Ten-Year Astro-Socio-Political-Economic Outlook (November 2010)    
        
          Introduction: As of yet, there is no horizon of predictability for astrology, even as the math of chaos might better prove the cycles and manifestations that are measured by the motion of the planets.

The present decade, the 2010’s, has self-similarities to the early 1910’s, and the early 1930’s. The planetary signature which has this self-similarity for each of these three times is called a T-square of outer planets in cardinal quality zodiac signs. This means two planets opposite each other with the third at 90 degrees to both, putting the principles of these planets in an unstable, challenging, dynamic balance. T-square formations among the outer planets happens two or three times a century, but rarely in history does it occur in cardinal signs. Yet, it has occurred three times since the beginning of the last century. It occurred first in 1909 with cardinal T-square with Uranus in Capricorn opposite Neptune in Cancer, both squared by Saturn in Aries. Then a grand cardinal cross was completed when Jupiter transited Libra. It happened 1930-32 when Saturn in Capricorn opposed Pluto in Cancer, with both square to Uranus in Aries. It is happening 2009-2011 with Saturn in Libra opposite to Uranus in Aries with both square to Pluto in Capricorn. Jupiter is part of the cardinal T-Square when it conjoins Uranus in 2011 and opposes Pluto in 2014. While the greater outline of a cardinal T-square is collectively in effect, each planet has its time to speak in the drama presenting a series of escalating dynamic conflicts. The end of the decade culminates with the dramatic conflicts in a violent rearrangement of ideology, money, banking structure, housing and agriculture. Anger and violence are a result of incorrect perception of self, motivated by unbalanced desires. The unbalanced desires of the cardinal signs focus on excessive ambition: physical-ego, emotional-desire, social-legal, and governmental-political.

One similarity has to do with the poor economy, disparate incomes and high unemployment with unpaid social liabilities and unrealistic entitlements. The Great Depression and the Great Recession was the same cycle repeated. What changed was the response to it.

Another similarity is the start of different right-wing political parties and styles of government out of the remains of democratic societies, with a strong emphasis on corporatism and militarism as a means of economic power and international development. One aspect of fascist society has been called “compulsory sex morality” by psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, and it is an attitude often present in authoritarian autocratic societies and neo-militant supremacist organizations. It reflects an ideology more than an understanding of natural law or practical reality. Also, such groups are susceptible to demagogues. For example, Italian fascism started at the beginning of the 1900’s, German fascism in the 1930’s, USA New Deal physical and social reconstruction projects in the 1930’s, and the American military-industrial complex since 2000’s. All represent self-serving managed economies that enriched the financial, industrial and military elite at the expense of democracy and freedom rights.

Around the world at these times, people and governments trend toward militant corporatist attitudes, and they deny obligations to individual freedom rights. International corporations with reach and budgets become political power brokers and proxy agents of government, an extension of state power. In today’s world, a war of physical invasion and occupation does not succeed at this point in history, because Uranus and Neptune are in mutual reception. This condition means a null point in nation-building in world in general, because society is confused about their loyalties and values. Dynamic political and social organizations can form during this time of 2011 charted with a cardinal T-square to benefit society if they are purposed and directed. For example, the Bull Moose party and the NAACP were founded in 1909. Large infrastructure development projects and construction can occur during a cardinal T-square, with many current examples being built in China from dams to skyscrapers to bullet trains. For a past example, the Golden Gate bridge was constructed 1932-1934. 

