Jupiter Ingress into Virgo

...and so it begins.

Gouchon, Barbault and Doolard worked independently on a planetary cyclic index that stemmed initially from why it was that astrologers did not spot World War II. Between them I believe they discovered a method that captures the strengths and fragilities of global energies. In a way it is similar in principle to the mapping of biorhythms but the impact is global rather than individual.

From 11 August 2015 to the end of 2020, we will see the gradual unravelling of the old generational structures and the development of new structures that will take us into the next 33-year Saturn / Pluto cycle. After 2020 the world will change gradually into something we would not recognise today but we must not leap too far ahead. The end of 2015 is where the unravelling of the old world really begins.

Jupiter makes a returning square to Saturn in Leo / Scorpio before it ingresses into Virgo.  Saturn had gone retrograde and back into Scorpio and stations at 28º Scorpio just as Jupiter comes into square. So 2nd and 3rd August may well be the point that surging ahead with societal developments are halted abruptly. Consider this the point where a train driver spots a train on the same track hurtling directly towards a head on collision and the only sensible course is to slam on the brakes.

Jupiter in Leo is full of hubris and confidence beyond what should be realistic. We have seen it this year as politicians tell us that the economy is recovering. Lots of people will believe this, and this is what they want to achieve, but some of us know that this is a blatant falsehood coupled with the massaging and manipulation of statistics. So when Jupiter hits the mutable sign of Virgo the inconvenience of detail and analysis start to get in the way of all that over confidence and statistical fiddling.

These critical degrees of 28 to 29 of the fixed signs (the Jupiter Saturn square)may well indicate what is to come. These are the degree areas where we often see a shift from the old focus and into the new. No longer is everything set in stone and the ‘keep to the same programme’ mantra a realistic option. Society has to change its perspective and this is where it begins. Jupiter and Saturn meet by conjunction in December 2020. It is not a long time to deal with the major changes about to take place.

Saturn goes forward to return to Sagittarius on 18 September 2015. With both societal planets now in mutable signs, and Neptune already ensconced in Pisces, the North Node moves from Libra to Virgo on 10 October 2015, just in time for the traditional UK State opening of Parliament. The City financiers response to the Queen’s speech can be quite telling and often the stock market will respond either positively or negatively to it. October is also a likely candidate for stock market crashes.

So two months of manoeuvring, or one might conjecture this as ‘unravelling’ we may attempt to strip bare the things that do not work but it may be like wrenching out of the hands of the unwilling that prized possession or sacred cow that cannot possibly be parted with, even though it may be falling apart and well past it’s sell by date.

Jupiter through Virgo has to create the changes sufficient to bring together people, systems and connections that may have been established individually and not designed to share. How do we go from this to that? This is the challenge to many a ‘ways and means’ committee.

Jupiter, the representation of expanding and participating, belief systems, higher education and money resides in the house of analytical Virgo, detailed, critical, precise, perverse and pliable to become a unit with skills and aptitude to be used by others. Jupiter is in it’s detriment. The ability to trust what we are told can be eroded, making our former comfort zone no longer comfortable. Those who have misled us will have a lot of explaining to do.

The analytical aspect of Jupiter in Virgo was demonstrated in 1955 by the introduction of Parkinson’s Law  which was a mathematical equation demonstrating the rate at which bureaucracies expand over time.

In the last day of September 1967, just days before the Jupiter ingress into Virgo, BBC radio completely restructures its national programming. Bigger things were happening around that time with Pluto Uranus conjunct in Virgo both sextile Neptune in Scorpio and Saturn in Aries sequiquadrate Neptune. The Vietnam war was not going too well, France vetoed the UK entry into the EEC and in the UK Harold Wilson wanted people to work an extra 30 minutes for no pay. This is a clear demonstration of how ‘steady as she goes’ was completely out of the question. In the US teachers conducted their first ever state-wide strike over funding. Lyndon B. Johnson calls for the non conversion of the US Dollar. 

Jupiter was in Pisces in 1974 (another mutable sign) when two general elections took place in the UK (Saturn in Cancer). Neptune in Sagittarius indicating massive dilution of global money that necessitated the first really big use of the credit card.

