Canada is on the verge of a federal election, with the three opposition parties uniting around a non-confidence motion to be tabled next week on November 24th. The government could be defeated on November 28th with an election due sometime in January. What is likely to happen here?
In an earlier post, I had thought that the Liberal govt was in trouble but would probably last until March when Jupiter stationed against Canada's natal Saturn in the 8th house. Now, I see that I may have misinterpreted things somewhat. There is no doubt that the early March period will be difficult for whatever government is in power, but looking at the planetary influences on November 28th, one can see a lot of hostile energy there (the Sun Mars square for example).
I think the government is likely to be defeated at that time. This is what most pundits are saying so the astrological angle isn't that helpful for enhancing our understanding. According to my reading of the stars, the most likely dates for an election are January 9 and January 22. The January 9th date has been widely mentioned as a likely date. In this election, I think the Liberals will lose seats in the House and will likely lose power as well.
What is interesting is that based on the NDP chart under the Layton leadership, December and January are going to be favourable months. An election held in January will likely see a rise in the NDP fortunes including the possibility of gaining of the balance of power in the formation of the next government (although I concede this is unlikely in the event of a Conservative minority win). The NDP fortunes start to wane around that time too however, suggesting that the new government, if elected in January, will have its hands full getting anything accomplished. A more difficult time for NDP lies down the road, as March and April look very challenging indeed.
Canadian politics are a real challenge for an astrologer because there are no fixed election dates, four political parties, and the current levels of popularity has no one far enough in front to win a majority. This means that there are no clear winners as there are in the US.
November 18, 2005
December's cold comforts
I think the current highly stress planetary pattern should peak in December with a major world event. Certainly , Dick Cheney hopes this cosmic version of spin the bottle doesn't finish it's merry-go-round staring straight at him. And yet, we know that his chart is very afflicted at this time. I still believe there will be further embarrassment to come for the VP, above and beyond what he have been publically told within the context of the Plame affair.
One other possible area of volatility may be Saudi Arabia. If the Jan 15 1902 chart is correct, the Mars at 17 Capricorn will be coming underthe influence of Saturn and Ketu around this time. This will be an excellent test of the chart's continued usefulness. If its still good, look for some major violence in Saudi in the December time frame.
One other possible area of volatility may be Saudi Arabia. If the Jan 15 1902 chart is correct, the Mars at 17 Capricorn will be coming underthe influence of Saturn and Ketu around this time. This will be an excellent test of the chart's continued usefulness. If its still good, look for some major violence in Saudi in the December time frame.
November 07, 2005
French Riots
One can easily see the source of France's current problems in the midnight October 4th chart, the time when the constitution of the 5th Republic went into legal effect.
From a Vedic perspective, the close Sun-Mercury conjunction is being closely sextiled by Saturn. This third house sextile (forward clockwise direction only) is one of the three full strength aspects allotted to Saturn. Saturn is near its station so that makes it that much more powerful, and of course Saturn rules an evil dussthana houses -- the 8th house (death-like situations) in the midnight chart.
In the midnight chart, the 2L Sun and 3L/6L Mercury pairing falls in the 3rd house in Virgo. This is perhaps one clue as the relative young age of the rioters. The chart is running Saturn Ketu dasha now, and Ketu is involved in a close trine with natal Saturn, foreshadowing the possiblity of some breakdown (Ketu) of civil order (Saturn). To add to the gravity of the situation, transit Ketu is close by Sun and Mercury and is acting against leaders (Sun).
As long as Saturn is near the 16 or 17 degree point of Cancer (Lahiri, bien sur!), France will remain a dangerous and inflamed situation. I don't think things to really quiet down until December. After the Nov 17th Lunar Return, look for a major govt shakeup, the result of internal questioning that will follow this Arab uprising. Transit Ketu is also conjoining the Sun Mercury pair around this same time. This ups the ante overall, and having two slow moving malefics afflict the country simultaneously makes this much more significant and of potentially historic importance.
With 2L Sun afflicted, look for economic consequences to kick in shortly.
From a Vedic perspective, the close Sun-Mercury conjunction is being closely sextiled by Saturn. This third house sextile (forward clockwise direction only) is one of the three full strength aspects allotted to Saturn. Saturn is near its station so that makes it that much more powerful, and of course Saturn rules an evil dussthana houses -- the 8th house (death-like situations) in the midnight chart.
