{"id":1065,"date":"2011-05-08T12:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2011-05-08T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:37:57","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-8-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 8 May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on \u201cQuestion Time\u201d they could have debated the issue ad infinitum: whether or not Osama bin Laden should have been killed.\u00a0 Watching this it seemed to me that even those who said he should not have been killed were probably not pacifists, and would not go as far as to call for every person on the planet to lay down their arms under any circumstances.\u00a0 Here is my potted astrological history: George Bush Senior (warrior in past lives, with Mars on the South Node) waged the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Gulf War against Saddam Hussain. [You are probably thinking: \u201cdoes she really have to go back that far?\u201d\u00a0 I feel I do].\u00a0 This is one of the events where U.S. interference in the Middle East fuelled resentment in Arab minds and hearts.\u00a0 Osama bin Laden (warrior in past lives, with Mars on the South Node &#8211; not a common aspect, found in approximately 1 in 90 charts) founded Al-Queda dedicated to avenge this interference. Fast forward to 11<sup>th<\/sup> September 2001, and up to 3000 Americans were killed under this inspiration in New York.\u00a0 In the meantime George W. Bush had become President of the United States, fuelled by a spirit of revenge desiring to finish his family mission; and Tony Blair (Mars conjunct the Ascendant, indicating warriorship as a basic character trait of this lifetime personality) had been the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1997.\u00a0 From there, began involvement in Afghanistan for both countries, costing many lives.\u00a0 2003 brought the Iraq war, finally disposing of Saddam Hussain, but again an entanglement which resulted in many lives lost for the Iraqi people, and U.S. and U.K. forces.\u00a0 George W. Bush talked constantly of capturing Osama bin Laden, and Barack Obama inherited this baton, which became a focus for justice and possible closure for some Americans.\u00a0 Finally on 1<sup>st<\/sup> May 2011, this was achieved, under Obama\u2019s orders, with Uranus currently squaring the U.S. Venus.\u00a0 George W. Bush got closure at this point, with the transiting North Node (universal karmic mission) trine his Midheaven (Career and place in history).\u00a0 From this account, Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush and Tony Blair were prepared to kill many people (despite their religious convictions), and Barack Obama set out to kill just the one.\u00a0 Some are warriors, some are not warriors but did end up killing, and none of them are professed pacifists or would follow Gandhi or Martin Luther King\u2019s philosophy.\u00a0 For me, that is the issue.\u00a0 Moving swiftly on, we have a good few aspects to get through this week, and a few good aspects.\u00a0 Tomorrow, Mercury is conjunct Venus at 22 degrees Aries, and there will be a flowering of communication generally, and for you personally in the area in which the conjunction falls in your birth chart.\u00a0 The Arts and the Media should benefit from this influence.\u00a0 On Wednesday (11<sup>th<\/sup>) Mars enters Taurus, finally leaving its Headquarters in Aries, having settled the battle if not the war, and entering the more peaceful gardens of Taurus.\u00a0 Even a warrior needs to rest sometimes.\u00a0 You are invited to a garden party as Venus conjuncts Jupiter at 24 degrees Aries.\u00a0 Perhaps a celebration of Justice, or Closure.\u00a0 At this party Mercury will be conjunct Jupiter, so there will be some good news, sparkling conversation, and perhaps also some happy journeying, or joyful skyping from one party to another. \u00a0\u00a0On Thursday (12<sup>th<\/sup>) Mars sextiles Neptune, so idealistic ruminations may take place about old battles:\u00a0 more refinement of the arguments about who was justified; \u00a0but also a spotlight on the new freedom fighters of the Middle East and their struggles, idealism and blogging, taking place under the fresh impetus experienced through the energies of Jupiter and Uranus in Aries. \u00a0\u00a0Mars sextile Neptune enables you to approach action in a way which also incorporates your sensitivities, and your spirituality.\u00a0 It\u2019s a useful day, for instance, to effect a rapprochement in a difficult relationship.\u00a0 On Saturday (14<sup>th<\/sup>) Venus and Mercury are travelling companions at the end of their tour of Aries, more scope for putting the finishing touches to an artistic project, or even your war diaries, or catching up with your book reading, before the travelling companions arrive together in the new land of Taurus early next week.\u00a0 I shall be doing a spot of travelling of my own next weekend, and will therefore post my blog early.\u00a0 In a fit of frivolity, I am off to the Eurovision Song Contest in Duesseldorf.\u00a0 Yes, I have been following this silliness since I was a girl in the 1950s, and I will be travelling in a party of four.\u00a0 Among those performing are Blue, and if they qualify, Jedward and Dana International.\u00a0 In our party, one of us has a fear of flying, another has a fear of dying, another a fear of Germany, and the fourth has a fear of water.\u00a0 So we will also be a kind of phobic self-help group as we go.\u00a0 As the Troubadours come together to show us their wares and parade their eye-catching costumes, we hope to find that Europe\u2019s Got Talent, but will enjoy the time-honoured format even if we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on \u201cQuestion Time\u201d they could have debated the issue ad infinitum: whether or not Osama bin Laden should have been killed.\u00a0 Watching this it seemed to me that even those who said he should not have been killed were probably not pacifists, and would not go as far as to call for every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}