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Nikola Stojanovic’s degree theory 

— you can learn more about his theory here and here. he was the maker of this theory, i’m simply passing the knowledge i’ve researched on him in a more simplified way!!! trigger warning for mentions of death and violence for the 11º, the 15º, the 18º and the 22º degrees 

according to nikola’s research, each degree is connected to the sign it rules: 

aries degrees — 1º, 13º, 25º - taking action, fighting spirit, not giving oneself up to fate, struggle, war, can indicate abuse, labor, diligence, leadership, beginnings, etc

taurus degrees — 2º, 14º, 26º - money, food, the earth, stability, luxuries, voice, singing, etc

gemini degrees — 3º, 15º, 27º - communication, gadgets like televisions or phones, self-expression, books, siblings, neighbourhood, etc

cancer degrees — 4º, 16º, 28º - home, nurture, traditions, loyalty, faith, mother, water, etc

leo degrees — 5º, 17º, 29º - attention, life, fame, light, children, creativity, self-expression, monarchs, entertainment, strength, hair, etc

virgo degrees — 6º, 18º - to diminish, to make smaller, improvement, health, work, routine, pets, to be of service, etc

libra degrees — 7º, 19º - fairness, law, business, partnerships, fashion, beauty, charm, luxury items, music, art, etc

scorpio degrees — 8º, 20º - the 8º specifically is connected to death, wealth, to take from others, manifestation, secrets, insurance, sex, jealousy, pregnancy, etc

sagittarius degrees — 9º, 21º - abundance, expansion, wisdom, college, travelling, to explore, etc

capricorn degrees — 10º, 22º - to take control, public attention, coldness, fear, depression, rationality, ambition, father, etc

aquarius degrees — 11º, 23º - divorce, surprises, high places, high tech, new technology, humanitarianism, organizations, friends, networking, etc

pisces degrees — 12º, 24º - sleeping, drugs, alcohol, lethargy, the unconcious + our psyche, emotional dejections, feet, madness, shadows, unclear, endings, etc

0º represents the basic characteristic of the sign - it acts in its purest form. for example, if you have the 0º in aries sun, aries here acts in its most potent, pure way. 

that way, if you, for example, have your ascendant in pisces at the 13º, you’ll express aries characteristics + all that is connected to taking action, to fight. now, knowing this, this theory can manifest itself in different ways. 

i’m going to give an example that he talked about in his website that i found simple to understand yet powerful. when nikola was discussing with another astrologer, he wanted to talk about his degree theory, so he took a look at the birth chart of the wife of the other astrologer, and after a minute of analyzing it, he said as follows: “Your wife called a carpenter to the house and ordered a larger bed to be made. When the carpenter had finished the job, you went to bed and realized that the work was not properly done. One measure was right – the bed was long enough - but the other one wasn't – the bed wasn't wide enough, it was still narrow”. the look the other astrologer gave him told him that his brief analysis was absolutely correct.

his reasoning behind it was that the wife’s 12th house (which rules sleeping, beds, bedrooms) cusp began at the 21º of aries, and the ruler of that house, mars, was at the 6º in virgo. aries simbolizes to create and the 21º, a sagittarius degree, simbolizes to enlarge. so, his wife wanted to create (aries) a larger (sagittarius/jupiter) bed (the 12th house). because mars, the ruler of the 12th house, was placed in virgo (someone who renders services, a worker), she called the carpenter to the house. her mars was, however, in virgo at the 6º which is a virgo degree (virgo simbolizes diminishing, making smaller), which meant the measure of the bed had to be smaller than needed. therefore, the cusp of the 12th house (the bed) at the 21º (sagittarius - larger, longer) signifies that the bed was both long enough (enlarged), and mars in virgo at a virgo degree (6º) meant that it was not wide enough (it was narrow). nikola established connections between degrees, the signs, the planets and the houses where they fell and the aspects that they made in order to make this kind of predictions. 

he also found a few degrees to be connected to significant things. 

