Astrology for the 21st Century

Here are the planet-star parans for the financial summit due to take place in Washington, DC, USA next month.  These also pertain to the night before's working dinner. 

These interpretations have been lifted directly from pre-written interpretations in computer software, they haven't been tailored for this event, they're generic to the planet-star combinations.  The only editing has been formatting to render the text clearer to the eye.

Themes which are active at this latitude for a period of several months

Uranus
    Rising when Alnilam is Anti-culminating
        The need to build bridges between objects or people
    Rising when Ras Alhague is Culminating
        An event that brings hope, or healing, to many
    Anti-culminating when Murzim is Setting
        Popular opinion, the opinion polls

Neptune
    Culminating when Ankaa is Rising
        A time of ritual, spiritual or theatrical
    Culminating when Acumen is Setting
        Religious zeal used against a group

Pluto
    Setting when Fomalhaut is Culminating
        Dreams or follies, idealism abounds
    Anti-culminating when Markab is Setting
        Inventions which change the way we live
    Anti-culminating when Betelgeuse is Culminating
        Benefits or breakthrough achieved in the wake of a disaster

Themes that recur at this latitude every year

Heliacal Rising Star
    Spica
        An opportunity, a new concept

Heliacal Setting Star
    Mirach
        A time of compromise, a time for talking

Heliacal Setting Star
    Hamal
        Assertiveness, the accident, the unexpected event

Sun
    Rising when Mirach is Setting
        The promotion of peace, or order, in a territory
    Rising when Sadalsuud is Anti-culminating
        After a drought comes rain, literally or metaphorically
    Anti-culminating when Polaris is Culminating
        A preoccupation with a single subject

Acute themes pertaining to just this time period at this latitude

Moon
    Rising when Zuben Eschamali is Culminating
        Self-interest outweighs consideration for the group

Mercury
    Setting when Rukbat is Culminating
        Big companies in the news, the economy is steady

Venus
    Culminating when Capella is Anti-culminating
        To go outside of society's accepted boundaries

Mars
    Culminating when Zuben Eschamali is Culminating
        A person will claim, or take, power
    On Nadir when Vega is Setting
        The glorification of an invention, or a hero
    On Nadir when Ankaa is Setting
        Seeing the previously unknown potential of a group or person
   
Saturn
    Culminating when Murzim is Setting
        A leader speaks, serious words
    Setting when Aculeus is Culminating
        A new practical policy which seeks to deal with a social problem
    Rising when Denebola is Rising
        A voice for the minor political parties
    Setting when Phact is Anti-culminating
        The actions of a loner strain the fabric of law and order

The venue for the summit that the USA is hosting for the G20 leaders to discuss the current financial problems is, according to a Whitehouse spokesperson, the National Building Museum in Washington DC, but there's still no starting time available:

MS. PERINO: The venue is set. It will be at the National Building Museum on the 15th. The night before, there will be a head of state dinner here at the White House; it will be a working dinner. And the President had identified Dan Price here at the White House and Dave McCormick at the Treasury Department to continue to work on setting up the agenda for the meeting and making sure that it's a robust one and that we make the most of everybody's time.

So I think that there will be probably two plenary sessions on the Saturday, but all of these details are still being worked out. And so we'll continue to work on the details and I'll provide them for you as soon as I have more.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/10/20081029-4.html

I don't have time just yet to put this in an astrological context, but it's timely information that I want to lend support to.

In the UK we could quickly decrease our dependence on fossil fuels and rapidly increase our usage of renewable sources of energy, and it could all be achieved in the near future.

That sounds like a good plan, doesn't it?

Let's adopt it then :-)

www.zerocarbonbritain.com

So the USA's outgoing president has issued an invitiation to the G20 countries' leaders to attend a summit in the Washington DC area of the USA on 15th November 2008. There's no starting time yet released for this meeting and no specific location yet either, so a full chart can't be calculated for it.  It links with the previous post about the important configuration between Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus in November.  And what else?

