Astrology for the 21st Century

Canada's national election is tomorrow, and I've been intended to write more about it since posting the chart here a few weeks ago.  However events have overtaken me and I just don't have the time to go into it in the way that I wanted.

The election is taking place with the Saturn-Uranus opposition, and the Jupiter-Saturn trine.  The USA's election next month will also be within this Saturn-Uranus opposition.  The 'crisis of the West' is what this is about.

Canada's election also takes place as there is a symmetrical arrangement of septiles in the sky.  That it's a symmetrical configuration is important because it means there are midpoints involved.

These are the pairs in septile to each other:-

Neptune - Pluto
Saturn - Pluto
Saturn - Neptune
Mars - Pluto
Mars - Neptune

The midpoints are:-

Mars = Saturn/Pluto
Pluto = Mars/Neptune

And the Saturn/Neptune and Mars/Pluto midpoints are conjunct each other - a midpoint conjunction, if you will.

So there is a very strong quality of inspiration and fervour in the air globally at the moment, linked with dissipation, fear, volcanic change, destructiveness and a need to organise, regulate, and bring a new sense of order and stability, with elements of 'violence' and even 'rape & pillage' - a good signature for the latest so-called 'bail-outs' of the financial crisis, all in all.

From the Guardian newspaper today, the news comes that the 'biggest ever sale of oil assets' has taken place today.

Interesting that the Sun was in almost exact trine with Neptune (oil), as well as a quincunx with Uranus in Pisces (oil).

"The biggest ever sale of oil assets will take place today, when the Iraqi government puts 40bn barrels of recoverable reserves up for offer in London.

BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are all expected to attend a meeting at the Park Lane Hotel in Mayfair with the Iraqi oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani.

Access is being given to eight fields, representing about 40% of the Middle Eastern nation's reserves, at a time when the country remains under occupation by US and British forces.