30 Horoscope Guide
by Kenneth Irving
L
ike economists and political pundits,
astrologers are prone to predict. In
doing so they are various degrees
of right and wrong, but all three groups
have different rules by which they measure
whether they are on-track or off-track in the
judgments they make. Politicos have it easy,
as the winners and losers whose electoral
fate they predict generally either win or lose,
minus exceptions such as a candidate dying or
the rare draw where the victor is chosen with
a coin toss. Economists have it easy as well,
though for different reasons, as the average
person (and even some less-than-average
Presidents as well) finds it difficult to relate
their graphs and numbers to the fact that the
can of peas they just bought in the grocery
store is half the size and twice the price it was
a month ago.
Astrologers face a similar problem with
people understanding the language they speak,
yet despite that, when it comes to prediction
we do at least deal with dates or, more
correctly, central dates. By this term I mean
that exact dates are mainly relevant when we
are predicting about something that we already
know is scheduled to happen on a fixed date,
such as an election or a sports contest. On the
other hand, useful and meaningful predictionsabout what might happen in a given period of
time must address interactions among multiple
individuals or groups of people engaged in
a process such as, for example, deciding
whether or not to leave the European Union.
I bring this up because of a real case
I noticed that seems to tie in with a
passage in the May “Tomorrow’s News”
column. It involves the May 24 resignation
announcement of former UK Prime Minister
Theresa May, setting her promised (and
essentially forced) resignation date as June- In the May installment of that column, the
writer said this: “...Separately from Saturn and
Pluto, we should keep our eyes on three solid
aspects that tend to affect people in positions
of power: Mercury conjunct Uranus on the
8th, Venus conjunct Uranus on the 18th, and
Sun conjunct Mercury on the 21st. The first
brings on notable gaffes that can cause angry
public reactions; the second is rebellious and
possibly even revolutionary; and the third can
presage a power grab of the legal sort....”
Consider the above alongside a brief
(and abridged) note below from a May 24
Reuters timeline of key dates relevant to
Theresa May’s effort to get a positive vote
on her “Brexit” proposal from Parliament
(“Theresa May - three tumultuous Downing