THE CARDINAL CRISIS
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN & MAJOR PLANETARY TRANSITS
THE DANGEROUS SPRING OF 2024
WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Israel Battles Hamas
GLOBAL ASTROLOGY
by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
Forecast by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
In my stargazing and planetary transit analysis of the decade of the 2020s, 2030s and 2040s, I have determined that the course of human history, influenced by planetary transits, call for strict attention to that future.
It is a 'cardinal crisis' because Aries, a cardinal fire sign, will be in play during the spring season in the northern hemisphere in 2024.
The good reader of this global forecast should know that the new major planetary year of 2024 is on the horizon. And with the state of the world in this present era, it will not be a surprise to the reader to hear that significant changes are ahead.
The key to everything in life is communication.
Look and listen to your mainstream media; as most of it is noise, disruption and dysfunction, with many complaining about problems, but few resolving the problems.
We are entering the third year since the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction that took place back in December 2020. These historic conjunctions mark a new 20-year era, of which there are 17 years to go.
The generations of this era have little to no idea what they are about to endure, and all of it will be their own doing, their fault, and as the geophysical and metaphysical forces increase, it is sad to report in my view, few will be prepared.
Still, I continue to have hope that with determination of good and non-dysfunctional people that much of the negativity can be mitigated so that more eyes and ears will open in time.
Here, to the best of my ability, I will outline what I believe is going to happen and how to best prepare yourself going into the middle years of this decade.
Whether a natal or mundane forecast, I prefer to focus on practical guidance to best navigate the future ahead.
Solar year 2024 will feature a series of significant celestial signs and planetary transits: including a Total Eclipse of the Sun; a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in the same month and a very active new Mars cycle.
And to add to that, there will be a series of waxing Jupiter-Saturn world squares which will also get underway in 2024.
Amid a war in Ukraine and the Middle East, along with their ideological political and religious tensions raging hot; there are also strong geophysical activity that I continue to warn about such as large magnitude earthquakes – so the planetary transits of 2024 and 2025 are sure to be energetic to say the least.
The tensions in the Middle East after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel will continue to be inflamed going into 2024.
From the looks of world transits over the region, unless there are determined attempts to secure peace before Mars enters Aries at the end of April 2024, it is my opinion that matters will worsen.
Meanwhile, a new presidential election season in the United States looks to be another highly contentious one, past election day of Tuesday, November 5, 2024 and all through the transition of government through December and into January 2025.
Though I already know who will become the next president of the United States, I will save expressing that knowledge in public for another time, as I am sure many so-called ‘astrologers,’ will once again crawl out of the woodwork (as they only do once every four years) to ‘predict,’ what amounts to a 50/50 political contest.
Yet, one can never find some of these same astrologers predicting in-between those election years, nor do they predict or discourse on a great many matters worldwide of concern that they should be far more focused on.
The current era going into the middle years of the 2020s is really about the end of the aged Pluto in Leo baby boomer generation that has been the establishment for 30 years.
The decline of society under this generation is quite evident, and the events that are to come will be because of their failures in a post-Cold War period since the early 1990s.
Knowing your own personal transits and secondary progressions into 2024 can further provide you with advantage for this very active solar year.
Those who want a personalized forecast reading for 2024-2025 can contact me at astro730@gmail.com
Before we get to the global transits of 2024 into 2025, let's take a brief look at current events in December, which in the true calendar is the 10th month of 2023.
For now, in these months before the eclipse season of March, April and May 2024; the very violent events and seething bad blood in the Middle East does not bode well as near-future planetary transits loom.
EVENTS AS OF DECEMBER 2023
WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Israel Battles Hamas
By Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
The outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas was sparked by an unprecedented incursion of Hamas militants and other Palestinian militant groups from Gaza into neighboring southern Israel on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
More than 1,400 people were killed in the terror attack and over 200 others were taken hostage back to Gaza, according to numbers released by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Prime Minister's Office.
A seven-day truce at the end of November 2023 witnessed a hostage-prisoner exchange between the sparring sides as well as the delivery of some humanitarian aid into war-torn Gaza.
But since fighting resumed on December 1, 2023 Israel has vowed to pursue Hamas wherever the militants are, bombing hundreds of targets each day in both the north and south of Gaza, with a particular focus on Khan Younis, according to the IDF.
There are no air raid sirens or bomb shelters in the besieged territory.
The battles have ignited protests worldwide: both for and against Hamas and Israel in cities globally as well as at the United Nation.
Many of Gaza's residents who had sought safety in Khan Younis, but have now moved to Rafah, about 6 miles away, which is as far south as they can go. But even areas there have been bombed by the IDF in recent days, officials said.
"Israeli forces' bombardment is ongoing following another evacuation order to move people from Khan Younis into Rafah. The order created panic, fear and anxiety," said Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said in a statement on Dec. 4.
"We have said it repeatedly. We are saying it again. No place is safe in Gaza, whether in the south, or the southwest, whether in Rafah or in any unilaterally so-called 'safe zone.'"
The IDF maintains it is only targeting Hamas and other militants in Gaza and alleges that Hamas deliberately shelters behind civilians, which the group denies.
"We want civilians not to be in the area where we are fighting," IDF spokesperson Lt. Col Jonathan Conricus told ABC News on December 4th. "We want to focus our firepower on Hamas and Hamas only."
Meanwhile, on December 5, 2023 American President Joe Biden spoke about the “horrific” reports of sexual violence by Hamas during its 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel as he blamed the militant group’s refusal to release Israel's hostages for the end of the recent ceasefire.
Speaking at a political fundraiser in Boston, Massachusetts, Biden said that Israel's survivors and witnesses of the attacks shared accounts of “unimaginable cruelty” over the past few weeks.
“The world can’t just look away at what’s going on,” he said, adding:
"Reports of women raped – repeatedly raped – and their bodies being mutilated while still alive, of women’s corpses being desecrated, Hamas terrorists inflicting as much pain and suffering on women and girls as possible and then murdering them.
He said it was “on all of us – government, international organizations, civil society and businesses – to forcefully condemn the sexual violence of Hamas terrorists without equivocation”.
Biden also called on Hamas to release the female hostages it is still holding in Gaza, saying the group’s refusal to free them had led to the breakdown of a truce with Israel.
He said Hamas had “refused to let go” a number of women aged between 20 and 39 under the deal, adding:
"These women and everyone still being held hostage by Hamas need to be returned to their families immediately.
We’re not going to stop until we bring every one of them home and it’s going to be a long process," Biden said.
During the first week of December 2023, scores of people were seen traveling from Khan Younis to Rafah in cars, on horse-drawn carts and by foot, carrying as many belongings as they could from bags of clothes to mattresses.
"There is no safe area," one man, who did not give his name, told ABC News on December 5, 2023:
"Wherever you go, there is bombing," he said.
Another fleeing resident, who also did not give his name, told ABC News: "I moved from Karama to Deir al-Balah to Khan Yunis and now, I’m going to Rafah and got nowhere after that."
Some have chosen to stay behind in Khan Younis, knowing that they face the same risks wherever they go.
"I went to the market today to buy a bag of tomatoes and some vegetables for my family, but I did not find anything," Hamza Ibrahim said:
"We die every day because there is no food. And if there is food, it will be many times more expensive than the previous price."
"There is no safe place here, even in Rafah and Khan Younis, in the middle and from north to south," he added. "We either stay in our house and die hungry, or go out and die by indiscriminate bombing."
The city of Rafah is nestled along Gaza's southern frontier with Egypt, which so far has not fully opened its border to fleeing Palestinians.
Gaza is home to some 2.3 million Palestinians who have lived under a blockade imposed by Israel and supported by Egypt since Hamas, which the United States has designated a terrorist organization, came to power in 2007.
Human rights organizations have long described the densely populated strip as the world's largest open-air prison, due to Israel's generalized ban on travel for Gaza residents as well as Egypt's restrictive policies at its shared border.
The harsh planetary transits of autumn 2023 over the Middle East has influenced old hatreds mix with outrage over Hamas' deadly attacks, rapes and murders of Israeli citizens, police officers and settlers.
Now, as Israel's war with Hamas rages on and Gaza's already fragile health care system grapples with the mounting casualties, organizations are urging the international community to act.
In a Dec. 6 letter to the 15-member U.N. Security Council, which has yet to adopt a resolution calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the "situation is fast deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region."
"Nowhere is safe in Gaza," Guterres wrote.
