Getting a bit more into detail of the Great Conjunction for Great Britain, one question that clearly comes up is the question of the succession of the Queen. Queen Elizabeth II. has served her country and many Commonwealth countries as one of the longest monarchs ever. She is just about two years away from being the longest reigning monarch. Seven decades of being the Head of State Queen Elizabeth II. certainly has made it difficult to find anybody out there that still remembers her father as King. Her dynasty goes back to the year of 827 and without being a historian I believe I can say it is most likely the longest dynasty ever reigning a country or for that matter in its later part most of the world. Clearly, Great Britain’s fortunes of the past have a strong connection to the political influence and power of the House of Windsor. It is hard to imagine much of the last century without the presence of THE QUEEN. Statesmen as well as entertainers …
Great Conjunction 2020 – “Advance Australia fair …”
Lately, quite concerning news is coming from the land down under. Not that the northern hemisphere is short of stories of the same development, but it’s almost as though that in the land of Emus and Kangaroos things are seemingly getting out of hand. Dragonian Covid measures have apparently transformed the country into a place where it is not uncommon to see tanks and military enforcing Covid curfews – the curfew has been expanded to a national curfew prohibiting travel in and out of Australia and as an Australian you can not even return home. Meanwhile, protests have turned violent and as countermeasures the government has introduced laws that clearly have more the signature of a totalitarian system rather than an open (minded) democratic, free moving society. Not helping the situation were comments made by the New South Wales chief medical officer, Dr. Kerry Grant, calling the measures a “New World Order” …