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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

GLOBAL ASTROLOGY - Signs of The Times: Giant Perigee October 2024 SuperMoon & Sunset Comet Seen Worldwide >> Also, Refresh & Get Ready For 2025: Into The Mid-2020s >> Plus, Bright Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Races Across Earth’s Skies >> Caution for Earthquakes & More Storms

 Signs of The Times:
October 2024 - March 2025



Giant Perigee October 2024 SuperMoon To Be Seen Worldwide



Also,

Bright Comet Races Across Earth’s Skies


Refresh & Get Ready For 2025:
'Into The Mid-2020s'


GLOBAL ASTROLOGY


by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

‘They saw the stars their constant round mountains,

Perform their course, and then return again. They, on their aspects saw the Fates attend.

Their change on their variety depend,

And thence they fixed unalterable laws,

Settling the same effect on the same cause.” 

~ mundane astrologer Marcus Manilius


by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

The times we currently experience in 2024 have been full of presages and celestial events all year. 

From major planetary conjunctions to a season of solar and lunar eclipses, what we have witnessed so far to date in 2024 call for strict attention going into next year of 2025.

On October 16-17, there is a perigee 'supermoon' on tap.

On Wednesday night, Oct. 16th, the Moon, in tropical Aries, will be very close to, or already at perigee, but it will also be closer to the time when it actually turns full on Thursday morning, October 17th.

So, if you want to get a full "supermoon effect," then Wednesday evening is your night. 


I also continue to warn on flurries of earthquakes under the current planetary era we are now and caution to have emergency preparedness plans updated ad supplies refreshed through the remainder of 2024.

All of this year, from geophysical, geopolitical and metaphysical events, from war, to famine, to powerful storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, torrential rains and floods, the events of 2024 that have changed and altered the lives of tens of thousands of people, yea, even millions globally – speak to the significance of the signs of the times.

One commenter on 2024's events writes:

"This is an exceptionally turbulent and dangerous period we’re living in these days. 

Hurricanes Helene and Milton come and go, leaving terror, death and calamitous destruction in their wake.

A one-year-old war continues to rage on the two of Israel’s three land borders, threatening to expand into a regional conflict pitting Israel against Iran with Syria, Iraq and the Gulf States potentially getting pulled in also.

In Eastern Europe, a now 30-month-old war continues as neither Russia nor Ukraine sees its objectives achieved with any current ceasefire proposals.

The United States is at the center of all of it. Places like Asheville, North Carolina and Tampa Bay, Florida, comparatively unscathed by hurricanes for a century, have been clobbered just in the last month.

Were it not for the consistent and largely unconditional support of the US for the past 76 years since its post-World War II creation as the world’s Jewish state, Israel, might well have disappeared decades ago. And American military support continues to prop up the beleaguered Kyiv regime of Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky."

Indeed, as we near the change of the North Lunar Node in January 2025, and the coming conjunction of Saturn and Neptune near the Vernal Equinox point all through next year it also appears that the global economy is entering a "dangerous time" like never before as Middle East tensions remain elevated, according to S&P Global's vice chairman Daniel Yergin:

"Since the Israel-Hamas conflict began on 7 October 2023, the oil market has experienced minimal disruptions, with prices remaining under pressure as a result of increased U.S. production and weak demand from China.

However, this sentiment has been shifting.

Oil prices spiked the first week of October 2024 on fears that Israel could target Iran's oil industry in retaliation for Tehran's ballistic missile attack, with industry analysts raising concerns about a genuine threat to supply.


The Israelis have not concluded what they're going to do in terms of a strike - that's under discussion," said U.S. President Joe Biden, who told reporters at a White House press briefing last week that he discouraged Israel from striking Iranian oil facilities.

Last week, both oil benchmarks saw their biggest weekly gain since March 2023.

During Asia trading on Tuesday, global benchmark Brent slipped 1.77% to $79.50 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate traded 1.83% lower at $75.77 per barrel.

Yergin told CNBC that he expects Israeli retaliation will not just be a replay of last April, but something "much stronger."

In April, Iran and Israel came to blows but ultimately avoided a full-scale war. Iran fired hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones at Israel in retaliation for an attack on an Iranian diplomatic facility in Syria.

When asked if the global economy is on the precipice of another supply shock resulting from Middle East tensions, Yergin said it's a precarious time for markets.

"I think it's a very dangerous time, one that we haven't seen," he said. 

Additionally, while Yergin maintained that it is not certain whether Iranians have operational nuclear weapons, that is still "certainly in the backdrop," particularly through the lens of the Israelis.

"The betting is that the Israelis would not attack, try to attack, the nuclear facilities at this time.

But a few months from now, a few weeks from now, whatever it is, Iran would have the capacity - it's thought - to deliver a nuclear weapon, and that raises the stakes," he said, likening the moment to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

That said, Israel is a lot more concerned about Iran's nuclear facilities than the Iranian oil industry, said Pavel Molchanov, managing director of investment services firm Raymond James.

Iran's nuclear program has progressed to a stage where, in approximately one week, the country could potentially enrich enough uranium for five fission weapons, according to estimates by Iran Watch, a website published by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.

"The worst-case scenario would be something that Iran can do on its own, which is a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. So this is not directly related to Israeli airstrikes or missiles. 

The strait, between Oman and Iran, is a vital channel where about one-fifth of global oil production flows daily, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

It is a strategically important waterway linking crude producers in the Middle East with key markets across the world.

The inability of oil to traverse through the strait, even temporarily, can increase shipping costs, lead to considerable supply delays and ratchet up global energy prices, with some surmising that a worst-case scenario could prompt oil prices to surge above $100 a barrel."

Going into 2025 it will be necessary for the good reader to have a good outline of how to meet your goals and obligations enough to minimize the continued onslaught of international and global events into your lifestyle.

Judicial, or Mundane Astrology relates to forecasts on general events globally, regional, internationally and locally.

It concerns itself with the rise and fall of empires, revolutions, conflicts, wars; as well as kings, queens, nations and their leaders and with astrometeorology, the weather and climate, droughts, floods, famine, the atmosphere, as well as pestilence and famine.

A.J. Pearce writes that, “There is no question that mundane astrology was based upon the results of a centuries’ long series of observations, as Manilius avers, the inductive method being followed in reducing it to a science.”

This present era, October 2024, call for prudence, patience, and planning into the 2025 that is just ahead.


Refresh & Get Ready For 2025
Into The Mid-2020s


The Millennial Generation, those born 1981-1995, are now in their 30s and early 40s going into the new solar year of 2025 - a major year worldwide.

Facing life going into their middle age years, this generation will be tasked with finding themselves as an already fast-paced world gets even faster and more complex as the midway point of the 2020s arrives.

Into the common year of 2025, the last remaining significant of this 2024 are those that bring to end the issues that have been ongoing since July 2023. 

Here are the remaining world transits of Common Year 2024:

*Red color indicates strong global influence*

· October 12, 2024 – PLUTO DIRECT AT 29-CAPRICORN

·        November 15, 2024 – SATURN DIRECT AT 12-PISCES

·        November 26, 2024 – MERCURY RETROGRADE AT 22-SAGITTARIUS

 

·        December 6, 2024 – MARS RETROGRADE AT 6-LEO (until February 23-24, 2025)

·        December 7, 2024 – NEPTUNE DIRECT AT 27-PISCES

·        December 13, 2024 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO

·        December 15, 2024 – MERCURY DIRECT AT 6-SAGITTARIUS

·        December 24, 2024 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (2nd of 3 world squares)

The transits of October, November and December 2024 are calling for attention to the future as the Lunar Nodes are winding down their presence on the Aries-Libra axis where they have been since July 2023.

