This was an unusual year politically and in global events; so much happened that it was easy to lose track of it all. In this selection, let’s look at three different issues that shaped the world: the earthquake in Haiti, the BP spill, the dawn of health insurance reform and WikiLeaks. I’ve selected a few from the first three subjects for this post; we’ll get to WikiLeaks soon.
The massive quake in January, one of the deadliest in recent memory, came the day of an alignment in Capricorn. In an odd twist, I semi-predicted the event, writing that morning that the alignment was a perfect setup for an earthquake, then picking up the metaphor in an early version of the Libra horoscope for that week — when the quake came to pass, I cut the reference out of the final draft. My initial article on the quake was called Everything, All at Once (or Welcome to 2012). I’m suggesting here that whatever 2012 is, we are well into it.
Focusing on how that astrology looked in the current seasons, I asked whether we were heading into what I called the anti-Sixties. The article is called Cosmic Equinox or the Anti-Sixties?
In the spring, congress enacted and Pres. Obama signed a controversial health insurance reform law. Many conservatives were flying off the rails, claiming that socialism was coming to the United States. I compared the passage of the new law to integration struggle of the late 1950s. That was in an article called Another Day at School.
In mid-April the day that Chiron entered Pisces, a BP oil platform exploded, and millions of gallons of crude oil began spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. I covered this in several articles, including Tales from Topographic Oceans, Sea Changes and The Element: Water.
These cover some major news events through the first part of the year. As you’ll read, my philosophy is to present the news in personal context as well as a global context. One reason I think that what we think of as the news is ineffective at conveying ideas or meeting our needs is a context issue. In short, what we see on television or read in most articles only pretends to be about the people who are watching or reading. This is meaningful when we get to the place where we’re looking for assistance and information to help us put things into perspective or understand how we can influence a situation.
Planet Waves is my response to that missing element.