Israel bombs Qatar, alarming Middle Eastern countries – Russia sends drones over Poland outraging NATO and western allies. All of which seems more redolent of the potentially violent March 2025 Aries Solar Eclipse than the upcoming late September low energy late Virgo one. It is a stretch but the March 2025 Solar Eclipse had Mars at 22 degrees Cancer and transiting Mars has now moved a quarter cycle to 22 degrees Libra. On past experience transiting Mars can be a trigger for later events marked up on the original Eclipse chart.
The bombing of Hamas chiefs in Qatar, has probably killed any chance of saving the remaining hostages held in Gaza. The ceasefire talks with Hamas have been reduced to rubble, which might be what beleaguered Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had actually intended, with a fresh crisis helping his prospects of political survival. The Middle East itself is on the brink of conflict, wrecking the one great diplomatic achievement of Donald Trump’s first term in persuading Israel and Arab states to sign the Abraham Accords.
The strike seems likely to have destroyed Qatar’s role as a mediator in the conflict. Qatari sources said the USA promised them last month that Hamas officials would not be targeted on their territory.
What’s next?
The ominous point (yet another) on the Israel chart is when tr Uranus squares the 10th house Mars in Leo from 3rd to 30th December this year and again mid March to early April 2026. That is explosive, nerve-stretched, insecure and has a tendency to provoke rash over reactions. From mid February 2026 as well tr Pluto will start to oppose the Israel 10th house Moon on and off till late 2027 which suggests a mutinous electorate.
The late February 2026 Solar Eclipse also opposes the Israel Mars which could be a conflagration point.
The Qatar chart 1 September 1971 12 am Doha, has Pluto in late Virgo catching the approaching Virgo Solar Eclipse and tr Neptune Saturn opposition over the winter; plus tr Uranus square the Midheaven and Mercury both at the same degree as the Israel Mars. Relations understandably will be downhill for several years ahead.
Relationships with several Middle Eastern countries also indicate 2026 as a time of stress and reset/upheaval of relationships. The UAE/Israel relationship chart is showing signs of aggravation now and for the next three years with tr Uranus in hard aspect to the T square of Sun, Mars, Pluto. Relations which are toxic at the best of times are being blown apart. Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia all look in different ways unlikely to be shaking hands anytime soon with Israel.
Hamas, 14 December 1987, is certainly done for with the Solar Arc Mars Pluto crossing its Sun Saturn conjunction, now and over the next two years which looks like annihilation but the mess left behind won’t sort quickly. Even the Arab countries disliked them but the Netanyahu response has won few friends.
“For what can war, but endless war, still breed?” John Milton
“An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth.” Mary Robinson
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Sun Tzu
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” Bertrand Russell
Moon in a country’s chart – the people, the masses, domestic life, emotional climate, women, food supply.
Pluto is power, control, destruction and rebirth, hidden forces, transformation, trauma, deep crises.
Square also a confrontation, struggle, breakdown leading to transformation.
Thus:
– the people (Moon) undergo profound stress, pressure, or even trauma;
– mass movements, unrest, or emotional upheaval in the nation;
– government or elites or mafia/mob/hidden rulers (Pluto) exert power/control over the population — could manifest as surveillance, oppression, propaganda, or economic squeeze;
– collective experiences of loss, grief, or crisis — e.g. natural disaster, famine, epidemic, or national mourning;
– the country’s identity and domestic life are transformed under pressure; people may feel violated but also mobilized toward regeneration.
Could be: authoritarian crackdowns, civil rights suppression, major scandals involving the people’s well-being, or collective trauma that changes the national psyche.
Deep and intense.
Some of those transits look–.
Mars in a country’s chart represents the armed forces, police, aggression, conflict, assertion, energy, productivity, and could symbolize youth and sometimes labour movements.
Uranus is shocks, rebellion, upheaval, technology, sudden breaks from the past.
Square, we all know, is tension, conflict, crisis, forcing change.
So a synthesis could look like this:
– sudden military or police conflicts, unexpected attacks, violent uprisings, revolutions, or strikes;
– technical or industrial accidents, explosions, accidents involving weapons or machinery;
– military innovations or sudden shifts in defence strategy.
The country under the influence may face rebellion from within (civil unrest, riots) or sudden external clashes, and this time in a country’s life may symbolize a volatile, unstable period where aggression (Mars) is electrified (by Uranus).
Examples could be: protest movements turning violent, coups, terrorist acts, sudden escalation of conflict, technological disruption in military/industrial sectors.
Thank you for the quotes at the end. They are always perfect, but never more so than here.
When Uranus squares Israel’s natal Mars in December, March and April it will also be squaring Donald Trumps natal Mars and his ascendant perhaps drawing him into the conflict.
Thank you for posting. So helpful. I am at a loss as to Israel’s intentions.