These wind-down months of the Lunar Nodes - October, November and December 2024 - can be applied very well, that is, if you are not distracted by events and the upcoming holiday season as many will be.

Those who have experienced natural disasters, such as the recent hurricanes, storms, floods and wind damage and lost homes and properties are already looking ahead to the future as they recover.

The recovery will go well for many, so, by the time of June, July and August 2025, new lives will begin to get underway.

The entry into the middle years of the 2020s require that individuals and their families know their own nativities (horoscopes) their Transits, Secondary Progressions and Solar Returns.

Those reaching the ages of 28-30, 34-36, 43-45, 53-57, 75-77, will want to know what 2025 holds for them in changes as the world enters the mid-2020s. 


My analysis of the planetary transits of  the common year 2025 hold significant importance for a great many people worldwide.

According to my calculations, 2025 will be a major year of events, and also include bright futures for those who us the planetary transits well in their lives so as to successfully meet their aspirations, goals and plans.

Here are the major world transits of Common Year 2025:

*Red color indicates strong global influence*

·  11 January 2025 - LUNAR NODES ENTER PISCES-VIRGO AXIS

·  January 26, 2025 – SATURN SEMI SQUARE PLUTO (3rd exact world semi square)

·        January 30, 2025 – VENUS HEADS NORTH IN DECLINATION

·       January 30, 2025 – URANUS STATIONS DIRECT AT 23-TAURUS


·       February 4, 2025 – JUPITER STATIONS DIRECT AT 11-GEMINI

February 4, 2025 - VENUS ENTERS 0-ARIES

·        February 24, 2025 – MARS STATIONS DIRECT AT 17-CANCER


·       March 2, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS NORTH IN DECLINATION

·      March 2, 2025 – VENUS RETROGRADE AT 10-ARIES

·  March 14, 2025 - LUNAR ECLIPSE at 23-24 VIRGO


·        March 15, 2025 – MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE AT 9-ARIES

· 20 MARCH 2025 - VERNAL EQUINOX - SUN ENTERS 0-ARIES

·  March 29, 2025 - PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE AT 9-ARIES

· 22 MARCH 2025 - VENUS TURNS MORNING STAR

·  30 March 2025 - NEPTUNE ENTERS TROPICAL ARIES


·        April 3, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS SOUTH IN DECLINATION

 April 4, 2025 – SATURN SEXTILE URANUS - 1st of three sextile aspects)

·        April 7, 2025 – MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT AT 26-PISCES

·        April 13, 2025 – VENUS STATIONS DIRECT AT 24-PISCES

·  30 APRIL 2025 - VENUS RE-ENTERS O-ARIES
 

·        April 17, 2025 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO

·        April 23, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS NORTH IN DECLINATION

·        May 4, 2025 – PLUTO STATIONS RETROGRADE AT 3-AQUARIUS

25 MAY 2025 - SATURN ENTERS TROPICAL ARIES

·        June 4, 2025 – JUPITER SEMI-SEXTILE URANUS

·  9 JUNE 2025 - JUPITER ENTERS TROPICAL CANCER


·        June 15, 2025 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (3rd and final world square)

·        June 19, 2025 – JUPITER SQUARE NEPTUNE

·        June 24, 2025 – JUPITER QUINCUNX PLUTO

4 July 2025 - NEPTUNE STATIONS RETROGRADE at 2-ARIES

12-13 July 2025 - SATURN STATIONS RETROGRADE at 1-ARIES

These major transits through to July 2025 will be of notable interest to the good reader as the entry indicates it will be a major year for a great many people worldwide.

The year itself opens in a manner that brings to an end most matters that governed the first four years since the historic Jupiter-Saturn conjunction that began in December 2020. 

Since the COVID-19 pandemic that also began in 2020, most people have had to seriously adjust their domestic and working lifestyles during and after the pandemic; sparking significant changes for populations worldwide.

As solar year 2024 comes to an end, the planetary transits of 2025 and the mid-2020s can offer you very positive changes, if you are conscious and willing to map a course personalized for you and your family going into the middle to latter years of this decade.

Your goals, thoughts, aspirations and planning will determine how you will successfully meet your wants, needs and desires throughout the mid-to-late 2020s.

It will also determine how you will be able to successfully navigate into the early-to-mid 2030s. 

If you want to know what your personalized transits, progressions and returns hold for you in 2025, you can contact me at astro730@gmail.com

When you write, please include your birthday, time and place of birth. Also include your current geographic region if different from your city/town of birthday.

Briefly comment on your current situations, as well as your aspirations, goals and plans for 2025.

Meanwhile, the third of four 'Supermoons' is about to get underway in mid-October and it will be the biggest supermoon of 2024 just as a comet races across Earth's skies.


Giant Perigee October 2024 SuperMoon To Be Seen Worldwide


by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

On Thursday, October 17th, the biggest Full Moon of 2024 will occur at 24-25 degrees of tropical Aries.

This ‘Hunter’s Moon,’ is also a Supermoon, and those who want to take a look will witness a giant Moon at 'perigee,' closest to the Earth. 

The Moon will look 10% larger than it normal does to the observer.

October's full moon will be visible waxing to its full lunar phase before the Sun rises on Thursday, Oct. 17th and due to its proximity to Earth, the Moon will appear to be already full in the days before.

On Thursday (Oct. 17) at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 GMT), the Aries Moon will officially turn full.

But less than 11 hours earlier, at 8:48 p.m. EDT on Wednesday night, Oct. 16th, the Moon will have arrived at perigee, its closest point to Earth at a distance of 221,938 miles (357,174 km) away. 


This Hunter's full moon is the third of four perigee ‘supermoons’ this year, as the fourth and final one will begin on November 15, 2024.

October's perigee Moon to the Earth will be the biggest supermoon of 2024 as its entire surface facing us is illuminated by the Sun. 

Amid the perigee Moon there is also the sight of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) - called by some 'the comet of the century. It will still be visible just as the Sun sets in the west. More on that later.

On average, Supermoons will appear to be about seven percent larger and about 15% brighter than a typical full moon.

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The graphic above depict the line that connects the Moon's perigee with lunar apogee defines the Moon’s major axis, which is the longest axis of an ellipse.

When the Moon’s major axis - or apogee-perigee line - points toward the Sun (A and C on the diagram) - the eccentricity (or flatness) of the Moon’s orbit is increased to a maximum.

A greater eccentricity will lessen the perigee distance, but increases the apogee distance.

At 'A' in the drawing, it is a 'perigee' new Moon (supermoon) and an apogee full moon, or, what is called technically a 'micro-moon.'

Then, some 3.5 lunar months (which is 103 days) later, at 'B' in the diagram, the major axis is at a right angle to the sun-Earth line, so the eccentricity of the Moon’s orbit is minimal.

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At this time, the Moon’s orbit is more circular.

It’s a distant perigee and a 'closer' apogee, with the first quarter and last quarter Moons more or less aligned with apogee and perigee.

Then seven (7) lunar months (206 days) later, the major axis again points sunward.

Once again, the eccentricity of the Moon’s orbit is increased to a maximum, lessening the perigee distance yet increasing the apogee distance.

But this time, it is a 'full' Moon perigee.

Compared to the Moon at its faintest, a 'Supermoon' is about 14% larger and 30% brighter.


