300 have died in Egypt’s worst ever atrocity as insurgents attacked a mosque in North Sinai where Sunni Sufi Muslims were worshipping (seen by some as a heretic sect) and tribes who have been supporting the security services against militants. ISIS, having been effectively driven out of Iraq and Syria, has now moved its base of operations. When President al-Sisi took over power after a coup in 2014, he claimed he would end “terrorism” in Egypt, though he’s not winning, despite jailing 60,000 political prisoners and an undetermined number of murders and disappearances; and air strikes against terrorist positions.
Al Sisi, himself, is not a man for turning, with a ferocious Mars in Aquarius opposition Pluto squaring onto his Scorpio Sun Venus, and Saturn Mercury also in Scorpio’ plus a can be fanatical, though also lucky Neptune square Uranus Jupiter. Where he faces his greatest problems will probably be in 2020 with his Solar Arc Mars opposing his Neptune bringing a panicky sense of failure.
His presidency chart, 8 June 2014 11.18am, Cairo, has a similarly crisis-ridden, explosive T square of Uranus Mars and Pluto as Mnangagwa in Zimbabwe (see previous post) though in this case widely aspecting Jupiter which will help marginally to provide escape routes from problems. 2019 looks to be the riskiest with an explosive Solar Arc Mars opposition Uranus coming exact; and an undermining tr Neptune square the presidency Sun from April 2019 onwards till early 2020, when the warlike Saturn Pluto conjunction is in place.
2019/2020 is also when ISIS (15 October 2006) looks to be running into destruction with the tr Pluto Saturn square its Mars Sun.
The Egypt chart, 14 March 1922 10.43pm Cairo, is panicked now till January 2018 with tr Neptune square the 12th house Neptune. 2018 will see a sober reassessment of the country’s direction with some discouragement throughout the year; high tensions and violence around 2019/2020. But it’s a tough country with a natal Saturn on the MC square Pluto so will stand steady though taking economic hits with a pervading sense of deprivation and shortages mounting in 2019/2020.