2012-07-22

Dealing with the times

Although I did say top government officials in the new administration would come and go unexpectedly, nobody (including myself) could have foreseen that this "prediction" would be fulfilled SO soon! Secretary for Development Mak Chai-kwong stepped down just 12 days after he had sworn it!

That is why "predictions" are rather meaningless. You still won't know how to change the outcome! However, predictions are usually what people who come to see an astrologer are after. What is needed is not predictions, but suggestions on how to make the best out of what has been given us, as indicated in the birth chart.

As I have repeatedly mentioned in this blog, the world and everyone of us are undergoing a "revolutionary" time in these few years, though the degree of impact that we feel does vary from person to person. If you want to maintain the status quo - forget it! Because you will be swept along by something beyond personal control.


About the new administration: On first looking at its chart on July 1, I found the Sun-Moon blend (Cancer + Sagittarius) intriguing. How would that manifest? I did not have any clue until I recalled the slogan that CY Leung and his team often reiterate - "Seeking changes while preserving stability" (穩中求變)! Cancer is associated with stability in terms of emotions (i.e. feeling safe and secure, especially by clinging to the past) while Sagittarius constantly looks for something better elsewhere or chases after some ideal condition in the future.

However, the spirit of the times does not favour gradual change. The administration’s Sun opposes Pluto and both square Uranus, forming a T-square. The administration has got to be "radical" and "revolutionary"; otherwise, it would be faced with challenges that are so unpredictable and overwhelming that it would find it extremely difficult, if not downright impossible, to achieve what it finds meaningful and purposeful.

The sheer survival of the administration will seem to be most at stake - or if it recognizes its "revolutionary" urges and seeks to make sweeping changes - during the following periods, as transiting Uranus and Pluto trigger off the T-square in the administration’s chart:

Transiting Uranus: July-September 2012, March-May 2013, October 2013-February 2014
Transiting Pluto: July-August 2012, October 2012-February 2013, June-December 2013

The common periods in which Uranus and Pluto make a direct hit will be the most radical of all radical times: July-August 2012 and October-December 2013.

As for Mr Leung himself, right now is a very disheartening period (though he may not show it in public), but he will be able to feel more confident and pick himself up more after late August or early September (depending on his exact birth time).

A critical period to look out for is October to November this year and to a lesser extent, July 2013, as he undergoes his second Saturn return. It is significant because it is an accumulation time, a "make-it-or-break-it" time. It shows whether the person has taken up the responsibility that s/he is supposed to take, and put in the efforts that is necessary for a true sense of inner confidence (rather than being defensive, doing things that seeks only external approval or endorsement) for the past 30 years of his/her life.

As discussed elsewhere in this blog, Mr Leung's Sun is conjunct Pluto in Leo and his Mars is also trine Pluto. Pluto is a transpersonal planet and if a person's personal planets (i.e. the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars) or angles is in aspect with Pluto, the person is like having been "endowed" with tremendous power and an iron will. However, the true lesson of Pluto is to use this power for the benefit of others, NOT for personal goals (like prestige, social status or material gains); otherwise, when the time is ripe, the person would be confronted with a strong oppositional power which seeks to bring him/her down.

If the person keeps exploiting his/her inborn willpower to beat opponents because s/he feels his/her survival is threatened, that will only make things worse in the long-run. To use the power of Pluto correctly means to align personal interests with those of others, rather than insisting on one's own stance so much that everything is turned into a life-or-death struggle or a win-lose game. 

Some think that as long as their public relations strategies are clever, then things will work, but I would say it is a definite “no, no”. What really counts is the motive behind our thoughts and actions. Our mind creates our outer reality, not the packaging...

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