On Monday, (Dec.1) Russian President Vladimir Putin
clinched a groundbreaking deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that
will strengthen economic ties between the two nations and make Turkey the
major hub for Russian gas in the region. Under the terms of the agreement, Russia will pump additional natural gas to
locations in central Turkey
and to a “hub at the Turkish-Greek border” which will eventually provide Putin
with backdoor access to the lucrative EU market, although Turkey will serve
as the critical intermediary. The move creates a de facto Russo-Turkey alliance
that could shift the regional balance of power decisively in Moscow ’s
favor, thus creating another formidable hurdle for Washington ’s
“pivot to Asia ” strategy. While the media is characterizing the change
in plans (Putin has abandoned the South Stream pipeline project that would have
transported gas to southern Europe) as a “diplomatic defeat” for Russia , the
opposite appears to be the case.
The Obama administration has been doing everything
in its power to control the flow of gas from east to west and to undermine
Russian-EU economic integration. Now it looks like the nimble Putin has found a
way to avoid the economic sanctions, (Turkey
rejected sanctions on Russia ) avoid US
coercion and blackmail (which was used on Bulgaria ,
Hungary , and Serbia ), and avoid Washington ’s endless belligerence and
hostility, and achieve his objectives at the same time. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40391.htm
The
Proclamation of the Turkish Republic took place on October 29, 1923, 8:30 pm EET,
Ankara (32e52,
39n56). Here we start by looking at the national chart of Turkey [1]. Notice
that transit Pluto [12cp] is opposing radix Pluto[12cn] in the first house. Since we are now headed for the sixth
Uranus-Pluto square on December 15 and it effects Turkey ’s chart we need to remind
ourselves about what this square means.
Do
individuals have the freedom to choose what they will or won’t do, or do
collective agencies — from public opinion to various kinds of dominant social
institutions — have the power to determine what actions will and won’t be
allowed? This is the essence of Uranus in Aries square to Pluto in Capricorn,
which is the most
significant astrological alignment of this decade.
Adding
asteroids significantly improves any delineation. Here we find that Turkey ’s radix
chart has the asteroid Minerva conjunct Pluto.
MINERVA : Approval-seeking; strategies of
relating.
PLUTO: Urge
for dominance; control needs; psychological power; compulsions; pushed to Authenticity; a
person's "bottom line" (and primitive defenses;) the phoenix
potential.
Minerva/Pluto
Issues where one is caught up in an
"integrity dilemma"-- should
they do what will make another happy, or should they stay true to themselves?
Finally we
look at the chart of the October 8 eclipse at Ankara . Notice that it has the Uranus-Pluto
Grand Cross aligned with the horizon axis. Progressing the chart to December 1,
the date of the Russia-Turkey agreement, aligns the Cross with the meridian
triggering the event.
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