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WATCHING THE WHEELS
There is a predominant planetary theme unfolding in the heavens and simultaneously enacted here on terra firma. It concerns the geometric squaring of Uranus and Pluto prevalent from 2012 until 2015. This combination emphasizes the will of the individual against the forces of the 'system'.
Pluto, lord of the underworld represents subversive coercion, power brokers and established wealth. Uranus the sky king signifies independent action and progressive ground breaking movements and technologies.
Uranus
and Pluto were in square during the synchronized English and French Civil
Wars of 1648. They were also directly opposite in the heavens, throughout
the French Revolution. The human choice of Uranus and Pluto equates to
using independent alternatives to create a new and different society,
as against being a powerless pawn, trapped within the walls of the current
one.
Heroes are born from the turning points
of the Uranus
Pluto cycle. Initially they emerge as agitators challenging the status
quo, and are usually branded enemies of the state. At the beginning of
the current Uranus Pluto cycle, during the mid-60’s, freedom icons
such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela were considered serious
threats to national security.
Such rebels initially appear as lone voices fighting for civil justice, or representing apparent minorities. In truth they are echoing the chorus of a previously silent majority. That is why the power of one inevitably expands into the empowerment of the many. Radical beliefs of today become the freedom anthems of tomorrow.
Being ahead of history entails recognizing the voices of the future, and the emergence of youth. One factor is obvious. The establishment will naturally oppose those who would effect change. However, the establishment will reward those who maintain its control. Change players identify with insurgent Uranus - powerbrokers identify with domineering Pluto.
LONE WOLVES
Edward Snowden, born @ 4.42 am June 21 1983 in Elizabeth City North Carolina, (unknown time) is the latest Uranian type rebelling against underground plutonic government activities.
His 'statement' was the exposure of the elaborate, covert PRISM surveillance operation. The US government has reverted to damage control following its global exposure. They claim its no big deal. Yet for ‘no big deal’ they desperately want Snowden’s scalp.
Edward Snowden is an information hungry Gemini, with warrior planet Mars also in that sign. Click here for his chart. His Sun and Mars is supportively trining manipulative Pluto and conservative Saturn.
Snowden has Mercury, planet of data and information rising at birth. It forms a hard sesquisquare to the same Saturn and Pluto. For years he worked as an agent of the CIA. He knows PRISM well. His Sun and Mars are also opposite the ethereal and infiltrating Neptune.
Neptune is a predominant planet in the charts of those who seem to uncover classified information easily. Julian Assange was born with the X-ray planet rising. See his horoscope here. Bob Woodward, author of 'All The President's Men' and whistleblower on Watergate, also had Neptune rising at birth. It's hard to keep secrets from those with a strong Neptune placement.
NOTHING TO HIDE
There is a common argument that if one has nothing to hide, and is living an honest life then they should have nothing to fear. That then begs the question why aren’t governments equally keen to disclose. The rules of the game are vastly different between the individual and the state. Operations that reveal a government operation in a less than honest light become ‘top secret’.
Edward Snowden, has provided his reasons for laying bare this surreptitious government spying, and he also has words for intimidation of the whistle-blowers.
“Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.”
“I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.”
“Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.”
Opinion polls show most people agree with Snowden. Today there are protesters in Hong Kong rallying against his US extradition. As his progressed Sun moves into a testing square to conservative Saturn, he challenges the establishment, and experiences the restrictions that come with that choice.
Snowden's revelations are typical of the Uranus Pluto square rattling the authority’s cage. Ideological wars have been fought to prevent a big brother state – not to see it born from within. More acutely today, the individual is feeling isolated within the system.
RISING TIDE OF HUMANITY
The economic steamroller of globalization is a plutonic force, grinding individual cultures into monolithic sameness and servitude. Contrasting that, Uranian uprisings are delivering effective counter punches. A united spirit of rebellion is invigorating those living under tyrannical rule, as well as nations being controlled from foreign shores.
The horoscope of the modern Republic of Turkey, timed for 8.30 pm October 29 1923, is currently fielding the Uranus Pluto square right across the most sensitive angles of the chart. As these revolutionary energies impact, the individuals battle the state. The Iranian Republic born April 1 1979 @ 3 pm has Uranus now nearing its Sun and change is imminent.
But in 2014 the same Uranus Pluto square is headed for the Sun in the horoscope of the USA, now facing its own dilemma of individual rights versus omnipresent surveillance.
