2022 - Year of the Black-Water Tiger

 

Abstract:

The USA is a monkey and will have a tough year in this Year of the Tiger as it Tiger’s opposite. See, for example, my prediction of nothing less than the collapse of the USA in 2022 - https://astrolos.blogspot.com/2018/10/astrological-energies-around-collapse.html . 

Notable Water Tigers include Tom Cruise, Ralph Fiennes, Michele Yeoh, Jody Foster, Demi Moore, the Village of Sedona AZ, Albert Namatjira, Mayra Martinez. Sue, MunYee and Chris. All can expect to be "attacked by Fortune", to use Plato's phrase to describe an effulgence of 'good luck'.

Horses and Dogs can expect to prosper well in Tiger's embrace of good Fortune; Snakes, Ox, Dragons and Monkeys, as mentioned, NOT SO MUCH!

Note that Tigers may not fare so well in Tiger Years. See in the compatibility table Tiger-Tiger ranks 5, very incompatible. The best way to ascertain what might go down in this Tiger Year is to recall what happened in Tiger Years past: 2010, 1998, 1986, 1974, 1962...

Timing: Chinese New Year – Year of the Black-Water Tiger begins at the New Moon The exact new moon time is at 9:46 p.m. PST, 31 Jan 2020.

The Chinese animal year begins each Western year about 4 February - it does not begin at the Chinese New Year. Those born 3, 4 or 5 February should consult http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/Chineseastrology.htm to correctly ascertain their Chinese animal sign. I use 4 February to determine the Oriental animal years.

 

Chinese Horoscope Compatibility

Rat	1
Ox	1	3
Tiger	4	6	5
Rabbit	5	2	3	3
Dragon	1	5	5	3	2
Snake	3	1	6	2	1	5
Horse	6	5	1	4	3	4	2
Goat	5	5	3	1	5	3	2	2
Monkey	1	3	5	3	1	3	5	3	1
Rooster	4	1	4	6	2	1	3	4	5	5
Dog	3	4	1	2	6	3	2	5	3	5	2
Pig	2	3	2	2	3	6	3	2	2	3	1	2
	Rat	Ox	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake	Horse	Goat	Monkey	Rooster	Dog	Pig

Compatibility legend

1 excellent     2 successful     3 – good     4 – fair     5 – awkward     6 – clash

We can construct a rough ‘affability quotient’ for the signs by summing the compatibilities of each of the 12 signs with each of the other. Thus,

Rat – 36

Ox – 39

Tiger – 45

Rabbit – 37

Dragon – 37

Snake – 38

Horse – 40

Goat – 40

Monkey – 35

Rooster – 43

Dog – 38

Pig - 31

 

Tigers are, by quite a bit, the most fractious—unruly and independent—followed by Roosters. Pigs are by far the most affable. Using the compatibility table, it is possible to make rough estimates on how your year will go. When it is your year it is invariably transforming and expansive - sometimes too much so. When it is the opposite of your year, that is, 6 years away, it can be restrictive and inharmonious.

The first day of the animal year is different from the Chinese New Year Day. The animal year starts on the first day of the Tiger month. Tiger month begins from the day when Sun enters ecliptic 315-degree position, which is around February 4 Gregorian calendar. That means the animal month is solar month, not lunar month. For an even more thorough discussion of the animal and Chinese New Year see http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/clc/LunarCalendar.htm

Oriental Predictions:

The 12 Oriental signs, as commonly displayed on paper place mats in Chinese restaurants;

Rat	Cow	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake	Horse	Sheep	Monkey	Chicken	Dog	Pig
1900 1912 1924 1936 1948 1960 1972 1984 1996 2008 2020	1901 1913 1925 1937 1949 1961 1973 1985 1997 2009 2021	1902 1914 1926 1938 1950 1962 1974 1986 1998 2010 2022	1903 1915 1927 1939 1951 1963 1975 1987 1999 2011 2023	1904 1916 1928 1940 1952 1964 1976 1988 2000 2012 2024	1905 1917 1929 1941 1953 1965 1977 1989 2001 2013 2025	1906 1918 1930 1942 1954 1966 1978 1990 2002 2014 2026	1907 1919 1931 1943 1955 1967 1979 1991 2003 2015 2027	1908 1920 1932 1944 1956 1968 1980 1992 2004 2016 2028	1909 1921 1933 1945 1957 1969 1981 1993 2005 2017 2029	1910 1922 1934 1946 1958 1970 1982 1994 2006 2018 2030	1911 1923 1935 1947 1959 1971 1983 1995 2007 2019 2031

Click on the links above each sign for an Oriental, as opposed to a Carlos, prediction of your year ahead. Or go to http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2022/default.htm for the overall discussion of Tiger Year.