In the midnight chart, the 2L Sun and 3L/6L Mercury pairing falls in the 3rd house in Virgo. This is perhaps one clue as the relative young age of the rioters. The chart is running Saturn Ketu dasha now, and Ketu is involved in a close trine with natal Saturn, foreshadowing the possiblity of some breakdown (Ketu) of civil order (Saturn). To add to the gravity of the situation, transit Ketu is close by Sun and Mercury and is acting against leaders (Sun).
As long as Saturn is near the 16 or 17 degree point of Cancer (Lahiri, bien sur!), France will remain a dangerous and inflamed situation. I don't think things to really quiet down until December. After the Nov 17th Lunar Return, look for a major govt shakeup, the result of internal questioning that will follow this Arab uprising. Transit Ketu is also conjoining the Sun Mercury pair around this same time. This ups the ante overall, and having two slow moving malefics afflict the country simultaneously makes this much more significant and of potentially historic importance.
With 2L Sun afflicted, look for economic consequences to kick in shortly.
October 31, 2005
Canada: Gomery Report to be released tomorrow
The Liberal government of Paul Martin may suffer
another major blow to its credibility tomorrow with
the release of the long-awaited Gomery report on the
Adscam scandal within the Quebec wing of the Liberal
party.
It's especially difficult to make a prediction on the
immediate fallout from this independent report due to
the ongoing problems the Liberals are experiencing in
the wake of the emergency evacuation of the
Kashechewan Indian Reserve in Northern Ontario last
week. So far over 500 residents of the reserve have
been evacuated to other parts of the province due to
tainted drinking water and resulting widespread
disease. Under the Canadian constitution, Native
Reserves are the exclusive responsibilty of the
federal government.
A few placements make me think this report will refuel
public (and opposition) anger over Liberal
wrongdoings. Tr Mars will be exactly squaring natal
Mars in the Martin Oath chart and conjunct Pluto in
the Canada chart. Saturn is coming to its station
soon and will be sitting on the 6th equal house cusp
within a degree. This shows significant legal
problems.
Tertiary progressed Ascendant is squaring the natal
Sautrn on the oath chart so this ought to be larger
than a simply "scandale du jour".
Of course, it is possible that the Kashechewan affair
could reveal further Liberal negligence so those
planetary configurations may still be describing the
continuing fallout from government ineptitude there.
My sense, however, is that tomorrow will provide more
headaches for Martin. Moon will transit over Ketu in
the oath chart with Sun close by. That points to
shadowy issues involving the leadership bubbling up
like raw sewage in a backed up septic tank.
Let's see how it plays out. Tr Uranus wills station
soon enough also and its forward motion will conjunct
12H Jupiter and trine the Sun IC conjunction in
February making an election most likely at that time.
(The Liberals currently lead an unstable minority
government and the election dates are determined by
the government in power.)
While those influences look favourable, a decidedly
unfavourable influence is transit Jupiter stationing
close to natal 8H Saturn in the Canada chart in early
days of March 2006. Jupiter represents the 10th house
of government. So Martin may be in hot water once
again and no Belinda in sight to bail him out this
time. Right now, I'd bet against him.
October 27, 2005
Thailand 2
As I suggested a few weeks ago, Thailand's chart is looking very troubled these days. November will likely bring a new problem to the fore, as will March and April when Saturn makes it next station near Thailand's Moon - Sun square.
For the current period, I think the middle of Novemnber is most dangerous, say around the 16th when Mercury stations.
Mars will still be under the affliction of Ketu in the 6th house of open enemies and Saturn sits atop the IC while aspecting 6H Neptune. This may also suggest more about diseases, although if the enemy is hidden or secretive (as many Islamic cells are), then this could be in keeping with an attack, possibly on Bangkok itself. I know that all attacks so far have occurred in the southern provinces. An attack on Bangkok would be shocking and a major escalation.
Given the afflictions are also present in the chart of King Bhumipol (Dec 5 1927), it should be a significant enough event to make the media cycle here in the West. The King's chart can be seen as a proxy chart for the country as a whole. He has Sun and Saturn in Scorpio which is falling under the aspect of Rahu. The Scorpio affliction is more in keeping with diseases and poisons.
To my mind, the most likely candidates are either a worsening of avian flu or a major terror attack by Muslim extremists.
I will try to outline the case for each in the coming days.
For the current period, I think the middle of Novemnber is most dangerous, say around the 16th when Mercury stations.
Mars will still be under the affliction of Ketu in the 6th house of open enemies and Saturn sits atop the IC while aspecting 6H Neptune. This may also suggest more about diseases, although if the enemy is hidden or secretive (as many Islamic cells are), then this could be in keeping with an attack, possibly on Bangkok itself. I know that all attacks so far have occurred in the southern provinces. An attack on Bangkok would be shocking and a major escalation.
