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  Russian forces launched “special military operations” in Ukraine on Thursday morning, including cruise and ballistic missile attacks targeting infrastructure near major cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol and Dnipro, according to media reports.   In this post I intend to show how accurate national charts and their derivatives can help to understand the deeper issues involved in any event like this one. The most significant combination in Ukraine chart [1] is a Uranus-Neptune conjunction on the ascendant. One interpretation of this combination is “disappointment with friends”. With the US and NATO backing off from helping Ukraine, we can see how this has come to pass. And strangely it took Putin whose radix Sun squares Ukraine’s Uranus-Neptune conjunction to bring this to light!     Next I present the precession corrected solar return chart for Ukraine. As always planets and combinations on the angles are the ones to focus on. Here we have a Grand Cross aligned with the ang

  In a previous post [1], I showed how the powerful total solar eclipse [12sa22] of December 4, on the descendant at Wellington, New Zealand was the primary “cause” of the NZ protests.   Here is the chart for the same eclipse at Adelanto, California from where the People’s convoy [2] is about to depart [3]. Notice that it is placed very significantly on the IC conjunct the star Antares, alpha Scorpii [10sa03]. As I keep repeating, the angles are everything in astrology. When a planet is on the angles, it is extremely powerful.   About Antares, Nick Fiorenza writes:   Antares ensures that the current and accepted approaches and visions do not become static or antiquated. It ensures growth, evolution and change. If the Scorpion meets those stuck in their antiquated modality of life, its sting is not far off - hence its classical association with rebellious and destructive forces. When there are rebellious and terrorizing forces assaulting the established order, this reflects the need

  President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to “secure the peace” in the newly recognized Donetsk and Lugansk republics, which were formerly considered to be part of Ukraine. Moscow officially recognized the independence of the two breakaway regions on Monday. https://www.rt.com/russia/550177-putin-decree-military-donbass/     The DPR was established on April 7, 2014. A noon horoscope for this date is shown here. Notice the powerful Grand Cross containing Uranus-Pluto-Jupiter-Mars-Sun-Moon. To understand this Cross we need to first focus on the slowest moving Uranus-Pluto square.   The essence of Uranus in Aries square to Pluto in Capricorn of the 2010s represents a turning point for human civilization in terms of how societies are organized and run. During this decade all the facets of individual freedom (Uranus in Aries) as a human experience are pitted against the many varieties of institutional power and control (Pluto in Capricorn).   About the Uranus-Plu

  Following a 105-minute discussion with French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the US and NATO should "take Russian demands for security guarantees seriously." Macron made a similar call to US President Joe Biden earlier in the day, although their discussions lasted about 15 minutes. US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed on the principle of a proposed summit to lay out issues related to strategic stability and security in Europe, according to a Sunday release by Élysée. https://bit.ly/33BNbqt     It appears that Macron has realized the need to pressurize Biden who everybody by now knows is trying to start a world war. Underpinning the intensified aggression under Biden is the objective historic condition of failing U.S. imperial power.   In this post, we take a look at Biden’s horoscope to check if there are clues to what is happening. The first thing we notice is that Feb. 16 Full Moon

  Fire on the car carrier FELICITY ACE Possibly hundreds of Porsches, Volkswagens, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis are marooned on a burning ship in the Atlantic Ocean after the crew abandoned the vessel earlier this week.  According to the real-time data website FleetMon, which tracks ships, the Felicity Ace car carrier vessel’s ownership said that “the vessel has experienced a fire and the Master has taken the prudent decision to abandon the ship”. https://bit.ly/3s3qG7s     Understanding the world around us depends on our power to perceive patterns of meaning, to make the right connections, recognize what belongs with what. It is not easy. Astrology can help us to think in new categories. With astrological insight, objects and events that at first sight appear to have nothing whatever to do with each other can be shown to be intimately connected.   In recent posts, I have shown several world events connected to the November lunar eclipse activated by the Full Moon of Feb. 16. Coinc

    Rows of police faced off against rows of anti-mandate protesters in Ottawa, Canada on Friday. The demonstration has been fenced off, the media told by law enforcement to “keep a distance,” and arrests and vehicle seizures have begun. The police push comes after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked emergency powers on Monday to end the protest, which in addition to occupying downtown Ottawa for three weeks, have blocked several key border crossing points between the US and Canada. Ottawa’s interim police chief, Steve Bell, said on Wednesday that he would use these unprecedented powers to “remove this unlawful protest” and “return our city to a state of normalcy” in the coming days. https://www.rt.com/news/549911-police-arrest-protesters-ottawa/   In yesterday’s post on the Full Moon fuelling the Ukraine crisis, I wrote:   The Full Moon on February 16 is in Leo, the Lion conjunct the star Regulus. The Lion is an aggressive predator and Regulus has been linked to inflation

