Stock markets around the world declined last week and more sharply in Europe and the Americas after the disappointing jobs report. Now what lies ahead? Welcome to the post “Asset Inflation Express” era. Cash will likely be king (for a while) and political tensions will heighten. But even the concept of cash—currency—will start to transform as we begin to encounter the dynamics of the Uranus in its waxing square to Pluto. Officially that begins in 2012 and lasts through 2015. But with Pluto now on the midpoint of the Saturn-Uranus opposition (yes, they are back within orb of opposition now), we will feel the paradigm change now. In some ways it will be like the Cardinal Climax astrological peak of last summer when Bernanke said, “The economy is unusually uncertain right now.” No one knows where this man-made abyss will lead to, not with the dark planet Pluto in the dark sign of Capricorn, and on the midpoint of a Saturn-Uranus opposition. When you fall into an abyss, everything seems dark. But in darkness eventually comes first a sense of nothingness or emptiness, and then of unity and oneness. We are all in this together, but for some time, there are no leaders who can lead us. We learn to depend more upon ourselves, and those we know and trust. We build new support systems to meet our needs for security. This is the new paradigm I think will emerge. Think communally, not in terms of the political systems that are becoming ever more clearly in need of transformation.