Jordan has seen the largest public demonstrations in decades against price and tax rises, with the prime minister resigning today. Jordan’s economy has deteriorated in the last few years, partly due to government mismanagement and also to the intake of over a million Syrian refugees. The IMF which had loaned money is demanding the national debt is reduced; while the public are complaining about extensive bureaucratic corruption and the huge gaps between the elites close to the royal court and those struggling to make ends meet.
The Jordan 25 May 1946 12 am chart is on a nerve-edge at the moment with tr Neptune square the 4th house Uranus, running till late 2019; with a tough-slog tr Pluto opposition Saturn. The upcoming Eclipses will catch the Jordan Saturn and the bitterly frustrated Mars Pluto conjunction in Leo, so problems will run on. Indeed could get even more explosive in 2020 and beyond with tr Uranus square the Pluto and then Mars.
King Abdullah’s Swearing in chart, 7 February 1999 3.30 pm Amman, is at a critical juncture with tr Uranus opposition the 10th house Saturn this year, into early 2019, which will see the forces of revolution/reform pitted against the rigidity of his rule. Solar Arc Mercury squares Pluto for intense and bitter debate now; with more nerve-wracked moments in July to September from tr Uranus square Neptune, repeating in 2019. And there’s a major setback from Solar Arc Saturn square Sun, exact in 8 months’ time. It won’t get easier in 2019//2020 since tr Uranus will oppose the 4th house Mars and then Moon, which looks like a major eruption of domestic aggravation with accompanying insecurity and perhaps rash over reactions.
King Abdullah, 30 January 1962 has a very Fixed and enduring though stubborn chart with an Aquarius stellium of five planets: Sun conjunct Saturn on one side and Venus Jupiter on the other with Mercury also in Aquarius squaring onto Neptune and Moon in Scorpio with Uranus in Leo – so he doesn’t budge easily. Tr Uranus is in a highly insecure and over-reactive square to his Mars in Capricorn this year, into early 2019; moving on to a jolting square to his Saturn in 2019; thence in square to his Sun and Venus in the years following as well as opposing Neptune – so he’s in for a bumpy ride.