Two Weeks of Geopolitical Torture, a/k/a Freaking About World War in West Asia
Cooler heads seem to be prevailing, for the moment. If you were worried, I don’t blame you at all. Trump says 'fuck' on television.
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Dear Friend and Reader:
Anyone with a meek hint about west Asia (previously, the Mid-East) knows that it’s no exaggeration to be concerned that open war between Iran and Israel could lead to regional or global war. Cooler heads seem to be prevailing, for the moment. If you were worried, I don’t blame you at all.
To the shock of nearly everyone, under astrology that could crash your software, Pres. Trump joined the mess, allegedly sending seven B-2 bombers on a 37-hour flight around the planet, dropping the biggest bombs ever created on Iran’s underground nuclear labs.
If we are to believe official reports, these 30,000 pound “bunker busters” ordnance hit the ground at close to the speed of sound — and did nothing special other than block the entryway to the facilities.
Well we could have paid some teenagers a hundred bucks to do that.
The Dreaded Call to Customer Service
Can you imagine Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the phone with customer service at Boeing — which made the thing — trying to get some guidance on a bomb that costs between $3.5 million and $20 million per unit? (One of its 737 MAX airplanes costs slightly more).
CHIPPER AI VOICE — Thanks for calling Boeing! Your call is very important to us. You can speak in whole sentences. But first, please enter your account number. Or for faster service, visit our chatbot on the World Wide Web at www.Boeing.com.
GEN. CAINE — I need a live operator!
AI VOICE — What is the nature of your inquiry?
GEN. CAINE — Get — me — to — an — operator!
AI VOICE — You don’t need to get upset. I’m here to help! First I need a little information so I can route your call correctly.
GEN. CAINE — Your bomb didn’t do anything. It was a dud. The mullahs are drinking champagne right now and they’re not supposed to drink anything.
AI VOICE — Sounds like you need technical support. What product are you calling about?
GEN. CAINE — 0#0#0#0#0#0#
Biggest Bomb, Biggest Aspect Pattern
That this was all going on under the quadruple influence of an Aries Point mashup was not encouraging of hope — more of holding one’s breath. That included the alignment of the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune in vastly amplifying everything vaguely public.
Yes this is the biggest aspect pattern in astrological history, packed onto the “personal meets collective” Aries Point. Speaking as an astrologer, that’s why I was concerned, along with all the other reasons.
Together, the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune make up 99.9% of the total mass of the solar system. And it was all piled up in one place, while a bunch of guys who dream of war all the time were trying to get a big one started.
Borasisi Makes a Big Cameo
Seemingly just for fun, a slow-moving little guy called Borasisi (discovered 1999, with a 287-year orbit) is right there, in the mix at 3 Aries — and this point is actually about the nuclear dilemma. The concept originates in a Kurt Vonnegut novel called Cat’s Cradle that ends with the world being frozen solid by this stuff called Ice 9 (invented by a retired nuclear scientist).
Borasisi by the way was the first planet ever named after a fictional god (unless you think they are all fictional). I called the discoverers (including my astrological heroine and celebrity crush Dr. Jane X. Luu, co-discoverer of the Kuiper Belt) and nobody could tell me how it got that name.
It played big in the chart for the Fukushima meltdown and at some future time I’ll cast it into the other important nuclear charts. The linked article was written right before the incident; in any other era of astrology, I would have been said to have ‘predicted’ a major incident involving GE nuclear equipment.
Borasisi is one of two elements that seemed to save the day. Neptune’s presence in the aspect pattern warns of a propaganda operation (as did an emotional Mercury in Cancer in key charts). Borasisi is about lies versus truth; when petty little lies are claimed to be “honest” and truth is supposedly damaging.
I have said many times that the series of conflicts we’ve seen the past three years are the AI wars — political response to the psychic chaos, jockeying for power and influence, and fighting for Earth resources.
Now There’s Some Clever Splinkin'
But the attacks the past two weeks may have been directly influenced by consulting with AI models. Resident PW historian Jeffrey Strahl provides this article about how Palantir (a CIA-backed company founded by Peter Thiel, overlord of Vice President J. D. Vance) provided programming that helped call the shots in this pathetic display of “strategy.”
The lame excuse for Israel bombing Iran two weeks ago Friday was to “prevent a mushroom cloud” — that is, to block Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity. Now there’s some serious gunplay.
But — it gets seriouser still — a week and a half later, the U.S. sends its fastest, most advanced stealth bomber, the B-2 Spirit, to deliver the world’s biggest conventional weapon ever that can crack open even the center of the Earth where all the dragons fled at the end of the First Age.
