November 07, 2005

French Riots

One can easily see the source of France's current problems in the midnight October 4th chart, the time when the constitution of the 5th Republic went into legal effect.

From a Vedic perspective, the close Sun-Mercury conjunction is being closely sextiled by Saturn. This third house sextile (forward clockwise direction only) is one of the three full strength aspects allotted to Saturn. Saturn is near its station so that makes it that much more powerful, and of course Saturn rules an evil dussthana houses -- the 8th house (death-like situations) in the midnight chart.

In the midnight chart, the 2L Sun and 3L/6L Mercury pairing falls in the 3rd house in Virgo. This is perhaps one clue as the relative young age of the rioters. The chart is running Saturn Ketu dasha now, and Ketu is involved in a close trine with natal Saturn, foreshadowing the possiblity of some breakdown (Ketu) of civil order (Saturn). To add to the gravity of the situation, transit Ketu is close by Sun and Mercury and is acting against leaders (Sun).

As long as Saturn is near the 16 or 17 degree point of Cancer (Lahiri, bien sur!), France will remain a dangerous and inflamed situation. I don't think things to really quiet down until December. After the Nov 17th Lunar Return, look for a major govt shakeup, the result of internal questioning that will follow this Arab uprising. Transit Ketu is also conjoining the Sun Mercury pair around this same time. This ups the ante overall, and having two slow moving malefics afflict the country simultaneously makes this much more significant and of potentially historic importance.

With 2L Sun afflicted, look for economic consequences to kick in shortly.

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