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Monday, 29 July 2019

Potent New Moon August 2019

August 2019 opens with the New Moon where Leo energy & the Sun itself are in charge but not in a peaceful mood.
Environmentally the fire element is aggravated by Uranus and the consequences affect us physically - effects upon the body from literal heat temperature sun exposure and from excess yang stimulants consumed (food) which cause too much internal heat with resulting anger irritation impatience.
The way through with Leo is always through the heart: so love is trying to rise up over "things" under this New Moon. This is a huge issue in relationships and families where there is a poverty of time and the subsequent impact upon quality. Children given things instead of attention suffer significant anxiety.

The risk of the fire element destoying physical things is elevated from late July and at the start of August.

The fire signs under stress activate issues for Leo Aquarius Taurus and Scorpio. Leo is the Royal sign as well as society's "nobility" - the celebrity class" and so some issues in those realms could arise: related to money spending or assets and a sudden change
Gold is the Leo metal and its value is slowly rising. This month could signify a noticeable increase.

The latest status pet is a big cat: lions are the popular choice but this is not good news for lions.
The Aquarian activation is strong in 2019 in terms of protest and collective activism for change - especially re human environmental impacts but also against the power brokers.
Scorpio is power sex and death themes so we will continue to see all of these very prominent.
Taurus is the Earth the soil and it's products and these are under stress from other elements.

The long-term theme of major issues in politics (power abuse) and domestic life (parenting & housing) remain very significant and are very highlighted under this New Moon period.
Transformational change has to occur in every context illuminated by the August New Moon. The old thinking old tactics and old power hierarchy has to adjust to the new era. Governments globally need to embrace their role of societal management in terms of social benefit or wellbeing instead of operating primarily from balance sheets and running countries as a profit making business. This change in perspective would enable struggling citizens to live less desperate lives.

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UPDATE August 15

Tweet updates below show how Uranus in Taurus square Sun-Moon-Venus in Leo at the early August New Moon quickly manifested multiple intense events: protests wild weather geomagnetic storm and a sharp jolt that lowered sharemarkets. The effect of both Uranus and Jupiter stationing on the same day affected Aug 10-13 extra strongly as both energies are prone to loss of control. Saturn played some role in restraining the wild horse Jupiter energies and if it were not in range in the period the indicators of anarchy rebellion and extreme behaviour in people and natural elements would have been more exaggerated..
August 2019 remains a volatile month with the Full Moon coming quickly after the station period of Jupiter and Uranus. The normally beaming combination of Venus in Leo joining the mid-month Full Moon is complicated by Pluto and Uranus. This clearly reflects shifting power dynamics both in personal relationships and in the larger political context. Now the situation in Hong Kong looks even more intense as freedom and control are in a titanic struggle. Global attention focussed on the Hong Kong situation is to some degree a restraint on mainland China due to the impact upon trade relationships in an already threatening situation with the US and where any further sanctions would be unwanted- especially if other global partners adopted a retaliatory response to any human rights abuses by China against protestors in Hong Kong.
The world is watching and there are red alerts at mid month warning against totalitarian behaviour. This conflict had a lot to say about how we resist the clearly documented rise in anti-democratic regimes since the start of this millennium - being a clear reversal of the rise in democracies that arose from the 1970s until the end of that century.

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Astrology 2015: China in Freefall

Latest: update Oct 13
China import-export data continues downward, with imports a striking 20.4% down in September 2015 vs Sept 2014

Google Search 28 July 2015

for the phrase china market

is headed by the entry below

Several posts on this site, especially since June 2015, have noted the economic situation facing China.

In one June 2015 report here, this exact issue of commodities freefall was forewarned:

This does not mean the damage will be contained within the 4 month period of 2015. And it does not only refer to an isolated effect restricted to China, but China is significant to the world.
The commodities shock then flows into a 3 year period of inhibited growth [ in terms of produce, production, expansion, development]
After that the real austerity energies are laid in place during a 3 year period until December 2020

1924-1932 has many cycles in common with 2012-2020
Boom preceded bust in the US housing market of the 1920's.
Florida investments started to get bad press by January 1925. By 1926 the bust was clear.
The downturn energies in play affecting material asset investments like land and real estate kicked in in late 1924 and remained strong until December 1926.
Then the cycle of inhibited growth began, lasting 3 years, extending just past the big market crash of October 1929.
From December 1929 the austerity energies were embedded - during a period of almost 3 years.

