Hyperinflation:
Astrological Outlook
R obert Gover (born November 2, 1929)
grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard
College in Philadelphia), attended the
University of Pittsburgh on athletic
scholarship (swimming the butterfly),
received a degree in economics, worked as
a journalist, became a bestselling novelist
by age 30, lived most of his life in
California where he began his study of
astrology, and now resides in Rehoboth
Beach, Delaware. His latest novel is Two
Brothers. He describes it as an “economic
novel.” One brother becomes a
millionaire, the other a skid row bum. A
third character was an economics professor
till he studied astrology—he was
subsequently confined in an insane
asylum. Robert’s first novel, One
Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, is a
satire on racism and remains a cult classic.
He has published 10 novels and 2 works of
nonfiction, including Time and Money:
the Economy and the Planets. He can be
reached at gocycles@aol.com.
2010
By
Robert Gover, USA
T he worst periods of inflation, going
back to the Roman Empire, have
occurred under Saturn-Uranus or
Saturn-Neptune oppositions, and
sometimes hard angles from Pluto have
been involved.
Saturn-Neptune oppositions occur every 36
years on the average; Saturn-Uranus
oppositions occur every 45 years. Planets
are said to be in opposition when, from our
perspective on Earth, they are 180 degrees
apart, putting we earthlings between them.
Not every time a Saturn-Uranus or
Saturn-Neptune opposition has formed has
it coincided with hyperinflation. These
oppositions apparently impact whatever is
ripe to be affected. When what is ripe is a
society’s monetary system, hyperinflation
results.
Here is a brief astrological history of some
notable past hyperinflations:
Year 150 Roman Empire: Saturn in
Cancer opposite Uranus in Capricorn
1350 Black Plague: Saturn conjunct
Pluto in Aries
1501 European gold imports: Saturn
in Taurus opposite Pluto in Scorpio. T
square Uranus in Aquarius
 1720 John Law’s Mississippi Bubble and South Sea Bubble: Saturn in Scorpio opposite
Neptune in Taurus, both square Moon’s Nodes

1782 American Revolution: Saturn 24 Sagittarius opposite Uranus 0 Cancer, both

square Mars in Pisces

1784 French Revolution: Saturn in Taurus opposite Neptune in Scorpio, Uranus in Leo
opposite Pluto in Aquarius

1862 American Civil War: Saturn and Jupiter conjunct in Virgo opposite Neptune in
Pisces

1917-1923 Russian Revolution and German hyperinflation: Saturn conjunct Pluto 1914-
15; Saturn conjunct Neptune 1917; Saturn opposite Uranus 1918-20.

1937 Chinese Revolution: Saturn in Pisces opposite Neptune in Virgo, both square
Chiron in Gemini and Moon’s Nodes

1965 Indian Inflation: Saturn in Pisces opposite Uranus and Pluto conjunct in Virgo

2007-2010 USA: Saturn in Leo opposite Neptune in Aquarius 2007; Saturn in Virgo
opposite Uranus in Pisces 2008. Then Saturn in Libra T sq. Uranus in Aires sq. Pluto in
Capricorn 2010.

What is called the Hyperinflation of the German Weimar Republic 1923—considered the
worst in modern history—began in 1914 under a conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in Cancer.
It built up slowly but steadily during 1917 under a Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Leo.

And then rapidly gained momentum 1918 to 1920 under a series of six Saturn-Uranus
oppositions, to climax in 1923.
An eyewitness said, “It was horrible. Horrible! Like lightening it struck. No one was
prepared. You cannot imagine the rapidity with which the whole thing happened. The
shelves in grocery stores were empty. You could buy nothing with your paper money.”

From 2006-2007, Saturn opposed Neptune, and from 2008 through 2010 we have a series of
Saturn-Uranus oppositions moving into a T square with Pluto. So economic predictions of
hyperinflation are supported by the astrological history of past hyperinflations.

If you’ve been doing your family’s shopping for at least ten years in the USA, you have
probably noticed that food prices have doubled or even tripled, even as the mass media has
told people inflation is being contained. This slow inflation has been going on since the
creation of the Federal Reserve in December 1913. What you could buy then for a dollar costs
$100 or more today. It has happened so slowly and gradually that most people have come to
view it as normal.

Hyperinflation would mean a 100 dollar bill quickly becomes worth more as toilet paper than
money.