A third similarity for the USA is the development of banking structure as an act of political will. Banking reform consists of creating a dynamic financial structure, as Aldrich did in 1910 under the influence of a cardinal T-square of Uranus, Neptune and Saturn to create the Federal Reserve in 1913 and as FDR did when he brought the Fed under the control of the White House in 1934. We can expect something along the same lines, but it takes a disaster before the new structure is put in place. The USA Central Bank concept is tied to an income tax and corporate development. The income tax drove the development of corporations as a means to avoid the tax, with associated abuses and unbalances. A corporation is not human, has no heart, and is used as a legal entity to hold money and assets. It is an Aquarian mental invention of fixed quality in the air element. January 2011 may see some financial reforms aimed at the financiers for them to come clean. The end of 2012 indicates conflictive, if not explosive, reforms and sudden breaks for banks which may come about from bankrupt nations needing refinancing, new nations emerging or gaining international recognition. International currency revaluations are due over the next decade, but they may not happen in earnest until the latter half or the end of the decade. The new decade in 2020 is likely to see a rebuilt or renovated structure of banking and a new form of currency, after the conflict destroys old governments and the old money structure, when Jupiter passes over Pluto and Saturn in 2020. Finances are focused on rebuilding government structure and basic needs.

Major tax changes to the tax structure can usually be expected at these times. Historically, the income tax increases in times of national economic need (1916, 1932, and 1943) and decreases in times of economic prosperity (1920’s, 1980’s, 2000-2008). The last half of the decade may see tax schedules rise to look more like the 1930’s. After 2020, the taxes will go down again for 15 years, until Saturn opposes Pluto.

An expanding economy has legs in 2011 which correlates to Jupiter approaching the final and third opposition to Saturn, March 2011. A wave of economic activity peaks at the opposition and then falls in a recessive trend that usually takes a few months to show. The economic activity of this pair of planets marks the business-economic cycle and is different from the mark of a “financial panic”. Only temporary inflation fears January 2011 arise as Jupiter conjoins Uranus. The housing industry may see a strong expansion in July and August 2013. All of 2014 is likely to be dealing with the refinancing of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae because of a need to create expansion in the housing sector even though it opposes bank resources and conflicts with new finance reforms. The refinancing and housing crisis demands resolution in 2014, when Jupiter opposes Pluto and the monetization of housing is revalued because of a need for new growth.  Also in 2014 there may be an example of an abrupt upwards or increased resource revaluation for banks to allow expansion, which means inflation fears recur when Jupiter squares Uranus. Circumstances closer to the time will indicate the probability of hyper-inflation, which is one option for dealing with the unfunded liabilities, entitlements and the housing crisis.

A fourth similarity seems to be the development of a world war a few years after the significant planetary cardinal signature happens, but this may be an illusion. The pattern of both WW I and WW II had the USA enter the conflict late after several years of fighting in the international community. In the case of WW II, the USA was forced into the war ten years after the Japanese invaded Manchuria and the Nazi party won electoral power. I suggest the planetary timing of these wars is marked by the first and second harmonic relationship of Saturn and Pluto. Consider the complete cycle of Saturn and Pluto, especially the part from the opposition to the conjunction as something that comes to a conclusion after a dramatic buildup.

A pattern appears to repeat, if the past is future. Saturn was approaching and conjoined Pluto during most of the time of WWI.  Saturn opposite Pluto marked the beginning of WWII and ended with Saturn conjunct Pluto. It is a speculation that a possible beginning of WW I was in 1898 (Spanish-American War) when Saturn opposed Pluto and then by some sequence of events became part of the open world war in 1914 to end in 1917. That speculation is open to a study. For WW II, by this measure of timing the real beginning was 1931, when Saturn opposed Pluto and which is when Japan invaded Manchuria and the Nazi party came to power in Germany. Matters deteriorated into open world war and ended before Saturn conjoined Pluto in Leo in 1947. The next opposition was in 1965 and the subsequent conjunction in 1982 in Libra.

WW III, the Islamo-Fascist war, is already started, is being fought worldwide and continues by this cyclic time measure of Saturn and Pluto. When Saturn in Gemini opposed Pluto in Sagittarius in August 2001, it was within days of the World Trade Center bombing. The war has gotten and will continue to get worse until the conclusion by 2020 when Saturn conjoins Pluto in Capricorn and then separates by a degree.