If you are a stargazer as I am, then you will be able to enjoy the Moon’s peak illumination on Thursday, October 17th just before the Moon sets in the western skies as the Sun rises in the east. 

The Moon will still appear to be quite large, nearly full, after the exact Moon-Sun axis is perfected between 7-9 a.m. ET on Thursday morning, October 17th and will appear to remain full for about another two or so days because of its perigee closeness to Earth.

Between October 14 through Oct. 21st, from 7:30 p.m. through to 4:30 a.m., you can see the constellations and stars of Pisces, Aries, Taurus and Gemini rising after midnight in the eastern skies, the Ascendant.

If you stay up throughout the night, then with clear skies, you will also be able to see transiting Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, along with the transiting Moon during that week of October.


‘GEOPHYSICAL & METAPHYSICAL EFFECTS’

As the good reader who follows my forecasts already know, the geophysical impacts of a perigee ‘supermoon’ can be quite impressive with effects on powerful storms even before the full lunar phase is perfected.

During this time into mid-October, as you read this, you may find interesting news events on earthquakes. Look for them and post them in the comment section if you would like.

For months, I have been forecasting and warning on powerful storms, floods, adverse weather, along with seismic activity of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, so if you see, hear, or experience them, let us know.

The before and aftereffects of a perigee Moon always must be kept in mind by the astrometeorologists when determining the strength and direction of storms.

Consider hurricanes Helene and Milton over the United States in during these spates of perigee Moon and you will see what I mean with their devastating consequences for life and property.

Even in Nigeria, the tremors being felt are cause for alarm there.

The Moon is the closest planetary body to the Earth and so the Moon also produces the largest gravitational force on the Earth.

There are even moonquakes that take place on the Moon itself. Those are primarily governed by the Earth’s position’ - especially when Moon is at perigee, as it will be in mid-October 2024.

As an Astromet, I have found that seismic activity, in the for of earthquakes and even volcanic eruptions can increase steadily from the Moon’s apogee to perigee relative to the Earth.

The Moon’s transits from the ascending nodes can be used to predict earthquake patterns. I have done this for years, numerous times.

In doing so, I have found that major earthquakes happen more in number when a perigee occurs with a Full Moon and a New Moon than when the Moon is at apogee with similar planetary and solar configurations.


But during the waning phase, the transition from Full Moon to the New Moon, the number of quakes gradually reduces as the Moon reaches its third quarter as events of earthquakes usually is in relation to the variations of tidal forming effects from the Sun and Moon.

There are exceptions of course, as any adverse and hard planetary configurations can spark significant seismic activity.

I have found that it is when the Moon is at perigee that there are more earthquakes felt and reported worldwide than they are when the Moon is at apogee.

Of course, as during my training in the GEM method of my tutor Charles Jayne and the works of L. Edward Johndro on astrological influences by means of transfers of light and especially electricity and magnetism - it can be concluded that at the Moon’s perigee, due to higher gravitational force, we have more earthquakes.

When earthquakes worldwide trigger, they often are aligned from new moon to full moon, as there are increasing earthquake events until full moon.

At perigee-New Moon there are more earthquakes than at the perigee Full -Moon phase.

The reason is because at the perigee-New Moon the Sun is behind Moon and so the combined force doubly acts in the same direction.

Effects on humans by the Moon are well known

According to the New Scientist piece from 2020:

"In February 1954, biologist Frank Brown discovered something that made no sense.

While investigating whether oysters can keep time, he had found that they open their shells to feed at high tide, roughly twice a day.

Brown had a hunch they weren’t simply responding to changes in their environment but would continue the rhythm even if moved far from the sea.

To find out, he shipped a batch of oysters from the ocean off New Haven, Connecticut, hundreds of kilometres inland to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Brown kept the shellfish in a sealed darkroom, shielded from changes in temperature, pressure, water currents and light.

At first, the oysters kept their rhythm, feeding each day in time with the New Haven tides.

Then, something strange happened – their feeding times gradually shifted until they lagged 3 hours behind.

Brown was mystified, until he realized that they had adapted to the local state of the Moon: they were feeding at times when Evanston, if it were by the sea, would experience high tide.

Despite having no obvious environmental cues, it seemed these shellfish were somehow tracking lunar cycles."

Brown became convinced that oysters, humans and all life forms are plugged into subtle cosmic cues, continuously sensing both lunar and solar movements to coordinate biological processes, from metabolism to reproduction.

But his ideas seemed outlandish to his peers.

Brown’s results were forgotten, and the notion of lunar influences was dismissed as pseudoscience which is a term that those who are uneducated use when they do not understand something that they themselves never studied or applied themselves to understand.

Anyhow, growing evidence from a range of scientific fields suggested that Brown might have been correct.

Though unusual to those calling it a 'pseudoscience' of the many dramatic influences that the Moon might have on animal biology and human biology - science has proven it to be true.

For instance, a seabird known as Barau's Petrel synchronizes its breeding schedule so that it will arrive to mate on a Full Moon.

Dung beetles have been repeatedly observed in using the Moon to make sure they move their meals in a straight line.

Crustaceans known as sand hoppers have a Moon compass in their antennae so they'll know when to stay buried.

The coral polyps in the Great Barrier Reef start their mass spawning according to the Moon's cycles.

Perhaps, hidden beneath our more obvious earthly rhythms, we are also creatures of the Moon.

The Moon has a significant influence on Earth.


Every month, 'spring' tides occur when the Moon is full and new.

Now, the word 'spring' comes from the German word 'springen' that is, to 'spring up,' and is not a reference to the spring season.

Anyhow, during these times of 'spring tides' the Moon and Sun form a line with the Earth, and their tidal effects combine together. The Sun produces a little less than half of the tidal force of the Moon.


In Astrometeorology, what are called 'neap" tides', are when the Moon is at first and last quarter phase. At these phases the tides are weak.

The highest tides do not always coincide with a perigee moon but will actually lag by up to several days depending on the location.

The Moon's tidal force can vary as the inverse cube of an object's distance. In October 2024, the Moon is 12.2% closer at perigee than at apogee.

So, the Moon will have and push 42% more tidal force at this particular full moon compared to the spring tides for the "micro" full moon that will come with lunar apogee in April 2025.

The most noticeable are the rising and falling of tides, but there are other effects that are less understood.

When the perigee moon is close to the horizon it can appear huge.

That is when the famous 'lunar illusion' combines with reality to produce a truly stunning view.

For reasons that are not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, a low-hanging moon looks incredibly large when hovering near to trees, buildings and other foreground objects.


A Full Hunter's Moon rises above the Brooklyn Bridge &  Manhattan Bridge in New York City, USA on 28 October 2023, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey.
Image by: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

The Moon also influences the tilt of Earth’s rotation axis and how fast it wobbles. It is known as 'precession' in Applied Astrology.

Without the Moon, the Earth's wobble would be greater and change much more quickly.

The result would be far greater differences between the seasons and much greater variation in climate with latitude over evolutionary timescales.

Other than the usual upticks in violence and emotional reactions, it appears that the Moon indeed affects both man and beast.

The idea that the Moon impacts certain aspects of physical and mental health can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome and is well-documented in the writings of classical authors like Aristotle and Lucilius.

For centuries, physicians and philosophers blamed behavioral changes on the pull of the Moon. The word 'lunatic' comes from the observations that changes in mental state were directly related to the Moon's phases.

For instance, famed British jurist William Blackstone wrote that people gained and lost their ability to reason according to the Moon’s shifting phases.

