CHIRON AND THE TRAUMA AT THE HEART OF THE EU

The EU began as a response to the trauma of 2 World Wars - and probably further back too, to Napoleon. The founding idea was that Europe would unite politically - in an 'ever closer union' - so that these wars could not occur again. My contention is that, to a degree, this was trauma speaking, rather than 'emotion recollected in tranquillity'. It was only 13 years after the end of WWII, which is no time at all for a collective to process the past. Hence the rush we have seen towards political union, a process that should take centuries for such old and distinct cultures. That rush, and the rigidity around it, seems to me to be the voice of unprocessed historical trauma.

The UK has not been subject to the same trauma: we have not been invaded at any point. So many of us look on quizzically, wondering what all the rush is about, and feeling uncomfortable with the encroachments on our sovereignty, which are not happening organically. In this respect I think the UK, with its vote to leave, is acting as a mirror to Europe, as a brake that may give pause for reflection. Our history with the EU is probably far from over. We may, over time, be part of a reformed EU, one that is no longer afraid of the individual sovereignty of its member states.

The chart for the EU (or EEC as it then was) has Sun in Capricorn, an ambitious leadership. The Moon, the 'people' - or maybe, the member states - is in Taurus, showing that economics is at the heart of this project. 

The Moon being in Scorpio's House and square to Chiron describes the traumatic shared history that is at the root of the project. Chiron is also conjunct Venus, which is the EU's relations with its member states. And, as Brexit has shown, those relations are troubled - irremediably so, Chiron would suggest. And with Uranus forming a t square with Moon-Venus-Chiron, there will be rebellion if you force the issue of union.

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Now here is what is interesting - the UK Venus at 16 Aquarius is conjunct the EU Venus-Chiron at 15 Aquarius. So the role of the UK has always been to stir up this trauma, probably just by being the awkward squad (Aquarius). 

And here is something else: the EU's Angles are at 29 of the Mutable signs: this is the worst time to begin something. You need Cardinal signs to initiate effectively. Beginning under Mutables is not a true beginning: rather, it is going with the flow of something already there, which was the trauma of the wars, a reaction to it.

In the coming years, with the UK refusing to be part of the EU under its current structure, and with Neptune moving ever closer to those Mutable Angles, we may see a softening, the EU feeling it can drop its guard a bit and allow individual countries their own relationships with the EU. And, with the generations passing, the EU's leaders will be more remote from the wars out of which it arose, and less compelled to force the issue of union.