Ray Merriman has a new article up about Saturn in Virgo and the Saturn/Uranus opposition. Ray writes:

Saturn in Virgo … relates to the growing frustration of those who do the
work – the working class, the middle class. They look around and they see that
they do all this work. Yet when the business fails, it is they who suffer, not
the management that made the decisions that led to the failure. The workers are
the ones who lose their jobs or give up benefits. And oftentimes when those in
management make these failed decisions, they leave the company and receive huge
financial bonuses, known as “Golden Parachutes.” And even while they are there,
if the company prospers, it is these decision-makers who also receive huge
end-of-year bonuses – at least huge in comparison to the much smaller bonuses
given to those who did the hands-on work. It is not that these conditions have
not existed forever between management and labor, between the wealthy and the
middle class. It is just that now, in the first decade of this new century, the
rate of growth and rewards between management and the work force has widened to
its largest distortion ever.

I might add that it is largely the Pluto in Virgo generation that is suffering at the hands of the power elite, and I think it’s also noteworthy that this executive compensation issue went to the extreme under Saturn’s ride through Leo, the sign of ego and kingship.  

Despite the Wall Street meltdown, the nation’s biggest banks are preparing to pay their workers as much as last year or more, including bonuses tied to personal and company performance.

So far this year, nine of the largest U.S. banks, including some that have cut thousands of jobs, have seen total costs for salaries, benefits and bonuses grow by an average of 3 percent from a year ago, according to an Associated Press review.
“Taxpayers have lost their life savings, and now they are being asked to bail out corporations,” New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said of the AP findings. “It’s adding insult to injury to continue to pay outsized bonuses and exorbitant compensation.”