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  Pleaides: Arabic name Al Thurayya, meaning 'Abundance' Record monsoons in Pakistan have forced "a third of the country" underwater, according to Sherry Rehman, the country's country’s climate change minister. Rehman said of her country, which is about 340,000 square miles: “It's all one big ocean, there’s no dry land to pump the water out." https://bit.ly/3TwvgXx     There are at least two ways employed by astrologers to understand events affecting a nation. The first one is to look at charts for mundane charts e.g. ingress, lunation, eclipses etc drawn for the nation’s capital. The other method is to look at the national chart and its derivates e.g. progressions, solar, lunar etc.   Pakistan’s national chart (14 th August, 1947; 9:30 am, Karachi) is based on its independence from colonial rule. Shown here is Pakistan’s current lunar return chart. Weather related disasters are mostly shown by the 4 th house. Here we have a Mars-Uranus-North No

  By all accounts the situation into the overnight hours (local time) Baghdad has continued to spiral, with one well-known regional Mideast correspondent describing a "full implosion" - despite security forces attempting to enforce a strict curfew meant to clear the streets. The Republican Palace, which is where Iraq's gridlocked parliament meets (though which has now been suspended by acting prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi), was occupied by armed protesters earlier in the evening. CNN reports of the latest, "At least five people have been killed and more than 40 have been injured in violent clashes that erupted in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Monday, following an announcement by powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that he was withdrawing from political life, medical sources told CNN." https://bit.ly/3AUqifU   Incidents like this one in Bagdad do not come out of no where. They are the result of brewing tensions that suddenly erupt follow

  The UK’s financial support for Ukraine’s military will run dry by the end of the year, a Defense Ministry source has told the Sunday Times. London has already given Kiev more than £2.3 billion ($2.7 billion) in military aid, but whoever leads the country next will have to deal with strained public finances and declining public enthusiasm for a protracted conflict. https://www.rt.com/news/561691-ukraine-money-running-out-uk/         The use of Davison Relationship Charts (DRC) [1] has been neglected in mundane astrology. In this post we shall see how a DRC can be extremely helpful in understanding the dynamics between nations. Presented here is the DRC for Ukraine[2] and the UK[3].    The table below gives the current solar progressions for the DRC.   DYNAMIC REPORT    Ukraine - Natal and UK - Natal - Relationship - Davison  27 Apr 1896 NS, 19:15:49, GMT +0:00  Midpoint in Space, 50°N58', 015°E10'30'' Selection: Solar Arc Dirns_ast   P1 (H)    Asp P2 (H

  New research by Ipsos showed high levels of public concern in the UK about the rising cost of living. One in three Brits said they were struggling to afford their energy bills, and this was before the newly-announced 80% price cap hike. https://www.rt.com/business/561559-uk-households-struggle-energy-bills/ 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. Presented here is the upcoming Libra ingress of the Sun for Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union and also for London. Both these charts are nearly identical.  Notice the sharp Pluto- Zeus square aligned significantly with the meridian in each case.     Among other things the TNP Zeus is about “fuels and energy” [1] and for Pluto, Blake Finley has “change enacted without consideration of consequences or impact” [2]. Put together it becomes clear that the energy

  New Land Arises From Ocean Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on Thursday that the FBI warned Facebook about "Russian propaganda" shortly before the Hunter Biden laptop story broke at the NY Post.... Zuckerberg expressed regret about suppressing a story that turned out to be the truth. https://bit.ly/3pMsf7C   This is just one more manifestation of the powerful Aug.11 th Full Moon of which several examples have been discussed in previous posts. At Menlo Park, CA where Facebook is headquartered, the Full Moon Grand Cross with the Saturn-Uranus square aligned significantly with the meridian. In my post Saturn-Uranus square: CDC changes COVID rules [1], I wrote:   And, just like that, it was over. This is HUGE news. In bureaucrat speak, this is a near-complete cave-in to the actual facts...Saturn in its diminished expression can be controlling (censer the truth?). It can produce an inability to be self-responsible and own up to life experience as being one's own crea

