World Economic Crisis and Astrology

It certainly feels like the world is in total chaos these days, with the world economy thrown off-kilter, the energy crisis being faced here at home, and wars and conflict breaking out all over, can all this be put in an astrological perspective?  There are many opinions about what brought on all this calamity and how we can solve it, I've scoured the web looking for some perspective and mostly hope.  We, the common people, those of us at the bottom have been left hanging after a bailout plan that doesn't seem to be working and a government that refuses to address the real issues we have to wonder what the hell is going on?  There's a lot of speculation about whether this marks the begining of the 2012 era when the whole world will experience a shift in consciousness.

Here are some interesting articles to look at with different takes on our current events.  In this article from grandtrines.com the author states "this might be one really scary Halloween."

Another article I found quite interesting is in astrologyexplored.com, the article is titled The Astrology of Money: What Planets Our Economic Woes, worth checking out for a brief look at the correlation of the country's birthday and it's influence on today's economy.