What has me revisiting this depressing subject is an article online by economist John
Williams (www.shadowstats.com). Williams specializes in actual economic statistics,
correcting politicized statistics. Here’s the opening paragraph of his article titled
“Hyperinflation Special Report”:

“The U.S. economy is in an intensifying inflationary recession that eventually will evolve
into a hyperinflationary great depression. Hyperinflation could be experienced as early as
2010, if not before, and likely no more than a decade down the road. The U.S. government
and Federal Reserve already have committed the system to this course through the easy
politics and a bottomless pocketbook, the servicing of big-moneyed special interests, and
gross mismanagement.”

The last of five exact Saturn-Uranus oppositions will occur in July 2010. If the astrological
past is prologue, we can expect hyperinflation to peak around the end of 2012.

December 2012—famous for “end of the world” prophesies—marks the tightening of a

Uranus-Pluto square that will dominate till at least 2018, and which, based on past history,
can be expected to bring revolutionary transformations, as detailed in previous articles by
me.

Economist John Williams’ prediction of hyperinflation is supported by astrology, although

Uranus may be the joker in the deck, as Uranus brings unprecedented surprises, and for
much of 2010 Jupiter expands Uranus’ effects. Around the end of May 2010 the national
mood of public opposition to the ruling oligarchy will begin to change as Uranus (conjunct
Jupiter) moves from easy-going Pisces into Mars-ruled Aries, with both square Pluto and
opposite Saturn.

Note in the chart below how Pluto in Capricorn is conjunct the Sun-Pluto opposition of the
Federal Reserve’s nativity, with both squaring Saturn in late Virgo opposite the conjunction
of Jupiter and Uranus on the cusp of Aries.
Economist, Henry C. K. Liu, defined the joker when he said, “What we will have going
forward is not Weimar Republic type price inflation, but a financial profit
inflation…inducing the public to invest what remaining wealth they still hold only to lose
more of it at the next market meltdown which will come when the profit bubble bursts.”
(“Bogged Down at the Fed,” September 11, 2009, Asian Times Online.)

2.

In 2010, we’ll be under the last of a five-series Saturn-Uranus opposition that was preceded
by a Saturn-Neptune opposition in 2006-2007. This series of patterns has a history of
bringing hyperinflation.

Hyperinflation accompanies other social upheavals—when a money system gets out of

whack, everyone’s life is upset.

It’s said by most economists that the US government will have only two choices if/when
hyperinflation hits—default, or issue a new super-inflated currency to repay the national
debt with devalued money.

But either would cheat those who invested in the debt—if you bought a $1,000 government
bond in 2009 you won’t enjoy being paid with money in 2014 that buys only half or less of
what your original $1,000 bought in 2009.
There is a third choice: Change the system from money loaned to government by the
bankers of the Fed—to money issued by government debt-free for infrastructure projects,
and also loaned to banks, who then make corporate and personal loans, the way they do now.
Then gradually repay the existing national debt and be done with it.

Changing from a “central” bank (privately owned) to a “national” bank (publically owned)
would not eliminate the gnarly complexities of running a monetary system. But it would
shift from protecting the financial sector to protecting the overall economy. And with
Uranus involved astrologically, changing the money system is a heightened possibility.

Most people already believe government issues money by “running the printing press.”
Actually, the Fed runs the printing press in the form of computer digits—98% of what we
call money is actually credit, a small portion of which is transformed into cash when
workers are paid.

If the USA changes the existing Fed-run, debt-based monetary system in time, a lot of pain
and suffering can be avoided. Proposals are now being pushed by, among others, the
American Monetary Institute and Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

It’s not a new idea. It dates back to the time of Aristotle, who said that money’s highest and
best use is as a means of exchange, and when money is misused to reproduce itself (as our
financial sector now does), it will destroy society.

Some kind of monetary system revolution is indicated by the astrology involved. The Fed’s
natal Sun-Pluto opposition is now, and for the near future, being hit by hard angles from
Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, a recipe for radical change. Astrology cannot tell us what changes
we humans will decide to make, however.

If asked where money comes from, most people say, “The bank.” And the national debt?
“The government just prints money and spends it.” But if the government printed money
(and/or distributed credit) why would it borrow from banks?

Originating money in banks is an old habit dating back two cycles of Pluto in Capricorn ago,
when the precursors of modern bankers were called moneychangers. Back then, most
Europeans didn’t use money—they bartered. The wealthy used paper bills backed by their
stores of precious metals, and most had a cozy relationship with their
moneychangers/bankers.

