{"id":2256,"date":"2013-03-17T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2013-03-17T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T10:43:20","slug":"tony-blair-and-the-10th-anniversary-of-the-iraq-war-an-astrological-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=2256","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair and the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War – An Astrological Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of my friends marched in London hoping to prevent the Iraq War, and I did write a letter to Tony Blair which he ignored.\u00a0 I never bought into the Weapons of Mass Destruction idea!\u00a0 I have to document the 10th<\/sup> Anniversary which occurs on Wednesday 20th<\/sup>, because I believe the Iraq War was a collective wound and we are still suffering collective post-traumatic stress syndrome from it.<\/p>\n

The media started to document the anniversary at the beginning of March, and Kirsty Wark brilliantly presented a huge debate on the subject, and a searching interview with Tony Blair.\u00a0 On 5th<\/sup> July 2009 I wrote a blog about the two Bushes, Senior and Junior, and now would like to focus on Tony Blair and his role, to balance out the karma of my writing.<\/p>\n

I observed then:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe enlisted the help of the sympathetic U.K. Prime Minister of the time, Tony Blair, through the magnetic attraction of Tony\u2019s Pluto being exactly conjunct with George\u2019s Venus.\u00a0 The extra karmic and compulsive element was provided by Tony\u2019s Pluto sextile George\u2019s North Node.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of George W. Bush\u2019s influences, I argued, was his father.\u00a0 Here I would like to look at one of Tony Blair\u2019s influences, his wife Cherie.<\/p>\n

But first, a basic look at Tony Blair\u2019s own chart:<\/p>\n

In case you were in any doubt, Tony Blair does have a Warrior\u2019s chart, with Mars one degree away from the Ascendant in Gemini.\u00a0 Some Prime Ministers, such as Margaret Thatcher, feel they need to make their mark through a successful war.\u00a0 If they thought it would not be successful, they wouldn\u2019t try it, of course.\u00a0 Even now we see Cameron and Hollande pushing for intervention in Syria.\u00a0 Buoyed up by his success in the Balkans, and his firm alliance with George Bush, Tony Blair\u2019s Sun in Taurus was resolute in 2003 about going to war in Iraq despite a lack of backing from the U.N. and a lack of evidence regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction.<\/p>\n

A characteristic of Tony Blair\u2019s policies throughout his period of government, was a lack of psychological depth or understanding, and a tendency not to think things through: with the main spread of his planets being in the early signs of Aries, Taurus and Gemini he needed some more emphasis on the outer planets in order to come from a more spiritual understanding.\u00a0 He has a Uranian ruled Moon conjunct North Node in Aquarius, which does provide some outer planetary influence \u2013 this gave him some flavour of a man of the people, but the conjunction was in his 9th<\/sup> House of Foreign Lands, so it was channelled more through interests abroad.<\/p>\n

Cherie Blair<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

His wife Cherie has always had money as a priority, having had a desperately poor background.\u00a0 A successful woman in her own right, she has the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus (\u201cThe Entrepreneur\u201d) on her Ascendant, and has provided a financial drive (her urge for property), which Tony has certainly fulfilled since he left office.\u00a0 She also brought a Roman Catholic investment and inheritance into their life, and he later converted to Roman Catholicism.\u00a0 He must have a weighty conscience, so the conversion may have been an attempt to balance his karma.\u00a0 Kirsty Wark actually asked him if in his role as Middle East peace envoy he was trying to atone.\u00a0 Cherie has the Warrior Archetype in the form of her North Node (karmic mission) conjunct Mars, and may well have been a strong influence in the direction of war.\u00a0 She is not likely to have been an influence towards peacemaking, though she does have Mercury in Libra (which is itself conjunct Tony\u2019s serious and heavyweight Saturn-Neptune conjunction).\u00a0 She channels the Mercury in Libra through her work in the field of Law.<\/p>\n

The Time of the War<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

At the time of the onset of the Iraq War, Saturn was trine Tony Blair\u2019s Saturn (firm resolution) and Pluto was trine his Pluto (self-empowerment), so his state of mind was resolute, firm and determined, just as the impression he gave.\u00a0 Tony Blair\u2019s serious and heavyweight Saturn-Neptune conjunction sits on the top of the Jupiter of Iraq\u2019s chart, and at the time of the war Pluto was transiting Iraq\u2019s Saturn and opposing its Moon\/Venus (way of life).\u00a0 Tony Blair\u2019s nodal axis connects with Saddam Hussein\u2019s Sun and Moon, so there may be personal karma between them.<\/p>\n

The Legacy<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Iraq was destroyed, with no planning having been given to its reconstruction.\u00a0 The way of life, both good and bad, for the Iraqi citizen was destroyed.\u00a0 The fine antiquities of ancient Mesopotamia were also destroyed.\u00a0 That is on top of all the lives lost\u2026Tony Blair certainly continued his interests in the Middle East, having a special peace envoy role, and many have wondered what he has done with that.\u00a0 It is also the second anniversary this week of the Syrian uprising (15th<\/sup> March), and the Middle East is still in turmoil, with the added threat of Iranian nuclear weapons and the lack of counterbalance to Iran which was formerly provided by Saddam Hussein.\u00a0 Now of course we face the dilemmas over intervention in Syria, and further afield in Africa.<\/p>\n

The Interview<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Kirsty Wark challenged him on the issue of intervention:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026after Iraq do you think that you could ever make a case for moral intervention? I mean you talk about Iran and you talk about Syria\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the fascinating features of the interview with Kirsty Wark was Tony Blair denying that his role in the matter was relevant:<\/p>\n

Kirsty: But do you think you\u2019ll be redeemed?<\/p>\n

Blair: I\u2019m, I\u2019m, I\u2019m less interested in you know my personal position in this.<\/p>\n

That may be a debatable point!<\/p>\n

A different viewpoint<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In the Big Issue (February 25th<\/sup> edition) Brendan O\u2019Neill paints a different picture of Tony Blair\u2019s role in relation to George Bush.\u00a0 He does not see Tony Blair has having been Bush\u2019s \u201cpoodle\u201d.<\/p>\n

He writes \u201cfrom the time he was elected in 1997, four years before Bush entered the White House, Blair was devising new forms of military interventionism and warfare that had a huge influence on the neocons around Bush who were then waiting in the wings of American power.\u201d<\/p>\n

He sees Blair as an imperialist, and that does chime with Blair\u2019s Moon\/North Node karmic mission in Aquarius (\u201cI know what\u2019s good for you!\u201d) in the 9th<\/sup> House of Foreign Policy.<\/p>\n

Related post:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?s=Bush+Senior+and+Junior<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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