I've written before about the rise in the number of Futurists - people who try and predict upcoming social and economic trends. Dmitry Orlov is not a fully fledged futurist, in fact he's a software engineer, but if someone becomes an engineer astrologers know they are naturally attuned to being prescient. This is due to the correlations of this type of work to the planet Uranus, which was discovered at the time of the Industrial Revolution and whose cycles coincide with the technological revolution that birthed the Internet. Uranus always seems to connect one to be able to receive 'information from the future'.Anyway Dmitry is garnering the attention of futurists the world over due to his 'insight' over the parallels between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the now full blown economic crisis in the USA which, arguably, triggered the global meltdown. He has been 'shouting' out for over a decade now about the possibility of the social and economic collapse of the USA. You can read the transcript of a speech he gave in February here and/or you can read his presentation (with visuals) from 2006 here.
The message is certainly getting louder but we also have to ask, is it true?
The person who alerted me to Dmitry did so in the context of enquiring if the astrology supported such a dire view of a collapse of the USA.
The answer is yes and no.
Firstly cycles do repeat but never in exactly the same way. One has to see cycles as being like a spiral. We may come back to revisit a situation, but we will always do so one level higher than before. It's almost as if we say, 'Okay I recognise this, I've been here before' but what you learned the previous time ensures that the outcome this time is different as you are looking at it from a slightly higher perspective. In global terms, a cycle repeats but the actions of the people participating in it, and the level from which they perceive the problem will have a great impact on the outcome. So the more enlightened people are about a positive, possible future the more they can raise themselves up to look at it from a 'higher' perspective and avoid the previous problems. Forewarned is forearmed.
Astrologically the Jupiter/Neptune/ Chiron conjunction of this year could point to massive collapse of the economy, currencies and maybe even countries ( Astrologer Christeen Skinner is another prescient 'Uranian' who discussed all this years ago and wrote about it in her book The Financial Universe). The same Jupiter/Neptune associated with collapse can however, also give rise to hugely inflated fears travelling throughout the collective, fuelled by misinformed networks and groups (AQ) and even astrologers, (Christeen excluded!). So it's important that we don't all get swept off in a wave of fear and unwittingly bring about that which we are trying to avoid.
What I personally note is the transit of Saturn into Libra later in the year. This can bring about a reform of the structure of society via collaborative efforts. We can all get serious (SA) about co-operating with each other (Libra) in order for the good of the whole. This will involve huge restructuring of the Legal/Judicial system (Libra) too, but right action ( SA) allied with right thought (air sign) can bring about change.
To this end my eye was drawn to the 'manifesto' of a network of futurists called The Foresight Network. It says:
The network's goals are to help members listen and learn from each other, anticipate change, explore next practice, find new opportunities to collaborate and to co-create the future.They also have a great URL - Shaping Tomorrow
It always amuses me that futurists have no idea how closely allied their work is to that of astrologers. One of the posts I see up on this site at the moment is Looking 7 years forward, looking 7 years back. Seven years is of course one sub-cycle of the 28 year Saturn cycle and Uranus has an 84 year cycle which is 12 periods of 7 years. Shaping Tomorrow would be a Saturn (shaping/structuring) theme while Tomorrow is a Uranian theme (Uranus = future) so they are bang on 'trend' in choosing this name when we are in a continuing Saturn/Uranus opposition cycle during 2008-2010.
What's the upshot then? Well. if the message 'is getting louder' we will all eventually hear someone's take on it. However, in my mind it should not be heard as a clarion call for us all to bunker down or head for the hills . That will energise a wave of panic. Rather it is that as a co-operative - a 'global family' of people and businesses, formed along the premise of: benefits that can be passed along for the good of everyone, we can and should 'collaborate with this fate' and actively begin to co-create ( Saturn in Libra) a better future.
Don't look to the Governments to 'fix' your future. You may feel that you are a victim and resent having to clean up someone else's mess but, to paraphrase Goethe if we 'all sweep in front of our own front door, soon the whole world will be clean'. Do what you can to bring change to your world and don't wait for it to come to you. Check out the Co-ops. and alternative power sources (Uranus also moves to the sign of Aries in 2010).
This is the way forward and my bet for the single biggest trend for 2010.
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