REMEMBER REMEMBER (part 2). 

The Sun, and more particularly Saturn in Scorpio have made their presence felt in the UK, mostly on the back of the Jimmy Savile case. What started as a scandal around a dead DJ has enveloped the whole country. Savile (31/10/1926, time unknown) was approaching his third Saturn return (26 degrees Scorpio) before he died last year, and it seems fitting that he has become the catalyst for an expose of sexual abuse. 

There are rumours of many other entertainers, household names of the 1970s and 80s, implicated in similar scandals. A former Tory MP is also alleged to have abused children in care in north Wales. Yet another example of vulnerable youngsters being preyed upon by powerful adults using their status to escape conviction. A picture emerges of a culture of casual sexual exploitation. Saturn is bringing a reaction against these practices, where 'colourful characters' are exposed for what they really are, or were. 

It may be stretching rulerships to say Saturn and Pluto are in mutual reception, but there is an affinity between the planets and signs (all of Saturn's transiting signs over the next decade and beyond, arguably, are given extra significance, as they disposit Pluto in Capricorn). This link has drawn Capricorn politicians into the net, and also large institutions, the BBC and the Crown Prosecution Service (why didn't the CPS act on children's claims of abuse?). The current Mercury retrograde may bring more scandals to light.

The BBC has a couple of charts, first for its founding, and then for the first regular high-definition broadcasts in 1936 (above). The 1927 founding chart has the 1st January degree - 9 Capricorn - presently being approached by Pluto. Many countries and institutions' Suns naturally fall around this day, including the UK, and Pluto will cross it in the coming year. November 1st 2013 to be precise finds Pluto at 9 degrees, in the fourth of seven Uranus-Pluto squares up to 2015. Meanwhile, Saturn in Scorpio transits the BBC's 1936 chart Sun at the same time, so Auntie is getting it coming and going. 

The Corporation's perceived failure to deal with persistent allegations against Jimmy Savile has been described as its biggest-ever crisis. The press - particularly News International - is undoubtedly having a moment of schadenfreude at the Beeb's plight, after its own practices were drawn into the light over phone-hacking. Still, it is a weird feature of the BBC that they are expected to condemn themselves with their own programmes.

Pluto in Capricorn has brought us the first mixed-race US President - newly re-elected - and it is time for Britain to see more ethnic minorities in positions of power. We do not have the same history of virulent racism and segregation as America, but covert racism in Britain is in many ways more insidious. The recent incidents involving footballers Louis Suarez and John Terry are examples where racist language is not only condemned, but is now being hauled before the courts. 

Big things have been predicted for the Uranus-Pluto square and so far we have not been disappointed. The banksters, the Press, MPs expenses (stand up, Dennis MacShane), the possible Disestablishment of the Church, Scottish devolution, we can expect to see a quite different UK by 2015 after the last of the seven era-defining aspects.