Olympics 2004
A major event this summer is the Olympics Games in Athens and the speculation
on whether the facilities would be complete by the scheduled start of
the games.
Greece is an ancient, perhaps the most ancient, country but it’s most
recent incarnation – the start of modern democracy in 1974 – shows clearly
the stresses and strains the Greeks have been under.
Greece
Not only is the state having a Saturn return but Saturn is in Cancer,
conjunct the Ascendant and Mercury. All the pressure (Saturn) of demonstrating
that you are capable of planning a major event (Saturn), demonstrating
that you are a modern nation (Saturn conj Saturn conj Ascendant) and communicating
all this to the world who doesn’t want to listen (Saturn conjunct Mercury
conjunct transiting Saturn).
Chart
for Mars conjunct Saturn May 2004
Saturn stationed at 13 Cancer and was conjunct Mars at 11 Cancer earlier
in the year. This was around the time when international speculation was
at its height that the games would not go ahead as the building work was
no where near finished. Perhaps Mars joining Saturn at this time provided
the push that was needed to finish in time? It may not have been pleasant
but it certainly spurred them into action. Saturn rules the seventh house
and it was perhaps too easy to see the gloom rather than the adhearance
to the timetable – also Saturn – which would finish in time but with little
margin for error.
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