On June 18, 1815, the British and Prussian armies under Wellington and Blücher defeat Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in Belgium. The battle ends Napoleon's 'Hundred Days' comeback attempt. Napoleon is exiled to St. Helena. The defeat reshapes European politics, ending French hegemony and establishing British naval dominance. The Concert of Europe maintains balance of power for decades.
Saturn in Aries rules the containment and defeat of aggressive military expansion. Aries rules warfare and assertion of dominance. Saturn (authority, structure, age) contains Aries (Mars ruler of war, youthful aggression). Napoleon (Aries ambition, Mars aggression) is defeated by Saturn's structured, older European powers. Saturn establishes new order; aggressive Aries is contained.
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