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Eurozone Recovery Stalls




PARIS — This was supposed to be the year that the European economy decisively broke free of its shackles. But after a dismal round of economic growth reports on Thursday, (Aug. 14) the main question appears to be whether the eurozone will avoid tumbling back into recession. Germany and Italy both contracted 0.2 percent in the second quarter, compared with the first, official data showed, and the French economy stagnated yet again. The region was beginning to falter even before the latest round of tit-for-tat sanctions with Russia over Ukraine further clouded the outlook. http://nyti.ms/1rvUIIj


As in many examples presented on this blog site, here too we will see how the Capricorn Ingress chart is useful for mapping events. Shown here is the Capricorn Ingress chart at Paris progressed to August 14. Notice the alignment of the Grand Cross straddling the horizon axis.







With Mars in the Cross are stars of Corvus, the Raven or Crow. The Crow-Raven is a talking bird, hence its association with news or message-bearing. Given its black colour it was sometimes linked to bad news. The delineation of some of the elements of the Grand Cross given below tell us the reasons behind the news.

Hades-Pluto : to hear of  problems or decline in the area of finance and business.

Jupiter-Pluto is a combination that  Steven Forrest describes thus:

Under moving squares or oppositions between Pluto and Jupiter, faith is embattled. Perhaps someone has gone down a road for the wrong reasons…Comforting but phony elements of your life must be released and new possibilities seized under less than auspicious circumstances.

Jupiter-Neptune are in  sesquisquare aspect about which Martha Wescott writes:

Having instances of  "false hope" or seeing the self-confidence undermined. People who built their castles on sand are  discovering that the tide has changed (and that piddly little bump is  where their fortress used to be.)  There will certainly be plenty of  examples of folks who "promise the world" and, not only can't they  deliver the sun, moon and stars, they're lucky if they can come up with  a map of Newark


Uranus-Pluto always corresponds to a disruption of the status quo. Life as we know it is breaking down. Pluto is in Capricorn.  And Capricorn is about authority and power of  institutions  of all kinds including those of business and finance. With Pluto moving through Capricorn  economies and  businesses are  failing. But these mega-institutions think that it is a passing phenomena and that they can ride over it without making drastic changes. Corvus, the Raven, then is the messenger carrying bad news that it cannot be done.

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