During the 1970s, psychiatrist Arnold Lieber theorized that the Moon changed the body’s biological tides and altered human behavior, leading to increased rates of violence and homicide.

One 2021 scientific study found that people fell asleep later during Full Moons and slept less overall on the nights before the full moon.

A 2015 study of 205 people found that the full moon may affect sleep differently in males and females.

Researchers found that many females slept less and have less REM sleep when the full moon phase is near, whereas males have more REM sleep closer and during a full moon.

Other research suggested that the full moon may be associated with less deep sleep and increased REM (rapid eye movement) latency.

Sleep latency is the period between when you first fall asleep and when you enter the first stage of REM sleep. So, increased latency means it takes a longer time to get to REM sleep.

Researchers have found that those with bipolar disorder may be affected by changes in the lunar cycle.


Specifically, a 2018 study examined 17 people whose bipolar disorder tended to switch rapidly from depression to mania.

The study showed that the circadian pacemaker (a small group of nerves) in these individuals became synchronized with lunar patterns.

It caused changes in their sleep that then triggered a shift from depression symptoms to mania symptoms.

In a 2019 case study of a woman with bipolar II disorder, researchers suggested that this Moon-mood connection can be treated by changing some medications (especially thyroid medications and antidepressants) and using light therapy.

Those who want to know more and see other scientific studies, please see The Lunar Cycle: effects on human and animal behavior and physiology.


Bright Comet Races Across Earth’s Skies

"Like a comet burn'd,
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war." 

~ Milton


by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

In Astrometeorology and Mundane Astrology, there are said to be foreshadowing and previous celestial events such as comets that presage later major events to follow.

I have forecast many events over the course of my forecasting life as an astromet and mundane astrologer, however, this science and art has been with us since the dawn of humanity.

In this early era of global cooling, as the Sun heads deeper into quiescent solar cycle #25 and into its soon-to-be Grand Minimum, the solar, lunar, planetary and yes, even stellar signs point to a very active decade of the 2020s, 2030s, 2040s and even the 2050s.

The presages, portents and signs of comets, historic planetary conjunctions and of course, eclipses of the Sun and Moon have shown to me that we are in very interesting and to some, very dangerous and challenges times ahead.

Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) on 15 October 2024 over Slovakia by moonlight
Image by: Petr Horálek

People from around the northern and southern hemispheres have been taking pictures of the "comet of the century" - which has been observed streaking across the skies after sunset.

Comet A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was seen in September 2024 from Earth for the first time since the Neanderthals were alive.

 Like Earth, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) crossed the orbital plane of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on Oct. 14, 2024.

This captured image from the spacecraft's coronagraph shows what happened:




The diagonal band of light is comet dust scattering sunlight into the coronagraph's camera.

When SOHO crosses the orbital plane, the band shrinks into an exquisitely thin line.

It is like piloting a spacecraft through the rings of Saturn and seeing them edge-on. Something similar occured to SOHO.


Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, or C/2023 A3, was first detected in 9 January 2023 by the Tsuchinshan Observatory in China and by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in South Africa - where it got its name.

What happened was that on February 22, 2023, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa detected a new faint object that was proven to be a comet.

It was temporarily designated as A10SVYR.

The comet was also independently captured by a telescope at Purple Mountain Observatory (Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory) on January 9, 2023.

It was added to the list of objects awaiting confirmation, but after no follow-up observations were reported, it was removed on January 30, 2023, and was considered lost.

Based on the comet naming system, the comet received the names of both observatories and was officially named C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS).

Originating from the Oort Cloud, which is a large shell of icy debris in outer solar space, the comet, primarily made of dust, ice, and rock, was last seen in the Southern Hemisphere and Tropics until October 8, 2024.

Visibility in the Northern Hemisphere peaked on October 12, but the comet and its long dust tail will remain seeable until October 21. However, the comet will fade over time as it moves farther from the Earth.

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Here is a plot for the visibility of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in the coming weeks.

The lower the magnitude, the brighter the comet appears. The brightest objects have negative magnitude values.

October 14-20: from 0.5 to 1.7 magnitude, the comet is losing brightness, but is moving farther from the Sun and therefore easier to see.

The comet will be visible with the naked eye in the evening about an hour after sunset.

You can also see the comet's 'anti-tail' which is a bright streak that appears to be pointing toward the Sun, opposite the other tails.

By October 15th, the comet will pass 1.4° from the M5 globular cluster, providing a good photo opportunity as it passes through the constellation of Serpens Caput.

October 20-31: the comet goes from 1.9 to 3.9 magnitude as moves across the constellation Ophiuchus relatively high in the southwestern sky in the evening.

You can use with binoculars and telescopes. During those days (Oct. 20-31st) the tail of the comet will be seen to rapidly grow.

November 2024: the comet goes from 4 to 8 magnitude but is still visible in the evening. It will rise higher in the Northern Hemisphere after sunset.

December 2024: Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS goes from 8 to 10 magnitude, as it gradually moves closer to the Sun in our sky but rising lower above the horizon. It will not be visible from the Southern Hemisphere.

See for yourself. The comet comes out of the twilight about 45 minutes after your local sunset.

It is easy to find using binoculars and, then, once you find it, is easy to see with the unaided eye.

The comet's long tail stretches more than 10 degrees above the western horizon, remaining visible in the moonlight for as much as an hour after the head of the comet sets.

There is an 'anti-tail' of the comet emerging from the comet's head.

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is now well visible low above the western horizon just after sunset for observers in the Northern Hemisphere.

While the comet is still close to the Sun, it will gradually move farther away throughout the week, making it easier to spot.

Although it will lose brightness, your chances of seeing the comet will improve. It’s visible to the naked eye, but a pair of 10x50 binoculars will give you an even better view.

In the Southern Hemisphere, the comet remains closer to the Sun, but visibility will improve with each passing day.

Around October 16-17, 2024, observers in southern latitudes should be able to see Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS as its apparent distance from the Sun will increase. 

See it in this amazing capture of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Lorenzo Comolli of Sicily, Italy, that was taken on 14 October 2024.

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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS - 14 October 2024 from Sicily, Italy
Image by: Lorenzo Comolli

A number of British stargazers said they had spotted the comet on Saturday, October 12, 2024, after the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) predicted it might be visible to the naked eye.

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London, England - Arash Sefidgaran said: "Finally after weeks of waiting for the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet to be visible at higher latitudes like London, I managed to view and capture this stunning sight today, 12 October 2024."
Image by: Arash Sefidgaran

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS came within about 70 million km (44 million miles) of Earth on October 12, 2024.

The comet will be visible in the northern hemisphere through to 30 October 2024 - and will easily been seen over North America.

A second tail of the comet - called the ion tail - may be faintly observed. Some have dubbed the spectacle the “Comet of the Century” due to its recurrence time frame.

Stargazers can look west between Venus and Arcturus about 30 to 45 minutes after sunset to view the comet.

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The comet was also visible in South Carolina, USA, shortly after sunset local time, in the western sky over the Lake Murray Dam Hydroelectric Intake Towers near Columbia on October 12, 2024
Image by: Reuters

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was also photographed in Spain, Italy, Uruguay, and Indonesia from late September to early October, when it was visible in the southern hemisphere.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS before dawn on 29 September 2024 from Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia.
Image by: Getty Images

In Mundane Astrology, comets are nearly always seen a malefic portents of things to come and there is another comet possibly on the way for late October and into November 2024.

