Today is this week’s big day: the Aries Sun square Pluto in Capricorn. Both Uranus and Pluto are activating the Aries Point – which the Sun has been lighting up like a Christmas tree — and ALL of the current news is “personal/political” on a scale that few could have dreamed up.
Take, for example, a sampling of headlines from Democracy Now! yesterday:
• The Supreme Court of the U.S. held its final day of an historic session on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. An issue at the heart of the healthcare law, it’s the individual mandate requiring most people buy health insurance by 2014 or pay a tax penalty;
• Despite a U.N. brokered cease-fire in Syria, dozens of people were killed Tuesday in the continuation of violence that began with the Arab Spring uprisings over a year ago (our first real taste of Uranus-Pluto), with over 9,000 dead in that country so far;
• Scientists are warning that damage from global warming will become irreversible, and that this is “the critical decade” for curbing it;
• The Arizona State Senate has voted to ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy (six other states have passed similar laws in the last two years);
• Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, currently serving a two-year sentence for posing as a bidder to prevent oil and gas drilling on thousands of acres of public land, was recently removed from a minimum security prison ward into an isolated cell where his ability to communicate with the outside world and even read books is restricted;