{"id":2563,"date":"2013-10-06T13:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2013-10-06T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T12:06:23","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-6-october-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 6 October 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Milliband, Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the contentious battles of last week\u2019s Sun-Uranus-Pluto T-square was the battle over the reputation of Ralph Miliband, the father of the Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband.\u00a0 Ed decided in an interview to stand up for his father, against the Daily Mail who had published an article claiming that he was anti-Britain, and challenged the authority of the press to publish anything they like.\u00a0 The timing of the piece was just prior to the Conservative Party Conference, presumably in order to boost David Cameron by smearing his main opponent. I have written about both Ralph and Ed Miliband, but I haven\u2019t before looked at Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail.\u00a0 In March I wrote:<\/p>\n

Ralph Miliband<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe story begins with their father, Ralph Miliband, whose chart we have (without a birth time); we do not have a chart for their mother Marion Kozak.\u00a0 The family of Ralph Miliband originally came from the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, but moved to Belgium, where Ralph was born in 1924.\u00a0 He came to England with his father in 1940 to avoid persecution by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

He studied at the London School of Economics, and became a devotee of the philosophy of Karl Marx, and visited his grave in Highgate Cemetery.\u00a0 At his death in 1994 he was buried there, close to Karl Marx.\u00a0 In the 1960s he was involved with the movement of the New Left, <\/i>and published the book Parliamentary Socialism<\/i> in 1961.<\/p>\n

Ralph Miliband had Sun in Capricorn, and Moon conjunct Mercury in Capricorn, the sign associated with politics, and indeed both his sons followed those interests and became politicians, possibly fulfilling some of his aspirations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ed Miliband<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEd Miliband was born in 1969, and in his relationship comparison with David includes a combustible Uranus-Mars conjunction (Ed\u2019s Uranus conjunct David\u2019s Mars).<\/p>\n

When Ed pulled a surprise win in the Labour leadership contest in September 2010, Pluto was conjunct Ed\u2019s natal Sun, and Mars was square to David\u2019s Sun.\u00a0 It may therefore have been as much of a shock to Ed as it was to David.\u00a0 It was one of those moments that their mother \u201ccouldn\u2019t look\u201d.\u00a0 Many saw it as a betrayal, that Ed had snatched David\u2019s birthright (not even for a mess of potage), and those who thought New Labour would go forward were disappointed in the direction of the party.<\/p>\n

But there is an interesting legacy from father Ralph.\u00a0 Both Ed Miliband and his father have Sun in Capricorn (politics) square exactly Chiron (their wound) in Aries, so Ed Miliband is carrying an exact astrological gene from his father.<\/p>\n

There is a small possibility that Ed could fulfil the true socialist ideals of his father, but with his charisma only marginally appealing to the British population and only incrementally increasing, it remains largely improbable.\u00a0 Those who hanker after Old Labour know that you cannot bring it back now, any more than you can rehabilitate the beloved NHS in the current political and economic climate, but with Ed\u2019s karmic mission (North Node) conjunct his father\u2019s Uranus (Vision) a glimmer of his father\u2019s light remains in the political domain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Dacre<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Dacre is Editor of the Daily Mail, and was born exactly the same day in the same year as Prince Charles (yes and near the subject of last week\u2019s blog Hassan Rouhani of Iran).\u00a0 Does it make him automatically a pillar of\u00a0 Conservatism?\u00a0 His Sun is in Scorpio, so he would be likely to be very determined in action, and black and white in his views.\u00a0 As with Rouhani, we do not know his Ascendant sign.\u00a0 Dacre\u2019s Moon is likely to be in Aries, which may make him aggressive.\u00a0 Prince Charles is born late enough in the day to have a Taurus Moon.\u00a0 Michael Dobbs, ex-Conservative Chief of Staff and author of House of Cards, was also born that day.\u00a0 I once wrote to him and he kindly supplied his birth time \u2013 putting him also in the Moon in Aries bracket.\u00a0 The hero of his book and the excellent TV series Francis Urquhart does have a decidedly ruthless persona.\u00a0 I am not suggesting that Michael Dobbs is ruthless or that any of the others born that day are, but he has provided a unique insight and understanding into the ruthless persona, maybe drawn from somewhere in his psyche.\u00a0 The Venus\/Neptune conjunction in the chart of that day can show a love of intrigue.<\/p>\n

