{"id":576,"date":"2010-04-18T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T10:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2010-04-18T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T10:38:06","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-18-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 18 April 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was an exercise in finding your European gene.\u00a0 As we are confronted with Mercury retrograde today, we struggle to make sense of the Polish plane crash which was in the news at the start of the week and the grounding of planes in Europe by the end of the week due to the eruption of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull.\u00a0 Has she spoken for Gaia (yes), and is there any connection with the financial relations between Iceland and the UK, given the wound sustained to Iceland\u2019s banking system? (maybe).\u00a0 Starting with Poland\u2019s\u00a0 tragedy, \u00a0Uranus was opposing the natal Mercury in Poland\u2019s 1989 chart, an indication of an air accident.\u00a0 The poignancy of the event for the nation could not be ignored, and even Russia rallied to the cause.\u00a0 In the UK on Thursday as we struggle to find our political identity Nick Clegg surprised the political pundits by forging ahead in the polls after his performance.\u00a0 The North Node was transiting his Sun, bringing a moment of destiny but we do not have a birth time and do not know in which house of his chart this is placed.\u00a0 Katherine Whitehorn states in the Observer this morning: \u201cI want a hung parliament.\u00a0 Then laws will actually have to be passed because parliament has so decided, not because they seemed a good idea on the sofa in 10 Downing Street.\u201d And as for the Icelandic saga, both charts I looked at for Iceland have significant Saturn transits.\u00a0 Throughout all these difficult events this week, Saturn has been sitting on the Ascendant for the chart of the European Union.\u00a0 So the question to put to Mercury if you were interviewing him this week, would be: \u201cIs there\u00a0 any way things can get better while you are retrograde?\u201d\u00a0 How much of the phenomena we ascribe to Mercury retrograde is due to the fact that we now have Mercury Retrogradophobia, now that it is almost a colloquial term?\u00a0 Mercury represents communications and weather, and we need to own our personal contributions to unclear communications and global warming, starting with the things we can change.\u00a0 Also today the Sun sextiles Neptune, and we can acknowledge the fog in our collective psyche, as we look at its current symbol in the form of the volcanic ash cloud.\u00a0 Looking at your own illusions can be a near-impossible task, but like the cloud we know it is there even though we can\u2019t actually see it.\u00a0 So give a nod to the inner illusion and\/or the volcanic ash, and keep asking \u201cWhy are you here?\u201d\u00a0 On Tuesday the Sun enters Taurus, the sign of determination, and is sextile Chiron, so more of the same questions, but problem-solving and healing could become closer, for instance on the restoration of air flight in Europe.\u00a0 Thinking outside the box may produce answers, and according to some ephemerides Chiron enters Pisces that day so the waters contain the answer for some.\u00a0 The collective psyche becomes an answer for many questions, where people had looked to their own lives and localities as the be all and end all.\u00a0 There will be much more of a feeling that we are all in this together during the era of Chiron in Pisces.\u00a0 Venus squares Neptune on Friday 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, and the waters are muddied by financial scores to be settled.\u00a0 In our personal lives we take another look at romantic illusions, on the way to seeing the real value of relationship and friendship.\u00a0 Efficient handling of this square could reap rewards for Saturday 24<sup>th<\/sup>, when Venus restores good relations with two of her heavenly compatriots: Saturn and Uranus.\u00a0 She first sextiles Uranus, which allows an intuitively led turnaround in relationship and finance, and seeing these in a higher way.\u00a0 Then she trines Saturn, bringing about a balance which includes reality, but may exclude romanticism.\u00a0 At the end of the week, loyalty wins the day.\u00a0 Despite this, can Nick Clegg hold on to his lead after the second televised debate on Sky on Thursday?\u00a0 A Hung Parliament and Vince Cable for Chancellor are still on my wish list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was an exercise in finding your European gene.\u00a0 As we are confronted with Mercury retrograde today, we struggle to make sense of the Polish plane crash which was in the news at the start of the week and the grounding of planes in Europe by the end of the week due to the 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