One year after the fall of Lehman Brothers presaged a worldwide economic crisis, futurist Gerald Celente is predicting that a revolution has already begun in the United States. Many are decrying his "doom and gloom" predictions, but he is saying exactly what I have been saying myself: that you can't keep repairing a house that is built on quicksand. The house has to be taken down and rebuilt on a firmer footing.
To recap the astrological history: The entry of Pluto into Capricorn in January of 2008 led to a panic in the stock market as it became clear that the expansion of the Pluto in Sagittarius era could not go on forever. Pluto brings cultural transformation, and astrologers knew that when Pluto entered Capricorn the structures on which we base our lives (Capricorn), including government, financial and educational systems, and religious institutions would be forever transformed.
But even before this Saturn was paving the way to an increased sense of thriftiness when it entered Virgo back in the fall of 2007. Suddenly there was the beginning of a shift towards savings and conservative attitudes towards money as the subprime mortgage fiasco began to build.
Evidently Celente couldn't get anyone in the US to listen, so he has taken his message to Russia Today:
"It hasn't ended. That was only the beginning. We are going to see a lot more. There is no recovery, it's a cover-up. They're covering it up with stimulus packages, with buy outs, with bailouts - it's not going to fix the problem."
"Let's put it this way: in order to have a 20 to 30 trillion dollar global blow-up, you don't have a few bad apples and you don't have a few simple mistakes - you have everybody basically bought in on a system that's fundamentally unsound."
In this video interview of Celente it is clear that he's not an alarmist. As far as I can tell, he is merely trying to get people to wake up to the fact that the times have changed. Astrologers are looking ahead to the upcoming square from Uranus (revolution) in Aries (war and aggression) with Pluto (transformation, death and rebirth) in Capricorn (social structures) and realizing that some kind of revolution is going to take place. For some time I have felt that the period from 2010 to 2014 (especially 2012-2013 when this aspect is at its tightest) will bring revolutionary conflict between those who have (Capricorn) and those who don't (Uranus in Aries). This won't be traditional war as we have known it, between countries. This is a people's revolution that will spread all over the world.
Celente says that it doesn't have to be like this. If the governments of the world recognize what's going on here and work to rebuild the financial system, this collapse can lead to a renaissance and transformation of our world. Like me, he says "let's the banks that are too big to fail, fail." Let's start again from scratch on a solid foundation.
Unfortunately, though, the powers that run the banking system have too much to gain by retaining the status quo. If you're not convinced, take a look at the Vanity Fair article about how the bailout money (approved by previous president George Bush, remember) has been wasted. And our Congress, supported by lobbyists and special interests on both sides of the aisle, just go along with it.
Celente is predicting the emergence of a new third party which he's calling "Progressive Libertarian" in 2012. To me this follows the astrology nicely - the Uranian influence will increase the desire of Americans to be liberated (Uranus) from the clutches of the two party system (Capricorn).
Watch the video and see what you think.
Update: here is an interesting interview with Celente.
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I thought Obama was a muslim terrorist, not a zionist infiltrator. Oh dear, it's getting harder and harder to keep up with the conspiracy lunatics out there in cyberspace.
Amir, I am definitely working on that and I will probably talk about it a bit tomorrow on the radio show as well.
I pretty much agree with you, Denise. I have a fantasy that in order to get elected and start making some of the changes in education and foreign policy that he's been implementing he signed a pact with the devil to take on Larry Summers and TIm Geithner and the rest of the Wall Street crowd. It's been a fact of life for centuries that bankers rule the world, and I don't see that as being different now.
This is interesting and I can see the timeline of events. I have removed myself from being of either party (Dems or Reps) and this appears to represent the feeling of the basic American citizen at the moment.
We are all tired of having more laws that are a smoke screen to remove additional money from us...in the name of taxes.
The Free Enterprises system is all but dead… look at all the empty shops, and no sign of new startups.
Here’s hoping for the future….
"the bailout money (approved by previous president George Bush, remember) has been wasted"
And let's not forget that Obama, while still a senator, was very enthusiastic about passing the bailout/TARP legislation last fall. The top guys on both sides (Bush and Obama) were very adamant in how we "had" to do this. And don't forget that McCain made a big phony show of being unsure about voting for it, probably in an attempt to get votes (since the overwhelming majority of the people were against the bill). McCain made a big show of "suspending his campaign" so he could go back to Washington and look over this TARP bill that was so troubling to him. Then, for all the bluster, he signed it anyway.
And don't forget that Glenn Beck, the current "rebel" of choice for many people who are anti-government, supported the bailouts as well.
The point is, ALL of the top figures were for the bailouts that robbed the people. The differences between Bush and Obama are really superficial in that, when it comes down to it, they're both for robbing the people. And supposed "rebel" media watchdogs always heel and toe the line on the big issues, too. Don't forget this; it does NO GOOD to go back and forth between Republican and Democrat every 4 or 8 years, because BOTH parties are equally intent on following the same overall agenda.
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