Credit Crunch - Recession, A Point of View
August 30, 2008 Misc. 6 Comments DonateEveryone’s talking about an economic downturn or recession. So, I thought this astrologer could put her piece in too, - just for the non-astrologers
A special note for non-astrologers - this article is more for your benefit than for astrologers, because we already have this information. This is for you to give you foreknowledge of what you can expect over the next few years - and to alleviate your fears and helplessness in the face of the upcoming events. We are NOT victims - the Universe is NEVER out to get us!!!
We are about to enter a strong period of challenging aspects between Saturn, planet of boundaries and structures and Uranus, the planet associated with breaking boundaries and sudden changes. While this may sound pretty innocuous - and on an individual birth chart, they may be - however, on a world scale their effects can be enormous.
Astrologers work with cycles: Solar - which last a year; Lunar which last a month; Mars which last 2 years, etc. In fact in the world of financial astrology, which is NOT my particular speciality, they seem to concentrate on the cycles of Jupiter (12 years) and Saturn (30 years). Just to note here that I specialise in individual lives and their relationships.
As this is such an important period we are about to enter I want to unpack it slowly for ease of understanding. So, first of all, I wish to note a few previous periods when Saturn and Uranus were facing each other off across the heavens - just so that you begin to get a flavour of this. And while Saturn’s orbit is 30 years, Uranus is 84 years, hence the duration of a couple of years for each meeting or aspect. Each cycle is 40 years. It is also worth mentioning that there is always a build up of events before the planetary aspects are exact. If a house is to be built, for example, what we actually see is the foundation being dug before the bricks are put in place - however, the digging is the final piece of a long process that began perhaps the previous year.