THE 2º DEGREE - SUPREME POWER 

nikola, through the research of the birth charts of many people throughout history, observed how those who contained planets, houses and aspects (+lunar nodes, arabic parts, vertex and of course, the four cardinal points: the IC, MC, AC and DC) in the 2º degree were those who made remarkable achievements, who wielded extreme power and were highly respected. he got to this conclusion by analyzing the birth chart of queen victoria - other rulers at the time had more powerful aspects than she did, but allas, they weren’t the ones to almost rule the entire world - it was her, so he began noticing the pattern between power and the 2º. literal jesus himself had his mercury in pisces in the 2º. i myself have four degrees at 2º, so it’s nice to know my dreams of starting a revolution, overthrowing the government and achieving world domination are supported by the astros

THE 5º DEGREE - EROTICISM 

this degree is connected to beauty, desire, sex appeal, receiving sexual attention. many sex icons like marilyn monroe, jean harlow and mata hari had it present in their birth chart. nikola talks about this being the best degree in his eyes. considering that it’s a leo degree, it’s all about living, having fun and enjoying life. 

THE 11º DEGREE - DIVORCE / SUICIDE 

both the 11º and 23º degrees of aquarius indicate divorce, but, according to nikola, the 11º is connected to suicide.

THE 15º DEGREE - CAR ACCIDENTS 

this degree, when connected to scorpio + the 8th house, can indicate car accidents.  

THE 18º DEGREE - PURE EVIL 

simbolizes a bad destiny. to nikola, this is the worst degree you can have. it can indicate rare deseases, tragic accidents. he says there’s no good about this degree but i absolutely disagree. not to be a hopeless optimist or to pretend to possess half the knowledge that he does but i think it’s pretentious to assume that a degree is literally all bad and that there’s nothing we can do about it — that takes away from our free will and our inner strength. Many, many people have this degree present in their charts (i believe nikola had it himself), it’s all about facing hardships but, well, that’s life.

THE 22º DEGREE - TO KILL OR BE KILLED 

nikola has found this degree in the birth charts of murderers + people that were murdered. his significance of “to kill or be killed” is quite literal. now, i want to remind you that this is the worst case scenario and that this degree can manifest itself in many diferent ways - just like the 18º and the 8º. the death can be figurative. for example, donald trump’s chart: he has his sun in 22º, and his mercury in 8º - and I’m afraid he’s quite alive at his old age and kicking it, even if he’s suffered a public destruction. @saintzjenx in her degree theory post talked about how this placement can also indicate abandonment. i agree, i have my sun at 22º in the 10th house (the house of the father) and my father was very emotionally absent + physically as well (his work has him working at other cities during the entire week) 

THE 29º DEGREE - CLAIRVOYANCE/PROGNOSTICISM 

the 29º indicates someone with clairvoyant potential, someone who makes accurate predictions, with great intuition. it’s to note that nikola himself had a 29º in his chart, and that he became known for the predictions he made using the degree theory (for example, he predicted that america would have its first black president ten years before barack obama was elected). but he does like to say that he has absolutely no intuition, though - what prompted him to study the degrees was his virgo rising, acording to him, his need to study and put his brain to work. still, he observed how many clairvoyants had this degree. other astrologers talk about this being a degree that means destruction (and when you analyze trump’s birth chart and how he has his ascendant and his 11th house at the 29º, you can very much argue about the truth behind that theory) but all in all, nikola talks about this degree as benefic. 

in case you’re feeling bad, remember i have the to kill or be killed 22º, plus the 8º of death, plus the 11º of suicide, plus the 23º of divorce, plus two of the 18º of pure evil! let’s suffer together besties. on the upside i have four of the 2º so we riding to eternal glory! 

