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Russia Suspends Participation in Grain Deal

  

The suspension of the year-old Black Sea Grain Initiative comes after months of controversy concerning Western countries' failure to implement its terms - specifically steps to facilitate the export of Russian foodstuffs and fertilizers. Moscow has suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, but will be prepared to return to the deal as soon as agreements concerning Russia are implemented properly, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. https://tinyurl.com/234p2jbs

 

 


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. The Sun moves into sidereal Cancer on 18 July just as the news on the termination of the grain deal reaches us. A chart for the ingress drawn for Moscow has a very prominent Grand Cross (Pluto square the nodes opposite Sun} aligned with the meridian. July 17, 2023, brings a shift of the lunar nodes from the Taurus-Scorpio axis, where they have been situated since January 2022, to the Aries-Libra axis, where they will remain until January 2025. 

The north node represents the direction toward which we are (should be) individually and collectively evolving. It sits in the opposite zodiac sign to the south node, which represents what we are (or should be) releasing. 

Can anyone imagine a relationship thriving without a generous dose of respectful compromise, tact and courtesy. With the south node in Libra, we may have become too skilled in the art of “getting along”. These include needing to be so in tune with another that we leave the needs of the Self. Also, needing peace and harmony so much that we fall into unhealthy pleasing, passivity, and turning an eye away from that which is not peaceful yet still requires our attention.

The upcoming 18 months are an exploration into where and how we tend to we adapt to the environment to the point of losing the Self.  

The Sun square the nodes is referred to as a “Moon Wobble” and is said to bring suppressed energies to the surface creating personal or collective upheavals. The Sun opposite Pluto demands a return to integrity. Now with the north node in Aries, the return to integrity lies in embracing anger, fire and stormy passion. Can we blame Russia for demanding that its own needs be met in the “grain deal”.


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