Random thoughts on Trump’s cluster-catastrophe in the Middle East. With transiting Uranus square the Israel Mars until April 5th it always looked unlikely to be a speedy Venezuelan swan-in, smash n’ grab. Despite cheer-leading from the White House there is a creeping realisation of the weakness of their self-created (why bother to forward plan?) situation which from April 6th to end of the month shows up on the Inauguration (Trump Term) chart as akin to an epileptic spasm, with sudden upsets and over-stretched nerves. On Trump’s personal chart that same period shows up with the same mix of high irritability, weakness and maybe illness.
The Inauguration chart will also be spotlighted by the coming (maybe magnified in effect by the recent eclipse) Pisces New Moon next Thursday which will be conjunct the Inauguration Neptune, North Node and Scheat in late Pisces. None of which looks constructive or progressive. Deeper into a swamp.
Through April Pete Hegseth has tr Uranus square his Mercury/Pluto midpoint which Ebertin suggests could overtax his strength to the point of breakdown with his fanaticism ramping up. Before then from now till early April, Hegseth has tr Uranus square his Mars/Saturn and Saturn/Uranus midpoints which suggests rising tension, calamity, bad tempered outbursts. Which does not look like a fast glorious finish. His relationship chart with Trump looks at defcon meltdown now till early April – and if Hegseth survives politically then July may see their bond rupture as tr Uranus squares the composite Mars Uranus.
Not only are Republicans becoming increasingly nervous, the MAGA electorate are unhappy about the ‘foreign wars’ broken campaign promises. And now the Pope has added pressure which will leave the religious lobby in two minds about whether Trump is the chosen one after all. Pope Leo said on Sunday “Some even go so far as to invoke the name of God to justify these choices of death, but God cannot be enlisted by darkness. Rather, He always comes to bring light, hope and peace to humanity.”
He cautioned against news reports that risk sliding into propaganda by glorifying conflicts or serving as “a megaphone” to amplify the voices of those in power.
Pope Leo, 14 September 1955 Chicago, with a stellium in Virgo falling in Trump’s First House, has his determined and confident Pluto conjunct Trump’s Mars for a mighty clash as power meets aggression and vainglory. The Pope’s North Node in Sagittarius which aims higher is conjunct Trump’s South Node and Moon, so he will see it as his mission to pull Trump away from under-developed, primitive tendencies.
The Bishop of Chicago has also been heavily criticising White House videos about the war which include elements of video games and movie clips. He said “The video presentation that the White House posted was deeply offensive, not only to the people who were killed in the war so far, but especially to our American troops.” He is calling on the White House to take the videos down. Cupich says they never should have been released in the first place.
“The object, with regard to a video game, is a hit. But in the case that we have here, it’s not just a hit. It’s a grieving family that has lost children, as we have seen in the bombing of that school.” It is likely an American Tomahawk hit an area near a school, where close to 170 children were killed. Thousands of lives have been lost in a war that is now 10 days old, including those of seven U.S. service members.
WAR QUOTES.
“War is a defeat for humanity.” Pope John Paul II
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” Bertrand Russell
“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.” Paul Valery
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” Thomas Mann
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” Voltaire
“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.” Thomas Jefferson
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
According to various reports, J D Vance has been rather ‘elusive’ recently; with some suggesting a cooling of his relationship with Trump. A look at JD’s astrology might also be interesting, at this time.
I’ve been reading that Trump has been promoting Rubio aa his heir apparent for 2028.
Plus Vance is said to have been against the Iran strike.
Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early stages breast cancer.
I was assuming that her upcoming issues would be related to Gabbard giving her information that Jared Kushner had been unmasked as the topic of discussion between two foreign nationals instead of relaying that information to the other intelligence agencies.
Interesting to look at Vance v Rubio for 2028. Vance is not well liked but Rubio sold his soul to hitch a ride to trump, well they all did, but he had been a promising work across the aisle type rep- it looks like it’s eating away at him if you look at pictures of him now.