New Zealand’s modern national identity took shape on February 6, 1840, when the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed between Māori rangatira and representatives of the British Crown. The story reaches back through Māori political history and the 1835 Declaration of Independence, while the Treaty became the central founding document of the modern country. The date carries a 21/3 imprint, a 6 day, 13/4 year energy, Rat Eastern energy and Aquarius Western energy. Rat is compatible with Dragon and Monkey, has Ox as its soulmate and Horse as its direct enemy.
The strongest discovery is that Rat timing repeatedly appears when New Zealand changes the systems through which the country operates. In 1984, another Rat year, the Labour government began sweeping economic and state sector reforms that transformed the heavily regulated economy. In 1996, another Rat year, the first general election under MMP fundamentally changed parliamentary representation and produced the country’s first coalition government since the early 1930s. Dragon timing provides a supporting layer through 1988, when the government accepted the Waitangi Tribunal’s recommendation to return Bastion Point to Ngāti Whātua, marking an important development in the country’s continuing relationship with the Treaty. Horse timing was tested as Rat’s direct enemy cycle, but no sufficiently consistent New Zealand specific disruption pattern was established.
CUE: New Zealand’s 3 energy is expressed through redefining the systems that organize national life while returning to foundational questions of relationship and authority. From the Treaty of Waitangi through economic reform, Treaty settlement and parliamentary change, New Zealand repeatedly changes how the country operates without abandoning the questions established at its beginning.
