Astrology for the 21st Century

It's emerged that the accountants for the Labour Party were possibly not going to sign-off the Party's accounts at the end of this month, and that could have ended up sending Labour into insolvency. And wouldn't that be a shame....

The Labour Party's financial crises - there are several - were written about in December 2007 on the Astrology for the 21st Century web site, as well as in this blog in 2006. Here's an apposite quote from that Dec 2007 writing:-

Neptune's transit to the Sun-Venus conjunction was briefly within orb in 2006, has been within orb all throughout 2007, and will be exact three times in 2008 and early 2009, finally moving out of orb for the final time in early 2010. The Labour Party can expect to be dealing with leadership crises, popularity issues, and financial problems until then.

And here are the relevant links:-

http://astrology21.co.uk/c1labourfinances.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/22/economy

Continuing on the David Davis / Haltemprice & Howden by-election, here are the planet-star paran interpretations for the location of the address listed on David Davis's website*.

Background Themes - these can be active for several months in this latitude, and so provide the longer-term context for the event

Uranus - Public opinion, Public expectations
Rising when Acumen is Culminating
Small biased attacks on a group
Setting when Rigel is Culminating
To reorganise, or reform, a situation in an assertive, or even aggressive, manner
Setting when Ras Algethi is Anti-culminating
A sudden upset in the political balance of power
Rising when Betelgeuse is Anti-culminating
The people favour the establishment policies

Neptune - The Hopes and Fears of the Nation
Culminating when Castor is Rising
A wave of spiritual, religious or metaphysical thinking

Pluto - The Crises or the Changes that Occur
Culminating when Betelgeuse is Anti-culminating
Benefits or breakthrough achieved in the wake of a disaster

Annual Themes - these recur at this latitude every year in this era, and so are part of the contextual setting but they're much more short-term than the above parans

Heliacal Rising Star
Alhena
People can be carried away with a misson or cause

Heliacal Setting Star
Arcturus
Exploring different options

Sun - The stars in paran with the Sun on this day
Rising when Scheat is Culminating
A time when unusual, or independent, ideas can be heard
Rising when Alhena is Rising
A leader with a mission
Rising when Markab is Culminating
A strong, persistent leader, an unchanging or unyielding person
Setting when Alphecca is Culminating
Strength and leadership found through hardship
Setting when Aculeus is Rising
Attacks that strengthen

Acute Themes - these are active just for this time period at this latitude, and so are more specific within the above general context

Moon - The Emotions of the People
Anti-culminating when Vindemiatrix is Anti-culminating
Attention is drawn to a person's, or a nation's, story
Culminating when Spica is Culminating
The hope that new technologies, or a new plan, will save the day
Rising when Sualocin is Anti-culminating
To be optimistic that an idea or an endeavour will be successful

Mercury - Business and the Media
Rising when Deneb Algedi is Culminating
Focus on media, or finance and taxation laws
Setting when Alhena is Setting
Bringing to light some injustice or swindle
Culminating when Betelgeuse is Culminating
Good economic news, or a big global news story
Setting when Arcturus is Culminating
A new invention, a bright idea

Venus - The Social Conventions
Rising when Alnilam is Rising
Being able to combine different resources for the common good

Mars - The Events of the Day
Culminating when Rigel is Setting
Military action, or the independent, headstrong action of an individual
Setting when Castor is Setting
The person with a plan

Jupiter - The Type of Action which is Favoured by this Period of Time
Setting when Fomalhaut is Culminating
The grand, or big vision

Saturn - The Law and Civic Order
Culminating when Hamal is Setting
Harsh critics, people angry
Culminating when Rigel is Setting
Faith in an elected leader
Setting when Ras Alhague is Culminating
The civic order needing to be repaired, or to be healed

*David Davis's website for the by-election:
http://www.daviddavisforfreedom.com/

Seems that 10th July is almost certainly going to be the date for the by-election triggered by Conservative MP David Davis's resignation over the government's continuing destruction of the UK citizens' civil liberties.

The Labour party has confirmed that they are definitely not putting forward a candidate. Their record in the constituency along with the general public's support for our heritage of values and hard-won laws protecting our rights suggests that Labour would only come third again, if not worse. If you can't stand the heat....

If the by-election does take place on 10th July and polling closes at 10pm, then this is the chart for that time. The location has been set for Willerby, which is near the centre of the population of the constituency, and also happens to be the location of the Conservative party's constituency office. If necessary this chart will be updated in the light of further developments in the data.

 
As mentioned in the previous blog post about this, on 10th July the Sun will be in trine with Uranus. It'll also be opposite Jupiter, picking up on the Jupiter-sextile-Uranus that we've been experiencing lately, and during which David Davis resigned to protest against the government's destructive acts towards our rights and freedoms.

David is experiencing his second Saturn Return, so he's making some long-range assessments of his life, both professionally and personally, that are not as ill-judged as some of his colleagues, opponents, and commentators are saying. He's definitely acting in accordance with his inner sense of timing - even if his motivation isn't the public good, on which no view is being expressed in this post - rather than the outer pressures to live according to their judgements, and this is very much a Saturnian theme.

Our civil liberties weren't won by careerists and short-term thinkers, they were won by generation, after generation, after generation, keeping on keeping on, in it for the long haul, refusing to accept successive governments' refusals to recognise what are in fact our birthrights. Sacrificing a career? In the past, people sacrificed their lives and that is how we possess the civil liberties we now benefit from. Are we now living in an age where nothing is worth a small risk to a political career?