In terms of another longer global cycle, in July 2015 we are at the equivalent energy point to April 1932 even though a great global economic depression is yet to unfold.
The period April 1935 to April 1942 has an energy equivalent to
April 2019 to April 2026.
1935 saw bank closures in the US, the dropping of the gold standard, economic depression was obvious. People were forced to changed their relationship with money and materialist values.
This timeline shows the US economy had widespread impact on citizens through the 1930s, only lifting with the US late entry into WW2 and the war economy uplift beginning in 1942.

A longer cycle having a powerfully transformational effect on peoples families and their homes and housing covered the period 1914-1939.
An equivalent energy exists in the period 2008-2025.

In a very globalized world environment in this millennium, the cycles of this era will contain many reflections of the early decades of the 20th century, in many diverse locations -not just China- but will not unfold exactly in the same sequence or with exactly the same outcomes.
What is clear is that globalization does have a relationship to contagion in market forces.
Climate effects are also of great significance with regard to economies: China is very vulnerable to extremes of flooding and drought as noted by authors of the study THE 1920S DROUGHT RECORDED BY TREE RINGS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS IN THE SEMI-ARID AND ARID AREAS
OF NORTHERN CHINA:
"we show that there had been significant growth decline in the 1920s and early 1930s throughout a wide area of northern China. This growth depression is indicative of a severe and sustained drought in the 1920s and early 1930s.
This period coincides with the inhibited growth period noted earlier for the 1920's and so a largely agricultural effect is known to have occurred then.
Sustained drought, crop failures led to disease and widespread famine in 1927-29:

Swarms of locusts added to further losses and misery. Epidemics of disease rampaged uncontrolled. The proverbial perfect storm.
El Nino conditions in 2015 are already pointing to heat and drought with Northern China low on drinking water.

El Nino events relevant to the above study occurred in the periods 1925-1926, 1930-31, 1932-1933, 1939-1940, 1940-1941, 1941-1942.
The strongest event in recent decades was the 1997-98 El Nino.
Weak El Ninos occurred 2004-2007, Moderate in 2009-10.
The return of El Nino for 2015-2016 is potentially strong to very strong & if a run of El Nino years occurs as in 1930-1933 or 1939-1942 then the flow-on economic effect will also be sustained.
[USGS latest El Nino report worth reading] Use keyword search on this site for related posts.
update Sept 19: Los Angeles California received a deluge in mid September 2015 causing chaos and little relief since the parched earth lacked any useful absorption ability, leaving torrents of water to drain away. - related report
update August 24 as predicted on this blog, China continues to experience sharemarket panic

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Astrology for China & World economy 2015-2020

Latest:
Financial analyst James Rickards predictions, expounded in a series of titles indicate that structural collapse of the global financial system is inevitable -and in fact being promoted by a cabal of operators within the top echelons of the global financial network, whose mission is to establish the One World, one currency agenda.

March-April 2017 the downward trend is noted in diverse financial analyses...[1] [2] [3]

The Great China Famine 1958-1961

occurred in conjunction with planetary influences which began to repeat in 2015 involving economic slowdown combined with environmental adversity affecting production and will unfold into austerity in the subsequent years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

The content of this post has been sourced from and updated based on a November 17 2013 entry on this site about the decline of the West

BusinessInsider report

The Consequences
The scale of impact gives rise to considerations of an economic meltdown impacting the world -but which originates in China -not in the West as many expect.
Global effects are now the consequence of globalisation & the expanded footprint China has in multiple countries

Astrological indicators in detail

Planetary positions & aspect grid for Nov 7 1931 China Soviet regime

Referencing the China Soviet chart dated Nov 7 1931: I believe the austerity, famine, drought, large scale transformational energy of this chart* was activated during the Great China Famine 1958-1961 - and because of repeating patterns, that adverse economic & environmental conditions will be activated again in the period starting in the middle of 2015, further strengthening from March 2016, noticeably as 2017 begins, throughout 2017, sustained through 2018, 2019

*[Saturn 18 Capricorn opposite Pluto 22 Cancer both square Uranus 16 Aries. All aspecting Jupiter 21 Leo. 19 degrees is a critical activating midpoint ]

This era though does differ from 57-60 years ago due to a different economic base. This is no protection from the adverse energies. Impacts upon growth & production have relevance across all sectors from land-based productivity, to goods & services based and commodities & therefore the whole economy.

The Timing:
late May 2015 Uranus reached 19 Aries -a trigger of change in the economic balance.
Jupiter in China Soviet chart is 20’58 Leo
Jupiter at end of June 2015 was 21 Leo

Jupiter’s link to the Saturn-Pluto-Uranus trio in the Soviet chart identifies the potentials for swing from feast to famine.

Nodal axis in China Soviet chart is 4’58 Aries-Libra.

