January - Life with all its sorrows is good . . . everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding . . . there is always tomorrow.-- Dorothy Thompson
Getting the whole 2009 forecast done in hard copy for my clients and online for everyone else has been so demanding this time around that I really don’t have time for a complete January forecast. But there are a few highlights I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least mention them.
There’s a whole lot of intersolar action going on, with both Mercury and Venus moving in on their close approach to Earth. Transportation and communication are key, so keep your focus. A widespread mass psychosis is trying to believe there’s a bottom in the markets and the economy. Beware: it’s nowhere near yet, with Saturn and Uranus now very near their exact alignment in early February.
There’s plenty of geophysical energy afoot too, between the SuperMoon on the 11th and the solar eclipse on the 26th: this will be a month of strong storms, high tidal surges and notable seismic activity (including magnitude 5+ earthquakes and volcanic eruptions).
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2009 Forecast I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.-- Napoleon
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Last year’s annual forecast nailed the headlines of 2008: the global economic crisis and the election of Barack Obama chief among them. "The big story for 2008," I wrote, "is money . . . and the money, in a word, is gone." It remains the big story for 2009, which will come as no surprise to anyone who read my 2008 forecast in full. We’re still in the early phase of a process of economic transformation that won’t be completed until the next Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, in 2020. Along the way, and particularly over the next couple of years, the global financial system remains in dire straits. As for President Obama, before the first primary caucus or election, my 2008 forecast described him as "clearly a man of destiny," named him as one of the two likeliest Democratic Presidential nominees – no, the other one wasn’t the then-front runner, Senator Clinton - and forecast that "a Democrat, most likely" would win the election. (Remember, that forecast was published in late 2007, back when Sen. Obama was generally regarded as a long shot and his timed birth data hadn’t been released.) Now that the money’s gone and the long shot has indeed won the election – per last year’s forecast – the obvious question is: where is this taking us? What’s next?
People are asking whether the world economy is in a recession or a depression. The answer, frankly, is yes. The term depression was originally used to describe an economic slump because the previously used nomenclature, panic, was considered too, well, panicky. Take the Panic of 1873, for example, which coincided with a quintuple Saturn-Uranus opposition like the one dominating the 2008-2010 celestial scene. (It’s an alignment that appeared once in the fall of 2008, makes two appearances in 2009, and two more in 2010.) Fearful that calling the 1929 crash a panic would cause a panic, the Hoover administration readily accepted the milder sounding term depression. (It was the British economist Lionel Robbins who coined the term "The Great Depression" in 1934.) After that one turned into one of America’s (and the world’s) worst nightmares, subsequent administrations determined that economic downturns should be called something else – anything else – to avoid triggering a national malaise. They settled on recession, which seemed to carry a less threatening connotation – until the current one came along, at any rate. Chances are, the Orwellian types will coin a new term to replace recession, by the time this one is done. A rose is a rose is a rose . . . and some are more equal than others.
The Saturn-Uranus opposition of November 4, 2008 (the US Presidential Election Day) was the first in the current series of alignments between these two planets, continuing with two in 2009 and two more in 2010. (The signature Saturn-Uranus opposition of this year – of the whole 2008-2010 series of five, arguably - is the September 15 event, in which Earth and Uranus are aligned on one side of the solar system, while Saturn on the other side is aligned with the Sun.) The 2008-2010 quintuple alignment of Saturn and Uranus is in turn part of a complex of planetary patterns with deep, broad roots into the past and future. It’s the signature of a historic watershed, the ongoing and historic shift in civilization I've been writing about in my forecasts these past several years. It hit critical mass, as I have written, under the aegis of the 2006 Saturn-Jupiter-Neptune T-square configuration (the first of its kind since the year 536), and the subsequent 2006-2007 Saturn-Neptune opposition. (A T-Square is comprised of three planets, two of which are opposite each other as seen from Earth, with a third planet at ninety degrees to each of the other two.) These in turn are rooted in what the astrologers of old called the Trigonalis, the historic watershed we've all been living in since 1980-81 and which culminates in 2020. The Saturn-Uranus opposition of 2008-2010 is one of the major signposts along the way. This year’s Jupiter-Neptune triple conjunction is a new addition to the ménage, a further development in the process.
That’s not all. There’s also the Pluto transition from Sagittarius to Capricorn. It’s been underway since January 26, 2008, and was accomplished on November 28, 2008. The year 2009, like 1763, is the first full year of an extended Pluto in Capricorn sojourn...cont'd
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