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Chilcot report: Inquiry into Iraq war to be published 6 July



The long-running official inquiry into the Iraq War will present its findings in a report released on 6 July, it has been announced. The Chilcot Inquiry, which was set up by Gordon Brown in June 2009 to look into the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, will release its 2.6 million word report just two weeks after the EU referendum. The date was agreed and confirmed in correspondence between the Prime Minister David Cameron and Sir John Chilcot, the former civil servant leading the inquiry. May 9




The last solar eclipse of March 9 was placed in the 3rd house in London. Among other things, the 3rd house is linked to documents like the Chilcot inquiry [1] report. The eclipse forms a T-square with Jupiter-Neptune-Saturn.

Jupiter [18vi] in retrograde motion is conjunct stars in the hindquarters of the Lion. That this constellation is linked to war was well understood by ancient astrologers.

 "Who can doubt the nature of the monstrous Lion, and the pursuits he prescribes for those born beneath his sign? The lion ever devises fresh fights and fresh warfare on animals, and lives on spoil and pillaging of flocks. The sons of the Lion are filled with the urge to adorn their proud portals with pelts and to hang up on their walls the captured prey, to bring the peace of terror to the woods, and to live upon plunder. " [Astronomica, Manilius, 1st century AD, p.237.]

More specifically, a retrograde Jupiter is referring to a war fought in the past.  And with the Neptune opposition, we can see that this was a war based on lies and deceit. Explaining the potential of the stars conjunct Jupiter, Nick Fiorenza that it can “lead to inward expansion of conscious awareness to discern the truth and what is of true value hidden behind the dramatic and deceptive antics occurring in the world”. He also adds that the truth “will externalize when Jupiter completes its retrograde on May 9”.

Finally, Saturn in Sagittarius not only forms the apex of the T-square but is placed very significantly on the Ascendant.  In his essay Saturn in Sagittarius: Finding Our Authenticity and the Transparency of the Soul, Gahl Sasson explains  why this position is so demanding:

For the next three years, Saturn will demand the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the Truth. Saturn in Sagittarius is a polygraph, a cosmic lie detector. When we are not authentic, it will start beeping and when Saturn beeps, it sounds more like a deafening siren.





Now progress the eclipse chart to 6 July and lo and behold we now have apex Saturn on the descendant so the T-square is once again triggered!






Finally to put the whole thing into perspective, let us superimpose the eclipse T-square on to the Iraq War chart. Notice the eclipse falls on the Ascendant while apex Saturn conjoins Pluto on the MC of the War chart where in the radix it was opposite.. How appropriate! About Saturn-Pluto, Steven Forrest writes:

Astrologer Grant Lewi, decades ago began to speak of Saturn as “the cosmic paycheck”. His implication was that under passing Saturn symbolism, we would all "get what we deserve". That phrase – “get what we deserve” is something of an inkblot test. Some of us may hear it ominously, others encouragingly. And both possibilities are on the radar screen when Pluto links to Saturn. Either way it is a make it or break it time in which a certain confrontation , both with oneself and with circumstance, has taken on a quality of inevitability or “fate”. What happens if we have been overindulging in denial, projection and laziness? What kind of paycheck  can we expect then? Here we see the dark side of Pluto-Saturn possibilities. Our worst fears come true. The one thing we couldn’t handle looms in our face.



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