Cycles of solar, lunar, planetary and stellar events are used in my mundane charts for determining the future of world events and trends.

The Bible itself refers to changes or new appearances in the heavens that were the harbingers of either calamities and/or a new order of things.

For instance, in a catalog of pestilences since the Christian era began, it was shown in the Atmospherical Origin of Epidemical Diseases by medical doctor T. Foster (1809) that it was discovered that on 262 occasions the appearance of comets coincided very closely.

In Mundane Astrology, comets are associated with the births and deaths of important individuals; and also presages on geopolitical and geophysical events.

Comets appearing in the eastern quarter of the skies generally bring about events quickly while in the west can manifest slower and often extend as long as three years. 

The effects on weather and climate can be a drier atmosphere to that over longer spans to condense the aqueous vapors.

By the time of the perigee 'Supermoon' on Thursday, October 17, 2024, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be at the foot of the constellation Virgo.

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The quarter of the heavens among the constellations where the comet appears can show the part of the world on which the comet's effects will primarily fall, that is the Sign of the Zodiac and the particular nation, government and/or kingdom governed by that Sign.

In Mundane Astrology, the countries, cities and towns ruled by Virgo are:

Syria, Brazil, Crete, Turkey, Thessaly, Croatia, Greece, Mesopotamia, from the Tigris to Euphrates, also Silesia, Switzerland, the state of Virginia and also the West Indies.

Cities and towns also ruled by Virgo are:

Jerusalem, Bury, Cheltenham, Maidstone, Norwich, Reading, Todmorden, Boston, Massachusetts, Brindisi, Corinth, Heidelberg, Lyons, Paris, Padua, Strasburg, Toulouse and Los Angeles, California.

By mundane empirical law, when a great comet appears in the skies, we may deduct that outstanding events will sure enough soon follow.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2024

The Global Financial Markets >> Prepare For Corrections & Geopolitics >> Caution: Adverse Transits For Extended Travelers >> Also, Forecast Rosh Hashanah 2024-2025: Is The Middle East On The Brink of War? >> ‘It’s an Earthquake’ - Beirut responds to Hassan Nasrallah’s death >> Plus, Your Nativity, Progressions & Returns: Get Ready For 2025 & The Mid-2020s

 

The Global Financial Markets - Prepare For Corrections & Geopolitics


Also,

Rosh Hashanah 2024:
Is The Middle East On The Brink of War?



 Plus,

"It’s an Earthquake!"
Beirut responds to Hassan Nasrallah’s Death


Also,

Presages, Portents & Signs:
An Annular Solar Eclipse


And,

Your Nativity, Progressions & Returns:
Get Ready For 2025 & The Mid-2020s


GLOBAL ASTROLOGY

by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

We live in fast changing times. As the world prepares to enter 2025 and the middle years of the decade of the 2020s; there is angst as conflicts around the world rage, as in the Middle East - prime among these deadly conflicts.

Then, there is the climate and weather. As the good reader will know, I have been warning of powerful storms, floods, large magnitude earthquakes and even volcanic events.

The geophysical power of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to Earth continue to remain at strong levels throughout October, November, December and into early 2025.

Caution:
Adverse Travel Transits For Extended Travelers


Planetary Transits Negative For Overseas Travel

by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

The good reader who may be living and/or working overseas is advised to push up by weeks their holiday season travel plans. 

During this time in October 2024, if you live overseas from your natural home, I would make plans now to return earlier than in December.

I also caution against extended travel through the upcoming holiday season as criminal and terrorist activity can be seen in planetary configurations.

I urge those who are thinking of extended travel - especially in December 2024 - to push up those plans and to make your travel plans take place earlier than normal. It may involve cancelling matters where you are now in order to do so, but it will be one of the best decisions you made in your life.

If you want to know the best travel dates according to your own natal transits and progressions, then contact me at astro730@gmail.com 

Due to planetary configurations, I  have surmised that international travel from late November through December 2024 is not advised. Flying by commercial airlines will be dangerous at that time.

Caution is 'strongly' urged.




Presages, Portents & Signs:
An Annular Solar Eclipse

Also, Before Sunrise Comet Races in the Heavens


On Wednesday, October 2nd, populations through regions of South America (southern Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil) the Pacific Ocean, and the Southern Atlantic Ocean will experience that annular solar eclipse at 10-degrees tropical Libra.

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For that Wednesday, October 2, 2024, the eclipse will have an extraordinary duration of 223 minutes. At the moment of maximum visibility (at the center of the eclipse path) the Sun will be 86% covered by the Moon, and only the outer edge of the sun will be visible

The annular solar eclipse will be visible over the South Pacific Ocean, South America, the Atlantic Ocean, and Antarctica. It will not be visible in North America, although Hawaii will be able to see it as a partial eclipse.

The global path of the 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024.
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In the midst of the annular solar eclipse in the southern hemisphere, there is a comet racing through sidereal Leo and Tropical Virgo that can be seen just before sunrise, and the planetary transits of the next several months indicate that the year 2025 will be one of major events to come.

When it was discovered in 2023, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, the comet was in the constellation Serpens, just about 4° south of the globular cluster M5.

Right now, the comet is as bright as a star of magnitude +3.4 and that makes it an easy sight for those with binoculars, cameras and telescopes.

The comet has a tail 1° long and glowing at magnitude 3.4 as that puts it into range of human eyes.

However, the onset of early morning twilight can make viewing difficult.

To look for it, get up early as I do before sunrise, look east, and use your binoculars or a telescope at low power.


Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Image by Yuri Beletsky on September 24, 2024 at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile.

For some stargazers who get up early before the Sun rises, the comet will be as high as 16 degrees above the horizon, well clear of the brightest twilight.

Later this week the comet will pass by the Sun near the orbit of Mercury where it will get a high dose of the Sun's radiance.

Then Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will head toward Earth for a close encounter at 0.47 AU providing a daytime sight during the second week of October 2024.

For viewers, you can also wait until Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth in early October 2024.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over Iran's Alborz Mountains
Image by Alireza Vafa on September 24, 2024

At that time, the comet will again be at and near its discovery position, but within the boundaries of the constellation Virgo.

To find it, look about 4-degree southwest of globular cluster M5.

The comet will quickly transit through the constellation Serpens Caput and then enter the constellation Ophiuchus on October 19th.

Then, by October 28th, it will be found just south of Ophiuchus’ second-brightest star at magnitude 2.8 Cebalrai.

Through early October, the comet will race through tropical Virgo while the view of sidereal Leo also holds sway.



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During each day of the month of October 2024, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will rise higher and higher in the morning sky - peaking in altitude.

Virgo is where Venus is in her 'fall,' and in Mundane Astrology, Tropical Virgo rules the Sixth House of public health and sickness; also, the national services; the Army, Navy and Civil Service as servants of the country and workers and employees in general.

The countries, cities and towns ruled by Virgo where Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is from now and into October 2024 can expect to see malefic events take place according to my calculations, they are:

Syria, Greece, Crete, Turkey, Croatia, Switzerland, the state of Virginia in the U.S., and the West Indies.

Also, the towns of Bury, Cheltenham, Maidstone, Norwich and Reading in the United Kingdom; the cities of Boston and Los Angeles in the United States, as well as Corinth and Heidelberg, Germany.

The city of Jerusalem, Israel is also strongly highlighted here; also the French cities of Lyons, Paris, Padua, Strasburg and Toulouse.

