Predictions on the Scottish Referendum-Article Links

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I am pulling together a few articles which have predicted the outcome of the Scottish referendum. Its interesting to see different ways people reach their conclusions. So far the majority seem to indicate a no result in the referendum. From the point of astrological balance we could use some predictions of a Yes win. I have read Martin Davies suggest he thought a Yes more likely but I haven't seen anything in depth from him.

Predictions of a likely No vote:

1. First up (of course!) my article: Scotland: Independence or Union? Mark Cullen

http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8435

At the risk of sounding immodest I do think this is the most substantive piece on this subject you will find anywhere. I also put out my prediction of a fairly close result, months ago, when the no vote had a commanding lead.

2. An article by the mundane astrologer Barry Goddard that appeared a couple of days ago from his blog entitled Astrotabletalk

http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... dence.html

3. A short piece by the traditional/renaissance influenced astrologer Peter Stockinger from his blog entitled: Scottish Independence Referendum: will they go? The piece came out a couple of days ago.

http://starsandstones.wordpress.com/201 ... l-they-go/

4. A piece by an American astrologer, Raphael Simons with the subject approached through analysis of a horary question:

http://raphael-astroblog.blogspot.co.uk ... om-uk.html

5. A piece put out recently by a Polish astrologer (In Polish) Wojtek Suchomski.

http://www.astrobiznes.pl/a/blog/czy-sz ... panstwem/0

He summarises his analysis in English on Peter Stockinger blog by stating: ''Hello, I have recently done my astro-analysis and the link to article in Polish. My forecast is the same: Scotland will remain the part of the United Kingdom.''

6. Vedic astrology the astrologer Christopher Kevill also seems to incline to a likely no result:

http://www.modernvedicastrology.com/sco ... ptember-15

Unclear?

7. The Oxford Astrologer

http://www.oxfordastrologer.com/2014/09 ... -vows.html

This astrologer rather hedges her bets so its not clear what she thinks will happen.

No Specific Prediction

8. Anne Whitaker Uranus, Pluto, and Scottish Independence

http://astrologyquestionsandanswers.com ... eferendum/

To be fair Anne is working from a psychological perspective and doesn't attempt a head on specific prediction on the referendum.

She states:
Which way will it go on the 18th of September? Astrology has its range of successes and failures to show, as have other practitioners of the predictive arts eg physicists, economists and weather forecasters ? remember the failure to predict the Great Storm of 1987? We do much better at describing the essence of a pattern, but identifying the exact branches is much more hit and miss. Personally this cheers me, since it appears to suggest a creative balance between fate and free will in the universe.
As thou conversest with the heavens, so instruct and inform thy minde according to the image of Divinity William Lilly

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Congratulations Mark, on your astrological analysis. Yes, I think you are correct in saying that you took a particular interest in this matter some time ago and gave it a great deal of your time and called it correctly. Thanks for posting everything here.

I have some astrology friends who sincerely hoped for independence, so I feel sympathy that they didn't get the result they'd hoped for. It is clear the matter leaves people feeling very divided, so it seems to be far from settled.

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Deb wrote:
Congratulations Mark, on your astrological analysis. Yes, I think you are correct in saying that you took a particular interest in this matter some time ago and gave it a great deal of your time and called it correctly. Thanks for posting everything here.
Thanks Deb. Yes I have been working on this topic for some years really. I also gave talks on this across Scotland and at the AA Conference and the Astrological Lodge in London. So if I had got the astrology wrong here it would have been very embarrasing! We are lucky in Scotland to always have accurate natal data of politicians born here.
Deb wrote:
I have some astrology friends who sincerely hoped for independence, so I feel sympathy that they didn't get the result they'd hoped for.
You can add me to that list! While I wasn't expecting it I was hoping on some level I had messed up somewhere! I suppose this underlines how important it is to try to stay detached from our personal political beliefs in mundane astrology.

Deb wrote:
It is clear the matter leaves people feeling very divided, so it seems to be far from settled.
Its not. I can only reply with some comments I made to Andrew on another thread:
Well its certainly settled for at least a decade. Its clearly in the interests of the UK government to describe this result as ?decisive?. However, its considerably closer than the polls indicated at the start of the campaigns which indicated a 70/30 split. It would only have taken just over a 5% swing of the electorate to yes to have produced a yes vote. So ?close? or ?decisive? is a really matter of perception and political outlook. Unionists want to see this issue as buried for good while many gradualist supporters of independence see this referendum as at worst a bump in the road or even a step forward in a historical process towards independence.

Alex Salmond has talked of no subsequent referendum for another generation and Cameron seized on this to add ?a generation or perhaps a lifetime?. However, Salmond clearly never implied a timescale lasting that long. Salmond has explained several times by what he meant by using the the example of the Scottish referendums in 1979 and 1997. Of course Salmond is stepping down as First Minister and SNP leader and it will be up to his likely successor Nicola Sturgeon to decide whether to make Scottish maximised ?Home rule? the political strategy for the next decade or so.

Both the SNP and Scottish Greens have had a massive surge of new memberships since this result on Friday.

One factor that fits a longer term independence strategy is that a majority of voters under 55 voted yes. It was the older demographic that frequently still identifies as British that voted overwhelmingly no.
And we now have the fascinating new constitutional dimension of the 'English question'. I hope to write about that on the forum.

Mark
As thou conversest with the heavens, so instruct and inform thy minde according to the image of Divinity William Lilly