Earlier in the war, Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over northern Gaza urging civilians to evacuate and head south to safety. More leaflets have fallen over southern Gaza this week, but with some delivering a different message.
The leaflets, which the IDF confirmed it had distributed, were all written in Arabic and included the emblem of the IDF as well as a Star of David.
Some leaflets that arrived in Khan Younis on December 8, 2023 quoted a verse from the Quran:
"Soul for a soul, eye for an eye."
On Dec. 5, leaflets landed along the outskirts of Khan Younis in a graveyard where those killed in the war continue to be buried.
Those leaflets cited another Quranic verse: "The flood took them as they were cruel."
The gravedigger there, Yousef Tafash Abu Hatab, said he has never had to bury so many families at a time and people of all ages, from infants to the elderly.
But even laying the dead to rest is considered a luxury when bombs are raining down from the sky.
"We do not want to build buildings - all buildings have been destroyed," Hatab told ABC News:
"We want to bury our dead."
5 December 2023 - As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were pushing ahead with the second phase of the ground offensive against Hamas, towards the southern city of Khan Younis, it became clear they were still involved in intense combat to control substantial areas of northern Gaza.
Gen Yaron Finkelman, the head of the IDF’s southern command, said on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 that: “We are in the most intense day [of fighting] since the beginning of the ground operation in terms of Hamas terrorists killed, the number of encounters with the enemy and the volume of fire our forces use, both from the ground and the air. We intend to continue attacking.”
Despite pushing into the center of Gaza City, including to the main hospital, Dar al-Shifa, the IDF is still engaged in heavy fighting for key urban areas in the north, which it says Hamas and other factions use as strongholds, including Jabalia refugee camp and Shuja’iya on the east of Gaza City.
Other officials said the IDF was now operating inside Shuja’iya and Jabalia, which have been described as the last Hamas strongholds in the north.
Since the collapse of a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during which militant-held hostages were swapped for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, the Israeli military has launched an intense campaign of airstrikes and ground fighting in the southern Gaza Strip as well.
Underlining the sense that worse fighting may be ahead as Israel tries to advance into some of the most dense urban areas, an Israeli government spokesperson said on Tuesday that the next phase would be challenging.
Israel is considering flooding tunnels used by Hamas under the Gaza Strip in a bid to destroy the group’s underground network, Israel’s army chief has confirmed.
A Wall Street Journal report on Monday, December 4, 2023 said Israel’s army has assembled a large system of pumps that could flood the approximately 300 miles of Hamas tunnels in Gaza.
The report said that Israel’s army had completed the set-up of at least five pumps about a mile north of the al-Shati refugee camp that could flood the tunnels within weeks.
Asked about the report on Tuesday, Israel’s top military commander, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, said flooding the tunnels could be a “good idea” and that it was “one of a number of options we are considering”.
Clashes Intensify
• The United Nations' top aid official has said the Israeli military campaign in southern Gaza has been just as devastating as in the north, creating “apocalyptic” conditions and ending any possibility of meaningful humanitarian operations:
“What we’re saying today is: that’s enough now. It has to stop,” Martin Griffiths said in an interview with the Guardian, adding that the small amount of aid being allowed into Gaza could no longer be distributed.
• Meanwhile, Israeli forces have reported the most intense day of fighting in Gaza since the ground attack began nearly six weeks ago.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 that they had mounted an attack into the “heart” of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, and that paratroopers and navy commandos had raided the Hamas general security headquarters there. Heavy fighting was also reported in Shujai’iya, another Hamas stronghold in the north.
· Amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas militants, another tragic incident has been reported from the Gaza Strip.
The son of Israeli Minister Gadi Eisenkot, Master Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot, and Sgt. Major (res.) of the 55th Brigade’s 6623rd Reconnaissance Battalion, Jonathan David Deitch, were killed on Thursday, December 7, 2023.
According to the Israel Defense Force (IDF) 25-year-old Eisenkot, of the 551st Brigade’s 699th Battalion in Herzliya, was killed in northern Gaza.
Israel’s
military said 104 members of its forces have been killed in Gaza since the
ground operation began. In addition the IDF said 582 soldiers were injured
inside the Gaza Strip. It gives its total casualties since October 7, 2023 as 433
soldiers killed, and 1,645 wounded.
• Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s second city, Khan Younis, in the south of the coastal strip, intensified before an expected ground incursion. Israel’s top military commander, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, has said his forces are encircling the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza as he announced the “third phase” of Israel’s ground offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
• Israeli forces have killed at least 16,248+ people, including 7,112 children and 4,885 women, in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, according to a statement from the Hamas media office on December 5, 2023.
At least 43,616+ people have been injured and at least 7,600 people are missing, according to the Hamas statement. Health officials in Gaza have said at least 45 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on houses in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023.
• A “catastrophic hunger crisis” is intensifying in Gaza, the World Food Program (WFP) warned on Tuesday. “Only a lasting peace can end the suffering and avert the looming humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza,” it said in a statement calling for a humanitarian ceasefire.
• The United Nations has heard accounts of sexual violence during the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas, in a meeting where speakers also attacked women’s rights activists and UN officials for not doing more to investigate or condemn these crimes. U.S. President Joe Biden also spoke about “horrific” reports of sexual violence by Hamas on 7 October, urging: “The world can’t just look away at what’s going on.”
• During the first week of December 2023, recently released hostages and relatives of Israelis still held by Hamas in Gaza have confronted Israelis Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an angry meeting in which some of those present reportedly called on the Israeli prime minister to resign.
By the latest count, 138 Israelis and other nationals are still being held by Hamas in Gaza.
During a week-long ceasefire that expired on Friday, December 1, 2023 where at that time 105 civilians were freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza - including 81 Israelis, 23 Thai nationals and one Filipino - in return for the release of 240 Palestinian women and minors held in Israeli jails.
• The American state department has announced it will impose visa bans on Israeli extremist settlers engaged in violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank.
The restrictions will target those who have committed acts of violence or taken other actions that restrict civilians’ access to essential services and basic necessities and may also apply to those individuals’ family members, said US secretary of state Antony Blinken.
The move comes just a month after Israel was granted entry into the US’s visa waiver program. Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, said only Israeli military and security forces and the police have the right to use violence.
• The US aid chief announced new support for the Palestinian people during a visit to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on December 5, 2023:
Samantha Power, the administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAid), announced $21 million (£16.7m) in new American assistance that will include hygiene and shelter supplies and food for people in Gaza, as she travelled to the Egyptian town of El-Arish, the gateway to the Rafah crossing into Gaza.
• A Lebanese soldier has been killed in the south of the country by Israeli shelling, according to a statement from the country’s army. Three others were wounded in the incident. After this, the Israeli military issued a rare apology, saying it had been targeting Hezbollah militants on its northern border with Lebanon.
In a post on X, the military said, “Earlier today, IDF fighters acted to neutralize a tangible threat detected from Lebanese territory.
“The threat was detected from a launch and observation complex of the terrorist organization Hezbollah near Al Awadi on the Lebanese border.
“A report was received in the IDF that a number of soldiers from the Lebanese army were injured during the attack. Lebanese army forces were not the target of the attack. The IDF regrets the incident, which is being investigated.”
Meanwhile, the mayor of the south Lebanon village of Taybeh, Hussein Mansour, and a family
member died when a missile fired by Israel’s military struck his home a few
kilometers from the Israel border, a relative and Lebanon’s national news
agency told Reuters. The shell did not explode, the relative said, but struck
Mansour directly.
• A Hamas official has said there will be no negotiations or exchange of detainees until the Israeli assault against the Gaza Strip stops. Speaking to reporters in Beirut on Dec. 5, 2023, Osama Hamdan also said that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was “responsible” for the lives of Israeli hostages in Gaza, adding that his true objective is to “eliminate the Palestinian people."
• Qatar’s prime minister said that mediation talks were still ongoing with an objective to end the war. “Qatar continues to make efforts to restore the truce, release hostages, and exchange prisoners,” Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said.
• British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed his “disappointment” about the breakdown of the pause in fighting in Gaza during a call with Benjamin Netanyahu that same day on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, according to Downing Street. The two leaders also discussed “urgent efforts to ensure all remaining hostages are safely freed and to allow any remaining British nationals in Gaza to leave”, a No.# 10 spokesperson said.
- Israel has rejected suggestions it is trying to force Palestinians out of Gaza as Arab leaders and aid officials warn its intensifying ground offensive could leave civilians with few other options.