 

How Oriental Astrology works: Oriental astrology is essentially “good luck” astrology in that it tracks the planet Jupiter, considered to be one’s Greater Fortune. Jupiter takes 12 years to transit the zodiac of 12 signs. Therefore, in whatever year you were born, every 12 years when your Oriental zodiac animal year returns, the planet Jupiter will be in the same sign it was when you were born. Jupiter is called Guru in Hindu astrology and is considered your spiritual teacher.

Thus, roughly speaking, ALL Rabbits [Cat] have Jupiter in Aries; Dragons, Jupiter in Taurus; Snakes, Jupiter in Gemini; Horse, Jupiter in Cancer; Sheep [Goat], Jupiter in Leo; Monkey, Jupiter in Virgo; Rooster, Jupiter in Libra; Dog, Jupiter in Scorpio; Pig, Jupiter in Sagittarius; Rat, Jupiter in Capricorn; Cow [Ox], Jupiter in Aquarius; Tiger, Jupiter in Pisces.

AND because when Jupiter returns to the place it was when you were born that causes an expansion of the “good luck” in your horoscope. Some signs have more innate “good luck” than others, so the Oriental animal year is more important to some signs than others. Because Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, Horses probably experience more increased good luck during Horse year than other signs do in theirs. And I note in passing that from wealth studies of university contributions it has been determined that the wealthiest cohort in America has been the class of 1964, those born in the Horse Year 1942.

Incidentally, I have never seen this derivation of Oriental astrology anywhere – I arrived at it myself.

 

A Few Predictions:

For entertainment purposes only! LOL

 

 

 

Saturn conjunct Pluto

Saturn conjunct Pluto

Or

“Call me Carlos”

First draft – 25 Dec 2019

Abstract, so you don’t have to read a bunch of crap:

·       US financial system - https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-12-24/repocalypse-second-coming and read Zoltan Pozsan’s original article mentioned

·       Continuing genocide, ethnocide, and mass killings: Palestine, Kurds, Iraq where it is estimated the US has caused a million civilan deaths, Yazidis, India&Kashmir (where I once spent an idyllic month with my 6’ 4” Dutch girlfriend),

·       Meh, I’ll add other predictions as I think of stuff.

If the point 22 Capricorn is prominent in your individual horoscope significant tumultuous events have and will continue to occur. I have suggested this to several whose horoscope I am familiar with (and I can talk to.)

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche. C.G. Jung

All the following are excerpts from the book Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas and my commentary. As one reviewer said in the front piece, “It is hard to think of many books written in the past century that will still be read two hundred years from now. Cosmos and Psyche will top that short list.”

Planets Saturn and Pluto conjoin in the ‘sky’ on 12 January 2020. The 78 page section in Cosmos and Psyche dealing with Saturn-Pluto interactions is entitled “Cycles of Crisis and Contraction.” Past periods of conjunction are:

August 1913-June 1916

June 1946-September 1948

December 1980-October 1984

January 2018-December 2021

and before that, 1819, 1851, 1883.

“In the sequence of Saturn-Pluto alignments during the twentieth century, we can observe how the three successive conjunctions coincided with defining events and decisions that established an enduring historical foundation upon which causally related developments would then unfold for several decades afterward.” Pg. 214

Tarnas suggests the first conjunction of the century coincided with political upheavals which did not culminate until the end of WW2.

“In turn, the second Saturn-Pluto conjunction of the century coincided precisely with the beginning of the Cold War in 1946-1948… [culminating in] the U.S. defeat in Vietnam and the takeover by communist regimes in South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.” Pg. 214

“This same cycle is clearly visible in and closely corelated with the series of Middle East crises and Arab-Israel wars … that began in 1946-8” pg. 215

“Remarkably, the age of modern terrorism is widely considered to have begun in 1946 with the bombing of the King David Hotel by Zionist rebels, in coincidence with the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of 1946-1948 that also coincided with the beginning of the Cold War.” Pg. 216

“A parallel pattern is evident … for India and Pakistan”

“Thus [sic] the first Saturn-Pluto cycle of the twentieth century correlated closely with the world wars and the second with the Cold War. The events that have [later[C1]  happened correlate] with the phenomenon of international terrorism and the ensuing war on terror.

