{"id":1481,"date":"2009-04-14T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/04\/pirates-the-original-rebels.html"},"modified":"2009-04-14T11:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T11:42:40","slug":"pirates-the-original-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/04\/pirates-the-original-rebels.html","title":{"rendered":"More on Pirates: The Original Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Lynn Hayes<\/p>\n

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In the astrological language, Uranus is the planet of rebellion and revolution against the establishment. \u00a0The more repressive the establishment, the more radical the rebellious behavior becomes. \u00a0Yesterday I wrote<\/a> about modern piracy being signified by the current opposition between Saturn, representing the repressive establishment, and Uranus, the rebel.<\/div>\n
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Johann Hari has an interesting article that has been widely published over the past few days called “You are being lied to about pirates”:<\/div>\n
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Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied – and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively, without torture. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls “one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed “quite clearly – and subversively – that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal Navy.” This is why they were romantic heroes, despite being unproductive thieves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The words of one pirate from that lost age, a young British man called William Scott, should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: “What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirateing to live.” In 1991, the government of Somalia collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since – and the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country’s food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia’s seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish stocks by overexploitation – and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m-worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: “If nothing is done, there soon won’t be much fish left in our coastal waters.”<\/p>\n

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This is the context in which the “pirates” have emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least levy a “tax” on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia – and ordinary Somalis agree. The independent Somalian news site WardheerNews found 70 per cent “strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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read more here..<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This view of pirates is a depiction of Uranian characters who seek social and economic revolution, rather than being motivated through greed. \u00a0When you are starving and desperate, and all around you are wealthy trading vessels, the raiding of those ships becomes a means to feed your family and community rather than an act of terrorism. \u00a0It is said “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” and in the battle between Saturn and Uranus those lines are more clearly drawn.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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