No matter what the government tells us, the truth is that it is deliberately killing the NHS.

It is not about something as inocuous as 'reform'. Nor is it about a funding crisis, or being too big to manage. It is about finding excuses to kill it.

If the government is allowed to finish what it's started, the NHS will be reduced to nothing more than a brand - a logo and maybe a slogan attached to private companies whose sole purpose is to turn a profit no matter what.

Fortunately, we have a chance to save it, and resurrect its original purpose for real, not just in this sham way that the government is pretending to do, whilst ripping the heart and soul out of its substance.

Here is the NHS's birth chart. Its MC is at 27 degrees 54 minutes of Sagittarius. In March 2006 Pluto was just over 1 degree away from this, which is absolutely close enough to reflect the murder that's about to be completed. Pluto will go forwards and backwards over the MC during 2006, 2007, and 2008. So if we don't do something about it now, by 2008 the NHS will almost certainly be dead and buried.

The good news is that Pluto transits always hold the potential for a resurrection and new lease of life. Of course the government is pretending that that is the aim, but it's not: the government is bringing the sinister, treacherous, and brutal Pluto side into the equation. It is playing the Plutonic role of the murderous villain, not the life-bringer.

As Pluto conjoins the NHS's MC, it also opposes the NHS's Venus, Uranus, and Mercury. At the moment Pluto is moving back to square the NHS's Ascendant; this is another major 'kill it off' configuration.

2006 to 2007 also sees Saturn opposing Neptune, which has direct relevance to the NHS because the organisation is experiencing its Saturn return during the Saturn-Neptune opposition. The Saturn-Neptune pairing always has relevance to health issues, and readers of this blog and the Astrology for the 21st Century website will know that it also has strong links to the Labour party, to Tony Blair, and to David Cameron.

In the NHS's chart, Saturn is at 20 degrees of Leo, which is the exact degree of one of the forthcoming oppositions between Saturn and Neptune. This is 'crunch time'.

For more astrological information on the NHS's birth chart, there is a short article written in 2004 that you can read here: NHS cycles of reform
For more information on keeping the NHS public, see this website: Keep Our NHS Public
And to find out more about the Saturn-Neptune opposition, see here: Saturn Opposition Neptune