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US Breaks Record For The Fastest Economic Unraveling



In my last piece I provided a technical analysis that signaled we are entering the first stage of a bursting bubble that we’ll call the Fed Bubble.  Now while I do believe technicals provide good insight to the economic landscape I see them as a necessary rather sufficient qualifier.  In order to be truly confident that our technicals are providing an accurate story we need to understand the fundamentals behind the charts, as we often find the engine light comes on due to a loose wire rather than a problem with the engine. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-01/we-just-broke-2008s-record-fastest-economic-unraveling


Extracted below is a piece from Bill Herbst’s commentary on the unusual alignment of the Uranus-Pluto square to the US Sibly Sun-Saturn.

The 8th-house Cancer Sun squared to a 10th-house Libra Saturn in the USA’s July 4th, 1776 birth chart presents a revealing symbolic picture of many of the more disturbing paradoxes that reside at the heart of the American character. Basically, these boil down to conflicts between social justice, equality, and taking responsibility for one another’s welfare on the one hand, versus the ambition driven pursuit of wealth and power at any cost on the other. The near-simultaneous activation of the Sun-Saturn square by two outer planets is a momentous event in the astrological symbolism of America, signifying that whatever has been buried beneath our collective awareness will emerge into the clear light of day, and that this emergence will be eruptive, unexpected, and revolutionary in its repercussions. According to astrology, the status quo in America will be challenged, if not outright disrupted, forcing us to make changes in how we live.

The many interconnected events and developments that will presumably shape that upheaval unfold over three distinct and overlapping phases. The first is from the early years of the 21st century through the spring of 2015. That’s the set-up, a long period of setting the stage, metaphorically like pre-heating the oven. The middle phase is 2013-2106, when the Grand Cross configuration occurs in the chart of the USA. That’s the cooking period. Last is the phase that begins in 2015 and extends all the way through the remainder of the 2010s and well into the 2020s. That period takes the cooked cake out of the oven and serves it up. The third phase is when we will see most of the serious and consequential manifestations in real life—the full cascade of triggers that will shape the world through mid-century. The entire range of triggers cannot be precisely known in advance; many are predictable and likely candidates, however: global climate change, war and political strife, challenges in agriculture and water, possible pandemics, and a pattern of collapsing institutions, including those in finance, commerce, energy, medicine, and education. Woven around and throughout these meta-concerns are the ongoing issues of inequity in gender, race, and wealth disparity. The timing and pattern of how all the interconnected triggers manifest are likely to determine the cumulative crises that humanity will face in the 21st century. Whatever the triggers and however they cascade, however, the most important unknowns will be our collective responses to the challenges. http://www.billherbst.com/Comm17.pdf

As Bill Herbst points out we are in the last phase of the Grand Cross that began in 2015. There are several activations to the Grand Cross. Some of those activations are listed below:

Lunar Eclipse of April 4, 2015 that fell on the 14 Aries-Libra axis
Pluto station retrograde [15cp] on April 16
Saturn station direct [18sc] on August 2 forming hard aspects to Sibly Sun and Saturn


Of these the first two have occurred recently and are in a way responsible for the news story by Zero Hedge. The next big one will be the Saturn station on August 2.

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