JAPAN - USA JUNE 2013 UPDATE

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DATA:  February 11, 1889 @ Tokyo, Japan

Outer Circle:  May 25, 2013 Full Moon Eclipse

Note:  Houses will not be considered in the Japan chart due to lack of true time of birth.

On May 25, 2013 a Lunar Eclipse at 4* Sagittarius 8' opposed natal Pluto in the chart of Japan.  Pluto is especially related to financial matters, investments, and joint resources.  Pluto is also noted for power struggles that often bring destruction.

The square of transiting Neptune to natal Pluto has been in effect since at least March, already weakening Japan's financial situation, leaving the May eclipse (and the ensuing months) the job of finishing it off.  This drama is occurring with the assistance of transiting Saturn, now retrograding in Scorpio, the sign of joint resources, ruled by Pluto, which is moving to inconjunct the same natal Pluto that has been suffering planetary discordance.  Saturn will turn direct in motion on July 8th at 4* Scorpio 49'...only forty-nine minutes from exact aspect.

Further weakening of Japan can be seen via the May 10, 2013 Solar Eclipse at 19* Taurus 31' in close square to natal Sun, signifying a crisis that is bound to get the country noticed.

The Congressional Research Service states:  "Japan is a major foreign source of financing of the U.S. national debt and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future, as the mounting U.S. public debt needs to be financed and the stock of U.S. domestic savings remains insufficient to meet the investment needs.  Japan is also a significant source of foreign private portfolio and direct investment in the United States, and the United States is the origin of much of the foreign investment in Japan."

For the above reasons it would behoove Americans to keep their focus on the happenings in Japan instead of on Europe, to use Japan as the canary in the mineshaft, so to speak, as THE major warning that the U.S. financial ship of state has hit an iceberg.

USA - July 4, 1776 @ 5:10 P.M. LMT - Philadelphia, PA

Outer Circle:  Lunar Eclipse of October 18, 2013

On October 18, 2013 a Lunar Eclipse will fall in the 4th house of the USA horoscope in square to 2nd house natal Pluto.  As in Japan's chart above:  Pluto is especially related to financial matters, investments, and joint resources and is also noted for power struggles that often bring destruction.  The exception between Japan's chart and that of the USA is that a square aspect brings acute conflict and violent antagonisms that cause radical changes.  It is much more destructive than an opposition, such as Japan is experiencing, as the square acts in a violent manner, tending to tear up and destroy all it contacts.  It is contacting the 2nd house in the USA horoscope, the area of life that involves the financial state of the nation and its purchasing power.  What it means is that our monetary system is about to undergo a dramatic change so that Americans may very well find themselves a lot less wealthy than they were before this most important Lunar Eclipse.

The Moon is in Aries, ruler of the 4th and 5th houses as both have Aries on the cusp, which means that the effects of this eclipse will also negatively impinge upon living conditions of the population, real estate, mining, agriculture, the land itself and weather events (4th house) and on 5th house matters, such as children's issues, public education, sports, and the stock market.

If you haven't already done so, get your financial ducks in a row, implement a plan to protect yourselves...time is running out.