APPLYING ASTROLOGY TO BOTSWANA PART 3 Moon aspects: Moon square Ascendant, Moon opposite Sun, Moon opposite Mercury, Moon trine Mars

When it comes to the moon in looking at a birth chart, this would be where the emotional, inner most thoughts, and self-expressive aspects would be found that make that person unique and are kept private. This would be the side of the person only the very select few get to experience as opposed to other aspects like the Ascendant and Sun placements in a chart. When the Moon squares the Ascendant of a chart it would show an ongoing power struggle between the inner most needs of the chart holder and the public mask or persona the rest of the community or in the case of Botswana, the rest of the globe. Botswana, with a Capricorn Ascendant, to the world seems like a very well put together, slow and methodical, peaceful, silently authoritative, and with its Libra Sun boosting an air of diplomatic grace from the outside and it is not to suggest that this isn’t true. It can be observed by anyone who has travelled that hearing about a country then visiting it and experiencing it is two different things all together. Botswana’s moon in the sign of Aries the first sign of the zodiac and of fire element, gives the inner spirit of the country and forever youthful energetic, impulsive, and ambitious nature. This in indicates an issue of sometimes initiating things without properly planning or not being able to follow through what was initially started with such vigor and excitement, a characteristic that can affect its inhabitants if they aren’t aware of the energy of their environment.

In the last article the aspect Sun opposite moon was covered so you are welcome to check it out on The Spiritual Phoenix page, as it is similar to the Moon opposing Mercury alignment in the sense of how it affects Botswana communication to the world as a country. When a Moon sign (Aries) and Mercury (Libra) are in opposite signs it can lead to communication that isn’t stable, contradictory, and not completely honest in how the chart holder feels about a

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situation, or it can even delay communication

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all together. Botswana may be experienced as a country that has to constantly go back on what they said as their stance or view is prone to change, or it take a long time to come to a conclusion on certain matters much to the dismay of its inhabitants and other countries having to work with it. This can affect how laws are passed, challenging the term ‘democracy’ for example, as too many things interfere, and create opposition in the decision making process.

It’s great that Botswana has a gifted alignment which is Moon trine Mars, which for Botswana is in another fire sign called Leo.

This aspect shows that progress of inner most, emotional needs of the country although delay may occur can be channeled successfully. This is to say the country should not give up on what it sets out to achieve, both on a small and large scale as things eventually do come to fruition, but confidence, and reaching out to a bigger platform to yield the best results is best. As Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, its more or less like the baby of the zodiac, and this would mean that children and youth of Botswana are the most important group to focus because their development and emotional space has a heavy impact on how the country grows, even though the Capricorn ascendant indicates that the country is run by older, patriarchal-supported and very traditional thinking individuals.