Now, in our modern urbanized world, money is as necessary to survival as air and water.
Yet bankers conjure money from thin air and issue it as debt to those who use it as the
medium of exchange for trade. The conjuring is done according to an artfully deceptive
theory about “reserves” and “multiplier effects,” couched in esoteric jargon. And bankers
still have a special relationship with the super wealthy. Five hundred years ago, money
belonged to the rich alone. Today, money is more like water and electricity, a public utility
used by everyone.

In ancient Greece, it was decided that the civil authority (government) should create and
issue money. American colonists also used this system. Ben Franklin was its major advocate.
For how a money system revolution can come about in our time, Google “debt-based
money” and check out “Web of Debt,” or go to American Monetary Institute and read their
proposed legislation—keeping in mind both the astrology involved and the horrendous
resistance such a change is sure to meet.

3.

“Contrary to popular belief, creeping inflation is not caused by the government irresponsibly
printing dollars. It is caused by the banks expanding the money supply with loans.” (Ellen
Hodgson Brown, “Web of Debt,” page 4.)

In the USA’s Fed-run, debt-based monetary system, money is loaned into our economy as
debt that must be repaid with interest—that’s the present rules of the game. But the bankers
of the Fed loan only the principle. More loans must be made to repay interest. That’s what
creates slow but steady inflation.

If Fed banks loan two companies $100 each at 10%, the money supply increases by $200 but
the total indebtedness increases by $220. Both companies must then find ways to repay a
total of $220. More money is loaned into the system to repay existing debt, expanding future
debt. Multiply by trillions and the cause of world poverty, wars for profit, and other social
ills come into focus.

“So we see that, under our debt-based money system, interest can never truly be paid off,
but can only be shifted from one person to another, or one sector of the economy to another
(public to private, or vice versa). That more than anything else is what creates our dog-eat-
dog, musical chairs economy—an economy in which millions of people work frantically to
capture other people's (money); and in which virtually everyone works (to one extent or
another, and whether they realize it or not) as indentured servants to the banking elite.”
(Todd Altman in an essay titled “Rights vs. Privileges,” quoting Robert De Fremery).

What India and the People’s Republic of China have done is adopt versions of the monetary
system elucidated by Ben Franklin in Colonial America and used by Abe Lincoln to fight the
Civil War without bankrupting the Union: Instead of government borrowing money from
banks, government creates the money it needs.

Yet any modern monetary system is complex and must be managed carefully. With the T
square formed by Saturn, Uranus and Pluto becoming close to exact this summer,
astrologers will have a chance to analyze how beliefs interact with hard aspects to produce
positive or negative outcomes. Both the US Fed and the People’s Bank of China will be
caught in a grand cross pattern, indicating crisis.

The December 1, 1948 PBoC’s Mars-Jupiter conjunction in Capricorn opposite Uranus at 29

Gemini will be caught in the grand cross formed by Saturn, Uranus conjunct Jupiter, and
Pluto conjunct the Moon’s North Node.
The US Fed’s December 23, 1913 Sun-Pluto opposition will be caught in the same grand cross.
The PBoC’s Sun (conjunct Moon, Mercury and Chiron) squares natal Saturn, which will be
making a favorable trine to natal Mars-Jupiter under transiting Pluto and the North Node.

The US Fed’s natal Jupiter-Uranus conjunction will be trine transiting Saturn.

The question to be answered: Which money system will weather this difficult planetary
pattern the most skillfully? Will China succumb to pressures from Europe and the USA to
scrap their system and adopt the Fed’s debt-based system? Or will the Fed’s debt-based
system be forced by circumstances to change and return to the principles of Ben Franklin
and Abe Lincoln?

Since most people believe the government already controls the nation’s monetary system,
it’s possible that Congress could nationalize the Fed without many people being aware of it.

Under the Saturn-Uranus-Pluto T-square now forming, it’s also possible that the USA and
even the world economy could be hit by hyperinflation around late 2012. Some who are
knowledgeable about monetary history are betting the USA’s Fed will be in for a major
overhaul around this time. But it may turn out that some as-yet unknown alternative will
arise. What the planetary pattern indicates is change. Exactly what will change how is up
to people in power.

4.
Concern about the Fed-controlled money system isn’t new. Even President Woodrow
Wilson regretted signing the legislation creating the Fed, but years too late. Poet Ezra
Pound railed against the Fed and wound up being imprisoned in an insane asylum. Anyone
who proclaimed it a fraud was discredited as a conspiracy nut. Yet in 1934, the Credit
Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Robert H. Hemphill, joined the conspiracy
nuts when he exclaimed:

“We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar
we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are
prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one
gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost
incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and
reflect upon.”