  EU high representative and foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gave a surprisingly blunt assessment of the Ukraine war and Europe's precarious position in an AFP interview published Tuesday, admitting that Russian President Vladimir Putin is betting on fracturing a united EU response amid the current crisis situation of soaring prices and energy extreme uncertainty headed into a long winter.  Borrell's words seemed to come close to admitting that Putin's tactic is working on some level, or at least will indeed chip away at European resolve in the short and long run, given he chose words like EU populations having to "endure" the deep economic pain and severe energy crunch. He cited the "weariness" of Europeans while calling on leadership as well as the common people to "bear the consequences" with continued resolve. https://bit.ly/3cpQTrz   The Greek philosopher Epictetus taught us that each individual is responsible for their own good or th

  Deneb Algedi: Finding a way past the “law” Trade turnover between India and Russia has grown in both volume and scope in recent months, Indian Ambassador to Moscow Pavan Kapoor told RT on Tuesday. https://www.rt.com/business/561435-india-russia-trade-surging/   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 effective and easily understood method, and it can be combined with predictive tools such as progressions and transits. In this post we use synastry to understand the new developments in the relationship between Russia and India.   India’s [1] radix Sun [21le] is conjunct Russia’s [2] Ascendant [21le]. In synastry this combination is considered one of the best for partnerships.   Transit Saturn [21aq]is moving over the 7 th house (partnerships) cusp in Russia’s chart and square its radix Pluto [21sc] - Cupido [22sc]. Under a pos

  The biggest news in Russia over this past weekend, was the assassination of Darya (Dasha) Dugina...On the evening of Saturday, 20 August, in the vicinity of a town called Bolshie Vyazemy, which is a suburb of Moscow, a Toyota Land Cruiser was driving along, minding its own business. Suddenly it blew up. A bomb had been attached to the underside of the carriage, on the driver’s side. There was a single occupant, the driver behind the wheel: 29-year-old Darya Dugina. When the bomb exploded, the car caught fire, and Darya was killed instantly, it is believed. Or at least, one can hope for her sake that it was quick.   https://awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2022/08/22/ukraine-war-day-180-dasha/     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. To understand how their energies are focused at any place of int

  Singapore will repeal an archaic law criminalising sex between men to reflect “current social mores”, but will simultaneously amend its constitution to protect existing laws barring marriage equality, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday. https://bit.ly/3PDWTL6   In a previous post Saturn-Uranus square: CDC changes COVID rules [1] I discussed the Grand Cross containing the Saturn-Uranus square which aligned with the meridian at Washington DC at the Sun-Saturn opposition.   Most readers would be well aware that the defining aspect of 2021-2022 has been the last quarter square between Saturn and Uranus. 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 have been fairly intense. Therefore, 2021-2022 can be looked upon as a period of evolution. This may manifest as releasing something we've outgrown.   Saturn in i

    The outlook for the UK looks increasingly grim. There are few reasons to hope a new government can reverse the mounting consumer fears, stagflation and the growing sense of decline. UK Consumer confidence has collapsed to levels not seen since the 1970s...The country feels like its sinking into a treacle of energy-sucking, suffocating despond. Everything in Britain feels broken: the NHS is too crowded to treat patients, excess death rates show untreated cancers, heart-disease and stokes from lockdown now far outnumber Covid deaths, the police are so overloaded they have stopped even bothering to investigate crime, while airports are blocked, trains don’t work, and it really doesn’t matter because you can’t get a passport or driving licence renewed. As the rains come down, we’re under threat of dire authoritarian punishment if we dare use a garden hose – although to be fair, who is going to arrest you? https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/winter-coming-uk   Mundane astrologers rely

  Uranus will station to go retrograde on Aug.24 at 18 degrees of Taurus. and will travel less than a degree until October, meaning the influence of Uranus to awaken and challenge our existing paradigms will be at its most powerful. 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

  WILMINGTON, Del, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) needs to give Elon Musk documents from a former Twitter executive who Musk said was a key figure in calculating the amount of fake accounts on the platform, according to a Monday court order. Bot and spam accounts on Twitter have become a central issue in the legal fight over whether Musk, who is Tesla Inc's (TSLA.O) chief executive, must complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media company. https://reut.rs/3PMDXKh     Musk has accused Twitter of misrepresenting their user numbers, which they claimed only made up around 5% of their total traffic. Musk asserted that the amount of bots was much higher, and noted that Twitter seemed to be stalling access to vital data while trying to rush litigation in a bid to force a sale before the company had to relinquish all the required information.   The horoscope for the commencement of Twitter as provided by Deborah Houlding [1] is reproduced here. I have relocated t

