Marjorie Orr’s World Astrology
Angela Merkel facing a reality check?
Reported sexual assaults on German women at New Year
[2016] have provided another headache for Chancellor
Angela Merkel’s perceived open-door policy on migrants. The
accusation is that no one seems to have thought through the
consequences of letting in large numbers of young men from
cultural backgrounds accused of denigrating women. Sweden,
which has always had a liberal approach to immigration, is
now finding that its rape and gun crime statistics are soaring.
Violence against women is a universal crime irrespective of
religion (or lack of) but there is a particular European problem
that ‘multi-culturalists’ are being forced to face.
Sweden (7 December 1865, 3:30pm Stockholm) is in a sevenyear phase of huge challenges as solar arc Sun-Mars crosses a
conjunction to its Pluto and opposes its Saturn. Three years
past and four years ahead. Mars-Pluto is especially associated
with rape and criminal behaviour; add in Saturn and gun crime
fits as well. Tr Uranus is also square their solar arc Moon for
the final time early in 2016, which will bring women’s issues
to the fore.
Germany, like the EU and indeed the UK, has tr Pluto moving
through its 4th house for many years which suggests domestic
pressures and a mutinous domestic population. Germany
also has tr Pluto trine 8th house Pluto in 2016/17 which will
bring up conflicted and very intense emotional responses,
also echoed in tr Pluto conjunct 4th house Venus this year.
Plus, solar arc Moon is conjunct Germany’s Mars, bu [[