The first set of predictions surround the full moon on 4th June.  Apparently this is a powerful and lively alignment and raises significant questions regarding freedom and the balance between rights and responsibilities.  The actual details are thus:

  • Education will be the priority and there will be initiatives to encourage sport in schools.
  • There will also be concern about violence in schools and precautions should be taken to guard against a high risk of a high-profile stabbing or shooting.
  • West African states seem intent on damaging their own best interests.

Let us see how that panned out:

  • Education will be the priority and there will be initiatives to encourage sport in schools – Not only is the news dominated by the Jubilee but it is a Bank Holiday and half term so political statements about education (about anything really) are muted to non-existent.
  • There will also be concern about violence in schools and precautions should be taken to guard against a high risk of a high-profile stabbing or shooting – Again, as mentioned above, it is half-term so children are on a break from school. There has been no high profile stabbing or shooting at a school or elsewhere.
  • West African states seem intent on damaging their own best interests – Again, nothing of note except the tragic accident in Lagos, Nigeria where a MacDonnell-Douglas MD-83 aircraft crashed into a crowded residential area killing all aboard.  However this accident can not be deemed an answer to the stated prediction for there is nothing but sympathy for Nigeria and the Nigerian people regarding this terrible event.

To be honest from a UK perspective nothing was happening in the world except the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.  All the media was dominated by it and for once politics was taking very much a back seat, so perhaps the seeds of some of these stories were beginning to grow but were blocked from the light but the dominant news story of the last week.

Interestingly there was a transit of Venus (across the Sun) 5th/6th June 2012 the last one for 105 years and so (unless I break the current longevity record) will be the last one that I will see.

But once again, if you think that I have misrepresented the news and/or been unfair to Old Moore feel free to comment.