  Train services have been disrupted and several buildings were evacuated after a fire broke out near London Bridge. More than 70 firefighters tackled the blaze in a railway arch on Union Street, Southwark. London Fire Brigade said a garage in the arch which contained vehicles had been destroyed along with another unit. Four rail lines and the Jubilee line were closed for safety reasons. Network Rail said they have all reopened but warned train delays would continue. Aug.17 https://www.sott.net/article/471121-Fire-at-London-Bridge-forces-closure-of-railway-tracks     The phases of the Moon are among the most reliable indicators of events on earth. A lunation (Moon phase) can act as a local “step down transformer” for powerful energies generated by far away stars and planets that it aspects. To understand how their energies are focused at any place of interest astrologers routinely draw charts of monthly lunations. Here is the chart for the Last Quarter Moon drawn for London. Notice t

An amulet from King Tutankhamun's tomb Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, was long suspected by Egyptians of having helped himself to treasures before the vault was officially opened. But while rumours have swirled for generations, proof has been hard to come by.  Now an accusation that Carter handled property "undoubtedly stolen from the tomb" has emerged in a previously unpublished letter sent to him in 1934 by an eminent British scholar within his own excavation team. https://bit.ly/3SRtWxQ     Howard Carter (b. 9 May 1874) had a natal Sun [18t] - Pluto [21ta] conjunction. In a recent post Solar Eclipse Uncovers Egyptian Temple [1], I wrote:   On Aug.4, the date of the news, Mars was transiting over the 4th house cusp [19ta] and Uranus [17ta]. Placed here is the star epsilon Eridani in the constellation Eridanus. The celestial river Eridanus is often depicted flowing backwards symbolizing events from the past. For even

  A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of New Caledonia in the South Pacific Ocean. The epicenter of the earthquake occurred southeast of the Loyalty Islands off the eastern coast of Caledonia, at a depth of 80.6 kilometers, US Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or material losses due to the quake. New Caledonia lies in the Pacific's Ring of Fire, where tectonic plates meet, the friction of which leads to intense seismic and volcanic activity. Aug. 15 https://bit.ly/3JWUxpf     On Feb 16, 2021, Vivienne Micallef-Browne in her blogpost The Saturn-Uranus square: A Seismic Shift wrote:   The Saturn-Uranus square is perhaps the most important astrological aspect of 2021 that will peak three times throughout the year, the first will take place on the 17th of February, then again June 14th and December 24th. However the effects of this aspect will be active all year. Saturn and Uranus can be likened to tecton

  A blaze that killed at least 41 at a church in greater Cairo caused anguish among a religious minority that has long felt itself oppressed in Egypt. Aug.14 https://nyti.ms/3QzZUNk     The phases of the Moon are among the most reliable indicators of events on earth. A lunation (Moon phase) can act as a local “step down transformer” for powerful energies generated by far away stars and planets that it aspects. To understand how their energies are focused at any place of interest astrologers routinely draw charts of monthly lunations. Here is the chart for the Waning Gibbous Moon drawn for Cairo, Egypt. Notice that the Moon phase is anchored to a powerful and extremely disruptive Grand Cross that aligns significantly with the meridian at Cairo. The Cross is a Moon Wobble discussed extensively in previous posts with examples of how “it brings suppressed energies in people and Mother Nature to the surface, erupting and disrupting causing “freak accidents” .”   In an Aug. 7 th po

  Author Salman Rushdie was attacked on Friday in New York State, while preparing to give a lecture. https://www.rt.com/news/560734-salman-rushdie-stabbed-stage/       Salman Rushdie is an Indian writer, a Moslem famed for the condemnation by the Ayatollah of Iran along with his death sentence given on 2/14/1989, for writing his book "Satanic Verses," 1989. The Muslim community accused him of blasphemy over certain parts of the book, creating such a storm that a death contract was put out on him. Naturally the publicity created a best-seller as he fled incognito to England. The danger was real; his Japanese translator was murdered; his Italian translator was beaten and stabbed; his Norwegian publisher was shot and wounded.   In this post we will look at relevant portions of his horoscope [1] in an attempt to understand the news. Rushdie has his radix Sun-Moon-Uranus conjunction in a Gemini 3 rd house (a revolutionary writer) conjunct the star Al Hecka: About Al-Hecka Ni