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Capricorn and Aries—forming a grand cross

pattern with the USA’s natal Sun-Saturn

square—the nation has suffered a great

depression, and there have been no exceptions to

this “rule of thumb.”

Uranus‐Pluto square and grand cross with US Sun‐Saturn square, which last coincided with the great depression of the 1930s. By 2013‐2015, Uranus will have completed its 84‐year‐cycle since 1929‐1933.

Those who do not believe in the potency of planetary cycles call themselves rational. I have yet to meet a human being I can truly say is rational, but that’s another story.

Rationalists point to cause‐effect events leading to stock market crashes and great depressions. From the astrological perspective, these cause‐effect events are manifestations of planetary aspects acting on the invisible causal plane or subconscious realm. “As above, so below,” as one ancient stargazer put it.

Now that modern rational science is venturing into the subatomic realm, we may live to see the day when science will make a discovery: that what happens up there in the sky correlates with what happens in the subatomic realm. This would be a rediscovery of “As above, so below.”

Meanwhile, you can bet the farm that by the mid‐2000‐teens, much of the world will be struggling through another great depression, and a time of massive transformation with the high possibility of another world war.

The bigger the balloon of optimism preceding busts, the bigger and more long‐lasting the succeeding bust is. The good news is, humanity has survived great depressions since records have been kept, and found ways to improve economic conditions coming out of such hard times.

Meanwhile, millions of hard working, play‐by‐the‐rules citizens of the USA, Europe and elsewhere will probably lose all or part of their pensions in the present ongoing financial collapse. This means the rules of the money game and/or the monetary system will have change if we are to avoid the worst. .

Best possible scenario, the powers that be will make the changes necessary to avoid massive starvation and homelessness.

In fact, this process appears to have already begun. The US government, after decades of promoting so‐called “free‐market capitalism,” has suddenly done an ideological about‐face by socializing the debt incurred by big corporations. This is being done to “save the capitalist system.”

In fact it revolutionizes the system by “sovietizing” it. What scared 20 ^th Century capitalists about communism was the old Soviet Union’s ownership of banks and big industry. If transplanted to the USA, they feared, it would mean spreading the wealth horizontally. Well, now it is being transplanted to the G7 capitalist nations.

What is underway as I write this is an attempt to socialize the debt of these free‐

market ideologues without socializing their profits too. They want to keep big corporate profits private while distributing debts to the public.

The logical next step is for government authorities to come out of their ideological Trickle‐down trance and realize they can’t save their most generous campaign contributors (the big bankers) without saving the people who make the big bankers rich, the vast majority of workers and consumers. The vast majority needs to be saved in order to continue supporting the wealthy few.

There is another problem with the present bailout of banks and big corporations. No amount of such bailouts will overcome the reluctance of the majority of people to buy money and consume products at any interest rate, especially if inflation and unemployment continue to rise. And there will be more astounding surprises in store for the whole economy as this series of Saturn‐Uranus oppositions make direct “hits”—in 2008 on Election Day November 4, in 2009 on February 5 and September 15, and in 2010 on April 25 and July 26.

As Uranus’s square with Pluto continues to tighten, we can look for revolutionary thinking to arise and prevail. Together, Uranus and Pluto will terminate what no longer works and initiate the new and improved. The sensible thing for us humans to do is cooperate with this process of economic transformation. The old ideology has clearly led us to a funny‐money economy (the rich minority and the increasingly poor majority). Every past great depression in US history has been preceded by a record disparity between the rich few and the majority. What is needed is systemic change that will distribute wealth more horizontally. Uranus looks out for the downtrodden.

he biwheel chart below shows the USA’s birth on the inner wheel and Monday September 15, 2008 Full Moon chart on the outer wheel. It was this Lunation that triggered a more forceful plunge in already erratic stock markets. Notice that the Lunation hit the Saturn‐Uranus opposition, which in turn was conjunct the USA’s natal Neptune, square the USA’s natal Mars.

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The second biwheel chart is for the Crash of 1987. Again it was Saturn and Uranus afflicting the US Mars‐Neptune square, this time with help from Chrion in Gemini.

For the Crash of 1929, Saturn in Sagittarius opposite Jupiter in Gemini afflicted the US Mars‐Neptune square. The crash this day was triggered by the Moon conjunct the US Neptune. Why did this one lead into a great depression? Note Uranus in Aries opposite the US Saturn and square the US Sun, the signature of great depressions. Also notice that Pluto was conjunct the US Sun, while Mercury and Venue were conjunct the US Saturn.

K at Miller is a natural health care