Today's agreement between Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist party and Sinn Fein, with the two party leaders, Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, sitting at the same table, has occurred as Pluto stationed in alignment with the Galactic Centre positioned on the two politicians' joint Mars-Mars midpoint, literally symbolising personal 'power-sharing' between the two leaders.

Looking at the charts of the DUP and Sinn Fein, Pluto is almost exactly square to the shared midpoint of the DUP and Sinn Fein Pluto, again suggesting 'power-sharing' but this time between the parties.

As Pluto will now retrace its steps, the next stage in the process is to resurrect the Assembly on 8th May. On that date transiting Sun will be closely conjunct & opposite the DUP and Sinn Fein Jupiter-Saturn opposition, which is itself currently squared by transiting Saturn-Neptune.

Saturn-Neptune has a reputation for symbolising the dissolution of institutions, but it can also symbolise the dissolution of old ideas that limit and constrict, and the building of hope, so there is potential here for a lasting change if the critical mass is used well.

There's more on the political parties of Northern Ireland at the Astrology for the 21st Century website at http://www.astrology21.co.uk

New articles have been added to the website affiliated with this blog. They are:-

* Labour Party Leadership....Contest? : Will there be a contest, or a coronation? A guide to the prospects of the possible contenders: Gordon Brown, John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, David Miliband, and more

* Charts of UK Political Parties: Plaid Cymru , SNP , DUP, Sinn Fein, UUP, SDLP , and UKIP , plus Alex Salmond and Adam Price .

* Inner World, Outer World : How the psyche is embedded in the Earth, using the charts of Madonna, Tony Blair, the USA and the Berlin Wall

Today the Sun is on the Venus/Neptune midpoint, as Venus-Jupiter-Saturn form a Grand Trine, and Neptune joins in to make the Grand Trine into Kite formation....... so it seemed like a good time to complete and publish the e-booklet that's been in the pipeline for quite some time now.

It's complete free of charge, contains no advertising etc, and is purely and simply an electronic booklet designed to help use astrology to talk about, explore, and hopefully achieve peacefulness.

This 'peaceful Zodiac' material is called 'Paths to Peace: How Astrology Can Help You Find Peace.' You can find out more about it and download it at this URL: http://www.astrology21.co.uk/pathstopeace.html

It's been written as part of the Astrology for Peace project, which itself began in 2004.

The material in the e-book covers these topics and more besides:

* What you can do to help yourself become more peaceful
* What you can do to help other people become more peaceful
* Tables to find your 'Signs of Peace', your Venus Sign and Neptune Sign
* What peace means to each Venus Sign of the Zodiac
* The different types of 'false peace' and how to overcome them
* The role of imagination in peace
* A guided visualisation for inner peace

To open the .pdf file you'll need Acrobat 6 or above, or an equivalent compatible .pdf reader. On a slow-ish connection it should download in 15-20 mins max, and broadband times will obviously be much, much faster.

Some new articles have been published on the website affiliated to this weblog. Here's a summary:-

Remembering the Forgotten Genius of Electricity: Nikola Tesla's birth chart, astromaps, and star parans [click here to read it]

Business to Business: Richard Branson's first business, and his latest venture, Virgin Media [click here to read it]

Planetary Cycles of Human Rights: Landmark events and historical figures in the development of human rights [click here to read it]

On the subject of Virgin Media, which did indeed launch on the 8th Feb as discussed in an earlier blog entry here, the lunar eclipse of last night was at 13-14 Virgo/Pisces, linking with Richard Branson's chart as well as the chart of Virgin Media. The battle with Sky television over Virgin Media's broadcasting of Sky channels continues......