As France is at a turning point, we present French culture through the theme of France on the date of September 22, 1792, date of the creation of the 1st French Republic.

The theme of France has some very explicit particularities. There is Uranus on the MC. This makes the intellect in a strong position here. There is a feeling of arrogance in this Uranus is the inventor, the creator, the renewal, the break with the old and the destructive lightning. Either everything must be thought out and reasoned, must be clear and feelings are put aside, as sometimes "disturbing ». With Uranus in Leo we have this imperious and impulsive reflection.

Mercury accompanies Uranus in this task of innovation - Mercury is still in the X House, Mercury or Hermes is the one who collects information and communicates it, transmits it, it is also learning and fraternity. Mercury is in Virgo, in his own sign. In Virgo the ideas are classified and ordered. The intellect of Virgo is more turned towards analysis in order to reassure himself. Close to Mercury, but in the ​​XI house is the Sun and Venus.

As the Sun is the fundamental identifier in a chart, while not necessarily what is observed directly, it depends on its diurnal or nocturnal position, but the Sun is always what really identifies a person from the inside.

Here the Sun is at 0° Libra. As a 0° Cardinal position, the Sun stands out in this possition. The foundations of France are therefore in this notion of equality and balance. Libra reflects the intellect and this need for the perfect ideal in dialogue with others.

Venus is the planet of beauty and harmony, it is in its own sign, which always reinforces its location. Beauty, harmony in dialogue and exchange and intellectual compromise. In this conjunction with the Sun let us primary remember that Libra refers to the intellect.

Conjunct the astrological Ascendant, we have Jupiter or Zeus, and Neptune. The Ascendant is the sign that rises in the east at the time of birth, and as so, planets just above the Ascendant, in the XII house, as are here Jupiter and Neptune, tels about what happens just before the birth of this country.

Jupiter, the generous and Neptune the nebulous are conjunct to this Ascendant but in the XII house. Jupiter as the guide and the educator and sometimes the mediator; loves travel, food and the unknown, meetings with others. This omniscient and opulent god has a difficult task. His generosity and solidarity are undermined in this location on the Ascendant in Scorpio. Because just above the horizon his position refers to the whole past, just before the signing of the treaty. His innate senses are here rather connected to the past, to what happened before the sunrise. He is in what is unconscious and hidden and he has a somewhat obscure and questionable tone…

Next to him is Neptune this god of the seas who governs all waters, inside us and outside, all over the world with this empathy of water that connects and connects everything. Neptune is in its own house the XII house, and is connected to the past and darkness, but Neptune is at the end of Libra and by this leans more towards the harmonisation and balance of the waters.

The two planets, positively, give France the strength to be diplomatic, to reformulate feelings and to be diplomate. But diplomacy is not necessarily transparent.

On the other side of the Ascendant in House I we have Mars God of War and combat in Scorpio. This is how France identify itself. That is a Mars in its own House and its own sign. Mars expresses itself by the capacity to act, but also given its location in Scorpio, action is easily expressed by mistrust, questioning and is inclined to see "evil everywhere". This Mars wonders about what is hidden from it like the Secret Service. It is the face of France as it sees itself and how it presents itself to the outside world.

Then in House II, occupied by the Moon represents the people and attachment and more particularly here since it is in house II, how to get rich and how to acquire. The French people connect from the inside to the outside in their case, through learning and knowledge, because the Moon is in Sagittarius and the sign of Sagittarius governed by Jupiter seeks the knowledge, the exchange and justice. The « Liberty, Equality, Fraternity » , and particularly Equality makes sense for the French people.

Attachment seems to be based on prerogatives and ideals that can hardly be called into question. At best it allows the people to preserve their achievements, at worst the people transform them into dogmas.

At the IC the bottom of the sky is Pluto, the dark force., Pluto is the one who keeps or discovers secrets, the transmuter, the purifier, the one who can destroy to rebuild. At best, since it is in Aquarius, it seeks answers like an investigator, at worst it is the hidden power of the Midheaven as Pluto is opposite Uranus. Amazing this power of France is "hidden", it seems not to be what is expected. And as Pluto is in the IV house, the seat of this country, the anchor 

Then in the Descendant (DS) we have Saturn. Saturn speaks of structure, the ability to create Customs and Traditions. However, in the theme of France, Saturn is the opposite of our self-image represented by the Ascendant and in opposition to Jupiter/Neptune. By its specific location, France judges the structure as imposed from the outside and opposed to its natural momentum. However, the structure is not the other, but it is up to all of us to forge it, together.

We will end with Chiron in House IX and in Cancer, Chiron is the horse-man, the stranger. The one who, like Hermes, belongs to the 3 worlds, the one who carries an initial wound - who must come out of his victimisation in order to learn healing through it. It is this learning that then becomes his knowledge. In the theme he is halfway - the midpoint of Saturn and Neptune, as apex. His work is all the more important because he will help the French people to integrate the Past and the Structure in order to transform it into something more noble. It is a fundamental key in the integration of France in the world.

Now lets look at the facilities and difficulties that have built France, which are the basis of the motto Liberty, Equality and Fraternity and which have contributed to creating what France is today.

Starting with Fraternity. It is represented by Mercury, the one who reigns over fraternity, brothers and sisters and house III. As Mercury is the strongest element in this chart, it is worthy looking at it. This Fraternity has something very "earthly", an imperative need to reassure itself. Is it therefore little inclined to take care of others? No, this Fraternity expressed through Mercury in Virgo where it is fundamentally at the service of others could that perhaps point to a notion of service to others that poses a problem ? As the service of others creates a notion of dependence ? It is not leadership, the flamboyant side that we find in other planetary relationships like Uranus / Pluto in the theme…..

Fraternity is combined with Solidarity. It is water, it is Neptune with its empathetic qualities. Being united is being able to connect with the other, to stand next to him to see in the same direction, to hear him, while giving him free will. Solidarity is not linked to guilt or pity but to an intuitive, perceptive understanding. But in the theme of France, in French culture, Neptune is not understood by the French people as they have difficulty talking about Solidarity, as something that is an escape.

With the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in the XII house it seems that Solidarity is something so underlying, so obscure, that nobody in France is capable of putting the right words to it. As is Equality in the sens of Jupiter. It seems so obvious but Equality is not Equity, Equality is stated by law as Equity talks about humans right, about recognition, about respect and with that Saturn at the Descendant…the question can be asked if the difference really is understood. 

As for Liberty, is seems even this principle is misunderstood. With Uranus at the Midheaven it is My Liberty above yours, and don’t even dear to touch it !

In some ways the frame is right but the feeling is not.

To finish this reading, it is interesting to look at how the evolution of the planets Pluto, Neptune and Uranus in the next two years will directly affect France, which has its Sun at 0° Libra. 

Neptune-Saturn conjunction at 0° Aries will directly affect the Sun. This points to a deep transformation and an awareness. It is as if "Droits de l’Homme" must become Human Rights or the Rights of the Earth and all forms of life.

Likewise with Uranus entering Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius, the opposition of power, the eternal dichotomy that seems to exist in French culture could point to a transformation of power into cooperation…. The two planets will definitively affect the Sun because they are in Grand Trine with the Sun and will perhaps dissolve the pains of the French Revolution and the traumas of the creation of the first French Republic represented by this Jupiter/Neptune conjunction on the Ascendant.