EID MARS - The Ides of March, March 15th
Named after the warrior Mars. Transiting Mars Squares Israel's Sun, and the Fixed Grand Cross
Al Jazeera Photos - Protests Against the War in Gaza, all over the world. Karachi, Pakistan.
I have been working on the astrology analysis of the Middle East and the planet Mars for several months now, but haven’t been able to complete it. But now after reading this post by Michel Chossudovky who refers to the Ides of March and all of the wars which the US started during the month of March through its history, my inspiration has taken off to finally get it done—a Mars and now Mercury in Aries boost, no doubt!
It is too much of a coincidence that during the last several days Mars, the warrior planet, completes a Fixed Grand Cross/Square—4 angles—2 oppositions, and 4, 90-degrees—with natal planets of the State of Israel, planets of its prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. (I use the PLO chart of November 15, 1988 in Algiers, as used by Alan Leo-Astrology King.)
Today, March 15th, transiting Mars is at 23-degrees Aquarius, and is in the Fixed Grand Cross/Square. It is in 90-degrees squares with both Israel’s and the PLO’s Suns at 23-degrees Taurus and Scorpio.
If these squares alone are not enough. . . Mars is the defining planet, the provoker until the last week of March, forming an important opposition to both Israel’s and Netanyahu’s Mars in Leo at 26 and 28-degrees.
Here is the Ides of March, March 15th 2024, chart for Gaza at 9:08 am. I have drawn in the Fixed Grand Cross to all four signs—Taurus, Scorpio, Leo Aquarius—but since this is the March 15th transiting chart, you can only see Mars in Aquarius, square transiting Uranus and Jupiter in Taurus. The fixed natal planets of Israel, Netanyahu and the PLO are not shown.
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And here is the synastry chart for the State of Israel (inside) and Natanyahu’s chart with the Fixed T-Square (circled planets). of Israel’s Sun conjunct (my poorly drawn) transiting Uranus in Taurus, opposite Israel’s Chiron in Scorpio, all square with Israel’s and Netanyahu’s Mars in Leo. Transiting Mars in Aquarius is not shown.
The apex of the 2 lime green dotted lines, with Jupiter conjunct the US Pluto in Capricorn, shows the Yod with the synastry Mars and Israel’s Sun in Taurus. This is too big to discuss here!
Here is the Planetary Placements for the above synastry chart for Israel (left) and Netanyahu.
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Here is the synastry chart between the State of Israel (inside) and the PLO.
And the planetary placements for the above synastry chart of Israel and the PLO:
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And the syanstry chart of Netanyahu and the PLO:
And the planetary placements:
Something else that is of significance in understanding all of the forces (and there are more!) in the Middle East, are the planets that are Out of Bounds. If you have read some of my posts, then you know what an Out of Bounds planet is: a planet which is beyond the Sun’s declination of 23 degrees North or South.
Out of Bounds planets are radical! That means people with these planets have a so called abnormal behavior regarding the archetypes of that planet, and its ruler. For many people it is very obvious when someone has an Out of Bounds planet—they are different, outside of the box and sometimes completely genius!
Netanyahu has 2 planets O of B: Venus and Uranus
The PLO has 1 planet O of B: Uranus
The State of Israel has 5 planets (!!!) O of B: Moon, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Pluto
There is a tremendous amount of astrology here, but for now I will keep it focused on the Fixed Grand Cross. . . In the next post I will discuss Uranus and Jupiter in these charts.
In a previous post called An Astro-Conundrum of a Very Ancient Conflict, from October 29th, I talked about the fixed T-Square between the State of Israel’s May 14th 1948 Sun at 23-degrees Taurus (strong possession of and identity to the homeland), opposite Chiron in Scorpio at 21-degrees (deep, hidden wounds of victimization from the past, with an ongoing psycho-dramatic defense of projected conflicts funded by the US and the West), square Israels’ Mars at 26-degrees Leo, which happens to be conjunct Netanyahu’s Mars at 28-degrees Leo (fired up, violent compounded aggression for power—two Mars placements).
Transiting Mars in Aquarius provokes all of the above!
And adding in the PLO fixed planets to the Fixed Grand Cross:
Again, the PLO Sun is in Scorpio, and so is its Mercury and Pluto. Its Moon is in Aquarius—fixed signs—square its Pluto emotions are driven by the intimate dark corners of Pluto.
