government’s oft-quoted claim that Iraq was capable of launching weapons of mass destruction, that could reach Western countries, within 45 minutes of being ordered, was false, and it turned out that the BBC had relied on Dr Kelly’s opinion in compiling this report. This caused a furore which resuled in a parliamentary inquiry, at which Dr Kelly was asked to give evidence. The BBC maintained that a highly-placed member of the cabinet had knowingly inserted the 45-minute claim into the dossier that was used to convince parliament of the urgent need to invade Iraq, even though Dr Kelly and others had told the government that the claim was false. Shortly after appearing at the parliamentary inquiry, Dr Kelly was found dead in a forest near his home. A further inquiry, called the Hutton Inquiry, was formed to determine the circumstances surrounding his death. The Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly had killed himself, even though the evidence for this was practically non-existent.
Now, as the Chilcot inquiry into the legality of the British involvement in the Iraq Invasion proceeds in London, the government has announced something truly extraordinary: all details of Dr Kelly’s death, postmortem findings included, are to be classified for 70 years. They will not be allowed to be known by the public until the 2070s! Further details are available at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23798597-70-year-gag-on-kelly-death-evidence.do
This is the sort of desperation amongst the elite that is reflected in the current planetary placements. We see the total abuse of authority and naked corruption of government (Pluto in Capricorn) as well as the testing of systems of justice required to maintain some basic fairness in the operation of social institutions (Saturn in Libra). Clearly, there is something to hide here, and these actions are those of frightened people in high places.
Another example of this theme turning up in current events is the recent US Supreme Court decision on the ability of corporations to fund the campaign expenses of candidates for federal election in the US. Up until now, it was regarded as unfair for corporations and unions to provide more than a small declared amount of funding for this purpose. However, in this recent decision of the Supreme Court, which was a 5 to 4 majority decision, incredibly the opinion was voiced that corporations’ first-amendment free-speech rights were unfairly restricted by this previous limitation on their spending (as corporations are legally regarded as legal persons). See http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1437674.html for more details.
Again we see the testing of basic principles of fairness (Saturn in Libra) at the same time as the transparent abuse of concentrated power in high places (Pluto in Capricorn). As some commentators have put it, from now on, electoral candidates might as well be known as ‘the representative for McDonalds’ or ‘the representative for Halliburton’ as the implications of this ruling for any sort of fair democratic process at elections are enormous.
Developments like these two are troubling for anyone who is concerned about basic fairness and justice in the way our societies are governed. Unfortunately further measures of this kind will continue to develop until people start to wake up to what principles of political justice are being destroyed in the interests of the elites who seek to dominate without restraint. Change will not take place until we inform ourselves of what is taking place, and this is an active process of seeking out information, not relying on it being spoonfed to us by the corporate media conglomerates, whose interests lie in nothing beyond entertainment and distraction.
As Uranus and Jupiter move up to join the fray in the early degrees of cardinal signs, we may feel that things have a chance of getting better. But this will only be the start, and it will require very clear understanding of the battles that need to be fought and won, the modus operandi of the corrupt in positions of power, and clarity of purpose in terms of what it is that we want to envision in place of the current unjust regimes around the world. As the cardinal climax approaches, it seems as though it will be like a gaetway of awareness through which we must pass before we can get to work with the tensions of the great Uranus-Pluto squares of the coming years, which will really be the grist to the mill of the current Pluto in Capricorn era.
Agent 37
Capricorn is Cosmic Order and Justice, embodied in the truth that “As ye sow so shall ye reap.” From this arises the virtue of respect for those worthy of respect and the faculty of appreciating the hierarchical ideal, by which the lesser always subserve the higher.
From this principle may come the delusion of formalism, or literalism, the belief that the form is greater than the spirit, the letter more important than the idea. (The Zodiac and the Soul (1968), by CEO Carter, Theosophical Publishing House, London.)
Pluto’s action in any sign is to expose its mode of functioning, or its characteristic themes, to the lowest common denominator; to subject that sign’s essential meaning to the unforgiving and brutal forces of putrefaction and destruction, so that only the core truth remains, purefied of accumulated dross. Authority, especially governmental authority, is now starting to struggle with the inevitable changes that are coming. Increasingly desperate to maintain control, it is resorting to tactics that are as blatant as they are corrupt.