But as the Saturn Pluto cycle drew to a close Jupiter joined Saturn in Virgo at the end of September 1979. Pluto was in Libra semisextile Uranus in Scorpio, sextile Neptune in Sagittarius. Saturn was sextile returning to Uranus and returning Square to Neptune (The Saturn Neptune square does seem to indicate political change, especially within the Labour Party). Margaret Thatcher had won a victory over Labour earlier in the year when Jupiter was still in Leo. Filled with an over ideological mandate to bash the unions and rip the welfare state apart, her future policies destroyed the previous structures completely. Some saw this as a great victory and others a great disaster. Whatever the case the unravelling of the old structures began with analysing where the country was at the present.

Meanwhile in the US, the Federal Reserve System changed from an interest rate target policy to a money supply policy. Things were clearly being planned never to be the same again.

Jupiter in Virgo 1991 was almost unnoticed during the massive Uranus Neptune conjunction that saw the ongoing dissolution of the Soviet Union. Jupiter was in an outgoing inconjunct with Saturn. There were, however, reports of sexual misdemeanours and fraud, which given the circumstances of too much news going on were perhaps the only reported events relevant to Jupiter in Virgo. The more positive events passed by without comment; it happens.

Likewise when Jupiter ingressed into Virgo in August 2003, explosions both natural and man made were reported courtesy of the Mars Uranus conjunction at the time. But in July the Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposals for the first European Constitution were made, paving the way for the Lisbon treaty of 2009.

Meanwhile the US legalises same sex marriage causing ripples of discontent throughout the religious establishments.

Sufficient evidence exists that the focus of Jupiter in Virgo is to review where we stand and to analyse what works before discussing with others the proposals for change. Therefore anything that is changed unilaterally while Jupiter is in Virgo is something of a gamble. Focusing our minds back into 2015, it seems clear that the global monetary policy cannot continue with never ending quantitative easing and zero interest rates. Countries struggle to manage their financial obligations and austerity as a policy is not working. People no longer trust the government to work for them. Some people might say that they are finally waking up to what is really going on. Virgo opposes illusory Pisces, so is it possible that Virgo also draws reality from skepticism?

Greece voted by majority for the only party that stood on an anti austerity promise, winning a landslide victory. Now Greece is about to default on its debt, which could throw the entire European Union experiment into chaos.

Jupiter’s cycle with Neptune, at the point of ingress, is a mere 7º from starting a new cycle. By 16 September the opposition applies just two days before Saturn ingresses into Sagittarius. Money (Jupiter) dissolves (Neptune) as the structure is destabilised (Saturn in Sagittairus) through a breakdown in trade (Saturn semisquare Mercury, Mercury opposes Uranus)). Jupiter also applies by trine to Pluto, indicating the global impact of this event.

I think what is indicated here between the Jupiter Saturn returning square and the Jupiter Neptune opposition is how little time we will have between the declared placatory announcements when the oncoming train appears on the horizon to the sudden realisation that the brakes don’t actually work anymore.

People have talked a lot about a stock market crash and I predict that the period of 11 August 2015 to 16 September 2015 will contain all the necessary ingredients for it to happen. Whether the crash happens during this time or waits until the more favoured October 2015 depends on how much the powers that be continue to attempt to distort the market or hide the evidence. By 18 September, when Saturn ingresses into Sagittarius for a 2 and a half year stay, and Mercury goes stationary retrograde there could be a case for massive insider trading and fraudulent action before the whole corrupt system comes crashing down.

Another event to consider under the Jupiter Neptune opposition is whether is will take as long as 16 September to publish the Chilcot inquiry or whether it will take that long a time to digest the 1 million word document. We already know it will be published after the 7 May 2015 general election and we also know that the findings will be devastating. Everyone will get to find out that what we were led to believe (Jupiter) was in fact deceit (Neptune).

During the latter part of 2015 as Jupiter goes into Virgo it will become increasingly difficult to know what to believe. Expect confusion and conflicting reports. The powers that be will want to destabilise public opinion as much as possible; they do not want you to get together and to work as a collective. Progress will be made only as incontrovertible evidence is presented. There will be much to discuss as the glamour of Jupiter in Leo is lifted and the full horror of what is really going on is revealed.