Fixed signs root, bury, hold firm, accumulate and hold on to money, property and power; fixed signs don’t change, at least not easily.
With Sun in Scorpio, ruled by Pluto in its own sign, there is a deeply. hidden sense of identity which mysteriously is part of the Palestinian DNA; a dark, and mystical history, a psychology of brilliant ancient intuition and sensitivity guided by Pluto’s codes, symbols and messages. The Palestinian mind is historically enriched with this psychic identity of depth and mystery.
With the Sun of Israel in grounded, practical and materially possessed Taurus, and the Sun of the PLO in the deeply psychic sign of Scorpio, in exact opposition, one can only guess that the Scorpio theme buried deep within Israel’s Karmic-Chiron past, keeps this ancient conflict of two peoples fighting over the same territory, progressing onward toward an Armageddon.
The Israelis fear this psychic power of the Palestinians and they must destroy Palestinians before the Palestinians destroy them. For the Palestinians it is not so much through physical troops on the ground, but through their God given divine powers.
Transiting Mars in Aquarius in opposition to both Israel’s and Netanayu’s Mars conjunction in Leo, is hot to provoke every planet in the Grand Cross.
Now for a very short window, we have Mars transiting in opposition to the these natal Mars planets. As discussed in my previous post on Mars Matters, Mars in Aquarius ruled by Uranus, brings sophisticated. advanced AI weapons, but it also means something else.
In Aquarius ruled by Uranus in Taurus, ruled by Venus, Mars fights to break open the past Chiron wound buried and compounded within the Israeli psyche (Scorpio) for years. It does this by addressing both Suns’ and identities, of the Taurus-Scorpio archetypes with a plan to weaponize the intent with the truth about the Israeli government; a government which is rogue, apartheid, and colonialist.
As the Aquarian nature is for humanitarianism, and the collective virtues of our rights as human beings, Mars fights for that too!
The Scorpio theme, as I have finally realized is this:
Since Zionism was founded for the main purpose of establishing a Jewish State, a nationalist attitude has grown with an grass roots (fixed) racist response to the obsessive belief that God gave the Jews, and them only, the holy land. This obsession has manifested throughout Israeli history and society, and has become a psycho-pathological perspective which is a dominant ideology of a good percentage of the population. I have no idea how much.
Psychologically. Israel keeps this reality within its shadow, while it projects its war against its greatest enemy, itself.
As an astrologer, I study the chart to understand the underlying psychology of the people, countries and events I am interested in or someone asks me to study, This includes Israeli psychology.
If you would like to know more about Israeli psychology, here is an exceptional video discussion by German historian Tarik Cyril Amar, associate professor at Koc University, Istanbul and Rania Khalek from Breakthrough News.
Israels Descent into Madness & the Holocaust Comparison
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THE FIXED GRAND CROSS IS FULL OF INTENSITY-THE NEWS!
Mars completes the Fixed Grand Cross, which causes an earthquake of unexpected magnitude. Of course I don’t know that, but according to several reports, such as this one from Colonel Douglas Macgregor and Judge Napolitono. The Colonel says the US is getting ready to pull out of Ukraine. But he discusses several possible alternatives where escalation can arise in the Middle East.
Regarding Gaza, Colonel Macgragor states that Biden will continue to support Israel. Meaning, the Gaza genocide will continue and after Ramadan ends the Colonel says there will be a coalition of regional powers—something which hasn’t happened—who will ”do something”. This includes “state actors who will restrain the IDF slaughter”. But Natanayhu will go into Rafah and will go up against Hezbollah while “he has control of the US”.
Unfortunately, Colonel Macgregor believes “that a wider regional war, is quite real”. His last statements are the most pressing of all.
Another astro-note is that Jupiter is slowly approaching the conjunction with Uranus at 21-degrees Taurus on April 21st, 2 degrees from Israel’s Sun, opposite the PLO Sun in Scorpio. And this conjunction will once again put the Taurus-Scorpio planets into the Fixed T-Square with both Israel’s and Netanyahu’s Mars in Leo, Israel’s Chiron and the PLO Sun in Scorpio. This will reverberate war with greater intensity at least toward the end of May, when Jupiter moves into Gemini.
By then Transiting Mars will be in Pisces not too far from Neptune, and will sextile Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus.
The effects of this square will wax and wane over the next several months. It is important to remember that the heightened tension that Israel manifests toward the Palestinians has been building for years. It is now erupting—the explosion of the ancient conflict that for the last 100 years has been building since the founding of the Zionists.
