Panama Canal – up for grabs? – Astroinform with Marjorie Orr

The Panama Canal, involved in a tug of war with an imperialist Trump who claims America built it and dislikes China’s growing influence in the area, is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway which connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It provides a shortcut which greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific and avoiding avoid the hazardous route around the southernmost tip of South America. Its construction was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. Started by the French in 1881, they gave up and the US took over in 1904, eventually opening it in 1914.

Panama under pressure has decided to let its participation in China’s global infrastructure plan expire.

 The 15 August 1914 Panama Canal Inauguration with its expansive Leo Sun opposition Jupiter sitting alongside a bulldozer-strength Mars Venus square Pluto Saturn, perhaps a testament to the difficulty in building it, will be panicked and undermined as tr Neptune Saturn square the Saturn and then Pluto and oppose the Mars through 2025/26; with further arguments after that.

 The final handover to Panama on 31 December 1999 is equally stressed through late April into May this year, is mired in confusion and indecision in 2026/27 and at a dead halt by 2027.

 The Panama country chart, 3 November 1903 6pm, Panama, will be under great pressure with tr Pluto conjunct its Saturn in Aquarius in 2026/27 with a significant disappointment in 18 months – but that could be to do with anything,  However its relationship with Trump will be on edge as tr Uranus moves into Gemini from July onwards for several years.