Bus bomb in Tel Aviv injures 10 people.

This could be a critical point in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. A bomb has exploded on a bus in Tel Aviv and initial reports say it has injured at least 10 people. It occurs as transiting Uranus is exactly square (0:01 degrees) to the Israeli natal Venus and is also trine the Israeli Moon representing the people. Venus the main target of this square rules the Israeli Ascendant and 8th house of death on the Israeli chart. The Moon sits in the 10th and rules the 10th of public reputation. Mars and Pluto also opposes Venus from the 3rd house of transportation.

Conflict in Israel – Pressure mounts to find a solution

The situation in Israel is teetering on the edge of all out civil war as the massed ranks of Israeli reserve troops stand ready on the border of Gaza waiting for the signal to enter the province. In the meantime, Israeli jets scream overhead making surgical strikes within the warren of streets in Gaza City and the rockets fly from the Hamas militants towards Israeli towns and settlements. The diplomats around the world are scurrying around trying to find a peace settlement, but trying to find any middle ground between these two peoples who both claim this land as their own is hugely difficult.

Mars moves towards the Uranus Pluto square – Time to act to secure your future.

These aspects are valid now Uranus square Mars is exact on 23^rd November and the Lunar Eclipse is on 28th November.

Mars moving solidly forward now in Capricorn is encountering a square with Uranus moving retrograde in Aries. This is a strong determined Mars and Uranus retrograde is normally more reactionary than when moving direct so we have a clash of energies that normally brings fireworks.

Mars represents positivity, action, force, bravery, strength, rage & anger. Uranus is independent, electric, unusual or unique, talented, revolutionary, rebellious and sometimes perverse.

This square suggest to me taking whatever action one deems necessary to seek freedom. It reminds me of an old fashioned siege, with Saturn the king hunkered down within the castle and the barbarians outside using every weapon they have to try and break an entry. Uranus is still under a close inconjunct from Saturn so that revolutionary energy is being blocked. Now Mars is coming along to add fuel to the fire to try and break down those Saturn walls. Mars as it makes this square also makes a sextile to Saturn so there is huge determination here, but those castle walls of Saturn in Scorpio are impenetrably thick!! So what does Mars and Uranus do? Unusual shock tactics? Diversions? Keep throwing firebombs at the walls hoping they will fall? Saturn sextile to Mars is in an aggressive mood too and will be fighting back with all it’s might. This is an unholy battle going on. 

Are you being held back in achieving your ambitions, it there something in the way that you can’t seem to overcome? Banging your head your head against a brick wall? Uranus shows where you want to revolutionize your life, Saturn shows blockage that is holding you back, Mars shows the action you are trying to take to break the siege. Maybe you are like Saturn in this drama, stubborn, unflinching, afraid to accept change? Putting up the barricades against those rebel forces?

Now, Uranus square Mars shows impulsive action and this can lead to sudden success and achievement; it may win the battle but it won’t win the war while Uranus is retrograde, well not yet at least until Uranus goes direct next month. These two forces are going to need a helping hand to win the day, but fear not as the cavalry is coming.

As Mars gets to Pluto on fixed star Facies next week under the influence of the Lunar Eclipse and the full Moon, then those rebels will get their hands on a terrible weapon that can force a breakthrough. Mars conjunct Pluto square to Uranus does have the destructive power to finally knock down those castle walls to the ground. This is the spark (Mars) to the atom bomb (Pluto), and as diplomatic and peaceful Venus conjuncts with Saturn at the same time, the King will finally be forced to change the rules and make long lasting alliances with those who want to destroy him. Saturn in Scorpio is being presented with a stark choice, comply or die!!

In the same way, there will be changes in your own life. If you are one of those rebels, then I think you will get the chance to breathe new energy and freedom in your life, those blockages may be blasted away and you can move on to pastures new. If you are the more stubborn type like the deposed King I describe, you may have to accept that the rules are being rewritten, and that things are going to be very different not so long from now…

Venus conjuncts Arcturus and Spica - Trying to find a peaceful solution

This is now working for us (16th through 19th November 2012)

So interesting how the stars are acting out a drama at this present time which is developing in the Middle East. I have looked previously many times at Spica in Virgo "the shining one" and Arcturus in Bootes "the hunter and teacher" so I won't go back over their meanings. Venus comes calling to this part of the sky now to conjunct with both stars simultaneously in the next couple of days. Venus is a social planet, a planet of peace and of diplomacy.

Now with the aggression rising in Israel and Gaza, the most talented diplomats in the world are trying to work their magic to get one or the other side to back down as the rockets fly and the air raids continue. Arcturus shows a propensity to lead from the front and to explore new possibilities, and Venus on Spica is clever and persuasive, and good at networking. The leaders of the world will have to use all their inventive charm to get a resolution to this seemingly intractable problem. It's not going to be an easy job.

In your life, after Mars has been running through the stars of the Scorpion's tail (Aculeus and Acumen), Neptune squared to Mercury retro causing confusion and that powerful eclipse of the Sun, I will bet somewhere in your life that tension would have been at a high point; it certainly was in mine. Now, Venus comes to try to soothe the pain a little using all it's charm and social skills. We all now need a little tender care and attention from this more gentle influence in the heavens...