



‘This attack is about raw power, not about regional stability or better outcomes for everyone.”
‘While there won’t be many Arab tears shed for Iran, that does not amount to support for Israel.’
‘Israel seized an opening to strike. The hard part may be closing it.’
‘Israel is not building a better tomorrow, it is destroying whatever could threaten it. If in the meantime the war distracts from the horrifying civilian toll in Gaza and derails the international conference on Palestinian statehood planned for next week, all the better for Netanyahu and his extremist coalition.’
Commentators are struggling to see what the end game is in a conflict where neither side is commendable. Last October, Israel took out most of Iran’s advanced air defences and yesterday decapitated much of Iran’s military and scientific leadership, destroying some nuclear and military facilities. But eliminating the Iranian nuclear threat would require active U.S. involvement which with Trump flip flopping wildly remains the imponderable question.
Neither of the 20th Century Iran charts work as well as the 22 December 1501 which is particularly sensitive to transiting Uranus in late Fixed degrees – previously in the late 1970s the Ayatollah’s revolution kicked in with Uranus in Scorpio; in 1962 with Uranus in late Leo an earthquake killed 12,000; In 1942 with Uranus in late Taurus there was a severe famine.
This chart has Mars in late Taurus opposition Pluto in Scorpio square Uranus at zero degrees Pisces. [I am not sure of the calendar for this so it may be a few days out but the degrees will be there or thereabouts.] Tr Uranus is opposition the Pluto exactly now for a monumental upheaval with accompanying violence and moving to square the Uranus in July and repeating on and off into mid 2026.
The T square of Mars opposition Pluto square Uranus was being undermined into its Solar Arc positions by tr Neptune in hard aspect during the 1979 Revolution which installed the Ayatollahs.
This year in addition to the T square being pounded by tr Uranus; tr Neptune Saturn are also square the late Sagittarius Sun into early 2026. So a phase of being completely undermined and destabilized.
Ayatollah Khameini’s chart, 17 July 1939, is also under crushing pressure from Solar Arc Saturn conjunct his Cancer Sun following on from late year’s Solar Arc Mars square his Sun – and tr Pluto is wading its way round his Fixed T Square of Pluto Mars and Saturn till late this year.
Reza Pahlavi, 31 October 1960 11.55 am Teheran, the son of the late Shah, will be watching anxiously though there is no certainty a) that the present regime will fall; or b) that he will be invited back. He’s a Sun Neptune in Scorpio with an 8th house Uranus and Pluto and North Node and a 12th house Jupiter and Saturn in Capricorn.
His Solar Arc Saturn is conjunct his Sun now for a discouraging moment; with an uncertain tr Neptune Saturn square his Jupiter now into early 2026. The Solar Eclipse in Virgo in September will also rattle his Pisces Moon for an emotionally fraught few months. But he will be due a major confidence and morale boost in late 2026 from his Solar Arc Jupiter opposition his Pluto.
The USA/Iran 1501 chart is on edge and blocked, more stressed in 2026 and on. Though the USA/Iran 1979 relationship with Revolutionary Iran looks more pressured this year (see previous post.)
What is marginally worrisome is the USA Solar Arc Sun square Saturn which has been bearing down on the natal Mars square Neptune, since just before last year’s election and on for another two years till 2027. When the SA Sun is square the USA Mars from the end of this year into 2026 there will be a ‘collision’ of sorts. This could be the jangled and jolted effect of Trump’s pinball politics but it could also have military overtones.
Trump’s chart relocated to Teheran puts an indecisive Neptune in the 10th and a divisive Uranus in the 7th so is not war-mongering.