Syria just keeps getting worse. Now there are reports of almost certainly sarin (nerve agent) gas being used on civilians, with more than 80 dead including 30 children and 20 women in the north of the country. One father buried twins in a mass grave where 22 members of his family were also being interred.
Donald Trump was prompted to voice outrage and hint at military action; and even the Russians seem embarrassed. Although Russian support for Assad has overlooked the 161 chemical attacks already documented by the UN, including mustard gas, VX and chlorine, launched during the 6 year war. Assad is as per usual denying everything and blaming everyone in sight for the atrocity.
Bashar Assad’s Presidency chart, 17 July 2000, was always moving into a rocky and increasingly dangerous/trapped phase from this year with tr Uranus square the Sun from later this month into early May, repeating on and off till early 2018; and coming under increasing pressure with absolute stalemate in 2018/19 with tr Pluto opposition Mars.
His own personal chart, 11 Sept 1965 (maybe 4.43pm) looks shell-shocked and uncertain at the moment with tr Neptune conjunct Saturn, returning later in the year and into 2018; with tr Neptune opposing his Uranus Pluto and Sun from 2018 for three years for a further downhill slide.
The Syria, 1 Jan 1944 12 am chart, still has the exact but waning Solar Arc Saturn square Mars Uranus, which is devastating and destructive. The one faint blip of cheer might (!?!) come in May with tr Uranus trine Jupiter, returning Oct and early 2018. That’s significant since it is when Donald Trump’s relationship chart with Putin gets a sharp elbow in the ribs from tr Uranus opposition the composite Mars; and Trump’s relationship chart with Assad also highlights concern. That aspect repeats this October and March 2018.
The three ‘grown ups’ in Trump’s Admin – Mattis, McMaster and Tillerson – are also looking v edgy vis a vis Putin around June and late in the year, into 2018.
Putin could pull away from Assad, but possibly not until the year end as tr Saturn is then square the composite Sun and conjunct the composite Saturn.
Do you see the cloudy, dishonest, manipulative, lying hand of Neptune is this? Gas of course is ruled by that planet too. It makes no sense for Assad to have done this, given he is prevailing in the war and the reaction from the US and others was likely to be fierce. Why do this for no gain and lots to lose? His regime is pretty brutal like many in the region, but he doesn’t strike me as insane. If Assad does go, are we really going to countenance a head chopping, Wahhabist caliphate in his place? The lies, distortions, spin, and propaganda, all archetypal Neptune themes, seem all over this.