Adrian Bonaparte, a Australian (Sydney) based health practitioner with an interest in astrology, esoteric subjects, art and science writes this on the comet:

COMET C/2023 A3 (TSUCHINSHAM-ATLAS)** OPPOSED TO SATURN: 

Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
Images by Joe Perulero on September 23, 2024 at Shellharbour, NSW, Australia

"Comet C/2023 A3 was first discovered on January 9, 2023 by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China and the ATLAS sky survey. 

It has a retrograde orbit, and is now approaching perihelion (27 September) it has just began to be visible by the naked eye. 

It may become nearly as bright as Jupiter, and this has astrological significance. Soon after perihelion it will conjunct the Sun.

According to classical authors, comets are generally bad omens.

They can bring about a variety of calamities such as earthquakes or weather extremes, or sudden unexpected events. Its position on the zodiac and relationships to other bodies can give a clue to the nature of events that may follow. 

If the comet is oriental to the Sun, events can take place soon after it becomes visible; if it is occidental, they may be delayed.

The direction the tail of the comet may give some clues about localities where the effects are felt most strongly.

In the case of comet C/2023, it has become visible at 21*21’ Leo (sidereal) or 15*21’ Virgo (tropical). Its declination is about -6*.

Being oriental to the Sun, we would expect effects to take place within the next few weeks. 

The comet is in opposition to retrograde Saturn, indicating severe outcomes. 

Being in [sidereal] Leo, it could indicate the fall or demise of heads of state, or adverse events in countries ruled by Leo, such as France, Italy, Bohemia and Sicily. 

Cities traditionally ruled by Leo include Rome, Bath, Bristol, Taunton, Cremona, Prague, Ravenna, and Philadelphia.

This comet originates from the Oort cloud, with a long period of 80,000 years. 

Whatever calamities it brings about, it will not come back to our skies for a long time."

So, there will have both the tropical and sidereal view of what this comet can indicate it just ahead.

I agree, as the world transits, including the speeding comet, are presages of adverse events to come.

The global planetary transits relative to Earth will have significant effects on the lives of a great many individuals, groups, organizations, governments and nations during this second half  of 2024 and into the new solar year of 2025.

Again, I urge caution, prudence and patience due to additional planetary signatures that are in play all through the coming months, and into solar year 2025 as well.

Those who want to know how their own horoscope, nativity, solar and planetary returns as well as your secondary progression are influenced by the world transits of 2025 can contact me at astro730@gmail.com

When you write, please include your name, birthday, time of birth and city/town and country of birth.

Please include your current geographic location if different from your city of birth. Include brief comments and/or questions on your aspirations, goals and plans for the next 3-5 years.

As 2025 nears, it is my astrological perspective that the lives of a great many people will undergo major changes that, if prepared for as best a possible, can lead to more fulfilling events into the mid-2020s.

One of those changes concerns the financial markets in my perspective...

The Financial Markets
Get Ready For Corrections & Geopolitics


Forecast by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

Into the month of October 2024, the Dow Jones Industrial Average have been between making gains and losses as investors and traders try to make sense of fast changing events such as geopolitical events in the Middle East and the upcoming American Presidential Election in November.

My forecast here is to prepare the investor and trader for what will be a very interesting three months of October, November and December. 

There is also the advent of the port strike that began on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 and stretches from Maine to Texas in the United States means trouble for U.S. imports and exports that will have an impact on the markets and economy going forward into 2025.

I urge investors and traders at this time - with the Lunation, or the New Moon of October 2, 2024, to make significant adjustments in their investments and trading to match what the planetary transits of the markets - especially the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 - are indicating going forward.

As of Wednesday, Oct. 2nd, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) closed at 42,196.52 (+39.55) which was up +0.09%.

The S&P 500 (GSPC) closed on Oct. 2, 2024 at 5,709.54 (+0.79 which is up +0.01%.

Meanwhile, on the New Moon of October 2nd, the NASDAQ 100 closed at 19,802.585  +29.282 which was up 0.15%.


According to my calculations, the economic stability of markets worldwide will be affected by the entry of the Moon's North Lunar Node into tropical Pisces.

That will take place on Saturday, January 11, 2025 and last for 18.6 months.

The Moon's Lunar Nodes (north and south) move retrograde, or backward through each Sign of the Zodiac.

The North and South Lunar Node spend 18.6 months, or a year-and-a-half in each sign and defines the trend of the Business Volume in general and the financial markets in particular.


Currently, as you read this in early October 2024, the North Lunar Node is at 6-degrees Tropical Aries and the South Lunar Node is at 6-degrees Tropical Libra.

They have been on the Aries-Libra axis since July 17, 2023 but will shift onto the Pisces-Virgo axis on January 11, 2025 and continue there until late July 2026.

This span of time now (October 2024) to the North Node's entry into Tropical Pisces in January 2025 is 'key' to investors and traders who want to get ahead of the markets before significant corrections take place.

If you want to know exact dates, then email me at astro730@gmail. com for your consultation. When you write, please include the market sectors where you are trading and/or invested as well as your birthday, time of birth and place of birth.

Understand that the Lunar Nodes have a cycle of 18.6 years (rounded to 19 years more or less) as it takes the Nodes at least 19 years to transit through the Signs of the Zodiac. 

The 'Node' is called so because it is the name for the positions in the orbit of a planet where it cross the ecliptic, or what is the Sun's path.

So, the point where a planet or the Moon itself, crosses from south to north is the 'North Node,' and the point where it crosses from north to south is known as the 'South Node.'

I apply the Nodes to forecast the highs and lows of the market, according to the techniques I learned as a teenager in the late 1970s and into the 1980s.

My childhood tutor, mundane astrologer Charles Jayne, was one of two astrologers who did the astrological work and forecasted the financial markets for W.D. Gann.



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All the events and trends of the markets in my forecasting can be tied directly to the cycle of the North Lunar Node which shows which way the business volume will turn and how the basic trend of business activity will go, also according to secondary influences of the planets and their configurations and aspects relative to Earth.

All of the major and primary directions and trends of business and finances are determined by the 18.6 year cycle of the Lunar Nodes through the Zodiac.

For instance, when the North Node transits through Scorpio and Libra it has the influence of a 'transition' span of time as the business volume guides the financial markets gos from normal to rising above normal.

The peak of the business volume cycle is when the North Lunar Node transits tropical Leo as the prior transit of the Node backward by retrograde, passes through the Signs of tropical Cancer and Gemini - this is when business volume is heading above normal and slowly to just normal.

Now, when the North Lunar Node made transit through tropical Taurus (as it did from January 2022 to July 2023) it marked a 'transition time' from normal to below normal in business volume curve,

We are currently in the Aries transit of the North Lunar Node (Oct. 2024 to January 2025)

Now, the lowest point of business volume arrives when the North Lunar Node enters and transits Aquarius and we are heading in that direction.

As for the New Moon of October 2, 2024, the Nasdaq 100, a higher-beta index among the major US stock indices because of its higher weighted concentration of growth-oriented artificial intelligence-related (AI) component stocks - was seen to have declined by 1.4 percent at the start of Quarter 4 and October 1, 2024 which was its worst daily performance since September 6, 2024.

Overall, the bearish movement of October 1, 2024 was accentuated by a jump in geopolitical risk premiums in the Middle East, where Iran unleashed a volley of missile attacks on Israel.

Investors and traders are worried that geopolitical events will trigger a further rise in hostilities with the possibility of more stakeholders such as the US and Russia being drawn into the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

Nvidia (NVDA), which is huge AI GPU maker, has been a stock market darling, and leader since 2022. 