- Some of the heaviest close-quarters fighting in more than two months of conflict took place over the weekend of December 9-10, 2023 as the Israel Defense Forces tried to consolidate control of urban centers in northern Gaza and pursued Hamas leaders in the heart of the biggest city in the south, Khan Younis.
- Meanwhile, Hamas issued fresh demands for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails to be released and threatened the lives of the hostages it holds if they were not.
- Israel believes Hamas is still holding about 137 hostages, while there are thought to be 7,000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, many detained without charge.
- Family members of the hostages protested at the Knesset on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023 after being refused admission to a meeting the foreign affairs and defense committee held with Netanyahu, where they sought to keep pressure on the prime minister to keep the lives of hostages central to his decisions.
• On December 10, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Hamas fighters to surrender, saying it was "the beginning of the end" for the organization, which Israel, the United States and most Western countries have designated a terror group.
Acknowledging it would take time, the increasing number of Hamas fighters surrendering showed the tide of the war was turning, Netanyahu said in a statement:
"In the past few days, dozens of Hamas terrorists have surrendered to our forces. They are laying down their weapons and turning themselves in to our heroic soldiers. This will take time. The war is still ongoing, but it is the beginning of the end of Hamas," Netanyahu said.
Saying that, for now, as a forecasting astrologer I will explore the important celestial events of 2024, their transits, influences and effects so that the good reader can make some sense of it all as to the impact on their own lives and to use their free will to digest and prepare.
‘MUNDANE OVERVIEW’
The good and intelligent reader will want to know that the celestial signs and planetary configurations of 2024 will determine the ‘atmosphere’ of the entire solar year, and will, after all is said and done, will have set the table for an even bigger year of 2025.
In the current era into 2024, as the battles in the Ukraine since February 2022 continue, in the Middle East, Israel’s robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres, rapes and kidnappings that took place on October 7, 2023.
Since then, the rise in anti-Semitism and attacks on Jews and Palestinians alike, fortify my knowledge of the astrological theological prophecies on our current times - and what it all will lead to if humanity doesn't wake up and repent over all its evil and sinning.
In our present era, with the concerns over artificial intelligence, the laziness and lollygagging of young workers in the post-pandemic era, the aging of the baby boomer generation and their dysfunctional ideologies from ‘man-made global warming,’ to the gender wars created to further divide men and woman and to destroy the nuclear family – all of this has serious future spiritual consequences that few may have not considered, but nonetheless will be enforced according to prophecies.
Solar year 2024 will see many revelations come to the surface, as everything, from the secrets of the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccines, the contested results of the 2020 presidential election, and censorship these matters, along with other events, by traditional and social media outlooks will lead right back to where everyone left off – and that was a powerful populist movement in the United States.
In fact, I forecast that the populist movement will return to the U.S. and expand. It will also grow quickly, and in particular sweep across the European Union in 2024-2025.
It is my estimation that the major political themes going into the 2024 General Election in the United States will be these issues:
- Immigration
- The Economy
- Crime
- Individual Rights
- Energy
- Education
- Government Reform
The eclipses of 2024, solar and lunar, will also be joined by significant planetary transits that will rotate worldwide going into the new solar year.
However, for those keen on knowing how favorable transits match up with their own horoscopes and progressions; observe that there are opportunities going into January through March 2024 that offer you a proactive and positive road ahead if you are paying attention...
Forecast by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
JUPITER SEXTILE SATURN
February 15, 2024
SIGNIFICANT PLANETARY TRANSITS
2024-2025
by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
These solar, lunar and planetary transits of 2024 initiate a year filled with action.
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January-March
2024 – JUPITER SEXTILE SATURN
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March
3-4, 2024 – JUPITER SEMI SQUARE NEPTUNE
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March
10, 2024 – MERCURY TO NORTHERN DECLINATION
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March
25, 2024 – ANNULAR LUNAR ECLIPSE IN LIBRA
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April
1, 2024 – MERCURY RETROGRADE IN ARIES
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April
7, 2024 – VENUS TO NORTHERN DECLINATION
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April
8, 2024 – TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN AT 19-DEGREES ARIES
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April
15-17 - RX MERCURY CONTACTS SOLAR
ECLIPSE DEGREE 19-ARIES
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April
21, 2024 – JUPITER CONJUNCT URANUS IN TAURUS
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April
25, 2024 – MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT
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April
30, 2024 – MARS ENTERS TROPICAL ARIES
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May
2, 2024 – PLUTO STATIONS RETROGRADE AT 2-DEGREES AQUARIUS
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May
3-4, 2024 – MERCURY CONTACTS SOLAR ECLIPSE DEGREE AT 19-ARIES
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May
4, 2024 – MARS HEADS TO NORTHERN DECLINATION
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May
6, 2024 – SATURN SEMI SQUARES PLUTO (first of three aspect contacts.)
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May
23, 2024 – JUPITER SEXTILE NEPTUNE
· May 25,26,27, 2024 - MARS REACHES ARIES ECLIPSE POINT
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June
2, 2024 – JUPITER TRINE PLUTO
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June
29, 2024 – SATURN RETROGRADE AT 19-PISCES
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July
2, 2024 – NEPTUNE RETROGRADE AT 29-PISCES
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August
5, 2024 – MERCURY RETROGRADE AT 4-VIRGO
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August
7, 2024 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO
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August
19, 2024 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (first of three world aspect squares)
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August
28, 2024 – MERCURY DIRECT AT 21-LEO
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August
31, 2024 – VENUS HEADS SOUTH IN DECLINATION
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September
1, 2024 – URANUS RETROGRADE AT 27-TAURUS
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September
18, 2024 - PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE AT 25-PISCES
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September
26, 2024 – SATURN SEMI SQUARE PLUTO (2nd exact world semi-square)
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September
28, 2024 – MERCURY HEADS SOUTH IN DECLINATION
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October
2, 2024 – ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE AT 10-LIBRA
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October
9, 2024 – JUPITER RETROGRADE AT 21-GEMINI
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October
12, 2024 – PLUTO DIRECT AT 29-CAPRICORN
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November
15, 2024 – SATURN DIRECT AT 12-PISCES
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November
26, 2024 – MERCURY RETROGRADE AT 22-SAGITTARIUS
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December
6, 2024 – MARS RETROGRADE AT 6-LEO (until February 23-24, 2025)
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December
7, 2024 – NEPTUNE DIRECT AT 27-PISCES
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December
13, 2024 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO
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December
15, 2024 – MERCURY DIRECT AT 6-SAGITTARIUS
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December
24, 2024 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (2nd of 3 world squares)
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January
26, 2025 – SATURN SEMI SQUARE PLUTO (3rd exact world semi square)
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January
30, 2025 – VENUS HEADS NORTH IN DECLINATION
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January
30, 2025 – URANUS STATIONS DIRECT AT 23-TAURUS
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February
4, 2025 – JUPITER STATIONS DIRECT AT 11-GEMINI
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February
24, 2025 – MARS STATIONS DIRECT AT 17-CANCER
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March
2, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS NORTH IN DECLINATION
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March
2, 2025 – VENUS RETROGRADE AT 2-ARIES
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March
15, 2025 – MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE AT 9-ARIES
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April
3, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS SOUTH IN DECLINATION
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April
4, 2025 – SATURN SEXTILE URANUS 1st of three sextile aspects)
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April
7, 2025 – MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT AT 26-PISCES
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April
13, 2025 – VENUS STATIONS DIRECT AT 24-PISCES
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April
17, 2025 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO
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April
23, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS NORTH IN DECLINATION
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May
4, 2025 – PLUTO STATIONS RETROGRADE AT 3-AQUARIUS
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June
4, 2025 – JUPITER SEMI-SEXTILE URANUS
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June
15, 2025 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (3rd and final world square)
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June
19, 2025 – JUPITER SQUARE NEPTUNE
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June
24, 2025 – JUPITER QUINCUNX PLUTO
‘TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN'
April 8, 2024
“The mundane astrologer finds that eclipses and transits define special areas on the earth which are found to possess great meaning in mundane affairs.”
~ Charles Jayne, mundane astrologer
Forecast by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
There will be two eclipses, one Lunar and the other Solar, within two weeks of each other during the early spring of 2024 in the northern hemisphere that will mark the eclipse season months of April, May and June.
The Lunar Eclipse of March 25, 2024 will take place at 5-degrees Libra and will be seen throughout the northern hemisphere. It arrives two weeks before the total eclipse of the Sun on April 8, 2024.
It will occur at 19-degrees tropical Aries, passing from southwest to the northwest.