but now seriously, i know some of this is very hard bc obviously life isn’t all fun and games but. remember that we all have free will, life isn’t determined and having a lot of these in your chart doesn’t mean impending doom!! i have them and i’m very much kicking it and i’m not intending to stop. it’s all about acceptance, learning how to work with even the worst degrees in order to make the best out of them. plus, the degrees can manifest themselves in a lot of different ways and a lot more matters than just them being present - like the signs that they’re in, the aspects with which they make and how harsh they are, the house where they fall etc etc. 

please do take your time to read through his website + to watch the interviews nikola did on youtube!! he was an amazing astrologer whose theory greatly impacted the way astrology is studied today. he’s fun to learn from, too, which is a plus

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People needing addiction services feeling 'abandoned' during pandemic

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People needing addiction services feeling 'abandoned' during pandemic

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s former provincial health officer says he has “grave concerns” about reduced services because of COVID-19 for people struggling with drug addiction, while the manager of a supervised consumption site in Toronto says people are feeling abandoned.

Dr. Perry Kendall declared an ongoing public health emergency in B.C. four years ago as the province led the country with a record number of overdose deaths fuelled by the opioid fentanyl.

Services were ramped up through more overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites in B.C. as was distribution of take-home kits of naloxone, a medication used to reverse overdoses.

“We were making steps and strides in addressing stigma and creating access to a continuum of care, from harm reduction to medication assistance or to recovery, if that was your goal,” said Kendall, who is co-interim executive director of the BC Centre on Substance Use.

He said widespread job losses and more homelessness due to physical distancing at shelters have created even greater challenges for those battling substance use.

“Hopefully we’ll have the courage and the political will and the money to try and address it when we come through the other side of this. There are very, very, very vulnerable people out there and stigma is still raging.”

Kendall said recent amendments to the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act were a positive move for illicit drug users as doctors can now prescribe a broader range of safer substances, such as stimulants, benzodiazepines and hydromorphone, for those with an addiction to opioids.

However, there aren’t enough prescribers despite a BC Centre on Substance Use program that has offered online training since 2017 in addiction medicine, nor adequate linkages to care, he said.

The province is trying to increase access to addiction care through a phone line of experts, including doctors, nurses and pharmacists.

“We’re working now to set that up as quickly as we can because of this double challenge of the COVID pandemic on top of the opioid overdose epidemic,” said Kendall, who recently returned from retirement to serve on a COVID-19 advisory committee to the provincial health officer.

Jen Ko, program manager of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre in Toronto, said some of the nine overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites in the city have seen their hours cut, including one run by Toronto Public Health after an outbreak of COVID-19 among staff in late March.

“Folks are really isolated, really abandoned,” Ko said, adding that drop-in and meal programs have been suspended for the most vulnerable people, who can no longer make their usual social connection with employees wearing personal protective equipment.

“A lot of the things that people come to the service for are the human services, the connection to the staff, the conversation and support but being in PPE (means) nobody can tell who is who.”

Dr. Rita Shahin, associate medical health officer for Toronto Public Health, said one supervised injection site was closed temporarily on March 18 because of lineups and large groups gathered outside the building.

She said in an email the number of booths where drug users inject their own substances has also been reduced to two from six to maintain physical distancing.

There have also been cases of COVID-19 among staff, including those at the site, Shahin said.

Toronto had its highest number of overdose fatalities in a year last month, when 19 people died, she said.

“We want to encourage people not to use drugs alone, have a naloxone kit on hand and use a supervised consumption service if possible.”

Dr. Mark Lysyshyn, deputy chief medical health officer for the Vancouver Coastal Health authority, said some overdose prevention sites were temporarily closed due to concerns over physical distancing. But others, including the supervised injection facility Insite, continued operating as essential services that don’t require such measures.

Lysyshyn is concerned that visits to the sites have dropped by half in recent weeks.

“Some of this was because we had those temporary closures but it could also be that people are afraid to come to them because they’re worried that they will be exposed to COVID, so the alternative is to use drugs alone, which we know is a super dangerous activity.”

Vancouver police responded to eight suspected overdose deaths in a one-week period last month, the highest number since August after a decline in fatalities over the past year, the city said.

