Bashar Assad is being blamed for the failure of the Syria peace talks to bring an end to the civil war this week. He is accused of being unwilling to meet anyone who has a different opinion. The UN envoy in charge said: “a golden big opportunity” had been missed. With Putin, his main supporter, now withdrawing Russian troops, saying his job is done, and all western pressure for Assad to go having been dropped, it might seems as if he has won hands down.
Yet what his Presidency chart, 17 July 2000, indicates is that the worst is yet to come. Tr Pluto will oppose the Presidency Mars from February 2018 till late 2019, joined in 2019 by tr Saturn opposition Mars and then Sun. And tr Pluto will grind on in opposition to the Sun/Mars midpoint before reaching the exact hard aspect to the Sun in 2021/22. All of that will find him trapped, enraged, completely devastated, at high-risk.
His own personal chart, 11 September 1965, looks no better with undermining Neptune transits conjunct his Saturn early and late 2018; and opposing his Uranus, Pluto, Sun from 2018 to late 2020.
Pressures are clearly coming in to weaken him further, perhaps catastrophically.