In the past, women were considered chattels. I’m sorry if that offends you, but only 50 years ago could a wife finally take out a loan at the bank without her husband’s permission. It was essentially enslaved labour, and the public pronouncement at a wedding of the groom promising to take care of his bride was a binding contract.
Read these words and view them through 21st century eyes:
Hmm
No wonder divorce rates went through the roof.
Wrapping ideas from millennia ago in “New” robes doesn’t make them right. It’s just a different way to be rebellious with the ‘status quo’. Gnosticism has been around for a long time. The Roman Catholic Church sought to eradicate it by killing anyone who disagreed with its ‘religion’ [Middle English (originally in the sense ‘life under monastic vows’): from Old French, or from Latin religio(n-) ‘obligation, bond, reverence’, perhaps based on Latin religare ‘to bind’].
We all want the freedom to think and do as we want. There’s nothing worse for a human being than the thought that they can’t have their own way: “I have the right!”
When faced with a choice, “Not my will, but Thy will be done,” most would choose the selfish option. It’s only natural, after all. But sometimes we have to let go of our personal needs for the greater good.
But who exactly gets to decide what the ‘greater good’ is?
Complicated, isn’t it?
I may seem to be belabouring the point, but it is informative to see that when this quote was reported by CNN and others, on the day, Trump was absolutely right about being so popular that he wouldn’t lose votes.
Here’s the event chart, timed for 2:30 local time:
If astrologers had been paying closer attention at the time, the election would have been seen more clearly. The Moon in Leo is in opposition to the Sun in Aquarius. A Yod (Finger of God) is pointing to the Moon (popular vote), formed by inconjuncts to Venus and the Midheaven. A truer indication could not have been made. He was absolutely convinced of what he said, and the event chart, combined with his birth chart, proves that point.
Hmm.
And yet polling, at the moment, says that he has a steady 32% approval rating. Why?
Political pundits everywhere are predicting an absolute wipeout at the midterm elections in November. Trump is determined to not be a lame duck president again. So, will he go nuclear? Probably.
He has realized that there is a lag between the law (and lawmakers) that allows his some latitude before action is taken against whatever he suggests. The time is shortening. And timing is everything.
Because of the Supreme Court of the United States, Trump feels that he has absolute immunity.
We shall see…
It’s been like a merry-go-round in the U.K. these days. This is the seventh Prime Minister in a decade.
Unknown birth time (so, what’s new?) and I have rectified his birth chart to show the age (26) when he married his wife (Venus). Sun/Moon conjunction in Capricorn? Hmm. A Jupiter/Saturn opposition? Hmm, again. This man is a ‘natural’ politician. The double T-square, one part pointing at Uranus (from Sun/Moon opposition to the Cancer Ascendant), and the other pointing at Pluto (from a Venus/Ascendant opposition) show that he will do impulsively dangerous things to get his way. But if the birth time is different to this rectified one, the Ascendant oppositions will disappear, leaving a wide Uranus/Pluto conjunction only, instead. Same effect.
The only inconjunct between Pluto and the Midheaven is also dependent on the correct time. So, I won’t write about that aspect, here.
I chose the title of this post BEFORE I heard Burnham’s speech. Honestly.
Cash Peters flashed an interesting photograph after showing Andy Burnham’s in his YouTube video this morning: it was of Rachel Maddow. Hmm.
It was part of my childhood: my Mom would take me on the ferry to the Toronto Island. For years, I have had this memory of being a toddler on the ferry, itself. But my view was mostly of the wooden seats with the window above. (It’s a fact that one’s childhood has a very limited perspective.)
In fact, the size of the ferry was immense, but I saw just a little slice of that reality. Strange, eh?
An astrologer on Facebook discussed yesterday’s Basket in a non-repetitive way. Her concern was that most people posting on social media sites were parroting other people’s words, without adding anything original to the discussion. I agree.
She pointed out that the ‘missing’ part of the chart can be as important as the more obvious aspects.
In my go-to Encyclopedia of Astrology (1947) by Nicholas deVore, 4° Sagittarius is listed as “Aviation”. That’s it, nothing more, but that’s significant because of Trump’s new Air Force One.
It’s a hint, folks.
EoM.
Sometimes, you just need to laugh. This is the silliest combination of heroines ever. James Bond meets Love Actually…
Or, more importantly, a female version of “Bad Boys”.
It’s a romp, make no mistake about that. It’s also a comedy wrapped up as a spy adventure. None of it should be swallowed whole, but enjoyed, one episode at a time. Each one ends in a cliffhanger of peril.
Tongues are firmly planted in cheeks, but Hannah Waddingham as Judith (the assassin) plays it straight, showing us the conflict of knowing that your working life is over because your employer thinks that you’re a W.O.A C.A. (woman of a certain age), meaning 50 years old. Olivia Spencer as Debbie (the M.P.’s wife) is the top-billed star of this vehicle. Both women are Executive Producers. That says a lot.
By the end, Debbie is calling the shots and Judith is suffering the consequences for going along for the Ride or Die.
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