Nodal axis at start of July 2015 is 5 Libra-Aries

The nodal axis is a significant societal indicator and Libra is the scales needing to be balanced

The Energy Re-visited:
The process begins from 2015 with Uranus, Pluto and Saturn all activating the 16-22 degrees of the cardinal signs Aries and Capricorn
The spectre of drought or crop failure-related food shortages and severe reductions in general production is revisited with Saturn passing through the growth and production sign Sagittarius in the period 2015-2017 then austerity related effects with Saturn in Capricorn 2017-2020.
This era though does differ from 57-60 years ago due to a different economic base.
This is no protection from the adverse energies. Growth & production impacts have relevance across all sectors from land-based, to company based & therefore the whole economy.

The Deeper Meaning:
Activations of the cardinal signs Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn signify gross imbalances come to light and must be corrected.
Humanity faces the agenda preprogrammed by natural and collective forces

Transformations:With Sun-Mercury-Venus in Scorpio in the China-Soviet chart, transformational periods are very natural in the course of China's modern history.

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

China in Decline -the past revisited

News on January 20 2015 re the decline in China's economy prompts a review of this astroblog post from 2013 re the astrological warning signs for China returning:
The November 17 2013 post:

While watching the episode related to the famine in the years surrounding 1960 -the Great Chinese Famine 1958-1961 with mass fatalities from starvation on account of a mega failure of Maoist policy involving greatly reduced food production, coupled with drought & adverse weather I was very interested to see the astrological picture in effect at that time and the connections to the astrology of China

To select a "birth" chart for a nation is not easy because there can be many new beginnings. When the Chinese Soviet Republic chart [1931] is considered there is much more of current relevance than the People's Republic chart [1949]

source

I believe the austerity, famine, drought, large scale transformational energy of this chart was activated during the Great China Famine - and that it will be activated again in the period starting in the middle of 2015, further strengthening from March 2016, noticeably as 2017 begins, throughout 2017, sustained through 2018, 2019

In the China Soviet chart:

Saturn 18 Capricorn-Pluto 22 Cancer both at 90 degree angle to Uranus at 16 Aries with midpoint of 19 Cardinal are the energy points about to be re-awakened

The Energy Re-visited:

The process begins from 2015 with Uranus, Pluto and Saturn all activating the 16-22 degrees of the cardinal signs Aries and Capricorn
The spectre of drought-related food shortages and severe reductions in production is revisited with Saturn passing through the growth and production sign Sagittarius in the period 2015-2017

The Consequences

The scale of impact gives rise to considerations of an economic meltdown impacting the world -but which originates in China -not in the West as many expect. Global effects are now the consequence of globalisation & the expanded footprint China has in multiple countries

The Deeper Meaning:

Activations of the cardinal signs Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn signify gross imbalances come to light and must be corrected.

Humanity faces the agenda preprogrammed by natural forces

In the Great China Famine:

Saturn was in Sagittarius in 1957-1958 = the decline in growth & production

Environmental factors very relevant as well as policy effects

Saturn was in Capricorn 1959, 1960, 1961 = extreme austerity phase

With Sun-Mercury-Venus in Scorpio in the China-Soviet chart - transformational periods are very natural in the course of China's modern history.

Update February 14 2014

Economist Nouriel Roubini is quoted as follows in a recent Guardian article:

Then, there are the over-hyped Brics countries, now falling back to reality. Three of them (Brazil, Russia, and South Africa) will grow more slowly than the United States this year, with real (inflation-adjusted) GDP rising at less than 2.5%, while the economies of the other two (China and India) are slowing sharply. Indeed, Brazil, India, and South Africa are members of the Fragile Five, and demographic decline in China and Russia will undermine both countries' potential growth.

The largest of the Brics, China, faces additional risk stemming from a credit-fuelled investment boom, with excessive borrowing by local governments, state-owned enterprises, and real-estate firms severely weakening the asset portfolios of banks and shadow banks. Most credit bubbles this large have ended up causing a hard economic landing, and China's economy is unlikely to escape unscathed, particularly as reforms to rebalance growth from high savings and fixed investment to private consumption are likely to be implemented too slowly, given the powerful interests aligned against them.

Moreover, the deep causes of last year's turmoil in emerging markets have not disappeared. For starters, the risk of a hard landing in China poses a serious threat to emerging Asia, commodity exporters around the world, and even advanced economies.

