A dollar crisis

The possibility of financial turbulence ahead

That evening, before Bonanza came on, president Nixon adressed the nation to announce his decision to decouple the dollar from the price of gold.

There was a 90 day pay freeze in the whole country to combat inflation and a 10 percent tariff on all imports. At the time many in the US cheered, this was going to help US manufacturers and exporters by lowering the value of the dollar.

But the day, the 15h of August 1971, has been described as the moment when America’s singular dominance of the world economy ended.

There was a lot of turbulence in the international economy as a new system for exchanging currencies had to be developed. Eventually things worked themselves out.

At the end of the month we could be seeing a continuation of this story.

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As I was looking at the composite charts for several countries around the world, a pattern started to pop out. It became clearer and clearer until I decided I needed to focus on just that.

The event is there in the composite charts of several nations. And the pattern is clear and it is also repeating through different charts. And it crops up in the charts of financial institutions.

It is there around the time of the Aries eclipse on the 29th of March 2025.

As you all know there is so much going on at the moment and there is a lot to untangle in the astrological data. But, looking at the way events are going in the US and around the world, as well as looking at history, one story has started to stand out to me.

It is related to the US dollar.

On the 29th of March we are going to have an eclipse at 9 degrees Aries. On the 28th of March 1968 there was an eclipse at 8 degrees Aries.

About a week earlier the US congress had taken the first steps to decouple the value of the US dollar from the price of gold.

There was major financial turbulence around this time – including a run on gold, the US dollar and the British pound.

The cooperation around gold reserves collapsed and the UK chancellor had to close the London gold market to combat the heavy demand for gold. The reason was that inflation in the US meant that the country no longer had enough gold to buy back foreign held dollars.

This was the beginning of a story that eventually lead to the so called Nixon shock in 1971.

A shock that remade the world economy

The February 12th Full Moon in Leo fell on a very sensitive axis in the chart for the US dollar.

With the Sun and Mercury in Aquarius on top of the dollar’s Pluto and the Moon on the natal Moon/Uranus conjunction in Leo. And Chiron exactly conjunct the currency’s Mercury/Saturn in Aries.

When have we seen a similar pattern?

On the 15th of August 1971 we had an even heavier set of transits hitting those same points.

Mars and the North Node were on top of Pluto, Sun/Venus and of course the South Node were in opposition on top of the Moon and Uranus. And Chiron was crossing the Aries Sun, and was a few degrees from joining Mercury and Saturn, with Uranus opposing from Libra.

What happened at this time?

It was the so called Nixon shock which decoupled the US dollar from the gold price.

This was a massive moment for the global economy and in the history of economics. It meant the end of the Bretton Woods system that had been in place since the Second World War to stabilise the transactions between countries.

It changed the global monetary system and “remade the world economy”.

Before then, since the Second World War, the price of the US dollar and gold was basically the same. The dollar was a good as gold. And other currencies had a fixed exchange rate to the dollar.

This helped to create a lot of prosperity in the US.

But when Richard Nixon came into power in 1969 the dollar was overvalued, which meant imports were cheap and exports were expensive. Nixon wanted to devalue the dollar, but couldn’t because it was fixed to the price of gold.

So he saw no other option than decoupling the dollar from the gold price. This created a so called fiat currency, backed by a government instead of a physical commodity like gold.

The Plaza Accord

On September 22nd 1985 world leaders met at the Plaza Hotel in New York to agree to the US currency being devalued again. The astrology on this day doesn’t reveal any major transits to the dollar chart.

However, four years after this agreement the same hotel was bought by a New York business man called Donald Trump, using a $470 million loan from several banks.

The hotel didn’t break even and its debts grew to $600 million. Trump himself ended up with $3 billion in bank loans, which lead to lenders seizing the hotel and other properties in 1995.

This is a fascinating link between the dollar, Trump and financial failure. Even though, for some reason, many Americans seem to trust Donald Trump when it comes to the economy, this belief isn’t backed up by his track record in business.

