Africa's largest free-trade zone is to be created,
covering 26 countries in an area from Cape Town in the south to Cairo in the
north. The deal, signed in Egypt, is intended to ease the movement of goods
across member countries which represent more than half the continent's GDP. Since
the end of colonial rule, governments have been discussing ways to boost
intra-African trade. The poor state of roads, railways and airlines have made
it difficult. Three existing trade blocs - the Southern African Development
Community (Sadc); the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for
Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) - are to to be united into a single new
zone. The pact - known as the The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) - will then
be officially unveiled at the upcoming summit of the African Union this weekend
in South Africa. BBC Africa Business Report's Lerato Mbele says the idea behind
it is to remove trade barriers on most goods, making them cheaper, and
stimulating $1tn (£648bn) worth of economic activity across the region of more
than 600 million people. However, concluding the deal in Egypt will merely be
the first step and it will need to be approved by each country's parliament,
before the wheels are set in motion, she says. June 10 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33076917
To
understand this development let us start with the chart of last lunar eclipse
of April drawn for Cairo. The Sun is
conjunct Uranus, in Aries, and that conjunction opposes the Moon, in Libra.
Uranus is a freedom-loving planet , and
when it shares the same space with the Sun, personal freedom is imoprtant. However,
the Moon is in Libra, so that the need
to be connected to others also tends to
dominate. What this opposition indicates is the problem of how to handle the
need to be connected to others, especially a significant other, as you
simultaneously try to be true to yourself. The Moon is in the third house which
in mundane astrology rules neighboring countries and all methods of
transportation and communications as also treaties signed by a country [1].
Progressing
the eclipse chart to June 10, the date of the news, brings the eclipse to an
alignment with the horizon axis. The Uranus-Pluto element of the eclipse T-square
can be interpreted here as a breakthrough in a long standing problem. On the
progressed MC [19cn] is the star Wasat. Delta (δ) Gemini. The following extract from Nick Fiorenza [2] explains the role of sidereal Gemini and more specifically the star Wasat.
"The
Twins" are marked by the two principal stars: Pollux, the immortal
extraterrestrial one, and Castor the mortal terrestrial one, the
extraterrestrial incarnate. 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, one of linking and uniting through our daily affairs in the
world. The Twins work hand-in-hand for the betterment and evolutionary
fulfillment of humankind. Wasat, is a double star, pale white and purple, in the waist area of the Southern Twin, Pollux. Wasat,
the umbilical cord, embodies the essence of sidereal Gemini. Wasat is the link
and liaison that unites and acts as a catalyst. Wasat brings the logistical
pieces together. Wasat is of planning, coordination, assemblage of diversity
and parts into a workable functional model.
This
explains why the deal was signed in Egypt today.
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