Turbulent Times Update

Cryptocurrencies, Covid-21 & Geopolitical trends – Welcome to latest update in my Turbulent Times series! Reminder: This is not financial or health advice – it’s my unique, no fluff astrological take on the Zeitgeist. If you haven’t read any of the previous pieces, please do, as this is building on those and it probably won’t make sense without that context.

#2021’s Signature Astrology: It’s Saturn square Uranus! Exact three times over the year, it is in effect the whole time and amped whenever the Sun, Moon, or an inner planet is in a Fixed Sign. Relax. Saturn in Air Aquarius is tangibly lighter than it was in Capricorn, shacked up with Uncle Pluto over 2019/2020. And Uranus rules Aquarius so has some leverage – it will be edgy but productive.

Worst Case Saturn Sq Uranus Scenario: Governments (Saturn) let rip with a ‘smart citizen tracking’ solution that they outsource to corporatocracy who blow billions (our money) on focus groups perfecting a groovy “hey there!” overlay for all the surveillance, cash bans and whacko additives to the water supply. The people (Uranus in Taurus) become drastically polarized over this.

Best Case Saturn Sq Uranus Scenario: An enlightened, genius blend of Aquarius high-tech futurism and Uranus in Taurus Gaia-first solutions to (1) save the planet, (2) reform the multiple areas of justice and social security that need it, (3) restore sanity in fiscal governance.

Weird New Political Trend: Unlikely but beneficial bipartisan affinities between politicians who appear to be in the game for more than merely their own ends: Eg: In America, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Ted Cruz. In Australia, Penny Wong & Andrew Hastie.

Joe Biden’s Birth Chart is Wild: He’s a big 12th house guy – Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars in Scorpio/the 12th house. It’s a rare phenom in politics! The 12th house is usually the realm of shamans and poets. However, Hillary Clinton has a similar vibe: Venus, Sun and Mercury in Scorpio/the 12th house. Biden has secrets but his Scorp is also in a beautiful trine to Jupiter and he has Neptune in the 10th house, suggesting emotional intelligence + a degree of visionary charisma. But jeez – his Mars in Scorp squares Pluto in Leo and they’re heavied by the Saturn-Uranus square all year, beginning now. It’s a unique transit – a true once-in-a-life-timer and it suggests either an expose of shady power deals or the high-stakes of the geopolitical arena he has entered.

I’m hesitant to mention the Kamala Harris astro. When I posted about her as a nominee for candidate, the anti-Kamala comments got so intense that I took it down and didn’t write about any of the other candidates lol. But strikingly, her Mars in Leo and Saturn in Aquarius are square Biden’s Scorpio stellium. Her Jupiter is opposite it. Their rapport would need to be tactical and highly calibrated. They’re both super-fixed, reflecting the times, and any animosity or difference of opinion could rigidify.

The Gray War Is Here: P.R. skirmishes, social media routs, cyber-hacks, corporate espionage and duelling propaganda giants. Striking news headlines appear one day and then the story is dropped. Was it real? Is it no longer news? What happened? A glitch in the matrix? Who knows if you’re seeing ‘the main news’ or something the algorithm thinks you’ll respond to? Or is it just because so many journalists have been ‘let go’ and the ones left are out-numbered by lobbyists? The Gray War has already begun. It does your head in but we’d probably all prefer it to a hot war. With Caligula having ungraciously vacated the White House, the tone is remarkably more elegant, reflecting a coherent management structure as opposed to whatever happens when you inadvertently snort Cheeto dust with your sildenafil citrate. But the Gray War will still be happening. Privacy hygiene is very 2021. 

Currency Wars Will Be Hip: China was already fixing to try and mess with the USD’s status as world reserve currency, multiple people in governance are fed up with central banks and their methods and even the most not-into-economics characters are waking up to how the stock market is being gamed. Cryptocurrencies, gold, micro-investment, vendor-financing – anticipate multiple breakaway movements in money.

