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Israeli-Palestinian conflict passions echo across the world






(CNN) – As missiles and rockets fly in the Middle East, tensions are boiling over around the world between activists at demonstrations on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Plenty of protests have been peaceful, but not all of them.

A mob, wielding baseball bats, broken bottles and knives, swarms a Paris synagogue. Violence erupts at a pro-Israel rally in Los Angeles after a demonstrator reportedly stomps on a Palestinian flag. Phone calls and text messages threaten a Palestinian-American who organized a protest in Atlanta. A trending Twitter hashtag says Hitler was right. July 17 http://cnn.it/1re285h






To understand this news event we will go back to the Full Moon eclipse of April 15, 2014 at 25li16. Eclipses can be activated by the transits of faster moving planets so that this was activated with Mars transiting over the eclipse Moon on July 16. And since it was within orb, the entire week was affected. Shown here is the chart for the eclipse at Tel Aviv, Israel. With a powerful Grand Cross straddling the horizon axis, there is little doubt that the eclipse was important for the place. The Uranus-Pluto element is about power struggles within groups. At this point I refer readers to Nick Fiorenza’s excellent commentary on the eclipse and the lunar cycle of March 30 entitled “Actualizing Revolutionary Change” [1] from which we extract the following thoughts.

We may have been  turning our heads from dealing with the manipulative power plays causing our or other people's entrapment with a flippant attitude to do anything about them and living in submission to manipulative forces rather than to stand up for self and for those unjustly held in bondage, even when it is our responsibility to do so.

This New Moon catalyzes an unprecedented lunar cycle providing opportunity for revolutionary change in many facets of our personal lives and in the world. This lunar cycle stimulates a radical change in authoritarian control of resources, especially of those trying to control, dominate or suppress others.





A chart for the last quarter Moon at Los Angeles where one of the major demonstrations was reported has the volatile Grand Cross on the horizon axis. The stars on the Descendant (the same stars as on the Ascendant of the eclipse chart) are those of the Twins. The constellation of the Twins refers not only to siblings but  to the concept of universal brotherhood. The Twins are often show fighting each other (notice bow, arrows and club in the image) so that this area is linked to racism, aggression, even sadism and murder.However, Columba, the Dove also here carries the aspiration of peace, while with the devotion of the Twins to each other (notice them hugging) hope for true brotherhood, the inter-relatedness of all human kind remains alive.




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