Its 2024 year-to-date triple-digit return of 142.95% as of October 1, 2024 has surpassed significantly other major US stock indices' returns (S&P 500 +20.37%, Nasdaq 100 +19.52%, DJIA +11.78%, Russell 2000 +9.15%) and the iShares Semiconductor sector ETF index (+21.65%.)

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But, with the advent of the 1st Jupiter-Saturn world square that began in mid-August 2024, and since its current peak year-to-date return of +181.51% on June 18th - the performance of Nvidia has languished and along with it triggered a jump on the VIX (the implied volatility of the S&P 500) on two occasions due to its weakness in price actions.

First, on July 24, 2024 it led to a significant jump in the VIX from 18.03 to a closing level peak of 38.56 on August 5, 2024 (Volmageddon 2.0).

The second one followed the exact Jupiter-Saturn world square on August 19, 2024 as 10-11 days later on August 30th, when the VIX made a smaller-scale increase from 15.01 to 22.37.

So, the jumps seen in the VIX triggered a negative feedback loop into the price actions of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, which saw multi-week corrective decline sequences over the same periods.

Planetary transits, in my view, has seen market breadth turning bearish on the Nasdaq 100.

Nasdaq 100 CFD major & medium-term trends as of October 2, 2024
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And on September 26, 2024 exactly on the first Saturn-Pluto semi-square aspect, there was a similar price action weakness fell on Nvidia where the VIX has shaped an increase to 19.27 as of Tuesday, October 1st from 15.36.

The good investor and trader will want to know that the next Saturn-Pluto semi-square will occur on January 26-27, 2025 (a Sunday & Monday) so you will want to be prepared for what is also ahead on this matter.

The day before the New Moon, the October 1, 2024 price actions of the Nasdaq 100 CFD Index (a proxy of Nasdaq 100 E-mini futures) reintegrated back below its most recent medium-term swing high of 19,880. This indicates a possible failure bullish breakout scenario in the past week.

Moreover, as the North Lunar Node transits down in Aries; the planetary configurations of the first of three Jupiter-Saturn world squares (Aug. 19, 2024) and the first Saturn-Pluto semi-square (Sept. 26, 2024) proved out the the price actions:

That being that the Nasdaq 100 CFD Index scaled new higher swing highs on August 22nd and September 26th - the 10-day moving average of the Nasdaq 100’s 52-week high minus 52-week low market breadth indicator has moved in the opposite direction which is a bearish divergence.

It means to this forecasting astrologer that there are fewer Nasdaq 100 component stocks that are hitting new 52-week highs and is a sign of market breadth weakness; a potential bearish signal on the Nasdaq 100.

A break below the 19,155 intermediate support (also the 50-day moving average) on the Nasdaq 100 CFD Index may expose the next medium-term supports at 18,310 and 17,250.

However, a clearance above 20,790 long-term pivotal resistance invalidates the bearish scenario to see the next medium-term resistances coming in at 21,680 and 22,470/980.

The overall planetary signatures, in my astrological view, is a prelude to a series of looming multi-week corrective sequences and declines for the Dow Jones, the S&P 500; Nasdaq 100 and related markets and industries through the months ahead and into 2025 and 2026.


ASTROLOGICAL MARKET ADVICE

As a mundane astrologer versed in Financial Astrology, my advice through Quarter 4 of 2024 and into the first two new financial quarters of 2025 - is to know your planetary transits. 

I always receive inquiries on when the markets will be up or down, what most investors and traders, companies, etc., do not know are their own personal transits, returns and secondary progressions that are directly contacted by the world transits that turns the financial markets - and when that will happen.

Those who want to know the times and dates of the market events to come can contact me at astro730@gmail.com

When you write, please comment on which sectors of the markets you want to know about, including stocks, bonds, commodities, cryptocurrencies, etc. 

Include your name, birthday and time and place of birth. If your current location is different than the place of your natal birth, include that as well.

Planetary History to Financial Markets

Providing a tutorial on the intricacies of Financial Astrology takes much time; so I provide here only a minimum of history of financial astrology in a real life cast - the stock market crash of 1929.

The mid-20th century astrologer Louise McWhirter pointed out that all previous stock market crashes had been identified by the North Lunar Node on Business volume as well as previous lunations of the Sun and Moon.

As part of my applied astrology training in financial market forecasting when I was a teenager, I studied both W.D Gann and Louise McWhirter and have found that the techniques I used to forecast business volume and market trends worked. 

McWhirter's 1938 book: 'Theory of Stock Market Forecasting,' was required reading for me when I was 15 years of age in the late 1970s. 

McWhirter writes on planetary transits of the New York Stock Market Crash of 1929


"The lunation, or New Moon of 2 October 1929 in 8-degrees Libra, in exact opposition (180 degrees) to the chaotic and epoch-making planet Uranus, which was posited on the Midheaven of the New York Stock Exchange Chart. 

Uranus was the 'key' planet to this crash since it had been occupying an elevated position for some time on this important angle of the New York Stock Exchange Chart.

Uranus has the most unusual, revolutionary, unexpected and epoch-making effects upon conditions, and surely this financial crash, for which Uranus was responsible, was epoch-making.

It caught most traders unaware of the danger and then wiped them out.

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This panic, which saw the Industrial Averages plummet from a high of 381 to a low of 198 by the middle of November 1929 and Rail averages drop from a high of 189 to a low of 128 in the same length of time.

It marked the beginning of the severe 'Secondary Post-War Depression' period - the effects of which have dominated the 1930s."

What the astrologer McWhirter defined, I found to be tested and true when it came to the financial markets.

When the North Node made transit in Taurus back in 2022, then into Aries (where it is now at time of writing) the span of time will have been three years by 2025.

This is a presage, or a warning that the normal position of the Business Volume Curve, as McWhirter defined, has been reached.

According to my calculations in light of this astronomical fact, this means that the Business Activity Volume is slowly going from normal to below normal over the next three to four years.

In light of this, I have been advising clients on their own transits, directions, returns and secondary progressions so that they may not get wiped out by the adverse market conditions to come.

Right now, here in early October 2024, my forecast is for investors and traders to begin to make significant financial adjustments for the present, and plans for the near future as well.

Notably, there is a very welcome secondary planetary configuration coming that will greatly help those in the know of the true calendar, that is the Ephemeris.

But to use it here, in the real world, to apply it according to the planetary transits ahead, it is vital to know the bigger picture. That makes it easier for the good reader to plan and then come out ahead in good fortune.

Forecast: 2024-2025
Rosh Hashanah - Year 5785

A shofar, pomegranates, wine, apple and honey are symbols of the Rosh Hashanah holiday

Rosh Hashanah forecast by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

Happy New Year!

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 is ' 
Rosh Hashanah,' an observance and celebration over two days that begins on the first day of Tishrei, that is the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year.

Rosh Hashanah means "head of the year," referring to the day of the Jewish New Year.

It is the traditional anniversary of the Creation of the Universe and Adam and Eve, the first man and woman on Earth, according to the Hebrew Bible, as well as the initiation of humanity's role in divinity.

Sadly, for this particular 'new year,' according to planetary transits, will be full of challenges, adjustments, grief and malefic tidings for the near future to come. More on that in a bit.

Rosh Hashanah 5785 begins at Sundown on the eve of Tishrei 1 (Oct. 2, 2024) and ends after nightfall on Tishrei 2 (Oct. 4, 2024.)