Daily Mail<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

It is ironic that in the 1930s \u00a0the owner of the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere, historically allied himself\u00a0 with Hitler and Mussolini. The chart of the Daily Mail shows a divisive Sun-Moon-Saturn T-square, plus an aggressive square between Mars and Pluto, and a conjunction between Neptune and Pluto (a propensity to dig and delve).\u00a0 Mars also squares Neptune, which can sensationalize.<\/p>\n

Assault \u00a0on Ralph Miliband<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The timing of the article shows up for Paul Dacre\u2019s chart as Mars trine his own Mars: the use of his Inner Warriorship. The chart of the Daily Mail itself has a couple of favourable sextiles from Uranus, the planet of surprise, enabling the shock factor. \u00a0Uranus squares Ed Milliband\u2019s Moon ((emotional shock relating to a parent) and Pluto squares his Uranus (more shock \u2013 where is one\u2019s brother when you need him\u2026?). I have not looked into the author of the article itself (Geoffrey Levy) nor the author , Michael Newman, of the book on which the article was based (there are limits for a Sunday morning! \u2013 perhaps another time).<\/p>\n

Standing up for his Father<\/span> <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Ed\u2019s planet of Self-Assertion (Mars) is in Pisces, which is not a warlike placing.\u00a0 On a personal level, I think it cost him dear to have to make this stand, but clearly he needed to.\u00a0 As a stand it is not merely personal: it is about the vilification that can be perpetrated by the free press, a vilification which Neil Kinnock said this week went far beyond his own at the time of his Leadership of the Opposition.\u00a0 Neptune is currently bisecting Ed Miliband\u2019s natal exact Sun\/Saturn square, so he is able to articulate his personal story with sensitivity at this time and to stand up with sincerity and genuineness for what he believes in.\u00a0 This may or may not benefit him politically, at a time when he is battling on several fronts, such as the Unions and the Energy providers.<\/p>\n

Aspects<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow from the crack of dawn you will be able to address profound issues such as the meaning of life, through a sextile between Mercury and Pluto.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be asking searching questions, and discussing serious matters, rewardingly so.<\/p>\n

In the late afternoon or early evening (UK time) Venus enters Sagittarius and though the focus has been intense, socially you\u2019ll be more relaxed.\u00a0 You might feel more playful and adventurous.<\/p>\n

Tuesday (8th<\/sup>) brings an early evening conjunction of Mercury and Saturn, so again we have a serious focus.\u00a0 Concentration is needed, perhaps for form filling.\u00a0 It\u2019s my tax form deadline looming again\u2026<\/p>\n

On the morning of Thursday (10th<\/sup>) Venus squares Neptune and the gay abandon of Monday evening is challenged and questioned about its authenticity.\u00a0 Having pondered the meaning of life, shrugged it off and then on again, you then need to examine illusions in relationship, or any intrigues which have come up.\u00a0 That\u2019s quite a journey already, and the weekend holds further loops and hurdles to negotiate\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Fortunately they are of the Sagittarian variety.\u00a0 Saturday (12th<\/sup>) brings a square between jumping Jupiter and the Sun.\u00a0 Around tea-time fabulously exaggerated creations maybe served at the Great British Bake Off marquee (figuratively speaking) or at Willy Wonka\u2019s chocolate factory (also figuratively).\u00a0 Depending on where these two planets fall in your chart (Cancer and Libra respectively) you may create something spectacular, or overstretch yourself.\u00a0 For Jupiter, life is a gamble to be played, and not to be held back.<\/p>\n

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