Wow!
It's time for this astrologer to take a look at Denmark in the News ...
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With Gemini and Sagittarius across the vertical axis, Denmark would be the perfect country to test freedom of speech, especially considering that Pluto is now crossing the IC and 4th house, potentially a very, very dark time of soul searching which, for the happy-go-lucky country with the Sagittarius Moon in the sometimes incredibly chauvinistic 3rd house, is long overdue.
With its Sun in Gemini in the 9th house, Denmark is consciously committed to speaking the truth, not just knowing the truth. But how? That's the question.
It would be hard to imagine a chart with more latent hostility than this one. Look at the malefics all in row starting at the 7th house axis and culminating in a packed 8th house with severely afflicted Aries. Furthermore, in this chart Pluto sits like a loaded bomb as it has no contacts to any other planets but Uranus, no way to express except through radical implosion.
1848 was a year of Revolution throughout Europe causing upheaval in France, Austria and Prussia while England and Russia remained apart. Denmark's modern birth was a result of those tremendous upheavals. These revolutions all failed and the status quo was more or less restored by 1852 throughout Europe but the birth of modern Denmark was one lasting result.
The fact that on 5 June 1849 Denmark was given a new Constitution replacing the absolute monarchical system was due in part to contemporary developments in Europe and in part to internal problems in the Danish monarchy, according to the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (click here).
The events around the world today are testimony in macrocosm of the tremendous amount of passive aggressive hostility that comes packed into Saturn in Aries. If you have this placement natally, it will be instructive to follow this event and learn from it so that you can avoid such an incident in the microcosm one day, in your own life.
Saturn will soon be trining the 8th house malefics (Mars, Uranus and Pluto). Denmark may have a chance to deal constructively with hidden issues of aggression. Truly they are getting their own lesson back in thrie face as well -- ironically -- the "power of the press". It would seem upon looking at this chart (much to my surprise) that this country does personify a need to reexamine the limits of "freedom" where "speech" is concerned and that the act of the Jyllands-Posten in publishing these cartoons might have been subconscioiusly extremely aggressive and inflammatory in intent (the punishment does indeed fit the crime), not to mention absolutely unreflected and foolhardy as is so often the case with unconscious use of Aries energy.
The Danish government speaks from its well meaning light hearted Sagittarian Moon in the 3rd house and with the typical "innocence" of Aries who always wind up having to shoot their way out of town. But they have certainly painted a bullseye on themselves for the time being. This typically forces the Aries to some hard won self-reflection.
The fact that these events come out at the end of a Venus Retrograde transit make them particularly warlike and hostile.
I have also been thinking, as Denmark goes, so goes the world. The Danes were the first to cross the seas and begin exploring that way.
Medieval Viking helmut
The Vikings, among the most warlike peoples to ever inhabit the earth, invaded England and Russia, planting many seeds for the future. The explosive period of 1848 for Europe resulted in one advance, that of the Danish Consitution. Soon other followed, as the result of the first World War spasmodically revisited in the second World War. Something in 1848 was struggling very desperately to be born and would not be denied. That something took root first in Denmark. The two countries that were not involved in the 1848 crises were England and Russia, the two countries Denmark had seeded.
To brush up a little on history, the early "kings" of England were Danish, including Hamlet. Payment of the Danegeld (began is 858) a "tribute" which was actually a bribe to buy off Danish invasion. The tall blonde Russians including Peter the Great are descendants of Viking invaders.
Thor, a Viking God
I think it is important to see this event as an harbinger, as the tip of the iceberg for things to come. Perhaps many years in the future we will look back at this time as the seed.
The Wild Boar Hunt of Odin (main deity)
As Denmark goes, so goes Europe?
Nancy R. Fenn
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