Economic outlook for 2009/10
I haven't had time to add any posts for ages, for which my apologies. It's rather late to say this, but I just wanted to put on record a few of the thoughts I have been sharing with astrological friends for the past five or six years.
Having predicted the current recession (to the month) years ago (and advised clients in advance), I thought I would say that the economic outlook remains troubled until next summer (2010), when we emerge from the current theme of Saturn-Uranus oppositions (the first was on the day of the US election last November), the ingress of Pluto into Capricorn (which was long predicted as heralding the need for global economic restructuring, and restructuring of the institutions that underpin society such as banks, politics and government), and also the Saturn/Neptune oppositions of 2006/7, which saw a loss of economic confidence and flooding in the UK.
We are just entering a difficult square between Saturn and Pluto, which really kicks in in early November once Saturn has left Virgo, where it has been since autumn 2007. Having had a summer during which Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron have been closely conjunct for around three months, and which have brought a flu pandemic and perhaps a false sense of economic recovery (Jupiter rules optimism, Neptune illusion), the tone is set to change quite dramatically, with the possibility of clashes between governmental or institutional power (Pluto in Capricorn) and the people (Saturn in Libra). In real terms, the consequences of the recession, i.e. unemployment, debt repayment will begin to become starkly apparent.
It is likely to be a tough period, as we have a rare outer-planet t-square between Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. Next summer however, during the final of 5 Saturn-Uranus oppositions, Jupiter simultaneously conjuncts Uranus at 0 degrees Aries, which is very much like the resetting of a clock, or a fresh start. There will be a great deal of upheaval however, as Uranus will have moved into Aries, bringing revolution and the desire for individual freedom from state and corporate control.
Having predicted the current recession (to the month) years ago (and advised clients in advance), I thought I would say that the economic outlook remains troubled until next summer (2010), when we emerge from the current theme of Saturn-Uranus oppositions (the first was on the day of the US election last November), the ingress of Pluto into Capricorn (which was long predicted as heralding the need for global economic restructuring, and restructuring of the institutions that underpin society such as banks, politics and government), and also the Saturn/Neptune oppositions of 2006/7, which saw a loss of economic confidence and flooding in the UK.
We are just entering a difficult square between Saturn and Pluto, which really kicks in in early November once Saturn has left Virgo, where it has been since autumn 2007. Having had a summer during which Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron have been closely conjunct for around three months, and which have brought a flu pandemic and perhaps a false sense of economic recovery (Jupiter rules optimism, Neptune illusion), the tone is set to change quite dramatically, with the possibility of clashes between governmental or institutional power (Pluto in Capricorn) and the people (Saturn in Libra). In real terms, the consequences of the recession, i.e. unemployment, debt repayment will begin to become starkly apparent.
It is likely to be a tough period, as we have a rare outer-planet t-square between Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. Next summer however, during the final of 5 Saturn-Uranus oppositions, Jupiter simultaneously conjuncts Uranus at 0 degrees Aries, which is very much like the resetting of a clock, or a fresh start. There will be a great deal of upheaval however, as Uranus will have moved into Aries, bringing revolution and the desire for individual freedom from state and corporate control.
