Pro-Russian rebels attack key port

KIEV (Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels launched an offensive against the strategic port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, prompting the European Union's foreign policy chief to warn of a further "grave deterioration" in EU-Russian relations. Mariupol's city administration said the rebels had killed at least 30 people and injured 83 others by firing rockets from long-range GRAD missile systems. The city of 500,000, on the Sea of Azov, is vital for eastern Ukraine's steel and grain exports and straddles the coastal route from the Russian border to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula in southern Ukraine seized by Russia last March. Jan.24 http://yhoo.it/18eeiW8

Ukraine’s mundane horoscope is based on the proclamation of independence from the USSR. The data given by Nick Campion in his "The Book of World Horoscopes," (Second Edition, 1996), p. 372 is Aug. 24, 1991; 05.31.00 PM BGT (-03); Kiev, Ukraine. Shown here is the current precessed solar return chart for Ukraine. The significant aspect to notice here is the Sun opposite Neptune brought into prominence by its square to the horizon axis. In his book “Mundane or National Astrology”  H.S. Green writes:

The Sun in bad aspect to Neptune

“Unpopularity for the Government; failure of measures; disorder and confusion; the power, reputation, or life of some statesman, prominent person may be in danger, and something in the nature of a downfall or collapse takes place.”

Of late transit Saturn has been squaring the radix Sun. This slow moving transit became potentially violent with the arrival of Mars to an opposition to the  radix Sun and square to transit Saturn in the last few days just around the time Ukraine launched an offensive against the militia at Donetsk airport.

A chart drawn for the exact Mars-Saturn square [January 15; 6:10 UT] at Kiev shows it aligned with the meridian. This not only explains the current flare-up but the Mars conjunction to Neptune tells us why there is so much weakness and confusion on the part of the leadership. If we also remember that Neptune is the ruler of water and the  sea and by contrast Saturn rules all things solid like the land next to the sea  we can understand why the combination  Mars-Saturn-Neptune has brought the war (Mars) to the sea(Neptune)  port (Saturn).