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  WASHINGTON – The final U.S. troops in Afghanistan flew out of Kabul Monday at 3:29 p.m. EDT, ending a costly 20-year occupation that started after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and leaving a war-torn country now controlled by the Taliban. The retreat, announced by the Pentagon, came one minute before Aug. 31 Kabul time, keeping the U.S. in the country right up until a deadline set by President Joe Biden's administration. https://bit.ly/3jqnXQZ     Here is the chart for the last plane out of Kabul. Notice the Sun on the IC square the nodal axis -   a phenomenon known as “Moon Wobble”under which   political and personal upheavals take place [1].  In addition, the August 30 th  Last Quarter Moon ( also a Moon Wobble) is aligned with the meridian at Kabul. The Sabian symbol for the Moon [7ge08]   is quite illuminating: PHASE 68 (GEMINI 8°): AROUSED STRIKERS SURROUND A FACTORY. KEYNOTE: The disruptive power of the ambitious mind upon the organic wholeness of human relationship

  Little Pluto is the most dramatic of the planets in mundane astrology. That is mainly because of how slowly it travels through the Zodiac.     Currently Pluto is moving through Capricorn – the sign that rules governments and leaders. Pluto’s stripping away process is programmed to destroy Capricorn’s false walls. The transit serves to expose the corrupt individuals, organizations, corporations, etc., who have learned to use the system to their self-serving advantage. In Biden’s inauguration chart we see Pluto on the MC (cusp of 10 th house) which rules the President. Notice that it is in direct motion at [24cp]. It remained in direct motion till April 27 when it stationed retrograde at [26cp48]. Since then it has been moving backwards and will now station on Oct. 6 at [24cp] right on top of the radix inauguration Pluto. This is the time when Biden’s presidency is at its most vulnerable.   In his book Planets in Transit , Robert Hand writes about transit Pluto conjunct the MC. Wi

  The first impacts of Henri dropped record-breaking rainfall, giving New York City its wettest day in seven years. Henri had already delivered record-breaking rain totals and widespread flooding hours before its projected landfall Sunday afternoon. Heavy rain overwhelmed storm drains and drivers plowed through foot-deep water in a few spots Saturday night in New York City and New Jersey. https://bit.ly/3B6i4hI The power of eclipses to affect events long after they are gone is well known. Here is a chart for the 26 th May solar eclipse drawn for New York.  Notice that eclipse along with Jupiter forms a T-square with the meridian.  The Sun [5ge] is conjunct the stars of Hyades known to bring “torrential rain”. In the image above, the Hyades star cluster makes up the V-shaped head of the constellation Taurus, the Bull. The Romans called the Hyades Sidus Hyantis, the “Raining Stars” because legend tells the Hyads rained tears on Earth after the death of their brother Hyas. The appearan

  On Monday (Aug.16), at least two individuals were seen falling from an American C-17 Globemaster, shortly after takeoff from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. https://sptnkne.ws/Hc9b   In a recent post   New Moon: Leave limiting life patterns , [1] we noted how the energy of the current August New Moon was pushing us   " to   strive for a new and better future…to release the patterns we hold that keep us entrapped in our limiting life scenarios".  In this post we shall see that by falling on the Ascendant [16le] of the December 14, 2020 total solar eclipse chart drawn for Kabul, it succeeded in activating it. “… the eclipse (December 14, 2020 total solar eclipse ) belongs to the Saros Series #142. The first eclipse of this series took place on April 17, 1624 with the Sun-Moon conjunct the stars Sheratan (β), Mesarthim (γ) and Hamal (α) of Aries which form the head of the impulsive Ram. These stars indicate a time to take action or to cr

  Today, August 20,  Uranus turns retrograde, but it has been virtually stationary at 14 degrees Taurus for six weeks.  When a planet prepares for a direction change it appears to be at a standstill.  Charts  elements affected by the Uranus position are likely to be see sudden changes. Erin Sullivan in her book Retrograde Planets describes how  Uranus retrograde works:  Uranus transits suddenly disengage us from what have been secure points of reference. During the direct transit we are increasingly separated from the known, but the subsequent retrograde phase reconnects back to an aspect of ourselves from which we have been cut off and desensitized.   On some level everyone has a desire to create the perfect system and destroy existing systems. Uranus retrograde phase provoke an internal revolution against systems that no longer support holistic survival. We gradually replace old models with new models as the slow process of the Uranus transit through a house transforms our persp