The conjunction [third] of 1981-84 … coincided with the initial terrorist bombings of the U.S. embassy in Beirut and of the U.S. and French barracks in Lebanon… . pg. 216

(A fascinating read of these mostly forgotten b*mb!ngs is the Mother Jones article The Poor Man’s Air Force, A History of the Car B*mb.) https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/04/poor-mans-air-force/

(This is a must read, especially if you like b*mb!ngs, as I do. The Marine barracks truck bomb that killed 250+ Marines is described as the largest non-nuclear explosion since WW2. The bomber used a Mercedes 2½ ton truck filled with an estimated 10,000 pounds of explosive. The bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut ‘happened to occur’ – was synchronous with – the meeting of all 6 CIA Middle East heads PLUS the head of the CIA’s Middle East section from Washington whose hand was found floating a mile off shore identified from the attached wedding ring.)

“Whenever accurate historical records are available, I found that the simultaneous occurrence of multiple categories of diverse but archetypically connected events occurred consistently throughout history. To take one example of such a synchronic wave…” pg. 217 [Interestingly, I have (synchronously) just re-read Jung’s book Synchronicity, An Acausal Connecting Principle.

“The correlation of the Saturn-Pluto cycle with genocide, ethnocide, and mass killings is striking: In the past century these include the mass killing of the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks during the conjunction of 1914-15, the death of millions of kulaks under Stalin that began during the opposition of 1930-33, Hitler’s conceiving of the Final Solution and the mass killing of Jews that began during the square of 1939-41, the slaughter of nearly a million Indonesians by the right-wind military regime in 1965-66, the Khymer Rouge’s killing of over a million Cambodians that began during the square of 1973-75, the death squads in San Salvador and Guatemala during the conjunction of 1981-84,…Ruanda and Bosnia … 1992-94, Sudan in Darfur…conjunction of 2000-04.
         “Finally, one example among many from classical antiquity is the Saturn-Pluto conjunction that coincided with the most intense period of the barbarian invasions of the Roman Empire, those of 410-12 by the Huns, Vandals, and Visgoths. Led by Alaric the Visgoths sacked Rome, burning and pillaging the ancient world’s most powerful city, in August 410, when Saturn and Pluto were 2 degrees from exact alignment─strikingly suggestive of a parallel with the terrorist destruction in New York, the modern world’s most powerful city, on September 11, 2001, when the same two planets were again 2 degrees from exact alignment.” Pg. 217

“Often … there emerged … a God of righteous vengeance and ruthless justice … Characteristic of such periods was a call for crusades, jihads, and holy wars against the evil enemy. Pg. 235

“All these periods were marked by an extraordinarily intense, violent, even cataclysmic clash of opposing forces.” Pg. 247

The Kurdish connection: “Characteristic of certain forms of the Saturn-Pluto realpolitik perspective and ethos is Kissinger’s response to Congress to criticism he received for having the CIA actively foment resistance among the Kurds against Saddam Hussein in 1975 (during another Saturn-Pluto square) and then suddenly abandoned them when his diplomatic strategy changed, which resulted in the slaughter of thousands of Kurdish people.” Pg. 244. This just happened again to the Kurds and the “Kiss” was involved. https://theintercept.com/2019/10/07/kurds-syria-turkey-trump-betrayal/

Tarnas makes a lot about Herman Melville’s relation to Saturn-Pluto when he was born, when the whaler Essex was sunk by a 80’ sperm whale, and the publishing of Moby Dick whose first line you may recall is “Call me Ishmael.” Ishmael was the only surviving member of the crew of the Pequod and the story’s narrator.

One important item Tarnas seems to have missed is the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, coincident with the conjunctive period of 1946-48. I’ll try to think about this more BUT please read https://ballantynesinspiredmusings.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-modest-proposal-to-move-united.html .

The energy of this Saturn-Pluto would be perfect to MOVE THE U.N.! (Mary Norris suggests the exclamation should only be used three or four times in a lifetime!) I once rode my BSA motorcycle past the U.N. garage on the FDR Drive at about 119 mph.

“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not

made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the

individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his

inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict

and be torn into opposite halves.” Carl Jung

The same can be said, I assert, for ‘societies’: so long as the US remains unconscious of it’s inner contradictions its world will be torn into opposite halves. I propose that some of these unacknowledged turds in the US closet might be:

·       Large-scale genocide of up to 30 million Native Americans in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

·       War crimes, especially from 1960 onward.

·       Bombing by the US of upwards of 40 countries in the past 50 years. In particular I prophesize this has created a “bombing karma” for the US where the US is due to be ‘bombed’ and I have further speculated this COULD occur from an astronomic event.

