Another bomb atrocity in Iraq has killed around 80 people, many of them Shia pilgrims, some Iranian, returning from a holy festival south of Baghdad. The Islamic State said it carried out the attack, probably in a diversionary tactic since they are under severe pressure from Iraqi Government forces pushing to drive them out of Mosul, their last major stronghold in Iraq.
The Iraq 23 August 1921 6am chart, is being seriously challenged by this September and next February’s Solar Eclipses in Virgo/ Pisces in hard aspect to the Iraq Uranus in Pisces; even more so by the August 2017 Solar Eclipse which is conjunct the Iraq Leo Sun. So it will be a critical time with the chance of a new road ahead, but only if radical reforms are carried through.
2017/18 will be emotionally intense years for the population with tr Pluto opposition the Iraq Venus and square the 8th house Aries Moon. There will be a push to restore Iraq’s reputation but it won’t be an easy victory, with a still fragile political situation. There will be even more economic headaches than usual, in a financial situation already fraught because of falling oil prices and the cost of the war against ISIS.
The Eclipses run on into 2018 causing upsets as they oppose the Iraq Sun and then conjunct the Iraq Venus. The best hope is when tr Pluto moves to trine the Iraq Jupiter from 2019 but that is followed by tr Pluto trine Saturn, so it won’t be an easy road to any semblance of security and normality.
Curious about these Pisces/Virgo eclipses.. Trump is a Sun Gemini / Moon Sag — which would square these eclipses yet he has just won the Presidency?
The Eclipses are 8 to 9 degrees and the Iraq Uranus is 7 degrees. Trump’s Sun Moon are 21/22 degrees – so too wide for an aspect really.
Thank you so much.