Saturn Opposite Neptune In 2006

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8) Saturn Opposite Neptune in 2006:
Looming Oil Shortages and Echoes of the Early 1970s

A major planetary aspect looming on the horizon is the 31 August 2006 opposition of Saturn and Neptune, the first of three such aspects forming until June 2007. Occurring for the first time since 1971-72, the world is now heading toward a major oil shortage in the summer of next year. During the last Saturn-Neptune opposition, Arab oil-producing nations moved to embargo shipments to the U.S., western Europe and Japan in retaliation for their support of Israel. That oil cutoff precipitated an energy crisis in the industrialized world. Could it happen again?

Yes, and it is likely to produce more global chaos this time around as the oil consumption needs of China, India, Brazil and other large developing nations are now fiercely competing for the available resources with the United States, Japan and Europe. In fact, it is presently suggested that, of the $55 + price for a barrel of crude oil, $7 to $15 of this is attributed to a "fear factor" in the futures markets, such as political instability in oil producing nations like Venezuela or Nigeria, or an Islamic terror attack on oil exporting facilities in Saudi Arabia. This latter scenario was analyzed in my last newsletter, as the Saudi national horoscope has an exact Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in 8 Virgo, which is presently not only conjoined by their progressed Mars, but which is also being opposed three times this year by transit Uranus.

What is striking about this to the astrologer is that, when casting the first Saturn-Neptune opposition for the USA, the precise degree of the Saudi Jupiter-Neptune conjunction, 8 Virgo, rises in Washington, D.C. This could only occur for about four minutes of clock time on that day. This horoscope has a secretive 12th house Sun, an extremely violent Mars-South Node conjunction in square to Pluto, and a wildly out-of-bounds Moon perched at 25S17 of declination. It does not escape this writer's attention that Saturn, at the time of the first opposition with Neptune, is only 07 minutes of arc away from the August 1999 Grand Cross Solar Eclipse degree of 18 Leo. This correspondent has previously gone on record with a prediction that Osama bin Laden will be captured or killed when Saturn transits the 1999 solar eclipse degree.

What is one to do? Your correspondent sold his car last year and now has a complete walking lifestyle. For a 3rd house Mercury such as mine, this is a delight, yet living where you work is not always a possibility. It is patently absurd to see the obscene number of gas guzzling SUV's and Hummers clogging the streets and further exasperating America's dependence on foreign oil. For those astrologers who question the USA Sibly chart, it is tough to argue with its 9th house Neptune as the underpinning of this American dilemma. While still more than a year away, a looming oil shortage is again front page news.
 
 

© 2005 Robert P. Blaschke