For many years now there have been a few of us who have warned everyone to get ready for some really difficult times. This is a 3 month countdown for anyone who wants to get in front of the masses.

The Death of The State Pension

The welfare state has started to change significantly from what it has been for the last twenty years (the introduction of Jobseeker’s Allowance). As a former civil servant, working for the Unemployment Benefit, then Employment Services and finally Jobcentre Plus, I have participated in many significant changes and have experience of much of the eligibility criteria for entitlement to benefits. I am bound not to speak about much of the work I did and I am also bound not to speak detrimentally of my former employer. Suffice it to say that what I am about to discuss sits entirely in the future and therefore I am free to talk about it without restriction. Furthermore, it is a fair comment to say that what I am about to propose is conjectural but based on some rather compelling evidence that only a former benefit processor might spot.

Often it takes more than one symptom to diagnose a medical condition. I believe it is no different when one looks at a possible future trend. As the title suggests, I want to talk to you about the death of the state pension in the UK but the starting point for this must begin elsewhere, otherwise you will not see that there is indeed more than one condition that points towards an obvious conclusion. You will see by the time I have finished explaining the Universal Credit that the state pension is not the only welfare payment at risk.

The Universal Credit (UC) was originally started by Labour in the 1990s. Ian Duncan Smith cannot be credited with idea. What he can be credited with is rushing the legislation in and there will be a price to pay by many when it is fully rolled out across the country. But I am not going to pontificate on the moral issues of UC because, like it or not, the billions of pounds spent on implementing it (and an ageing benefit computer system propping up the old benefits) means that it will be railroaded into use ready or not.

For those not familiar with the benefit system I would like to outline briefly what is out there. The benefits I mention are the most common and well known / applied for:

People available for work can claim Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA).

People who are sick and no able to work can claim Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

People who are not sick but also not available for work, single parents of young children for example, can claim Income Support.

These are the three primary benefits. If someone is in receipt of any of them they can claim housing benefit (although people in work can also claim housing benefit under low income rules).

People on benefit may also be entitled to claim council tax support.

Being in possession of an award for the current universal ‘Child Benefit’ is a requirement for claiming Child Tax Credits.

Working Tax Credits are for people at work but on low incomes, working 30 hours (16 for people with children or disability) and not entitled to claim any of the three primary benefits.

Universal Credit changes all this. JSA, ESA and IS, child tax credit and housing benefit will go, as they are all lumped together under one single benefit package. The important thing to note is that all of these are means tested.

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I hope you are still with me. I know that this is an awful lot of benefit information to take in but you need to know where we are starting from in order to understand where we are heading.

As mentioned earlier, the current computer system handling the old benefits is coming to an end. So if the computer system will no longer support the benefits it once processed, what is going to happen to the contribution based benefits?

Contribution Based and Income Based needs to be explained (this is the last bit I promise). The difference between the two are simply the difference between those who have paid into the system to get something back and those who have not. The two most common benefits where the contribution based condition still exists is JSA and ESA.

Contribution based (Conts).

The amount of national insurance stamps from work and the amount of money earned means that you could be entitled to this benefit by right. You could have a million pounds in the bank and still be eligible.

Income based (IB).

This is means tested and looks at the income you and your family have plus savings and assets.

It therefore begs the question that if the Income Based JSA and ESA will lose their names and they become part of the new Universal Credit and the Contribution Based JSA and ESA remain on the old computer system that is falling apart, why have they been separated for the first time in their history?

One could argue that Universal Credit is an amalgamation of means tested benefits, of which Contribution Based benefits would have no place. On the other hand there is a the question that in the run up to the 2015 general election, the Conservative Party claim that they will attempt to save £12 billion from a £55 billion welfare budget. That is a huge chunk of money when one considers that the majority of the £55 billion is state pension.

In times of austerity, the government of the day has placed draconian measures on welfare benefit recipients, sanctioning the easy to punish and most vulnerable in society in order to save money. They did this for a whole parliamentary term of 5 years and clawed back (unfairly many will cry) about £3 billion.

So how would they save £12 billion? Perhaps a good start would be to abolish the JSA and ESA Contribution Based benefits.

