Pluto Challenges Capital Markets

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A week ago, when Pluto turned direct in the U.S. Second House of Money, the Bush administration announced that it would take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two giant mortgage lenders. Financial markets rallied, just as they did last March when the feds bailed out Bear Stearns. But this time, Pluto is heading directly into its first opposition with the U.S. Venus, while six months ago, Pluto had turned retrograde away from the opposition to the U.S. Venus.

Only in the Scorpio Rising U.S. horoscope (July 4, 1776; 2:21 pm; Philadelphia) can the astrologer make sense of the current and pending financial crisis. With financially-savvy Scorpio on the Ascendant, four planets reside in the Eighth House of Capital. Uranus and Mars relate more to the technology and military sectors of the economy. Venus and Jupiter are associated with the large investment, insurance, and banking institutions.

Several years ago, when transiting Pluto opposed the U.S. Mars, Americans found themselves embroiled in a financially draining war in Iraq. Now Pluto is set to oppose Venus five times over the coming two years, with the first due on February 27, 2009. Pluto's hard aspects often bring destruction and chaos, and as it aligns with the U.S. Venus in the money houses, one might reasonably anticipate a flood of banking failures to cascade through the financial system.

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posited that the US was Scorpio sun, because the new Congress ratified the consitution or something in November 1776. Anybody recall that?

as researched by David Solte. The data is November 15, 1777, 7:52 am LMT in York, Pennsylvania. The chart (12th house Scorp Sun, Sagittarius rising, 6th house Taurus Moon, Jupiter in Leo in the 9th, Neptune very near the MH in Virgo, Venus in Libra in the 11th with Mercury & Saturn conjunct in Scorpio in the 11th also, Mars & Pluto in Cap in the 2nd, Chiron in Aries in the 4th, and Uranus in Gemini in the 7th) makes a whole lot of sense to me.

The theory is that the Declaration of Independence was a declaration of intent but the Revolutionary war was not over and though we separated from British rule, nothing was formed.