Details
emerged Friday from the U.S.’s first-stage trade deal with China, which marked
a milestone in President Trump’s initiative to rebalance trade with Beijing but
left questions over how far it goes to level the playing field for U.S. businesses. The
limited agreement, capping months of sometimes-testy negotiations, calls for
China to purchase more products from American farmers and other exports, U.S.
officials said. In return, the U.S. put the brakes on new tariffs set to take
effect Sunday and agreed to reduce some existing levies. Both sides termed it a
“phase one” deal and said negotiations would continue on remaining issues. Dec.
13 https://www.wsj.com/articles/us-china-confirm-reaching-phase-one-trade-deal-11576234325
The cosmic clock ticking, as planets pursue their motion
and form celestial patterns, provides a flavor, a meaning, or a message for
each passing minute or for a whole epoch. Of all these transits, astrologers
regard a solar eclipse as a momentous event which colors the period that
follows for at least 6 months. While an eclipse is a worldwide event, it
primarily affects those places where it falls on the horizon or meridian.
A chart for the upcoming Dec. 26, 2019 solar eclipse at Washington, DC aligns very significantly with the lower
meridian. The eclipse is conjunct Jupiter trine Uranus. This in itself is
considered to indicate a lucky (Jupiter) breakthrough (Uranus). But what is the
breakthrough about? The TNP Apollon which rules “trade and commerce” [1] forms
aspects to Jupiter and Uranus so that the lucky breakthrough concerns business.
The eclipse forms
a configuration known in astrology as a Mystic Rectangle [2]. A Mystic
Rectangle is formed when two pairs of oppositions are sextile each other. The
result is an aspect pattern that includes two sextiles, two trines and two
oppositions. Mystic Rectangles usually result in a struggle with the two Oppositions, see-sawing
back and forth between the opposing planets. Once the point of balance has been
found, however, it becomes increasingly easy to maintain, and a well integrated
Mystic Rectangle can be the most unflappable of aspect patterns. Once integrated a Mystic Rectangle, can become a
solid foundation that can be a great gift in handling whatever else life throws
up.
Hopefully, the energies thrown up by this eclipse will help
the US reach a trade agreement with China in the coming months.
Finally, I would like to leave the readers with an
interesting thesis to ponder about. It appears that celestial events always work in perfect harmony much like the
players in an orchestra. Here let me show how the July 16, total lunar eclipse
carries the possibility of an end to the trade war thereby seamlessly
integrating with the message of upcoming solar eclipse.
Notice that the July 16 lunar eclipse fell in the 8th
house at Washington, DC. In mundane astrology the 8th house rules “financial
relationship with other countries” [2]. The eclipse is conjunct the star
Pollux, beta Gemini. About sidereal Gemini Nick Fiorenza writes:
Sidereal Gemini is
of high intensity intellectual communication, information, commerce, goods and services,
and of their exchange. The Twins are of partnerships in mutual
cooperation participating in the human world, linking and uniting through their
daily affairs in the world. The Twins work hand-in-hand for the betterment and
evolutionary fulfillment of humankind.
Although the Twins
are of communication and human betterment, they have in some legend been at
odds with each other, a bit argumentative. Here is the Gemini trait of competitiveness, debate,
arbitration, and negotiation, but ultimately leading to agreement and solution.
Eclipses are activated on days when the progression of
the chart brings them to an alignment with the horizon or meridian. Notice that
on Dec. 17, the progressed horizon aligns with the eclipse axis.
[2] Mystic Rectangle https://bit.ly/2RVf7gC
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