The Sun and Moon conjunction by total eclipse in tropical Aries marks a crossroads into what will set the theme for the mid-2020s into the new solar year of 2024.
Though five months from the time of this forecast post, the good reader would be well advised to think and act ahead of the solar, lunar and planetary transits to come, for that is the purpose of humanity – to think and act ahead – in short, to be prepared.
Other than the eclipses to come, there also are major planetary transits in 2024 that will mark the new solar year, such as the Jupiter-Saturn waxing sextiles; the Lunar Eclipse of late March 2024 before April’s total solar eclipse; then a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Taurus; and a series of Jupiter-Saturn world squares afterward.
It is my perspective that this follows the mundane astrological principle that the effect of any major conjunction is to create a new sensitive point in the world consciousness.
And that is exactly what is going to happen in 2024.
You see, the state of the world in the present, the popular culture, political and warring ideologies, the violence, technological distractions, the cheating, greed, narcissism and lack of courtesy, tolerance and consideration for one another – all of it will, in the end, lead to great perdition for those who do not realize what this prophecy reveals to those with eyes to see and ears to hear:
“If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, then conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth.”
~ 1 Peter 1:17
According to my calculations, the slowly cooling effects of the Lunar Eclipse of March 2024 and the Total Solar Eclipse of April 2024 will remain in their various signatures through to May 2028.
And yet, this eclipse will have an immediate effect through the spring of 2024 due to the specific transits of several planets across the solar eclipsed degree of 19-Aries.
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Commenting on the astrological techniques of denoting the influences of eclipses, Bill Meridian writes:
The idea came from Edmund Troinski, who developed tertiary progressions, his notion was that when an eclipse occurred, think of it like an umbrella that you are holding up, it would have a control and rulership over the events that occur plus or minus 3 months from the date of occurrence.
Johndro, an astrologer [ born in Quebec, Canada] living in New York & Los Angeles was a mathematician and radio engineer, his astrology was very advanced even by today’s standards, he died around 1951.
He worked with a man named Ken Brown of Cleveland, Brown being the front man, bringing in the business and Johndro being the man that developed advanced techniques, in order to give good advice.
Charles Jayne told me that they were the astrologers that did all the work for the legendary stock market trade of W.D. Gann.
Of course, there was Charles Jayne himself who was quite funny in his delivery and it was quite a challenge to edit his work because he never discovered the magic of punctuation.
Johndro developed the idea of the birth eclipse thinking that if an eclipse occurs, like I said myself being born April 25th and then April 28th there was an eclipse, that eclipse is the ruler, or Lord, of that time period and anything that occurred within it.
If a social club is started, a corporation, a team plays its first game, any event, it is under the rulership of that eclipse.
That was the hardest thing for me to accept when I started reading this in the ‘80s. As that eclipse chart moves forward, you progress the chart of the eclipse and if Jupiter or Saturn become prominent then all the entities under that eclipse feel it, some will feel it quite directly because their charts tie into the eclipse chart quite closely, then there are some people whose do not tie so closely, so the effect is variable.
But that was the idea. Jayne developed the idea much further, Johndro came up with concepts and it might be one line in an obscure magazine and never repeated, but Jayne would find these ideas and applied them again and again and developed concepts and additions to the rules.
So, if the eclipse has something to do with you then the eclipse’s shadow must be very important. And Johndro wrote, and this explains it:
“For most of us, however, the eclipses that affect our nativities are anything from a few days to 6 months, and in some cases a full year before or after our birth dates.
In any case, the prime consideration is not just how near this or that eclipse falls to a birth date, but whether the eclipses, or the planet thereat, closely overlay or closely aspect any of the natal planetary positions.
If they do, then that eclipse chart is extremely important to you; because in such case the eclipse or its planets intensify or amplify any planet they configure in your birth chart…
And by eclipses, I do not mean merely the position of the eclipse itself, I mean the position of any planet or planets at the time of an eclipse relative to any planetary position in the nativity.”
To summarize, Johndro would look plus or minus 6 months, which is what I do, and what Jayne did, and then do a synastry between the eclipse chart and the person’s natal chart.
For example, if the eclipse greatly energizes the person’s Mars and that person is an athlete, the eclipse and the shadow are both important. In the case of Charles, two eclipses were both essential, I could not distinguish the strength of one from the other."
In my childhood years studying under Jayne's mastership, direct observation of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars was mandatory - even for a child apprentice.
Jayne's understanding of eclipses, connected to Johndro's electrical magnetism via planetary transits relative to Earth expanded my knowledge of how astrological transits work on nature and humanity.
Johndro was also intrigued by the new field of electronics and worked as an electrical engineer during the First World War (1914-18) and after the war attended the National Radio Institute.
His understanding of electricity and electromagnetism greatly affected his approach to astrology as he felt that changes in the electromagnetic energies might account for astrological phenomena.
Fixed stars, those brightest stars that form the major points of light in the night sky, have had a role in traditional astrology, with each being assigned characteristics much like the planets.
The conjunction of planets with fixed stars of related characteristics should manifest in the individual's life.
In this instance, Johndro's work has been largely forgotten, in that contemporary astrologers have largely dropped consideration of fixed charts from their work.
He considered this point the most fated, i.e., least susceptible to choice, in a person's chart, hence of vital importance in any interpretation. American mundane astrologer, Charles Jayne discovered the same point on the chart and also incorporated it in his forecasting work.
Charles Jayne, Jr. was born on October 9, 1911 in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University in philosophy; then Virginia Polytechnic Institute where he took electrical engineering; and Columbia University and the Asia Institute studying Psychology.
A technical analyst on Wall Street from 1961 to 1969, Jayne was mentioned very favorably by James Dines in his book about technical stock market analysis.
Well schooled in theosophy, he was vice-president of Nicholas DeVore's Astrological Research Society. He was president of the Astrologers' Guild of America (1958-60) and founded Astrological Research Associates in 1958.
He and his artist wife, Vivia Jayne, edited the magazine 'In Search' from 1958 to 1962, an international astrological journal.
In 1970 he founded the Association for Research in Cosmecology, an organization specializing in the reintegration of astrology into mainstream science.
Jayne also wrote the mundane astrology column for Dell Horoscope for 15 years. He was also one of the founders of the National Council for Geocosmic Research and was a recipient of the Marc Edmund Jones Award.
Charles worked on eclipses for 50 years. Much of my knowledge of this subject derives from his work. He discovered that the shadow of the eclipse embodies or holds the nature of the horoscope of that eclipse.
He also discovered that past paths can be activated by current eclipses. Writing in Dell Horoscope in the 1940s, he accurately predicted a good deal of the course of WW2.
This includes the break between Germany and the USSR and the time and the location of the US victory at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Before his passing, he forecasted the breakup of the USSR by 1989-1990.
However, the process of locating the vertex is a somewhat sophisticated mathematical operation and few astrologers adopted it as part of their interpretive scheme.
They had more appreciation for his attempt to build a scientific rationale for astrology in his 1929 book, 'The Stars, How and Where They Influence.' He also proposed an alternative theory for the manner in which planetary rulerships operate.
When doing individual financial forecasts, Jayne, Johndro and Brown utilized not only the birth charts but conception charts, but even charts of the planetary positions at the time their clients were actually conceived.
Johndro believed that the conception charts show how creative people think or 'conceive' of things, and hence had a vital role in predicting their financial life. Johndro continued in this work for the rest of his life.
In Abu Dhabi, in 1985, a Saudi television show came on. It was about the largest oil field and it says it was hitting its peak production and it came online in 1949, the year of my birth, and I thought ‘this feels like a peak in my career as well’ and looking back it was.
So, the oilfield and I were ruled by the same eclipse, as I said it does not have to be a living being, it can be a club or corporation.
Johndro also wrote: “Eclipses quite largely define issues for whole groups. But eclipses forward destiny through the medium of mortals far more than merely through varying the climate, the rainfall, the crops, etc. That is to say, men are so born in time as to respond, in an allotted way, to some particular cosmic purpose delegated, so to speak, through the eclipses.
The importance of your allotted role depends greatly upon if and how your nativity ties in with the eclipses (and their) planets in and around your birth year.”
The eclipse itself is the whole group, it energizes individual people to fulfil that task.
When he says “in an allotted way”, the eclipse of April 1949, that affected people in different ways, with me you could say, fortunately, it was on my Venus and it is amazing how many people during my life have asked me if I am in show business.
