India is facing an economic slowdown post demonetization (November 2016) and GST (July 2017) which were poorly implemented resulting in lots of job losses in both formal and informal sector of our economy. Globally Europe and China are suffering from slowdown for various reasons. The USA-China trade wars and Iran-Saudi Arabia military tensions can also bring a major recession is what economists are anticipating now. Astrologically the situation of economic slowdown may get worst with the entry of Jupiter into Sagittarius on the 5^th of November 2019 and later after the solar eclipse of 26^th of December in the same sign the problem will start getting worst. I had indicated about this in my article “ Global Economic Trends 2019” published in the January 2019 issue of this magazine at page number 50. It has been observed that the transit of Saturn from fiery sign Aries, Leo and Sagittarius bring slowdown in economy. If Saturn transiting from fiery sign comes into an opposition with Jupiter or in conjunction with it then the situation of global recession can occur like it had happen in case of 1929, 1982, 1991 and 2009 economic crisis. These major economic crisis had come around the opposition or conjunction of Saturn-Jupiter.

{Note: This article of mine was published in the January 2020 issue of Express Star Teller Magazine. The same has been reproduce here for the readers of my blog} 

The conjunction or opposition of Saturn and Jupiter bring major changes in global economy and also big wars is a cardinal principal of mundane astrology discuss in the text like Bhavishya Phala Bhaskar and Mayur Chitram. The logical interpretation of this could be the ‘Karaka Tattwa’ or signification of these two major planets. Saturn signifies masses or people in general and Jupiter hold its signification over wisdom and wealth. The conjunction or opposition of Saturn and Jupiter bring collective changes in the thought process of people at large which bring major economic and political upheavals which are historic but painful in nature.

Now this great conjunction of Saturn-Jupiter taking place in Sagittarius and then in Capricorn sign is going to bring a major economic and food price crisis around the world in year 2020. This will happen because of  wars disturbing  countries like India, Pakistan, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and USA at various fronts. The effect of it will remain for about 2 years and an economic revival is only possible when Jupiter moves into Pisces which is the sign of expansion. This will happen in 2022 only and until then there is a danger that millions of people around the world will lose their jobs and there will be bad effects on many businesses.  However, the growth in renewable energy, new age technology, ecommerce and organic farming will be the brighter areas post 2020.

Now I will discuss some of my findings about astrological combination giving a sudden crisis in career which are applicable in natal horoscopes.

• In the horoscope having conjunction of 10^th lord with 8^th house lord or 12^th house lord there is a danger of job loss during the dasha of ‘Dusthana’ lords (6^th, 8^th and 12^th lords).
• The conjunction or opposition of 5^th lord and 8^th lord in a horoscope can also give a sudden job loss during an adverse dasha periods. The 5^th house is 8^th house from the 10^th house of career so it can also give a job loss or crisis in career.
• The enigmatic dashas of Jupiter-Venus or Venus-Jupiter, Rahu-Venus or Venus-Rahu, Mercury-Ketu or Ketu-Mercury and Saturn-Rahu or Rahu-Saturn can bring a crisis in career if these dasha lords are in 6/8 or 2/12 position from each other.
• A solar or lunar eclipse falling over the Janma lagna, natal Sun and/or natal Moon can bring crisis in career of a highly placed professional if he is undergoing a dasha of natural malefic planets or ‘Dusthana’ lords.
• In case of Jamini Chara dasha the dasha of Atamakaraka can bring a sudden fall in career. The Amatayakaraka falling in the 6^th, 8^th or 12^th house from Rashi dasha can also give a big crisis in career.

Let’s discuss few cases to understand these principals discuss above.

Case 1. Male (An IT Professional Working in Singapore)

6 May 1975, 15:55 hours 

Longitude: 77 E 13’ and Latitude: 28 N 40’

Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Jupiter 7 years 11 months 14 days

This Virgo lagna horoscope is  of a highly placed IT professional who went to Singapore after July 2008 when he was running under Mercury-Sun dasha in Vimshottari in his horoscope. Since then he was working in the same company until this September when his employers informed him that their organization has become insolvent due to losses. The global economic slowdown is hitting the software industry very badly as we all know. He lost his job during his Ketu-Ketu dasha in Vimshottari (from 19 April 2019 to 16 September 2019). Ketu is well placed in the 9^th house of luck and is with 10^th lord Mercury but the aspect of 8^th lord Mars has spoil this yoga. In Navamsha Ketu falls in the 12^th house of losses. The next dasha is of Ketu-Venus which are in 2/12 axis but the good position of Venus in Rashi and Navamsha gives hopes of getting a job quickly.