In the formative days of a united America, US colonists engaged in a fight against what they conceived to be an oppressive empire inflicting economic and military control from afar. Back then the founding fathers identified with the willful self-determination of Uranus. Now, the obvious challenge for the ‘superpower’ is to avoid mimicking the identical dictatorial empire it once fought so fiercely to free itself from?
PLUTO IN CAPRICORN = FALLING EMPIRES
Uranus and Pluto are repeating a cosmic arrangement occurring in the 1930’s, when autocrats suffocated democracy in Europe and Russia, and investment and banking fraud engineered the Great Depression. As history repeats to a degree, we can examine who is now propagating war and division, and who is promoting economic strangulation and inequality. The conglomerates and the manipulators behind most of the world’s troubles are exposing themselves.
During this Uranus Pluto square some governments will adopt a jackboot mentality to quell the opposition. Yet Pluto, now in Capricorn, is not merely about domination and control. The obsessive overkill of Pluto in corporate Capricorn ultimately leads to political breakdowns and power changing hands. Oligarchies are actually diminished when Pluto moves through this governing sign.
A classic example of a fall was the unchallenged supremacy of the Catholic Church literally being cut in two by the rising of the Reformation, while Pluto transited Capricorn. Another was the US break with Great Britain, and the world’s most powerful empire losing its most valuable land and resources.
The most domineering power structures are heading for a sudden reversal in the coming years as Pluto again weaves its way through this administrative sign. If history, and planets be the guideposts, then the voices of dissent will be amplified in the new mindset of a people’s revolution. And when that occurs the Arab Spring will not be contained to the confines of the Middle East.
WEAPONS FOR PEACE?
In scenes reminiscent of the 2003 Iraq invasion pre-amble, the US has made a commitment to supply weapons to the rebel forces in the ongoing Syrian Civil War. The US claims that the Syrian army has used chemical weapons. Earlier, divergent evidence provided by UN human rights investigator and war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, claimed that the rebels were guilty of using chemical weapons.
Against this tit for tat publicity and inevitable military escalation, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is urging restraint and humanitarian aid instead of bullets. He seems a lone voice of reason, being that there are now almost 7 million seeking humanitarian assistance, and neighbouring countries and sectarian groups are already involved.
The horoscope of the formation of the United Nations is timed for 16.45 hours in New York, on October 24 1945. On October 23 2014 there will be a solar eclipse right on the birth Sun of the United Nations. This will take place following an extended period where the agitating Uranus Pluto square afflicts the United Nations Midheaven, adversely affecting the authority of this international body.
Challenges to the stability of the United Nations are important to examine in the light of a now widening rift between the leading Security Council nations the USA, Russia and China beginning with the Syrian conflict and also concerning Iran. These challenges look more of a long term proposition if the UN chart is to present a reliable guide to the global future.
Here's a link to an historical and informative astrology article on Turkey by Sherrynne Dalby on AstrologyOz
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Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces
Aries or Aries Rising: This week propels good relationship prospects via social networking and increased correspondence. It can be a time when a meeting of minds transports you to other places. You learn much from improved communication skills, and tuning elegantly into another's wavelength. Your alliances may involve old friends from the past, or have a sentimental connection attached. Home entertaining and family connections should continue to be a source of pleasure. To look at your own 2013 -2014 personal chart, organise a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin. Click here for details. Top
Taurus or Taurus Rising: Your ruling planet Venus is now highlighting the information and communication area of your solar chart, along with your financial ruler, Mercury. They come together by June 21 when expenditure on advertising, education or communication equipment should reap rewards. This is also a fortunate day for negotiations, contracts or meetings and increasingly so if your birthday falls around May 12. A producitive focus on practical issues, involving work, finance and/or security is taking you in the right direction. To look at your own 2013 -2014 personal horoscope, organise a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Gemini or Gemini Rising: You can avoid the late rush the get things done early, or at least laying some preparatory groundwork. A week where time seems to be at a premium, and planning becomes invaluable. Birthdays around June 19 are receiving the expansive and favorable energies of the king planet Jupiter over the year ahead. This marks a prolonged time to bet on yourself, to further your growing potential and grab extensive opportunities while they are on offer. To look at your own 2013 -2014 personal horoscope, organise a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Cancer or Cancer Rising: Your dreams are now a revelation. They offer answers to areas that you feel blocked or impeded in, and may well involve childhood memories and important alliances. Birthdays on or around the 9th of July are receiving the magnetic energies of Venus along with the mutual attraction of the North Node. All this is encouraging