This year, is the new moon in fish, which is where we laid the Vedic horoscope for 2011, April 3. The first thing we see is that not only Sun and the moon are important in Pisces, but the planets Mars, Jupiter and mercury are all located together in Pisces, as well.
PISCES is a sign of water, thus having March here will be indicative of disasters related to water. This may mean several types of storms and such events, as we have seen with just one tsunami after an earthquake. Saturn is literally in the aspects of direct Sun & moon as 19 degrees Virgo, while Sun & Moon both offer the same degree of Pisces. Given that these two malefics March & Saturn are still amounts to the creation of all kinds of disasters, we can expect this will be an interesting year.
Mercury is in power the 2nd House of remuneration, and 5 investment and debilitation in Pisces, which only bodes for many people financially. Having said that Jupiter is also here and that it is the Lord of the Pisces, so there may be what I call a "false" resurgence in the economy. This would mean the money is paid to make things "seem" like they are in progress, but with hell to pay before long, probably next year. I do not see the big banks going under or something like that, but you can bet that hard assets will go up and up. But the unlikely in retirement for some time and quality gems begin to value has increased exponentially, as well.
Major investors are likely to reap most of the gains, while those who are still fighting because of a lack of jobs will be a bit of respite. Ketu in the 2nd House is never good for the overall financial stability and Rahu in the 8th can cause different types of disasters. I have a risk with Rahu in Sagittarius (the other sign ruled by Jupiter) and Jupiter in Pisces is a further increase of fundamentalist religions more violence and General suffering for many people as a result.
Judging by the transits of Mars, involvement more militarily seems a given, so I see little we could "withdraw" troops overseas. The desire on the part of the "powers that be" to increase the US military presence in even more than one country is much more likely.
The United States will be weather the "Storm", literally and metaphorically, since Taurus is rising and Venus, Lord of the rising sign is Aquarius in the 10th House. However, a very sensitive time is just before and after the Eclipse. We have already given an early spark of January off the coast of conflict (86% of the Sun was covered), but we have three more partial solar eclipses, on 1 June, 1 July and 25 November. June and November seem particularly have a lot of potential for the creation of devastation. June 1, mercury will join Sun, Moon and Ketu in Taurus, while Jupiter, March and Venus will be all Aries, a martial sign. It is certainly a combination for the conflict and occurrences "fiery". 60% of the Sun will be covered.
On 25 November will be Sun, Moon and mercury with Rahu in Scorpio, which is sign of debilitation of Moon and Rahu thus. Scorpion is a sign of water, it is led by March, which is at the time Leo tenanting, where he is very strong in the sign of fire. March is also aspecting his own sign of the Scorpion from his position in Leo. It is a different combination of conflicts powerful storms, etc.
July 1 is potentially much less damaging, it seems that March and Ketu are important in the Taurus, Sun, Moon and Venus is in Gemini. This Eclipse will be so low that it would be virtually impossible to view, being only 0.1% of coverage.
There will be two total eclipses of the Moon, however, on June 15 and December 10. June has Rahu/Moon in Scorpio with March/Ketu/Venus in Taurus in direct eclipse aspects that a lot of potential despicable, especially considering it a fortnight after June 1 of solar energy.
December has Rahu/Sun/mercury Scorpio with Ketu/Moon in Taurus, so it will also be a powerful. How eclipses affect people individually and how they affect the country depends on if eclipses are signs where the planets, or ascendant.
I think this is a year in which those who have little money to invest, installation with good ideas and skills that are in demand may have a very good year, economically speaking.
In any case it will certainly be another intense year and of any Presidents, politicians and the heads of State promise to do so, they, like us, are always moved as puppets on a string by the power of fate.
The answer is to understand how the astrological influences affect us personally and then be better prepared for the events in the physical sphere (warned is worth), but the maintenance of peace and serenity is only possible when we also strive to make progress on the spiritual path, try to develop detachment that is certainly not under our control.