So what this means is that your national insurance contributions will have no impact on future benefit claims. And there will be losers. Couples where both work but one person becomes unemployed, means they will no longer be entitled if the amount the partner earns is greater than the lowest amount the government says we can live on; a formula I have to point out that no one has ever seen and we have absolutely no idea how the government arrives at the conclusion they do. I sent an enquiry once and no one in the entire Department for Work and Pensions could answer it. In other words, it is not the lowest amount people can live on - it is the lowest amount they can get away with paying.

Child tax credits has, until now, been dependent on receipt of child benefit but the child tax credit element being absorbed into Universal Credit may or may not retain it’s link. Unlike JSA, ESA and IS, Child benefit is a universal benefit. Therefore it might be political suicide for any politician to attempt it’s removal.

But would politicians be so bold as to abolish the state pension?

Over the last year or so, the UK government has introduced legislation to make it mandatory for employees to participate in a ‘Work Place Pension’ (WPP). To begin with it was the large employers but in 2015 it became compulsory for a business with just one employee to pay in a work place pension. The WPP is very new but if the government are making it law that everyone should have one, it begs the question as to why it is so important?

Going back one moment to the notion that the government sets the ‘lowest amount’ one can live on, there is a top up system to old age pensions known as Pension Credit. If one’s state pension does not reach the lowest amount the Pension Credit will top it up. Obviously if there is a Work Place Pension for every employed person then from 2015 there will be a gradual reduction of this expense as the Work Placed Pensions start to pay out, thus reducing the gap between the state pension deficit and the government’s lowest amount.

But in the long run it does not make sense to go to all the trouble of forcing employers to set up WPP if the state pension remains. It is possible that the think tanks behind government policy have noted that the increase in the cost of living over the next few decades will wither outstrip the state pension’s ability to keep up or the government’s ability to sustain keeping the state pension index linked to inflation. Either way the introduction of the WPP is a clear indication that the state pension can either not sustain the demands of the future, or there are plans to abolish the state pension entirely.

Given the present squeeze on government budgets and the colossal debt the UK has, the only way to pay off such a large amount of money might be to relinquish one’s commitment to support and ever growing older population.

The population of the world is increasing, which means the burden on the state is not going to go away. With the National Health Service (NHS) possibly being the most sacrosanct of all government services already being place under great strain by the same growing older population, immigration and advances in medicine means the only way the budget for the NHS can go is upward.

The astrological planet for the NHS and also for pensions is Neptune. They are both large institutions under government control. Not surprisingly, whilst benefit systems are undergoing radical reform, so the 2015 general election has the NHS at the top of the agenda; should there be more or less privatisation and how does one fill in the £30 billion gap in the budget over the next five years.

The structure of our society comes under the influence of the Saturn Pluto cycle, which will complete in 2020. It just so happens that the societal cycle of Jupiter and Saturn completes just a year later. The Universal Credit, the abolition of contribution based benefits and a the general overhaul of our benefits is only the start of the shrinking of our welfare system.

By the next Jupiter Pluto conjunction in Libra on 31 October 2040, when Neptune is establish in the financial sign of Taurus, so the winding down of the state pension could begin. It will be a slow process because those who have paid into the state pension will be entitled to draw from it. I suspect the last state pension entitlement could be at the close of the Saturn Pluto cycle in Pisces (Pisces ruled by Neptune) on January 2054. The actual conjunction of Saturn Pluto is 2 February 2054 but governments tend to make changes either from January 1st of April 6th.

Astrologers may also want to note that in the approach to the Saturn Pluto conjunction, Jupiter, the old rulership of Pisces, is in opposition to Neptune through Gemini / Sagittarius. So while Jupiter is strong in Sagittarius, Neptune is not well placed. One is to do with money (Jupiter) opposing pensions (Neptune); the difference between this Jupiter / Neptune opposition and any other is the Saturn / Pluto conjunction suggesting the potential for major restructuring.

Even the personal planets of Venus and Mars are in a close enough conjunction in Capricorn to imply further that whatever happens at this time is indeed personal. In addition to the above, the Jupiter Neptune opposition sits in the 2nd / 8th house axis of the UK 1801 chart, relating to ‘my resources’ and ‘other people’s money’ respectively. The secondary Mars / Uranus conjunction to natal Uranus and the ascendant suggests that action will be swift - a cut off date where the state pension is suddenly no more. 

