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Review of MAY 2011
At the very beginning of May,
the world was startled by the announcement that Osama Bin
Laden had been killed during a covert
operation by US military forces in Pakistan.
Jubilation by the American people soon turned
to doubt and cynicism as it emerged that they
had buried his body out at sea. Despite repeated
calls for proof, the US government refused to
publish photographs of the corpse, leaving many wondering whether it was
really true that this long-sought fugitive had indeed
been caught and
killed.
The general consensus is that Bin
Laden was born on 10 March 1957, making him a sun sign Pisces. It is therefore interesting that the
name of the mission to assassinate him was called Operation Neptune.
Neptune is the modern day ruler of
Pisces, and significantly had only recently ingressed
into its own sign for the first time in over 300 years. Was the person who coined the name aware of
the astrological significance of this choice? In keeping
with the name of the mission, the confusion and
ambiguity continued to dog this particular announcement, whilst the
Pakistani authorities
expressed outrage with the US for keeping the mission
secret, leading to accusations of deception - all characteristics associated with
Neptune.
At the time of the raid, Mars,
ruler of military activities, and extremely
strong in its own sign of Aries, was
making a conjunction to Jupiter, the ancient ruler
of Pisces, suggesting that as far as the US government
was concerned, they were fully justified in taking
a 'might is right' approach - acting in accordance
with their own beliefs and moral values, with complete
lack of regard for the sovereignty of Pakistan
or the human rights of Bin Laden. Whether this
will come back to haunt them in the form of future terrorist
attacks or lack of diplomatic support in the Middle East
remains to be seen...
Closer to home,
May
was also the month in which local elections
were held in the UK, along with a key vote on electoral reform, for which
support seemed to fizzle, along with the political popularity of
the Liberal Democrats. These frustrated efforts
at political change appeared to be symbolised by a T-square, active at the time, involving
Pluto, Saturn
and Uranus. Pluto, retrograde in Capricorn
(establishment reform) - the same sign as Nick
Clegg’s sun – formed the focus of two squares
from Uranus and Saturn, resulting in a stalemate
situation. Pluto (and thus, the Lib Dems)
appeared to get caught in the cross-fire between the
opposing energies of Uranus in Aries (radical
revolution) embodied by many Labour MP’s, on one
hand, and Saturn in Libra (maintaining the status
quo) on the other – a view held by the Conservatives,
led by Libran, David Cameron.
SOLI-LUNAR
PHASES
Over the course of a year, the
solstices and
equinoxes of the Sun mark
out the changing seasons, which affect not
only the beginning of different natural cycles, but
our moods and choice of activities; whilst on
a smaller scale, the Moon's phases make up the
time-span of a month. In fact, the etymology
of the word month, comes from the
Indo-European
word,
'me(n)ses',
meaning
"moon." 1
During
this period, the Moon also moves through the
zodiac, with every progressive full or new
moon cycle occurring in the sign more or
less following that of the previous month.
Lunar Phases
NEW MOON SOLAR ECLIPSE IN
GEMINI
15
June 2011
This month, the New Moon on the
1st of June (21h03 GMT) will
also form part of a partial solar eclipse in
Gemini, signalling the start of a new 6-month-long cycle
in communication, travel, commercial, politics
and social activities.
FULL MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE IN SAGITTARIUS
15
June 2011
The corresponding lunar eclipse, which
takes place at the Full Moon in Sagittarius on
the 15th of June (20h14 GMT), is a
good time to let go of out-dated ideas and beliefs or
cultural traditions that no longer
serve you.
For an overview of the main trends and
mundane themes surrounding the June-July 2011 Eclipses, visit my
Eclipse Chronology page.
Solar Phases
SUN IN
CANCER - SUMMER SOLSTICE
21 June
- 21 July 2011
This
year, the Sun’s ingress into fertile and nurturing
Cancer, symbol of the Great Mother goddess,
takes place on the 21st of June at 17h16 GMT.
The 2011 summer solstice is the perfect time to
nourish yourself and loved ones, as well as
affirm your sense of belonging to an ancestral
place or family group by honouring the
contributions of your forebears or ancestors
and affirming everyone’s role within a clan.
Planetary
Events & Energy Shifts throughout june 2011
During the solar eclipse on the
1st, both the Sun and Moon in
Gemini will trine Saturn in Libra,
signalling a time when new relationships, laws and
political structures can be born from talks,
debates and novel ideas. With a little
discipline and application, thoughts can
indeed become things between now and the end of the
year.
At the time of the lunar eclipse
on the 15th, the Sun in Gemini will
conjunct Mercury, ruler of Gemini, and
located in its own sign, making it a time when
rationality and communication are likely to
predominate, allowing you to express or let go
of emotional compulsions or bodily habits that
may hinder you on some level.
Mercury
will also within orb of an unusual out-of-sign trine
with planet of dreams and imagination,
Neptune, in its own sign of Pisces,
indicating that any efforts to combine
philosophical and reasoning abilities with
visualisation skills and meditation techniques
could bring about some extremely powerful epiphanies
and profound energetic shifts.
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