Foreign
Secretary Boris Johnson is to visit Moscow in coming weeks, the Foreign Office
has announced.
His
meetings will focus on the relationship between the UK and Russia, as well as
issues involving Syria and Ukraine "where we continue to have significant
differences", it said. The Foreign Office said the UK "will engage
with Russia where it is in our national interest to do so". March 4; http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39165373
This is an enormous foreign policy U-turn, one of the most
definitive by any UK government in many years. The point is that there has been
no face-to-face contact at this level since 2012 and that Johnson is going
there; Sergei Lavrov, his opposite number, is not coming to London. The
precedence is clear. It is the UK that has altered its position, not Russia. It
is, therefore, a move in the right
direction that could play a small part in the making of a better world.
Shown here is the chart for the current solar eclipse of
Feb. 26 drawn for London. This South
Node Solar Eclipse and the current lunar cycle, creates a powerful force to let
go of constructs in our lives that no longer provide room for growth, movement
and expansion. In other words, we have grown as far as the limits imposed by
those constructs have permitted. It is now time to either begin to change those
constructs so they can allow a greater level of growth, expansion and
fulfillment, or to dismantle those constructs all together.
Notice that the eclipse is placed in the 8th
house and anchored to the Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto T-square on the meridian. In the
8th house we accept the loss of elements of life that are no longer
fruitful or have served their purpose. It is often referred to as a house of inner transformation and growth.
But it is only by facing our innermost fears are we able to overcome them and
move on with the strength of experience and wisdom.
Eclipses tend to bring about endings and new beginnings.
They offer us an opportunity to leave
behind old behaviors and belief systems. The eclipse is conjunct stars in the
waters flowing from the Urn of Aquarius. Here the great Urn of Aquarius, with
its eternally-flowing, all-forgiving waters of heaven, purifies and heals. Moreover,
the Jupiter-Pluto-Uranus T-square promises a change in the old order if we are willing
to meet others half-way (Jupiter in Libra).
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