1284: The Monetary Revolution — Florin & Marco Polo
Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn
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- 1284
- Chinese year
- Yang Wood Monkey
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- Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn
The Monetary Revolution — Florin & Marco Polo
The Florentine florin became Europe's first standardised gold currency, transforming international trade. Marco Polo returned from China, publishing accounts of paper money, gunpowder, and a civilisation far more advanced than Europe's. The medieval European worldview — that Christendom was the centre of the world — began to crack. Banking families like the Medici would eventually rise from this monetary revolution.
The Sky: Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn
Saturn-Pluto in Capricorn restructures economic and political institutions. The same conjunction in 2020 (COVID) restructured global economics. In the 13th century, it restructured the very concept of money and international trade. Capricorn demands that power structures adapt or die.
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