What we know is that on the morning of the 15th in the Washington DC time zone transiting Venus (finances, economy, values) will be almost exactly opposite the USA's Venus.  Moreover, at around 10am that morning in the Washington DC area transiting Venus will be rising, meaning that the USA's Venus will be setting...... highly symbolic of the USA's financial clout being on the wane at the moment: in choosing this date, the USA government is gravitating towards the meaning of 'the sun is setting on the USA's economy, we're not in charge here, our star isn't rising via this summit, we're not going to take the lead here'.  Used constructively, this alignment means that the USA's role in the summit is to facilitate the agreement and ensure an equal exchange amongst equal participants, not dictate how it's going to be and domineer the proceedings.

The summit takes place just after the first exact Saturn-Uranus opposition, and the USA's presidential election.  The series of Saturn-Uranus oppositions is very important for the USA, particularly since it will square the USA's Mars (war, unilateral behaviour, independence, fighting spirit) - there are definite changes to be made, and how the new USA government team responds is going to be pivotal for whether they are able to 'ride the wave' with finesse or tumble along with it in a very turbulent wake of change.

Official press release confirming the summit invitations:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/10/20081022.html

More on the Saturn-Uranus series of oppositions:
http://astrology21.co.uk/c1saturnuranus.html

As previously written in July last year, Gordon Brown is currently experiencing transiting Pluto through Moscow.  The current Osborne/Mandelson flare-up about involvement with Russian power and money will very probably damage Gordon unless handled with great care.

For Gordon, Pluto's 60-70 miles from Moscow at the moment, moving nearer and further as it retrogrades then turns direct.

Last year's blog entry about Gordon and Russia can be read here:-

http://astrology.blog.co.uk/2007/07/17/gordon_brown_aamp_moscow~2650876

In a similar vein to the previous post, looking ahead to December and again taking a configuration from the calendar:

"From 5th to 16th there is a T-square involving Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Uranus."

This is likely to be a major crisis point, hopefully a turning point and a rallying point, but it has the potential to be very stressful and tense, with excessive use of 'yang' tactics - forcefulness, aggression, imposition of will.

Pluto will once again be in Capricorn by this point, and the expected financial summits of global leaders will have taken place.

Beware if they come out of their meetings cheerleading their glory before the above dates: they're likely to find the stinky stuff hitting the fan and making them look ridiculously incompetent (as if they don't already....).

Last year on the Astrology for the 21st Century website a calendar for 2008 was published with details of this year's astrological configurations on it.  November 2008's entry reads:

"From 2nd to 5th there is a T-square involving Venus, Saturn, and Uranus.  Around 11th there is an important configuration involving Sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus."

The Saturn-Uranus opposition is the aspect that correlates with the current issues around the 'crisis of capitalism' and the 'crisis of the West'.  The T-square and the other configuration show dates when it's likely that key developments will take place in this crisis. 

The first one - the T-square - is more likely to be a stress-producing or stress-caused event.  It will require things to be got to grips with and actively managed.

The second one is more likely to be a stabilisation of the crisis, and holds the potential for long-awaited working co-operation to yield extremely good results.  That doesn't mean there won't be a further unfolding of crisis during this configuration, it just means that there is likely to be a totally different feel and outlook to whatever is going on at the time.

Canada's national election is tomorrow, and I've been intended to write more about it since posting the chart here a few weeks ago.  However events have overtaken me and I just don't have the time to go into it in the way that I wanted.

The election is taking place with the Saturn-Uranus opposition, and the Jupiter-Saturn trine.  The USA's election next month will also be within this Saturn-Uranus opposition.  The 'crisis of the West' is what this is about.

Canada's election also takes place as there is a symmetrical arrangement of septiles in the sky.  That it's a symmetrical configuration is important because it means there are midpoints involved.

These are the pairs in septile to each other:-

Neptune - Pluto
Saturn - Pluto
Saturn - Neptune
Mars - Pluto
Mars - Neptune

The midpoints are:-

Mars = Saturn/Pluto
Pluto = Mars/Neptune

And the Saturn/Neptune and Mars/Pluto midpoints are conjunct each other - a midpoint conjunction, if you will.