I will be very lucky if I live long enough to see 2054. I am also not old enough to draw my state pension. But what this does imply is that now, in the fire of the global financial reset, there will be no significant solutions to old debts. But one hopes there will be many a wise head who understands how to change the blind consumerist insanity of the past in order not to amass even more debt.

The welfare system is unsustainable in it’s present set up because the UK government has maxed out the credit cards and has to pay it back. But it is a long term payment plan, so the welfare bill has to be drastically reduced. To achieve this at all, the state pension has to go. 

Corporate Punishment

wearechange.org becomes yet another reporter of the corporate wish to make people pay for something they did not make or own. “Irish Water’ placed a clause in their contract to supply water to home owners that was undoubtedly copied and pasted from an American corporate model.

It goes something like this:-

If rain falls out of the sky and into the drains, the water is accepted as the natural cycle of water returning to the water tables to be treated and used again.

If that same rain water falls out of the sky and a person collects the water for personal use before discarding the used water into the drains, there is a charge levied on the use of the drains for discarding the water that was not the property of the company.

So let me get this straight. If we let all the rainwater wash down the drains there is no charge but if we use some of it first, then let it go down the drain, there will be a charge for the use, wear and tear of the drains.

Technically the water company is trying to attach an additional charge for the personal use of rainwater that they did not supply. Yet no matter how you look at it, those who want to conserve water are being punished by the water company because the water company makes no profit out of water not going through their water meter.

The reason for doing this is a simple one; corporations exist solely to make a profit. Since the moment of their creation they had this one pursuit in mind (as it is with virtually all businesses but the heart and soul of local business works in harmony with local people to build a prosperous community whereas corporations don’t care about communities). In the beginning, however, corporations existed for the purpose of building a bridge or creating something that would make more productivity and then disbanded once the project had been fulfilled.

A film documentary entitled THE CORPORATION shows a documentary that can illustrate far better than I how the US 14th amendment was used to turn a corporation into a ‘person’ and thus allow the said corporations to continue as an entity beyond the purpose of one project or event; See film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y&list=PLCDF6B02DFD948794

Corporate lawyers achieved the birth of monsters without conscience. The sole purpose of corporations is to make money and that does not have to take into consideration the people, animals, plant life or finite resources of this planet. I personally fail to understand how a ‘person’ identified as an entity with rights is not then equally subject to the same criminal punishments including having their assets stripped and imprisoned for theft, murder and criminal damage.

Of course, if a corporation cannot be imprisoned it is clearly not a person. The legal ruling that said otherwise is therefor an Act of legal stupidity that should be revoked immediately and all corporations disbanded forthwith.

But the governments and tax collectors of this world are hardly going to bite the hand that it believes is feeding it. Sadly the people are feeding the same institutions either because there is a monopoly, like Irish Water, or the said corporations hide behind other names and brands to the point that we have no idea who owns what.

So what next? Already the CEO of Nestle is reported to have said that water should not be a right but a sale-able commodity; and readily steals water from villages in Pakistan, forcing them away from their homes.  In the UK, Nestle produce ‘Buxton Spring’ and ‘Pure Life’. But they are not alone in what might be called euphemistically unethical practices. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/01/ethical-bottled-water-companies-nestle-coke

 Charging for air is not a new concept. Oxygen machines in Tokyo have been used for years because of the smog. Now a Venezuelan (Caracas) airport is trying it http://www.bustle.com/articles/31426-caracas-airport-charges-flyers-for-clean-air-ominously-calls-it-breathing-tax

I find it difficult to understand how this is in any way right. If I, as a person, were to dump a whole heap of smelly domestic rubbish onto a public road and then charge people who want to use the road by making a clear pathway, could I then stand up in a court, deny culpability, claim profit as a justifiable excuse and then carry on polluting roads?

