Mars
– the God of War
In a
succinct tweet on Wednesday, Donald Trump has announced a momentous policy
decision that the Trump administration will soon be pulling out the US troops
from Syria and Iraq. Although the current redeployment of American troops will
only be limited to northern Syria to appease the US-ally Turkey where it has
been a longstanding demand of President Erdogan that Turkey will not tolerate
the presence of the US-backed Kurdish forces west of Euphrates River, it can be
expected in the coming months that Washington will withdraw American forces
from eastern Syria and Iraq as well. Dec. 19 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50803.htm
Mundane astrology, the study of heavenly cycles upon groups
and nations is the most ancient branch of astrology. The affairs of a nation
can be judged from the horoscope set up at the time of its official
inauguration, the birth chart of its leader, and various phenomena such as
eclipses, lunations, great conjunctions, stations, comets and ingresses. Among
these, ingresses have a traditional reputation as the most important mundane
event. With the Sun's entry into Capricorn imminent, now is the time to consider the potential
of the ingress for 2019.
The chart for the Capricorn Ingress at Washington DC is
shown here. As always, planets and planetary configurations on the angles
(horizon and meridian) are the ones to focus on. Here we have a Mars-Neptune conjunction
on the MC (upper meridian). In his book The
Combination of Stellar Influences, Reinhold Ebertin delineates this
combination as below :
Principle : Weakness
Probable manifestation: Failures caused through the absence of plans or
through lack of energy.
Astrologer Adam Elenbaas describes it in words that are
perhaps more relevant to the news.
With Mars- Neptune you might be feeling drained, tired, exhausted, or
worn out. You might feel like raising the white flag and saying, "I
surrender already." The effort, irritation, passion, and selfishness of
Mars is being steadily dissolved by the transcendental waters of Neptune right
now.
The horoscope of the United States is attributed to Ebenezer
Sibly (1751 – c. 1799), an English
physician, astrologer and writer on the occult. Notice that in this horoscope,
we have a Mars-Neptune square which has just been activated by the First
Quarter Moon at [23pi]. The phases of the Moon unfold a seed message planted at
the New Moon. The current New Moon of December 7 at [15sa] forms a square
aspect to a Mars-Neptune conjunction [13pi] reinforcing the theme of weakness
and exhaustion and the need to change
our limiting ideologies, to step through our veils of delusion and take action
to manifest our greater dreams and visions.
Nick Fiorenza in his lunar planner for December writes about
the challenge presented by the Gibbous Moon phase of Dec. 19 around the time
Trump made his decision to withdraw from Syria and Afghanistan :
“This Gibbous Moon brings emphasis to our fear-based
mental-emotional turmoil and the subsequent entrapments that keep us from
greater independence and fulfillment we seek in life. It impels us to think
freely and progressively rather than acquiescing to limiting or entrapping
mentalities. On the global scene, it may arouse the grandiloquence of governing
bureaucracies, but which impels us to realize it is up to us to emerge from its
entrappings and to live from our heart's true passion. Chaos can impel us toward
two extremes. It can impel a reactive mode of being, addressing constantly
changing surface turbulence and superficial issues, leaving us to accomplish
nothing enduring, or it can impel us to address our underlying fear that feeds
such conditions, which allows us to focus upon action that can create true
change in our lives that leads to a prosperous future and our greater
wellbeing.”
I would think Trump needs to be congratulated for having
lived up to the star challenge.
PS:
On December 21, just
two days after the news, transit Mars made an exact square (90 degrees angular
separation ) to Trump’s natal Sun position. The table below is an extract from
serennu which gives Trump’s natal positions. (https://goo.gl/otDzh8)..
VULCANUS: Surge of
power/strength; feeling forced to associate; compulsion; awareness of invisible
power & the power of influence; periods of burn-out alternate with a
“whatever it takes” attitude.
ATROPOS: Endings,
completion, conditions at the finish, what is needed to conclude.
TNP
|
Vulkanus
|
21 ge 11' 5"
|
Sun
|
22 ge 55'42"
|
|
273
|
Atropos
|
23 ge 28' 9"
|
It is fairly easy to
see that Mars activating the combination Atropos-Vulkanus implies a tremendous
compulsion to end something!
Moreover Trump’s radix
Sun [22ge55] is conjunct his Mars-Admetus [22ge57] midpoint. Martha Wescott
interprets this as follows:
Mars-Admetus: Action after a period of delays, obstacles and
resistance to one’s efforts.
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