Norman Mailer cheered me up the other day when he said that Tony Blair is very bright, but that’s not the same thing as having wisdom.
And Tory leader David Cameron pissed me off today when, having commissioned some probably accurate research to show that kids from married parents did better than those bastards whose parents weren’t married, he proposed giving tax breaks to married couples. WRONG ANSWER, David. What about some statistics on kids whose parents stayed married ‘for the sake of the children’ (or ‘for the sake of the tax-break’)? How do they turn out? And who needs the tax break more, the single-parents or the married couples? It’s just the Tories rewarding the privileged all over again.
There is no doubting the brightness of the Blairs and Camerons of this world. But they are also STUPID. At least with George Bush you can’t get confused that way. Blair’s strategy to improve education is to pour money in then pile the pressure on students and teachers. Subtle, eh? Education comes from the Latin, and means ‘to lead out’ i.e. you are cultivating the student’s own inner knowing and curiosity, the trunk of the tree on which knowledge can then be hung. It does not mean “to shovel in loads of knowledge and then stupefy with tests.”
The novelist Will Self commented that the Blair household probably had no books in it. He was wrong. The Blairs have copy of the Bible and, to show how broad-minded they are, a copy of the Koran.
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Yeah, your lunar return is pretty cranky this month... it just smacks of "Where is the wisdom?!" with the moon conjunct jupe in the 12th (institutions) applying to conjunction with your ASC and squaring Uranus in the 3rd house of communication. Venus conjunct Saturn in the 8th says you have a clear idea of what needs to change to make the world a better place.
Get it out :) We're here to listen.
Thanks. Don't normally look at lunar returns. How do you get the Venus-Saturn-8th interpretation?
hi,
I would like you to read this post and say your comments on it.
http://thiruspot.blogspot.com/2007/07/
indian-hindu-religious-astronomers.html
Well, in the lunar returns for June Venus is conjunct Saturn in Leo in the 8th house. Venus rules your 9th house which is a Sagg house and truly has a higher knowing conjunct Saturn which natally sits in your 12th house in Leo (institutional leadership). Now your next lunar return in a couple of weeks will culminate with Venus in your 3rd house (communication) or by synastry it overlays your Pluto in the 12th house. So you have some deeply felt needs (given merc in cancer being affected by this merc retro) to really reflect on what's been said/done by leaders to affect the highest "good" (9th house - legal issues, soul/mind expression) of the collective (cancer ruled 11th house).
At least, that's how I read it...
Oh, poo! Typos abound hence my dependence on an editor at work! A singular "return" for venus/saturn in the 8th should be read in the first sentence.
I post here without re-reading due to time constraints. Do forgive. I can email the charts with explanations, if it's still not clear.
Lunar Return charts are in my mind a focused reflection of the emotional and unconscious floes from the life force (sun reflects on moon) energy we've been experiencing.
I've learned through women mostly that each PMS cycle can be predicted (what will be the main issue to release emotionally) based on lunar returns. And of course, our youth before they graduate from the lunar dependency after the Saturn Return are also subject to the lunar return's effect on their maternal experience.
It's uncanny how when one can be in tune with one's nature, these charts do resonate with our natural evolution in consciousness.
Ok, spigot is turned off.
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