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To conclude this first draft which I guess I’ll get back to, Tarnas makes the very important point that before the Renaissance, say the time of Copernicus and an earth centered world view, humans viewed themselves as subject to and part of nature. After that this worldview changed so that humans considered themselves as pre-eminent and creative of the world around them to reflect THEIR inner view. Tarnas, will suggest, when I get around to finding it, that the movement of the planets shifts man’s ‘worldview’ and hence CREATES (is interestingly synchronous with) events.

Thus, it MUST be that we humans are right NOW in the middle of epochal change demarked by the Saturn-Pluto conjunction of 12 January 2020  

(I gotta go, I’ll fix this up later. I can tell you it took QUITE a change of my Virgo “#1 computer” to publish incomplete stuff.)

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Astrological energies around the Collapse of US financial System 2017-2027

Astrological energies around the Collapse of US financial System 2017-2027

1 May 2022 - Newly updated with intra 2022 details 

New, simplified and Revised 10/31/2018

“Prediction is difficult – especially of the future” Niels Bohr

1. Abstract:.

A.   An increasingly strong, comprehensively transformative period begins in 2017 which will destroy the US’s wealth by 2022. Significant dates in 2022 are:

21 February 2022 – Start of Russia/Ukraine War

7 July 2022 – ????

28 December 2022 – ????

B.   Major war begins about 2026

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Nicolaus Copernicus

 2.  USA Economic collapse 2022. A shocking and wholesale destruction of the US’s financial system and personal wealth by 2022 – not so far away. The US dollar will be a relic like the Continental was in 1777.

A.   By 2050 the USA will re-join the ranks of the 10 wealthiest nations at about the mid-point of the prosperity scale. Also,

B.   For periods of time no amount of US dollars will be able to be used to purchase gold.  

I can’t emphasize enough the type of far ranging transformation that MIGHT occur. It may be easy to visualize a new system in which the dollar does not exist. Beyond the possibility of long-term market closures [it has happened before] is the possibility of the end of the stock market system altogether. After all, what type of system is it when “the government” owns or controls 80% of the stocks and bonds in “the market?”

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, ” says the White Queen to Alice.

3. USA war 2028.

The US horoscope has 2 major ‘war’ cycles:

A.  The Pluto - North Node ‘war’ cycle operates with a skewed periodicity of about 25 to 45 years and was active or will become active in;

Date                            

6/1782       Revolution          

8/1815       War of 1812

4/1859       Civil War

3/1906       Panic of 1907,

7/1943       WW 2

3/1968       Vietnam [Tet]

8/1986       Iran contra

10/2004     Iraq/Afghanistan

4/2028      

4/2060

        

B.  The Uranus ‘war’ Cycle operates with a periodicity of 84 years and was active or will become active in;

1610           Hudson arrives

1694           Mass. Bay Colony, Indian Wars

1776           Revolution

1860           Civil War

1944           D Day 6/6

2028           ??????

When these two cycles coincided  - 1776, 1860 , 1944- the US experienced particularly high violence. Exact co-incidence returns 2028.

Tedious details and Astrological derivations.

4. 248 year Pluto cycle. The planet Pluto (see the disclaimer or consult your mental health care provider) makes a 248 year cycle around the zodiac of 360 degrees. At the birth of the USA, Pluto was in a certain position (27 degrees, 34 minutes of the sign Capricorn) in the US horoscope’s 2^nd house of personal finance.

         A. In 2022 Pluto will return to this position having transited the entire 360 degree zodiac. When Pluto makes an aspect to Pluto in a horoscope major transformative changes occur best represented by the Plutonic symbology of Death and Rebirth such as the Phoenix and the Ouroboros, the ancient symbol of the snake swallowing its own tail. Pluto is a slow moving planet who some consider has a ten year transit influence period, therefore, 5 years before 2022 to 5 years after, or 2017-2027.

         B. The sensitivity of this position can be seen:

         1. the Spanish set foot on US soil and travelled to the West; Arizona, New Mexico and California when Pluto transited this position in the 1530’s, 248 years before 1776, ie. the previous Pluto cycle, beginning the demise of all the indigenous Americans, both North and South. Note particularly the incidence of foreigners on US soil, a potentially recurring theme. Pluto came to the opposite of the position of Pluto in the US horoscope, also a sensitive astrological point, in 1937. Obviously, the period 1932-1942 (5 years before 1937 and 5 years) was impactful financially for the USA and was then followed by a major war.

