Astrology and Horoscope for Solidarity (Polish trade union), on August 31, 1980

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Aquarius

Pisces

Sun 8�08' Virgo

Sun Aspects

Sun conjunction Mercury orb 4�41'

Sun sextile Ascendant orb 1�16'

Sun semi-square Venus orb 0�40'

Sun conjunction Jupiter orb 9�48'

Moon 20�41' Taurus

Moon Aspects

Moon opposite Uranus orb 1�15'

Moon sextile Venus orb 1�47'

Moon trine Jupiter orb 2�43'

Moon inconjunction Pluto orb 0�38'

Moon square Midheaven orb 5�26'

Moon inconjunction Neptune orb 0�46'

Moon trine Saturn orb 6�44'

Moon trine Mercury orb 7�50'

Mercury 12�50' Virgo

Mercury Aspects

Sun conjunction Mercury orb 4�41'

Mercury conjunction Jupiter orb 5�07'

Mercury sextile Ascendant orb 3�25'

Moon trine Mercury orb 7�50'

Mercury square Neptune orb 7�04'

Venus 22�28' Cancer

Venus Aspects

Venus trine Uranus orb 0�31'

Moon sextile Venus orb 1�47'

Venus square Pluto orb 2�25'

Sun semi-square Venus orb 0�40'

Venus sextile Jupiter orb 4�31'

Venus sextile Saturn orb 4�57'

Venus inconjunction Neptune orb 2�34'

Mars 1�25' Scorpio

Mars Aspects

Mars conjunction Ascendant orb 7�59'

Mars sextile Midheaven orb 5�17'

Jupiter 17�57' Virgo

Jupiter Aspects

Mercury conjunction Jupiter orb 5�07'

Moon trine Jupiter orb 2�43'

Jupiter square Neptune orb 1�57'

Jupiter sextile Uranus orb 3�59'

Sun conjunction Jupiter orb 9�48'

Venus sextile Jupiter orb 4�31'

Jupiter conjunction Saturn orb 9�28'

Saturn 27�25' Virgo

Saturn Aspects

Moon trine Saturn orb 6�44'

Venus sextile Saturn orb 4�57'

Jupiter conjunction Saturn orb 9�28'

Saturn sextile Uranus orb 5�29'

Saturn semi-sextile Midheaven orb 1�17'

Saturn square Neptune orb 7�31'

Uranus 21�56' Scorpio

Uranus Aspects

Moon opposite Uranus orb 1�15'

Venus trine Uranus orb 0�31'

Uranus square Midheaven orb 4�11'

Jupiter sextile Uranus orb 3�59'

Saturn sextile Uranus orb 5�29'

Neptune 19�54' Я Sagittarius

Neptune Aspects

Neptune sextile Pluto orb 0�08'

Jupiter square Neptune orb 1�57'

Moon inconjunction Neptune orb 0�46'

Neptune trine Midheaven orb 6�13'

Mercury square Neptune orb 7�04'

Venus inconjunction Neptune orb 2�34'

Saturn square Neptune orb 7�31'

Pluto 20�03' Libra

Pluto Aspects

Venus square Pluto orb 2�25'

Neptune sextile Pluto orb 0�08'

Moon inconjunction Pluto orb 0�38'

Pluto sextile Midheaven orb 6�04'

North Node 20�06' Я Leo

Lilith 20�48' Я Virgo

About this event

Solidarity is a trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it was the first independent free trade union in a Warsaw Pact country to be recognised by the state. The union's membership peaked at 10 million in September 1981, representing one-third of the country's working-age population. Solidarity's leader Lech Wałęsa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and the union is widely recognised as having played a central role in the end of communist rule in Poland.

In the 1980s, Solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change. Government attempts in the early 1980s to destroy the union through the imposition of martial law in Poland and the use of political repression failed. Operating underground, with significant financial support from the Vatican and the United States, estimated to be as much as US$50 million, the union survived and by the later 1980s had entered into negotiations with the government.

The 1989 round table talks between the government and the Solidarity-led opposition produced agreement for the 1989 legislative elections, the country's first pluralistic election since 1947. By the end of August, a Solidarity-led coalition government was formed and in December 1990, Wałęsa was elected President of Poland.

Following Poland's transition to liberal capitalism in the 1990s and the extensive privatisation of state assets, Solidarity's membership declined significantly; by 2010, 30 years after being founded, the union had lost more than 90% of its original membership.

Agreement
Due to the popular support of the citizens and other striking groups, the Gdańsk workers held out until the government gave in to their demands. The successful strikers formed the Gdańsk Agreement on August 31, 1980 as an authentic social contract with the government. This allowed citizens to bring democratic changes within the communist political structure. The main concern of the workers was the establishment of a trade union independent of communist party control and the legal right to strike. In creating these new groups, there would be a clear representation of the workers' needs.

"These new unions are intended to defend the social and material interests of the workers, and not to play the role of a political party, they will be established on the basis of socialization of the means of production and of the socialist system that exists in Poland today." Other major concerns were to control commercial prices, the use of foreign money in all internal economic dealings, ensuring the proper supply of resources within the nation and only exporting the excess. This would ensure that there would be a better chance for prosperity within the nation for all working citizens.

The dominant planets

Why is it interesting to study an event's astrological chart? The natal chart, dominant planets and their distribution for "Solidarnosc" for example? Because a branch of astrology analyses events by referring to the astrological chart of their creation or beginning. Thus, it is possible to cast the chart for a company, a city, a country, an earthquake, a scientific discovery and so forth.

Through chart analysis and forecast, this branch of astrology provides information about the quality of a given event and reviews its positive or negative potential (success of a company, a project, an encounter etc.). Or it can simply allow you to analyse the static natal chart itself (natural disaster, invention etc.) for astrological research purpose.

Of course, in the case of these mundane or specific event charts, an astrological portrait is irrelevant. But all the rest remains valid: dominants, statistics for the positions of planets, signs, houses etc. These kinds of charts' interpretative techniques constitute a full-fledged discipline in itself, different from that of personal charts.

One must be careful when interpreting those event charts for two reasons: firstly, the major difficulty is to determine the exact date that symbolizes the event - and the exact time if possible. If we take, for example the creation of a company, there are several possible dates: the date when the partners agreed to create it is a first possibility; the date the statutes were registered, or the date of the company's legal incorporation, shortly afterwards, are also valid. We could also imagine that the date and time of the creation of its name also represent its birth. In any case, the issue is to identify "what symbolically represents best the creation of that event". This is the real first difficulty, in most cases.

The other reason why one must be cautious is only because this discipline is more difficult to study - its outcomes are less reliable than those of a personal chart. Good results are yielded, indeed, but pleading in favour or against it is not the point here. The technique exists, just as mundane astrology and the study of planetary cycles are there to explain world events located in space and time.

Therefore, these pages give the natal chart of "Solidarnosc" with the position of planets, signs and houses, as well as the graphs of the dominants and planetary distributions.