Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Monthly Planet”
Sagittarius 2010 This week I attended a lecture about economics – yes, I know – not really my topic – but the author of the book, Interdependent Economy: From Political Economy to Spiritual Economy, Liem Giok In, raised an interesting question. “Why is growth considered a good goal in economics and politics?” From her book:“It seems to be a forgotten …
Scorpio 2010 As I write, we are in the middle of Scorpio 2010 and its themes are very visible in the world. Death is on every news channel – volcanoes and tsunamis in Indonesia, airline crashes and scares, wars. Every day dead soldiers are being returned to their homeland and terrorist acts are causing death. Halloween, which was originally a time …
Libra 2010 … if the world is anything to go by. The UK had to reach compromises in forming a Cabinet. The new Australian leader, Julia Gilliard, needed good negotiation tactics and FINALLY we have a cabinet again here in the Netherlands after the last one fell in February this year. We now have a fellow Aquarian as a Prime …
Leo 2010 I don’t know about you, but there seems to an air of ‘waiting’. Waiting for my beans to ripen, waiting for the plumber to come, waiting for house prices to do something. But what? Waiting to get a government formed (we can now add Australia to the growing list). Desperately waiting to get food and shelter in Pakistan, …
Cancer 2010 Cancer – the sign of the patriot – what better time of year to have a World Cup? But now it’s over, what is everyone doing? Do you miss it? Can’t say I do – it’s wonderfully quiet and I can get on with some work. Although I found the whole phenomenon absolutely fascinating. It highlights the power …
Gemini 2010 It has been a very exciting time here in Holland with the elections resulting in a very close race. We almost had two (there we go with the Gemini theme) equal parties with the highest number of seats. The outcome is a one-seat majority for one of the parties! Negotiations and a lot of talking (Gemini again) will be …