Given the afflictions are also present in the chart of King Bhumipol (Dec 5 1927), it should be a significant enough event to make the media cycle here in the West. The King's chart can be seen as a proxy chart for the country as a whole. He has Sun and Saturn in Scorpio which is falling under the aspect of Rahu. The Scorpio affliction is more in keeping with diseases and poisons.
To my mind, the most likely candidates are either a worsening of avian flu or a major terror attack by Muslim extremists.
I will try to outline the case for each in the coming days.
USA and the Saturn station: Dick Cheney
A quick look at VP Cheney's chart and one starts to wonder if Plamegate is soon to become a lot more messy for one and all. Like Bush, Cheney has some significant planetary capital tied up with the approaching Saturn station at 17Cn. In this case, Cheney's 1st lord Sun sits in his 6th house of legal affairs and conflict at 17 Cp. And as we know, not only will his Sun pick up all of Saturn's hassles, but so will it get nailed by Ketu's transit.
Things are certain to get hotter for Cheney as November wears on. I would expect some worse case scenarios to take place such as the indictment of his aide and an indictment against him too perhaps. At this point, I can't say if Cheney will lose his job, and that is really the bottom line of the whole affair.
Hopefully I will conduct some more research on it and post something a little more definite before the answer becomes too obvious from the rush of events.
Things are certain to get hotter for Cheney as November wears on. I would expect some worse case scenarios to take place such as the indictment of his aide and an indictment against him too perhaps. At this point, I can't say if Cheney will lose his job, and that is really the bottom line of the whole affair.
Hopefully I will conduct some more research on it and post something a little more definite before the answer becomes too obvious from the rush of events.
October 17, 2005
Pakistan Earthquake
Another day, another disaster.
As the death toll rises past 50,000 in this latest mass tragedy, it's useful to remember how the planets are implicated. As I noted in my September Update on the website, the Oct 2 Mars station occurred at a particularly dangerous point in the sky: exactly quincunx Pluto. Combining the energies of these two malefics is a bit like mixing dynamite with nitroglyercin. Not good.
I wasn't surprised when the Bali bombings occurred on Oct 1, but I had a nagging sense that the destructive force of the Mars Pluto configuration wasn't completely played out. Not by a long shot as it turned out. The Pakistan quake hit a few days later as did the damage wrought to Guatamala by hurricane Stan that killed 2000 people.
We can also see other rationales for the destruction in recent weeks. Mars and Saturn, the two classic malefics of traditional astrology, are aspecting each other. Mars in Aries is casting its full strength fourth house aspect on Saturn in Cancer. The Mars influence makes Saturn more destructive than usual. In turn, Saturn is casting its full strength 10th house aspect to Mars. And this makes Mars more violence than it otherwise be. With the mutual aspecting in place until February 2006, we can expect more large scale destruction, especially near the station of both planets.
Saturn stations around November 17th and Mars stations again in early December. Expect to see a massive loss of life at those times. At the moment, I am expecting the latter December date to be worse, and it will probably occur in the US.
As the death toll rises past 50,000 in this latest mass tragedy, it's useful to remember how the planets are implicated. As I noted in my September Update on the website, the Oct 2 Mars station occurred at a particularly dangerous point in the sky: exactly quincunx Pluto. Combining the energies of these two malefics is a bit like mixing dynamite with nitroglyercin. Not good.
I wasn't surprised when the Bali bombings occurred on Oct 1, but I had a nagging sense that the destructive force of the Mars Pluto configuration wasn't completely played out. Not by a long shot as it turned out. The Pakistan quake hit a few days later as did the damage wrought to Guatamala by hurricane Stan that killed 2000 people.
We can also see other rationales for the destruction in recent weeks. Mars and Saturn, the two classic malefics of traditional astrology, are aspecting each other. Mars in Aries is casting its full strength fourth house aspect on Saturn in Cancer. The Mars influence makes Saturn more destructive than usual. In turn, Saturn is casting its full strength 10th house aspect to Mars. And this makes Mars more violence than it otherwise be. With the mutual aspecting in place until February 2006, we can expect more large scale destruction, especially near the station of both planets.
Saturn stations around November 17th and Mars stations again in early December. Expect to see a massive loss of life at those times. At the moment, I am expecting the latter December date to be worse, and it will probably occur in the US.
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