United Arab Emirates in 2012: themes from the sky
These are broad themes for United Arab Emirates through 2012, read the way mundane astrology reads a nation: from the chart cast when the Sun enters Mesha each year, from the country's founding chart and from the year's eclipses. They describe tendencies in public life, not fixed events.
No founding chart is used for United Arab Emirates on this page, so it reads from the Mesha Sankranti chart cast for Abu Dhabi and from the eclipses.
Mundane readings here stay with themes and timing windows. They say nothing about any public figure and do not try to name particular events.
The year chart (Mesha Sankranti)
- Cast for
- Lagna
- Kanya (Virgo)
- Lord of the year chart
- Budh (Mercury) in house 7
The solar year began on 13 April 2012, when the Sun entered Mesha. In the chart cast for that moment at Abu Dhabi, Virgo was rising.
Mercury rules the rising sign and so sets the tone of the year's chart. It stands in the 7th house, which keeps foreign relations, treaties and trading partners in focus through the year.
Planets that stand out
Saturn in the 2nd house brings slow, patient work, tighter budgets and some delays to national wealth, reserves, food supply and the tone of public speech.
Jupiter in the 8th house brings growth, support and wider opportunity to shared resources, taxes, insurance and sudden shifts in public finances.
The founding chart
No founding chart is read for this country: there is no agreed time for it, or it is older than the charts here can reach.
Planets changing sign
- Shani (Saturn) enters Kanya (Virgo)
On 16 May 2012 Saturn moves into Virgo, the 1st house of the year chart (the country as a whole and the general mood of its people).
Saturn here tends to ask for patience, restructuring and careful budgets in these matters.
- Guru (Jupiter) enters Vrishabha (Taurus)
On 17 May 2012 Jupiter moves into Taurus, the 9th house of the year chart (higher learning, beliefs, long-distance travel and trade far afield).
Jupiter here tends to support growth and sound planning in these matters.
- Shani (Saturn) enters Tula (Libra)
On 4 August 2012 Saturn moves into Libra, the 2nd house of the year chart (national wealth, reserves, food supply and the tone of public speech).
Saturn here tends to ask for patience, restructuring and careful budgets in these matters.
Eclipses
- Solar eclipse
A solar eclipse falls on 21 May 2012 in Taurus, the 9th house of the year chart (higher learning, beliefs, long-distance travel and trade far afield).
- Lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse falls on 4 June 2012 in Scorpio, the 3rd house of the year chart (communication, the media, transport links and dealings with neighbours).
- Solar eclipse
A solar eclipse falls on 14 November 2012 in Libra, the 2nd house of the year chart (national wealth, reserves, food supply and the tone of public speech).
The weeks around an eclipse are read as a time to review and finish rather than to launch new public ventures in the matters it touches.
General guidance from the Moon sign and the classical rules, not a personal reading and not medical, legal or financial advice. Your own choices remain yours. Read how to use these predictions.