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Posts archive for: 1 June, 2009
  • A quote summarising the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction

    A quote which conveys in a pithy way the current Jupiter-Neptune (and Chiron) conjunction in Aquarius and the 'hot air' society in which we reside:-

    "...a society in which, we are told, desperation and despair can only be escaped by being picked out from humanity and elevated to the status of larger than life."

    Source: http://www.socialistunity.com/

    Escaping desperation and despair = Neptune

    Larger than life = Jupiter

    Ordinary humanity versus elevation to the level of the god-like, special, chosen ones = the theme of the Aquarius-Leo polarity

  • Quoting from February '09

    From a blog entry on 21st Feb this year:-

    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?'

    http://astrology.blog.co.uk/2009/02/21/uk-convention-on-modern-liberty-28th-feb-5618679/

  • And Nick Clegg.....

    His transits aren't anywhere near as Neptunian as Gordon and David's, but he's not got anything major in his chart at the moment to indicate that he's in a position to climb over their corpses and take the reins of the country.

    His chart resonates very strongly with the current Saturn-Uranus opposition which makes last year, this year, and next year, in some ways, his time to come forward - his chord is being struck, so to speak.

    Whilst he doesn't currently have anything major holding him back - unless his Ascendant or Midheaven axis is connecting with something, we don't have his birth time so can't calculate them - he doesn't have anything showing impetus to charge ahead either.

    As I've written before, patience is a key virtue now that Pluto is in Capricorn, and this 'de-corruption-ising' process is going to take several years. It will not and cannot be sorted out prior to an election, as if all it takes is a dustpan and brush and a few quick sweeps of a minority offenders followed by 'business as usual'.

    We no longer live in 'business as usual' times.

    Gordon and David in particular, and to a lesser Nick, need to wake up to the fact that they can't surf these changes as they are, by trying to retrofit the current events into their 'yes, yes I've been saying this all along' spin, and that they need to deeply reform themselves and their colleagues as human beings.

    They're trying desperately to suggest that they're the right men for the job, but times have moved on and none of them are  fit for purpose, unless and until they alter themselves at core.

    Speaking half-non-astrologically and half-astrologically, I suspect neither Gordon nor David will be in public office by the time of the next election. They're behind the times, events have overtaken them and made them obsolete, like yesterday's flash cars that today seem archaic.  Despite their mad scramble to climb atop the ever-increasing tsunami of deep change, they're floundering.

    We're going to go through mess and chaos and we're going to have to have high tolerance of periods of ambiguity and uncertainty before we can emerge as a strengthened nation (or nations). The politicians' pleas for us to elect them to sort out the mess is, quite simply, off-message as far as the planetary cycles are concerned. And we know what happens to off-message politicians, don't we? ;-)

  • MP salary problem solved

    The MP's salary problem can be solved by applying their own rules to themselves.

    The MPs have worked out the precise amount of £ that a human being needs to receive to live in the United Kingdom.

    They've put it into law.

    So, they ought to be happy to have their pay reduced to match it.

    Here it is:-

    Source: http://www.swale.gov.uk/index.cfm?Articleid=1664

    Government booklet for more detailed payment amounts: http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/stellent/groups/jcp/documents/websitecontent/dev_015666.pdf

    Personal Allowances for people under 60
    Apr' 09 £
    Single claimant
    aged less than 25 aged not less than 25
    50.95 64.30
    Lone Parent
    aged less than 18 (HB only) aged not less than 18
    50.95 64.30
    Couple
    both aged less than 18 (HB only)
    at least one aged 18
    76.90 100.95
    Polygamous partner
    36.65
    Dependant child
    from birth to the first Monday in the September following the 16th birthday
    56.11
    from the first Monday in the September following the 16th birthday to day before 19th birthday
    56.11

    Personal allowances for people over 60

    Single person

    Aged 60-64

    130.00

    Aged 65 or over

    150.40

    Couple

    Both members 60-64

    198.45

    One member or both members over 65

    225.50

    Dependant child

    from birth to the first Monday in the September following the 16th birthday

    56.11

    Dependant young person (you must still be in receipt of child benefit for the young person)

    from the first Monday in the September following the 16th birthday to day before 19th birthday

    56.11

    Premiums

    Family Premium

    17.30

    One (or more) child(ren) aged under one year

    27.80

    Family Premium (Lone Parent rate) protected for certain claimants

    22.20

    One (or more) child(ren) aged under one year

    32.70

    Disability Premium

    single couple

    27.50 39.15

    Enhanced Disability Premium

    Couple Single people Disabled child

    19.30 13.40 20.65

    Severe Disability Premium

    single couple - one qualifies couple - both qualify

    52.85 52.85 105.70

    Disabled Child Premium

    51.24

    Carer Premium

    29.50

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