Merriman Market Analyst

Saturn in Virgo therefore relates to the growing frustration of those who do the work – the working class, the middle class. They look around and they see that they do all this work. Yet when the business fails, it is they who suffer, not the management that made the decisions that led to the failure. The workers are the ones who lose their jobs or give up benefits. And oftentimes when those in management make these failed decisions, they leave the company and receive huge financial bonuses, known as “Golden Parachutes.” And even while they are there, if the company prospers, it is these decision-makers who also receive huge end-of-year bonuses – at least huge in comparison to the much smaller bonuses given to those who did the hands-on work. It is not that these conditions have not existed forever between management and labor, between the wealthy and the middle class. It is just that now, in the first decade of this new century, the rate of growth and rewards between management and the work force has widened to its largest distortion ever. Unfortunately I did not save the reports on this, but in the past 20 years, the financial growth between those in management has grown at least ten times faster than the rate of growth of those in the working class, in the United States. This is an inequity that is giving rise to the cry that the middle class is not only shrinking, but disappearing altogether. The gap between the “haves” and “have nots” has never been wider in modern times. And it is likely to continue until Saturn gets into the middle of Virgo, and probably even during the period when Saturn ingresses through Libra (late 2008 through 2012).