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Dutch Referendum: The Rebellion Against Institutions




Today's Dutch referendum on the EU's expansionist agreement with Ukraine really is the people's referendum. It wasn't triggered by politicians or political parties, but by a determined group of well-organised, highly-motivated individuals. GeenPeil, a project stemming from the popular Dutch blog GeenStijl, collected some 420,000 signed, verified, signatures triggering this referendum. It is an extraordinary achievement that highlights how western democracy is evolving.
The era of top-down political operations is ending. Mass membership, open, accessible political movements are the future. Membership structures that are low-cost but allow involvement for those wishing to participate from the comfort of their own homes is where politics is headed, engaging an entirely new section of the population who have been left behind by the distant, remote current political structures.  April 6





A chart for the April 7 New Moon at Amsterdam brings the Uranus-Pluto square into prominence by conjoining Uranus and aligning the square with the meridian axis.

The following extract from Bill Herbst’s s essay Uranus-Pluto: The Rebellion Against Institutions, explains what we are seeing in the Dutch referendum.

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”  Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson wasn’t suggesting the wholesale overthrow of governments or violent  descent into social chaos. He was pointing out that, without some rebellion every so often, politics will inevitably become sclerotic and cease to perform its intended function of serving the wants and needs of the entire society. The symbolic meaning of Uranus in Aries first-quarter square to Pluto in Capricorn — the ongoing and preeminent astrological event of this decade — is to make that necessity a reality. The alignment indicates a breakdown in our largest institutions (Capricorn) that starts from within the institutions themselves as an egregious overplaying of their power in ways that are clearly self-serving rather than for the greater good (Pluto), which is then furthered by an unexpected rebellion (Uranus) against institutional malfeasance, a seemingly spontaneous insurrection that occurs from the ground level up, fomented by individuals (Aries) who stand up in protest against the oppressive influence of such institutions. http://www.billherbst.com/Comm14.pdf

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