U.S. ECONOMY WARNING!!!

The Great Depression is thought to have started on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929. But looking at it astrologically, it actually happened sometime in 1931 and that is confirmed by historical facts. What is interesting and totally relevant today is that it happened after predictive Jupiter sextiled predictive Mars and conjuncted natal Mercury. So it was a thriving and possibly inflated economy. Jupiter tends to make one overly confident on every level. Then predictive Mars conjuncted predictive Neptune with predictive Venus opposing the natal Sun. And that negative energy propelled us into The Great Depression.

The reason we need to look at this is because The United States is in a Jupiter period now. Our predictive Sun is trine natal Jupiter. It's over between September 2011 to April 2012. The time of birth is highly contested.  More important is that at the moment the Jupiter period, which protects us, is over, there is an underlying aspect predictive Sun square natal Uranus. And there is an excellent chance the economy will crash again.

You're probably wondering why this is a Jupiter period if you are one of the people losing your house or your job. You have to look at your own chart to see what is happening to you. The United States is still a world power. The dollar is holding up quite nicely. We're still spending money like water. The U.S. hasn't really cut back on anything. We're still in Afghanistan. We're still in Iraq. The White House hasn't turned off a light bulb.

What I see in the future  is change, negative change. The Tea Party and it's anti-government thinking fits the definition. I talked to a friend of mine, Christopher Stewart, and he told me that governments are never taken down by the Left. It's always the Right. Uranus in a negative aspect is radical thinking, rebellion, refusing to continue on the normal path, uprising and upheaval. Could it be this new and extremist version of the Republican party that thinks that the government is evil and operates on religious fervor? Uranus rules other things like the Internet and violent weather changes.  But given the current political climate, a national shift  would seem to be the most logical consequence.

This will affect the Federal Government. Look to see how dependent you are. I'm very concerned for anyone on Medicare/Medicaid. Also beware if you are invested in the Stock Market. I predict it will fall dramatically.  Government bonds are also at risk. Left alone, this won't affect Social Security as it is totally funded (See blog in Staying Relevant in this magazine). The change should be extreme and damaging, and it's right around the corner.

UPDATE:  I posted this on July 29th. It is now August 8th and the Stock Market is down over 1,000 points and is the lowest it's been since 2008.

UPDATE2:   8/11/2011 Economist Nouriel Roubini says the risk of a global recession is greater than 50 percent, and the next two to three months will reveal the economy's direction. In an interview with WALL STREET JOURNAL's Simon Constable, Roubini also says he's putting his money in cash. "This is not the time to be in risky assets," he says.

UPDATE3: “Corporate earnings are the highest they’ve been relative to worker wages and benefits since just before the Great Depression. And the richest 1 percent of Americans are getting a higher percent of total income since just before the Great Depression. Get it? It was only a matter of time before the boom on Wall Street turned into a bust.” Robert Reich. 

UPDATE4:  8/23/2011 Virginia just had its worst earthquake in 100 years at 5.9.

UPDATE5:   The L.A. TIMES August 26,2011, “The last recession which technically ended in June 2006 [this is only months before the U.S. Sibley chart prediction] was the worst in six decades.” And, “The likelihood of another recession has risen sharply since spring amid signs of deteriorating unemployment, manufacturing and business and consumer confidence — accompanied by wild swings on Wall Street.” And, “Many analysts see at least a 1 in 3 chance of a fallback into outright economic decline in the next six months or so.”

UPDATE6:  The East Coast, from North Carolina to Vermont,  spent the weekend of August 6-28, experiencing the flooding  and damage of Hurricane Irene.