What's Ahead in 2015 and 2016

The subprime mortgage crisis hit when the US housing bubble burst after peaking in 2006. In 2006-2007, when all this happened, the Saturn-Neptune cycle was active, with Saturn opposing Neptune three times, in Summer 2006, early 2007, and Summer 2007. When Saturn and Neptune are making hard aspects to each other like this, confidence falls and doubt reigns supreme.

The next time this Saturn-Neptune cycle will be active is Autumn 2015 and Spring and Summer 2016, but unlike its earlier aspect in 2007, now it not only coincides with a much stronger aspect - Uranus square Pluto - but it actually aligns momentarily with that other aspect, and Jupiter joins in the party as well.

There are two great turning points in 2015. The first is when Mars aligns with Uranus-Pluto in March just as they are exactly hitting their 90 degree mark, and the second is in September and October, when all the outer planets momentarily align together into a single mega-complex aspect cluster. The first of these is likely to coincide with violent social, military, and/or terrorist crises. The second and ultimately more impacting of the two is likely to bring economic, social, and/or political crises. If history actually records a single, definitive "and that's when the shit hit the fan" moment, it'll be in Autumn 2015.

Now, in 2017-2019, Uranus and Neptune complete a semisquare, and this will have the effect of making the whole world feel somewhat unprepared - financially, socially, psychologically, and culturally unprepared - to cope with the strange and unfamiliar changes occurring at that time. But this semisquare is set off early by Saturn, during that mega-complex aspect cluster in October and November 2015. This tells us that people will find themselves thoroughly confused, disoriented, caught off guard, unprepared, and basically floundering by the world events of Autumn 2015.

For most of 2016, the Saturn-Neptune aspect holds sway, insuring that dreams of recovery do not pan out that year. But then in the winter of 2016-2017, Jupiter again rolls around to a spot where it aligns in a T-square with the Uranus-Pluto square, and this is likely to produce at least a short window of exuberant if desperate optimism. The last time Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto aligned like this was in April 2014, when Russia and the US went nose to nose over Ukraine, re-igniting the Cold War. That same sort of a reckless, suspenseful international power play would seem to again be on schedule for late 2016, right after the November US elections.