Looking back: Spring 2022
A review of my horoscope for the Aries ingress. Biggest bull's eye: it's about the war!
(German original here)
In this article I would like to look back at my predictions for March 20 to June 21, 2022 (only available in German, sorry). As a rule, several horoscopes are valid simultaneously at any time of the year but with the entry of the Sun into Aries at the beginning of spring each year, a new solar year begins. This ends the influence of all previous forecasts. Therefore, spring 2022 is the first period for which I have published complete horoscopes.
Summary
Therefore, it is to be expected that after the Corona crisis, war and peace in other countries will now occupy the intellectuals and guardians of public opinion. There are conflicts about treaties with other countries, even in the EU there is a struggle about how to deal with other countries.
This can be called a bull’s eye. Mind you, I made this statement in November 2021 when there was practically no other topic on the front pages besides Corona. On February 24, 2022, Russia began its military offensive against Ukraine. By March 21, this war was the all-dominant topic, making some people even leave their masks in their pockets. By June 2022, the end of the period covered, this had not changed.
Population
Mood
Therefore, ordinary people cannot expect any relief in the spring and summer of 2022.
Okay, that was an easy prediction. When will they ever?
The working population is leaving their jobs in large numbers, partly due to court rulings.
I would also rate this as a hit: Although the officially embellished unemployment figures announced significant declines, reality paints a different picture: There are shortages of employees everywhere, stores are shortening their opening hours or are closing completely because of this.
Especially in the health sector there is a massive lack of employees. The decision of the Constitutional Court in May that mandating Corona vaccination is legal – although it was already clear at that time that it does not serve the protection of others – has shown even more people from the health sector that they are not actually wanted.
Health situation
The summer will therefore be marked by illness but not catastrophically so.
This has also occurred, the Corona infection numbers were higher than they have ever been, but in fact fewer and fewer of those infected are seriously ill or even hospitalized. Nevertheless, excess mortality has persisted since 2021 and is sometimes addressed but not yet attributed to any clear cause in the media. In everyday life, few people notice it.
Politics and public institutions
Federal government
To be expected, however, are very unfavorable revelations about the German government.
I have not become aware of any revelations about the government – though that doesn’t mean much since I don’t follow all the news. For some, it may have been a revelation of how incompetently and undiplomatically the government has responded to the war in Ukraine. If its goal had been to exacerbate and prolong the conflict, it could not have acted any better.
The newly elected government is therefore not under a good star and foreign relations (Mercury in the 7th house) make for difficult times for the federal government. However, it will also manage to get major new legislation off the ground and improve education and communications.
Foreign relations are clear, the Ukraine war has brought very difficult times to the government. “Education and communications” was a clear miss in interpretation, transportation falls under the same umbrella – and the 9-Euro-ticket was actually a surprising success.
Bundestag
So the legislature can expect to stand alone and unnoticed. New initiatives or successful legislation are not to be expected.
Hard to judge, since the Bundestag is always doing things, of course. However, I am not aware of anything exciting or strikingly successful. Anyone who can think of something, feel free to leave a comment!
Foreign relations
What can be expected, however, are conflicts with other countries, very unfavorable revelations about the German government, and quite possibly the beginning of a breakup of the EU.
These are three separate issues:
Conflicts with other countries: sanctions initiated by the U.S. are enthusiastically supported by the EU and Germany, but of course bring conflicts with Russia and also other EU countries.
Revelations: except for the deliberate behavior of the German government itself, no further revelations have come to my attention – as already noted above.
Incipient breakup of the EU: this can only be judged with more time having passed. It is quite possible that the Ukraine war will be seen as the beginning of the end of the EU in the future. Currently (September 2022), for example, there are already large demonstrations in the Czech Republic to end the sanctions against Russia.
In foreign affairs, Germany will stand relatively alone, but will present a good picture.
That was a somewhat contradictory prediction since both of these look differently from different perspectives. Globally, Germany (together with the U.S. and the EU) stands relatively alone in terms of its position on Russia. Within the U.S. and the EU, however, we present a “good” picture and behave very conformant. In other words, this is not a helpful forecast.
Other institutions (courts, hospitals, prisons, NGOs)
Overall, courts and other government institutions are experiencing rather positive times, possibly clouded by setbacks on the stock market (Venus in 5th house). […] The Sun is as mentioned above very unfavorable in a conjunction with Neptune, so everything up to an at least partial collapse of our national institutions is possible. Precaution is required!
Here again very contradictory forecasts, which will hopefully no longer occur with my new format since the Libra ingress 2022. The courts and state institutions have at least not been particularly negative – apart from the already mentioned ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court on the vaccination mandate in hospitals – and the stock market did have a significant downturn at the end of June.
Precaution is always good, but at least so far our national institutions are still holding steady.
Economy
Industry, manufacturing
So we can assume that the politically active population is suddenly concerned about the productive economy, but finds little success and few allies in doing so. […] The productive economy will run relatively stable overall, but will experience temporary sharp dips due to unexpected events (square with Uranus).
There were many discussions about collapsing supply chains, which were blamed in the media on the late effects of the Corona measures and of course on the Ukraine conflict that broke out. The media attention did not have any concrete consequences, certainly none that would defuse the problem. I would rate the Ukraine war as the unexpected event, so here again a quite accurate forecast.
Agriculture
A mediocre crop is expected, no big outliers in either direction.
That’s what happened, at least for grains the crop was 2% above last year but 7% below the average of previous years (source). That’s not good, but it’s not catastrophic either.
Speculation
Therefore, the stock market will become more stable again, tourism and entertainment industry recover in the summer months from the corona-related closures.
This was the case, airports were overloaded, but domestic tourist destinations were also booming. Of course, the 9-euro ticket added to this trend. For many, it was their first vacation “after Corona”. For others, the feeling was strong that vacations might soon be over: With current inflation rates, few will be able to treat themselves to major trips anytime soon.
Foreign trade
Foreign trade will therefore experience slumps, possibly triggered by unrest on foreign stock exchanges (Mars in 5th house) or war (Mars).
Clear yes.
Supply of natural resources
Germany’s strained foreign relations (Jupiter in 7th house), however, affect the supply of natural resources.
Also bull’s eye. Gas supplies from Russia collapsed for the first time in late June (source) and have continued to fall since.
Internet, media
In this respect we can expect significant cuts here, loss of confidence in the media and possibly major internet outages. However, the conjunction with Venus favors the outcome, dramatic changes are not (yet) to be expected here.
The loss of trust in the media is an ongoing issue that has only intensified in recent years, very rightly so. There have been no major Internet failures, however, but unreliability has increased. As predicted, it was not dramatic.