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Trump’s dilemma: The Iran Deal




Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned that the US will face "historic regret" if Donald Trump scraps the nuclear agreement with Tehran. Mr Rouhani's comments come as the US president decides whether to pull out of the deal by a 12 May deadline. Mr Trump has strongly criticised the agreement, calling it "insane". The 2015 deal - between Iran, the US, China, Russia, Germany, France and the UK - lifted sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear programme. France, the UK and Germany have been trying persuade the US president that the current deal is the best way to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44021829



Astrology maps the celestial energy patterns of planets so that we can discover the cosmic influences operating in a given place at a given time. Astrology is more than just a way of foretelling your inevitable fate. Ptolemy, one of the world's greatest astrologers, said: "The stars incline; they do not compel". He meant that while planetary influences create the groundwork and basis for action in any set of circumstances, there is still an element of free will in all of us.

The horoscope, or birthchart, presents us with what may best be described as a set of probabilities having some potential to operate in several ways. The easiest way for most people to go through their lives is to accept the apparently random events that come into their personal space and to suffer or enjoy them as they come without seeming to be able to alter either the direction of movement, or the nature of these events in any significant way. This is widely supposed to be the human condition.

Presented here is Donald Trump’s diurnal chart for May 12, 2018 drawn for Washington, DC. Notice the T-square aligned with the horizon axis. Let us look at the possible options offered here.  The asteroids Lachesis and Hybris are conjunct and square Uranus respectively. Martha Wescott provides the following delineations:

HYBRIS: Expectation, glass-ceilings, limits—what one future paces as their fate, their slot in life—and what can be expected of others; what others, parents, you see as “your fate;” conditioned limitations.

LACHESIS: Intervention, assessment midway into a sequence, what “interrupts” an evolving sequence from going as one would have expected (from the way it began or is underway.)

Hybris-Uranus: Expectations of self and others can go through a process of change if there is enough space in the model and a willingness to bend rigid rules and expectations.nge now provided  This may be a time for insistence on bucking what is expected of one.

Lachesis-Uranus: Friendships can be interrupted and there can be concerns whether one intervenes in things happening to a friend. You may see that folks have a “change of heart” and that intervenes in the course that they were pursuing and reactions can be quite abrupt or sudden.

At one level this implies that Trump will not do what everyone is expecting i.e. walk away from the Iran deal thereby letting down Israel – a friend!  Incidentally Israel’s progressed Sun [0le] sits right on the diurnal Ascendant of Trump’s chart.  But at another level, the “lower road”, there may  not be  “enough space in the model and willingness to bend rigid rules and expectations”.

On May 12th Trump is  experiencing a nexus of probabilities.  The conditioning implied by the asteroid Hybris is more influential than inevitable. He  may choose to accept the limits imposed by the “glass ceiling” (Hybris) or choose to reject such a tendency and to apply a countervailing Uranus-Mars tendency to break free from all expectations.

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