Something in the Air

Dear Friend - another Blog from Og here in Hobbit Land where the brave Hobbits, with their allies the Dwarves and the Elves are,at last, combining forces to challenge, and, we hope, finally overthrow the appalling Sauron and his minions. Only joking! - and yet...
Actually, now that the Blue Party, with their new friends the Yellow Party, have begun to promise greatly increased pain in various ingenious ways for many sectors of the population (millionaires excluded) there is indeed "something in the air" ( remember the song by Thunderclap Newman ?), even cunning distractions such as "Strictly Come Dancing" - notice the "Strictly" - appealing to the latent masochism in the British Psyche ( I blame the Normans ..), can gloss over the undeniable fact that all is not well here in Treasure Island.

With 30 years of mind-boggling greed and over-indulgence behind us this is the time to repent and make amends - but, as usual, it is the poor, in the good old Feudal tradition , who are asked, nay, commanded, to take the blame and carry the burden. These are the last twitchings of an old dinosaur of a paradigm which "strictly" belongs to the Age we are rapidly leaving behind, soon to be seen only as a rapidly shrinking image in the Wing Mirror of our Age -of -Light-Mobile, as we set our course for the Stars of Heaven and turn our face toward Home.

Idealistic ? Well, yes, but "Without a Vision the people perish" and- "It is better to light a Candle than to curse the Darkness" .Alfred and Arthur- where are you now? (train delayed by Signal Failure at Avalon Parkway but e.t.a. now 2011/12..).

Astrologically, The "bunching" of Lunar North Node in early Capricorn, conjunct Pluto and Ceres seems to signify the rather tight, traumatic,re-structuring quality of recent weeks, with Ceres (Earth-Mother Asteroid - discovered 1.1. 1801 - on the same day as the Founding of the United Kingdom, as I have mentioned before...) -coming off worst from the encounter. The exhumation of the decaying corpse of old-style class-consciousness with the "in your face" flaunting of conspicuous wealth and privilege ( have we learned nothing??) seems to be cognate with this aspect. But .. only a phase, we trust: - in early March 2011 the Lunar North Node moves into Sagittarius - offering a more flexible, optimistic route as it retrogrades through that Sign until 30 August 2012 when it enters the Transformational Scorpio.
By late April-early May 2011 there will be 5, then 6 Planets in Aries, Cardinal Fire ! - are you ready for brave initatives, original thinking, positive action (go on - plant those vegetables !) ?

Incidentally, the "kids" on the March, protesting over increased fees/proposed cuts, belong largely to the Pluto in Scorpio/Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn generation and are capable of being VERY serious and committed regarding Political/Social issues. Younger dudes, barely teenage (2010) have Pluto in Sagittarius, and Uranus/Neptune in Aquarius and will build anew once the older ones have cleared the "grot" out of the way.

Astronomical Dept. - Do watch the pre-dawn sky for a view of Saturn, Venus (bright, resplendent) - and Arcturus ,the Orange Giant. On 21 Dec. At 08.13 an Eclipsed Moon setting just as the Sun rises. On the same day, Venus leaves her 83 day retrograde loop - having "delivered", perhaps, fresh insight regarding our loves and relationships.
4 Jan 2011 brings a Partial Solar Eclipse, while, on that same day, URANUS can be viewed (through binoculars or telescope) immediately above Jupiter in the night sky, as the 2 Planets form their exact conjunction in 27 Degrees Pisces .

Greetings and best Wishes to all friends of Og's Blog far and wide -Terrestrial and otherwise ! Remember - "All theWorld's a Stage, and all the Men and Women merely Players" .
And-Kingfisher wishes you Happy Halcyon Days ! (see Jupiter/Uranus above.).

Yours, now Blogging Off ... OG. (aka David Matthews.).