Summer Set

   Dear Friend:

 Summer's end now in the north of our planet - and such beauty, as leaves turn to gold in the lingering hours of November Sun. We have just passed the time of Samhain - Summer's End, the next festival of the Eightfold year will be, of course, Yule/Winter Solstice or Christmas, as we have learned to call it.
 Then, one more year to Winter Solstice 2012.

 You may have been aware of the reputed significance of 28 October 2011 as an "alternative" end-date of the Mayan Calendar- the day of the "End of Evolution and the emergence of  a sustainable advanced Garden of Eden ". Well - the ordure certainly hit the fan that week -vide the Debt Mountain/Euro Crisis/Occupy Wall Street/Steps of St. Paul's Cathedral, etc. - quite simply, people have seen enough of the grotesque and flagrant inequality which now exists in the world we have created , financial and other, and can no longer live with conditions as they exist.
,Incidentally (and you may know this...) St. Paul's trade was "Tentmaker"...
 
 The question arises - how to set in place a different/better system ?
 We will find the way to do this - certainly the desire to do so exists and is growing daily in all quarters, in all  countries, despite what appears to be the fervent wish of "The Establishment" to the contrary.

 However, even within the dark-suited ranks of the professional, dyed-in-the-wool career Politicians, Bankers, Speculators there exists a spark of the Divine - and it is to that inner, though in some cases - rather
obscured,  Light, that the appeal goes forth to turn toward an attitude of sharing, friendship and goodwill.

Great things grow from small beginnings.

"You cannot shoot an Idea"  - Abraham Lincoln.

  Meanwhile - it would do no harm to visit the ancient Holy places of the Earth and there, wait silently for inspiration, anticipating communication with the  Guardians who watch and wait, extending their protection to all whose hearts are opening to the Good , and patiently waiting for signs from those who have not yet, but soon will, perhaps also turn to the Good.

 Perhaps, if we continue to need the use of money - then a simple system which does not invove the use of Interest, accompanied by a realisation that a very "unequal"society breeds little but discontent, envy, mental illness and crime born out of desperation.
  Did you hear of the Footballer( or several) that earns £285,000 per week ? Far more than many earn in a whole lifetime. That's an Own Goal for the Human Race.Come on guys! Focus ! Buck-up!.

 Other ASTRONOMICAL features:-

On 8 November, p.m. a close fly-by of Asteroid 2005 YU55- within 200,000 miles of Earth.
On all late evenings in November - JUPITER bright and glorious in the South.Through binoculars you can see its' 4 largest Moons - Ganymede, Europa, Io and Callisto. Their formations change distinctly from day to day as they orbit the parent planet.
 A Partial Solar Eclipse on  Friday 25 November- not visible in Europe.

 MARS enters the Sign Virgo on Friday 11 November, and will remain in that Sign, because of its' periodic Retrograde cycle,  until Tuesday 3 July 2012.  8 months of Mars in Virgo! A good time to get busy and clean up our act ...

 11 November 2011 - brings us to the (much anticipated) 11.11.11 sequence - to many, significant as a "portal" to higher consciousness; a Universal"Dialling Code"? . Could be.
At Stanton Drew Stone Circle in Somerset there is a significant gathering and ceremony on that day. There is no doubt  there will be many similar around the World.

 Some Scorpio people/things:- (for this is their season...)

 John Cleese; Joni Mitchell; Bert Jansch;William Herschel (discoverer of Planet Uranus); The Planet Uranus -Scorpio rising at Discovery;Robert. F. Kennedy;Jonathan Ross;The Findhorn Community in Scotland -17 November 1962;The United Nations Organisation;The Asteroid Chiron- discovered 1 Nov. 1977;The European Union-1 Nov. 1993;Turkey - Sun 5 Scorpio;Dr Carl Sagan;Sir Jimmy Savile(with Cancer Rising and Moon in Virgo);Martin Luther;Picasso;Rememberance Day;Guy Fawkes' Day, and of course, Hallow'een; Martinmas -11 November - traditionally the time for slaughtering animals in preparation for the Winter (Sorry, vegetarian and vegan friends !).Bill Wyman;Jan Vermeer (Sun conjunct Neptune);Hilary Clinton;Georges Jaques Danton -French revolutionary leader;Dylan Thomas;Bill Gates; Private Eye - Satirical Magazine - 25 October 1961;Paul Joseph Goebbels;Burt Lancaster; William of Orange;Art Garfunkel; Edward the Seventh;Richard Burton (the Actor); Rodin; Charles Manson;Price Charles; Claud Monet;Field Marshals Rommel and Montgomery;Voltaire; Coleman Hawkins; Terry Gilliam; -and the rest of the one twelfth of t Planet's population who have entered the stream of Earth-life through the portals of this great, Fixed Water Sign.


     Meanwhile; - Keep Calm (or, if in Japan,- keep Carp) -and Carry On !

        
     With Kind Regards - David.