Understanding the Spain & Portugal power outage through the medium of astrology

On Monday April 28, 2025, at around 12:33 pm Madrid time, a severe power outage rippled through Spain, and the Portuguese grid, too, went out. It is said that some parts of France and Morocco, too, were affected, but I am not sure of those reports. So far, the power outage, which lasted for several hours and completely disrupted the everyday life of people as well as business operations in the two countries, has not been able to be deciphered as to its cause. Let us see what the astrology suggests: was there an advance warning that could have been used?

To begin with, as the problem seems to have originated in Spain, let us forget Portugal in the rest of our discussion. In astrology, the most important element is the start of something, not the propagation. Now let us look at the planetary picture for the moment of the outage:

As you would notice, Pluto is almost exactly at the contra-antiscion of Uranus, the planet that governs electricity transmission and telecom networks. (In fact, Pluto finds itself these days in the Uranus co-ruled sign of Aquarius). However, Pluto and Uranus are slow-moving, thus this has been the case for some time now, and continue to be. However, Mars, too, has not moved to (or just crossed) the antiscion position of Uranus: thus, in other words, the Mars-Pluto opposition, a significantly energetic and malefic transit, is sitting on the antiscion of Uranus. Something of the kind that affects electricity or telecommunication networks was, thus, bound to happen in the world around this date.

The above, though, is true for the entire world, for planets' positions are the same with respect to each other for the entire world. So why only Spain where the problem starts? This is what the rest of the analysis will be concerned about.

So now the other interesting thing about the chart above is Mercury: the planet governing interconnections, and after all it is failing interconnectors that cause such cascading mayhem. Look at Mercury: how strong accidental dignity it has! It is right at the Midheaven, plus has just entered its own term. And remember that this Mercury is being disposited by the very same Mars of the aforementioned Mars-Pluto opposition and Mars-Uranus antiscion configurations.

Now this itself should suffice to point out why Spain is the one that is affected, for it is only in Madrid, if I were to take all the national capitals, that Mercury is at such a powerful position.

However, usually, a good astrological signature depends on more than one testimony, so let's see some more testimony about why Spain and not somewhere else.

Let us have a look at the chart of the concerned agency, Red Eléctrica de España (REE), the operator of the national electricity grid of Spain:

Let us not take into account the houses and angles in the chart, for while we know REE was born on January 29, 1985, we don't know at what time this happened, and the chart above takes 12 noon as the default time. But the planets, except for Moon, won't have moved much on January 29, 1985, regardless of what time in the day REE came into being. I guess you can readily see the Mars-Pluto opposition of April 28, 2025, squaring Pluto in REE's birth chart. There are other elements, too, that are interesting in the chart, for example, Saturn conjuncting the natal Mars-Venus conjunction, which, though, would be far more relevant to REE's business operations (indicating a drop in REE's share prices, which probably must have taken place anyway subsequent to this incident). In passing, let us note that early and mid-March 2026 may again prove to be a difficult moment for REE's business operations and/or share prices, given that Venus-Saturn conjunction would be on the contra-antiscion of that natal Mars-Venus conjunction.

Before ending this discussion, let us see how Spain's Aries ingress chart for this year looked like:

It is interesting to see that 11th house, the house for electricity networks, has a stellium, and that Mercury is retrograde and at the contra-antiscion of Saturn. (The latter is true for the entire world, and thus expect during the year 2025-26 significant events affecting communications as well as relations between countries, including countries returning back to old issues and trying to thrash them out in unpleasant ways. The Kashmir issue that has suddenly come to the fore again in India-Pakistan relations is one example of that.) What Spain's chart also shows is that it does not seem to be a great time for Pedro Sánchez, till at least the end of September 2025, but no elections are scheduled in Spain for now as far as I know, so I guess his position may be safe. Given the Uranus in 12th house in that chart, I would not rule out an underhand plot to disrupt the electrical networks, though that has been ruled out, and I also do not have more testimonies right now to confirm it better.

At the moment of the outage, the transits to the ingress chart looked like these:

What is interesting in the above chart is the Saturn-Rahu (North Node) conjunction, with Rahu a strong significator of electricity. (Of course, that conjunction is again valid for the entire world, not just Spain.)

The discussion above thus shows how such an incident was bound to happen at around this date and time in the world. That it originated in Spain rather than elsewhere in the world is most strongly indicated by grid operator Red Eléctrica de España's chart as well as the chart for Spain itself at the moment of outage, with Mercury reaching an extremely powerful position in the backdrop of a Mas-Pluto conjunction in antiscion with Uranus at the exact moment of the outage.

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