2012 & The End of the World
Posted by Steve at 11/13/2009 11:23 AM 
Categories: Business Outlook
Tags: trends Saturn 2014 Steven Mark Weiss business 2012 astrology Pluto Neptune Signs of Success forecast
Categories: Business Outlook
Tags: trends Saturn 2014 Steven Mark Weiss business 2012 astrology Pluto Neptune Signs of Success forecast
The impending end of the world, widely forecast to occur in December 2012, is not primarily a business issue. Then again, Armageddon is sort of a non-discriminating event. Should the alarmists prove correct, one would definitely expect to see a troubling overall dip in 4Q '12 sales.
Turning to astrology for insight is not likely to grant one either professional or personal ease in this matter. By anybody's accounting we've already entered into an unusually nasty period for planetary placements as currently reflected in weighty and worrisome world events. Pair this with the little known fact that all astrologers upon receiving their union cards are pledged to an essentially nihilistic view of the universe and, well, it's kind of a doomsday prediction festival right now.
Even as I write these very lines, Saturn in Libra is forming an exact square to Pluto in Capricorn. It is possible to write a lengthy exegesis on the symbolism involved here, involving such macro factors as: challenges to and by existing political authority; the harsher aspect of justice gone blind; and potentially violent transformational change on the widest possible cultural scale. I'll leave the full angst analysis to some other astrologer, but suffice it to note that the last time these planets made just such an aspect in these very signs was at the start of the American Revolution.
Perhaps even more sobering is the knowledge that the planet Uranus (radical change) is coming along to enter Aries (forceful action). The square that this powerful planet will make with Pluto in Capricorn will last on and off from early spring of 2010 to the winter of 2018. The last time Uranus in Aries made a square to Pluto, albeit in the opposite sign of Cancer, was from 1930 to 1935, i.e. almost the entire length of the Great Depression.
Now I realize that I'm not making any friends by calling attention to these things...unless you're the type who goes in for pain on a pretty massive scale. I have long thought, though, that the universe loves having mystical types bring these things out into the open so it can defy all punditry and assure something completely unforeseen takes place. Or perhaps you just may care to think of it as 2012 being the least of our problems.
In fact, it would not be surprising at all (duh!) if this 2012 thing was something of a red herring, in terms of being the specific focus for a massive world-altering event. I've commented elsewhere that the whole Mayan calendar hoohah is predicated on our assumption that an ancient civilization calculated that time was ending in 2012, rather than offering a numerical progression that would repeat itself starting in 2013. There's also buzz regarding an equinoctial event in which the earth and sun are (going to be) aligned with the exact center of the galaxy, but this may have actually occurred as much as a decade ago and is currently being fudged a bit by metaphysical types to make it a little more 2012-ish.
For me, the most interesting astrological fact about 2012 is the emergence of Neptune as "king" of the planets. Again, this could bear much explication regarding the movement of Neptune into its own sign of Pisces, an astrological technique called "dispositor patterning" that makes Neptune energy the resolution of most issues for the 14 years from 2012 onward, the fact that we are currently experiencing the first Neptune return in human consciousness (Neptune's first orbit of the Sun since its 'discovery' in 1847) , and the recent felicitously timed downgrading of Pluto to dwarf status making Neptune the outermost of the major planets. Neptune, as I've written elsewhere, is the planet of pure spirit and imagination and what we might call unreality...guaranteeing only that whatever is coming in 2012 is going to be a surprise.
We might glean some insight from the fact that Neptune, as it approaches the planetary throne, is currently being 'escorted' by two traveling partners in the sky. The first of these is a so-called Centaur object (part comet/part asteroid) named Chiron, discovered a little over three decades ago and given astrological status as "the wounded healer," akin to the bitter medicine one must swallow in order to make things well again. More hopefully, the other footman is Jupiter who is generally identified as a benefactor bringing an abundance of blessings, although the emphasis is heavily on the abundance part and not always so much on the blessings.
So as not to completely abandon the business mission of this space, it is worth pointing out that the three celestial amigos...Neptune, Chiron and Jupiter...are in fact having a profound effect, astrologically speaking, on the American stock market right now and will for the next few years. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the takeaways from this influence are that we are probably getting 'bad' (i.e. not truthful) numbers and that pain is a requisite for healing in the economy. Financially, Neptune is associated with oil and drugs, and we can certainly expect continued emphasis and unanticipated developments from these market movers now and in the near future...and the news, although hardly saturated with promises of bounty, does not appear to be relentlessly dire (in fact, there are some particularly positive economic signs for 2011).
Basically, adding up the auguries in order to conclude this commentary, I would rather expect 2012 to be more of a downturn year than a disaster. It has the feel of a period in which mysteries come to light and excesses are diminished. But again, Neptune is involved so who really knows?
Now 2014...that's a scary year.
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