Uranus in Aries square to Pluto is a short term problem added to the longer larger war, which means a conflict between that which is new, better, different and democratic, and that which is monetized, corrupt and destructively powerful. Exploitations of the weaknesses of democracy are used to fight reforms in government spending. It also is an indication of a general arming of the populace, the creation of private armies and security guards, and conflict with sexual privacy rights. Starting in June 2012, bank breakups may be part of the reform. Corrupt characters in the shady underworld of crime and money are brought in for justice. Criminal enterprises are targeted for military action. There may be a formal declaration of war October 2013 to join a larger conflict in 2014.

A growing crescendo of general conflict In the second half of the decade from 2016 to January 2020, as Saturn and Pluto approach and conjoin in the cardinal quality sign of Capricorn threatens the USA general public and their financial well-being, with economic slowdown, taxes, currency valuation problems and standing armies. Whole governments will fall, and maps will be redrawn by the end of the decade. It is during these years that nuclear war threatens from rogue nuclear nations as the Islamo-Fascist War comes to a conclusion. The obvious concern is Iran and North Korea, which are both developing illicit nuclear weapons. If there is any conflict between the USA and its trading partners, such as China (which backs North Korea), that results in a trade war in these years, then a lack of critical resources could cripple parts of the world’s industrial economies. A problem with both Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear program is likely to come to a head in 2016-2019.  

New international banking and financial values take hold after early 2020, like the calm after a storm, and new money is created. This time happens when Jupiter conjoins Pluto in Capricorn and then conjoins Saturn in Aquarius. This time marks the beginning of a new era of prosperity, with an interruption in 2025, but generally improving until 2035. 

Current and future conflicts of this decade depend on air power, marked by Uranus in Aries, especially through remote controlled drones which technology is going to characterize the decade. Unmanned remote-control drones of all sizes and styles are being developed for military and personal use, which can be used for good or ill. There are many unemployed young men in the world, which results in willing fodder for armed service. Just as there were violent gun gangs during early 1930’s which developed with prohibition, so today there are violent gun gangs profiting from illegal trade, such as in Mexico. Just as with organized crime gangs of prohibition, there is likely to be more USA involvement in Mexico in a fight with Mexican drug cartels. In the world generally, 2012 June, September and 2013 May, October and 2014 April might see some major explosions of bombs on planes and trains, mines and pipelines from armed conflicts, marked by Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn, which might drag the USA into conflicts due to enforcing treaty obligations in 2013 and 2014. Emerging nations might correspond in time with Jupiter conjunct Uranus in Aries, but the larger ongoing conflicts are a result of ideological gun gangs spreading out and starting civil wars directly or by proxy and provocation. The misery comes from ignorance, natural disasters and wars that produce refugees and violent unstable societies. Generally, there is no nation building possible until 2026 when Uranus enters a 60 degree angle to Neptune, because of a lack of social cohesion, reactionary attitudes and institutions from the past that retard social reforms and advances in human rights. Even with democratic traditions, societies tend to devolve into religious, tribal, cultural and racial factions at this time. At the end of the decade, Saturn enters Aquarius and starts a three-year perfecting of the definition of democracy in the face of regressive oppression by bureaucracies. Then Pluto enters Aquarius for a time that sees the long process of rebirth of freedom and democracy.

The Iraq War has another measure for the time of war. That war is timed by the relationship between Uranus and Neptune, because that war started in March 2003 when the two planets went into a relationship condition called mutual reception in which each planet transits the other’s home zodiac sign and will end in February 2012 when the planets finally exit that condition. The violent act of killing others by blowing up oneself may end at that time, when Uranus exits Pisces, and by the time Neptune enters Pisces.

