The
United States was once the world's leading wheat exporter, but now is losing
its position to Russia and Canada due a stronger dollar, stagnant yields,
rising competition and climate change. According to analysts, exports of wheat
may drop 9.3 percent to 21.1 million metric tons in the season ending May 31,
the lowest since 1972. “We’re no longer
going to lead in volume every year,” said Alan Tracy, president of US Wheat
Associates told Bloomberg, adding that an increase in global wheat trade was
the only hope for the country. April 22 https://www.rt.com/business/340621-russia-tops-us-wheat/
As readers are aware we are going through a long
term Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune T-square in
2015-16. Neptune, the slowest moving and
therefore the defining planet in the T, is in Pisces. Pisces is an era of
storms and of wholesale disintegration. Those, individuals or nations, who refuse
a confrontation with their past and stubbornly resist change are not likely to
survive. This is the essential message that the T-square conveys.
As the elements of the T-square aspect each
other, its message is conveyed at various places on earth, more significantly
at those places where it aligns with angles. The last Jupiter-Saturn square
took place on March 23, 2016. A chart for the square at Arlington where US
Wheat Associates has its headquarters is shown here. Notice that Neptune is on
the Ascendant and Jupiter on the descendant while apex Saturn is on the MC. In
mundane astrology, the Ascendant or First House reflects the “general state of the nation”[1]
while the Seventh House has to do with its “enemies”[2]. So the health of the
nation is troubled by the disintegrating action of Neptune while the enemy
(Russia) appears to prosper.
Jupiter is
now in Virgo and is offering growth
potential to all things under the archetype. The Greeks and Romans associated
Virgo with their goddess of wheat/agriculture. She is often portrayed carrying
two sheaves of wheat. So is it all surprising that the Russians are beating the
Americans in wheat production and export!
However, Jupiter
in Virgo opposed to Pisces is not entirely negative. It can offer some valuable
insights into the unconscious habits and drives that lead to our undoing and
failure (Pisces). But who is listening!!
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