The current international financial problems are related to the Saturn-Neptune opposition that's just passed, and the current Saturn-Uranus opposition. They are not primarily crises of economics, but of the refusal to face reality and the refusal to structure society along equitable and compassionate lines.
The economic crises merely follow those decisions by those in positions of authority to shirk their duty to be caretakers, not controllers, dominators, and exploiters. The economic crises show that the system put in place - the system of inequity - is unworkable and damaging.
What we're just emerging from........
The Saturn-Neptune opposition was with us from September 2005 through to May 2008. It was exact 3 times, between 18 degrees of Leo-Aquarius and 22 degrees of Leo-Aquarius.
As the brown stinky stuff of the past few years of gross mismanagement of the economic system has been hitting the fan, some of the larger businesses and government institutions that have been involved in that mismanagement and that have planets in these degree areas, and in square to these degree areas, have been going down the spout.
Fannie Mae has more than one relevant chart to consider. The main one is the date of the first charter its foundation. Here's the chart, but no birth time was readily findable so please ignore the house cusps:-
As you can see, the Sun and Venus are conjunct at 21 and 22 degrees of Aquarius, so they've been involved with the Saturn-Neptune opposition of the past few years.
When the announcement was made that the USA government will re-nationalise Fannie Mae, Neptune was at 22 degrees 16 minutes, exactly conjunct Fannie Mae's Venus. A step towards this eventual outcome was taken by the USA government on 30th July 2008 when it brought in a law allow it more regulatory control over Fannie Mae. At this time there was a transiting Venus-Neptune opposition at 22-23 Leo-Aquarius, alongside the Moon's nodal axis at 19 degrees of Leo-Aquarius.
Another major chart for Fannie Mae is for the time when it was rechartered in September 1968. This chart has Neptune at 24 degrees of Scorpio, in square to the recent Saturn-Neptune opposition.
Here's the chart for Freddie Mac, and again please ignore house cusps:-
In Freddie Mac's chart there is a square between Mercury and Saturn, with Mercury at 18 Leo and Saturn at 21 Taurus. Both are directly linked to the recent Saturn-Neptune opposition.
What's happening now, and for the next few years......
What's happening now and next is the financial 'crisis' is going to keep calling into question our entire financial system, which is reaching another extreme stage of divorce from reality. That tension is threatening collapse, and needs to be turned from destructive tension to creative tension. This will either happen, or completely fall flat on its face, during the Saturn-Uranus opposition.
The Saturn-Uranus opposition is with us from November 2007 through to August 2011. It'll be exact 5 times, from November 2008 to July 2010, at 19 degrees, 21 degrees, 25 degrees and 29 degrees of Virgo-Pisces, and 0 degrees of Libra-Aries.
Companies, government institutions, and countries that have planets in these degree areas, and in square to these degree areas, are likely to be the main players in the unfoldment of this sorry tale of 'comeuppance'.
We need to use these times to drastically re-align the relationship between the ideas and the realities of our economic system, and the relationship between the elites and the masses which is currently an unbridgeable divide and colossal separation, and reinstate each having a 'fair share' by birthright as the organising principle of our societies and our world.
More information, discussion, and dates for these cycles can be found at Astrology for the 21st Century, which is the website affiliated with this blog:-
The Saturn-Uranus Opposition Series
http://astrology21.co.uk/c1saturnuranus.html
The Saturn-Neptune Opposition Series
http://astrology21.co.uk/c1saturnneptune.html
