June's Gemini New Moon: the beginning of the end for Europe?

The Mutable signs are not a good time for beginnings. They are a time for endings. It’s best to start things under Cardinal signs. The signs go through a repeating cycle of Cardinal-Fixed-Mutable, starting-establishing-ending:  Aries-Taurus-Gemini then Cancer-Leo-Virgo and so on.

The Iraq War was begun at 5.33 in Baghdad on 20 March 2003:

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The Sun could hardly have been in a worse position for beginning a venture, at 29 Pisces. Similarly, the Angles were all mutable. The war itself was short, but the aftermath was a carnage that went on for years, the reason given for the war – WMD – turned out to be false, and 9 years on Iraq is a fragile democracy that could easily turn into a dictatorship or chaos.

The Euro was launched at 1 minute past midnight in Brussels on 1^st Jan 1999:

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The Angles are at the very end of the mutable signs, and the Moon at 24 Gemini is late Mutable. Again, the worst possible time to begin a venture.

Look at the New Moon coming up on 19^th June:

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It is at the end of Gemini, closely conjunct the MC of the Euro. It is almost spooky. It comes 2 days after the elections in Greece, and is a New Moon of endings rather than beginnings. It doesn’t seem to leave much room for doubt that Greece will leave the Euro.

Will that be it? It wouldn’t seem to be if we consider the other 2 major events of this month - the transit of Venus across the Sun on the 6^th of June and the exact square from Uranus to Pluto on the 24^th. It’s a remarkable line-up of astrological events.

In modern astrology, Venus has become the planet of money (as well as love), and its rare passage across the face of the Sun at a time of economic crisis seems to portend a major event. This is visual astrology, which has a raw power that our usual astrology, based largely on invisible mathematical coincidences, does not. Visual astrology is an astrology of omens, of literal events rather than psychological interpretation.

So it doesn’t look like Greece will just leave the Euro and Europe will adjust and carry on as before. It’s looking more like a catalyst for a whole series of events.
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The bigger context is Uranus-Pluto. The Euro Sun is at 10.04 Capricorn, and the Uranus-Pluto square will be at 8.24 Capricorn-Aries. This will be the first of several squares around the Euro Sun.

Either astrology doesn’t work, or we are seeing the beginning of a grand demolition and rebuilding in Europe. The EU (or EEC as it then was) began at midnight on 1^st Jan 1958. The Sun is at 10 Capricorn, and again the Angles are at the end of the mutable signs.

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Uranus-Pluto isn’t about small adjustments, it is about systemic change. To date, after 4 years of recession, we still have the same system. The other 2 big powers, the US and China, look like they can carry on with the old system, but Europe does not. It may be gradual change in Europe over the next few years as Uranus-Pluto completes its series of 7 squares, and there may also be periods of sudden breakdown, as we are likely to see in the case of Greece.

Putting the Euro chart and the EU charts together, it is possible that the EU itself will disintegrate. In any case, looking at the realities of the debt in countries like Spain, and putting that together with the astrology, it looks like Greece will probably be part of a domino effect, gradual or otherwise, rather than being an isolated case.

And that probably means world recession for a few more years at least. I don’t think we need view that as a bad thing. We are conditioned to feel down unless the economy is growing. Growth, rather than sustainability and the meeting of needs, seems to be the modern criterion for a healthy economy. Recessions are a time for re-considering what is important. Maybe Venus, as a planet of values, also has that meaning in its passage across the Sun.