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Wednesday, April 19 | Energy

I'VE been whining about evil the past couple of days, but have not been missing the rather amazing emergence of protests in many parts of the world this spring. This is Aries Point, this is Chiron conjunct Nessus, this is Saturn in Leo -- all the recent big ones. And this is: it's time.

In a long series of earlier articles on the Chiron-Nessus conjunction, which I'll poke around and see if I can find [here is a google search: http://snipurl.com/pesu ], it looked like social uprising would be one of the themes of these years, 05 and 06 in particular. I tend to fixate on the United States (with apologies to other parts of the world I neglect, particularly the UK -- but Tony Blair's horoscope brewing and will be an article somewhere, soon), which I take on as one of my responsibilities of American citizenship. Other countries have led the way, and the United States is slowly rousing itself to the necessities of change.

I was looking at images from Nepal this morning on BBC World on a big plasma screen television and the emotion and passion of protesters marching in the pouring rain was beautiful. Protesters who come out in the rain are really dedicated to whatever it is they're participating in. And it was pouring, and they were passionate, demanding back the constitutional parliamentary system that was recently dumped by King Gyanendra.

In Seattle, Chinese president Hu Jintao, arriving for his first United States visit, was met by silent protestors objecting to thousands of meditation practitioners being executed every year by the government. He was also glad-handled (and invited to a private dinner in his home) by Bill Gates, who is looking to develop the fabulous Chinese market -- at least he's got the idea to sell something to the Chinese rather than buy it from them.

Whatever may be happening I can't escape the feeling that the world is ice skating along the side of a cliff. Nor the feeling that I can only see a tiny piece of reality, made just a shade more vivid by astrology.