A recent article in the Guardian newspaper has - at long last - focused attention on the UK's socio-economic issues:

"Inequality, slowly being pushed once again into centre-left debate, is not just a matter of hard stats: it is also manifested in the dislocation that comes from watching a consumerist circus that has precious little to do with you. Not that you would know it from listening to Westminster chatter, but the problem informs whole swathes of national life"

In an early act of self-delusion back in 1999, Tony Blair infamously declared:

"My friends, the class war is over."

Yet as the Guardian the other day pointed out:

"the supposed arrival of the classless society is less a matter of conditions on the ground than a culture that blithely ignores them."

In the newspaper there followed a healthy and much-needed debate in the readers' comments section, 'Comment is Free'. Several readers found it worthy of remark that at last the inequality issue had been brought up for discussion.

Astrologically, the Saturn-Neptune opposition focuses on the UK's Venus, the planet of economics, social cohesion, balance, equality, and fairness. In the first months of 2005, an article was written and published on the Astrology for the 21st Century website, drawing parallels with the period of UK history in the 1840s that saw "the rise of the working class, the birth of socialism, the labour movement, and the cooperative movement. There was a widespread increase in conscioussness of class divisisions, coupled with agitation for equal rights and representation."

As in the 1800s, the risk today is that the governing few show 'mercy to the poor' merely in order to 'lengthen thy tranquility' of the rich.

To read the Guardian article, click this URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1929928,00.html

To read about the transit of Neptune to the UK's Venus, click this URL: http://astrology21.co.uk/c1ukneptunevenus.html

To read about the Saturn-Neptune opposition, click this URL: http://astrology21.co.uk/c1saturnneptune.html

To read a related Guardian article, click this URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1928065,00.html