Author Archives: Claire Chandler

Breaking Down the Borders – Friday 19th November 2010

Breaking Down the Borders The Breaking Down the Borders cyber conference starts this Friday. I will be giving my lecture, The Seven Squares of Uranus and Pluto at 6 pm GMT. Here’s the full schedule. Even if you don’t want to sign up for the lectures there are social chat rooms and a market place. [...]

Election Postmortem

I’ve learnt two important things from this election. The first is that you should always have an understanding of the constraints and processes involved in the thing you’re considering and you need to fit the astrology around them. My forecasts for a hung parliament with Brown remaining PM – which I’ll take as a successful [...]

General Election – take your positions for the first act

We’re now in the final lunar cycle before the polls open on Thursday. The Moon entered Aquarius just before 10pm BST on 4th May and will be at 16 Aquarius at 7 am on 6th May 2010 and will stay in Aquarius until 9.30 on Friday morning when we shall almost certainly know the result.  [...]

Mercury Retrograde – Take 2

The closure of UK airspace was an extremely symbolic expression of Mercury retrograde in Taurus. This is even more poignant when you remember that the 1801 UK chart has Mars at 11 Taurus and Mercury stationed at 12 Taurus. Today the Moon conjoined Mars and squared Mercury and on Sunday Mercury and Mars will make [...]

Mercury Retrograde

You’ll probably have seen quite a few articles or comments about Mercury going retrograde at the weekend and may be wondering what all the fuss is about. Retrograde just means backwards. All planets have periods where they appear to move backwards across the sky as seen from the Earth. It’s a geocentric phenomenon – that’s [...]

Leaders’ Debates: UK General Election 2010

The UK general election campaign reaches an historic point this week. The first of three debates between the leaders of the three main parties will take place on Thursday night. Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will face questions on the topic of home affairs and will be broadcast by ITV, who are also using many [...]

Aries New Moon 2010

Today brings the New Moon in Aries. New Moons mark the beginning of a cycle and this is emphasised by being in Aries, the first sign of the zodiac. Aries pioneering energy makes today a great time for putting daring and challenging plans together. If you want to make significant changes in your life then [...]

What’s the state of the parties?

Given the current state of party politics in the UK, I thought it would be interesting to look at what’s happening to the individual parties astrologically. We have similar problems here as when we look at national charts: not everything has a nice discrete start moment.  Let’s start with the incumbents. The Labour Party The [...]

Nick Clegg, the King maker?

The UK electoral system is biased to the two main parties. In practical terms it’s not possible for a party other than Labour or Conservative to win a majority of seats and so form a government. However other parties do stand candidates and the third party – the Liberal Democrats – usually takes around 20% [...]

David Cameron, pretender to the throne?

David Cameron Chart, Solar Return for Brown and Cameron, Transits and progressions for David Cameron Live already looked at the conditions in the run up to the election, at Gordon Brown and now it’s time to look at the leader of the opposition, David Cameron. The major transits Cameron is experiencing are the Saturn conjunct [...]

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