Astrology for the 21st Century

The UK government is today hosting an international summit about online gambling.

The Department for Culture, Media, & Sport (DCMS) announced the summit in January 2006, when Neptune was within just three seconds of arc from the UK's Venus (leisure industry, economy) in the 5th house (gambling, children), and it's being hosted now as Neptune has just stationed and is beginning to slowly creep forwards.

Echoing the astrology, back in January the DCMS said:

"We want to initiate a discussion about problem areas, which include protection of children, advertising, money laundering and criminal infiltration."

News reports noted that the UK is home to many of the world's largest online gambling sites. The government has sought to 'grow' the UK's share of this part of the global industry - in total worth more than £15 billion - as Neptune has transited the UK's Venus in the 5th house.

This BBC News article is shot through with astrological meaning, for those who want to play 'spot the astrological connections' it's a good read: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6100012.stm

Here's the DCMS page about the online gambling issues: http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Press_notices/archive_2006/remotegambling_factpact06.htm

Lastly, here's an article written at the very start of 2005 that picked out Jan/Feb 2006 and Sep-Dec 2006 as key times for these issues: http://www.astrology21.co.uk/c1ukneptunevenus.html

Hot on the heels of the head of the UK army saying the country should pull its troops out of Iraq soon, came the news that the Labour party's rating in popularity polls is at its lowest since the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher last won an election in 1987. An updated Lancet-published study of deaths in Iraq said that there have been around two thirds of a million excess deaths since the USA-UK-Australian invasion of the country.

Today the longstanding Impeachblair.org campaign might be about to have a long overdue victory. Early Day Motion 1088 has been on the Parliamentary records for some time now, but this afternoon MPs will be voting to have their say on "the need to set up an inquiry into the conduct of Government policy in relation to the war in Iraq." This could be a watershed for Tony Blair and the Labour party alike.

These important events cluster around the station of Neptune, as it turns direct (resumes forward motion). As regular readers of this blog and/or the Astrology for the 21st Century website will be aware, Neptune has been correlating with Blair and Labour's long, slow unravelling over this and other issues (privatising the NHS, Iraq, Afghanistan, faith-based education, student top-up fees for university education, so-called '(City) Academies' (i.e. privatising schools), prisons and crime and 'anti-social behaviour', undermining human rights, the debt-based economy and false sense of prosperity, etc).

For more information on the astrology of these events, please feel free to browse previous entries on this blog and also visit www.astrology21.co.uk

Newspaper article about Labour's lowest popularity rating since 1987 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/0,,1930731,00.html