A predictable pattern of economic downturns can be tied to the USA horoscope, but the horoscope I use is based on principles of timing of charter incorporation, for which I use the time that George Washington took the oath of office, (April 30, 1789 12:45 PM New York). Based on that time my studies show the USA is due for an economic depression 2016 to 2019, because Pluto and Saturn transit opposite the radix Moon and Jupiter. Be careful of a financial panic in February, July and November of 2019, when Saturn transits opposite the natal USA POTUS/WIC Moon. Please, note that the astrological date and time of any USA horoscope is speculative as are any inferences or deductions based on that information.

Stock market indices generally track with astrology, but not always. While indices in India and China may go up and down, those in the USA might not because of other manipulations. This year 2010 has seen the merger of airlines, and the beginning of 2011 will see more benefits flow to airplanes, because of Jupiter conjunct Uranus. February 2011 will have a scare of inflation, and the metal business will do better, and industry generally. At any rate, the markets will trend upward continuing past March 2011. A major market trend signification is the planetary signature between Jupiter and Saturn, which has a twenty year cycle. The halfway mark of that cycle happens March 2011 but takes time to show in the economy. After this time, the general economy and market indices will be heading downward as a result of business inactivity. Economic growth occurs in 2013 as a result of small cap activity, until July 2015 to March 2016, when Jupiter squares Saturn, and when a larger economic problem engulfs the world and the USA in economic doldrums for four years. At least, there will be a recession felt for a year. At worst it morphs into a depression lasting four years, with 2018-2019 being growth by big cap buying up companies or merging. One possibility is that our obligations in international conflicts and to our standing armies will tax the populace for the war effort even as the USA has a depressed economy even as a trade war limits our strategic resources and oil energy. The cumulative results of the USA domestic financial policies including income disparities, tax breaks, military and deficit spending become apparent in 2016, but it will take a year to create a new income tax schedule that makes the USA financially self-sustaining.

China’s economy in the last decade has been by state directed corporatism.  This is in contrast to the USA corporatism that has a corporate directed state. China will use its currency to get and maintain economic, political and military supremacy, all at the corporate level of international relations that ruthlessly seeks monetization. They do not have a cultural history of democracy or education for democratic values or experience in principled individual self-rule. China is at a time in its history when its power and influence can spread as far as the Mongol empire once did, but the Chinese people need cultural wisdom about democratic social relations. If China wants to continue to play a part in the world economy without alienation of affection, then there must be less insular self-serving controls and more democratic and open markets.

Africa is symbolized by Pluto, as are armed forces. Pluto’s principles play a major part this decade in world affairs as a focus of the cardinal T-square and subsequent squares from the other outer planets. The negative tendency of Pluto is to totalitarianism, cruelty, ruthlessness, mob action and destruction that bring agony and mass death. The pirates of Africa, minions of Pluto, are targeted as part of an international effort in late 2014 to make the seas safer for commerce. The continent itself with untapped resources and unstable societies is a focus of the larger Islamo-Fascist war. The continent may attract the attention of the world powers, but it has the potential to rid itself of corruption, private armies and petty dictators and develop a fundamental sense of useful value based on the collective self respect of black men and women in world society for individual freedom rights.

            Energy development through the decade focuses on being able to provide electricity through many means. The USA is rebuilding its electronic grid, with the ability to absorb decentralized energy generation from alternative sources. The focus on accomplishment will be in 2014 to enable local input. Each fulfillment of the cardinal T-square and cardinal grand cross over the first half of the decade is both positive and negative additional impetus to energy development. Uranus square Pluto marks the problem of breaking earth deep underground with poisonous chemicals to release imprisoned natural gas and pollute the water supply at the same time. The world will lurch between fossil fuel addiction and electricity while Uranus squares Pluto in 2013-2014. When the subsidies are removed in 2014, which will be the more economically viable? The oil corporations use their tax subsidies to buy up other sources of energy that will serve the USA public in the future, so they will continue to profit. Technological development may take until the middle of the 2020’s for a total electrical solution to the needs of humanity.

 

 

Below is the Aquarian-Leo Horoscope Chart used by Bodhisalaists in New Orleans in the 1960's. The artist's mystical name was Loben.