Lysyshyn said access to illicit drugs has been more difficult for users with the Canada-U.S. border closed to non-essential travel, but the new prescribing guidelines have been positive.

“We may see that has helped people and that will move ahead the safe supply programs that were being proposed before the pandemic.”

Kirsten Duncan, a social worker in addiction medicine in acute care at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, said the resources discharged patients were referred to have mostly shut down though some have been offering online support.

“But the population we quite often deal with is street entrenched and quite often doesn’t have access to telephones and doesn’t have access to computers,” she said.

“These groups that have huge histories with trauma already, let alone the trauma of the fentanyl crisis, I can’t imagine what another crisis on top of things will do.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 9, 2020.

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THE GREAT OCTOBER SOCIALIST REVOLUTION & ITS IMPACT ON BC LABOUR

George Gidora | Delivered at the Pacific North-West Labour History Conference | May 2017

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The example of the Russian Revolution captured the imagination of BC workers and demonstrated it was possible for workers to seize state power and build a socialist economy and society, ending exploitation.

British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest are well known for their long history of labour militancy going back to the late 1800s. In Vancouver even before the city’s Charter was granted in 1886, workers were already organized by the Knights of Labour, who were early champions of the industrial form of unionism embracing all workers, skilled and unskilled. They based their organizational principles and labour philosophy on Robert Owen’s Grand National Consolidated Union in England. Although it was primarily for workers, its rules opened membership to anyone over the age of 18 years “who worked or had at any time worked for wages”, except “individuals who made a living manufacturing, selling or handling intoxicating liquor”. Doctors, lawyers and bankers were also barred.  The leadership was opposed to strikes, but the militancy of the membership usually resulted in their being a leading force in most of the great militant strikes of that period, with the exception of the battle for the eight-hour workday, although they did play a major part in that struggle as well. Samuel Gompers described them as “undertaking to wipe out the lines of industry and make one whole organization of all classes of labour.”

The craft unions were not much in existence out on the west coast at that time. There was a printers’ union and a shipwrights’ and caulkers’ union, both of them in Victoria.

The Knights of Labour played a pivotal role in many political and social battles in the early 1900s, organizing emergency relief wherever communities were faced with disaster, such as when the Great Vancouver Fire was started by the CPR slash fires in the bush. The Knights of Labour were instrumental also in defeating wealthy business representatives in many local elections. They campaigned for funds to provide relief for workers involved in labour battles all around North America and internationally.

They were directly involved in electoral politics, fielding a candidate for the commons from a workers party, the Reform Party in New Westminster. In Victoria and Nanaimo they ran candidates under the Workingman’s Party banner. These were the very first labour candidates in the west.

“At the beginning of the 1900s there were 160 trades locals in BC, and in Vancouver there was nearly a 100% organization of skilled workers.”

The unfortunate bad mark on their history was their decidedly racist attitude towards Chinese labour. They played a major role in institutionalizing the racist two-tiered wage system for the Chinese which lasted for decades. They even initiated blacklists of businesses that employed Chinese and called for boycotts.

The craft union movement started making major progress in British Columbia around 1880-90. Almost all existing trades were represented by 1889, when the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council was organized. The influence of the Knights of Labour began to decline as the Trades and Labour Council became the direct connection to the main current of labour activism in Canada. There were numerous battles at this time relating to winning the nine-hour workday and the eight-hour workday. These struggles were led by the craft unions for the benefit of their members. As the Knights of Labour receded into the background, so did efforts to organize unskilled workers. The major influence now became the craft union organizations, represented in Canada by the Dominion Trades Conrgress.

At the beginning of the 1900s there were 160 trades locals in BC, and in Vancouver there was nearly a 100% organization of skilled workers. This was an era of almost continuous labour strikes for wages and better working conditions. Working conditions did gradually get better, but not without struggle, and political action to secure provincial labour legislation, which finally recognized some basic conditions that we take for granted today.