In Chara dasha he was under Pisces-Pisces period from May 2019 to May 2020. The Atamakaraka Moon and Amatayakaraka Mars falling in the 12^th house from Pisces brought this loss of job for him.

 

Case 2. Male (Lost job in Dubai)

           1 January 1984, 01:45 hours 

           Longitude: 82 E 03’ and Latitude: 27 N 35’

Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Mercury 14 years 8 months 6 days

This Tula lagna horoscope is of a young man who worked in abroad in various companies. He lost his job recently in July 2019 when he was under an enigmatic Venus-Saturn (July 2018 to September 2021) period in Vimshottari. He worked in the managerial position in Nairobi and Dubai. He wanted to permanently settle in Turkey but did not have any opportunity after he lost his job in July 2019 due to an economic crisis faced by his company. See the mutual position of Venus and Saturn in his Rashi chart. They are at 2/12 position in Rashi though in Navamsha they are in trine. But notice here Venus is the lord of 8^th house and Saturn is 5^th lord. The dashas of 5^th and 8^th houses lords can also give job losses which I have discuss above.

It was Venus-Saturn-Ketu when he lost his job when a lunar eclipse had fallen on his natal Sun in Sagittarius on the 16^th/ 17^th of July this year. The Chara dasha was of Aries which has Amatayakaraka Moon falling in the 8^th house from it.

Case 3. Male (Manager in Pharmaceutical company lost job)

            15 June 1960, 14:30 hours

            Longitude: 78 E 01’ and Latitude: 27 N 11’

Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Jupiter 15 years 0 months 0 days

This Vargottama Tula (Libra) lagna horoscope is of a person who worked in a multinational pharmaceutical company for 33 years and had lost his job recently due to his company facing business losses because of Indian government’s policy of  promoting generic medicines. Modi government is selling cheap generic medicines through ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Yojana’ stores which has helped millions of poor. It brought down the sale of branded medicines which resulted in losses for the company in which this native was working since 1986. In this Tula lagna horoscope the Saturn and Mercury in mutual aspect are making great Raja Yoga. His job went wonderfully well during the dashas of Saturn and Mercury. He rose to the position of regional manager from a medical representative when he joined in 1986.

His troubles started from Venus maha dasha which started in June 2018. Venus is the lagan and 8^th lord placed in the 8^th house. Venus is not involve in any Raja Yoga. In Navamsha it is debilitated in the 12^th house. Venus placed in the 8^th house in Rashi and in 12^th in Navamsha has to give him a job loss in the condition of current economic slowdown. The Chara dasha was of Gemini-Libra when he lost his job. The Atamakaraka is in the 12^th house from Gemini and it is in the 8^th house from Libra which is bad.

Case 4. Male (A teacher who lost his job)

           25 July 1986, 16:23 hours 

          Longitude: 77 E 13’ and Latitude: 28 N 40’

Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Jupiter 2 years 4 months 29 days

This Scorpio lagna horoscope given here is of a science teacher who was working at a good post  in a private collage providing coaching to the engineering aspirants. But after demonetization many of these private coaching institutes in India suffered losses and he has to lose his job. It was his Mercury-Mars dasha in Vimshottari (June 2016 to June 2017) when he lost his job in the mid of 2017. Later he joined another job on lesser salary and lost that one also in the mid of this year during his Mercury-Rahu dasha. See the lordship of Mercury it is 8^th and 11^th lord from the lagna. He has this conjunction of 8^th lord and 10^th lord in his horoscope. The 8^th lord Mercury and 10^th lord Sun are conjoined making him prone to losing jobs during tough dashas. Also see his Navamsha chart where Mercury is in the 6^th house of struggle and anter dasha lord Rahu get the bad aspect of 8^th lord Venus. He has to face a condition of crisis in career of teaching during his Mercury-Rahu dasha at times when coaching institutes in India are facing tough situation. In Chara dasha he is running under the period of Aquarius (July 2017 to July 2020) which has his Atamakaraka Jupiter. The Amatayakaraka Venus gives Jaimini aspect to the 12^th house from Venus.

 

Case 5. Male (A high ranking IT manager lost job)

23 November 1968, 14:30 hours 

Longitude: 77 E 13’ and Latitude: 28 N 40’

Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Venus 8 years 10 months 26 days

This Pisces lagna horoscope is of a high ranking IT manager who worked abroad from 2006 to 2016 in his Rahu maha dasha. Notice here Rahu is with 11^th and 12^th lord Saturn getting the benefic aspects of 10^th and lagna lord Jupiter. Mars the 9^th lord also aspects Rahu which gave him an excellent career in IT field.  Later he came back to India to work for his company and since early 2019 he is struggling. He has not got his salary since last 9 months and recently his company owner became insolvent and asked him to leave the job without paying his dues. It is his Jupiter-Jupiter (October 2018 to December 2020) dasha in Vimshottari now.