If a corporation is a ‘person’ then it follows that a person is equal in the eyes of the law. The only difference that I can see between myself and the legal status of a corporation - if it is also a person -  is that I can in no way afford billions of any currency and years of my short life arguing tiny points of law through court after court, as surely any challenge to a mega rich monster is able to do. This is the only reason that I can see that governments, who are now wallowing in debt, often to the very same corporations who have no interest in the well being of the people or the world we live in, would shudder at the notion of trying to prosecute a ‘person’ of any crime if the punishment to the person caused sudden and terminal loss of tax revenue.

So if I had that sort of power an influence over entire governments then yes, I could carry on polluting roads and do what the hell I liked.

If there was ever a need for reform it would be to revise the status of corporations. In the meantime, the last thing we should do is allow a further entrenchment of rights for profit to visit our shores.

What we see in the charging for the air we breathe and the rainwater falling freely from the sky are examples of the kind of profit grabbing that will come from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/what-is-ttip-and-six-reasons-why-the-answer-should-scare-you-9779688.html

The crazy thing is that the people don’t get to vote on this deal that will allow corporations to charge governments for loss of profit if they don’t accept the pollution, the genetic modifications and the damage that will inevitably be caused by their products. It is an insanity but all governments are being arm twisted into accepting it because corporations generate tax revenue. The only thing you can do is make sure you let your MP know, especially at election time, that you will vote for those whose party are opposed to TTIP, which in the UK pretty much rules out Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats; all the major political parties. In fact the only party credible enough who will protect you from all of the above is most likely to be the Green Party.

I believe it is important that we do not squander what little influence we have as individuals. We are living in a time where personal responsibility extends to beyond the normal focus of family and loved ones. It is our responsibility to become more aware of what we are not being told openly. Otherwise we will suddenly find ourselves being fitted with personalised chips and charged for air by the breath, taxed on the level of liquid consumed, charged on the balance of overweight to our body mass index (BMI) and penalised for any periods of ‘non productivity’.

You think it can’t happen? Is it any less crazy than being charged to use rain water?

UK General Election 2015 prediction

With the political, statistical and other pundits disputing each other on whether Conservative or Labour will form the next parliament, it is perhaps the right time to jump off the fence and say what I believe the astrological charts tell me who will win the 2015 UK general election.

The closing of election voting booths in the UK is 10:00pm on Thursday 7 May 2015, signifying that the people have cast their votes and all that there is left to do is to count them. The chart for this moment, set for Westminster, is therefore the symbolic chart for who will form the next government.

Immediately we can see in the symbolic event chart that Saturn is sitting within one degree of the Ascendant. Jupiter in the 9th house rules the Ascendant (change of power). Saturn deposits the Moon and Pluto in the second house (the people are fed up with austerity and want to get rid of the incumbents).

It isn’t hard to see how Saturn, structure, is tied to the globalisation of Sagittarius in such away that the next UK government will have to work within the limitations already inherent in the world’s financial situation. In easy words, the world has no money and we are in a right mess. No government in one country can change what is happening. Therefore they can only work within the limitations that the global financial restrictions allow. See Greece, their elected left wing government and how they are dealing with their debt as a work in progress that is slightly ahead of where the UK is right now.

To the Conservatives, this chart means cutting money from anything but banks and businesses. There has been a concerted effort of the Conservative’s coalition government to penalise those on welfare benefit and to encourage insecure jobs and zero hours contracts. The UK people are mostly disenchanted by this and they are weary of stinging cuts to government and local council jobs that drain services to the barest minimum.

These are very unpopular policies and yet Saturn on the Ascendant signifies a ‘back to basics’ style of government. The necessities of life are very much at the forefront of the minds of the electorate and it will be the basic policies on which the electorate casts their vote. However, Saturn determines that whoever get into power on 7 May 2015, there will be no room for wasteful policies or budget giveaways. On this we will watch closely to see if the abolition of the bedroom tax is fulfilled.

The natal chart for the Conservative party, 12 November 1867, 12:00pm UT Westminster, shows Mars at 3º Sagittarius, right on the Ascendant for the close of the polls. The lesser and greater malefic join at the point of presentation to the people. It is a party at war with everything and transiting Pluto at 15º Capricorn is within a few degrees of the Conservative Ascendant (18º Capricorn), suggesting that it will be a short step from self destruction as both it and the UKs political stability fragments. David Cameron is unlikely to remain as leader of the party if they are in opposition.

