The UK’s much troubled Child Abuse Inquiry has claimed another scalp with the THIRD chairman resigning. Butler-Sloss and Woolf went after publicity about their establishment links, and the NZ Judge Lowell Goddard has now baled after a Times story about her three month absence in the past year on a £500k a year salary.
Part of the problem (astrologically speaking) is it was first announced – 7 July 2014 circa 4.40pm London – on a Cardinal Grand Cross of Cancer Sun opposition Pluto square Mars opposition Uranus – and that was guaranteed to be followed by rolling crises. Grand Crosses tend to involve firefighting in four different directions at once and that’s without throwing disruptive Uranus and impulsive, argumentative Mars and Pluto into the mix.
It finally got under way on 9 July 2015 at 10am which wasn’t much better on the astrology with a Sun Mars opposition Pluto square North Node and square Uranus Moon in Aries. All of those planets continue to shift by Solar Arc and transit to close to exact aspects over the next three years so it will continue to rock n’ roll its way along – completely stuck at points and turned upside down at others.
Part of the problem may be the extreme resistance in the UK chart to any unearthing of murky secrets. The deeply buried Mars in Taurus in the 8th is tied into a Fixed T Square, opposition Neptune square Venus (in the 5th house of children) with Venus in another Fixed T Square opposition Saturn square Neptune.
When child abuse started to emerge in the 1980s tr Pluto in Scorpio was opposition that Mars; and in this last round of post-Savile horrors tr Pluto in Capricorn was trine the UK Mars. That has now passed on, but there is all manner of activity around the UK Mars now and in the coming years. Solar Arc Sun square Mars, exact in 2 months; Solar Arc MC square Mars just after mid 2017. Tr Uranus then moves into the UK 8th, shining a light on hidden places from 2020 for 7 years, along the way crossing the conjunction to Mars in 2021; and Solar Arc Uranus is conjunct Mars in 2024.
So whether this Inquiry collapses altogether or not – though it’s difficult to see how it could disappear – there will be continual eruptions well into next decade.