What do record-breaking VAT fraud, law-breaking cash-for-honours deals, and the welfare system have to do with one another?
They're all connected to the transit of Neptune to the UK's Venus.
Neptune symbolises - to use the vernacular - all sorts of dodgy dealings. Venus is the nation's financial issues. Put the two together and you have a lot of situations cropping up that, to put it mildly, require huge amounts of clarification. At the most innocent end of the spectrum, Neptune represents confusion and muddle. At the other end of the spectrum it represents fraud, deception, evasion, and crooked goings-on.
Hence we have the government complaining about being swindled out of money - business fraud, benefit fraud - at the same time as the government has been swindling the country out of democracy by rewarding with power and privilege those who donate/lend it large enough sums of money.
In the UK's chart, Venus is in the 5th house, which is associated with gambling, leisure activities, and dignitaries, besides other things. Neptune has been edging closer to the UK's Venus throughout the 2000s. It entered a 5 degree orb in 2003, when the government started passing legislation to bring in 24-hour drinking and supercasinos.
On the subject of supercasinos, it's recently come to light that last year John Prescott and some of the civil servants working for him stayed at the ranch of businessman Philip Anschutz (Prescott has had 7 meetings with Anchutz since 2002). Aschutz just happens to want the UK's first supercasino to be at the Millennium Dome in London, which he just happens to own. During that trip Prescott was given a gift of cowboy clothing by Aschutz worth £11,000, but Prescott didn't declare the gift. Conflict of interest? Power for sale? Bribery? 'Sweeteners' (a very Venus-Neptune word)? Plain old-fashioned sleaze, some would say.
Interestingly enough, Philip Anschutz seems to epitomise this Neptune-Venus-5th house combination. The BBC report describes his business activities, all of which carry Neptune-Venus-5th house themes:
"His umbrella organisation, Anschutz Investment Company, has tentacles which spread also to sports and leisure. He owns soccer, ice-hockey and basketball teams including the LA Lakers, as well as thousands of cinemas, and it's believed Qwest will be at the forefront of the move to distribute films via satellite.
Another of his firms, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), having acquired London's Millennium Dome and renamed it The O2 after a sponsorship deal, has announced plans to include Britain's only permitted super-casino in its development of the site.
Philip Anschutz has combined his business acumen with his religious principles through his movie-making Walden Media group. In a recent rare speech, he said he wanted to make movies "that have a positive effect on people's lives and on our culture".
His films are intended to be "uplifting productions for all the family".Last year, he combined with Disney to make The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, an adaptation of C.S. Lewis's classic children's novel and Christian allegory.
Walden is also in partnership with News Corp's Twentieth Century Fox to produce five films based on children's novels.
But Philip Anschutz has been criticised for his support of right-wing organisations in the United States. Most controversially, he has donated large sums to Colorado for Family Values, an overtly anti-gay organisation.
Qwest has also been investigated for financial irregularities. In 2003, he agreed to pay $4.4 million to settle allegations that he profited from falsely inflating the company's share price.
It is reported that Philip Anschutz owns one of the best collections of US Western art in the world, including important works by Georgia O'Keefe."
From a broader and deeper perspective, an apt question is: will the citizens of the UK get to grips with this transit before it's over, or will the deception continue as the population stays passive and asleep (both negative Neptunian responses)?Read more on the Neptune transit of the UK's Venus:
http://www.astrology21.co.uk/c1ukneptunevenus.html
