Looking at the chart for the EU Parliament elections due to be held on the 4th to the 7th of June (the exact date varies by country), two things stand out.
The first is that the current Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius (for those readers interested in the planetoid Chiron, it's actually a triple conjunction of Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron) is at right angles to the Moon-opposition-Mars-Pluto in the EU chart. A mixture of expansion and dissolution, some would argue. Growing dissolution? Growth that dissolves? Dissolving growth.
Jupiter and Neptune both deal in the business of hope and vision. We can expect claims of a new start, a new vision, a new hope. A new hype, more like. Venus being on the MC of the European Union's chart adds to the PR exercise, glossing over the unpleasantness and portraying everything as positive, spinning whatever happens as a 'victory', even if it's a comprehensive drubbing.
Jupiter-Neptune are also the planets of religious belief. The EU has a religious crisis close to its centre. It's possible it'll enter a new phase.
On all these issues the keynote is tension and crisis, since the aspects involved are squares. Issues will be faced head-on.
If we want to bring Chiron into this picture, it says something about problematic areas that we keep returning to, all to no avail. That's the EU all right.
Saturn will be trine the EU's Uranus-Neptune conjunction, which is the planetary pair that symbolises the core of the EU dream. This transit is about consolidation, solid ground, reality. It speaks of a desire to incarnate the dream, to bring it down to Earth and give it form and substance. To build institutional structures that embody the spirit and concept of a united European continent.
With Uranus in trine to the EU's Mars-Pluto conjunction there is a sense of lighting the blue touchpaper and standing well back. Action is sparked easily, both rebellious action to liberate from oppression, and autocratic action to quell dissent and enforce a more powerful will.
That's all to the EU's chart though.
The EC (formerly named the EEC; the name was changed in 1993 and is likely to change again if the EU Constitution is eventually forced upon us) remains active and so we must take its chart into consideration.
In the EC's chart Pluto is heading for a conjunction with the Sun, just as it is in the UK's chart. Although it's a few years away from exactitude, it's within orb and will become exact within the term of this Parliament that we're electing next month. The short explanation of this transit is that the EC is going to die, and then be resurrected in a new form (just as the UK is). What that form will be, nobody can know - life is lived forwards and unfolds organically, not predictably in its details.
The EC is going through a rare Pluto-trine-Pluto transit, reflecting a deep, fundamental change and death/renewal process. This transit also symbolises power and the desire to increase it.
Transiting Neptune in semi-square to the EC's Sun reflects something altogether more nebulous. Aspects between Neptune and the Sun can indicate increased popularity, but they can also signal a time when popularity declines due to disillusionment. The semi-square aspect tends towards the latter. Where Neptune is concerned, any increase in popularity is often temporary and caused by an increase in projections, rather than based on something reliable and tangible. This type of transit often correlates with feeling undermined, directionless, redundant.
There's much more to the charts and transits but this will have to do for now.... will probably return to this topic over the next few weeks.
To see which countries vote on which days, click this link:-
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2009/welcome/headlines.htm?language=EN&ref=20090525STO56248&secondRef=0