The Gaza war has come to what could be, the final stage of genocide of the Palestinian people! Pushed into Rafah, and very possibly Egypt’s Sinai. Plus, sadly, it is very possible the bombing is probably going to continue in the Sinai!!
Here is the last section of Mike Whitney’s article, (so far 352 comments today):
Over a Million Palestinians Are About to be Forced Into Egypt at Gunpoint
“So, what is Plan Dalet?
Plan Dalet was the blueprint used by the ..Israeli army… to expel Palestinians from their homeland during Israel’s establishment in 1948. As…Israeli historian Benny Morris noted in his landmark book on the events of 1948, Plan Dalet was “a strategic-ideological anchor and basis for expulsions by front, district, brigade and battalion commanders”… Today, this act of mass expulsion would be called ethnic cleansing.
Officially adopted on March 10, 1948, Plan Dalet specified which Palestinian cities and towns would be targeted and gave instructions for how to drive out their inhabitants and destroy their communities. It called for:
“Destruction of villages… especially those population centers which are difficult to control continuously… the population must be expelled outside the borders of the state.”
Three quarters of all Palestinians, about 750,000 people, were forced from their homes and made refugees during Israel’s establishment. Their homes, land, and other belongings were systematically destroyed or taken over by Israelis, while they were denied the right to return or any sort of compensation. More than 400 Palestinian towns and villages, including vibrant urban centers, were destroyed or repopulated with Jewish Israelis.” Plan Dalet & The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, IMEU
So, what have we seen over the last four months?
We’ve seen the terrorizing of an entire population that has experienced relentless bombing, destruction of vital infrastructure, a full blockade of food, water and medical supplies, and a mass exodus to the southernmost city in Gaza at gunpoint.
Is this not Plan Dalet?
It is. It’s a modern version of the original plan. That is why the IDF is bombing tent cities full of unarmed civilians who pose no threat to Israeli security. It’s not to fight Hamas but to terrorize the population into fleeing the city. That’s the goal. Israel knows that if they bomb the refugees, they will storm the border, breach the wall, and stream into Egypt en masse. That’s the plan in a nutshell.
And the plan appears to be succeeding. In fact, Netanyahu might be just days-away from finishing the work that was begun by Ben-Gurion. He has already started to increase the airstrikes on Rafah while a full-blown ground assault could be launched at any time. As the humanitarian crisis intensifies, the desperation and fear will grow eventually triggering a massive stampede for the Egyptian border. Once the Palestinians leave Gaza, they will fall under the guardianship of representatives of the international community who will transfer them to nations around the world. This is how Netanyahu intends to seize the land he will incorporate into a Greater Israel, by driving unarmed civilians out of their homes and into the desert.
The expulsion of the Palestinians shows that –behind the moral pontificating about human rights and ‘the rule of law’– the United States and Israel are capable of the most barbarous cruelty imaginable. It is truly shocking that the two nations can execute a filthy plan like this in broad daylight while the rest of the world sits on their hands.
We should all feel ashamed of ourselves.”
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It is difficult to find any good in this brutal attack of innocent people, of hospitals, universities, living quarters, mosques and land; of children, women, boys and men; of journalists, humanitarian aid workers from the United Nations., doctors, professors and preachers.
The only hope for peace is South Africa’s invocation of the Genocide Convention to the World Court, the International Court of Justice. So far proceedings haven’t brought the most important decision: to make Israel accountable for genocide, stop the war and occupation of the Palestinians. Israel was told to police itself to stop killing civilians. That hasn’t happened as of yet.
Furthermore, the ICJ vote in favor of the Palestinians, may not take place for months or years.
Meanwhile, this excellent and moving speech by Dr. Ralph Wilde, senior counsel and advocate on behalf of Palestine should be seen by everyone who wants peace and justice for the Palestinians.
This video is from Monday 26, February 2024, when The Arab League, Zambia, and Turkey, addressed the World Court in The Hague, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), on consequences of Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.
Dr. Ralph Wilde defends the claim that Israel is an illegal state. Dr. Wilde discusses the violation of international law, the existential illegal occupation and the right of the Palestinian people to claim self-determination. Dr. Wilde then discusses the truth about the State of Israel, the Palestine mandate by the British and Israel’s apartheid, and racist behavior from its beginning.
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WHERE IS VENUS, and MERCURY?
