British Colonisation of Australia

There are few charts as fitting for a young nation as this one, my loves, for the British Colonisation of Australia carries an Aquarius Sun rising over an Aquarius horizon: a country born to shine within the collective rather than on a lonely throne. Aquarius is the futurist, the outside-the-box thinker, the one who beats to its own drum, and so this land became a multicultural experiment on the far side of the world, a black sheep among nations that made a virtue of its difference. The First Fleet reached Sydney Cove in 1788 to plant a penal colony, and from that unlikely seed grew self-governing colonies, gold rushes, and finally federation on the first day of 1901. Yet Aquarius loves humanity while it can forget the human, and this founding sits atop the world's oldest living cultures, the Aboriginal peoples who had tended the continent for some sixty thousand years. The Moon in Virgo speaks of a psyche that finds its peace in usefulness, in industry and careful order, in resources drawn from the earth. A chart describes temperament; it never excuses what colonisation cost. This nation's task, then, is Aquarian too: to build something genuinely humane, and to reckon honestly with its beginnings.