{"id":1187,"date":"2011-08-20T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T06:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2011-08-20T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T06:34:21","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-21-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 21 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

As England started to pick up the pieces after the mars-Pluto-Uranus\u00a0riots some of the issues in Society started to clarify, as if emerging from\u00a0a centrifuge. Issue 1 Violence: a definite problem in the human race.\u00a0 When Lars von Trier was told that his film Dogville had inspired the Norwegian massacre, he was shocked as he hadn’t yet put two and two\u00a0together. He said he wouldn’t have made it if he had known. Aah, the\u00a0underestimated power of media. Issue 2 Race: the historian David\u00a0Starkey embarrassed himself by claiming that White people had turned into Black people. Meanwhile the words of Tariq Jahan, who lost a son to the riots, ring compellingly in the\u00a0ears: “This has nothing to do with race”. Issue 3 Poverty: David\u00a0Cameron continues in denial, asserting that events had nothing to do\u00a0with cuts, while people on the breadline already feel they have\u00a0nothing to lose, and Prince Charles with Camilla nodding sympathetically in the background declares “It’s a cry for help”.\u00a0 Issue\u00a04 Policing: The Tottenham riots were sparked by what may have been an\u00a0accidental or careless shooting, that of Mark Duggan. Certainly it was not thought\u00a0through, and the failure to communicate with his family is unexplained.\u00a0 So during the riots the police are afraid to overstep the mark. and in\u00a0doing so understep the mark. Sir Hugh Orde from experience in Ireland is up\u00a0to the job, but David Cameron wants a Los Angeles cop to deal with the\u00a0gangs. Issue 5 Parenting: More particularly, is there enough of it?\u00a0 This coming week sensitivities will be revealed at the outset on\u00a0Sunday (21st). At lunch in the U.K. people may stress about how they like their roast potatoes, with Venus opposite Neptune.\u00a0 In the early hours of the morning in the U.S. dreams may be nostalgic and emotional.\u00a0 In the evening in Australia there may be emotional wrangles.\u00a0 In the evening in the UK Venus enters Virgo and matters of taste become more exacting.\u00a0 The balance of carrot and coriander in the soup becomes an issue, or the colour of your nightwear (you may wear gold lame pyjamas earlier in the evening, then suddenly decide to switch to sage green).\u00a0 There are a few oppositions this week, and the next one comes up on Monday (22nd<\/sup>).\u00a0 It\u2019s Sun opposite Neptune, and this one happens at suppertime in the U.K. prompting a power play as its polarity lies across the end of Leo and Aquarius.\u00a0 Perhaps the balance of power in a relationship is out of kilter, with one person constantly calling the shots, and the other needing to reclaim their soul.\u00a0 There may be a sense of \u201clast chance\u201d about it.\u00a0 If the struggle is internal, two of your Archetypes may be at odds with each other and you may have to establish a dialogue to rebalance them.\u00a0 On Tuesday (23rd<\/sup>) the Sun enters Virgo and we are starting to focus on our Autumn plans, emotionally and spiritually.\u00a0 Mentally, we still have Mercury in Leo and some summer fun left, and are able to exchange some email banter about it.\u00a0 Chiron opposes Venus on Wednesday (24th<\/sup>), and this could bring about a healing crisis of the heart, perhaps a need to come to terms with loss. Thursday 25th may bring confrontation but not on the scale of the T-square rioting. A force may meet an immovable object, and dialogue would be the best course of action. A certain amount of frustration arises from this aspect. At suppertime Venus trines Pluto, so there is a good chance that the earlier frustration can be resolved by getting to the root causes of the matter, caring and sharing. And there is hope on the way for those who have been experiencing communication delays under Mercury retrograde, for on Friday 26th Mercury is stationary prior to going direct, and although it’s just changeover day prepare to start being able to put your affairs in order again – what a feeling! \u00a0Don’t expect to make too much headway on Friday itself though, for in addition to Mercury being in a bit of a spin the Sun is opposed by Chiron. So there is another healing crisis – this time an opportunity to examine power issues. Could be one for the government and the police to sort out. \u00a0Last words from a Tottenham resident quoted In the Guardian. Victoria Norman\u2019s home was close to the Carpetright store which was burned down but she is still able to say “I love my home, my neighbours – and the new neighbours I met because of this.\u00a0 There is strength in numbers, we are stronger than we were before. We all care about where we live and are sick and tired of people putting Tottenham down.”<\/p>\n

The week in bullet points:<\/p>\n