As Saturn transits through Libra (albeit now retrograding back into Virgo, in which it will stay between 8 April and 22 July 2010 before returning to Libra), our principles of natural and social justice are being tested. They are being tested for their integrity, their inherent strength and capacity to endure. What are the limits in Libran affairs? How far can justice be stretched before it ceases to be just? When is fair no longer fair?
Look to current events to bear out the meaning of the Saturn-Pluto square this year. Of course, events will also bear out the prevailing Saturn-Uranus opposition, the upcoming Jupiter-Uranus conjunction and a host of other important aspects, especially around and after the Cancer Solstice. But it pays to examine the complex interference pattern of these major archetypal forces as they interact, and to do so slowly and carefully, teasing out the elements as they sweep over us.
Dr David Kelly was a British scientist and expert in weapons of mass destruction who advised the British government, prior to the start of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction. Some three months after the illegal invasion, the BBC reported that the government’s oft-quoted claim that Iraq was capable of launching weapons of mass destruction, that could reach Western countries, within 45 minutes of being ordered, was false, and it turned out that the BBC had relied on Dr Kelly’s opinion in compiling this report. This caused a furore which resuled in a parliamentary inquiry, at which Dr Kelly was asked to give evidence. The BBC maintained that a highly-placed member of the cabinet had knowingly inserted the 45-minute claim into the dossier that was used to convince parliament of the urgent need to invade Iraq, even though Dr Kelly and others had told the government that the claim was false. Shortly after appearing at the parliamentary inquiry, Dr Kelly was found dead in a forest near his home. A further inquiry, called the Hutton Inquiry, was formed to determine the circumstances surrounding his death. The Hutton Inquiry concluded that Dr Kelly had killed himself, even though the evidence for this was practically non-existent.
Now, as the Chilcot inquiry into the legality of the British involvement in the Iraq Invasion proceeds in London, the government has announced something truly extraordinary: all details of Dr Kelly’s death, postmortem findings included, are to be classified for 70 years. They will not be allowed to be known by the public until the 2070s! Further details are available at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23798597-70-year-gag-on-kelly-death-evidence.do
This is the sort of desperation amongst the elite that is reflected in the current planetary placements. We see the total abuse of authority and naked corruption of government (Pluto in Capricorn) as well as the testing of systems of justice required to maintain some basic fairness in the operation of social institutions (Saturn in Libra). Clearly, there is something to hide here, and these actions are those of frightened people in high places.
Another example of this theme turning up in current events is the recent US Supreme Court decision on the ability of corporations to fund the campaign expenses of candidates for federal election in the US. Up until now, it was regarded as unfair for corporations and unions to provide more than a small declared amount of funding for this purpose. However, in this recent decision of the Supreme Court, which was a 5 to 4 majority decision, incredibly the opinion was voiced that corporations’ first-amendment free-speech rights were unfairly restricted by this previous limitation on their spending (as corporations are legally regarded as legal persons). See http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1437674.html for more details.
Again we see the testing of basic principles of fairness (Saturn in Libra) at the same time as the transparent abuse of concentrated power in high places (Pluto in Capricorn). As some commentators have put it, from now on, electoral candidates might as well be known as ‘the representative for McDonalds’ or ‘the representative for Halliburton’ as the implications of this ruling for any sort of fair democratic process at elections are enormous.
Developments like these two are troubling for anyone who is concerned about basic fairness and justice in the way our societies are governed. Unfortunately further measures of this kind will continue to develop until people start to wake up to what principles of political justice are being destroyed in the interests of the elites who seek to dominate without restraint. Change will not take place until we inform ourselves of what is taking place, and this is an active process of seeking out information, not relying on it being spoonfed to us by the corporate media conglomerates, whose interests lie in nothing beyond entertainment and distraction.
As Uranus and Jupiter move up to join the fray in the early degrees of cardinal signs, we may feel that things have a chance of getting better. But this will only be the start, and it will require very clear understanding of the battles that need to be fought and won, the modus operandi of the corrupt in positions of power, and clarity of purpose in terms of what it is that we want to envision in place of the current unjust regimes around the world. As the cardinal climax approaches, it seems as though it will be like a gaetway of awareness through which we must pass before we can get to work with the tensions of the great Uranus-Pluto squares of the coming years, which will really be the grist to the mill of the current Pluto in Capricorn era.
Agent 37
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