Clutching for straws in the intractable standoff with Iran with Trump sounding increasingly desperate and the Iranians stronger than before with the Strait of Hormuz forever after their winning strategy – two separate astro-thoughts.
One is that this weekend till the middle of August tr Neptune at 4 degrees Aries will significantly impact Netanyahu, his relationship with Trump and Israel.
Working backwards. Israel’s chart will have a disappointing tr Neptune square its Venus in Cancer. Netanyahu’s Uranus in Cancer at the same degree will be nerve-stretched and agitated. His relationship chart with Trump has a composite Venus at 4 degrees Libra so disillusionment between them as well; with two composite Saturn midpoints also causing great uncertainty and suspicion in their relationship.
This Neptunian influence repeats in the spring 2027 and late year into early 2028 – if either or both are still standing by that time career-wise. With Netanyahu facing a messy career upheaval August to late October this year with tr Uranus square his Pluto/MC midpoint, it looks less than likely he will be a main player.
The other thought – oh sweet irony – is that Trump is likely to end up with a distinctly inferior deal to the one the Obama administration reached in 2015. Trump has called it “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into” and claimed: “Never, ever, ever in my life have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran.” Hey ho, hoist up his own flagpole.
His obsessive dislike of Barack Obama, no doubt coloured by his inherent racism, antipathy to centrist politics – and envy of Obama’s popularity – is exacerbated by their synastry. Obama’s Leo Sun is conjunct DT’s 12th house Pluto stirring dark, subterranean feeling of envy, jealousy and rage in DT. Obama’s Uranus North Node are conjunct DT’s Mars Ascendant which is a recipe for an explosive chemistry. As if that wasn’t enough Obama’s Mars in Virgo is also square DT’s Sun Uranus and Moon for an angry clash of aims.
Their relationship chart has a bleak composite Saturn trine Pluto – stuck together and resenting it. Plus an impatient composite Moon opposition Mars square Jupiter conjunct the pugnacious Antares. And worse, composite Neptune opposition Saturn square Uranus, Mercury, Sun North Node = doubt, suspicion, distrust, differing agendas and an almost fanatically uncompromising streak.
The Iran attack took place when the tr Mars square Uranus was exactly conjunct and square the composite DT/Obama midheaven. Which hints the ill judged foray may have been, in part, an effort to outdo Obama – and wow did that ever backfire.
Other odds and ends – Trump’s chart relocated to Iran puts his wayward Uranus in the 7th house of allies and enemies; with an unrealistic Neptune in the 10th. The combative Antares sits on the relocated Ascendant and the unfortunate Scheat on the IC. His Progressed Moon is moving through the 12th house of his relocated chart for almost another year which is not generally progressive.
The FT has a couple of cogent pieces about how Putin and Trump both threw away strong hands in acts of ‘geopolitical self-harm.’
‘Russia’s inability to subdue Ukraine is the most expensive failed war in modern history. By intimidating neighbours like Finland, Putin has more than doubled the length of Nato’s boundary with Russia entirely through his own doing.’
‘Likewise, America’s sway over the Middle East is broken. In very different ways, Kyiv and Tehran are showing the world how to bring a colossus low.’
‘Each is burdening their countries with costs that will persist many years after they have lost power.’