Planets and Finance 2008

The smart money will be on food. Saturn is in Virgo, Virgo is the sign of Agriculture. It is the sign of a few other items in the news, but let's get with the most basic need of the planet, which is to feed itself. As creatures of a vast devouring capacity, our ability to find food was our first survival tactic, and as everyone who reads, knows, the ability to make food, and keep an extra supply has been the reason for the making of communities, cities, civilization and the wars to take it from each other. The USA has some of the finest and most plentiful soil for agriculture in the world. But big chemicals have been dominating our patterns and mechanics of making food for a very long time. In 2009 a challenge to the chemical industry is looming. That challenge is the rational need for better production, more careful conserving of soils, and finding out the truth about the ruinous use of chemicals in farming. The battle over seed cultures is huge, but covert, and is where the smart money has already made its claim. Virgo is also the sign of system, all systems. That means our physical system needs nutrition, but it also means that all systems are up for review. The way we farm, the way we process, as well as the more publicized way we consume are all "ripe" for change in 2009 as never before. This is what the tracking and interpretation of planets is all about--timing. There are times when good ideas cannot be implemented, no matter how worthy, and there are times when implementation is so ready that any idea will take place because receptivity is absolute.
So this time, this Saturn transit (Sept. 2007 till Oct. 2009) brings a rare, precise and dire moment in the equation between agriculture, water and chemistry/technology. As new and brilliant breakthroughs are occurring in the science of chemistry, so are tragic and horrific losses occurring in the water table and the water mechanics of planet earth. Our brilliance must compensate for our greed in the uses of water, and also in the recognition of dwindling water and vanishing snow and ice packs.
As Virgo rules health, and the caretakers who work in that field, health care is a karmic and time-ordered necessity during this great emphasis on the sign Virgo. But without water, and then without proper means to cultivate the sustaining foodstuffs, there will be no population to keep healthy. Underlying this message is the blaming of the pharmaceutical companies and the fertilizer manufacturers for unmitigated destructiveness in poisoning the planet and its inhabitants. The Saturn conjunction with the USA Neptune has happened before--every thirty years since our beginning, in fact. But this time the conflict can't just sink under a bribe; or be hidden by lies and false claims--this time big chem is being called out by no less than Uranus in Pisces. Truth in the water, fish out of heaven, lightning rods from the sea. The all-seeing eye cannot be fooled and not for long. Life is rising up to make us know, that our responsibility to ourselves has been trumped by our almighty gluttony. Not for the food, but for the easy money, and the wasteful trashing of precious earth. For the investment that will last unto the next generations and profit in multiple ways, buy green, think green and grow your own, or know your grower. That is a little piece, the bigger one is 6 billion mouths to feed, and that doesn't count the dogs in our purses that dine on endangered salmon, and slaughtered horses.