Also refer to January 2014 report on China's risky credit boom

the above exacts from Nov 2013-Feb 2014 were originally published in a larger post on the decline of the West

2015 Update

2015 indicators at the beginning of July 2015 are consistent with this pathway:
China rolls out emergency measures to avoid market crash

Monday, 1 April 2013

The West Declines - astro analysis of Niall Ferguson's premise

A minority of humanity
originating on the western edge of Eurasia
has dominated the world
for the better part of 500 years

A profound shift in the global balance of power is underway

Is the West history, giving way to the rest of the world?

These ideas are expounded by Professor Niall Ferguson -

and examined from an astrological perspective to see what cycles might be in process

click on maps to enlarge Top: global economies March 2012; Below: territories once part of the British Empire

Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson, in his documentary series Civilization - is the West history? - looks at changes in western economies and their demise - and how the rest of the world may well be in the ascendency.

If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe,

you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient...

By contrast, England would have struck you as a miserable backwater

ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war

Ferguson: Civilization The West and the Rest

Looking at the contrasting histories of North & South America as an example of different pathways of development within the past 500 years. The overall economic pathways of North and South America diverged greatly despite both territories being subjected to colonizing powers. Democracy and private ownership featured principally in the new north American colony. The north had embraced European concepts of law, politics and the capacity for the individual citizen to have some semblance at least of sharing in the bounty and management of their nation.
In South America, the supposed great liberator [from the Spanish] Simon Bolivar concluded the people were not ready for the politics of the north and thus authoritarianism was the way forward: he proclaimed himself dictator in 1828 and exclusive elites, says Ferguson, prospered at the expense of the general citizenry. Large estates under the control of a few led to the concentration of wealth and thus the enduring empoverishment of many.
[Interestingly in the West the identification of the 1% and their concentration of wealth has led to the Occupy Movement aimed at redressing increasing power-wealth imbalances]
So the Western economic model and ensuing global power position has been highly successful in building wealth and influence compared to the Rest [though not equally or proportionately across social sectors] and Niall Ferguson proposes the reasons why:
He identifies ...six killer applications he calls the killer apps – that allowed a minority of mankind originating on the western edge of Eurasia to dominate the world for the better part of 500 years.
For the sake of simplicity, I summarise them under six headings: 1. Competition 2. Science 3. Property rights 4. Medicine 5. The consumer society 6. The work ethic.

Ferguson says that only by assessing the causes of the West's rise to prominence can we gauge the imminence of its decline - and fall.
The rest of the world has clearly begun to utilise many, and in China's case, most of these killers apps while in the West, it seems, the less dominant will to succeed in education, a decline in the work ethic, the economic factors inhibiting rampant debt & consumerism show key areas where western values are shifting significantly.

A profound shift in the global balance of power is underway - says Ferguson.
This can be tracked economically since the 1980's in % of GDP - and in particular in that regard since around 2003 when comparing US with China -after a reign of western dominance from the 1500's

He sees the world tilting back to 600 years ago -when the East was dominant.

As an astrologer it intrigued me to consider what long term cycles might match up with Ferguson's proposal.

Pluto in Scorpio comes as first prime suspect.

It's full cycle is 248 years - so 2 cycles cover a 500 year period.

Ferguson nominates the year 1500 approximately as the dawning of Western ascendancy

Pluto was in late Scorpio at the start of 1500 (Julian calendar)

But Pluto alone is insufficient

The karmic signpost [lunar nodal axis] came to exact alignment with Pluto in December 1500 - mean position 26Taurus/Scorpio35 - or true node position of 27.09 in January 1501 [Julian calendar]

It is not until February 1994 that Pluto in late Scorpio again aligned with the nodal axis - but the flipside occurred in terms of the polarity -i.e. with Scorpio now the North position and Taurus the South - the reverse of 1501. [mean nodal position of 28.04, true position 28.03]

So in simple terms with rounded figures

1501 - Pluto is opposite the North Node in Taurus at 27 degrees & conjunct the south Node in Scorpio

1994 - Pluto is conjunct the North Node in Scorpio at 28 degrees & opposite the south Node in Taurus

Why would Pluto, the lunar nodes and the signs Taurus-Scorpio have any bearing on global economic dominance?

In the simplest of terms these factors have the following keyword associations:

Taurus - individual money, wealth, materialism, the physical everyday world

Scorpio - institutional wealth, transformational & regenerative forces; the metaphysical level; power issues

Pluto - the cosmic force that delivers the cards dealt by Scorpio

Lunar Nodes - collective destiny; the wheel of karma -what has been and what is to come

Pluto, when in contact with the lunar nodes, whether viewed collectively, or in the life of an individual, is regarded as a signifier of accelerated evolutionary energy.

The Pluto-Taurus-Scorpio-Nodes combination is easily equivalent to the essence of Ferguson's investigation: shifts in the global balance of power

Does this suggest Ferguson is right in his sense of the shift from West to East & the Rest?

