Astrology for the 21st Century

Story in the national press recently of people standing up the government's godawful, authoritarian and hugely wasteful scheme:-

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article5741216.ece

Good on them, they deserve our support and solidarity on this issue that detrimentally affects all of us.

There's a Convention on Modern Liberty due to take place at the end of this month in London and across the UK.

It'll be interesting to see if it receives much media coverage, and of what sort - these types of things tend to be ridiculed in the media, and/or sidelined with a (usually misrepresentative) line or two, since those in power must always be given their say and have the last word otherwise there's no balance [sic].

For more information on the convention there's a web site at:-

http://www.modernliberty.net/

Pluto is currently squaring the UK's Uranus and so, at long last, there is some desire for resuscitating the fundamental freedoms that we used to be able to take for granted in this 'free country'.

Pluto is heading for a conjunction with the UK's Sun, so we are in a process of long-term, radical re-evaluation of who we are and what we're about. 

We used to be a country that stood for fair play, common sense, and basic egalitarianism.  Not that we ever really achieved those things as much as we could've done, but we had some pluck, some free-spiritedness, and some sense of ourselves as a people who ploughed our own furrow and didn't get trodden on by illegitimate authority or invading upstarts.

We used to understand how to have revolutions without violence. Nowadays we're too scared to even say the word 'revolution' except in hushed tones for fear of being secretly watched, secretly monitored, secretly added to a database.

These and other transits to the UK's chart denote a time when re-remembering our inherited capacity for non-violent revolution is required, and calls to be put to good effect.

If we don't introduce life-promoting changes to help us flourish as a people and as individuals, history shows that the revolutionary nature of these transits will be seized upon by those with social power to impose changes upon us of their making, and which augment their power over us.

The choice of these transits isn't 'do you want a revolution, or not?' but 'whose revolution do you want, ours or the government's?'

A new article was published on Astrology for the 21st Century, the website that goes with this blog, about the inner planet retrograde periods this year.

The article can be read at:-

http://astrology21.co.uk/p1retrogrades2009.html

The article about the Lewes Pound that was previously published in the newsletter of the Astrological Association of Great Britain has also been published at the above website, and can be read at this URL:-

http://astrology21.co.uk/b1lewespound.html