I have a lot of friends who are artists, in fact my friend who is an astrologer, Carol Furman is now one of the world’s most famous sculptors and when I am at an art show people come up to me and ask “Bill are you an artist?” and I say “if you took me to an art gallery I could not distinguish a Rembrandt from a Beethoven, so no I am not.”
I just had this eclipse fall on my Venus. “Readers must not suppose an eclipse is affect on mankind is limited to the date thereof; not that events follow in the exact order of the eclipse sequence.
Rather, eclipses are the highlight patterns of the trends of their joint times.” [L. Edward Johndro, 1930s] We just had an eclipse in December at 4° Capricorn and now we have had one at 0° Cancer, anybody caught in the middle of that is energized, if they are hit by the first eclipse you know they will be energized by the second eclipse.
Charles [Jayne] said after 50 or so years of research he was uncertain of the length of time an eclipse was in affect, but the rough rule of thumb, which is what we use is 90 days in advance of a Solar eclipse and as long as a year afterwards, for a Lunar eclipse, it was up to six weeks prior and six weeks following.
For example, say the eclipse falls on a client’s Jupiter and the client says to the astrologer, “I think this could be the start of something big” you can assure your client that is true.
Ninety days before the Solar eclipse is conjunct Jupiter, it begins to heat up and as you get closer and closer to the eclipse, it is getting hotter and hotter and the transit to the natal Jupiter of the client is more meaningful, more energized, they will hit a peak and for the next year it will decline somewhat in effect.
Rules of Eclipses
Events which occur in the days around an eclipse are memorable. The ‘time orb’ is plus or minus 10 days. Events taking place in the 7 to 10 days before an eclipse work out in an unexpected fashion.
Affairs take turns that are not anticipated. [Jayne]
2. Solar eclipses can have an effect up to 3 to 6 months before they occur and as long as one year afterward. Their lunar brethren have an effect for about 6 weeks before and after the lunar eclipse. [Jayne]
This is important and easy to use, ‘time orb’ is an idea or a concept that comes from Johndro and Jayne developed the rule. He shortened the time frame to 7 days and said it lasted up to 48 hours after the eclipse.
For example, the marriage of Lady Diana to Prince Charles was a week before an eclipse, if an event occurs on the day of an eclipse then it is fated and if the eclipse sweeps one up, it is like being in the surf you have to let the wave carry you, you cannot fight it.
This is something that I use whenever I look at a situation or anyone’s horoscope I tell them in a week prior to the eclipse it is best to defer decisions until the week after the eclipse because the week before the eclipse you are, so to speak, in the shadow of the eclipse and the week following you will uncover news, or discover something that will change your mind and will cause you to make a different decision.
I went to change jobs as an astrology student the week before an eclipse and Jayne told me it will not work out and that turned out to be true.
If you are forced to make a change in the week prior to the eclipse then it will work out in an unexpected fashion, you will have to make extraordinary efforts in order to achieve your goal, you will run into all sorts of things you could not possibly expect.
When Jayne wrote for Dell during World War II and the military campaigns started in the week prior to an eclipse rarely went as planned.
As I said, sometimes a client is forced to make a decision and if that person cannot extend the deadline then the astrologer can advise the client based upon the position of the eclipse and all the planets in the eclipse chart as to how to proceed and what the person might face.
Now, our current President just kicked off his campaign with a talk in Tulsa, Oklahoma only hours before an eclipse, so we will see how that works out.
3. There is a difference between the 7 to 10 days before and the 7 to 10 days after an eclipse.
4. The events occurring before the eclipse take on the added attribute of being unpredictable and fated. The period of unpredictability to last until 24 hours after the eclipse. Matters work out unexpectedly. If one must make a decision in the week prior to an eclipse, then expect to make significant changes in your plans in order to reach your objective.
There is a sharp difference between events in the week before an eclipse and the week after an eclipse, any event occurring near an eclipse is going to take on extra importance but in the week prior to an eclipse there is an element of uncertainty and the week after the eclipse there is not.
So, if your birthday is in the week prior to an eclipse you have a very unexpected year coming up, a lot of changes, it is a year you will remember.
However, if your birthday is one or two days after the eclipse it is simply going to be an important year, but matters do not necessarily work out unpredictably.
5. Eclipses near birth have an effect upon the life of the individual. This eclipse may occur before or after birth. [Johndro]
6. If the natal eclipse is again eclipsed, the effects are powerful.
7. Rules governing the eclipse paths:
A) The total eclipse is the strongest
B) The central path is the most powerful part of the eclipse’s shadow.
My experience with an eclipse on your Sun is, it strengthens everything related to the Sun, your will, your desire to accomplish things, you become fairly indefatigable and you refuse to accept any defeat.
How many of us heard the name Julian Assange before there were eclipses conjunct and opposite his Sun?
Or how about the 1963 John Profumo affair? An eclipse conjunct his Sun, there is talk about making him high in the government, he was a Minister of Defense at the time, six months later the eclipse opposes his Sun and he is swept up in a scandal involving prostitutes that removed him entirely from the public eye.
That is the effect, an eclipse conjunct your Sun emboldens and strengthens you, opposite your Sun, I can guarantee you, it is like being knocked down on the soccer field, suddenly you are looking up at the sky wondering ‘how did I get here?’
And as I have said, if the native eclipse is eclipsed again, I have found that is particularly important.
8. If an eclipse occurs after your birth, see when it comes exact by secondary progression. This can be a vital year. [Johndro]
9. If a natal planet is conjunct or opposite this eclipse, the planet becomes very powerful for life. [Johndro]
10. Eclipses conjunct are opposite the Sun, ascendant or midheaven are always more powerful. This is due to the fact that these points have zero latitude by definition. The eclipse will also have zero latitude.
Thus, there will be conjunctions and oppositions in both longitude and latitude which are very powerful. [Jayne]
Of course, the total eclipse is the strongest, the central path is the most powerful part of a total eclipse.
If the eclipse obscures 50% of the sunlight, then it is only half as powerful as a total eclipse, if it’s 75% of the sunlight, so.
In other words, a total eclipse is the most important eclipse, a partial eclipse is a not nearly as strong."
This follows another mundane rule when it comes to total eclipses of the Sun, which are the most powerful in their effects than annular, partial or lunar eclipses.
In Cardinal Signs, their effects are often produced quickly and could soon be over with, but often bringing disastrous effects.
Another issue of concern is that in Applied Astrology, it is stated that when both the Moon and the Sun are eclipsed within 30 days of each other, much trouble will arise over the locations where the eclipse is visible.
This matter is worrisome, considering that an annular Lunar Eclipse in Libra will take place on March 25, 2024, just two weeks before the total eclipse of the Sun in tropical Aries.
What I am saying here is that the spring of 2024, in fact, the entire solar year, will be challenging due to the ‘woke’ ignorance and stupidity of those in media, society, in governments, and companies, groups and organizations.
The loud temper-tantrum ideological propaganda: from the violence in the Ukraine to the killings in the Middle East; to the anti-Semitism and racial hatred; to the widespread criminal activity; to the to the fallacy of ‘man-made climate change,’ to the pettiness of the ideological, gender, political and pop culture wars can only lead to more division that goes nowhere and produces nothing good.
Be not misled: the dysfunction, destruction and dumbing-down – I say to all – will eventually lead to great disasters, including for the hypocrites pushing ‘man-made global warming.’
In the meantime, ahead of 2024’s power-packed eclipses and strong planetary transits, as I said earlier, there are opportunities to do good and prepare using the Jupiter-Saturn sextiles before the powerful eclipse spring of 2024 gets underway over the northern hemisphere.
For instance, when eclipses occur or comets appears in Earth Signs, they often portend barrenness and scarcity of droughts in astrometeorology.
When in Water Signs, torrential rains, storms and floods. In Air Signs, they arouse seditions, great winds and pestilences.
In Fire Signs, eclipses can arouse to murderous rages, with emotions so high as to lead toward wars, and any planetary transits crossing over the eclipsed degree will depend upon the culmination of other key configurations that have been gathering strength beforehand.
Taking place in that cardinal fire Sign of Aries, the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 will highlight the politically adverse issues of immigration, drug cartels and police activity that has been smoldering for years when it comes to the southern border of the United States with Mexico.
This eclipse will be seen in both countries, and is a direct threat and warning from the Divine to the drug cartels, especially the Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico drug cartels; their leaders, agents and pawns working in both Mexico and the United States.
Be not misled, no amount of earthly power, stealth nor wealth can save you from the Most High LORD of Spirits - who sees and hears everything.