So there is a very strong quality of inspiration and fervour in the air globally at the moment, linked with dissipation, fear, volcanic change, destructiveness and a need to organise, regulate, and bring a new sense of order and stability, with elements of 'violence' and even 'rape & pillage' - a good signature for the latest so-called 'bail-outs' of the financial crisis, all in all.

From the Guardian newspaper today, the news comes that the 'biggest ever sale of oil assets' has taken place today.

Interesting that the Sun was in almost exact trine with Neptune (oil), as well as a quincunx with Uranus in Pisces (oil).

"The biggest ever sale of oil assets will take place today, when the Iraqi government puts 40bn barrels of recoverable reserves up for offer in London.

BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are all expected to attend a meeting at the Park Lane Hotel in Mayfair with the Iraqi oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani.

Access is being given to eight fields, representing about 40% of the Middle Eastern nation's reserves, at a time when the country remains under occupation by US and British forces.

On Friday Gordon Brown announced that he's forming a National Economic Council, supposedly to help cope with the financial times in which we now live.  Sounds like a reaction to me, and is a copying of the USA in any case - they have one, so we'll get one.  Hardly an example of leadership.

Anyway, here's the chart for the scheduled time of its first meeting, tomorrow at 11am.

Venus and Mars in Scorpio, with Venus in the 12th house?  Not good for financial transparency.

The Saturn-Uranus opposition is across the IC-MC axis.  Not a good idea to start something like this at this time but I suppose it at least puts this most relevant of oppositions in a prominent place.

Moon and Jupiter in Capricorn, especially in the 2nd house, is better for getting the housekeeping in order.  Whether or not Pluto will be in the 2nd house depends on whether or not the meeting starts on time, or earlier, or later.  As the planet symbolising wealth it's more than a little bit important.

The above two paragraphs are connected, since Jupiter is trine Saturn from the 2nd to the 10th.  In theory that suggests something about financial stability, but with Uranus opposite it's more about the disruption of the boom-and-bust greed-fear cycle that must be re-organised if we want any kind of stability.

And all of the above are connected by Venus (finances) being on the half-way point between Jupiter and Saturn, and also in sextile aspect with them both. 

It's a large committee so that alone suggests failure, and the lateness in appearing to address the times in which we live demonstrates gross incompetence, even if you only judge the government on the success of its PR activities.  But enshrining the Saturn-Uranus opposition into a committee's chart like this isn't what I'd recommend.  As Pluto moves back into Capricorn it's going to approach that Moon in the 2nd house, and sextile Mars in Scorpio.  It could symbolise some resurrection, which is much-needed, but resurrection of the right thing, not the wrong thing....

All in all, why there needs to be a committee for this when there's already a Cabinet and an entire Treasury, god only knows - or maybe Dilbert has the answer.  In any case, Pluto moving through Capricorn is when things will get sorted through, not while it's in Sagittarius, and most importantly the time to set the economy right was before the Saturn-Uranus opposition, and they did know - even without astrology - that all this was coming.

Data Source:
"I have created a new Economic Council to put it on a day to day footing. It will meet for the first time at 11.00 am on Monday morning." - Prime Minister's statement viewable at http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page17076

Press release setting out the membership of the NEC
http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page17067

More reading about the Saturn-Uranus oppositions:
http://astrology21.co.uk/c1saturnuranus.html
http://astrology21.co.uk/b1wtoseattle.html
http://astrology21.co.uk/c1uk1707.html

So Ian Blair has finally resigned, under circumstances suggesting behind-the-scenes shenanigans with a heavy stain of abuse of power.  Resigning over things like mismanagement and injustices just wouldn't do, would it?

Ian Blair's chart has the Sun (authority, leadership role) at 28 degrees of Pisces.  Transiting Pluto has just stationed exactly square to it.

His Pluto (power) is at 21 degrees of Leo.  Transiting Neptune is currently stationing exactly opposite it.

Both Neptune and Pluto symbolise hidden goings-on and secrets to be revealed at a later date.  All is not transparent, that's for sure.