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

Also read:

Astrology for World & China Economies
and
Dust Bowl Drought -the returning cycles impacting the US

GREECE says NO - astro analysis indicators for July

 

REUTERS report

GREECE says NO - bailout conditions rejected by 61%.
Astro analysis indicators for July indicate a month of extreme events - plus extending even longer due to aggravating effects:
Issues impacting upon families, on homes and housing, on government, on finance & economics and an activation of the energies of war and peace, make this month very potent.

 The period 13-19 July surrounding the Full Moon, is critical:
Devotional patriotism is strongly stimulated.
Loss of wealth, loss of assets, restricted access to money.

By late July
The overriding theme is that cruel, austere, brutal and cold hearted urges will be in conflict with the energies of big-hearted love and generosity. Helping those in need versus abandoning those who are struggling is a relevant consideration. 

 The full July report covers various optional expressions for the prevailing energy. 
Two major indicators analysed in the July report and forewarned in the June report, suggest a very rough economic period in store for many June-July-August-Sept 2015.
This will not just be limited to the domestic situation in Greece

Update July 15

On the eve of the New Moon the Greek parliament has passed measures to introduce the austerity conditions imposed by Euro creditors. The IMF has strongly criticised the extent of these measures. Too tough? or just right?
The astrological indicators are on the side of the IMF -that the conditions are too extreme - and that an implosion is the likely outcome as opposed to a recovery. 
The very rough economic period in store for many June-July-August-Sept 2015 is calling the shots - but this period is not the end of a longterm trend...read China and World economy indicators

Further reading

BBC report on the NO vote
Asian markets fall sharply
China in Decline -the past revisited -astro-analysis

January 9 2012 FULL MOON horoscope chart

Methodology:

Lunar phases last a lunar month and potentials may be triggered days before exactitude by other energising planetary factors, as well as at points during the lunar month ahead.

People and places vary in their susceptibility due to each person and location having their own energy pattern. Patterns which match the closest to the prevailing template are the most strongly activated.

All energies have a complex array of connected expressions, so selecting the most relevant keywords comes down to judgement based on such aspects as context, relevance and probability. In a brief presentation it is not possible to canvas a full range of potentials so stand-out points only are noted.

This is a Capricorn-Cancer full moon, operating in the time frame Jan 9-Feb 6 2012 - which emphasises political and professional career matters along with homes, families and domestic life. Both signs are to do with guiding and parenting -Capricorn in business and institutions, Cancer in the home. Mothers and women have strong links to Cancer and traditionally more men resonate with Capricorn. Expect issues of governance and parenting to arise as these fundamentals are both under global scrutiny.
[update Feb 7 2012 - in recent days a furore in a baby bottle has broken out in NZ after breastfeeding advocate La Leche asked for a segment featuring NZ All Black Piri Weepu to be cut from an anti-smoking ad, saying he was shown bottle feeding his baby -which compromises their breast-feeding promotion. Fair enough would be a resonable response, but kiwis in droves have reacted with great defensiveness (Cancer) over this parenting (Cancer-Capricorn) issue. Weepu took it as a personal attack on his parenting; men & women claimed that any image of a good dad is great. The point was missed in this overly emotive response typical of Cancerian energies. This activation of the January full moon came in the final days of the phase prior to the Feb full moon, showing how effective the full period can be
 ]
In London, Pluto in Capricorn is exact on the Ascendant intensifying political/government restructuring
Saturn rules Asc and in Libra opposite Jupiter in Taurus expect more austerity policies; Saturn sextile Mercury - sombre economic news; Saturn quincunx Uranus - radical, innovative economic solutions needed. Saturn trine Neptune = reality has to kick in - to over-ride denial, escapism over our collective economic condition.
Saturn in tight semi-square to nodes in the signs of travel and transport: more recreational misadventures; transport problems, failures and tragedies. Maritime accidents also indicated by Uranus-Neptune-Chiron -  as is wounding via electricity + water/gas/fire
(update Jan 11 - Korean fishing boat on fire -Southern Ocean )

update Jan 15 2012
The cruise ship Costa Concordia struck rocks in Italian waters, took on water and limped to port resting on her starboard. Deaths, casualties and missing persons reported - see separate analysis

update Jan 30 2012

Two yachts in collision on Auckland harbour  - vintage yacht sunk, 2 overboard one woman injured