And he is now in charge of Hotel America, a country with a lot of national debt. Which it has been able to easily service thanks to the strength of the dollar and the US economy.

What would happen if the dollar collapses?

If something major happened to the value of this currency the whole world would feel it.

And the value of the US dollar is no longer tied to anything tangible and “real”, like the price of gold, there is nothing to anchor the currency in case of a shock or the whims of the US president.

If the value of the dollar collapsed imports to the US would become more expensive and inflation would rise meaning the price of most everyday items would go up.

The cost of government borrowing would also increase, meaning the interest the government pays on its borrowing goes up.

This is something we saw here in the UK in September 2022. At that time our very minor version of Trump, Liz Truss, had to resign and the UK is still recovering from this self-inflicted wound.

Five US territories and 11 nations use the US currency, they would all be significantly impacted.

The dollar is also the major reserve currency in the world, held by national banks around the globe. 58 percent of the wealth in the global reserves is held in dollars, so the value of the dollar collapsing will mean almost everyone loses money.

66 currencies are directly pegged to the US dollar, the exchange rate of these currencies would have to be worked out.

The shock would affect everyone, including Russia and China. This is why most experts think something like this is very unlikely to happen, because the world depends on the dollar.

But we now have a US president and his tech bro army who might think differently. And the crypto bros are likely to come in and suggest that cryptocurrencies should replace the dollar. Many economists seem to think this would be extremely dangerous due to the volatility of cryptocurrencies and most likely lead to a crash a few years down the line.

At its core the dollar collapsing would mean the global economy would have to rearrange itself, and it will. It has done so before. The British Pound used to be the major currency in the world. As this realignment happens there will be winners and losers, both globally and domestically.

Even just a hint of what is described above could speak of the turbulence I spotted in the composite charts.

So what can astrology tell us about what is ahead?

I’ve chosen to look at the day of the Aries eclipse, the 29th of March 2025, to find out.

Please keep in mind that this could all play out over a longer period of time, there might not be one big shock, we might instead see a series of smaller events with a major development, or a warning around what is at stake, happening around the time of the eclipse.

The Fed and the US dollar

The US dollar is going through a long period of astrological turbulence. On the 29th of March, Chiron has just passed the Mercury/Saturn conjunction in Aries and is moving towards an opposition to Neptune/Jupiter in Libra, which will be exact in May 2026.

Mars is plugging into this transit by loosely squaring both placements from Cancer.

Neptune is moving towards a conjunction with the South Node at three degrees Aries, again this is exact in May 2026.

Spring next year is in other words a time to keep an eye on too.

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The Fed is significantly impacted around the time of the eclipse. On the 29th Uranus is forming an almost exact square to the 7th house Jupiter from the 11th house.

This pattern with prominent transits to or from the 11th house (the nation’s income in mundane astrology) is a theme I’ve seen in many charts on the day of the eclipse. As is the 8th house (finances, power and death) and the 5th house (the stock market).

Mars has just crossed The Fed’s Ascendant and first house Mars. Jupiter sits on the 12th house Saturn (the power behind the scenes). Neptune is very close the Midheaven. And as it, and Saturn, move into Aries they will both square the Fed’s 6th house Capricorn Sun.

So we might see a shocking event in the house of groups, alliances or the country’s income. This is challenging the status quo upholding Jupiter in Capricorn the 7th house. What the bank represents might be dissolved (Neptune) and there could be a challenge its purpose to serve the people (6th house).

The New York Stock Exchange has Uranus having just passed its 10th house Mercury and moving towards its 10th house Sun. The planet of sudden events also squares the natal Pluto in the 7th house, perhaps speaking of changing power dynamics.

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I am not looking at the US chart here as there is just too much going on and I am trying to focus on the financial side of this eclipse.

The UK and the Bank of England

As the UK would be severely affected by something happening to the US economy I thought this would be a good place to look at next.