Most definitely.

The long term astrological picture as described coincides with the timing as outlined by Ferguson.

The ingredients conform to the nature of his focus: a reversal in global economic & cultural dominance.

When Pluto exactly aligned with the transformational energy of the Scorpio South node in 1501, the rise of the West as the dominant economic power, was beginning

When Pluto exactly aligned with the transformational Scorpio forces of the North node in 1994, the rise of the East as the dominant economic power, was beginning.

If this pattern holds true, there truly is a colossal flip going on, and the West is in decline -and one which could extend until 2487. Warning signs in the West include signs of systemic failure - of economics, government policies, social fabric in meltdown. If you reflect on the opposing question: Is the West in an ascendant phase?, the answer is clearly No

It is, after all, all about cycles and their natural waxing and waning.

Update:

November 17 2013

source

In the China Soviet chart:

Saturn 18 Capricorn-Pluto 22 Cancer both at 90 degree angle to Uranus at 16 Aries with midpoint of 19 Cardinal are the energy points about to be re-awakened

The Energy Re-visited:

The process begins from 2015 with Uranus, Pluto and Saturn all activating the 16-22 degrees of the cardinal signs Aries and Capricorn
The spectre of drought-related food shortages and severe reductions in production is revisited with Saturn passing through the growth and production sign Sagittarius in the period 2015-2017

The Consequences

The scale of impact gives rise to considerations of an economic meltdown impacting the world -but which originates in China -not in the West as many expect. Global effects are now the consequence of globalisation & the expanded footprint China has in multiple countries

The Deeper Meaning:

Activations of the cardinal signs Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn signify gross imbalances come to light and must be corrected.

Humanity faces the agenda preprogrammed by natural forces

In the Great China Famine:

Saturn was in Sagittarius in 1957-1958 = the decline in growth & production

Environmental factors very relevant as well as policy effects

Saturn was in Capricorn 1959, 1960, 1961 = extreme austerity phase

With Sun-Mercury-Venus in Scorpio in the China-Soviet chart - transformational periods are very natural in the course of China's modern history.

Pluto [by connection to Scorpio] is therefore very relevant and having intense links to Saturn [by opposition] and Uranus [by 90 degree square] the potential for cycles of mass disaster, death, annihilation and destruction are anticipated both in the human and natural environments

Update February 14 2014
Economist Nouriel Roubini is quoted as follows in a recent Guardian article:

Then, there are the over-hyped Brics countries, now falling back to reality. Three of them (Brazil, Russia, and South Africa) will grow more slowly than the United States this year, with real (inflation-adjusted) GDP rising at less than 2.5%, while the economies of the other two (China and India) are slowing sharply. Indeed, Brazil, India, and South Africa are members of the Fragile Five, and demographic decline in China and Russia will undermine both countries' potential growth.

The largest of the Brics, China, faces additional risk stemming from a credit-fuelled investment boom, with excessive borrowing by local governments, state-owned enterprises, and real-estate firms severely weakening the asset portfolios of banks and shadow banks. Most credit bubbles this large have ended up causing a hard economic landing, and China's economy is unlikely to escape unscathed, particularly as reforms to rebalance growth from high savings and fixed investment to private consumption are likely to be implemented too slowly, given the powerful interests aligned against them.

Moreover, the deep causes of last year's turmoil in emerging markets have not disappeared. For starters, the risk of a hard landing in China poses a serious threat to emerging Asia, commodity exporters around the world, and even advanced economies.

Also refer to January 2014 report on China's risky credit boom

Notes:

1994-1501 = 493 year separation which equates to 26.5 lunar nodal cycles [ the 27th cycle was reached in 2003 when the nodes again were 27-28 Taurus/Scorpio but Pluto was not in range - having moved ahead to 18 Sagittarius] ] The lunar nodal cycle is 18.61 years.

If you google lunar nodal cycle you will find various scientific papers of lunar effects on tides/sea levels/climate - along with astrological interpretations on other sites

also look at Pluto the evolutionary journey of the soul -by Jeff Green

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

The Power of the Dalai Lama

The immense healing power of the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is apparent to anyone who has been in his presence. Whether that means in speaking distance or within a huge convention centre, the compassionate force emanated by this exceptional being is life changing.
The Chinese government has expressed outrage at a meeting provided by President Obama in Washington, but the continued good works by the Dalai Lama around the world are a testimony to his true heart.

A recent Herald article from July 2011, covers some interesting aspects of his succession, considering that this too is an aspect China intends to control.

