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UN Will Rule on Assange Complaint, Could Order His Release



Julian Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since June 2012 after he secured political asylum from Quito. The U.N. will make an announcement Friday over whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be released from what amounts to detention at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. http://goo.gl/Q5InFg





Mercury Direct began on Monday, January 25, and that “forward” motion freed-up a whole lot of plans and projects that have been on hold since the beginning of the New Year. As Mercury makes its course correction and shifts out of a slo-mo rewind and into a fast-forward pace, it sextiles Mars, squares Uranus and conjuncts Pluto—a complex bundle of astral influences, yet not an impossible bundle if managed wisely. We’ve been under the influence of Mercury/Uranus/Pluto since last week, but this week, Mars joins the team and that makes a big difference in possible manifestations.

A chart drawn for Mercury square Uranus at New York (UN headquarters)  has the Uranus-Mercury-Pluto square straddling the horizon axis. The Uranus-Pluto square represents the archetypal clash: courageous/warrior-like actions of individuals on behalf of the people's liberties (Uranus in Aries) vs. an intensification/consolidation of power by institutional structures facing threats to their authority (Pluto in Capricorn). And as Ralfee Finn in the above reference points out, the arrival of Mars in sextile aspect to Mercury-Pluto provides the energy for new manifestations. In this case, for  the whistleblower, Assange  to win his battle with the US government.

But perhaps more interesting is the Sabian symbol for the Ascendant [17li32] which in our present context is absolutely amazing.

PHASE 198 (Libra 18) TWO MEN UNDER ARREST


If it is to remain steady and consistent, every form of order must be able to protect itself by the application of sanctions. Both a society and personal ego constitute forms of order. Any form of order excludes what the form cannot securely hold. It excludes or exiles, the alien, the unassimilable; if it cannot send them to outer space, it must isolate them in a special type of inner space, a prison. The individual whose actions introduce unacceptable principles into the established order runs the risk of being “punished” or re-formed according to this order. The problem for a society is how to include in its patterns of order agencies or channels for transformation – and particularly how to keep them truly operative; for individuals, it is how to make their transforming vision or impulse acceptable to society. The fact that two men are under arrest suggests a polarization and a purpose transcending a merely personal fit of recklessness.

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