tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post5418124950880535698..comments2024-01-03T17:02:06.646+00:00Comments on ASTROTABLETALK: THE MAKING OF THEM: The English Cult of Child SacrificeBarry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-41853391991079805012014-05-27T13:35:38.297+01:002014-05-27T13:35:38.297+01:00Nice post. But I think day boarding is not like sa...Nice post. But I think day boarding is not like sacrificing children, it's a way to teach children how to be self dependent.Baba Omkarhttp://www.babaomkar.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-541048010434813382014-05-22T16:37:10.597+01:002014-05-22T16:37:10.597+01:00Excellent as ever. Just to add fuel to your though...Excellent as ever. Just to add fuel to your though on how the English ought to be emotional... Voltaire visited here in the 18th century and he describes the English as passionate and emotional.Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16505916582055310450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-59443417750407384512014-05-19T09:55:15.006+01:002014-05-19T09:55:15.006+01:00You have written and spoken many times of the ‘squ...You have written and spoken many times of the ‘square peg in a round hole’ desperate times you endured as a child in the public school system. Your pain is palpable. I remember talking to you about it. I agree with you, I think it’s utterly barbaric sending your child away from its mother, its home. You may think that as I have sun and moon in Capricorn I might have the opposite view. Had I been separated from my mother and sent away to school I would have died. I have no doubt. I couldn’t cope with a two week school exchange trip to France (although in retrospect it changed my life). My mother died two years ago (as you predicted) and I felt I would never be the same again without her close by and I am 57! Conversely, my brother, born only hours after you, always said he’d have loved to have gone away to school – he felt like a square peg in a round hole at home poor child! How utterly dull he found us. Capricorn, Taurus and Cancer. One thing I do know is (and you have disagreed with me on this) is that your education shines through everything you write. My brother is every bit as intelligent as you but his lack of education (and mine) shows in everything we say and do. I would never send a child away from home - unless the child really wanted to go. I worked in The City of London in a major financial institution in the days when it seemed 90% of the men (women weren’t allowed to work in the City Institutions until the mid-seventies remember, I was a pioneer) were from public school backgrounds. A lot of them were happy, secure and grounded. Some were badly damaged. Isn’t this much the same as everywhere else? Can you imagine the horror of being conscripted into the army? I went to a Catholic Convent school in the sixties and seventies. I have heard and read constantly about what a nightmare these places were. The school I was at was marred not by the nuns who were sweet and kind, nor the teachers who tried so hard but the pupils (and their parents) who were more Grange Hill than Eton. It IS an odd system and I don’t condone it in any way but finding your place in the world is haphazard and in the main parents do what they think and hope is for the best – even English parents! Despite all your childhood traumas you are an amazing man who has been lucky to have found his niche in life despite, or perhaps because you have felt like a fish out of water at school and maybe within your own family like my brother (?) I am addicted to your blog. You enrich my life beyond measure, I have learnt SO much from you. I wish you were running the country – but then people would only say ‘it’s because he had a privileged background’! Debbie Rutternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-25205020108029714972014-05-18T19:15:36.332+01:002014-05-18T19:15:36.332+01:00Oh, and great that you mentioned Pullman, love his...Oh, and great that you mentioned Pullman, love his books. Was a little disappointed by the last in that series where the teenage protagonists appear to disown their sexuality for an unknown and dubious benefit. Susychttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08962840171234344256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-34669232765368111702014-05-18T19:13:14.459+01:002014-05-18T19:13:14.459+01:00Lots of food for thought here. Just finished Hila...Lots of food for thought here. Just finished Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies and Wolf Hall, and was struck that the Kings and Queens of England didn't really raise their own children due to royal responsibilities I assume, not to mention the need for their children to be used to cement political alliances, etc. I guess it sort of came to be seen as a status symbol to have your child schooled away from you.Susychttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08962840171234344256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-35552796981828899442014-05-18T12:30:27.336+01:002014-05-18T12:30:27.336+01:00I would like to add the fact that the 1801 UK nati...I would like to add the fact that the 1801 UK national chart seems to be highly "polarized" (you may see my relative article here: http://astro.getforum.org/the-polarization-effect-in-psychological-astrology-t465.html )Thomas Gazishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08410975937617190280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-11095446188846971982014-05-18T12:20:38.987+01:002014-05-18T12:20:38.987+01:00Dear Barry, Palden and friends, Greece is a Capric...Dear Barry, Palden and friends, Greece is a Capricorn country too (although the majority of the Greek astrologers wrongly believes it is an Aquarian one - you may read my relative article here: http://astro.getforum.org/modern-greece-s-natal-chart-t466.html). In Greece's case though the Sun in Capricorn played another kind of game. An overgrown public sector has been created in my country with more than a redundant number of civil servants. So, we encounter again in Greece's case the Cancer / Capricorn axis manifested in a different way: the Greeks perceive their own State as a sort of "mother" that should be constantly feeding them up till the day they die (the famous permanent/life long position they hold in the Greek Civil Service)!Thomas Gazishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08410975937617190280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-25493914221726209772014-05-18T11:00:57.341+01:002014-05-18T11:00:57.341+01:00Interesting article, DR!
Part of the answer to y...Interesting article, DR! <br /><br />Part of the answer to your question about why UK does private education so much lies in the Norman tradition - our Establishment continues very much in the Norman tradition, which was a foreign overlay elite whose proimary aim was to own Britain and harvest from it all the money and power they could - and it continues today, nearly a millennium later!<br /><br />Compare with, say, Germany, where the overlords were largely indigenous (and the ancient Germanic equality tradition applies too), and even the aristocracy was quite decentralised.<br /><br />In my case, I have Moon square Saturn - and very educational, sixth to ninth, Gemini to Virgo - and I wanted, at age 11, to go to the Merchant Taylors school rather than a grotty grammar school in Liverpool but could not (my parents couldn't afford it). This is the opposite syndrome of yours. I felt very miseducated, and the outcome was that the areas of knowledge I have become known for in my lifetime lie outside the educational and conventional sphere - my true education began once I left university (LSE - I passed the Oxford entrance exam but chose LSE because I believed at the time they'd teach me truth! Instead, I was recruited for the intel services and then dropped out when I discovered what it truly involved, while Ura and Plu were conjuncting my ninth-house Saturn - and my interest in astrology started then, around 1970).<br /><br />We're seeing the connection between Capricorn and status playing itself out nowadays - and it started in its current exaggerated form when Uranus and Neptune went through Capricorn. That's one reason Russian and Arabic billionaires like UK - it validates their sense of superiority and covers over the illegitimacy of their status, not least because many of Britain's elite are descended from pirates, slavers and opportunists of former times.<br /><br />Palden<br />Palden Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05463527345931710086noreply@blogger.com