Protests in Morocco over unemployment and corruption which have been running since 2016 have resulted in a “new social deal” with many workers promised a pay rise. Though police have been using water cannons against teachers’ protests. It’s a country with glaring social and territorial inequalities, and high youth unemployment. Morocco is a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament though the King, Mohammed V1, holds vast executive and legislative powers.
It gained independence on 28 May 1956 11 am Rabat, which gives a 10th house Sun Mercury in Gemini and an exceptionally tough-minded and stubbornly enduring Jupiter Pluto in Leo on the Ascendant opposition Mars square Saturn in Scorpio. So an image which is flamboyant and entertaining, an aggressive stance towards neighbours; and rigid as well as cold when it comes to domestic matters. With a can-be fanatical Neptune square Uranus.
Change won’t come easily with a chart as fixed as this but it’ll take a fair battering from tr Uranus before it exits Taurus around 2024/26; and there’ll be some considerable stresses and strains before then in 2021 and 22 from several undermining and disruptive Solar Arcs, one of which may point to a natural disaster of some magnitude in 2021.
King Mohammed’s Accession chart, 23 July 1999, is also very fixed with a Leo Sun Mercury opposition Neptune square Mars in Scorpio opposition Jupiter; with Uranus in Aquarius opposition North Node square Saturn in Taurus – so his rulership is equally resistant to change and finds adapting to new circumstances very tricky. The pressures on this chart picked up when tr Uranus moved into Taurus late last year squaring the Sun and it will continue to be unsettled and even insecure as tr Uranus moves its way round Mars, Saturn and Uranus for the next few years.
There’s disputed territory in the Western Sahara, a sparsely populated region with a semi-recognised government which controls one fifth of it. Relations between SADR and Morocco look increasingly stressed over the next few years till the mid 2020s. But there’s nothing indicating great success for a breakaway in the near future.
The Middle Eastern and North African countries will find it increasingly difficult to stick to the old ways as their young populations grow ever more restive.
Thank you Madam.