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The same event cast for New Zealand using Auckland, where the pattern is strongest in New Zealand, where the Moon is highlighted on the ascendant - giving the Cancer-Capricorn themes extra prominence - homes, families, parents, parenting mothers. Economic factors reiterate what is stated in the first  paragraph as the same influences apply globally. In New Zealand the emphasis is serious discussions about assets. Not surprising since asset sales are on the agenda of the right wing government, but households will be similarly focussed and relationships strained.
Potential for a hi impact family death involving water and/or gas & fire = explosion
(Tragically the Ballooning disaster in Carterton, NZ on January 7 qualifies as an event occurring in the full moon buildup phase = up to 3 days prior - and has this deathly signature involving Uranus in Aries-Neptune in Aquarius-Chiron in Pisces - read full analysis)
update Jan 28 2012 Diana Bliss, wife of high profile Australian, Alan Bond commits suicide in home swimming pool
update: Jan 10-11 news:

PRESS reporter writes of the "ghostlands" suburbs of Christchurch, abandoned houses that once were homes before 16 months of earthquakes - FULL REPORT
Lots of fires in the news - Fiordland National Park,  spontaneous combustion barn fire Canterbury, Unusual large number of fires in Southland -where drought is unfolding (Driest Dec. on record)
Families Commission reports on poor housing status for many families in NZ

 News items reflecting this month's themes:
homes, dwellings housing, maritime and travel accidents, financial austerity

this last one from America but also a p lab explosion reported in NZ

UK fire deaths involving family at home

      

update Feb 2 2012

Auckland City New Zealand facing severe housing rental crisis as the city continues to be the focus of job-seekers, but an under developed housing sector leaves renters desperate

ALSO
Review the analysis and later updates added re confirming events for the December 2011 lunar eclipse -as this sequence has a 6 month period of influence -or at least till the next lunar eclipse on June 4 2012. This lengthy window of activation enables eclipses to have significant consequences. Observers in the ancient world acknowledged the need for tracking methods and thus developed henges for astronomical calculations - further reading

It's All About Cycles: the planet, politics, economics...

It's only arrogance that convinces humans to persevere with their endeavours, assuming linear, controllable factors, leading to perpetual prosperity, endless growth and enduring uninterrupted happiness. It's arrogance because it is a position removed from nature and the essence of nature, which is cycles of change.

Everything that exists is subject to cycles and the brevity of our personal lifespan means we witness only some smaller cycles, whilst learning through history of others, but even then there are cycles that exist way beyond human historical records.

Astrology is able to track a big range of these - Astrodienst provides an online ephemeris back to the year 1400, but our knowledge is always lacking in awareness of lessons from the past. Perhaps that is why humans learn so slowly.

Since 2008 we have seen Pluto, Uranus and now Neptune shift signs and their slow moving influences mean a changing era in humanity's collective experience. Typically things go down before they come up in that context: change involving disruption and despair, restructuring, revisioning and rebuilding are painful, stressful and threatening to most of us, but the promise of new, better, circumstances is our guiding intention, in a world where we know millions suffer injustice, inequality and impoverished conditions.
In 2011 with Uranus and Neptune both moving into new areas of influence, it is starting to become very apparent, even to those who don't have a template for cycle-watching, that a shift is upon us.

Astrology writer Adrian Ross Duncan posted a very useful analysis in September 2010 and some selected quotes first, sum up the territory ahead:

and the social unrest is as a result of..

the meltdown of capitalism - perfectly expressed, even before Japan in March 2011 faces the financial fallout from tsunami damaged nuclear facilities

and here Adrian references the humanitarian emphasis that will continue to demand attention, globally

Neptune entered Pisces in 1847 (coinciding with the release of the Communist Manifesto urging Workers of the World Unite!) and Neptune has just returned to Pisces on April 4 2011. In NZ we see the Maritime Union concerned about the state of foreign vessels and their worker conditions;

 in Christchurch, post-quake, worker rights, conditions and rescue packages are very much on the agenda of the Combined Trade Unions. Read Adrian's full article

London has just seen major rioting against government cuts and of course the pro-democracy movement is raging across the Middle East.  And these are just the social impacts of the era of change we are undergoing. Planetary upheaval, added into this mix is already responsible for humanitarian crises in ravaged Japan and completely unprepared Christchurch. 

We are witnessing cycles in action, in our lifetime