At the same time there was another and growing movement that was clearly socialist in its outlook, the Western Federation of Miners, which rivalled the Trades and Labour Council of Vancouver for leadership of the labour movement in BC and the West. They actually officially adopted as their own the entire program of the Socialist Party of America at their Denver Convention in 1902. There was also a difference of attitude between the Trades and Labour Council of Vancouver, on the one hand, and the Dominion Trades Congress and the American Federation of Labour, on the other. The main difference was the Trades and labour Council’s call for independent labour political action.

During this time there was continuous pressure from outside the organized trade union movement in BC for industrial unionism and political independence from the old line capitalist parties. There was a lot of sympathy for the idea of non-craft “industrial unionism”, and the Trades and Labour Council of Vancouver was among those who were in support of this idea. They passed a resolution instructing their organizational committee to affiliate any new unions organized for which there was no craft union to the American Labour Union.

In 1905 the Industrial Workers of the World made their appearance in BC and right away the Western Federation of Miners and the American Labour Union affiliated to the new group. 1906 saw the first IWW chapter organized in Vancouver. The history of the IWW all over North America, including BC, was one of brave and heroic struggles, with many martyrs to the class struggle. Fighters like Joe Hill, Frank Little, Wesley Everett. Historic labour battles were led and won by the IWW, improving wages and working conditions for many thousands of workers. There are many books written about the IWW and their battles.To recount everything here today would take many, many hours. However, it is worth looking at what ended the influence of the IWW in conjunction with the Russian Revolution, because that event brought to a head the simmering differences that had been debated for many years in the world socialist movement, and workers in BC were not immune to these trends.

“The Vancouver Trades and Labour Congress distributed a number of Lenin’s pamphlets, and many workers proudly proclaimed themselves Bolsheviks.”

The First World War brought to the fore one of the most divisive issues facing the socialists in the Second International, over the question of war and peace. Significant sections of the Second International were prepared to take a nationalist position and support their native capitalists and imperialists in what was clearly another imperialist war. Many others, true internationalists, quite correctly pointed out that workers would be killing workers and the only winners would be the capitalist system and imperialism. This destroyed the Second International as an effective revolutionary socialist voice. The IWW to its credit was opposed to the War.

Locally, capitalists took full advantage of the war to ship thousands of young workers off to Europe to be slaughtered and used the draft laws to weed out trouble-makers at home, such as Ginger Goodwin. The leaders of the IWW split into two factions over whether to be a political movement or to be simply an economistic “job union”. This battle raged for a number of years, through the end of the war and the Russian Revolution. It was never resolved within the organization and was a factor ending the major influence of the IWW.

Despite a huge anti-war protest in Canada, the official, non-IWW trade union movement made no unpatriotic noises and would not take issue with the War. They neither supported nor opposed it, making no effort to resist the blood-bath that was taking off many of their members. However, in BC the Federation of Labour and the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council called for a general strike when the first draft resisters were arrested, but it never took place, largely owing to a lack of support from the Dominion Trades Congress and therefore the local craft unions. This almost resulted in the BC Federation of Labour and the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council withdrawing from the Dominion Trades Congress. In the West there was a large anti-war resistance among workers, but there was no appetite for resistance on the part of the Dominion Trades Congress and the American Federation of Labor.

However, the Russian Revolution caught the workers’ imagination, as representing a major victory for the working class amid the slaughter and carnage taking place in Europe. The name Lenin became well known to workers in BC. The Vancouver Trades and Labour Congress distributed a number of Lenin’s pamphlets, and many workers proudly proclaimed themselves Bolsheviks.

When the First World War ended, and the imperialists turned their attention to destroying the new Soviet state, the Trades and Labour Council unanimously passed a resolution demanding that Canada’s troops be withdrawn from Russian territory, and all aggression and intervention be stopped. The BC Federation of Labour did the same, but unfortunately no direct action was taken to prevent the shipment of war materials from the west coast to trhe counterrevolutionary forces in Russia, although some individuals refused to handle war cargo, and several longshoremen had unfortunate incidents where artillery parts “accidently” dropped into the water.