Jupiter is in its enemy sign Virgo is weak as it is involve with so many hard malefic planets Ketu, Mars and a retrograde Saturn which is not helpful. This native is also facing the enigmatic transit of Saturn over his Janma Nakshtra which is Poorva Ashadha in Dhanu Rashi. A lunar eclipse has fallen on his natal Moon in Sagittarius on the 16/17^Th of July this year which compounded his troubles. In his horoscope the 8^th lord Venus is in the 10^th house of career. In Navamsha Jupiter the dasha lord is in 6^th house and get the aspect of Venus which is the lord of 8^th house. So the involvement of ‘Dusthana’ lords and the bad transit has to give trouble in his career.

 

In my article ‘Global Economic Trends in 2018’ published in the Express Start Teller Magazines January 2018 issue i had forewarned about possible trade wars between the nations in year 2018-2019 and its adverse effect on the prices of crude oil. The world economy is now feeling jittery by the ongoing trade wars between USA and China. The prices of crude oil is 68 dollar per barrel as on March 2019. Now there is an impending danger to the capitalist system in the coming 2 years when it is not giving jobs to the people due to over mechanization and artificial intelligence’s injunction  in various spares of industry. Millions of  people are likely to loose their jobs due to fall of demand of commodities during  the end of 2019 and in year 2020 when the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter will take place in Sagittarius and Capricorn signs respectively.

In last century  Saturn-Jupiter were conjoined in Sagittarius and Capricorn during 1959 and 1962. In these years then Cuba-Missile Crisis and Indo-China war threatened the world peace. The women liberation movements and feminist intellectualism emerged in the USA in 1960 and influenced the entire world in the form of growing consumerism. The nuclear family system increased the demand of commodities. Later Saturn and Jupiter came into opposition during 1989 when the fall of Soviet Union given a huge advantage to USA’s mercenary consumerism. The Saturn was then transiting from Sagittarius and Jupiter was in Gemini.

The USA, which has noting but to give technology, weapons and its vulgar  media to the world, encouraged globalization with a vision to capture the markets of developing nations then. Now when we have  president Donald Trump in USA   who with his ‘Buy American Hire American’    policy is putting American workers first has now become a danger for the WTO itself which was the concept originated by non-other-then the USA itself after the fall of communism. The Saturn-Jupiter conjunction taking place in Sagittarius from the end of October month will start reshaping the world economic trends in 2019-2020. There will be a big jolt to the capitalist economies in the west and developing countries like India will become the powerhouse of world financial markets because of its solid mixed-economy system.

There is also a threat on the integrity of WTO (world trade organization) as Donald Trump may ignore its rulings against USA which may come in some trade rules violations case. The WTO, which serves as the international Supreme Court for trade related matters, may decide against the USA in a trade dispute with China or some other nations which will ignite the Donald Trump to go against this organization threatening its legitimacy.

Foundation Horoscope of WTO

1 January 1995, 00:00 hours at mid night , Geneva, Switzerland

Latitude  46N 12’ and Longitude  06W 10’

Balance of Dasha : Ketu 2 years 1 months a days

In the Virgo lagna horoscope of WTO the dasha of 9^th and 2^nd lord Venus from February 1997 to February 2017 was very good as the organization facilitated in increasing the international trade in the last two decades. Venus in the horoscope of WTO is in good Raja Yoga with the 4^th and 7^th lord Jupiter. But ever since the dasha of Sun has started, which is the lord of 12^th house, in the horoscope of WTO the organization is facing threats from the insane decisions by US president Donald Trump. Interestingly it was USA which had propounded the concept of free traded after the fall of Soviet Union in 1989. The USA wanted to open the market of  developing nations for its products and service for which he pursued these nations to join the WTO. At the time of fall of Soviet Union and communist governments in East Europe in 1989 the Saturn was in Sagittarius. This was the beginning of  the era of globalization which interestingly is now  under danger from none other than the USA who is going towards policy of protectionism under the leadership of Donald Trump. The Saturn is in Sagittarius again after 30 years since 1989 when the concept of global market economy had started reaching developing nations and communist bloc countries of Eastern Europe who were earlier been isolated from the capitalist west under pressure from the Soviet Union.