Also read this excellent astro analysis regarding the Dalai Lama's encounter with Obama, charts and synastry included.

Friday, 15 July 2011

The Next Financial Meltdown (2012) is not a movie

Before looking ahead, I urge each of you readers to watch the award winning movie The Inside Job (2010) by Charles Ferguson.
Here is a brief trailer, just a taste of what the full length documentary movie reveals.
Even if you feel you already know the full extent of the corrupt practices which underscored the 2008 crash in America and resulting recession. Even if you feel you've decided it will never happen again.

For 2015 updates scroll to end of post

This documentary reveals the deeply embedded system in America, designed to create millions in profit for the engineers of the set up. Way beyond the realm of high roller casino gambling, the financial system embroiled in the 2008 crash is based on the schemes and dreams of men who play with multiple millions of dollars, at the expense of the everyday citizen. Rotten to the core, but still very much alive, the industry is loaded with Dead Men Walking, bankrupt in every manner possible, aside from their personal fortunes.
Shockingly, for New Zealanders, our current Prime Minister, John Key, learnt his financial trading skills in the employment of Merrill Lynch, one of the top American finance companies, named and shamed in this movie.

Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicage, Professor of Finance, features in The Inside Job.
Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier? is one of his key papers (2005)
His most recent book (2010) is titled:
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Also see reference to Rajan in this recent post.

The story, clearly, does not end in 2008.
If you, like millions of Americans thought the election of Barack Obama would see all that was wrong, evil, corrupt and unjust magically eradicated in the USA, you will understand, in watching this movie,that the President, as figurehead, is far less empowered than you could ever imagine. The appointments made, in his regime, re top financial advisories and controls, simply resume as normal the agendas of the past, pre-recession. This realisation alone will rock you, if you hold out hope that good always wins out over evil, because seriously negative forces are in control of America. They are known collectively as the finance sector.

In other words, the 2008 events, from the perspective of those who wheel and deal with your money, were just a blip, a temporary stutter. It's now business as usual, and in a bigger better way than before. You are witnessing human immorality, selective blindness, addiction and corruption at its most sophisticated, entrenched and determined. It is truly frightening.

Such conduct is ultimately anti-nature as well, because it acts in defiance of larger cyclic forces which are capable of obliterating anything and everything that humans have created.
Financiers have some inkling of this and scores of papers and books have been published with different versions of the primary factors which drive the cycles. Not surprising then that a substantial body of traders rely (discreetly) on planetary indicators of bull and bear markets, commodity highs and lows etc. After all, Kings, Queens and Presidents throughout history have done the same regarding territory and war, but in a hush-hush way. The Merriman Market Analyst is one such example of a contemporary Wizard providing tips on trading opportunities, based on planetary cycles.
Ray Merriman's April 2011 Report is worth a read and also look at his Weekly Previews along with any other similar planetary based market predictions you may locate online, because opinions and interpretations will vary.

HuffPost says this week: Sovereign Debt Crisis is Now Global

The bottom line is: 2012 could see the start of a major recession/ classic Depression.

The term Perfect Storm has not entered common usage just because of a gripping movie. We are living in times so complex and powerful, that the scenario of factors combining to create mega-events is unmistakeable. They have already begun - from 2008 and sustained through to 2016, with flow on effects for many years beyond that focal period. Be assured that the environment/climate will play a much more significant role than in the 1930's. Be assured that globalization will assist in the contagion.

There is enough time for those who wish to re-establish themselves in a more modest way and with greater self-sufficiency, but some major life changes are likely to be entailed.
The more embedded you are in the systems that will fail, the more you will face losing. This includes that cash assets you may have in the markets and banks.
Conversely, those who have little now, have little if anything to lose.

Update
Renowned American libertarian socialist, Noam Chomsky writes of the preceding era:
There was also a sharp change in the U.S. economy in the 1970s, towards financialization and export of production. A variety of factors converged to create a vicious cycle of radical concentration of wealth, primarily in the top fraction of 1% of the population -- mostly CEOs, hedge-fund managers, and the like. That leads to the concentration of political power, hence state policies to increase economic concentration: fiscal policies, rules of corporate governance, deregulation, and much more.
Meanwhile the costs of electoral campaigns skyrocketed, driving the parties into the pockets of concentrated capital, increasingly financial: the Republicans reflexively, the Democrats -- by now what used to be moderate Republicans -- not far behind.
Chomsky adds: ...financial crises that began as the regulatory apparatus was dismantled starting in the 1980s.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
And before we laugh, we might also bear in mind that the current economic crisis is traceable in no small measure to the fanatic faith in such dogmas as the efficient market hypothesis, and in general to what Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, 15 years ago, called the "religion" that markets know best -- which prevented the central bank and the economics profession from taking notice of an $8 trillion housing bubble that had no basis at all in economic fundamentals, and that devastated the economy when it burst.
The full political-economic text is worth reading source

