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Saudi Arabia - The 'Night Of The Long Knives'




Yesterday the ruling Salman clan in Saudi Arabia executed a Night of the Long Knifes cleansing the state of all potential competition. The Saudi King Salman and his son Clown Prince Mohammad bin Salman initiated a large arrest wave and purge of high ranking princes and officials. Part of this internal coup was the confiscation of huge financial estates to the advantage of the Salman clan.
In Saudi Arabia eleven princes, including sons of the deceased King Abdullah, more than thirty former and acting ministers as well as the heads of three major TV stations were taken into custody or put under house arrest. http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/11/saudi-purge.html#more





To understand the news, I refer readers to an earlier post, Astrology of the Saudi Power Struggle [1]. The major direction in the Saudi horoscope, progressed  Sun[25sa] opposite Moon[25ge] was triggered  by the November 4th Full Moon [11ta] making hard aspects to both ends of the Sun-Moon opposition. Moreover the Full Moon conjoined the radix TNP Kronos [11ta] and squared TNP Zeus [11le]. Martha Wescott delineates the combination Kronos-Zeus as under.

Kronos-Zeus: leaders or governments on the edge of restraint; events that trigger authoritative actions; to see a leader set priorities and maintain resolve; governments, leaders, laws or regulations that alarm, arouse or anger.

Nick Fiorenza describes the meaning of the stars that conjoin the Full Moon:

Sharatan, Mesartim and Hamal of Aries form the head of the ram. Sharatan, the Beta star of the Ram, one of the horns, and Mesartim, the mouth of the ram, are portents of an applied force to change. They support new beginnings, adventure, transmutation and great rewards; but they are of opportunities that may quickly open and close, and thus require our immediate response to grasp them without hesitation when they occur. Sharatan provides a sign that it is a time to take action or to create change; but also provides a warning that headstrong pursuits driven from arrogant righteousness or adamant denial can perpetuate the human cry in the initiatory fires of life. Either way, these stars impel us to initiate personal action to take the lead in our individual lives.

Schedar, Alpha Cassiopeia, the head of the Queen, conjoining Hamal, impels more of an authoritarian expression, with a prideful and arrogant tone, often due to being lost in the glitter of power upon the human stage. Schedar and Hamal can manifest as struggle in the physical world due to forceful, insistent, or arrogant ways. They can express as power struggles amongst leaders or those who are headstrong, with lessons about how arrogance creates struggle in the material world verses how benevolence and compassion opens the way through.





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