Libya’s government on the brink of collapse

Revolutionary fervor is spreading. Protests are still raging in Wisconsin and, back in the Middle East, reports coming from Libya are telling us that the government is on the brink of collapse. Muammar al-Gaddafi has gone to war with protesters in his country. The former revolutionary gone dictator seems to be going insane. Repeating what little is available from dependable sources, Gaddafi has ordered his air force to bomb protesters, and two of his pilots defected to Malta. Some members of the military have fired on protesters.

Both sides seem committed to fighting to the death. Western news entities are not able to report from the country so most of what’s coming out is by witness accounts and what imagery can be uploaded to the Internet.

Let’s take a look at the chart of Libya and see how this looks. There are two charts to modern Libya, one being a 1951 chart for independence, and a chart from 1969 for the founding of the republic. The charts are very similar; both have so much in Libra that we could rename the country Librya. You can see them both here. I’ll just comment on the later chart.

In any of these charts of things going off, the first thing I look for is planets early in the cardinal signs. And we find them in abundance in the chart for Libya — for example, Uranus, Mercury and Jupiter in Libra, as well as Chiron and Eris in Aries. And for a little extra goddess action, there’s Juno in Capricorn. All of these planets are aligned with the cardinal cross activity that we’ve been experiencing in ’10 and ’11 — Saturn has made aspects to each one of these planets; Pluto has made aspects to most of them; Jupiter has made a few aspects; and Uranus is about to go through the territory like a snow blower.

We’re seeing evidence of how the Aries Point works, but what we’re seeing is the Uranus-Pluto square multiplied by the Aries Point. Uranus-Pluto blends the revolutionary power with evolutionary movement and deep mass consciousness. The Aries Point heats up the energy and makes it personally relevant.

Looking at Libya, this concentration of planets in the early cardinal signs is being lit up by all of the cardinal sign transits. And, that’s a picture of the instability we’re seeing.

Yet this business of turning guns on people is worth investigating, and we can see a bit of that illustrated in Chiron and Eris retrograde in the 8th house. That is a frustrated, painful, even suicidal relationship to death, and a concept of self that is essentially do or die. I say concept of self because Aries is involved. Jupiter is sitting right on that Chiron right now, magnifying and inflaming what is already there.

The story is changing rapidly. I’m home near my TV waiting to hear what Rachel Maddow has to say.