Monica’s
Astrological Newsletter
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.
We can also look at the charts of other countries and see how
Pluto transits have influenced them.
For example, we can analyze the chart for the old Soviet Union, born in
1917.
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