Côte d’Ivoire Astrology Piece
Côte d’Ivoire’s tropical Ascendant (15TA32)/sidereal Ascendant (23AR40)
Côte d’Ivoire’s tropical Midheaven (9AQ50)/sidereal Midheaven 17CAP11)
Independence Night
In Abidjan, the cool-headed president of the Ivory Coast faced the excited and somewhat hot-hearted crowd. (Today the capital of Côte d’Ivoire is Yamoussoukro.) The constellation of Aries (impulsiveness, unmitigated glee) was on Abidjan’s Ascendant. Like Aries, the Ivory Coast (now Côte d’Ivoire) would be ahead of many African countries in economic stability and agricultural development. It was close to midnight and the Moon was almost full in sidereal Capricorn. Feelings (Moon) were also full on this August night in 1960. The crowd was at full throttle with cheer, like powerful tigers freely crashing down the mountainside with pride and fearlessness.
The people (Moon) crashed through the closed doors of Abidjan’s National Assembly (Eleventh House). They had to hear the words of the highest public officer. The word were addressed to the deputies and foreign dignitaries assembled. The crowd entered the chambers and saw the solemn disposition of their new leader. They quieted down, holding their tigers in check. The Lord of the Horoscope, Mars, was in the fixed sign of Taurus. The people exercised Taurean restraint when the president, at the stroke of midnight proclaimed their country’s independence. (Pasadena Independent, page 5.) (The Arizona Republic, page 20.) At the start, President Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Fay-leeks Who-fway Bwa-nyee) focused his administrative force on agricultural development. This goes quite well with the
state’s Tenth House sidereal Moon that rules the Fourth House of agriculture.
His father was a Baulé chief and a wealthy cocoa and coffee plantation owner. Boigny inherited this. Economic development, through selling these commodities, is reflected by the Tenth House ruler in the Ninth House of exports. These measurements tie right in to the reality at the time.