Regular readers of the blog will know that I was going to write about Canada's election but didn't get round to it.
It's quite difficult to write about what's currently going on there without spending a lot more time researching it, but I want to put the chart up again and talk about it because it's timely and also it happens to be a good example of what's going on around the world in various superficially different forms that are the same at their root.
The recent Saturn opposition Uranus was aligned with Canada's nodal axis (Virgo/Pisces), and aspected Canada's Saturn. The Saturn-Uranus oppostion can be a time of great and increasing tension, that threatens to snap and break apart the status quo. In Canada for a few years now there has been a kind of stalemate reached in the balance of power in Parliament. When an astrological opposition is reached the message is one of unbearable tension combined with the desire to release that tension in order to make progress, but something's got to give. The latest election didn't bring any release of that tension - probably because it occurred just before the exact Saturn-Uranus opposition, rather than after.
However there's more going on.
Transiting Pluto has been directly opposite Canada's Moon for the past few years, suggesting a deep process of transformation in the national psyche, and in the populace. I'm not aware enough of Canadian society over the past few years to point directly to what this transit has been correlating with, and when the election was approaching I couldn't help being niggled by the frustration of that because it seemed that this transit must have something to do with the political deadlock somehow.
Of course, there's only a stalemate/deadlock because of the adversarial (that is, oppositional) nature of the political system. Instead of changing the system they opted for general election after general election, trying to achieve dominance of the minority winner over the majority election losers. It hasn't worked, and their repeated attempts to solve the problem by pretending that the problem is a solution and applying it back to itself has brought them to the edge of a constitutional crisis, with talk of the possibility of yet another general election. Stop the madness!
Change the system.