There was great enthusiasm for the new Soviet state, and the weakening of the IWW as an organization left the field open for yet another attempt to organize industrial unions, unfortunately from outside the main labour movement. In 1919 the One Big Union (OBU) was formed as a joint project of the BC Federation of Labour and the most progressive elements of the Alberta Federation of Labour. Resolutions passed at the 1919 Calgary conference demonstrated the revolutionary spirit of the founders. Revolutionary greetings were sent to the new Soviet republic and to the Spartacus League of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht in Germany. The conference embraced the slogan of the “dictatorship of the proletariat”. These bold provocative declarations opened the new OBU to wide attacks from the capitalists, who were extremely hostile to anything remotely revolutionary following the Russian Revolution. They were able to make the argument that the OBU was starting a revolution. The Winnipeg General Strike and sympathetic strikes in Vancouver and other Western cities were described as attempts to set up soviets “in our democratic country”. The OBU was doomed before it was born. With then help of all the reactionaries, particularly those in the labour movement, it was utterly broken, and many good militant unionists were once again on the outside of the main labour movement.

The IWW and OBU made the same fundamental mistake, in my opinion. They tried to combine a revolutionary political program with the task of an ordinary trade union, the fight for better wages and working conditions. They tried to be a political party and a trade union all in one package. A union should take in all workers in a given workplace or occupation, regardless of their attitude towards politics. It cannot be a revolutionary party, though it may by majority vote give its active support to particular governmental measures and campaigns, and so help the revolutionaries’ struggle.

“[A union] cannot be a revolutionary party, though it may by majority vote give its active support to particular governmental measures and campaigns, and so help the revolutionaries’ struggle.”

A significant number of trade union activists in BC who were inspired by the Russian Revolution began to take more interest in the revolutionary writings of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and, together with revolutionary- minded members of the Socialist Party of North America and the Socialist Party of Canada, they came together to form the Communist Party of Canada, at first known as the Workers Party of Canada. In Vancouver some of the first members were J. Kavanagh from the OBU, J.M. Clark from the Lumberworkers, Bill Farnham from the Canadian National Union of Ex-servicemen, Bill Bennett from the Socialist Party of Canada and Dick Higgins from the IWW.

The new Party took an active role in promoting the unity of all labour and advocated not only organizing industrial unions, but uniting the entire labour movement, both the craft and industrial unions. They took immediate steps to gather the workers into one organization. Their first action was to invite all trade unions, unemployed organizations and working-class political parties to a conference to discuss the setting up of a labour party that would be all-embracing. These efforts proved unsuccessful, but the idea was correct.

The example of the Russian Revolution demonstrated to many revolutionary-minded activists that it was possible for workers to seize state power and build a socialist economy and society, ending exploitation. This fundamentally changed the outlook of labour activists, who were struggling with the ideas faced by generations before them over what the relationship should be between political action and trade union action. The ideas of anarcho- syndicalism had proven to be untenable, but their organizations had demonstrated the power of organized labour. The ideas coming from the Communist International put forward a more logical approach. The working class must have its own independent organizations to defend wages and working conditions and to represent the interests of workers in government and society. The working class potentially has the power to bring down the capitalist system and put an end to war and poverty forever. There needs to be an all-encompassing revolutionary movement that includes all revolutionary-minded organizations, including those political parties that work for the same goals.

The principles of unity, struggle and peace first put forward by the Workers Party of Canada and later the Communist Party have not changed, although tactics and strategies, alliances and many other conditions constantly change and evolve. But the basic needs and principles involved in building a movement for social change remain the same.

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George Gidora is the British Columbia leader of the Communist Party of Canada.

[Factory workers in Petrograd pose for a photograph after an organizing meeting. | Viktor Bulla (1917) [Public Domain)]

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