As the comedians all say, “Boom!”
By the next day, official state media (in the U.S., to wit, The New York Times) is reporting that according to intelligence assessments, this effort set back the Iranian alleged nuclear program by a mere 12 weeks.
The Chart Was Funny — then Came the Cease Fire
The chart for the fastest, best airplane delivering the biggest, most serious bomb included a conjunction of the Moon and Venus in Taurus, more appropriate for sending flowers and chocolate to your lover.
Then there was a big, beautiful ceasefire, kind of the next day. Trump announced this kvelling with pride. See the chart: Mars is the most elevated planet. So the chart for the bomb featured the planet of love, and the chart for peace featured the planet of war.
How do I explain this to the astrology students I teach in the local daycare?
Well, the fire didn’t exactly cease at first, and then Trump speaks his truest words ever, and I quote, more or less — these two countries have been at war for so long they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing. Yes, we broke the Presidential F Bomb Barrier, or as South Park would put it, they’re gonna say Fuck on television!
And now, either the fighting has stopped, or the New York City primary mayoral race, where Democrats elected a Muslim candidate, has pushed it to the back of the newspaper.
Apocalyptic Desert Religions
I might not care about any of this except for the part about the “tribes of Abraham” all thinking the world is going to end at some point soon. The Jews, the Christians and the Muslims all have some version of the “coming end of the world order” and everyone ending up in paradise.
You may doubt that this is what’s brewing inside the bottle, with the pressure increasing and the cork getting ready to blow. They are all obsessed by The End, especially the more orthodox ones. People are settling into their homes for The End, stocking up on water and American cheese so they have something to munch on.
This whole The End thing has been going on for a long time. It goes back much further, but being in the land of milk and honey for The End is partly why religious zealots came to the New World. And there are many, many people who just know it’s coming, and coming soon, so why not help it along on behalf of God (and make a lot of money in the meantime).
These are the people who need Elon Musk to take them to their own very special planet so they can blow it up, and leave the milk and honey for us.
With love,
Your faithful astrologer,
Note to Readers — Planet Waves will be off next Thursday for the July 4 holiday weekend, except for my almost annual audio reading of the United States chart. This is what we are seeing the effects of — the ongoing U.S. Pluto return.
From the Lockdown Times i sent out minutes ago.
My assessment of the situation. The media are paying way too much attention to whether the 3 Iranian nuclear facilities targeted by the US strikes were totally destroyed vs much less damage inflicted. As long as the nuclear program lacks the means to convert enriched uranium which is in a gaseous form back to metal form, a process which requires a conversion plant, the program is dead in the waters. All the current evidence is that the conversion plant in Natanz, the only one which was known to be in existence, was destroyed. [EDIT: my bad, in Isfahan. Also, solid form cannot be enriched further, would need to be converted to gas, also requiring a conversion plant] If this is not the case, then the weight of the rest of the evidence would indicate the US/Israel war on the program was and remains a failure.
The ouster of the Assad regime took out a major asset of Iran in the region, exacerbating the drastic downgrading of Hezbollah. In addition, the new Syrian regime lacks the means to enforce any restrictions upon access to its air space. This enabled the Israeli Air Force and later the US Air Force to fly across Syria scot-free and then likewise across Iraq, whose airspace is defended by …. the US. The next country going east is Iran. Thus, the Israeli forces were able to create and maintain total air superiority over Iran, and destroy targets at will, including the Iranian air defense system and missile storage and launch sites. The IDF’s ability to operate on the ground via its clandestine units and special forces greatly increased this dominance. Iranian missile strikes on Israel did cause lots of damage and killed 28 people, but this pales compared to the damage inflicted upon the Iranian state/business entity. Any future near-term resumption of fighting would find the Iranian entity at a vast disadvantage.
And the promoters of the Multipolar World Order, the “alternative” pro-4IR narrative, are using the recent war to push their narrative very hard. They will do so no matter what’s going on. At this point, the Russian and Chinese state/business entities are not on their strong feet in the Southwest Asia theater. The fact that BRICS-Plus lacks even internal unity on this matter (India is quite explicitly supporting Israel, UAE is doing so more subtly, see programs on its media outlet, Al Arabiya) does not help the Russian and Chinese regional interests.
Thank you Eric for adding some levity to this situation. From what I can gather, most people around here don’t care about all of this and they’ve already forgotten how this latest chapter began. This forgetting is intentional and part of the digital fog. Despite it being concerning, I’m trying to stay awake. Lots of love.