  The situation in Kabul (well all of Afghanistan) has gone from bad to worst case scenario as a Taliban official says they will soon declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul, the Associated Press reported, after reports of the insurgents entering the premises and taking control of it Aug. 16 https://bit.ly/3siz3KC Eclipses bring changes – a getting rid of the old before the new can come in . Since the old is never ready to leave   on its own, they often open the door to chaos that must precede the coming in of the new. Here is the chart for the December 14, 2020 total solar eclipse at Kabul. Uranus [7ta] is on the MC making a hard aspect to the eclipse which in turn completes a T-square with Neptune. In mundane astrology, Uranus on the MC   in a eclipse chart indicates the fall of a government . For the stars on the MC with Uranus, Diana Rosenberg has   “historic battles, massive overwhelming events”. And for the stars that conjoin the

  This was fast. The Taliban have as of now 18 of 34 province capitals (province) under their control.   Only three of the bigger cities, Kabul, Jalalabad and Mazar-i-Sharif, are not yet in Taliban hands. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/08/afghanistan-this-is-the-end-.html#more In a previous post [1], I have discussed the horoscope of the Afghan War. To my mind the key factor is the Pluto opposite Saturn-Hades aligned very significantly with the Ascendant.  In his article, “A Crisis of Power: Saturn and Pluto Face Off” of Aug-Sept 2001, Robert Hand [2] wrote: The medieval astrologers referred to the opposition as the aspect of perfect or complete hostility..Pluto is about power, but not just any kind of power. It is the power of the transformations that result as things come into being and pass away. …We may desperately try to hold on to the status quo, but we seem to be up against a relentless force that will not be stopped. The harder we try to hold on, the more ruthless the

  A college professor is facing arson charges for setting fires in the area where the Dixie Fire is burning. Forty-seven-year-old Gary Stephen Maynard was arrested on Saturday   (Aug.7) following an investigation that started last month. Maynard is accused of setting the Ranch Fire near the Mendocino National Forest. https://cbsloc.al/3lWcZVd   The Dixie Fire is an active wildfire in Butte, Plumas and Lassen Counties, California. The fire began in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam on July 13, 2021.   By July 23, it had become the largest wildfire of the 2021 California fire season; by August 6 it had grown to become the largest single (i.e. non-complex) wildfire in the state's history, and the second largest overall (after the August Complex fire of 2020). To understand the origins of the fire we begin with the map of the Capsolar (precessed Capricorn ingress of the Sun) drawn for Chico, California [1] – the place where it started.  Neptune is placed on the MC forming a

  Arrest warrants have been issued for 52 'fugitive' Democrats who dramatically fled the state (July 13) in a political stunt to block the passage of a GOP election integrity bill - only to spread Covid-19 throughout Washington DC.   Aug. 11 https://bit.ly/3CDoiaD Eclipses continue to influence events long after they are gone. Presented here is the chart of the powerful total solar eclipse of Dec. 14, 2020 placed very significantly in the 11 th house that rules legislators . Notice that the eclipse forms a T-square with Neptune and the Moon’s nodes. Neptune is known for elusiveness and deception while the nodes have a connection to groups so that the picture that is building up can refer to group of elusive legislators! Progressing the eclipse chart to July 13 when the legislators fled the state [1], we find , quite appropriately,   that the   progressed angles align with eclipse T-square. Going a little further, we learn that the eclipse belongs to the Saros Series #142. Th

        Protesters opposed to vaccinations attempted to storm the BBC Television Centre in White City, west London. A video posted online of protest shows a mob of demonstrators attempting to enter the Shepherd’s Bush building despite a heavy police presence. The enraged protesters are said to be in retaliation for the introduction of vaccine passports and the vaccination of children. Aug.9 https://insiderpaper.com/videos-show-protest-outside-bbc-television-center-in-london/ In mundane astrology, the cardinal ingresses of the Sun (entry into the  four cardinal signs/ constellations, i.e. 00 deg of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn ) have a traditional reputation as important mundane events. On Jun 21 the Sun entered Cancer. A map for the ingress drawn for London  has it significantly placed on the Ascendant in hard aspect to the Saturn-Uranus square. When traditional and authoritative Saturn and rebel and freedom-seeking Uranus clash, we experience the disruption of lightning

