Dear Friends,
I wrote this newsletter over three years ago. My analysis of the U.S. chart then suggested
the years 2011 to 2014 would hold many challenges. We are now experiencing the transits discussed in this
newsletter.
Best wishes,
Monica
UPCOMING TRANSITS FOR THE
UNITED STATES
April 21, 2008
By Monica
Wallach
Dear Friends,
In this newsletter, I would like to
examine the chart of the United States.
The last time I did a detailed analysis of the U.S. chart was in October
2001, just after the attacks of September 11.
That analysis concluded that the planetary transits aligning over the
U.S. chart for the next several years showed a high probability of the country
entering a prolonged period of war.
(See full article at: http://monicawallach.com/Astrological%20Prediction%20of%20Upcoming%20Events.htm).
This newsletter will examine the upcoming transits for the United
States. One of the biggest influences
in the U.S. chart over the next several years will come from a transit of
Pluto. In mythology, Pluto was known as
the god of the underworld. In
astrology, Pluto has an association with intense experiences, wealth, death and
transformation. Pluto takes
approximately 248 years to cycle the 360-degree zodiac one time. As a country, the United States has not yet
completed one cycle of Pluto to its natal chart.
Above you will see the birth chart for
the United States. Note that at the
moment of birth, Pluto sat at 27 degrees and 33 minutes in the sign of
Capricorn g
in
the second house. It also was moving in
retrograde motion, as noted by the Ś symbol.
By looking at the transit chart below, you can see that currently
Pluto has moved almost fully around the zodiac, and today we find it at 1
degree of Capricorn.
If you look at
the seventh house in the U.S. birth chart, it shows four planets in the sign of
Cancer a: Venus at 3 degrees, Jupiter at 5 degrees,
the Sun at 13 degrees, and Mercury at 24 degrees. Cancer has an association with the themes of mothering and
nurturing. The United States shows
these traits in its willingness to help others throughout the world. Having Venus and Jupiter together in any
chart brings benefits, as these two planets have an association with wealth,
ease, harmony, and benefits. Having the
Sun next to Venus and Jupiter usually indicates wealth and happiness for the
person or entity born under that alignment.
Now that Pluto has started to move through Capricorn, the sign
opposite Cancer, it will make an “opposition” to the U.S. planets in
Cancer. This starts in 2009 as Pluto
opposes Venus, and ends in 2021 with the opposition to Mercury. You can see this graphically in the chart below
by noting Pluto in the first house starting to align opposite Venus in the
seventh house.
What does this transit of Pluto indicate? To predict the future with any accuracy, we
have to research the past. One key time
to examine was when Pluto moved through the sign of Cancer itself, and aligned
directly over the U.S. planets in Cancer.
This occurred between the years 1916 to 1935. (Pluto moves at different rates of speed through the zodiac, due
to its elliptical orbit. For example,
Pluto spent thirty years moving through the thirty degrees of the sign of
Taurus, and only twelve years moving through the thirty degrees of
Sagittarius.) Pluto’s transit of Cancer
in the 1920’s and 1930’s coincided with the build up and crash of the stock
market, and the economic depression that followed.
During the stock market crash of 1929, Pluto had just moved over
the Sun in the U.S. chart, a very key indicator in any birth chart, as it
signals the life force energy of the person or country born. In the chart below, you can see transiting
Pluto at 19 degrees Cancer, just past the 13 degree Sun.
On the date of
birth of the USSR, we find the Sun at 14 degrees in the sign of Scorpio e in the third house. In the years 1989 to 1991, transiting Pluto
aligned directly over the Sun in the Soviet chart. This coincided with the time when the country went through
profound political and economic changes.
Note that at the birth of the new Russia, transiting Pluto was located
at 21 degrees Scorpio, just past the old USSR Sun at 14 Scorpio.
The 84-year cycle of Uranus also bears watching. From 1928 to 1930, Uranus squared Venus,
Jupiter, and the Sun in the U.S. birth chart, meaning it moved through the sign
of Aries and made a ninety degree angle to Cancer. Uranus completes its 84-year cycle and will again come into the
sign of Aries and square the U.S. Venus, Jupiter, and Sun in the years 2011 to
2014.
The alignments during 2011 to 2014 will mirror those of 1928
through 1930, in that both transiting Pluto and Uranus will influence Venus,
Jupiter, and Sun in the U.S. chart at the same time, and in roughly the same
alignments. Since Venus, Jupiter and
the Sun indicate wealth and life force energy, a period of economic upheaval
for the U.S. seems likely.
Given that Pluto governs longer cycles, and has a strong
association with the death of old forms and the transformation into new ways of
being, it seems the United States has a fairly intense period of change
coming. During the transit of Pluto
through the sign of Cancer in the 1920’s and early 1930’s, the country saw
massive changes brought on by the excesses of the 1920’s and then the hardships
of the depression in the early 1930’s.
We should feel no surprise if a similar scenario emerges during Pluto’s
transit this time.
Given an examination of these longer cycles, within the next five
to six years, it seems likely that the United States will see a period of
extreme economic and/or political change.
Love and light,
Monica