Repent and pursue good, truth, righteousness and fear of the LORD and change your lives before it is too late.
Here are just two these latter day prophecies concerned with this forecast - one is from Luke 12:5 and the other from the mundane astrologer Isaiah 66:
First, Luke 12:5
“But I will warn you whom to fear: Fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!”
"Thus saith the LORD: The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool:
'Where is the house that ye build unto Me? And where is the place of My rest?
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord:
But to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My word.
He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol.
Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word:
Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, 'Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that renders recompense to his enemies.
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb:
And the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see My glory.
And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.
And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against Me:
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
PATHS OF TOTALITY
April 8, 2024
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First, please allow me to outline some regions where the totality of the April 8, 2024 eclipse of the Sun will be fully observed:
Nazas, Durango, Mexico
Monday, April 8, 2024
1:14:37 PM CDT
At 1:15 p.m., Mexican Central Daylight Time, the umbra arrives at Nazas. This town of 4,000 in population will see that number rise because it is the nearest location to the point of longest totality of the Sun.
The town itself will enjoy that duration, but the actual spot is about 3 miles (5 km) to the north, just east of Durango Paso Nacional, the road that connects Nazas to San Luis del Cordero. If you’re headed here for the longest possible totality, get there at least a day early.
Eclipse starts: 11:58:24 a.m. MCDT
Eclipse end: 2:39:42 p.m. MCDT
Maximum eclipse: 1:17:17 p.m. MCDT
Sun’s altitude at maximum eclipse: 69.8°
Duration of totality: 4 minutes 28 seconds
Width of Moon’s shadow: 122.6 miles (197.4 km)
Mazatlán,
Sinaloa, Mexico
The Moon’s
umbra touches the coast of the United Mexican States at 12:07 p.m. Mexican
Pacific Daylight Time less than 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Mazatlán, which
was one of the main destinations for travelers viewing the July 11, 1991 total
solar eclipse. This city knows how to host a large influx of travelers, so it’s
a good bet that it will be a prime destination.
·
Eclipse
starts: 9:51:28 a.m. MPDT
·
Eclipse
ends: 12:32:11 p.m. MPDT
·
Maximum
eclipse: 11:09:39 p.m. MPDT
·
Sun’s
altitude at maximum eclipse: 69.1°
·
Duration
of totality: 4 minutes 18 seconds
Lampasas,
Texas
Monday, April 8, 2024
1:35:27 PM CDT
Eclipse
starts: 12:18:03 p.m. CDT
Eclipse
ends: 2:58:23 p.m. CDT
Maximum
eclipse: 1:37:35 p.m. CDT
Sun’s
altitude at maximum eclipse: 66.5°
Duration of
totality: 4 minutes 24 seconds
Width of
Moon’s shadow: 119.7 miles (192.6 km)
Indianapolis,
Indiana
April 8, 2024
The eclipse umbra will cover a wide swath of Indiana, but most of the attention will focus on the state’s capital city. Downtown Indianapolis is a metropolis served by four interstate highways and will surely be one of the most sought-after destinations. It offers plentiful lodging, excellent cuisine, and many attractions for travelers.
Eclipse
starts: 1:50:31 p.m. EDT
Eclipse
ends: 4:23:10 p.m. EDT
Maximum
eclipse: 3:07:56 p.m. EDT
Sun’s
altitude at maximum eclipse: 53°
Duration of
totality: 3 minutes 49 seconds
Width of
Moon’s shadow: 114 miles (183.4 km)
Cleveland,
Ohio
Monday, April 8, 2024
With a metro
population of more than 2 million, this city will host a multitude of eclipse
chasers. Get there a couple of days early and fill the waiting time with visits
to some of Cleveland’s highlights, including the Cleveland Museum of Arts and
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Eclipse
starts: 1:59:20 p.m. EDT
Eclipse
ends: 4:28:57 p.m. EDT
Maximum
eclipse: 3:15:37 p.m. EDT
Sun’s
altitude at maximum eclipse: 48.6°
Duration of
totality: 3 minutes 49 seconds
Width of
Moon’s shadow: 111.9 miles (180.1 km)
Sherbrooke,
Quebec, Canada
April 8, 2024
Those Canadians who may not wish to cross the border can opt for Sherbrooke, which is only a 100-mile (161 km) drive from Montréal. With a metro population of nearly a quarter million, Sherbrooke is a quick 10-mile (16 km) drive south that will bring you to the center line for five (5) additional seconds of totality.
Eclipse
starts: 2:16:35 p.m. EDT
Eclipse
ends: 4:38:13 p.m. EDT
Maximum
eclipse: 3:29:23 p.m. EDT
Sun’s
altitude at maximum eclipse: 38.8°
Duration of
totality: 3 minutes 25 seconds
Width of
Moon’s shadow: 107.8 miles (173.5 km)
Niagara
Falls, New York
April 8, 2024
The Northeastern United States will have good weather on eclipse day, the most
picturesque images of the event could come from Niagara Falls.
One of the best
perspectives will come from the outlook called Terrapin Point, where the eclipsed Sun
will stun viewers halfway over the southwestern skies - directly over Niagara Falls.
Science buffs who observe or photograph the eclipse from this region will want to visit the Nikola Tesla Statue within Queen Victoria Park on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. It is only 0.3 mile (0.5 km) north of Terrapin Point.
Eclipse
starts: 2:04:50 p.m. EDT
Eclipse
ends: 4:31:57 p.m. EDT
Maximum
eclipse: 3:20:02 p.m. EDT
Sun’s
altitude at maximum eclipse: 45.6°
Duration of
totality: 3 minutes 31 seconds
Width of
Moon’s shadow: 110.8 miles (178.4 km)
The path in
2024 will make its way through North America, from Mexico to the United States and into Maine and eastern Canada.
Here are other main cities where the total eclipse of the Sun will be observed in clear weather:
·
San
Antonio, Texas
·
Austin,
Texas
·
Dallas,
Texas
·
Little
Rock, Arkansas
·
Carbondale,
Illinois
·
Indianapolis,
Indiana
·
Toledo,
Ohio
·
Cleveland,
Ohio
·
Akron,
Ohio
·
Buffalo,
New York
·
Rochester,
New York
·
Montpelier,
Vermont
·
Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
Here are a
list of American cities on the path of totality divided by state.
TEXAS
San Antonio
Junction
Austin
Temple
Waco
Fort Worth
Dallas
Hugo
ARKANSAS
Arkadelphia
Hot Springs
Little Rock
Russellville
Mountain
Home
West Plains
Poplar Bluff
Paducah
ILLINOIS
Carbondale
Mt. Vernon
Evansville
Vincennes
Bloomington
Bedford
Indianapolis
OHIO
Hamilton
Dayton
Lima
Toledo
Akron
Erie
Meadville
NEW YORK
Dunkirk
Buffalo
Niagara
Falls
Rochester
Geneva
Syracuse
Oswego
Watertown
Tupper Lake
Lake Placid
Malone
Burlington
Montpelier
St. Albans
City
MAINE
Jackman
Greenville
Oakfield
Monticello
Houlton
In my
weather and climate forecasting, which is how I began to learn Applied
Astrology, I always observed the reactions of the weather and climate to
astrophysical forces.
As we will
see in 2024, transiting Mars will make ingress in Aries, which will also change
to northern declination in the Ingress charts I have cast.
Mars will transit tropical
Aries, and in May 2024 will later conjoin the eclipsed degree of 19-Aries.
These
planets are Mercury, Venus and then, Mars, - all within 1-2 months within the
Total Solar Eclipse degree at 19-Aries.
Mercury hits 19-Aries three times within range of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, once before the eclipse, and then two times afterward:
·
At
the Vernal Equinox: March 19th-21st – Mercury direct in
motion
·
April
16-17 – Mercury retrograde.
· April
21, 2024 - Venus transits 19-Aries on the same day as Jupiter conjoins Uranus
in tropical Taurus.
· May 4-5 – Mercury direct in motion
Mercury
especially marks that eclipsed degree of 19-Aries; and does so three times;
once in March before the total eclipse of the Sun; a second time in April 2024
while Mercury is retrograde just after the eclipse; and a third time, with
Mercury now direct, in May 2024.
It appears
to me that Mercury (the swift messenger) acts as a prelude and warning to the
effects of the total solar eclipse - especially the transits of Mars into
spring 2024 – enough so that the good reader should mark down all the general
dates I provide in this mundane forecast.