The UK has the eclipse on its Descendant, squaring its Midheaven and IC and the country’s Capricorn Sun on the IC.

Uranus in the 8th house is squaring the country’s Saturn in Leo in the 11th house.

Mars has just passed the natal Moon in the 10th house.

So, a shocking event in the house of finances (and also death) might force the country to tap into its inner strength and grit (Saturn), especially when it comes to leadership (Leo) related to groups or the nation’s income (11th house).

For UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer the eclipse forms an inconjunct with his natal Sun/Pluto conjunction in Virgo and Neptune in Scorpio. It also squares his Mars in Cancer and trines his Leo North Node. I don’t have a birth time for him so I am working without houses.

The eclipse might reveal something that will force him to step up (Leo North Node) and fight for his country (Mars in Cancer).

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has the eclipse squaring her Capricorn Venus and forming an inconjunct to her Virgo Moon. Uranus is squaring her Sun and opposing her Uranus. I don’t have a birth time so I can’t see any houses, but these are significant transits nonetheless.

Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, has the eclipse right on his Sun/Mercury conjunction in Aries. It squares his Saturn and loosely trines his Uranus in Leo. Uranus in Taurus is almost exactly squaring his natal Chiron. A very heightened time for him astrologically.

The Bank of England has a natal Grand Cross which is activated during the eclipse by Saturn and Jupiter. On this day Pluto also sits on the Bank’s Midheaven, opposing its Sun. Transiting Uranus forms an exact trine to the Banks’s Virgo Mars in the 4th house.

When Lehman Brother’s collapsed in 2008 the grand cross was activated too, by Pluto and Uranus and the Sun. The chart pattern was also pinged during the bank run on the 13th of September 2008 when Northern Rock collapsed. And in March 2023 during the bank run on the Silicon Valley Bank in the US.

There is a lot going on astrologically for the Bank and it could speak of it having to step in and up to save something, just like it did during the financial crisis in 2008.

The eclipse itself squares the Bank’s Chiron in the second house from the 11th house.

Countries that use the US dollar

I’m using midnight charts for the countries below as I don’t have the exact time of when they were founded.

Ecuador uses US dollar as its currency. It has Pluto in the 9th movings towards an opposition to the natal third house Moon in Leo and a square to Uranus in the 6th house.

Neptune transiting through the 11th house will start to square the county’s second house Venus after it moves into Aries the day after the eclipse.

The dollar is also widely used in The Bahamas. The eclipse falls very close to the country’s Mars in Aries, it loosely trines the 5th house Mercury and Venus. The country is also having its Chiron return, with Pluto opposing the natal Mercury in Leo.

The dollar is also used in Cambodia which has Mars on its natal Uranus on the day of the eclipse. The New Moon itself opposes the country’s Libra Mars in the second house and trines the Moon in the 4th house. Pluto is squaring the country’s 3rd house Saturn from the 6th house.

What does it all mean?

I don’t know what’s going to happen and there is a lot of turbulence out there. I have spotted some interesting patterns, but exactly how all of this plays out remains to be seen.

If there is a major financial event there is only so much any of us can do to prepare. It is only when things happen that we can act.

We all have our own natal astrology and how this coming period will play out for you can be seen there.

An option for those of you who want some guidance from the fates, but don’t know astrology or the tarot and aren’t able to get a reading done is to use the I Ching. It’s free and online and an ancient and wise oracle. It can be a source of comfort, if used correctly. And by that I mean looking at a few different sources to figure out what the hexagram means and not interpreting it from a place of fear.

Now might also be good time to play around with a few scenarios and what you might do in case there is major financial turbulence. Ideally this should be without catastrophising, as that will shut down creative thinking.

You will be better prepared to think on your feet and act decisively if you have gamed out a few scenarios in your head.

If you have read this far, thank you. And please share any thoughts or insights you might have around the astrology in the comments. We are all much wiser when we work together to decipher the astrological story of this time.