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China devalues the Yuan




BEIJING—China’s central bank devalued its tightly controlled currency, causing its biggest one-day loss in two decades, as the world’s second-largest economy continues to sputter. Chinese authorities said the change would help drive the currency toward more market-driven movements. The move also signaled the government’s growing worry about slow growth. A shift toward a weaker currency could help flagging exports at a time when many other efforts to boost the economy haven’t proven very effective. Aug. 11 ; http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-moves-to-devalue-the-yuan-1439258401






The People's Republic of China was formally established on October 1, 1949, 3:01:36 pm CCT, Beijing, China [1]. The national  horoscope of China is shown above. There is a Mercury-Neptune conjunction in the 8th house, connected to “financial relations with foreign countries”[2]. The asteroid Hera [19cn] squares Neptune [14li] in the radix chart. Martha Wescott links asteroids Hera/Juno to “tallying ($$$ & fairness)” so that it serves as a good symbol for currency exchange rates that may have needed correction because they were unrealistic (Neptune).

Pluto [14cp], the planet astrologers connect with a return to “truth”,  “integrity” or “the core self”,  has been in  a long term transit square to radix Neptune. But being a very slow transit it works like a symbolic cosmic “hour hand” that awaits activation. Early this month on August 2, Saturn stationed direct [29sc] in an exact semi-square aspect to radix Neptune [14li] bringing a reality check or correction in a monetary policy that had been unrealistic for a while (Neptune). This served as “minute hand” of the cosmic clock. Finally transit Jupiter [29le]  on August 10, just a day before the announcement,  acting as the “second hand” completed the picture. 


To understand this development from the current mundane charts, I quote an extract from a previous post [3] in which I linked the crash in gold prices to the Cancer Ingress chart.

The crash in gold started today at the Shanghai Gold Exchange. A chart for the Sun’s entry into Cancer at Shanghai is shown here. The Sun makes a hard aspect to the conjunction of Venus-Jupiter in Leo, the sign ruling gold, in the 5th house linked to speculation. Among events connected to  the stars that form the backdrop to Venus-Jupiter, Diana Rosenberg includes, “the collapse of extreme speculations” and gives the following examples.

There was a solar eclipse here in 1636, three months before the collapse of the “Tulip Mania” that had held Holland in thrall from 1634, with wild outrageously high prices for bulbs, and a solar eclipse in 1720 one month before the collapse of the “South Sea Bubble” speculation mania that caused financial collapse and utter ruin to thousands. Mars in Scorpio, squared these stars at the 1929 Stock Market crash.

Progressing the Cancer Ingress chart to July 20, the date of the gold crash, brings Venus-Jupiter to the IC triggering the event.





The Cancer Ingress at Beijing has Sun-Hades on the IC semi-square Venus-Jupiter in the 5th house. The Sun-Mars conjunction is in a hard aspect to Saturn in the 8th house which, as we mentioned before, rules international finance and by association currency exchange rates.  Progressing the chart by the PSSR method to August 11 brings the Mars-Sun-Hades to the Ascendant triggering the combination and its aspect to Saturn leading to the decision to devalue the yuan.









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