Strike on Syria Fails To Launch World War III

Last night the U.S., UK and France launched a symbolic attack on Syria. It was not intended to hurt the Syrian government, its people or its allies. It did not hit any of Syria's allies. So far there is no report of anyone being killed or wounded. This was a one-off: Mattis [...] said the assault was a “one-time shot,” so long as Assad does not repeat his use of chemical weapons. The only purpose of the attack was to do 'something' and to somewhat calm down the warmongers within those three 'western' countries. It was probably insufficient for that. As we wrote yesterday in the piece below. World War III had been called off.  April 14  http://www.moonofalabama.org/

We can begin to understand the astrological reason for the attack if we go back and make the charts for the Mars-Saturn conjunction at Washington DC and Damascus. Notice that in both cases the powerful conjunction is on the angles square Sun and Mercury identifying the victim and the perpetrator of the violence. 

The following extract from a previous post [1] explains why we did not expect an all out war.

But there are two factors in this chart that offer hope that a war will not take place. First that Saturn is about to station retrograde on April 18 precisely on the descendant. And secondly, the Sabian symbol for the Sun [12ar50] is:

12-13 deg Aries: An Unexploded Bomb Reveals An Unsuccessful Social Protest.

This Sabian degree is essentially saying that an immature attempt to start a war does not succeed.

Finally we look at the national chart of Syria. The Mars-Saturn conjunction took place on the radix Sun [9cp]. This also potentially identified Syria as a possible place where the destructive energy of Mars-Saturn could be felt. On the morning of April 14, when the attack took place, transit Mars was on the IC  and square the horizon axis. The descendant or the 7^th house is linked to enemies and warfare [2].

[1] On the Threshhold of War?

[2] http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h7.html