The Labour party’s chart, 12 February 1906 12:00pm UT Westminster, has Jupiter at 27º Taurus in conjunction with the transiting Mars (6th house) of the election chart. Transiting Saturn is just in the 12th house and transiting Mars in the 6th, so action (Mars) needs to be taken to improve the basic needs (Taurus) and well being (6th house) of the people. This is in opposition to the austere cut to the bone presentation that the electorate have experienced and will remember when going to the polls. It is the hope of the electorate that a new government will make their day to day lives a bit easier. But the secondary chart of the Labour party at the time of the election has a Venus Neptune conjunction, which suggests visions of illusion and glamour. Also in secondaries there is a stellium of planets in Gemini: Mercury, Sun, Jupiter, Pluto and Mars. The feeling I get is of a government weighed down heavily by every day minutiae, unable to formulate any meaningful progressive policies and discovering that it does not have anywhere close to the money it needs to do anything effectively. I also imagine that if the Labour party forms a government it will have to wade through the treacle of parliamentary interference and deliberate bureaucracy. With Saturn on the Ascendant, nothing will come easy.

The Liberal Democrat chart 7 March 1988 0:00am GMT Westminster, has few aspects to merit but there is a Uranus Saturn conjunction at 0º - 1º Capricorn that is in conjunction to the transiting Moon of the election chart; both in the 2nd house. There will be a long standing memory that the Lib Dems, in their coalition with the Conservatives, went back on their promise to not raise tuition fees for students. Then they supported a huge hike in fees. Despite their leader apologising on TV for making a promise he could not keep, the poll ratings for the Liberal Democrats plummeted. I expect therefore that the Lib Dem seats in the house of commons will crumble, contrary to many polls. Moon and Uranus have a common symbolism of divorce; freedom from (Uranus) the people (Moon). If there is any prospect of coalition with Labour, they would most likely change their policies more to the right to balance Labour’s inclination to lurch to the left (Liberal Democrats secondary Sun is applying very loosely to the natal Uranus of the election chart).

The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has a chart that suggests it could win seats. Their main policy has always been to hold a referendum with a view to exiting the European Union. The chart, 3 September 1993, 12:00pm BST Westminster, has a number of loose but influential connections. Transiting North Node 8º Libra opposes the natal Moon at 6º Aries suggesting that the party has a wide populist appeal but the extreme right wing element of the party (and here curiously is a Uranus Neptune conjunction at 18º Capricorn) makes it a little too radical for a populace that is not ready for yet more wild and chaotic change. Transiting Pluto at 15º is only three degrees from the Uranus Neptune conjunction, which conjures up the ongoing notion that the status quo (Pluto) of left wing (Neptune) and right wing (Uranus) politics is under the UKIP spot light. They want to rip apart the two party system and are happy to pick away at the corruption and statistical mendacity. So UKIP has no chance of winning the election but their natal chart suggests that they will be around and making a nuisance of themselves for the next parliamentary term. The secondary Sun at 2º Libra is close enough to the election chart Midheaven to believe that the party’s leader, Nigel Farage, is a strong candidate to win his seat in Parliament. If nothing else the inclusion of UKIP has great entertainment prospects and could even embarrass a few politicians with some home truths.

The Green party has been a minor party for some years with at least one parliamentary MP but a much wider public appeal. As such they have been acknowledged as an influential political party even by their peers. I do not know the chart being used for the party but it’s origins go back to a meeting of the founders in a pub in Daventry on 13 October 1972. I have given it a time of 8:00pm only because this would be the usual meet up time in a pub for many. What strikes me immediately about this chart is the Jupiter Moon conjunction at 1º Capricorn, which is conjunct to the transiting Moon of the election chart 2015. There is a possibility that the Green party could increase its share of the vote, as voters have already become disenfranchised with the main stream political parties but want to register a vote. Whether this increase translates into seats remains to be seen. The transiting North Node is also conjunct to the Mars of the Green Party at 8º Libra. The focus of the people on what is fair is something the Green Party will want the electorate to take action on. Furthermore, the transiting Midheaven of 0º Libra is in conjunction with natal Pluto, 2º Libra, suggesting that the Green Party could indeed gain influence in balancing the power of what looks increasingly like a weak Labour minority government. Transiting Saturn is also conjunct to the Green’s natal Neptune. This might be a natural choice for those voters who do not want to vote for the Liberal Democrats or Labour. It could well be considered a protest vote and yet with secondary Mercury thrown into the Saturn Neptune conjunction - and with the Green Party joining the live television debates, it is possible that some people may take the Green policies a little more seriously than they did before.