      MOSCOW/KYIV, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Shelling in Ukraine on Thursday renewed Western fears of an imminent Russian invasion as U.S. President Joe Biden said Moscow is preparing a pretext to justify a possible attack and the Kremlin expelled an American diplomat.   Early morning exchanges of fire between Kyiv's forces and pro-Russian separatists - who have been at war for years and where a ceasefire is periodically violated - caused alarm as Western countries have said an incursion could come at any time. https://reut.rs/3HbWBa9     The phases of the Moon are among the most reliable indicators of events on earth. A New Moon or Full Moon can act as a local “step down transformer” for powerful energies generated by far away stars and planets that it aspects.   The Full Moon on February 16 is in Leo, the Lion conjunct the star Regulus. The Lion is an aggressive predator and Regulus has been linked to inflation and hubris and the desire for revenge. The Full Moon forms a Grand Cr

  Ukraine’s security forces have no reason to believe that Russia is planning to launch a full-scale invasion this week, despite claims from Western media outlets that an offensive will begin on Wednesday, a senior official in Kiev said. On Monday, Aleksey Danilov expressed confidence that “the situation is absolutely under control.” Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has repeatedly played down the threat of war in recent weeks, despite claims from Western politicians that conflict is imminent. https://bit.ly/3BpfdSM     Ukraine has done a U-turn with its rebuttal of the U.S. claims that a Russian invasion was imminent. Evidently, the Americans and their ever-servile British patsy have gone too far in fomenting tensions over Ukraine. Even the normally Russophobic Kiev regime has become concerned that Washington and London are precipitating an armed conflict with Russia.   In this post we examine the horoscope of Ukraine[1] to understand th

    With Fed speakers and their media proxies scrambling to walk-back St.Louis Fed's Jim Bullard's calls for an inter-meeting liftoff and uber-hawkish rate-hike trajectory, it is notable that all of a sudden, The Fed has called for an "Expedited, Closed" Board Meeting on Monday Feb 14th (at 1130amET). The goal of the meeting is: "Review and determination by the Board of Governors of the advance and discount rates to be charged by the Federal Reserve Banks." https://bit.ly/3sAU6J1   The Federal Reserve announced that it’s keeping interest rates steady following its Jan. 25-26 meeting, leaving the federal funds rate at a range of 0 to 0.25 percent. But Fed watchers are expecting the central bank to hike rates a number of times in 2022, with a high probability that it does so at its next meeting in March. Now it appears that the emergency meeting scheduled for Monday, Feb. 14 may bring this decision forward. The horoscope of the US Federal Reserve was disc

  LIZ Truss’s latest foray into international diplomacy has not gone to plan after she was given a lesson in basic geography. The UK Foreign Secretary was mocked by Maria Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, for failing to know the difference between the Baltic and Black seas, which are more than 700 miles apart. It came as another senior Kremlin official dismissed British diplomacy as “absolutely worthless”. https://yhoo.it/3Lo3kRs     Elizabeth Mary Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since 2021. A member of the Conservative Party, she has served in various cabinet positions under Prime Ministers David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson.   Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (born 21 March 1950) is a Russian diplomat and politician who has served as the Foreign Minister of Russia since 2004.   Liz Truss has a Mercury-Saturn conjunction as the apex of a T-square with Jupiter-Uranus. Saturn-Mercury says little about actua

  A White Dwarf Star Astronomers for the first time have watched a dead sun, a white dwarf, gobble up a dead planet, according to a new study published in Nature. The event has long been hypothesized but never observed. The authors of the study used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, focusing on a white dwarf called G29–38 located some 45 light-years from Earth. https://bit.ly/3rQrhJD     The worldview underlying astrology sees all of reality as symbolic in nature. To the symbolist, the heavenly bodies are threads within a great tapestry of affinities and correspondences. Elwell has defined the term multicongruence as the tendency for certain things and conditions to co-occur because they belong together at a higher, unmanifest level. Similarly, the ancient Hermetic doctrine “as above, so below” or “as inside, so outside” sums up the symbolic nature of events.     A White Dwarf is born when a star becomes exhausted and can no longer continue its nuclear fusion, yet, its own gravi

