US stock markets suffered their worst August in almost a decade though they have since risen. The Dow Jones ended the month 4.3pc lower, with the S&P 500 down 4.7pc. The FTSE 100 lost 0.6pc in the month, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 7.5pc and Germany’s Dax 5.8pc.
The Dow Jones chart had transiting Pluto square Mars and sextile Solar Arc Saturn through July/August so was always on cue for a slide and those influences return mid October to late November this year. What is worrying is that in 2011/12 tr Pluto was will be square the Dow Jones Solar Arc Neptune which is pretty devastating, mirroring the panicky confusion of the 1929 Wall Street crash when tr Pluto was conjunct the Dow Jones Solar Arc Neptune. There aren’t quite the plethora of other damaging influences that were around in 1929 and the aftermath but it still is not going to be pleasant.
Japan’s economy is creaking ominously again with deflation having a strong grip. The Bank of Japan chart is very blocked and depressed with Solar Arc Sun square Saturn at the moment and tr Neptune due to conjunct the Solar Arc Sun and square Saturn from mid Oct to mid Nov this year which will be panicked and uncertain. Solar Arc Uranus is exactly trine the BoJ Pluto as of now as it takes extraordinary steps to try to rectify the situation. But with Solar Arc Neptune creeping closer to a trine to Pluto thro’ 11 and then 12 it’ll be ways off before they find constructive stability.
The Nikkei chart also has more woes to come with tr Neptune opposing its Venus through the latter months of this year; with tr Saturn about to cause jolts in Oct, deep gloom in Nov and high anxiety in Dec and those influences repeat into 2011.
The UK FTSE, although in a better state since Saturn moved out of Virgo and stopped squaring the Jupiter Neptune conjunction, still has a highly strung look about it with tr Uranus square Neptune now and again in early 2011; Solar Arc Saturn conjunct Uranus now; Solar Arc Uranus conjunct Mercury and by next year the Sun – all of which look like major jolts.
The Bank of England also has a volatile, disruptive Solar Arc Sun conjunct Uranus at the moment and tr Uranus square Saturn from mid September – so a change of policy will be forced on them by outside circumstances.
The EU has been strangely absent from the headlines recently apart from unemployment figures staying high. But there is no way that Greece is doing well with the pole axing influences on their chart; Spain is in horrible shape and that’s not going to improve anytime soon, indeed will be even more visibly on its knees in 11/12; Ireland despite stalwart efforts is not doing well. The German-back EU policy of cut, cut, cut pulls down tax revenues and makes for a moribund economy. That is going to come home to roost at some point.
The EU Central Bank is under huge pressure astrologically at the moment, though its not too obvious on the outside and will continue to be s till the year end with a distinct dip in Sept and Oct this year as tr Neptune opposes their financial Venus. Later this year the major upheaval of Solar Arc Uranus conjunct their Pluto comes in to play so they won’t be able to hold to their present course much longer. 2011 looks disappointing and confused for them.
The interesting point will be after mid October for the EU and Euro charts with their 10 degree Capricorn Suns and of course Germany which has the same. Tr Saturn square their Sun then may be a mild enough influence but it does seem to be affecting a good many of the key charts. And is a harbinger of things to come with tr Pluto and tr Uranus moving to the hard aspects three years later.
Germany is the lynch pin of the EU and although they are buoyed up by Jupiter influences in 11/12 also have decidedly panicky ones as well – tr Neptune square Solar Arc Sun; and a really discouraging tr Pluto conjunct Sun/Saturn from early 2011 for two years thereafter.
Setting an exact timetable for these charts isn’t easy – as we saw last year from the Euro chart – since both countries and company/bank charts seem to have a time lag. Perhaps their inanimate nature makes them less sensitive to the early warning signals and it is often after the exact influence that they start to react.
