Event forecast period was February 11 – December, 2022
February 17: Argentina’s central bank (Jupiter) raises (Jupiter) its benchmark interest rate by 250 basis points to 42.5%. In 2021 the country’s inflation rate (Neptune) was 50.9% – one of the highest in the world.
March 2: A ship (Jupiter) carrying thousands of luxury cars valued at close to $440 million sinks in the Atlantic Ocean after burning (Mars) for weeks.
March 16: The United Nations seeks to raise over $4 billion at a pledging event for war-torn Yemen where more than 17 million people need food assistance and this could rise to 19 million in the second half of the year.
The US Federal Reserve (house 2) raises interest rates by a quarter percentage point (Jupiter) and signals that it would raise rates six more times in 2022 in an effort to fight the fastest inflation (Neptune) in 40 years.
Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will start selling its gas (Neptune) to ‘unfriendly countries’ (house 7) in roubles (Jupiter-house 2).
March 29: A hack on blockchain project Ronan Bridge (Neptune) on March 23, is discovered. In one of the largest crypto industry (Jupiter) attacks hackers (Neptune-Pluto) stole about $590 million.
March 31: And Russia demands that oil and gas payments be made in roubles by Friday; Germany warns of a possible emergency if Russia cuts supplies; the US and Europe are fighting energy disruptions (Uranus); the rouble (house 2) has bounced back; US stocks (house 5) tumble wrapping up their first losing quarter since the pandemic bear market; oil prices plunge (Saturn) on news that the US will release up to 180 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and inflation (Neptune) continues to surge across Europe’s biggest economies.
In Kenya the country’s top court (house 9-Jupiter) declares controversial constitutional changes (house 9) proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his allies illegal.
April 2: Australia formally signs a trade deal (Jupiter) with India, with the two nations signalling an intention to forge closer trade ties.
April 4: There’s political turmoil (Sun) in Pakistan as Prime Minister Imran Khan blocks an attempt to oust him and the country’s top court (Jupiter) adjourns a decision on the legality (Jupiter) of his actions.
April 7: The United States Senate (house 11) confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the US Supreme Court (Jupiter-house 9), making her the first Black woman (Uranus) in the nation’s history to serve on its highest court.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court (Jupiter-house 9) rules that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve parliament was unconstitutional and ordered lawmakers to return.
Yemen’s president sacks his deputy and transfers his own powers to a presidential council, as Saudi Arabia announces billions of dollars in aid (Jupiter) and urges him to begin talks with the Houthis to end the country’s devastating war.
April 12: Pope Francis (Jupiter) condemns the war in Ukraine (Mars) saying it is leaving in its wake abominations such as the massacre of civilians which are marks of the ‘the forces of evil’.
Consumer prices (house 2) in America are rising (Jupiter) at their fastest pace since 1981.
April 25: Elon Musk buys Twitter (Neptune) for $44 billion (Jupiter).
May 5: Turkey’s official inflation rate (cost of living) (Neptune) spiralled to nearly 70 percent in April.
December 13: In the US authorities charge Sam Bankman-Fried with ‘one of the biggest financial frauds (Jupiter-Neptune) in US history’ in the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Security and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said Mr Bankman-Fried built a ‘house of cards on a foundation of deception’ (Neptune). Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky (all year).
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