Update July 17

Merriman's latest post on urgent issues facing America
In New Zealand are we in a situation far removed from American style economics? The answer, is of course, No.
Liam Dann writing in the Herald says:
If it's a boom why are so many feeling bust?
Disconnect between figures and what economy feels like has people questioning statistics
And if you haven't yet watched The Inside Job, you will still assume that ratings agencies like Moody's, Standard and Poor's actually have some sort of god-like intelligence and the independence of a saint. Under questioning, as seen in the movie, they will only reiterate the Mantra of the Unaccountable:
It's Only An Opinion

Update July 18

Arnold Bock reiterates my conclusions re 2012 and the Perfect Storm in this article
A Financial Crisis in 2012 is Inevitable! Here’s Why, located today, from the website Financial Sense

Confirmed by more commentary by a planetary analyst

For those needing some keyword help to understand planetary concepts as discussed in political contexts.

Update July 19

Commentary on financial meltdown from America using various sources

Here's a case study from the 1340's -
How Venice Rigged The First, and Worst, Global Financial Collapse yes over 600 years ago - Human behaviour has changed little.
From a planetary point of view, in the mid 1340's the two big players prominent today, Pluto and Uranus were conjunct and in the cardinal sign Aries, marking the start of a long term cycle.

Update July 30

For a while I did'nt really get John Key's (NZ Prime Minister) fascination with Obama, other than of course the obvious narcissism of worshipping someone with a very similar planetary lineup -they were born the same week in 1961 -Obama August 4, Key August 9. Different times, different countries, but hey, enough shared energy for a bromance.
Now, since hearing Yves Smith talking ( author of ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism) and accessing her blog website Naked Capitalism, it is possible to see Obama as further to the right than his voting public could ever have believed. Similarly, Centre Right is where John Key positions himself, yet a lot of his opinions on social issues depict a position much further to the right. Two men with a chameleon ability, a charismatic charm, a dangerous capacity to mislead.
Obama's exact birth-time is known so correct chart analysis is possible. This chart link gives some interpretation, but overlooks that central aspect: Neptune tightly square Sun-Mercury for Obama and we find Neptune tightly square Mercury, widely square Sun, for Key - lies, deceit, dishonesty, fudging, being creative with the facts. Mercury is what you say, how you think, your method of communication.
With Neptune in Scorpio, both are with-holding information, holding onto secrets. They speak the same language and they are far more aligned than their overt politics suggest.

Update August 6
This video has just been brought to my attention. Here in NZ these American economics authors may not have hit the radar yet, since they failed to initially get any mainstream coverage in the US.

The offer of a free copy is now expired but the video alone is well worth watching. Time will tell whether 2012 -or 2013 -as highlighted in the video - is the major collapse point.
In a just published interview, the authors reveal what this means for the average citizen - expect many of the consequences noted to have global similarities.

August 16

Nouriel Roubini is also worth reading

September 27

Of course events during August-Sept 2011 only confirm the trends evident to observers across the world. Heres a new video featuring a market trader, which seems to have slipped through the BBC, shocking the interviewer with his level of candor about the current and upcoming economic reality

October 6 2011
IMF warns of global recession risk in 2012

October 7 2011
Banking meltdown imminent says IMF advisor

Updates 2012
Jan 16 - The Collapse of China
Jan 19 - The World Bank puts the globe on notice
   - The Warning Signs are there for all to see
Jan 31 - Bankers Report Anxiety  a sobering NZ survey from inside the industry
April 12 - BBC video on the return of bartering to the Greek town of Volos

April 14 2012 - NZ columnist Brian Gaynor writes about why the New Zealand economy is basically in crisis compared to neighbourhood nation Australia - report

April 26 2012

Helen Clark, former NZ Prime Minister makes reference to this global report re causes such as over-population and over consumption and their impacts on economic and environmental crises in this present century - report

2013 updates
April 2013
A confused economic picture globally with signs pointing in both directions, but warnings remain in place that the rot has not been excised from the system.
Human nature will lead many again into the folly of debt and pre-crisis lending behaviour by banks in New Zealand for housing investment is again commonplace
IMF report
Auckland housing boom warning

March 2013

The dangerous aspect of the present era is the capacity for misinformation to prevail in all manner of circumstances.

Though profound collapse has not yet affected global markets, the disease factors are ever present.