Now the dasha of 12^th lord Sun in the horoscope of WTO and the transit of Saturn and Ketu over the natal Moon in Sagittarius is showing a danger to the legitimacy of this organization. The USA may deliberately ignore some of the rulings of WTO which may come in some trade violation matters which will create a crisis in international trade and fall of stock exchange worldwide. The period of Sun-Saturn from December 2019 to November 2020 in the horoscope of WTO will be disastrous as there will be big crisis in international trade then. Notice the Sun-Saturn falling at bad 6/12 axis in Navamsha chart of WTO.  The stock markets around the world will start falling and billionaires will loose major portion of their wealth during 2020. This will begin the weakening  of capitalism and consumerism in the western countries. They will be forced to adopt the mixed economy system in later years making more investments in public sector to generate new jobs.

Foundation horoscope of China

1 October 1949, at 15 hours and 15 minutes at Peking

Source: From the book of World Horoscopes

Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari: Moon 9 years 11 months 23 days

The China will be under the Vimshottari dasha of 6^th ( disputes) and 9^th (international trades) lord Mercury from October 2018 onwards. The Mercury is in own sign Virgo but it is retrograde also making it strong. But the close degree conjunction of Ketu , Sun and Gulika with Mercury is not auspicious. The China may suffer some losses due to trade war with the USA. There will be big correction in the stock market of China in the early months of 2019 during the Chara dasha of Gemini-Sagittarius operating with Atamakaraka Jupiter in Sagittarius sign. The overall GDP growth of China though may remain study above 6% but in 2020 when Saturn-Jupiter will reach in Capricorn then the country may involve in war with India which will put pressure on its economy.

Japan

28 April 1952 at 22 hours and 30 minutes at Tokyo

Source: From the book of world horoscope.

 

Balance of Dasha: Mars 0 years 7 months 13 days

In the Dhanu lagna horoscope of Japan the Vimshottari dasha period of Mercury-Jupiter from December 2017 to April 2020 is showing progress of its economy. Earlier the economy of Japan was struggling due to its “Aging Population”. Japan as per its population survey in 2014 has 33% of its population above the age of 65 years which has made it one of the world’s oldest societies. This had put pressure on its economic growth due to the growing expenditure on social security and health schemes for older peoples. Now the sub period of lagna lord  Jupiter in the 5^th house along with the 9^th lord Sun in mutual aspect with 5^th lord Mars shows a very positive scenario for the economic growth and increase in population growth rate of this country. Japan’s population had began to decline since 2010 but now the trends are likely to get reverse as per the dasha period in its foundation horoscope. The sub period of Jupiter placed in its fifth house shows positive changes in its demography with growth in population rate. In Navamsha the Jupiter is in the ascendant giving aspect to the fifth house of population.

After February 2020 when transiting Saturn and Jupiter will be in Capricorn the 8th house from the natal Moon of Japan there is a danger of border clashes with China. Both China and Japan are likely to involve in border skirmishes and there will be a big diplomatic crisis between them.

 

Foundation Horoscope of USA

4 July 1776, at 10 hours and 21 minutes at Philadelphia

Source: From the data of K.N. Rao

Balance of Dasha in Vimshottari : Mars 2 years 3 months 11 days

In the foundation horoscope of USA the dasha of Rahu-Rahu will be in operation from October 2018 to Jun 2021. The Rahu is in the 12^th house of the Leo (Simha) lagna horoscope of USA and its depositor Moon is in the 7^th house of war. Earlier the economy of USA did fairly well during the maha dasha of yogakaraka Mars in operation from October 2011 to October 2018. This was during the Presidency of Barack Obama (January 2009 to January 2017) when USA came out of the deep recession and its economy started growing more than 3% of GDP growth studiedly for many years. During the Trump era the unemployment rate decreased due to increase in the production in industry and real estate creating more jobs. But since  Trump has now aggressively pursuing the policy of protectionism and have initiated a trade war with China its results are likely to affect USA badly during its Rahu maha dasha which is placed in the 12^th house of losses. The GDP growth rate of USA may fall below 3% due to decrease in its export and manufacturing. The second half of 2019 will be particularly bad for USA during its Rahu-Rahu-Saturn period  ( July 2019 to December 2019). The Saturn as the 6^th lord in mutual aspect with Mars shows a danger of war like situation in the second half of year 2019  when USA  may come at loggerhead with Iran.

In the second half of 2019 there will be fall in the share markets of USA. Later in 2020 when transiting Saturn and Jupiter will be in Capricorn, which is the 12th house from their natal Moon in Aquarius, there will be lots of public protest in various cities of USA. People of USA will oppose wars and capitalist system. There will be public protests movements against the lack of jobs and economic inequalities in USA during 2020.