The collapse of the travel agent Thomas Cook has led to the largest ever peacetime repatriation with 155,000 British tourists being flown back home in Operation Matterhorn, expected to cost around £100 million. The failure of last-ditch talks to raise fresh funding will put 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide, including 9,000 in the UK.
The company was founded in 1841 ferrying temperance supporters between major English cities, sadly without a start date; and after being acquired by German owners merged with another travel company on 19 June 2007.
The 2007 chart has an entrepreneurial though sticky Fire Grand Trine of Mars in Aries trine Pluto trine Saturn Moon in Leo, formed into two Kites by Saturn opposition Neptune in Aquarius and Pluto opposition a Gemini Sun squaring onto Uranus in Pisces. There is potential wrapped up in this chart though also rolling crises from Uranus Pluto, setbacks from Saturn Mars and Mars Pluto; and impracticality from Neptune. One of the driving rods of this chart – the Sun opposition Pluto – had moved by Solar Arc to catch the July Cancer Solar Eclipse head on. Tr Neptune had also started to undermine the Mutable T Square with a conjunction to the Uranus.
What is intriguing is that in 1841, certain of the major planetary positions were the same – Uranus was in Pisces, Neptune in Aquarius, Jupiter and Saturn in Sagittarius – so not a million miles different from the 2007 chart.
Marjorie was the very recent Jupiter in Sag square to Neptune in Pisces significant? Inflated optimism, with both planets especially Jupiter very strong by sign.
Yes Jupiter Neptune is a classic financial bubble-bursting influence – false hopes brought down to face reality.