         2. When this sensitive point was directly touched by the planet Uranus in 1907 and 2005-2007, major unexpected financial disasters occurred.

        

The 2022 period in more detail: Due to apparent retrograde motion, Pluto makes 3 exact conjunctions by transit to the position of the USA’s natal Pluto at 27 Capricorn 34 minutes. These are:

21 February 2022 – The exact start of the Russian-Ukrainian War. The downside for the US dollar is - Jacob Lew, former Treasury Secretary said in 2016: that the US “must be conscious of the risk that overuse of sanctions could undermine our leadership position within the global economy, and the effectiveness of our sanctions themselves… if they excessively interfere with the flow of funds worldwide, financial transactions may begin to move outside of the United States entirely—which could threaten the central role of the US financial system globally.” From this good analysis of the geopolitical implications of the US’s actions so far. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-04-29/why-dollar-will-globally-decline-goldman-sachs

 

7 July 2022 – ????

28 December 2022 – ????

3. USA war 2028. By 2028 the USA will be in the midst of a major war, beginning 2026 or so. How major? Major Major Major. I believe we’ll see foreign troops on US soil and a possible confederation of Mexico, the US and Canada for defense purposes.

The astrological derivation is twofold:

A.  US War cycle #1 - The US horoscope has a sensitive point, the North Node that sits at the intersection of a number of planets. When this point gets activated by the planet Pluto the US goes to war – every time since 1776, except 1907 the time of the great financial panic and 1986 the time of the Iran-Contras.

The Pluto period is:

Date           relative strength           astrological notation    

6/1782       ***                              AQ opp North Node         Revolution          

8/1815       *                                  PI                                 War of 1812

4/1859       **                                TA                                Civil War

3/1906       *                                  GE                                Panic of 1907,

7/1943       ****                             LE cnj North Node         WW 2

3/1968       *                                  VI                                 Vietnam [Tet]

8/1986       **                                SC                                Iran contra

10/2004     *                                  SA                                Iraq/Afghanistan

4/2028       ***                              AQ opp North Node

4/2060       *                                  PI

Significant periods of influence last from several years before and after these dates. Each of these periods except for 1986 has been marked by war.

         Further corroboration of the sensitivity of the North Node - when the next most distant planet, Neptune, came to this spot the US experienced the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic that killed up to 700,000 Americans.

1776 – 1860 – 1944 - 2028

         B. US War cycle #2 - The Uranus cycle is a second war major cycle operating on the US horoscope and has a regular periodicity of 84 years, the time it takes the planet Uranus to complete a 360 degree transit of the US’s horoscope.

The transits of Uranus to the position in the US horoscope where Uranus was 6/6/1944, D-day, are:

8/6/2027	Ur > 9 GE 20	USA UR return
10/24/2027	Ur > 9 GE 20
5/18/2028	Ur > 9 GE 20
6/5/1944	Ur > 9 GE 20	D Day 6/6
1/24/1945	Ur > 9 GE 20
5/9/1945	Ur > 9 GE 20	VE Day
12/18/1860	Ur > 9 GE 20
4/11/1861	Ur > 9 GE 20	Ft. Sumter 4/12
6/23/1860	Ur > 9 GE 20
11/21/1776	Ur > 9 GE 20
5/1/1777	Ur > 9 GE 20
7/12/1776	Ur > 9 GE 20	Revolution!
10/22/1692	Ur > 9 GE 20	Mass Bay Colony
5/18/1693	Ur > 9 GE 20
8/7/1692	Ur > 9 GE 20
6/5/1609	Ur > 9 GE 20	Hudson arrives NY
5/5/1610	Ur > 9 GE 20	9/1609
1/27/1610	Ur > 9 GE 20

When the Uranus period coincides with the Pluto period circumstances are particularly violent for the USA, 1776 and on, 1860 and on, and 1944 and before and after another year.

         C. These 2 war cycles both peak in 2028.

Disclaimer

For entertainment purposes only. Please do not take seriously any of these predictions without consulting with your mental health care professional, doctor or other medical provider, spiritual advisor, competent astrologer, sponsor, or other “qualified person”, if such exists in your life. Some astronomers have proven that the planet Pluto is not a planet or does not exist at all.

And one final word. This fucking Virgo has NEVER been wrong in any of my major astrologically based financial predictions. I was early in predicting a liquidity crisis similar to 1907 in 2002 predicting the crisis would come in 2005 instead of early 2008. Ignore this wizard’s predictions at your own peril. Carlos Ballantyne!

when you're one step ahead of the crowd, you're a genius! When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.   Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin