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  Mars – God of War On Sunday Ilham Aliyev, the longtime dictator of Azerbaijan, launched a war on the Armenian held Nagorno-Karabakh area. That he dared to do this now, 27 years after a ceasefire ended a war over the area, is a sign that the larger strategic picture has changed. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/09/strategic-aims-behind-the-war-on-armenia.html#more In mundane astrology, the affairs of a nation are judged primarily from the horoscope set up at the time of its official inauguration.   The horoscope of Azerbaijan is provided by   Nicholas Campion, "The Book of World Horoscopes." [1] Based on this data here is the progressed solar return for Sep. 27, the date when Azerbaijan, launched a war on the Armenian held Nagorno-Karabakh area. Notice the very significant alignment of the Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto with the Ascendant making a square to Mars in Aries. In a previous post [2], I wrote:  Mars is currently   transiting through its own sign of Aries. Here it is

Saturn – The Grim Reaper   Emir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the 91-year-old ruler of Kuwait, died Tuesday in a US hospital, according to media reports. Sep.29 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kuwaits-ruler-emir-sheikh-sabah-dies-91 As Saturn turns direct conjunct Pluto in Capricorn, old structures, institutions and those who represented them  are collapsing. The death of the Emir is an example. Look at the mundane horoscope of Kuwait. The Sun [27ge] in the 10 th stands for the ruler. It makes an upper quincunx aspect (often referred to as the aspect of death) to Saturn [28cp]. The upper or waning quincunx has a 1st and 8th house (Scorpio) influence and is called the “death quincunx…[1] Today’s Saturn station [25cp] is within just three degrees of the radix Saturn. [1] https://www.asntx.com/give-the-quincunx-more-respect/

    In 2020, Saturn travels forward to 1 degree of Aquarius, then turns retrograde and travels backwards to 25 degrees of Capricorn, turns direct and travels forward through 1 degree of Aquarius again and beyond.  Then it moves into the next patch of degrees, where it will do the same thing in 2021. This means that if you have any planet between 25 degrees of Capricorn (or Libra, Aries and Cancer)  and 1 degree of Aquarius, (or Taurus, Leo and Scorpio)  you are having a Saturn transit to that planet this year. You’ll feel a transit the most strongly when it’s exact and also during its stations, or pivotal days.  So if you have Mercury at 28 degrees of Libra, you’ll feel Saturn’s influence the most strongly when Saturn is passing through 28 degrees of Capricorn, and also on the days it turns retrograde and direct. https://bit.ly/2EHiGmx   The only aspect repeated for Saturn this year is a series of three squares to Mars. The first square occurs August 24 with Mars direct and Saturn r

   Following near daily attacks centered in and around Baghdad's Green Zone where the sprawling US embassy is located as well as other multiple American and other international institutions, Washington has put the Iraqi government on notice over the breakdown in security, saying it could shutter the US embassy altogether.   The State Department is livid after repeat rocket and mortar attacks on the embassy, and has blamed a failure of Iraq's security forces and of Iraq's leaders to respond appropriately, also amid the intensified proxy war with Iran. Sep. 28 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-angrily-threatens-close-us-embassy-baghdad-after-near-daily-attacks   Mars is currently   transiting through its own sign of Aries. Here it is extremely dynamic and will dominate the second half of 2020, especially during the retrograde phase from September 9 to November 13 (28°08ʹ–15°14ʹ Aries).  Mars retrogrades approximately every two years, but it rarely does so in

  In its positive manifestation Neptune is associated with inspiration and a great inner sensitivity   to manifest dreams and highly creative future oriented projects. However, in the lives of those   unable to align with Neptune’s higher frequencies it usually shows up as fantasies i.e.   imagination without the power to fulfill dreams giving rise to deception, deceit, weakness and generally failures to keep our commitments to ourselves or others. The Moon's Nodes are related to the subconscious, the domain of the Moon. Thus, the South Node represents subconscious motivations that stem from the past and to which there is an inner inclination to cling although they may no longer be relevant or appropriate to the individual's situation and prospects, while the North Node represents conscious motivations relevant to the present and future, characterized by a desire for the unfoldment of appropriate changes in personal psychology. When transit Neptune squares transit lunar nod

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced this week the reimposition of international sanctions against Iran. Trouble is nobody is listening to Washington's remonstrations any longer. Not only has the emperor no clothes, he's lost bullying power too.   It is the European defiance of Washington's demands that seems more indicative of American impotency. Their past habitual willingness to comply with US abuse of power is contemptible. We only have to look at how the European members of the Security Council have long been sheepishly complicit in Washington's illegal warmongering.   However, have we reached a point in history where even European minions are now viewing Washington's rogue conduct as unacceptable? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55614.htm   Synastry is a method of comparing two or more horoscopes. This makes it possible to find the interaspects, i.e. the aspects between the planets and axes of one horoscope to another one. It is an ef

The first inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd President of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1933, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 37th inauguration marked the commencement of the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President. Addressing himself to the causes of the economic crisis and its moral dimensions, Roosevelt placed blame squarely on the greed and shortsightedness of bankers and businessmen, as seen in the following excerpts:   ...rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.   The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restorati

  HSBC allowed fraudsters to transfer millions of dollars around the world even after it had learned of their scam, leaked secret files show. Britain's biggest bank moved the money through its US business to HSBC accounts in Hong Kong in 2013 and 2014. Its role in the $80m (£62m) fraud is detailed in a leak of documents - banks' "suspicious activity reports" - that have been called the FinCEN Files. Sep. 21 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54225572   In mundane astrology, the cardinal ingresses of the Sun (entry into the  four cardinal signs, i.e. 00 deg of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn ) have a traditional reputation as important mundane events. The news above comes just as the Sun enters Libra marking the Autumn Equinox. A chart for the event drawn for London is shown here.  As always planetary configurations aligned with the angles are the ones to focus. First we have the Saturn-Pluto-Mars-Mercury T-square aligned with the meridian.  Pluto in Capricorn is serv

To the magus, there exists no accidental happening…everything is established solidly by that law which the wise man discerns in happenings that appear accidental to the profane. The curve observed in the flight of birds, the barking of a dog, the shape of a cloud, are occult manifestations of that omnipresent, coordinator, the source of unity and harmony - Karl  Seligmann Hurricane Sally continues to slowly churn as it nears the Gulf Coast Tuesday, moving west-northwest at two mph, with maximum sustained winds are 85 mph, down from 100 mph on Monday evening. Sally's center is positioned near the coast of southeastern Louisiana on Tuesday, about 75 miles east-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. NHC expects the storm to hook right of New Orleans and make landfall late Tuesday or early Wednesday near the Mississippi-Alabama state line. However, the exact track remains uncertain. Sep. 15 https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/hurricane-sally-creeping-towards-gulf-

  The population in entire southern half of Oregon have been displaced by fires, many of which were intentionally set by ANTIFA, who boasts about it on their web sites. Upwards of ONE MILLION Oregon residents have had to evacuate as fires burned everything they had.   These people fled with the clothes on their backs, a backpack for survival, and . . . their rifles. … These Oregon citizens are now recruiting armed, able-bodied citizens to form an ARMY, with the stated purpose of forcibly deposing Governor Brown, the state legislature, local Mayors like Ted Wheeler and Local District Attorneys like Mike Schmidt, and forcibly restoring order to the state. https://bit.ly/3keeSZa   In my previous post Some manifestations of Mars retrograde [1], I wrote:   Mars’ retrograde cycle square to the ongoing Saturn-Pluto conjunction is the big news for the rest of this year. Its effect is felt strongly in places where it is brought to the angles in relevant mundane charts e.g. those of ingre

  “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” ― Gospel of Thomas   News Item #1 Neighbours have described horrific scenes after a father from Perth was brutally mauled to death by his own dog. Police were called to a property on Halvorson Rd in Morley just after 8pm on Monday (Sep.7) where they found Dave Whitney, 59, with life-threatening injuries. Mr Whitney died at the scene despite efforts from responding officers. It's understood he had been in an argument with his roommate, 36-year-old Brody Gardner in the moments before the dog attack. https://bit.ly/3bHyGkH   News Item #2 Pope Francis has touted life’s joys such as a delicious meal and loving sexual intercourse as “divine”, unjustly falling victim to “overzealousness” on the part of the Catholic Church in the past, according to a newly-published book, cited by AFP. The pontiff acknowledged

Wednesday, 2 September – all German TV channels – mainstream media were focused unilaterally on the alleged Novichok poisoning of Russian opposition critique, Alexei Navalny. This “breaking-news” poison discovery was made in Germany two weeks after he has been flown from Tomsk in Siberia to Moscow, when he fell ill on the plane and the airliner had to return to Tomsk for an emergency landing. On Monday, Berlin’s Charite hospital said in a statement that Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and has now recovered. Astrologers routinely draw the chart for exact planetary aspects.   Places where these planets align with the angles are the ones that receive the full energy of those planets.   Here is the chart for the upcoming Sun-Neptune opposition drawn for Berlin. Notice that the opposition forms a Grand Cross with the horizon axis. Apollo, the Sun god,   is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman mythology. Metaphoricall

Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes. As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup. You might have missed it, what with the riots, lockdowns and other daily mayhem we’re forced to endure in this, the most wretched year of my lifetime. But it’s happening. https://americanmind.org/essays/the-coming-coup/ The horoscope of the Democratic Party [1] can help explain the news. With progressed Sun now conjoining radix Uranus, the most relevant aspect in the chart is the Grand Cross formed by the Uranus-Vulcanus opposition squaring the horizon axis. Uranus the Great Awakener supports the break-down of established patterns or structures that have out-lived their usefulness to replace them with creative new structures. Martha Wescott [2] delineates Uranus-Vulcanus as below: To be aware of gale-force winds of change in the larger context of a s

Dozens of arrests have been reported amid a heated anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne, Australia, where hundreds gathered to demand an end to Covid-19 measures, meeting a heavy police presence and at times clashing with officers. A sizable crowd descended on Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance on Saturday morning for the ‘Freedom Day’ rally, calling on state authorities to rescind Victoria’s stage-four coronavirus restrictions, which include a nightly curfew. https://www.rt.com/news/499920-melbourne-anti-lockdown-protesters-clashes/ In her excellent article Buckle Up for Mars Retrograde in Aries ,   Pam Gregory [1] writes: Mars is retrograde from September 9 to November 13, but the complete retrograde phase includes the shadow period, which encompasses the timespan between July 25 and January 2, 2021. During the second half of 2020, Mars squares Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto repeatedly. These powerful transits are all linked to clashes concerning the use and abuse o

New Diamond, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) measuring 333 meters, is engulfed in flames about 20 nautical miles off the east coast of Sri Lanka. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/crippled-supertanker-sri-lanka-could-explode-due-fire Eclipses have been known to be connected with accidents especially at places where they occur on the horizon or meridian.   Shown here is the chart for the June 21 solar eclipse drawn for the current co-ordinates of   the New Diamond (Latitude / Longitude: 5°43’N / 80°34E). Notice how powerfully it is placed on the meridian forming a square with Mars-Neptune conjunction on the descendant. “Events bearing the Mars and Neptune signature include chemical weapons attacks, oil disputes, oil fires, chemical contamination, accidents involving oil tankers…” https://astrologyforaquarius.com/articles/1044/december-7-2018-mars-conjunction-neptune-in-the-sky/ But why now?   A useful technique for finding when an eclipse chart is likely to be