What’s even more amazing, it seems to me, is that Hemphill apparently didn’t know this
before he became a Fed Credit Manager.

The national debts of all countries with privatized central banks are sliced and diced into
bonds and sold all over the world, and the buyers of those IOU’s use them as media of
exchange, money.

But since the crash of 2008 and the TARP stimulus package, the fear is that many foreigners
may stop buying US government bonds. Ellen Brown, author of “Web of Debt,” suggests
that the US government stop trying to sell bonds abroad and sell them instead to the Fed, so
that our central bank can do what other bond-buyers now do, convert these IOU’s to money—to
stimulate the domestic economy.

Such a move would elicit fear of inflation, according to an argument that goes like this: “When
this money hits Main Street as dollars competing for goods and services, the floodgates will
open and hyperinflation will be upon us.”

That is the argument keeping the stimulus money in the banks instead of loaned into the
marketplace.

Brown’s rebuttal: “Price inflation results only when ‘demand’ (money) exceeds ‘supply’ (goods
and services). If the money is used to create goods and services, prices will remain stable. We
have workers out of work and factories sitting idle. They need some demand (money)
stimulating them to create supply, in order to make the economy productive again.” (From an
essay on Ellen Brown’s blog titled “Lessons from the Japanese: Time to Replace Sovereign Debt
with Sovereign Credit”.)

Brown’s proposal reminds us that money can be anything we agree it is. In today’s world,
buyers of US bonds may use those bonds as money. If I’m selling a car for $10,000 and you offer
me US Treasury Bonds worth that much, we make the sale.

But, you may say, the government is already printing money at a mad pace. To which Brown
responds: “Money is being printed; but it is not being printed by the government. The U.S.
government has opted to borrow rather than print, just as the Japanese did. The Federal Reserve
is a privately-owned central bank, which issues Federal Reserve Notes (or dollars) and lends
them to the government and to other banks. Those banks then leverage the money into many
times that sum in interest-bearing loans.”

For the Fed to buy back some of this debt and use it as money to stimulate the domestic
economy could save us from a world of suffering. Eventually, it could even open the door for
Congress to reform the Fed by ending its privatized status and returning our money to public
control, where it works for the whole society.

The bum rap against our existing privatized Fed-run system is that it slowly but surely enriches
the already rich and, over time, downsizes the middle class and poor. A nationalized bank,
controlled by managers responsive to the public, is the alternative. How to get from here to
there? Brown’s suggestion could be the first step.

However, the US Supreme Court’s decision January 21, 2010, a Uranus surprise, declared
corporate money a form of unfettered free speech. This was a glorious victory for the Fed
bankers and the corporate oligarchy, and a major setback for monetary reform. It amplifies the
astrological indication that this period 2008 to 2018 may be viewed later as the most difficult in
history.

Monetary history makes one thing clear: Any money system that creates a misdistribution of
wealth is unsustainable. The recent US Supreme Court decision exacerbates what was already a
nasty misdistribution. It reminds us that the antithesis of democracy is pure, unregulated
capitalism, and the purest form of capitalism is slavery, and slaves have nothing to lose by
rebelling.
The dominant astrological pattern this decade is the long, lingering Uranus-Pluto square which
creates a grand cross with the USA’s natal Sun-Saturn square. The Supreme Court decision of
January 21, 2010 made the challenge of the coming decade at once more difficult and more
crucial.

Changing the money system is the key to coming through this decade in better shape, with a
more equitable distribution of medium-of-exchange money, spreading wealth more horizontally
and thus alleviating poverty. Given how integrated the world economy now is, the stakes are
sky high for the whole human race.

The biwheel chart below is for the New Moon in March 2015. Notice that this lunation hits the
points of the chart’s grand cross. Uranus and Pluto are within 1 degree of square, and creating a
grand cross with the USA’s natal Sun-Saturn square. Transiting Saturn is opposite the USA’s
natal Uranus with both forming a grand cross with the lunation. With Mars conjunct Uranus
at this time, some kind of violent upheaval in the USA is strongly indicated. Since the key to a
democratic overthrow of oligarchy is the money system, that upheaval will probably involve the
money system. Because the USA’s money system is so tightly integrated with the world
economy, this means the whole world will be impacted

Based on astrological history, we could get either hyperinflation or deflation. The last great
deflation, the 1930s, unfolded under a previous Uranus-Pluto square, creating a grand cross with
the USA’s natal Sun-Saturn square. We now refer to that decade as “the great depression.”