Spain is on a knife-edge this weekend with a Monday 10am deadline for the Catalonia leader to clarify if he has declared independence. If the answer is Yes, which the pro-secession hardliners are pushing for, then Madrid would impose direct rule. Either way it could end up with blood on the streets. With Jean-Claude Juncker voicing his fears that a breakaway Catalonia would cause a domino effect that could splinter the EU. Carles Puigdemont, the Catalonia leader has asked Mariano Rajoy, the PM, for negotiations but he’s clear in no mood to budge.
Puigdemont, 29 December 1962, is a Sun Capricorn trine Uranus Pluto in Virgo, so rebellious by temperament; with a confident, risk-taking Jupiter opposition Uranus Pluto. His Mars in Leo square an intensely emotional and idealistic Venus Neptune in Scorpio collides with Rajoy’s Pluto in Leo square Mars in Taurus opposition Saturn – so it’s bulldozer-meets- brick-wall chemistry.
There’s nothing much on either the Spain 1975 or 1479 charts to suggest outright civil war. Though both charts look jangled and undermined in 2018/2019. Puigdemont looks at odds with both charts, especially in November and early in 2018.
A compromise would be sensible but Rajoy isn’t the man to make it. (See posts Oct 1 & 2 2017)
A Civil War would require two functional armies. The Spanish Army isn’t likely to split, and Catalan Separatists are not “armed up” the way ETA used to be. So, I’m expecting this story to drag.