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Astrology And Economics, Part Two: Saturn, Uranus, And Chips

Last time, I wrote here about the role that the Saturn Pluto conjunction played in our current economic situation (CLICK HERE if you didn’t see that already). Now we look at the Saturn-Uranus end of the equation.. If you think astrology is complicated, try economics sometime!

One of the biggest factors that made trickle-down economics a success sort of was the mastery of the art and science of The Supply Chain. Suppose you own a hardware store. In an ideal world, you would have exactly the number of waffle-nosed hammers in stock, and your supply would perfectly match the number of customers, and the right number of replacements are on the way. That sort of thing was difficult to manage before the early 1980s, but technology made it a lot more efficient.

Keep in mind that “efficiency” within this context means not only not having too much unsold stock lying around, but also having to spend fewer dollars on extra employees to keep track of things. In an almost unthinkable level of economic efficiency. It also made for squeezing maximum efficiency out of your workforce. Brilliant!

(That is, unless you happen to be one of the two dozen people working in the warehouse and not the guy who actually owns the hardware store…)

Supply chains rely on fairly predictable circumstances both nationally and internationally. Most Americans don’t realize that when a car says it was “made in the USA,” it is almost certain that much of it wasn’t actually made in America at all.

Many cars that say they were “built in the United States” are actually built in Canada, or a large percentage of their components are. Many people think of Toyota as a “Japanese” company, but the Toyota you buy in North Carolina was more than likely built in the US.

Furthermore, cars are far more dependant on computer chips and integrated circuits than they used to be. So are a lot of things. And those things require relatively rare metals that are very uncommonly found in the United States. The rare metals required are usually mined somewhere in Asia or Africa. Then they are made into chips in a lot of places like Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan. Then they are sent to the factories in the US to install in a new car or whatever the hot toy is going to be this Christmas.

It’s easy to see now, how conditions due to the pandemic in different places in the world can all have an effect on whether or not you can buy a new car, or a new anything, isn’t it?

Saturn is order and limitations. Uranus is unexpected circumstances… and electronics. There you have it.

So if you’re worried about a shortage of Christmas presents? The Saturn-Uranus square won’t last forever. In fact it hit the exact degree for the final time on…

Christmas Eve.

Uh oh.

NEXT TIME: Take this Saturn-Uranus square and shove it — we ain’t workin’ here no more!