  A half century ago one of the most disastrous monetary decisions in U.S. history was committed by Richard Nixon.   In a television address, the president declared that the nation would no longer redeem internationally dollars for gold.   Since the dollar was the world’s reserve currency, Nixon’s closing of the “Gold Window” put the world on an irredeemable paper monetary standard. The ramifications of the act continue to this very day.   America’s current financial mess, budget deficits, the reoccurring booms and busts, the decline of living standards (particularly the middle class), all have their genesis with Nixon’s infamous decision in August, 1971. https://antoniusaquinas.com/2021/08/09/a-look-back-at-nixons-infamous-monetary-decision/   The unilateral change in policy   was made on 15 August 1971.   On that day, the Federal Reserve shut its "gold window," meaning foreign governments could no longer trade gold for dollars at the fixed rate of $35 an ounce. The Br

  Every time Joshua Spriestersbach tried telling the doctors, nurses, and staff at a state hospital in Hawaii that they had the wrong man, no one listened and his protests were answered with drugs. After nearly three years, the blithering idiots running the hospital finally figured out their blunder and instead of fixing their mistake, they covered it up by quietly kicking Spriestersbach out on the street with only 50 cents to his name. Aug. 6 https://thefreethoughtproject.com/innocent-man-locked-away-in-mental-facility/ As regular readers are aware, the square between Saturn and Uranus in 2021 is   the defining astrological theme of the year. Astrological "squares" are known for creating tension between two points — and with this one involving Saturn, the Planet of Rules and Boundaries , and Uranus, the Planet of Freedom and Rebellion , things can   get intense. In the best case scenario the   tension between the changes that need to happen and the obstacles, roadblocks, a

  The upcoming New Moon[16le14]   of 8 August is amid the stars Acubens and Dubhe . Acubens, Alpha Cancer, indicates entrapment in dogma. This can be the current political / religious beliefs of the times, as well as that created by our personal belief structures—the ideas we have about our lives and experiences we have in our lives. Acubens indicates a tenacious hold and stubborn resistance to release the patterns we hold that keep us entrapped in our limiting life scenarios. Dubhe, Alpha Ursa Major, embodies the pursuit for a greater vision beyond the accepted political-religious dogmas of the human world that keep humanity in darkness and delusion; and against the controlling forces perpetuating that dogmatic rule. Dubhe asks us to emerge from the collective and our own personal dogmas (our belief structures) and our limiting life patterns that keep us bound in life scenarios that are less than those we truly want. Dubhe supports us to strive for a new and better future rather

  Lupus – the Beast South Korean intelligence as well as the media have of late been closely monitoring Kim Jong Un's changing appearance, especially given his clear rapid weight loss of the past months, setting off higher than usual amounts of speculation over possible ill health.   This speculation has been renewed over these past days and has taken a bizarre turn, as commentary on the reclusive dictator's appearance is now focusing on a strange "dark green spot" on the back of Kim's head, as NK News has highlighted. https://bit.ly/3C8TBK2 Astrologers have long recognized that eclipses are indicators of   major events that primarily affect leaders especially if they fall on the horizon or meridian. The total lunar eclipse of May 26, 2021 fell on the Ascendant   at Pyongyang, North Korea.   For the stars that conjoin the eclipse Moon [5sa]   on the Ascendant Diana Rosenberg writes: “Head, face and neck ailments and injuries (the Scorpion’s head and the Beast’s

  A man showing off his new gun to patrons in a Florida bar ended up shooting himself with the weapon instead, according to reports. The unidentified knucklehead was inside O'Riley's Uptown Tavern in Pensacola at 11 p.m. Thursday ( July 22) when he pulled out the gun to show it to a man and a woman at the bar, the Pensacola News Journal reported Friday. The man then made a quick motion to put the gun into an imaginary holster under his shoulder when the gun went off and a bullet struck his torso, the outlet reported. July 24 https://www.sott.net/article/455960-Florida-man-shoots-himself-while-showing-off-gun-in-bar In mundane astrology, the cardinal ingresses of the Sun (entry into the  four cardinal signs/ constellations, i.e. 00 deg of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn ) have a traditional reputation as important mundane events.  Of these the Capricorn ingress chart is considered by many astrologers as the most important. So  impressive are these charts  that their progress