Syria: Orion battles the Hydra

The Syrian civil war is an ongoing armed conflict in Syria between forces loyal to the Syrian Ba'ath Party government and those seeking to oust it. The conflict began on 15 March 2011, with popular demonstrations that grew nationwide by April 2011. These demonstrations were part of the wider Middle Eastern protest movement known as the Arab Spring. Protesters demanded the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad, whose family has held the presidency in Syria since 1971, as well as the end to over four decades of Ba'ath Party rule. Opposition forces are mainly composed of defected soldiers and civilian volunteers, who became increasingly armed and organized as they unified into larger groups. However, the rebels remained fractured, without organized leadership. The Syrian government characterizes the insurgency as an uprising of "armed terrorist groups and foreign mercenaries". The conflict has no clear fronts, with clashes taking place in many towns and cities across the country.

                                                                                    

In mundane astrology primary importance is given to the chart of a country. Here we will use the Jan 1, 1944 map for Syria to understand the reason behind the civil war. The radix Sun is on the cusp of the fourth house. Pluto has been transiting conjunct the Sun and opposite the MC. In a mundane map the MC or the tenth house represents the government or ruling party while the fourth represents the opposition.

Transiting Pluto Period of major transformation in the life-pattern. Often the end of a 'chapter of experience' for the start of another, due to eruptive developments that have been 'brewing up' under the surface for some time. Fateful encounters, power urges, power struggles . Old issues from past come to surface. Pluto exposes these issues so that their nature may be understood and the subject work to change them.[1]

DYNAMIC REPORT

syria - Natal Chart

 1 Jan 1944, 00:00, EET -2:00

 Damascus Syria, 33°N30', 036°E18'

Selection: Solar Arc Dirns (Current)

Asc (3)   Opp        Sat (9)    (X)          Sa-Na     13 Nov 2011                        21°Sg52' D            21°Ge52' R

Asc (3)   Sqq         Plu (10)  (X)          Sa-Na     18 Mar 2013                        23°Sg12' D            08°Le12' R

MC (12) Sqr          Sat (9)    (X)          Sa-Na     5 Sep 2010                            21°Vi52' D            21°Ge52' R

MC (12) SSq         Plu (10)  (X)          Sa-Na     8 Jan 2012                            23°Vi12' D            08°Le12' R

Here  are characteristic manifestations when Saturn and Pluto come into major hard alignment [2]:

1) The empowerment of forces of hatred, murderous aggression, of evil and the demonic, of the secretive and subversive, of the underworld—elemental, instinctual, criminal—with consequences that are punitive, defeating, traumatic, contracting, tragic. More generally, the simultaneous experience in extreme form of both violence and contraction.

2) The feeling of being caught helplessly in the grip of overwhelming, powerful, and often dark forces, of being the victim of large ruthless impersonal forces of nature or of history that are both destructive and imprisoning. More generally, a sense of larger powers of any kind—social, historical, elemental, biological, archetypal—being in control of one’s life. The powerlessness of the entrapped and suffering victim is usually matched by an obsessive drive for control, power, and domination, the two sides of the experience mirroring each other, sometimes occurring in alternation in the same person or community.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_transit

[2] Richard Tarnas

P.S.

The table above shows progressed Ascendant and MC aspecting Saturn-Pluto. Saturn is the conjunct the stars of the Warrior Orion (a symbol for war) while Pluto is conjunct Gianfar of Draco and the stars of Hydra. [3]

Conjoining Hydra's head is northern Gianfar, Lambda Draco, on the tail of the Dragon. Gianfar, the poisoned place, is of neurological currents, specifically those emanating from "poisons of the heart" that manifest cellular patterns within ourselves that relentlessly destroy that which we touch through endless battering of our courage, optimism, and strength—destroying us through sheer exhaustion. Here we are asked to realize how unresolved bitterness or resentments of the heart can perpetually avert us from the fulfillment we seek.

Quasar 1133+704 of Draco inspires us to look at our undermining behavioral patterns from alternative viewpoints that we might not normally consider. It and Gianfar invite us to explore any inner fears that may tie us to the past and that keep us from living our heart's truth in the present, so we can emerge from antiquated and ingrained neural-net patterns in our brains and establish new and alternative neural pathways.

[3] http://www.lunarplanner.com/LunarMonths2012/lunarmonth.12.04.21.html

The two paragraphs describe perfectly the reason behind the war – “poisons of the heart”  that is at the root of the current conflict between the Shias and the Sunnis fuelled by the US and Israel who are using this opportunity to remove Assad motivated by poisons of their hearts.