Elections at last

After a yes vote the elections take place.

June 1998

The landmark elections for the new Northern Ireland Assembly finally took place on the 25th June 1998.  

On the day of the election the two planets which have been associated with radical political change (Neptune and Saturn) square up to each other in the early fixed degrees.  

The last time these two planets are in square aspect occurs in April 99 which will come just after the assembly is due to decide where their permanent home will be, and just before the Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland are due to produce their keynote report.  

This will take place at 4 degrees of Taurus. The Easter Rising of 1916 occurred under a Sun at 3 degrees Taurus, the first pass of the Saturn Neptune square occurred at 1.5 degrees Taurus and the last will happen at four degrees, so marking out the key changes which must occur in the identity (Sun) of the Republican movement and the Island of Ireland overall.

Looking at these factors, together with the Sun Jupiter opposition of 1998 which appears on a sensitive degree, and of next year which appears at one degree of Taurus/Scorpio - the degree of the first Saturn Neptune square, it would look as if the next year will be spent building and working towards change.  

Don't forget that Saturn and Neptune brought down the Berlin Wall, Perhaps they can also help heal this divide.