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Europe’s Energy Wars: Tankers Against Pipelines



Today Russia’s pipeline gas supplies to Europe face no competition, but the situation may change soon with the US, Qatar and Australia exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Old Continent. The shale gas extraction has significantly grown in the United States. This fact has been hyped in the media. A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass export facility in Louisiana is en route to Portugal. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that the event marks the first shipment in a trade relationship that could shake up the European market currently dominated by Russia. The ship is estimated to arrive at the Port of Sines in Portugal on April 26. http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/04/27/europe-energy-wars-tankers-against-pipelines-ii.html




In mundane astrology an event can have more than one planetary indicator. Most often these indicators will bring the same configuration to the angles as we shall see here. The first chart is the Waning Gibbous Moon of April 26 at Sines. 




 The second is a chart for the exact Venus sesquisquare Neptune a day later on April 27. Notice that both carry the Mars-Saturn-Jupiter-Neptune T-square on the angles.







In a previous post [1]we saw that  the chart for the current waning  Jupiter-Saturn square drawn for Washington DC, has  a T square- involving Neptune – the planet we associate with “dreams and wishful thinking” as well as with “oil and gas”.  Here the Saturn square is a “reality check” on the unrealistic or impractical  “oil and gas” dreams in foreign lands (Sagittarius).

We now have the same T-square highlighted at Sines, with an additional Mars conjunct Saturn. Under Mars-Saturn aspects people often feel weak. When that happens they overcompensate and try to act strong.  Mars-Saturn aspects’ reputation for bullying or controlling behavior could actually be originating from a deep feeling of powerlessness.
So once again we are seeing the possibility of failure of the US move to ship LNG to Europe to replace Russian gas.



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