1st,
the Monarchy. ‘Woman has baby’ the headlines are screaming. The unnamed
Princess, the 4th in line to the throne, was born at 8.34 yesterday.
She will be the 1st female whose position as heir cannot be usurped
by the arrival of younger brothers (Jupiter
in the 3rd trine Uranus, Moon opposite Uranus). She will be
attractive (Sun and Moon in Venus-ruled
signs, Mars sextile Venus.) She will have star quality (Neptune conjunct Midheaven in Pisces).
And she has Cancer Rising, the Sun sign of her grandmother Diana.
If you
believe in such things (which I’m not sure I do), she may be Diana returned from
the dead, attracted by the close connection to her eldest son William who, like
Diana, is a Cancer with Sag Rising.
Diana changed
the monarchy, brought in some modern values, a closeness to ordinary people, in
the teeth of opposition from the Royal Family, who did their best to ignore her,
even in death. Astrologically, as a Cancer, she began a theme of Cardinality in
the predominantly Fixed emphasis of the Royal Family-as-it-was. Cardinal signs
begin things, they are vigorous and ambitious.
The line of
succession is now predominantly Cardinal: William has Sun and Moon in Cancer,
Kate has Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Cancer, Prince George has Sun in Cancer
and Moon in Capricorn. And the new Princess has Cancer Rising and Moon in
Libra.
This is a
Royal Family that is becoming fit for purpose, inasmuch as the UK itself is
predominantly Cardinal: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Cancer and Libra Rising.
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I think
there is a certain honesty in having a royal family: we humans are hierarchical
pack animals, we always have been and always will be, the arrival of ‘democracy’
notwithstanding.
The US is
illustrative: having done away with kings, ‘dictators’, and established rule by
the people, you now find the government effectively in the hands of the
wealthy, the large corporations, along with a worship of celebrity that is more
extreme than what we are used to in the UK. The US is profoundly hierarchical,
while kidding itself that it is the protector of democracy. Secretly, they want
and need royalty (hence the adulation of ours when they visit).
The Royal
Family doesn’t exactly thrill me, and perhaps that is why it works: they are
essentially ordinary people like you and I, we can identify with them. They are
not celebrity in the usual sense of people who are meant to be gifted. And yet
they are touched by something Other: kings and queens used to rule by divine
right, and there is still something of that going on, even in their neutered state.
So the Royal
Family is changing. Fixed signs, you could argue, were what was needed for the period
of Empire, which is still how we think (‘punching above our weight’ on the
international stage). Though that is finally changing.
And Britain
is becoming something different as the EU and Scotland drift away, and our
position on the world stage becomes more proportionate. Astrologically, we are
probably going through the biggest change since our 1801 reincarnation as the
Union of Great Britain and Ireland, which is the chart astrologers usually use.
We have had
Uranus and Pluto hard-aspecting, pretty much at the same time, our Angles, Sun
and Moon. It doesn’t get much bigger than that. Uranus and Pluto have ‘done’
the Sun and Angles, and the transition will be complete after Pluto opposes the
Moon at 19 Cancer in 2-3 years time.
So no wonder,
with under a week to go, that the possible outcomes of the General Election seem
such a muddle. We have been battered by Uranus and Pluto for years now, there
is more battering to come, and we don’t know who we are any more. And we won’t
really know who we are for a few years yet.
Neither
Labour nor the Tories look like they will form a majority, and a coalition will
be needed. But will the Tories and LibDems between them have enough to form a
government? Possibly not. And no-one wants to get into bed with either UKIP or
the SNP.
So I suspect
we will muddle along with a minority coalition for a few years until the great
issues of the day, Scotland and the EU, are resolved. And because we are a
conservative nation (Sun and Moon both on the axis of conservatism, Cancer-Capricorn),
we will probably continue to have, in this time of muddle, a Tory-LibDem
coalition, albeit attenuated.
The UK at
present is very like a person who has been under major transits for some years,
but still has more to go. (Like yours truly with Neptune on his Angles!) The
old self and things you used to do have in many ways lost their power, or have
just gone, and you’ve probably got a few ideas about what you’d like to come
next, but it’s not yet time, they seem too germinal; and other things you just
feel in a complete muddle about, and really there’s not much to be done about
it apart from trying to stay conscious. And you hope that this isn’t the end,
that it’s not always going to be like this.
And the UK
is like that. We’re just getting off our knees from the Great Recession,
Scotland looks like it’s going to leave the UK, we are being taken less
seriously on international decisions, and we are ambivalent about even being in
the EU, which is itself in a period of instability as the unthinkable, a member
leaving the Euro currency, looks like it’s going to happen.
So we don’t
know what we want, we can’t know what we want, and our politics reflect that.
But at least we can distract ourselves for a few days with the new cast member
in the Royal Soap Opera.
4 comments:
Dear Barry, some interesting - I think - thoughts on UK, coming from an outsider:http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6847
Dear Barry,
I am surprised at your simplistic reading of American social hierarchy. There are those who are on top, yet our structure is malleable.
We do worship celebrity. But only because they prove our ethos for us. That, through desire and hard work, anyone can be successful.
We as Americans live off of the truth that Obama came from the wilds of Hawaii, with neither connections nor influence. And Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer in Georgia.
What goes up must come down. And we like it that way. You will be paying for the multiple mansions of your Head of State's Grandchildren. You will have no say. No recourse. And never a chance for oversight.
With absolutely no choice in the matter, I am certain you have learned to love it.
Hi Barry,
Please do check the birth time! 8.34 am BST is actually 7.34,am GMT. The earlier ST yields a Gemini ascendent.
Thanks.
If you look top left of the chart, you will see 8.34 BST -1.00, which means 7.34 GMT, so all is taken care of and the Asc remains Cancer!
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