A tale of turmoil – Park Geun-hye

In 1952 the Korean War was raging – a war which killed over three million people. Thus, like all individuals born under a Saturn-Neptune aspect Park carries the sense of loss and suffering and repression of that period within her psyche; she may have no conscious memory of the events of the time but they are nonetheless imprinted on her consciousness.

And like all individuals with a hard Saturn-Neptune aspect, the cycles of these planets play an important part in her life story.

In October 1979 on the assassination of her father, Saturn and Neptune were in-square, and if my suggested time of birth is correct Neptune would have been on Park’s Mid-heaven and Saturn on her Descendant. Some six weeks prior to the assassination a total lunar eclipse had fallen on her Ascendant-Descendant axis, squaring her Mid-heaven.

In August 1974, when Park’s mother was killed, transiting Neptune was squaring her Ascendant-Descendant axis; a matter of weeks earlier a lunar eclipse had flanked her MC/IC axis and on the day itself Mars was close to her Ascendant, opposing Jupiter and squaring Neptune. There were other crucial transits, not least Pluto squaring her Venus, and Saturn opposing Venus and conjunct Uranus.

Both these tragedies shaped Park’s future, and both involved strong Saturn-Neptune influences. Now, as Neptune is once again in-square to Saturn, she faces another life crisis, one that may well end her political career.

NOT SURPRISINGLY SOUTH KOREA’S HOROSCOPE is resonating with the current crisis. Transiting Pluto is squaring its natal Mars-Neptune conjunction while Saturn is making steady progress towards its Moon-Jupiter conjunction. Transiting Uranus is approaching a square to the nation’s MC/IC axis and will be exact in the July of 2017.

South Korea is a country of power and influence. It is the fourth largest economy in Asia and eleventh in the world. Its people are hard-working, entrepreneurial and outreaching – factors reflected by the Moon-Jupiter conjunction in Sagittarius in the eighth house, which trines a stellium in Leo in the fourth and fifth houses.

After years of struggle, first against Japanese colonialism and then the military dictatorships that ruled in the wake of the partitioning of Korea by the Americans, in December 1987 South Korea held its first free and fair election paving the way for democracy.