Erdogan meets Putin in Moscow

Archer and the Eagle

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting today in Moscow in an attempt to resolve differences over the conflict in Syria—this time, with very high stakes. Tensions have risen between Turkey, which backs some rebel groups, and Russia, which backs the Syrian regime. The leaders haven’t met face-to-face since Syrian forces launched an offensive in rebel-held Idlib, drawing in thousands of Turkish troops and displacing nearly 1 million people who Erdogan fears could end up crossing the border into Turkey. March 5

Eclipses tend to bring about endings and new beginnings. The influence of an eclipse is strongly felt if it aligns with the horizon or meridian. Lunar eclipses can be about releasing  bonds within ourselves that glue us to involvements that are less than we truly want or deserve. They are also about the emotional and experiential aspects of our relations with others and with the world in general. Lunar eclipses provide opportunity to redefine our conceptual understanding of our life experience.

Shown here is the chart of the lunar eclipse of July 16, 2019 drawn for the midpoint between Ankara and Moscow. Since the eclipse aligns with the meridian, it has a very important message for the Russia-Turkey relationship. Moreover with Pluto now transiting exactly over the eclipse Moon, this chart is active.

Saturn-Pluto alignments are associated with power struggles  that lead to  crisis and conflict, empowerment of reactionary forces and totalitarian impulses, organized violence and oppression, all sometimes marked by lasting traumatic effects. It can lead to outbursts or violent anger and  can also represent the moment in which a situation reaches its culmination, exploding, and giving rise to some new circumstance.

Saturn in  Capricorn is all about control. To lose control is to enter into the realm of chaos -  a threatening prospect that Capricorn fears. But Pluto is a pattern disrupter and deprogrammer. Its transit through Capricorn is serving to destroy Capricorn’s false walls in order to expose the corrupt workings of the system. The S.Node indicates patterns of the past that need to be released because they are no longer workable. More specifically, Saturn, Pluto and the S.Node are placed amid the stars of the Archer and Aquila, the Eagle, both easily recognizable symbols of war. So war mongering is a pattern that needs to be released.

The Turkish President Erdogan (b. 26 Feb. 1954; 4:25 am EET; Istanbul) has his Ascendant [18cp] conjunct N.Node [22cp] in Capricorn. The Saturn-Pluto conjunction in the eclipse chart aligns with his Asc-Node so that he must deal with the issues highlighted above. In his essay “Erdogan is in serious political trouble”, Tom Luongo writes:

It looks like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is headed for the political gallows a lot quicker than I ever thought. He's trying to become the Overlord of the Middle East, and it will destroy him. His offensive in Idlib has bogged down. And a day before he’s scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Erdogan Turkish parliament degrades quickly as opposition speaks out against his Syria campaign.