  New Zealand police cracked down on protesters outside Parliament in Wellington on Thursday, arresting more than 50 people after forcibly dispersing the demonstration against Covid-19 restrictions. https://www.rt.com/news/548854-dozens-arrested-police-protests/   Eclipses can be extremely powerful with several layers of possible meanings. Just as eclipses can explain events, it is also possible for events to illustrate the meaning of an eclipse. Shown here is the chart for the powerful total solar eclipse [12sa22] of December 4, 2021 drawn for Wellington, NZ. Notice that it is placed very significantly on the descendant conjunct the star Antares, alpha Scorpii [10sa03].   About Antares, Nick Fiorenza writes:   Antares ensures that the current and accepted approaches and visions do not become static or antiquated. It ensures growth, evolution and change. If the Scorpion meets those stuck in their antiquated modality of life, its sting is not far off - hence its classical associatio

  Perseus with Medusa’s head The incident occurred in the capital of Khuzestan Province, as a man is believed to have murdered his spouse and waved her head right in Butcher Square. An Iranian man beheaded his wife and went for a walk holding her head in the crowded centre of Ahvaz, local media outlets have reported. https://bit.ly/3srmtJx   Eclipses are not only very powerful mundane events, they can at times show themselves in gruesome ways as we shall see with this news. The lunar eclipse of November 19, 2021, conjunct the star Algol - the severed head of Medusa, was placed very significantly on the meridian axis at Ahvaz, Iran.   So what triggered the eclipse on February 8, 2022? Well for one thing, eclipses are known to be activated when transiting planets conjoin them. Currently, transit North Node [27ta] is exactly conjunct the eclipse Moon [27ta]. Moreover, as the news comes to us transit Moon is also going over the eclipse degree!  

  Europe (and NATO) far from being a resolute united front confronting Russia, clearly revealed their deep divisions with Macron’s visit to meet Putin on Feb.7. In this post I intend to show how the recent Venus retrograde cycle conjunct Pluto is changing our value system (here Macron’s) so that what we thought was desirable earlier no longer appeals. Venus-Pluto teaches us respect for the rights, needs and values of others. It asks for integrity, emotional honesty and trustworthiness in relationships.   Shown here is Macron’s horoscope. Notice that the Venus retrograde cycle conjunct Pluto has taken place on his Ascendant [28cp]. This is not only the US Sibly Pluto position [27cp] but also the degree of the recent Mercury-Pluto conjunction.   About Pluto transit over the Ascendant, Steven Forrest writes:   This transit challenges you to reveal who you really are and what you really want. It is a season of “unmasking”. Some false note has crept into your external, presented self

  Pegasus, the Muses & Helicon Lata Mangeshkar, who has died in Mumbai at the age of 92, was an Indian cultural icon and national treasure who made her name in Bollywood - despite only actually appearing on screen in a handful of films. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45703099   Lata Mangeshkar was born 28 September 1929; 23:51 IST; Indore; India. As is usual for great artists, her horoscope has several indicators that show her talent. Performers usually have a prominent 5 th house. Here we see the South Node in the 5 th about which Steven Forrest writes:   With the south node in the fifth house, the person may very well have been involved in creative arts in some form in a prior life. One of the easiest ways to confirm that possibility is to see if that pattern is reproduced in the present life - if he or she is drawn to creative work in this lifetime, or shows some particular artistic talent, it practically clinches the karmic roots of the behaviour. Think of the f

  Solar Eclipses are extremely powerful mundane events especially if they occur on the angles. The December 4 solar eclipse fell on the Ascendant at London implying that its message would be strongly felt at the place. Notice that the eclipse is the apex of a Yod.  Yods can be very challenging, presenting difficult circumstances in life which seem to show a repeating theme as if we are learning a lesson over and over in order to perfect something. A Yod eclipse can signify that this is the time to bring it all together, makeup for the mistakes, and pay back the karmic debt.  In an earlier post [1] on the solar eclipse of Dec.4, we saw that some of the key phrases for the Sabian symbol are “Dealing with unresolved issues...Facing up to our past imperfections". The Sun and Moon are in a wide square to Neptune at the time of the eclipse, which could force us to face up to areas of our lives where we might be deceiving ourselves, exposing a blind spot or area of our life in which

    Facebook - or Meta now that it's in the witness protection program - is making record after dismal record this morning after its catastrophic earnings and guidance last night: not only is the company's 22% drop the biggest in its history...but according to Bloomberg, the one-day crash ranks as the worst in stock-market history: the Facebook crash has erased some $195 billion of its market cap. Feb.3 https://bit.ly/3GpJFgo     Facebook was founded on 4 th Feb. 2004 with the Sun [15aq] conjunct Neptune [13aq] in the zodiacal sign Aquarius - the sign of social networking and friendships.   So what makes Facebook such a popular and successful social networking site. It has even gotten to a point where people could get addicted to Facebook, an unofficial condition known as Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). Perhaps looking at that Photoshopped version of ourselves — our favorite flattering photos reinforces the version of ourselves who we want to be and boosts our vanity