March 11 Telegraph UK business editor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on the global economy
Sputtering global economy belies stockmarket boom
Asia's economic recovery is losing momentum and Europe's slump is proving deeper than expected, raising concerns that soaring stock markets globally have jumped ahead of economic reality. full report

November 17 2013

I recently watched Niall Ferguson's series China Triumph & Turmoil [ You Tube has 4 episodes] in order to understand the mind of the dragon nation - now as we face an increasingly easternized world - see this post also related to Ferguson's proposals for an historical shift
While watching the episode related to the famine in the years surrounding 1960 -the Great Chinese Famine 1958-1961 with mass fatalities from starvation on account of a mega failure of Maoist policy involving greatly reduced food production, coupled with drought & adverse weather I was very interested to se the astrological picture in effect at that time and the connections to the astrology of China

To select a "birth" chart for a nation is not easy because there can be many new beginnings. When the Chinese Soviet Republic chart [1931] is considered there is much more of current relevance than the People's Republic chart [1949]

source

I believe the austerity,famine, drought, large scale transformational energy of this chart was activated during the Great China Famine - and that it will be activated again in the period starting in the middle of 2015, further strengthening from March 2016, noticeably as 2017 begins, throughout 2017, sustained through 2018, 2019

In the China Soviet chart:

Saturn 18 Capricorn-Pluto 22 Cancer both at 90 degree angle to Uranus at 16 Aries with midpoint of 19 Cardinal are the energy points about to be re-awakened

The Energy Re-visited:

The process begins from 2015 with Uranus, Pluto and Saturn all activating the 16-22 degrees of the cardinal signs Aries and Capricorn
The spectre of drought-related food shortages and severe reductions in production is revisited with Saturn passing through the growth and production sign Sagittarius in the period 2015-2017

The Consequences

The scale of impact gives rise to considerations of an economic meltdown impacting the world -but which originates in China -not in the West eg the Eurozone - as many expect. Global effects are now the consequence of globalisation & the expanded footprint China has in multiple countries

The Deeper Meaning:

Activations of the cardinal signs Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn signify gross imbalances come to light and must be corrected.
Humanity faces the agenda preprogrammed by natural forces

In the Great China Famine:

Saturn was in Sagittarius in 1957-1958 = the decline in growth & production [Saturn returns to Sagittarius in late Dec 2014-late Dec 2017]
Environmental factors very relevant as well as policy effects

Saturn was in Capricorn 1959, 1960, 1961 = extreme austerity phase

With Sun-Mercury-Venus in Scorpio in the China-Soviet chart - transformational periods are very natural in the course of China's modern history.
Pluto [by connection to Scorpio] is therefore very relevant and having intense links to Saturn [by opposition] and Uranus [by 90 degree square] the potential for cycles of mass disaster, death, annihilation and destruction are anticipated both in the human and natural environments

November 26 2013
The Pope has released a document defining his papacy. His comments of capitalism as "a new tyranny" are very relevant in this time of major social, economic, political & environmental upheaval since he essentially is pointing out the gross imbalances underlying inequality and poverty
The full text of his address [in English] can be accessed via this link
Related news report in The Independent

2015 updates
2014 has passed and the meltdown is yet to occur, despite multiple sources seeing relevant indicators.
One important reminder as stated here in 2013
Saturn returns to Sagittarius in late Dec 2014 & exits late Dec 2017.
This is a global indicator of restrained growth.
The period 2015, 2016 2017 represents a high potentiality for a significant global downturn.
This could occur as soon as 2015.

Capricorn and therefore its connected planet Saturn carry the energy of banks and the banking system.
Libra relates to finance in general, accountancy [balancing the books]
These two Cardinal signs are highly affected by the dominant transformational energy of the period 2012-2016 -the revolutionary impetus of Pluto in Capricorn offset at 90 degrees to Uranus in Aries.
It seems that the tail end of the cycle is where the fruit is - where real change for the better is possible.
A major economic crisis provides much positive opportunity to create collectively better systems.

note: for what it's worth, since "sensitive degrees" are found to cluster around events of similar nature:
Saturn, the Sun and Neptune all conjunct at 7degrees [in Sagittarius and Pisces] at the end of Nov 2015-start of Dec.
the lunar nodes are at 26-27 degrees in mid Dec 2015

In August 2007 as the GFC began to unfold:
the lunar nodes were at 7 Pisces
Saturn was at 27 degrees
Chiron at 13 degrees [Aquarius]

In October 1929 the Wall St Crash precipitating the Great Depression;
Saturn was at 26 degrees
Chiron and the nodes at 13 & 12 degrees [Taurus]

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