The birth of Venus, 1496
Sandro
Boticelli
For decades, the US has been able to
exclude virtually any country it wants from international trade. Right now, if
one country wants to trade with another, it basically needs US permission
first.That’s because (for a short while longer) the US dollar is the world’s
most important currency. The US Navy also dominates the world’s oceans,
controlling most major shipping lanes. But China is building a new
international system. Eventually, it will let China and its trading partners
totally bypass the US. The Shanghai International Energy
Exchange is introducing a crude oil futures contract denominated in Chinese
yuan. It will allow oil producers to sell their oil for yuan. China knows most
oil producers don’t want a large reserve of yuan. So producers will be able to
efficiently convert it into physical gold through gold exchanges in Shanghai
and Hong Kong. As of March 26, countries around the world will have a genuine,
viable way to opt out of the petrodollar system. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-21/china-days-away-killing-petrodollar
In
an effort to maintain global demand for U.S. dollars, a system was created
called the petrodollar system. In 1973, a deal was struck between Saudi Arabia
and the United States in which every barrel of oil purchased from the Saudis
would be denominated in U.S. dollars. Under this new arrangement, any country
that sought to purchase oil from Saudi Arabia would be required to first
exchange their own national currency for U.S. dollars. In exchange for Saudi
Arabia’s willingness to denominate their oil sales exclusively in U.S. dollars,
the United States offered weapons and protection of their oil fields from
neighboring nations, including Israel.
In
1973 when this secret deal was being worked out by the US, solar arc progressed
Sun was conjunct its radix Pluto [27cp]
in the 2nd house.
In
an essay entitled Pluto and the US Chart – An Eruption of Darkness, Lynn Hayes
wrote:
Pluto’s rule in the
astrological pantheon is to take us deep into the Underworld and reveal all of
the dark and nasty corners of the psyche in order to illuminate that darkness
and therefore aid in the process of personal evolution. Pluto is the Lord of
Death – he causes obsession and has the potential to bring out the worst in us
but also the best in us. Pluto’s
placement in the chart shows where we can be undone by our own psychology,
but also where we can be transformed and reborn.
In the astrological chart
for the United States (I use the “Sibley” chart and here’s why), Pluto is in
the second house of money. Pluto, as the
ruler of the underworld, represents the shadow side of the psyche, whether in
an individual chart or the chart of a nation.
With Pluto in the second house of money and finance, the American shadow
is a dirty little secret – an obsession (Pluto) with the power that money can
provide (second house). http://www.astrodynamics.net/pluto-us-chart-eruption-darkness/
If
we examine the transit of outer planets in 1973 Pluto [3li] and Saturn [3cn] were
hitting Venus [3cn] in the Sibly 8th house. Pluto is about
manipulation and control while Venus rules money. More specifically, Venus in
the 8th house of a nation’s chart is about financial relations with
foreign countries. With Jupiter and Venus placed in the Sibly 8th
house, the US was positioned to profit immensely from international finance and
became the world’s banker so to speak.
In
the last few years, Pluto has been transiting opposite the Sun-Venus-Jupiter
conjunction in the US Sibly . Among other things a Venus-Jupiter combination
refers an extravagant or indulgent lifestyle so that it is no surprise that the
US has run up a debt of $21 trillion.
One and half Saturn cycle from 1973 we now have karmic Saturn opposing the
Sibly Venus-Jupiter conjunction. Time is up. The consequences of having gone
down the wrong road must be faced. Who else but China [Oct.1, 1949; 3:06 pm,Beijing] with its
radix Sun [7li] – Uranus [4cn] in hard aspect to the Sibly Venus [3cn]-Jupiter[6cn]
has been called in to dethrone the US from its number one position.
China
will list local-currency crude futures in Shanghai on March 26, according to
the nation's securities regulator. Just two days before this date a Venus-Pluto
square aligns with the meridian at Shanghai.
Venus
essentially symbolizes the factor of “value”. The Venusian function enables man
to discriminate between that which has value and that which is valueless. Since
Pluto rules “death” and “regeneration” the concept of money is going through a
death and revaluation phase. So it is indeed appropriate that the Venus-Pluto
square should be significantly placed at Shanghai!
But
please remember that the Venus-Pluto square can be brought to the angles by any
significant mundane event. As for example, the chart for Mercury station
retrograde of March 22, also brings the Venus-Pluto to the angles at Washington, DC suggesting that the US is about to be affected
by the square in ways mentioned above.
In
the foregoing we saw that the Sibly Venus [3cn] is caught between China’s radix
Uranus [4cn] and transiting Saturn [3cp]. According to Greek myth, Venus was
born from a struggle between Saturn (Cronus) and Uranus – in other words a
fight between the old (Saturn) and the new (Uranus).
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