{"id":971,"date":"2011-03-20T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanawooster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2011-03-20T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T11:41:11","slug":"aspects-for-the-week-beginning-20-march-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Aspects for the week beginning 20 March 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging on a Sunday morning ensures that I stay in the now at least once in the week now I am retired and often don\u2019t know what day it is.\u00a0 When I started this four years ago, I was just writing about the aspects for the week ahead.\u00a0 But now it has become an exercise in putting the aspects in the wider context of the news and how the aspects from the previous week are playing out.\u00a0 So I may have to change the title to something like \u201cThat was the week that was plus aspects for the week ahead\u201d.\u00a0 There is so much going on this week that I have a split-screen in my mind of Libya on one side and Japan on the other, and though Libya has overtaken Japan on the news at this moment, there is really a lot more going on in Japan.\u00a0 However, if you look at Libya as part of what is going on in the Middle East, that scenario has uprising in the Yemen, talks between the government and opposition in Bahrain, and democratic roots starting to be established in Egypt \u2013 a lot going on.\u00a0 Where to start?\u00a0 A reporter mentioned last night that the new intervention in Libya of a no-fly zone (we now have more idea of what it entails) is happening on the anniversary of the Iraq War of 20\/3\/11 \u2013 there must be some astrological significance in that, even if only a Solar Return!\u00a0 The United Nations Organization was founded in 1945, the same year that Japan was in such dire straits it is said.\u00a0 Jupiter is currently trining the Pluto of the UN chart (the wielding of power), but Pluto is squaring its Neptune (the unknown consequences).\u00a0 As I write, they are still debating the morality of intervention on Sunday morning television, one Professor of Politics advocating the diplomatic intervention of getting both sides together to talk.\u00a0 Much as I love peacemaking it is difficult now to imagine talking to Colonel Gaddafi.\u00a0 Jack Straw was speaking this week about how the British Government had to speak to him in order to persuade him to abandon his nuclear weapons, but it would be difficult to imagine that anyone could talk to him now.\u00a0 I am going to leave the current news scene now, but my heart and thoughts are equally with the Japanese people now for all they have to contend with, opened up to us this week by news reporting of images of the flotsam and jetsam left behind by the tsunami, the heroic attempts to shower the nuclear plants with sea water, and vignettes of personal stories of survivors trying to trace their loved ones.\u00a0 My brief this week is very brief, as we have few aspects.\u00a0 Today there is a minor semi-sextile between the Sun and Neptune \u2013 a sense of where are we now?\u00a0 But later in the day we will know exactly where we are \u2013 at the beginning of the Astrological New Year with the Sun entering Aries!\u00a0 It is Spring, and this should register with you on some level; maybe you\u2019ve been planting in the garden, or starting a new project (some of us feel we have new lives, since Jupiter and Uranus entered Aries, and this sense will be reinforced).\u00a0 Today will have a sense of finishing something and then starting something else.\u00a0 As if to rubber stamp the new regime, the Sun will conjunct Uranus tomorrow (Monday 21<sup>st<\/sup>) and new growth and new projects may see visible results.\u00a0 In international affairs, there may be surprises (though we are assured we are not going to have a repeat of shock and awe 2003-style).\u00a0 There may be some new ideas of hope and assistance for stricken countries.\u00a0 Where individuals have established new projects, they may be able to join with others in group initiatives.\u00a0 And that is a new beginning, a fresh start, with no other aspects for the rest of the week, which means just consolidating what you have started.\u00a0 Just a couple of practical notes for your diary:\u00a0 Wednesday 23<sup>rd<\/sup>: Post your Census Form\u2026Saturday 26<sup>th<\/sup>: 8.30 pm (international event) Earth Hour, switch off your lights for an hour.\u00a0 Happy Astrological New Year to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging on a Sunday morning ensures that I stay in the now at least once in the week now I am retired and often don\u2019t know what day it is.\u00a0 When I started this four years ago, I was just writing about the aspects for the week ahead.\u00a0 But now it has become an exercise [&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-971","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\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}