Astrology for the 21st Century

Venus, in Aries, has just passed its half-way point of its once-in-two-years retrograde period, and Pluto is currently stationary in Capricorn.

They're forming a square with each other - an aspect of potential tension, with the need to get to grips with issues.

Both are the planets of finance, economies, assets, resources.

The aspect is still present during the G-20+ meetings on 1st and 2nd April.

Here are the star-planet parans for the London Summit due to take place in April. These have been copied and pasted from pre-written software interpretations and so aren't tailored for this event.

Background themes - active for several months

Uranus
    Anti-culminating when Alnilam is Setting
        The need to build bridges between objects or people
    Anti-culminating when Mirach is Setting
        The collective holds its breath, in joy, or disbelief

Neptune
    Anti-culminating when Deneb Algedi is Anti-culminating
        The justice of the legal system or the law is challenged
    Culminating when Deneb Algedi is Culminating
        The justice of the legal system or the law is challenged
    Setting when Altair is Setting
        Ungrounded, ill planned or fanatical actions

Shorter-term themes recurring at this location every year (of our era)

Heliacal Rising Star
    Deneb Algedi
        A time of the Establishment and the law

Heliacal Setting Star
    Regulus
        A noble, righteous act that inspires the nation

Sun
    Rising when Deneb Algedi is Rising
        The respected person
    Rising when Rigel is Anti-culminating
        The strength of the government is used to alter, or seek to reform, a situation
    Rising when Ras Algethi is Culminating
        Seeking to redress a situation that is considered to be out of balance
    Anti-culminating when Hamal is Setting
        A forceful or abrasive person
    Culminating when Facies is Setting
        The piercing stare of an aggressor or a critic

Themes active for this location just for this short time period

Moon
    Culminating when Castor is Anti-culminating
        To hope that everything will be all right, to disbelieve bad news

Mercury
    Culminating when Menkar is Rising
        The masses speak out, the voice of the people is heard
    Culminating when Deneb Adige is Culminating
        Confusion and a lack of clarity in reporting, or a mystical or intuitive idea
    Culminating when Diadem is Setting
        To value people more than money
    Rising when Antares is Culminating
        Anxiety and worry

Jupiter
    Rising when Antares is Culminating
        The extremist holds power

Saturn
    Setting when Betelgeuse is Anti-culminating
        Leaders taking the harder path, focusing on the proletarian issues
    Setting when Hamal is Rising
        Harsh critics, people angry

So the G20 have just had a pre-summit meeting of finance ministers, and on 1st-2nd April the leaders of the G20 countries will meet in London for the summit proper.

The finance ministers met when the Saturn-Uranus opposition was aligned with the Sun.

The G20 heads will meet when Pluto is stationary, turning retrograde.

When Pluto crossed 0 degrees of Capricorn the crisis broke in a big way.  When Pluto completes its retrograde period it'll station at 0 Capricorn. 

Whatever the G20 meetings claim to have achieved in March, and will claim after their meeting in April, they will most definitely have not solved anything.

They don't yet know the fullest extent of what's going on, so any claims to solving things or predictions of ends to recessions in any countries are grossly premature and mere posturing.

Here's the official website:-

http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/

Venus is stationary today, appearing motionless in our sky, and turns retrograde at 17:17hrs (GMT) at 15 degrees of Aries.

You can read about what it means here:-

http://astrology21.co.uk/p1retrogrades2009.html

Here's an astrological profile of Barack Obama's first Cabinet team.

Not every member has been confirmed by the Senate yet, so this might need to be slightly updated in the coming weeks, however this is how the Cabinet stands at the moment and it's unlikely to change significantly.

http://astrology21.co.uk/c1obamacabinet.html