The Sri Lankan economic crisis is an ongoing catastrophe in the island-state of Sri Lanka that started in 2019. It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. Sri Lanka's opposition political parties began meetings today to agree on a new government, a day after the country's president and prime minister offered to resign in the most dramatic day of monthslong political turmoil, with protesters storming both leaders' homes and setting fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the economic crisis. (NPR July 10, 2022)
Below are the North and South Indian style and sidereal wheel birth charts for Sri Lanka Independence set for February 4, 1948 at 6 AM (source: Astrodatabank):
Sri Lanka is in the Rahu-Jupiter cycle according to the Vimshottari dasha calculated to the Moon. Rahu and Jupiter are in a 6/8 (shasta-ashtakam/quincunx) which represents a breakdown between the citizens of Sri Lanka and the government leadership. Jupiter is the AK for Sri Lanka (atmakaraka/the soul of the nation) and occupies the transformational gandanta in the potent tail of the Scorpion near the Galactic Center in Lord Indra’s nakshatra. This area of the zodiac is where the June 14, 2022 full Moon occurred, which activated Jupiter and Sri Lanka’s natal Moon. The Scorpio gandanta can sting, but also brings necessary change and healing.
Perhaps the most compelling feature of the transit chart for Sri Lanka at this time is the nodal return in which Rahu has returned to its natal place in the fourth house (the homeland) and Ketu to its natal place in the tenth house (the government and the karmic issues of the nation). The nodal return represents a date with destiny, and the dramatic end of an old cycle and the beginning of a new one.
The current and upcoming Mars-Uranus-Rahu conjunction in Aries (which I have written about previously) is a signature for geopolitical upheaval, civil uprising, and violent conflicts. The conjunction is triggering natal Rahu (planet of destiny) in the Sri Lanka chart in the fourth house (again, the homeland). This conjunction represents revolutionary upheaval, not only in Sri Lanka, but as I believe, also spreading across many other parts of the world now in reaction to the corrupt actions of authoritarian forces in power. People who are starving and without basic resources have nothing left to lose but to revolt.
It's interesting that the Sri Lanka chart has the exact same ascendant (lagna or rising sign) as the one for Ukraine, which seems to suggest some similarities in terms of a karmic burden and path. For example, each is experiencing the current Rahu-Uranus-Mars conjunction in their fourth house, suggesting devastating corruption, violence, destruction, and upheaval in their homelands. As I wrote about the Ukraine situation previously, I feel there is hope for Ukraine to have peace in the future, at least by the time that Jupiter enters sidereal Aries (fourth house) next April 2023. I believe the same as well for Sri Lanka.
Supreme Lord, let there be peace in the sky and in the atmosphere. Let there be peace in the plant world and in the forests. Let the cosmic powers be peaceful. Let the Brahman, the true essence and source of life, be peaceful. Let there be undiluted and fulfilling peace everywhere. (Atharva Veda)