USA Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's so-called bail-out plan is getting a lot of attention at the moment.

Do we even need to look at it through an astrological lens to see what an incredibly foolhardy and dangerous thing it is they're now trying to do?

Words seem inadequate to the task of describing the sheer density of trying to expand and spend more and build bigger organisations when everything is telling you to consolidate, make firm, re-attend to your foundations and let go of the hot air balloon that's just gone bust.

Trying to apply the ideology of expansion and 'thinking big' when expansion and bigness has just abruptly contracted in a very nasty way is the definition of insanity.

The problem cannot be applied to itself and renamed 'solution' - the problem remains the problem.

To paraphrase the much-paraphrased Einstein quotation:

We cannot solve problems using the same thinking that we used when we created the problem in the first place.  We have to completely shift to a new way of thinking.

It isn't difficult, and it'd be better not to waste money, time, and lives on chasing the rainbow that just vanished in the attempt to preserve the status-quo-that-no-longer-exists.

The system was rotten, and remains rotten, and their proposed 'solution' is only paving the way to ensure that the financial system spends the next 2 years minimum going through even bigger perturbations and breakdowns.

The old things aren't growing anymore; trying to resuscitate them won't work, it'll only bring more collapse.  A more useful strategy is to turn away from those old things and look around and notice the new things that are beginning to come.

A peaceful revolution in thinking and doing is what is needed.  We won't find one amongst that lot of politicians currently scurrying about the ruins of their broken ideas.

To understand it astrologically, there are lots of entries on this blog and articles on the website, here are the main ones:-

The collapse and malaise that's now hitting the fan:  Saturn-Neptune opposition
http://astrology21.co.uk/c1saturnneptune.html

The process we're now in:  Saturn-Uranus opposition
http://astrology21.co.uk/b1wtoseattle.html
http://astrology21.co.uk/c1saturnuranus.html

The wider context of these two oppositions:
http://astrology21.co.uk/c1biggerpicture.html