I am looking at the next few months of astrology. As Venus transits Pisces for a few weeks,the war in the Middle East is likely to escalate! But so will the number of people speaking up for the Palestinians.
I found found hundreds of conscious, caring and very wise, knowledgeable people. It feels as though there is a strong growing collective voice around the world with a sincerely, compassionate desire and vision for a permanent peace, everywhere.
Mercury has presently moved into Aries where it will stay in Aries until May 17th, two whole months. It will go retrograde on April 2nd at 27-degrees until April 24th at 15-degrees, when it goes direct and then forward.
Mercury will conjunct Venus in Aries, during the time of the Jupiter/Uranus the 3rd week in April, during their conjunction in Taurus.
As Venus rules Taurus, there might be a strong independent—out of the cosmos—call for peace; that once Mercury goes into Taurus and it conjuncts Uranus the end of May, we should expect a new, friendly-radical, and vibrant media.
This new media has been brewing for quite some time, especially since Tucker Carlson, started his network on X-former twitter last May.
As the mainstream media buries its own corpse with lie after lie over the last years, it will finally, surrender. If it doesn’t happen when Jupiter moves into Gemini, it should happen the following year when Uranus (thankfully) moves there too.
Meanwhile, Venus has just entered Pisces and will conjunct Saturn on the 23rd for several days, then move on to conjunct Neptune on April 3rd, the day after Mercury goes retrograde.
The Pisces energy which sextiles Uranus in Taurus on March 28th provide two scenarios:
One, the elites could try to create a mirage of fluffy-spiritual and persuasive propaganda about their sick policies, trying to blind the masses with some hyped up collective distractions from seeing the truth; truth about many things: climate change, why the farmers are protesting, the financial system, the mess at the border and the refuge problems around the world; also, the WHO pandemic treaty.
Two, while the world wide vigil for peace (Venus-Libra-Full Moon) becomes louder to end both wars, it takes push more authentic efforts regarding Uranus protests.
On March 25th there will be the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Libra. This eclipse is near both the Nodal Axis of Aries-North Node, and Libra-South Node and also Chiron.
Check out Astro Butterfly’s astrology report for March with a section about the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse here:
March 25th, 2024 – Lunar Eclipse In Libra
On March 25th, 2024 we have a Lunar Eclipse at 5° Libra.
The Eclipse is trine Pluto at 1° Aquarius, giving us an opportunity to delve deep into our relational dynamics and transform them for the better.
Libra is the sign of relationships and one-on-one connections. At the Full Moon in Libra, we may have some epiphanies about our partnerships.
It takes 2 to tango, and when one partner steps on other’s foot, tensions may arise. But the important thing here is not that the dance has been disrupted, but rather what it’s trying to tell us about the dynamics at play.
Great relationships are based on the art of being present, and operating from a “We” narrative, without forgetting about the 2 “Me” that make it up.
A Lunar Eclipse is a super potent Full Moon. Some relationship dynamics may reach a culmination point, asking us to address them with Libra’s proverbial balance and fairness.
March 2024 is quite a month… but April 2024 is even more interesting. This is when we have a very powerful Solar Eclipse (conjunct Chiron) and the most anticipated Jupiter-Uranus conjunction. Until then, have a great March!
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There is always more, but time to stop. I always hope there is at least 1 person who gets something out of my posts. Most people would give up without at least 1 like, but for me getting this all out of me, is like pooping—you have to get it out!
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Those of us who daily grieve the killings of innocent people, all peoples, are brought together in prayer, in the sign of Pisces. Our hearts, minds, hopes and efforts to learn the facts, pray and cry will prevail as time goes by. Our one voice for peace, justice, freedom, our chosen health, truth and happiness will prevail.
Happy EID MAR - Ides of March Day, 2024.
NO MORE WAR! FREE THE PALESTINIANS! FREE PALESTINE!
I think you might want to watch this talk with Alastair Crooke and Judge Napolitano from a few days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEPySWJfpls
Oops, I made a mistake. Israel's ascendant is Libra.
Right now I working on the post of Jupiter and Uranus in Israel's chart. They are opposite, which is also intense, especially right now!
There is a mutable grand cross today: Moon in Gemini is conjunct Israel's Uranus in Gemini, opposite Jupiter in Sagittarius and square Neptune in Pisces. This means the rhetoric is real but they keep pulling it apart , and expanding their deceptions throughout the world. Have a look at this Phil Giraldi article from Unz Review:
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israel-uber-alles-2/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=daily