Beam and Dashcoin are already unsettling Paypal and co. Now the David versus Goliath Gamestop stunt and the subsequent trading halt have put Wall St on notice. Good! If you have not read about it yet, do. It occurred with Jupiter in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus (the cooler cousin of the longer-playing Saturn square) and is very much a coming theme.

My Experiment With Gann Trading Cryptos Worked – Sort Of!  I recently wrote about W.D. Gann, who invented all these astrological stock-trading techniques back in the day and I’ve been trialling some of his methods. He clouds them in Christian Science banter but, if you know astrology, a lot of it is common sense. Eg: A high of something when there is a Mars-Jupiter conjunction will be a low when Mars opposes Jupiter. His Moon declinations technique does, however, work brilliantly with crypto. I will track it some more before I share. You could also set up a dummy trading account and compare highs and lows with the Moon Calendar. Or, generate a chart for a crypto based off it’s genesis block and then observe how various astro-phenoms affect it. It’s fun and highly addictive but fiddly to set up. If you’re an algorithm builder or good at setting up charts to compare data inputs, email me!

The Flashpoints For The Year Are Super-Obvious: G.F.C. 2 and/or intensified conflict around/over the contested Spratly Islands/Hong Kong/Taiwan and Co. June is the trickiest time, featuring a Solar Eclipse square to Neptune and Mars opposite Pluto, ahead of the second Saturn-Uranus square. If we were allowed to travel internationally, I’d say avoid flying that month anyway. See the previous T.T. pieces for more on strategy, but it will be a good time to be fluid, objective and financially well-informed.

Will The Revolution Be Decentralized? Everyone is talking about it but the city versus country theme is yet to play out. The concept of commuting into a central business district seems quaint post-Cv-19 but there can be a lot of fantasy in people’s concept of how their ‘green change’ will go. This is an era of massive transition and restructuring, obviously. Saturn-Pluto performed beyond all expectations and it will take a while for the new terrain to be clear. It’s not, of course, an impulse decision. Now that Mars has simmered down, stately pace decision-making is back in vogue.

Already Obvious New Personal Trend: The end of relationship ambiguity. In love, friendship and business, people are taking sides – either declaring allegiance or scramming at warp speed, probably after a definitive moment. Nobody has the bandwidth for ‘must catch up’ acquaintances or long-time semi-frenemies.

The Post Viral Information Crisis Will Be A Thing: Once Covid-19 is cured or, more likely, it fades into the broader array of pathological threats – the accusations, cover-ups, conspiracy theories and conflicting intel will go on for ages. What really caused it? What should have/should not have been done? How granular are the testing and morbidity stats?  Is X vaccine a medical miracle or future liability? Is it really possible to snap back into full-speed globalism and contain this or the next pandemic? Is W.H.O. imperfect like any large bureaucracy but still the goods? Or does it need urgent reform?

Solar Minimum Is Ending: In terms of the actual illness, I thought (and still think) that it would decline with Saturn settling in Aquarius and more specifically, as the Solar Minimum ended. The Sun was so underactive for the last two years that many scientists thought it might stay that way – that we were on the verge of a Grand Solar Minimum. The Solar Minimum is part of a standard 11-year-ish cycle – it loosely parallels Jupiter cycles.

We were at Solar Minimum as per usual in 2019 but it was a deep one and lasted longer than usual, sparking concerns that it could be a decades-long G.S.M.  This phenom is behind the scary medieval warnings etched into the super-low water lines of rivers in Europe: If you see me, weep. They also coincided with the gigantic, notorious plagues of history.

But the Sun kicked up into action again and we’re now in a new Solar cycle – with stronger Solar Winds and fewer outer galactic cosmic rays.  Swine Flu began in January 2009 – another Solar Minimum – and according to W.H.O. – was over in 19 months. If Covid-19 follows the Swine Flu trajectory, it will be declared ‘over’ by August 2021. In my (non-medical opinion), the greater threat remains the myriad of chronic conditions created by environmental toxins, the underfunding of preventative public health strategies outside of big pharma and iatrogenesis.

Thoughts?