So my prediction for the UK 2015 election is a weak minority Labour win. Conservative and Labour will hold their safe seats, so as the loathsome First Past the Post system retains the same old votes, thus disqualifying millions of voters from ever being represented by their preferred political persuasion, the only real democracy then falls to the ‘unsafe’ seats. Cheadle, which over the last 15 years has been held by Liberal Democrats... but only just. Now that will be an interesting result.

Can real proportional representation capture the intended votes of the majority? Of course it can http://shaneward22.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/real-proportional-representation.html

Two other parties should be mentioned: The Welsh party Plaid Cymru (pronounced ‘plied cum-ree’) and the Scottish National Party (SNP). I suspect that both parties will hold their ground, which might mean that they become influential in swinging votes in favour of whatever main party will deal with them.

The 2015 election chart is not a good one for any political party. Mars is at 26º59’ Taurus; very close to the fixed and most violent star Algol. I expect that, if nothing else, the Labour party will want to expose as much corruption and filth as it can from these last five years of the coalition government. I hope that some good reforms can come out of it but it will not be pretty. Expect an attack on banks, bankers and bonuses. Expect the City of London to be hostile to the new Labour government. Expect that money will not be where the Government wants it to be, so tax raids on the rich may be the only futile gesture Labour has to show the electorate that it means business. But above all, expect endless squabbling, disharmony and lots of finger pointing. The object of this game is to obfuscate, discombobulate and bamboozle the electorate. Unfortunately I expect many who do not read this kind of blog will become victims to the smoke and mirrors of political bickering and journalistic propaganda.

But all the point scoring in the world will avail nothing because Saturn is in Sagittarius and the UK economy is a puppet on the world stage. Control over the UK economy is an illusion - no government with such huge debts has much of a choice if they wish to dance to the tune of the IMF, the BIS and the corporate wishes of large institutions. Through no fault of it’s own, Labour will be presiding over the biggest global depression since the 1930s. Theglobal financial reset is already underway. Labour will happily point out the illusions and denials of the Conservative years. One can almost hear the bickering now and yet it is right that main political parties show their true colours, and the reality of their lack of control, in these dark times. It is a necessary process for people to understand that what they vote for has changed dramatically. Just as the UK has devolved areas of authority to Wales and Scotland, so the global capitalist system has dictated monetary policy. It is just that the main stream political parties are in denial and the press who are supposed to keep you informed are ruled by those who do not want you to know what is really going on.

The most immediate dangers to the UK electorate is to make sure that the whole globalisation agenda does not force through the evils of GMO foods and corporate mugging through TTIP. And for this reason I would encourage anyone who has not decided if they will vote or not to go ahead and vote. I would also encourage people to vote for any other party than the Conservatives, Labour or Liberal Democrats. None of them can change what is about to happen but none of them work for the people because they are sponsored by business donors or unions. What we need globally is a political force that really does represent the people. This will not happen while the elite and the corporate powers hold political parties to ransom. You will also not hear this from corporately owned newspapers (that’s all of them) so stop buying newspapers because they do not tell you the news.

What this election should show you is all that is so wrong with the current financial and political system. We are approaching an enormous turning point in 2020 where the changes we would like to see can be possible if we did but focus and pay attention to what is wrong now. The 2020 election leads us into a ‘fixed’ societal period with a focus on development of every day living. One hopes to see the separation of casino bank and high street, to ensure that the crash of 2008 and 2015 do not happen again.

For the record, it was not Labour that caused the credit crunch but they did not save money when they could have. It will also not be Labour’s fault that the world will go into a global depression but they will be frustrated at every turn by the willfulness of the Conservatives to sabotage any possible benefit to the people. As with every day since their foundation, they will not be working for the people. Now is the time for this to change.

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