your relationships, artistic endeavours and social occasions. The mid-sign born can also take advantage of mercenary Mercury to further financial plans and advantageous purchases at the weeks end. To look at your own future prospects astrologically, organise a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Leo or Leo Rising: For the majority of June Venus, governing your affections, has been moving through your hideaway house of secrets and seclusion. There are several ways this can play out. As soon as you’re out of the crowd you can find that you actually relish your own space. You may also be keeping your cards close to your chest around a relationship. Sometimes this will equate to confidentiality concerning a loved one, or someone who is unavailable, or temporarily off the scene. Friday may be important regarding all of this. To look at your own personal horoscope, organise a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Virgo or Virgo Rising: The area of status and career remains under powerful developmental activation. An important meeting mid to late this week may concern legal or educational matters, or offer an opportunity to make fast progress and improvement on an overhanging issue. Gregarious Venus is also moving through the area of your solarscope dealing with your group outings. If you’re feeling somewhat isolated this is a time to make new contacts. Thoughtful Mercury is also moving through the same friendship and associates zone, where joining common interest and/or study clubs yields positive results. To look at your own future prospects astrologically, organise a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Libra or Libra Rising: You know those kind of people, and that kind of situation. The ones where you have to keep a welcoming smile upon your face, while on the inside you're gritting our teeth. It may be a case of reading the bad news before you get to the laughs of the comic section. But all's well that ends well. Birthdays on or by October 20 may have more than their fair share of luck midweek. Fortune currently favours those with a positive vision and the courage to follow it. To look at your own personal horoscope, organize a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Scorpio or Scorpio Rising: Identical twins search for individual identifying factors. They create differences. And when things become too much the same, we do the same. Close ones have an argument virtually over nothing. It's just to create some space. All perfectly normal, although sometimes we might wonder, 'what made me do that?' Such is the energy playing out for you now. But it also works in an expansive manner. It currently attracts you toward people who are different, culturally or in unique areas of life experience. In this case the 'difference' encourages a closeness - even opposites attract - and you learn something valuable from that. To look at your own personal horoscope, organize a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Sagittarius or Sagittarius Rising: One of the reasons for the Great Depression was a credit squeeze exacerabted by a lack of trust. Trust is still an omnipresent fear for the big financial speculators, but they are accustomed to living on the edge. We are dependent upon each other. When we become insular and withdrawn the whole system breaks down. The same happens within the individual life. Right now you can draw inspiration, and give it to others. You benefit through doing that. Mutual growth means a trading of energies, resources or skills. Self worth is currently measured by what you can give - don't hold back. To look at your own personal horoscope, organize a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Capricorn or Capricorn Rising: Conversational Mercury and congenial Venus are making this a week of important connections, contracts or agreements, especially Thursday or Friday. Birthdays on or around January 11 take note. Your associations may also be stimulating an interest in psychic matters, or helping in revealing hidden things to you. You can also find yourself more psychically attuned to others. Those with a softer more surreal, or imaginative approach appeal to you now. You can be moving in the circles of artists or entertainers, or somehow brought before the public this week. To look at your own future prospects astrologically, organize a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
Aquarius or Aquarius Rising: There is an important change taking place. You can feel the shift. It is about taking something that you enjoy, or have a natural talent for to another level again. Would you get the same enjoyment if you did it for money, or could you actually turn a hobby into profession. If you're diligent enough, and you have a market or client base, it's not out of the question. The other side of this involves practising something that you enjoy to achieve greater proficiency. This is all about mixing desire with discipline. But this week it's worth it. Birthdays around February 16 can find a new door opening after one has closed. To look at your own future prospects astrologically, organise a phone or personal consultation with Ed. Click here for details. Top
Pisces or Pisces Rising: When the value planet of Venus and mercenary Mercury unite in your house of speculation they can accompnay better money-making ideas, contacts or opportunities. You might have to wait until later in the week for the best part of the action, but it is especially strong if your birthday falls around March 13 or 19. Best to clear your obligations early and also give relationships room to work their magic. The planetary water emphasis is providing an emotional boost if you're willing to ride the wave. To look at your own personal horoscope, organise a phone or personal consultation with Ed Tamplin click here for details. Top
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