The shifting sand storms in the Middle East are brewing up more chaos with rebel forces taking control of Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo. Although Russia has launched air strikes in response, for the first time since 2016, the rebels know that Assad’s old allies in Hezbollah, Iran and Russia are overstretched fending off Israeli attacks and coping with Ukraine.
An analyst says: “Years of economic collapse, internal fragmentation and the rise of unchecked militias have left Assad severely weakened. In many ways, the regime is now a hollow version of the one Russia and Iran fought to save in 2015.”
Assad may tilt towards Russia and the Arab states, as well as try to curry favour further west as European nations will be keen to return Syrian refugees.
His Presidency chart, 12 July 2000, has been dealt a devastating blow exactly now with the Solar Arc Neptune square Saturn; with 2026/27 looking to be mired in confusion and paralysis with tr Pluto conjunct the Neptune.
His personal chart, 11 September 1965 4.43 pm Damascus is following a similar trajectory – an undermining SA Sun conjunct his Neptune now into 2025; his SA Pluto in a potentially destructive conjunction to his Mars in Scorpio now, and in a total-confusion conjunction to his Neptune in 2027. 2025 sees high hopes dented with tr Neptune square his Jupiter with a major setback from his SA Saturn opposition his Mars in 2026/27.
The Syria 12 January 1944 chart also points to 2026 as being an explosive moment of change with tr Uranus conjunct the Uranus Mars in Gemini; and tr Saturn Neptune opposing the Neptune.
The civil war started in 2011 when tr Pluto was conjunct Syria’s Capricorn Sun.
An endless mess and unconscionable suffering for the displaced.
Syria, like some other countries in the Middle East, owes its current borders to the carve up of the old Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century. It has to be hoped that Assad (who spent time in London, as a young man) and his wife, who was born and brought up in and around London, do not seek a bolt-hole in the UK, when his world implodes.
I remember seeing Syria’s chart years ago, and it was awful. Full of unaspected planets and duets (Hamakerian school). So if a regime falls, a new country needs to rise from that, to neutralize the previous horoscope.
But a much more important question is: what will then this ravaged country love from? What is the economy of Syria? Can the country endure on what it produces? And the country being how many percent desert, how big is that big factor?
I severly doubt a sudden going-back of those who fled, given that they now tasted sweeter honey elsewhere.
I’d need to check that chart again, to make sure I remember correctly.
Thank you for writing about Syria. It feels like much of the world has forgotten about Syria until now.
As a supporter of the opposition, I do hope Assad’s days are numbered. Taking back the city of Aleppo has provided a massive boost in morale for many Syrians I know here in Florida.
Many Ukrainians I know are also very happy about this given that this not only weakens Assad, it weakens Vladimir Putin too.
I was wondering how Vladimir Putin’s chart looks in all of this. I did read that the Russian Ruble just took a massive hit recently as well.
@Chris Romero, apparently, Kremlin has denied Bashar’s visit to Moscow. Which means he likely was/is there.
This, along ruble collapsing our of nowhere, keeps on adding to my theory username Sterling shares on Putin being very unwell, or at least a gossip spreading through the inner circle and vassals.
@ Solaia,
Very interesting. It’s almost as if Pluto in Aquarius really is breaking a “wrecking ball” to some of these authoritarian regimes around the world.
I mean, the timing for all of this doesn’t appear to be some colossal coincidence.
Aside from Syria and Ukraine, massive protests are now taking place in Georgia, the opposition forces are making gains in Myanmar, and the Tisza Party in Hungary has been leading in the polls.
I’m curious to see what happens in Nicaragua and Venezuela soon. I wonder if opposition will grow in these 2 countries as well.
In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, recently consolidated their power in a “co-presidency” and received the blessing of the legislature when they approved the constitutional reforms to all this.
In Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro has reportedly been having people (many are children) detained and tortured.
I can’t imagine any of this being OK with the good people of Nicaragua and Venezuela. I would expect the resistance movements to explode at this point.
Thanks for this update, Marjorie. I feel so bad for the people of Syria, Palestine and Lebanon. I fervently hope for peace in the region but expect Trump will greenlight Netanyahu’s annexation of Gaza plus resettlement by extremist Israelis. I don’t think this will end well for the Israelis over time but hope the Syrians will be able to return to a better, more stable country.
@Chris Romero, I’m watching all these places, too. No astrology, but I’m most confident about Georgia, where protests have taken place for most of 2024, with parliamentary and presidential elections both obviously rigged. Their pro-Russian leadership and economy overall will be most affected by ruble crashing. Their exports to Russia have risen during the War in Ukraine, mostly through “innocuous” objects such as food and beverages, but likely through some triangulation as well.
Developments in Venezuela and Nicaragua are more difficult to predict, but with the last person he spoke to always having the ear of DJT, it’s likely that Venezuelan and Nicaraguan opposition exiled in Florida might push some changes.
Was checking the animal shelter Catmen of Aleppo. There is difficulty for inhabitants; they are forbidden to leave their homes in Aleppo. The aid crew managed to avoid irregular patrols to make food and aid support to a woman with some 600 animals. An impossible situation all around.
And Amerikans believe the invasion across the southern border must be stopped with deportations and more. D’you think Drompf could stop the Syrian civil war in 24 hrs or less…?
Marjorie, thank you for having an eye on Syria! I was just about to post a question on this, in light of Aleppo apparently “falling” to Hayat Tahir Al-Sham fighters without much of a fight. Now, my Bluesky feed (and here I really feel like reading OG Twitter) tells there’s fighting in Damascus between the Republican Guard and Maher Assad led Fourth Division.
My assertion in spring 2022 was that once Russia’s involvement in Ukraine became overwhelming, the dominos would start to fall, with the Bashar al-Assad regime being the first. Russia is now bombing Aleppo, first since 2016.
While the situation is Syria is complicated, and not good for the innocent people, especially children, in the country, I feel this is only the peak of “things” that will happen before Trump will even be President.
We live in interesting times, to put it mildly.
Apparently, 4th Division led by Mahar al-Assad is supposedly fighting “rebel cells” in Damascus. But it seems consequential there should be any in the Capital ready to possibly “burn” themselves in what would a suicide mission in vain.
The Presidency chart does look under pressure with Mars turning retro on the Venus in Leo opp.Moon/Neptune and then stomping back over the Sun/North Node/Mars in Cancer. Alongside Pluto in Aquarius making its way towards the Moon at 3 degrees.