Navigating the tides of change

This talk was delivered to the Astrological Association Conference at Bath on 5th September.

You can download the powerpoint show  here, (you dont need powerpoint, at least I think you don’t)

or the pdf and the notes on the charts.

Charts

Superman – First radio broadcast

Superman with USA – Sagittarius Ascendant

Superman – with Jupiter Saturn conjunction 1921

Superman -with Jupiter Saturn conjunction 1940

Superman

Notes

Superman

From AstroDataBank

Rodden Rating: DD
Source: Dirty data, conflicting times Source notes: Donna Cunningham researched the time of first radio broadcast
Barbara Shafferman offers different data from her article on Christopher Reeves published in the March 1996 issue of Dell HOROSCOPE. She included Superman’s natal chart, which she researched carefully. His first appearance was in Action Comics #1, on June 1, 1938. She used a noon solar chart, since she could not find out just when the first issue came off the press.

When the original story was written it had an A rating.

Looking towards the US Elections

Generational synastry is a peculiar thing. Ever wonder why an institution can go on for ages with no problems and then, no matter who runs it, problems, of a suspiciously similar kind, come thick and fast?

I would look first to see if generational outer planet synastry is involved. Because the outer planets move so slowly most of the political leaders, assuming they’re of a broadly similar age which is usually the case, will have Uranus, Neptune and Pluto is about the same place or at least the same sign.

USA Sagittarius Ascendant

George W Bush

John Kerry

Hilary Clinton

Looking at the Sibly chat for the USA you can see where some problems may be coming from. It has an MC of 1 Libra and both George W Bush and John Kerry have Neptune within five degrees of it. Their Plutos are both in the Sibly eighth house conjunct the highly sensitive north node. They both have contacts with the USA Mars.

Looking at it this way, I’m not sure it matters who wins the November election. With that amount of outer planet contact, I’m not sure either will be able to exert their own will or desire to make true and lasting changes. Transiting Saturn has been square to itself in the USA chat, the last square before the Saturn return. Structural changes need to be addressed but can either of these men even identify the issues let alone formulate a plan? Saturn in the tenth needs to formulate a plan, divine inspiration needs to be backed up by a rulebook which will be obeyed and respected not used as justification.

These contacts look far too much like more holy war for my liking. Waiting for St Hillary to step up to the plate may not be the answer either. She will also have Neptune in the USA tenth house, although not conjunct the MC but close to their Saturn.

John Kerry

Notes

John Kerry

From AstroDataBank.

Rodden Rating: C
Source: Accuracy in question Source notes: Original entry was for 7:10 AM from Frances McEvoy quoting his mother for “sunrise.” In February 2004, Robert Blaschke talked with Karen Thorne, Kerry’s sister-in-law by his first marriage, who obtained a time from Kerry of 8:03 AM in 1996. On November 4, 2004, PT talked with Sat Siri Khalsa who says that she attended a political rally in which she was able to slip a note to Elizabeth Edwards asking for the candidates’ birth times. Sat Siri says Elizabeth Edwards smiled, walked over to the candidates and came back with the note on which Mrs. Edwards had written that John Kerry was born between midnight and 1 AM and that John Edwards was born at 7:23 AM. These times are inconsistent with those obtained by other sources. Given the new data, we must downgrade the candidates’ Rodden Rating to C, accuracy in question.

A major event this summer is the Olympics Games in Athens and the speculation on whether the facilities would be complete by the scheduled start of the games.

Greece is an ancient, perhaps the most ancient, country but it’s most recent incarnation – the start of modern democracy in 1974 – shows clearly the stresses and strains the Greeks have been under.

Greece

Not only is the state having a Saturn return but Saturn is in Cancer, conjunct the Ascendant and Mercury. All the pressure (Saturn) of demonstrating that you are capable of planning a major event (Saturn), demonstrating that you are a modern nation (Saturn conj Saturn conj Ascendant) and communicating all this to the world who doesn’t want to listen (Saturn conjunct Mercury conjunct transiting Saturn).

Chart for Mars conjunct Saturn May 2004

Saturn stationed at 13 Cancer and was conjunct Mars at 11 Cancer earlier in the year. This was around the time when international speculation was at its height that the games would not go ahead as the building work was no where near finished. Perhaps Mars joining Saturn at this time provided the push that was needed to finish in time? It may not have been pleasant but it certainly spurred them into action. Saturn rules the seventh house and it was perhaps too easy to see the gloom rather than the adhearance to the timetable – also Saturn – which would finish in time but with little margin for error.

Mars Saturn Conjunction May 2004

Notes

Mars Saturn Conjunction May 2004 set for Athens.

Greece - Democracy

Notes

Greece Democracy

Source: Book of World Horoscopes

Time for swearing in of Prime Minister Constantine Karmanlis after collapse of miliatary dictatorship.

Everyone’s favourite Princess has been back in the news this summer. The August New Moon was a 23 Leo and this picks up her T-square of Moon, Venus and Uranus; it also exactly conjuncts the UK Saturn – no wonder she shook up the Monarchy. This lunation certainly brought her to out attention with several front page stories in the newspapers, Al Fayed making further claims about her death and her memorial being re-opened to the public.

Diana’s Memorial Unveiled

The chart for the unveiling of the memorial is very interesting. The chart shown (next page) is an approximate time but should be within five minutes – I wasn’t paying attention while listening to the radio and did an approximate count back. If anyone was paying attention could you let me know your accurate time? I would be most grateful.

Given the memorial’s problems with drainage and blockages I was not surprised to find Pluto on the IC but it it rather fitting that her ascendant is closely conjunct it. Diana has a disputed chart but it is the Sagittarius rising chart which seems to resonate with her public memorials (Diana, 1 July 1961, 19.45 BST Sandringham, UK, 52N50, 0E30).

Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana’s Minutes Silence

United Kingdom

August 2004 New Moon

During the period of mourning, Venus was approaching her MC and was conjunct it at 23 Libra during her memorial service. The memorial was re opened with a new Moon at 23 Leo, as mentioned earlier, picking up both her Uranus and MC and the UK MC. This is a radical design for a monument and not to the taste of many establishment figures. But Diana wasn’t establishment. What happens next concerning the Diana saga is any one’s guess. But if I was advising Hyde Park management I would get a good plumbing contract in place and with Uranus opposing her natal Pluto, who knows what else will come to light?

Diana's Minutes Silence

Notes

Diana’s Minutes Silence.

Diana Memorial Unveiled

Notes

Diana Memorial Unveiled

Myself from BBC Radio.