‘TRANSIT OF MARS: May 2024
MEETING AT ECLIPSE DEGREE’
During the total solar eclipse of April 2024, transiting Mars and Saturn will be conjoined in tropical Pisces.
Now, this can be a malefic conjunction and calls for
special consideration during the month of April leading into May due to its
proximity to the eclipse in Aries.
Mars and
Saturn, being conjunct in tropical Pisces and with Mars to start a new two-year
cycle with its ingress into tropical Aries starting on April 30th calls for
prudence.
For it is the malefic character of importunate planets like Mars and
Saturn that supporting urges as they receive that work out the surest.
There are
greatly intensified at one point to endure it, or with ill-will toward others
and should Mars and Saturn in conjunction be in effect (as it will be) then
anyone, or anything that is subjected to this increased tension, be it an
individual, group, community, association, etc., is too weak at any one point
to endure then the result will be disastrous.
This point
calls for individuals, groups, organizations and governments to clearly
understand that the negative history of daily violence cannot solve historical
problems without coming to terms with the ancient, but still very relevant common sense gospel that says to love your
neighbor as you love yourself.
A simple and
easy thing to do, but very difficult for those heading straight into perdition.
Like an old friend used to say: “There’s a highway to hell, but only a stairway
to heaven.”
· May
25-26, 2024 – Transiting Mars then crosses the eclipsed degree of 19-degree tropical Aries
Being cardinal, Aries, and ruled by Mars, is an active fire
sign, and after entering tropical Aries on April 30th, Mars heads
North in Declination on May 4, 2024 then races to the eclipse point on May
25-26, 2024.
There is
hostility here with these transits to the eclipsed degree at 19-Aries and this
will makes the spring of 2024 action packed and dangerous.
Mars, in
transit in tropical Aries in May 2024 invariably denotes fatal accidents, contentions,
injuries, violent attacks and strife, whether due to an excess of impulsion or
misplaced energies or both.
Mars’ vibration relative to Earth, or a previously
eclipsed degree is invariably strenuous and very active when in Aries, Taurus and Gemini.
This will make
spring 2024 action-packed; Use caution when in extended travel, avoid large gatherings and crowds if possible.
I urge caution in travel through 2024,
especially during March, April, May and June 2024. It is not rocket-science to understand
this due to fatal hostilities between nations, religious and ideological groups
in this post-pandemic era.
‘MAY 2024’
I have calculated that the May 4th to May 10th is particularly significant, as is the entire month of May at mid-spring of 2024.
As Mars transits the early degrees of Aries (after its ingress there on April 30th) the red planet heads to Northern Declination (May 4) then the Moon goes to Northern Declination (May 5) and the very next day (May 6th) transiting Saturn conducts a semi square to Pluto.
This Saturn-Pluto semi-square adds to the already charged atmosphere of mid-spring 2024 in that it is an aspect of reversals in business, domestic and professional sectors.
Despite putting in long hours working hard, there can be disappointments to achieve success the credit for it. There can be loss of public image and financial losses through poor judgment and bad investments.
As Saturn and Pluto are ‘transpersonal planets’ there can be the passing of older members of the family, and/or the passing of close associates.
It would be wise to also prepare during the months of January, February and March, so that any attention to these matters can be better adapted to during the spring and early summer of 2024.
The semi-square from transiting Saturn in tropical Pisces and Pluto in tropical Aquarius calls for preparation, as there can be struggles in gaining money from insurance settlements, sick time, worker’s compensation, unemployment benefits and social security payments during the spring and into summer 2024.
To avoid this, I encourage the good reader to get ahead of spring 2024 before this particular Saturn-Pluto semi square gets going by its exact aspect on May 6, 2024, as it will as it involves one of the business planets (Saturn) and a planet (Pluto) known to be associated with large organizations, groups, governments, etc.
The cure for these transits of spring and summer 2024 will be to utilize the prior months of December 2023 through March 2024 very well.
I continue to warn against laziness, procrastination, and lollygagging. Those who do not will dearly pay a painful price by the time after the events of mid-spring 2024.
Prudence, knowing how these world transits affect your own nativity, and secondary progressions will be key in helping you to become captain of your own ship, rather than to be like driftwood, floating dangerously without direction on the high seas.
Moreover,
two weeks after the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, transiting Jupiter
and Uranus will meet in conjunction at 21-degrees tropical Taurus.
Very interesting times indeed.
‘JUPITER
CONJUNCT URANUS IN TAURUS:
HISTORY
IN THE MAKING?’
by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
On April 21, 2024 there will be a conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in tropical Taurus, some two weeks after the
total eclipse of the Sun.
It marks a new feel to the times, unexpected events and happenings, and also signals
opportunities for the good of heart, common sense and those of sound mind.
So, the
Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Taurus offers those aware of this era, the
opportunity to make significant changes in their personal, domestic, and
professional lives that will position them very well into the mid-to-late 2020s
(and beyond for those keen on listening to this astrological guidance.)
Remember
what I said earlier, and that is that it is mundane astrological principle that
the effect of any major conjunction is to create a new sensitive point in the
world consciousness.
On the
favorable side of April’s exact Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in the fixed Sign of
tropical Taurus, this can be an exciting time where unexpected circumstances and
situations can take a person into new realms of experience through what appears
to be ‘sheer luck.’
The
Jupiter-Uranus has an affinity for the daytime, say, between 10 a.m. through to
2 p.m., as they transit over and just pass the Midheaven (noon time) and into
early afternoon afterwards.
Even during
the eclipse month of April 2024, those who are able to concentrate during the
Jupiter-Uranus conjunction can gain insights into developments and future
trends; taking a scientific view of Astrology along with stronger interests in spirituality
and theology that benefit them greatly.
The
humanitarian urges under the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction are healthy as well
when it comes to practical, prudent needs to help others in need and to express
this along with others in good organizational practice among associates and new
friendships. From this comes a sense of newfound enlightenment and personal
growth.
By applying an
open mind with increased tolerance of different points of view and culture,
unusual friendships and personal relationships under the Jupiter-Uranus
conjunction can become exciting, stimulating and rewarding.
There exists
the potential for sudden financial fortune with gains made in corporate business,
gifts, insurance, joint finances, and government grants and appropriations.
On the
adverse end of the conjunction, if individuals become narcissistic and
self-willed to incline themselves toward closed-minded one-sided viewpoint,
going overboard no matter what, then accidents, and serious mistakes can
result, especially in the eclipsed planetary climate of spring 2024.
Again, some
transits, along with this one, call for prudence as there can be separations,
and even physical death of associates, close friends and family members.
Much of this
is connected to the unfavorable travel transits of spring and summer 2024.
Many
people who read this may be dismayed at my advice to stay closer to home, if at
all possible, but with the Summer Olympic Games taking place in France in 2024 that will not be possible.
In 2023,
there have been a number of attacks on tourists in Paris, so I strongly urge care
during extended travel and being in crowds due to the influences of the planets
in 2024 overall.
Extra security measures will call for more support due to the
energetic planetary transits that extend into mid-summer 2024.
‘PREPARING FOR THE NEAR FUTURE’
In this post pandemic era, it is important to know the transits and progressions of your personal horoscope.
The mid-to-late 2020s are key in getting positioned for the
turbulent decade of the 2030s.
The years
2024, 2025, 2026, used consciously, can provide enough support for you to
solidify your domestic and professional lives before the late 2020s slides into
more challenging planetary configurations that leads into the dystopian 2030s,
under a quiescent Sun.
I remind
everyone that our Sun is heading into its Grand Minimum by the end of the 2020s
with the weather of global cooling intensifying powerfully in the 2030s.
Those
interested in knowing how the world transits and your own secondary
progressions can contact me at astro730@gmail.com
When you
write, please include your birthday, time of birth and city/town of birth. Also,
briefly state what your aspirations, goals and plans for the next 3 to 5 years.
One of the
reasons for knowing your own transits and progressions other than the effects
of the total solar eclipse and the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in April 2024, is
that after those planetary events is that
Another series of planetary action in 2024, will be the start of what will be three (3) Jupiter-Saturn world squares that will rotate around the Earth for nearly a year:
·
1st
square – August 19, 2024
·
2nd
square – December 24, 2024
·
3rd
square – June 15, 2025
Know that
these world squares will affect financial matters as both Jupiter and Saturn
are considered the major ‘business’ planets.
The
Jupiter-Saturn world squares indicate that there will be expansion, growth and volatility financial markets, and so caution will need to be exercised in business
operations so as to avoid indebtedness as economies of scale will tend to slow
down.
