Housing Hell, Credit Crisis and the U.S. Chart

I thought I'd take a look at the Credit Crisis problem compared with the U.S. Chart. This is elementary astrology written while watching the Stock Market fall so take it for what it's worth.

This particular Credit Crisis is caused by Banks (H2) who lent money (H8) to people who couldn't afford to buy Homes (H4). The Real Estate Market has become totally inflated so BLAM!!! POPPPO!! I just wanted to take a quick look at this. Here's the Idiot's Eye View.

I use Sagg Rising. Princess Di looked so much like the Statue of Liberty, after all, and she had the same Sun, Rising and Moon sign as this chart.

The U.S. of A., God Bless Her For All Her Flaws
b. July 4, 1776 (or somewhere there roundabouts) 5:10 pm Philadelphia, PA

Sun 14 Cancer; ASC 13 Sagittarius Rising; Moon 28 Aquarius; NN 7 Leo; 2 Libra MC

First I go straight to the 8th House. House 8 rules Sex, Death, Taxes, Credit and Lending. Moon, ruler of Housing, rules this House. Inside the House is the planets Mercury in Cancer and the North Node in Leo. Mercury is Retrograde, great set-up for writing Funky Contracts. So, this is sort of a natural born booby trap for America. Sometimes we're not clear headed when it comes to realizing that we can't afford a house with no down payment. The Progressed Moon in this Chart is conjunct n.Saturn which is placed in the 10th house. Up there at the top of the chart it has hit it Zenith and conjunct Saturn it is going to learn a lesson through constriction at the same time. Moon and Saturn together = Depression. Saturn = Builders. In the House that it rules, we are a Nation of Builders. We just sometimes forget to check for the foundation at times. Saturn rules the 2d House in this chart which is rules Banking and the Money we actually have. More on that later since it doesn't look like we have a whole lot of money left.

The North Node at 7 Leo is also placed in this chart's H8 so Credit, Insurance, Gambling, Big Stupid Schemes are the Country's True Goals. This of course places the South Node representing the Country's Ability to Screw Up Royally in the house of Banks, Money and Values. --We were born to invest as if our life depended on it. --Can't spend it after you're dead, after all. 8th House arguments, so American. --Death Defying. Haha, I can't stop. --Bankruptcy is the American Dream. And of course: --"A Sucker is born every (nanosecond)."

Furthering the Poo, Pluto is placed in the 2d House opposite Mercury Rx which means .... Death to the Banks?!!! Well, we're getting that wish, they're all posting huge zillion dollar losses. And why? I don't know why, they're all Harvard MBA's after all. Some kind of bread and circus Ponzi scheme.

Backtracking, the Moon is the ruler of the 8th House and it is placed in the 3d house of Contracts. The Progressed Sun just passed over it so everyone was writing away, composing all kinds of contracts, upgrading their neighborhoods, buying into 5 neighborhoods at once and the Butt-Brained Banks were giving them the money to do it.

The Chart's Progressed Mercury has gone Retrograde (around 1994-5) and is also just past conjunction with the natal Moon at 25 Aquarius. It is now back in the 2d house of this chart. Progressed Mercury has been running Retro by Progression since 1994 almost since the last Recession. I've heard that people with Natal Retrograde Mercury don't suffer from transiting Rx Mercury the way the rest of the World does so maybe this accounts for the incredible rise in Real Estate and Stocks. This natal Moon is going to remain busy. It will receive conjunctions from t.Neptune, Chiron and Jupiter within the next couple of years. Optimism, Wounding and Victimization rules the 8th House matters, but great for writing poetry so all is not lost. 3d House rules local transportation, and Neptune rules Gas. The good story from this would be that people would learn to get around on less Gas. Mostly Neptune-Jupiter and Moon together spell "corruption" to me. People still want to be Lucky. Maybe best to keep financials off the Internet as well.

The natal Moon is trining Venus and Mars in the 7th House. This doesn't concern Markets a whole lot except that these two planets rule the 4th and 10th house axis so that should in some way be a good sign, assuming Trines mean good things... and everyone knows they don't necessarily. Seems there are lots of Investors from overseas buying properties now that the Dollar isn't worth anything and the Boomers are all inheriting (H8) from their parents which might soften the blow overall.

Saturn rules the 2d House of Banking in this chart. Natally it is placed in the 10th house at 15 Libra and is receiving lots of attention as Solar Arc Moon is just past conjunction at 18 Libra and Progressed Mars (Ruler of H4, Land, Real Estate) is Retrograde at 19 Libra. Some kind of Government Intervention. At least the elections are distracting us. Moon and Saturn together do spell Depression. The Country is due for a Saturn Return in 2-3 years. Since our Founding Fathers were such Stud Muffins I have no doubt that this will be a good thing. I'm checking Ben Bernanke's face for Botox injections, that's for sure, I don't know how he's gonna make it through this but he was raising those Interest Rates pretty dang fast to begin with.