I've been looking at Saudi Arabia's chart again, and thinking about the transits that will be affecting it in the next few years. I noticed, first of all, that the country will be having its Saturn Return, and right on its heels will have transiting Saturn conjoin its Sun and then its Jupiter. Before it hits Jupiter, transiting Pluto will have conjoined the natal Saturn and then the Sun. So Saudi Arabia will be having both transiting Saturn and Pluto conjunct its Sun (and Jupiter, one degree later) at the same time, right after having had them conjoin the natal Saturn. Talk about a double whammy; I think this is a triple or quadruple whammy.
It got me to thinking about what Liz Greene had said when she predicted the future dissolution of the Soviet Union, back in 1980, when no one would have imagined that would happen. Her remarks are published in the book 'The Outer Planets & Their Cycles: The Astrology of the Collective' (CRCS, 1983). What she had to say about what the future held in store for the Soviet Union sounds very similar to what is coming up for Saudi Arabia. A short excerpt:
Each time Saturn has passed across the natal sun [of Russia] the Russian leader has died or been removed from office. This is the case when Stalin took over from Lenin, when Kruschev took over from Stalin, and when Brezhnev took over from Kruschev. ... If Saturn is approaching the sun by transit in an individual's chart, the year preceding the exact transit is usually fraught with a lot of soul-searching and the death of old attitudes and values which were once dominant. In an inner sense, the old king dies and there is a period of confusion and sometimes depression before new values emerge. What has happened in Russia is that just preceding the transit, the old leader dies or is deposed, and there is a power struggle which goes on until someone emerges at the top. The country of course cannot vote for its ruler as it might in a democratic system, so there's no chance for the soul-searching and reflection to take place.
What hasn't happened to Russia is the approaching transit of Pluto through Scorpio. ... If Saturn brings down the head of government, what will Pluto do? Perhaps the entire structure will change. Pluto always brings profound changes and and rids a person of things which he has outgrown. It's a kind of fate. If the person can't meet the challenge to change, then he breaks down. ... If this were an individual, he could seek help of various kinds to retain some ego continuity while the changes were happening. But a country can't get help of that kind. And a sun-Saturn country wouldn't ask for it anyway. So it may be that Pluto takes on the very literal meaning of death, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will no longer be a union. (pages 118-120)
