Well its a very ancient idea in mundane astrology going back to the Bablylonians. Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd century CE used the idea extensively in his Tetrabiblos with the known world divided into quarters and each quarter divided into astrological triplicities. The idea continued to be popular ...

I'm overall not happy giving a sign to a country or a person and sidereal zodiac didn't work for me, especially because i combine 'degree affinity' in synastry and mundane events a lot. It's true the dutch aren't an aquarian country in the uranian, progressive, enlightening sense, but if you combine...

About the dutch: myself, I have venus in 1, so i'm pretty aware of that venus energy and its absence in holland. Dutch are very mental/rational people, fits mercury in 1 + moon(node-ruler) in mercury-ruled gemini. I remember reading a british visitor in Holland in an earlier century concluded that p...

Damon, I have read about Hofstede's terms once, but i don't think you can translate them easily in astrological terms. For example, the dutch are both UNmartian and UNvenusian (not likely to give compliments and suspicious of receiving them+they are not focused on style + women do not handle their f...

Being born in the Netherlands, I think that the 1581-chart works. To me, sun in leo in 12 seem to fit, the Dutch people just don't like people being too unique/showing too much personality. If you ever visit holland, just see how dimmed the (sun-)light here is. To me, Netherlands has a typical satur...