The risk of a nuclear “Armageddon” is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis according to Joe Biden after Russia suffered continuing setbacks in Ukraine. Despite Moscow’s nuclear hints, there have been no signs of an imminent preparation to use a nuclear weapon. But the red flags are going up of future risks if Putin keeps failing.
The Cuban missile crisis ended on 28 October 1962 after a standoff between Nikita Krushchev and JFK. It sparked off on October 16th when tr Jupiter in Pisces opposed Uranus Pluto in Virgo (not exact) and Mars and North Node in Leo opposed Saturn in Aquarius. Jupiter Pluto is power-struggling and into oneupmanship, who-blinks-first strategies – and Mars Saturn is military and destructive.
There was little showing on the USA/Russia 1917 relationship chart. The previous Lunar Eclipse of August 1962 had the Jupiter opposition Pluto exact.
The Hiroshima nuclear bomb, 8 August 1945 8.15 am Japan happened with an explosive Mars Uranus in Gemini in a heavy sextile to Pluto Sun in Leo and trine Neptune. Neptune Pluto would be what I expect and Uranus Neptune is also devastation/disaster prone. Despite the easy aspects the three outer planets were aspecting Mars which does point (none too clearly admittedly) to an event of considerable magnitude.
This time round the USA/Russia 1917 chart is showing signs of aggravation through till late 2023. The USA/Russia 8 December 1991 relationship chart is agitated at the moment into early 2023 with the paranoid/high-anxiety tr Saturn square tr Uranus hitting the composite Neptune at 18 degrees Scorpio. And further on is sinking under mistrust, panic and confusion until 2025.
Both Solar Eclipses in 2023 in April and October have Pluto overtones, especially the October one – ‘immense power, anger and force’. The May 2023 Lunar Eclipse set for Kiev has the brutal, ruthless Pluto widely opposition Mars square Jupiter so could see an event of considerable potency; with Uranus back at 18 degrees conjunct the Sun on the Descendant.
All straws in the wind and inconclusive but the Eclipses in 2023 look discouragingly stressful as does this month’s.
From the BBC website this evening, 7th October:
“Speaking in English at the president’s office in Kyiv, President Zelensky said: “They begin to prepare their society. That’s very dangerous.
“They are not ready to do it, to use it. But they begin to communicate. They don’t know whether they’ll use or not use it. I think it’s dangerous to even speak about it.”
Then, in Ukrainian, he said through a translator: “What we see is that Russia’s people in power like life and thus I think the risk of using nuclear weapons is not that definite as some experts say, because they understand that there is no turning back after using it, not only the history of their country, but themselves as personalities.”
I am so incredibly sad that nuclear war is a threat again… As a little girl in the 1970’s – Cold War still going on – I used to pray at night that the world would be spared from total destruction. In the 1990’s it seemed like we would never have to worry about this anymore… And here we are again, 30 years later. Please give us peace
Thanks for looking at all this Marjorie. It is indeed stressful, and we have so little information about what is actually going on with Putin. What opposition might there be inside the Kremlin? Nuclear threats are one thing, the reality is unthinkable – yet collectively we must consider it real I think. At least, very real in Putin’s own mind….
The chart for the May 2023 eclipse aligns with many of the more prominent fixed stars. I think this adds to it’s significance somehow. At 15 Scorpio, for instance, there’s Zuben Elgenubi – the Southern Scale, or ‘insufficient price’ in the constellation Libra. It rises as the Sun sets (acronychal rising) on around May 4th. Brady associates it with hard fought social justice. Other authors interpret it as meaning loss, sickness (poison) through fire or speculation. In this instance I suspect it means both – a battle on some level, from diplomatic through to the physical battles of war. Or even inner battles at the Kremlin, leading to eventual loss.
Mars in Cancer aligns with the heavenly Twins, Castor and Pollux, in the constellation Gemini. Dark and light, and yet more duality – like the Scales of Libra. Or weighing things in the balance? Tricky.
Pluto, opposing Mars in that May eclipse chart, aligns with Altair, the alpha star in Aquila, the Eagle. This represents the eagle that pecked out the liver of Prometheus – in the Caucasian Mountains according to one source. The eagle, bird of Zeus or Jupiter, is symbolically linked with America. This brings the USA vividly into the picture I think. Altair means swift and bold actions.
There are more notable fixed stars aligning with the planets in this eclipse chart, I was surprised by the number – more than is usual. Zuben Elgenubi may well be the most important one, since it rises as the Sun sets practically on the day of the eclipse.