Under the Jupiter-Saturn world squares, unemployment will tend to rise, as the atmosphere can see people
go back and forth between optimism and pessimism in business.
During this
10-11 month span from August 2024 to June-July 2025 individuals will be faced
with conflicts and moral crisis that involve cultural, ethical and spiritual
decisions.
Generally, it is a time where there will be business, domestic and
professional difficulties that will require preparation.
Watch for
people who will neglect important responsibilities due to experiencing barriers
in getting support from those in positions of authority, including from institutions.
This is one
reason why the months from December 2023 through to June 2024 are vital in
making certain that you are prepared enough going into the second half of 2024
and all of 2025, which is another major solar year with a series of Saturn-Neptune
conjunctions to take place that year.
The major
planetary transit at that time will be a Mars retrograde in tropical Leo (Dec.
6, 2024) then back into tropical Cancer (Jan. 6, 2025) and then Mars stations
direct in tropical Cancer on Feb. 24-25, 2025 to return back to its retrograde
point at 6-degrees Leo on May 1-2, 2025.
These
eclipses and planetary transits from 2024 into 2025 reveal a world undergoing a
gradual, but strongly paced change in times.
Nations and their populations
will either evolve or devolve, but nonetheless, the transits of time as caused
by their motions and configurations relative to the Earth.
IS IT MADNESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
Israel’s war on Gaza has sent shock waves echoing throughout the Middle East. Mohamed Naeem, an Egyptian socialist activist, talks about the war’s impact and the way countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iran are likely to respond.
By Mohamed Naeem
When Israel’s war on Gaza began, the political situation in the Middle East was already far from stable. Iran faced mass protests, and Egypt was wrestling with Ethiopia over the waters of the Nile.
Elsewhere, Arab-Israeli relations were beginning to thaw, as the Gulf monarchies sought to expand their political and economic reach through free-trade agreements and diplomatic normalization.
In this conversation, the Egyptian Marxist Mohamed Naeem discusses how the strategic interests of these powers may inform their response to the ongoing war, and what Israel’s all-out assault will mean for the region’s future. A longer version of this interview previously appeared, in Arabic, in the Lebanese magazine Al-Morasel.
Mahmoud Mroueh: What are the transformations in the Gulf that have affected Gaza, in your opinion? And how have they affected it?
Mohamed Naeem: "In my estimation, the situation in the Gulf, appearing victorious over the rubble of the Arab Spring, seizes the opportunity of the defeat of the people’s movements to consolidate the foundations of a new regional order.
In this order, Gulf money plays the dominant role politically and economically and imposes its own vision of the meaning of the people, their value, and the limits of their freedoms.
But we must differentiate here between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Qatar.
The cases of Qatar and the Emirates are alike: they are corporate states, where only a small minority of the population has citizenship of the country, and they are more like shareholders in the state corporation.
But Saudi Arabia, in the final analysis, is a country with its own internal dynamics and forces.
Of course, it is governed by an absolute monarchy and an iron security system. But there remain tens of millions of Saudi Arab people on the Arabian Peninsula in Najd, the Hijaz, and the Eastern Province.
They have a diverse spectrum of moods and inclinations that was capable of producing both Osama bin Laden and Juhayman al-Otaibi at the far right of the scene, and Abdelrahman Munif and Nasser Al-Saeed at the left.
This is also relatively true of Kuwait, although it is smaller, and Bahrain as well, where an early uprising broke out at the beginning of the Arab Spring.
Gulf money plays the dominant role politically and economically and imposes its own vision.
Before the Arab Spring (2011) the Gulf was seeking to renew itself and modernize its social structures quietly in the face of charges of supporting terrorism and promoting Islamic obscurantism.
But the equation changed after that, with a new emphasis on generalizing the modernist, neoliberal, and autocratic model of “efficient” monarchical rule throughout the region.
Mahmoud Mroueh: How do you read the position of Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the war?
Mohamed Naeem: There is a trade project extending from India to Israel, passing through the Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
These are matters that are changing the characteristics of the region and the world and could spark wars if they are not part of regional agreements in which all parties agree.
Saudi Arabia’s position is currently unclear to me, and I cannot decide. It has handled its dealings with caution so far, and as the largest Gulf country and the largest country in the Arab Levant that is still organically cohesive, it has a high degree of maneuverability.
There is a trade project extending from India to Israel, passing through the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
There could be an Israeli effort to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia, but what would make Saudi Arabia rush to do so when Israel can offer a higher price to the Palestinians in return?
In the final analysis, Saudi Arabia does not hate the good of the Palestinians as long as they come under its wing.
I believe that it will try to mediate between the parties to have a dominant say in the most critical moments in the conflict, so that it can benefit from all outcomes.
There is a difference between the Saudi position and the Emirati position. The UAE has taken great strides toward normalization, the extent of which I do not have data about.
I do not understand how far the horizons of cooperation, coordination, and overlap have reached, starting with business and extending into security cooperation.
Mahmoud Mroueh: If we talk about Egypt, how do its leading minds think about this war and Gaza in general? And who are these minds today? Who are its institutional poles?
Peace between Egypt and Israel is not the peace of the braves, as Anwar Sadat said it was. It is actually closer to the peace of snakes.
It should not be underestimated that the current regional reality is primarily based on the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, which represents the most established and stable understanding in the region for nearly fifty years.
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the country retreat of the President of the United States in Maryland. The two framework agreements were signed at the White House and were witnessed by President Jimmy Carter.
It is an old and established peace - a legacy of cooperation, security coordination, and mutual business.
But at the same time, it is a peace between enemies, in which each party is well aware of its structural hostility to the other. It is a hostility that could express itself suddenly at any moment.
Why is the existence of a “peaceful Egypt” taken for granted while it faces a strategic, existential challenge with Ethiopia over the sources of the Nile, as well as existential challenges at the level of its public finances and economy?
This region, and even the world, is still oblivious to the idea of Egypt as a force of sabotage and escalation. This is something that may have terrifying costs locally, regionally, and globally.
Mahmoud Mroueh: How do you view the calculations of other regional powers?
Iran’s Islamic Republic regime has been facing widespread, courageous, and self-sacrificing popular protests for more than three years.
Mahmoud Mroueh: Is the Palestinian resistance threatened with exile this time as well - a scenario similar to the PLO’s expulsion from Beirut in 1982?
The perception that Egypt will rule the Palestinians militarily on behalf of the Israelis is extremely foolish.
Suppose, for example, that Israel reoccupies Gaza and installs a puppet authority, which I do not think is that straightforward. If it happens, it will only last for a few years. Let us imagine the displacement of the Palestinians for several kilometers into Egypt. Would that mean that the story is over?
The perception that Egypt will rule the Palestinians militarily on behalf of the Israelis is extremely foolish.
Mahmoud Mroueh: In conclusion, what impact do you expect this crisis to have on the authorities in the region, especially if the war lasts for a long time and the scope of popular mobilization in support of the resistance and the people of the Gaza Strip expands?
Mohamed Naeem: This will be determined by how these authorities behave and how they manage their positions within this conflict, as well as the impact of the war or its extension on people’s daily lives, materially, morally, and emotionally. I cannot generalize, so I can only talk about Egypt.
I believe that in the Egyptian case, this war will reconnect the national issue - the issue of national liberation and the relationship with imperialism and its representatives in the region - with the social issue, the issue of freedom and democracy.
It will be difficult to separate them from each other, especially after the American liberal discourse has revealed a very ugly face and a disdain for our existence as human beings from bottom to top.
This is what will push people back to extreme positions in all aspects: nationalist, leftist, Islamist - everything.
THE 21ST CENTURY
A powerful total solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, August 12, 2045, when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.
A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness.
Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometers wide.
In this
total solar eclipse of August 2045, the path of totality similar to, but not
exactly the same as the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse because the lunar
node is descending, but the lunar node at the August 2017 solar eclipse was
ascending.
The solar
eclipse of August 21, 2017 had a very similar path of totality over the U.S.,
about 250 miles (400 km) to the northeast, also crossing the Pacific coast and
Atlantic coast of the country.
Again, this is
because when a solar eclipse crosses the United States in mid-August at an
ascending node (moves from south to north during odd-numbered Saros) the path
of the eclipse tracks from coast to coast.
When a solar eclipse crosses the U.S. in mid-August at descending node (even numbered Saros) then the path tracks a large distance southward.
Here are total solar eclipses over North America during the 21st century:
click on graphic to enlarge
Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci
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