While South Carolina Governor Sanford was accused of using taxpayer money to fund his trips to Argentina to see his lover, MP David Tredennick received payments for several hundred dollars worth of astrology software and lessons.
"He said that after his studies, he was inclined to believe there was some truth in the astrology and the influence of the planets on the earth and said the payments had been approved in advance by the Commons' Fees Office."
Wouldn't it be great if more politicians got into this kind of trouble!
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We'll get this down yet, Lynn.
The quote is your last sentence followed by a :) in you post on June 30th at 8:43 AM.
Hope that settles it... :-) .
My point was only that if politicians are going to use taxpayer money for things outside of their immediate job description I would rather see a few hundred pounds used for the study of astrology than thousands of pounds or dollars for prostitutes. :)
Astrology is ruled by Aquarius, which means it is at once Uranian and Saturnian. I have Saturn square to Uranus in my chart and I can tell you it's a difficult combination to balance!
Lynn...whatever it is that's glitchy via this Firefox (including me at this point in time), am going to chance another post...
...your comment above...I can see even your 1st para. above (July 2nd, 8:50 AM) carries your "Saturn square to Uranus," which, if astrology is "at once Uranian and Saturnian" and you being an astrologer, must be a signature aspect of yours...re. which aspect I can empathize with on its difficulty, even though I don't have it myself.
As for astrology being ruled by Aquarius, I recall Robert Hand (whom I much respect) mentioning the Uranian element. I lean more toward Sagittarius as the basic sign, as astrology fundamentally is metaphysics -- [search for] higher knowledge re. man and the cosmos -- and therefore feel belongs, as a 'study / learning,' in the 9th (yes, I did forget Jupiter in my 4:59 AM post above). But the practice of astrology can certainly be Aquarian, because we are disseminating its wisdom for the benefit of others / mankind.
Btw, Lynn...have you looked at the Sabian symbol of your Uranus-Saturn midpoint from a Chironian perspective ???
Interesting post. I don't think this got a lot of publicity elsewhere.
A week ago, the very well known TV future teller, Chandrasiris Bandara, was arrested by Colombo City sri lankan Police because he predicted the President of the Nation would be removed from office in Sri Lanka.
Without giving details of statements in his e-mail sent to srilakan Government, the argentinian horoscope man told "I am trying my best for Chandrasiris to get freedeom". He also added in his site, wwww.zodiacguille.com, two URLs, one corresponding to Mr. Bandara and, of course, the other: Sri Lanka President´s official web.
"Up to now, I couldn´t log in Chandrasiris´blog; it seems "stars" aren´t helping..." he joked. "but President´s site is quite interesting and easy to contact with His Excellency ..."
Many astrologers all over the world are on "esoteric" expectation about the Sri Lankan Government decision. To finish, Don Zodiac Guille said: "I would respectfully like to have a look on the Mundane Astral Chart already built by Mr. BANDARA because the Police want a logical explanation about those political predictions on President Mahinda Rajipaksa´s destitution".
Don Zodiac Guille ended saying :"Astrology is a millenary social practice...so we have to moderate our concepts when a Country Chart is going to be published specially if the land situation is difficult"
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