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http://www.stariq.com/marketweek.htmThe unrelenting force of the 45-year Saturn-Uranus opposition cycle is upon us. This is just the first leg down of the Cardinal Climax. Two things are unfolding this year. First, Pluto moved into Capricorn on January 26, 2008 for a brief time (until June 13). It will reenter it for 15 years beginning on Nov 26, 2008. The second is that a five-fold passage of Saturn and Uranus begins in 2008. The first passage happens right on Election Day, Nov 4, 2008, and that will continue through July 26, 2010. However, it is apparent that the headwinds of this powerful 45-year planetary opposition, as well as the 248-year Pluto-in-Capricorn cycle, are happening right now. My best guess is that we do not hit the peak of the Saturn-Uranus opposition cycle until the middle of its time band, or around September 2009, +/-4 months.
All of the principles of these two signatures are already manifesting, however, almost two months before the aspect technically takes place. I believe the advent of this crisis reached the “birthing phase” on the Full Moon of Sept 15, which conjuncted Uranus. Everything before that was conception and gestation. That was the end of the “translation phase” of the Sun to Saturn-Uranus, September 3-12, but the Full Moon also translated Saturn and Uranus exactly on Sept 15. That was the day Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen made his infamous “reassurance speech” on national television about the strength and resilience of the economy, thereby setting into motion a stampede to divest assets for cash, which had suddenly dried up. Now, three weeks later, I don’t think anyone doubts that a crisis -- a financial panic, if you will -- has hit the world. This is exactly the type of psychological climate that corresponds to Saturn in opposition to Uranus.
For all intents and purposes, we are fully living the Cardinal Climax now. And we are still building up to only the first passage of the Saturn-Uranus opposition. Uranus, the planet of change, revolution, winds, and freedom, is colliding on a plane with the principles of Saturn, the planet of traditions, boundaries, cement, earth, and conservatism. Every thing with a form is vulnerable to change, and nothing -- perhaps only “nothing” -- is permanent. And if you think it is, Pluto in Capricorn will soon convince you otherwise.