EUROPEAN UNION

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Data:  Progressions and transits calculated for September 7, 2011.

On November 1, 1993, under the third Delors Commission, the Maastricht Treaty became effective, creating the European Union with its pillar system, including foreign and home affairs alongside the European Community.  Thus was formed the economic and political union known as the European Union, to function as a single market dedicated to the relative free movement of labor, capital, goods and services and to establish common policy towards the aim of political, economic and monetary union.

The most elevated planet in the chart is the Moon in the 3rd decanate of Taurus, indicating the reflective influence of Saturn, its sub-ruler.  Of the 25th degree, astrologer Dane Rudhyar states the keynote to be:  "The cultivation of natural energies for collective use and recreation."  The Moon, representing the people, is exalted in Taurus describing them as desiring ease in living.  The story of Ferdinand the Bull who wanted nothing more than to lounge under a tree sniffing flowers accurately depicts planets in Taurus.  The tremendous energies of Mercury-Mars-Pluto in opposing Scorpio are diverted by the Neptune-Uranus conjunction in 6th house Capricorn, close to the cusp...and so the people of the EU are readily willing to allow immigrants to flow into their midst to take upon themselves necessary labor in order to secure their desired life-style.  Trouble in the glen arrives via the Neptune-Uranus square to 3rd house Venus, which produces a need to help the less fortunate that brings contact with people flowing over the borders who are parasites only interested in taking advantage of any generosity bestowed upon them.  The result:  a social situation that is likely to change radically wrought by a self-executed trap that ends in an invasion of personal space and which proves to be financially costly.

Noteworthy in this chart is a Fixed T-Square with 7th house Saturn in Aquarius at the Apex that involves the Mercury-Mars-Pluto conjunction in 4th house Scorpio opposing 10th house Taurus Moon, describing the EU as a rigidly organized, intensely purposeful, but willfully unyielding entity, resistant to the greatest degree.  There is a desire to totally overpower and manipulate all matters under their authority, not likely to willingly share the catbird seat with any others.  There is a measure of ruthlessness in the calculation of securing power, always seeking to have the upper hand.

On September 5, 2011, transiting Mercury opposes natal Saturn to form a Fixed Cosmic Cross, just in time for the September 7th conference of the German constitutional court to decide on Berlin's participation in Eurozone bailouts.  Talk about finding oneself between a rock and a hard place, this temporary configuration manifests through deep-seated, difficult to eradicate problems that may result in rut-bound blockage.  There is a firm resistance towards compromising or sharing with others and a rigidity that refuses to allow for needed adjustments.

On September 7, 2011, transiting Moon will conjoin the Neptune-Uranus conjunction and trigger their square to Venus.  Debt is an 8th house matter, ruled in this chart by Neptune (Pisces on the cusp).  Pisces is natural ruler of the 12th house and so the EU has victimized itself with self-inflicted debt.  The time for sacrifice has arrived.

Germany will have transiting Moon conjoined natal Saturn, co-ruler of 7th and 8th houses, during part of the day on Sept. 7th.  An onerous responsibility engenders strong feelings of being independent stemming from the belief that the nation cannot depend upon anyone else for support.  The July 1st Solar Eclipse at 9* Cancer 12' that squared Germany's Sun demands that the country - and its Chancellor, Angela Merkel - allow a breath of fresh air to flow freely...to make a choice to either get out of a rut or to defend that rut against all challengers.  A make or break decision.