The Trade War Between The USA And China

President Trump has gotten the USA involved in a trade war with China the last few days. The countries have been issuing tariffs on goods exported from the other country. Transiting Saturn and Mars have been aspecting relevant planets in the charts for all three - Trump, the USA, and China. Added to that, transiting Uranus is now squaring the USA’s Pluto. Transiting Uranus is in a trine aspect to Trump’s natal Mars (in the twelfth).

Transiting Saturn has been aspecting Trump’s natal Mercury and Neptune by opposition and square aspect respectively for a couple of months now. As Mars joined Saturn in early Capricorn (in addition to transiting Sun and Mercury in early Aries), the trade war broke out.

The latest government of China was formed on October 1, 1949 in Peking. The chart drawn for that event (shown below) puts the Sun at 8 Libra, Mercury at 13 Libra, and Uranus at 5 Cancer. The Libra planets reside in the eighth house of joint finances and others’ money. Uranus is conjunct the USA’s Jupiter and Venus.

There are a number of charts used for the USA. I use the Gemini rising chart. I decided on that chart after reading Celeste Teal’s book on eclipses. That chart shows Venus, Jupiter, and the Sun in the second house of money. Those planets are under siege from transiting Saturn and Mars in the eighth house. The Sun and transiting Mercury are squaring those planets from the eleventh house of friends and groups.

The most popular chart used for the formation of the USA is called the Sibley chart and Sagittarius is on the Ascendant in that chart. Transiting Uranus is now squaring Pluto in the USA chart(s). And, in the Sibley chart, Pluto resides in the second house of money. Uranus is the ruling planet in China’s chart.

It should be noted that this is all going on during a Mercury retrograde period. Mercury turns stationary direct on April 15 at 5 Aries. It’s possible that both countries decide to lift these tariffs soon after that - having decided that a trade war is not in the best interests of either country.