ROSH HASHANAH BEGINS:
WEDNESDAY, 2 OCTOBER 2024
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL




ROSH HASHANAH ENDS:
FRIDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2024
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL


Both sunset charts of Rosh Hashanah for Tel Aviv and Jerusalem obviously strong indicate that the Lunation, or New Moon of 2 October 2024 falls in the 7th House of Partnerships of all kinds and contention with partners and also enemies.  

The solar year from 2 October 2024 to the next lunation in September 2025 calls for prudence and patience.

It would be wise to keep a lower profile during the second half of 2024 and into the second half of 2025 so as to focus on your aspirations, goals and plans for the future.

The international and geopolitical atmosphere will continue to be contentious under the planetary skies and according to my calculations, the best way to navigate 2024-2025 is to focus patiently on one's own goals and aspirations.

In contrast to the ecclesiastical lunar new year on the first day of the first month Nisan, the spring Passover month that marks Israel's exodus from Egypt, the observance of Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the civil year, according to the teachings of Judaism. 

Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a hollowed-out ram's horn), as prescribed in the Torah, following the prescription of the Hebrew Bible to "raise a noise" on Yom Teruah.

The rabbinical customs include attending synagogue services and reciting special liturgy about teshuva, as well as enjoying festive meals. 

Eating symbolic foods, such as apples dipped in honey, hoping to evoke a sweet new year, is an ancient tradition recorded in the Talmud.

Rosh Hashanah feasts traditionally include round challah bread (studded with raisins) and apples dipped in honey, as well as other foods that symbolize our wishes for a sweet year.

Other Rosh Hashanah observances include candle lighting in the evenings and desisting from creative work.

Together with Yom Kippur (which follows 10-11 days later on Friday and Saturday, October 11-12, 2024) it is part of the Yamim Nora'im (Days of Awe, or High Holidays.)

Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism, is when Jews reflect on sins or wrongdoings from the previous year. Many Jews will attend services at synagogues or other congregations, reciting special prayers and singing special songs. 

Celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Houston, Texas
image by: Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle

My forecast for this Rosh Hashanah year of 2024-2025 planetary indicate that it is a transition year of major changes and adjustments into the mid-2020s.

The affairs of the planets into 2025 show plenty of forebodings, angst, anger and despair over the events in Israel and elsewhere in the world since 2023 and throughout solar year 2024.

This year, and into next year mean that 'high holidays' from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur call for special attention to the deadly events in the world and much prayer and sacrifice for peace. 

The planetary transits ahead and into 2025 are significant - domestically, business wise, professionally and personally for many people.

The span of time from the second half of 2024 into the second half of 2025 call for insight, flexibility and prudence to navigate the events to come into the middle years of this decade. 

The choices and decisions made will determine, by the late 2020s and into the early 2030s, the outcomes - for good, or for ill.


"It’s an Earthquake!"
Beirut responds to Hassan Nasrallah’s Death

by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

The deadly situation in the Middle East has now spread to Lebanon, a beautiful nation with a violent history that are sitting sucks between a terrorist group, Hezbollah, and the nation of Israel.

The Atlantic reported that as word spread on Saturday, September 28, 2024 that Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, had been killed in his underground Beirut bunker by an Israeli air strike, people began quietly reckoning with the possibility that Lebanon’s political architecture might be about to shift for the first time in more than three decades.

And that, in turn, raised the prospect that locked doors might soon open across the Middle East.

Those who have fought against Hezbollah - not just Israelis - but also Lebanese from across the nation’s confessional divides (as well as Syrians and Yemenis) could see the tantalizing possibility that the Shiite movement’s dominance might be at an end. 

Many others worried that a sudden power vacuum might lead Lebanon back to the kind of civil war that tortured its people for 15 years before Hezbollah emerged in the early 1980s.

Hassan Nasrallah was more than a political leader. After 32 years in power, he had become synonymous with Hezbollah, the most well armed non-state actor in the world and the linchpin of Iran’s tentacular 'Axis of Resistance' to Israel and the United States.

You could feel the moment’s gravity almost as soon as the bombs struck on Friday evening, September 27, 2024, as the biggest bombardment Israel has unleashed on Beirut since Hezbollah attacked Israel last October 8, 2023. 

People said that they could hear and feel the attack miles away from where they struck in the city’s southern suburbs.



The deep sound like rippling thunder that shook the ground lasted several seconds.

People on the street glanced anxiously skyward and clutched their phones, calling to check on their loved ones. Numerous car alarms sounded.

Reports said Nasrallah was killed in that air raid that levelled six apartment buildings in Beirut.

Hassan Nasrallah, 64, was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in September 2024.


Born into a Shia family in the suburbs of Beirut, Nasrallah finished his education in Tyre, when he briefly joined the Amal Movement, and afterward at a Shia seminary in Baalbek

Born on August 31, 1960, at Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon, he was reportedly killed in the airstrike on September 27, 2024 at Dahieh, Lebanon.

The Lebanese Health Ministry said that six people were killed and 91 others injured in the strikes, which leveled six apartment buildings.

Iran announced that a prominent general in its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard sanctioned by the U.S. also died in the same airstrike.

Abbas Nilforushan, 58, who the U.S. identified as the deputy commander for operations in the Guard, was killed on Friday, Sept. 17, 2024, according to Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency.

Additional reports added that Ali Karki, the commander of Hezbollah’s Southern Front and other commanders were also killed, said a spokesperson for the Israeli military.

Nasrallah's body has reportedly been recovered following the airstrike.


His body was found in Beirut, Lebanon, at the exact location where the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) conducted their strike.

An Hezbollah statement said Nasrallah 'has joined his fellow martyrs,' as Hezbollah vowed to “continue the holy war against the enemy and in support of Palestine.”

The statement added that: “assassinations will only increase the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine in determination and resolve.”

The recent airstrikes in Lebanon and the assassination of Nasrallah are a significant escalation in the war in the Middle East - this time between Israel and Hezbollah.

Air raid sirens sounded across central Israel on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 29th - including at the Tel Aviv international airport - shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed after a trip to the United States.

The Israeli military said that it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen. It was not immediately known if the missile strike was aimed at Netanyahu’s flight.

The planetary transits that ended the deadly month of September will continue into the month of October as well. 

As the waxing Jupiter-Saturn square re-sets by mid-December 2024; along with the current Saturn-Pluto semi-square and the eclipses of September and October 2024; it appears that both hemispheres of the Earth will see headline news.

Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli army spokesperson, said the Sept. 27th airstrike in Beirut was based on years of tracking Nasrallah along with “real time information.”

He declined to say what munitions were used or provide an estimate on civilian deaths. He said Israel takes measures to avoid civilians whenever possible.

The Palestinian militant group Hamas in a statement issued condolences to its ally, Hezbollah.

Nasrallah frequently described launching rockets against northern Israel as a “support front” for Hamas and Palestinians in Gaza.

Immediately after the confirmation from Hezbollah, journalists reported that people began firing guns in the air in Beirut and across Lebanon to mourn Nasrallah’s death.

“Wish it was our kids, not you, Sayyid!” said one woman, using an honor title for Nasrallah, as she clutched her baby in the western city of Baabda, according to the Associated Press.

News of Nasrallah’s killing stunned travelers at Lebanon’s only international airport, where hundreds of people were scrambling to leave the country despite limited flights.

Some people cried while others spoke on their phones in disbelief.

One woman was heard to scream at the airport: “No! It was just an announcement! No, he didn’t die!”

Hundreds of people then took to the streets of Tehran after Nasrallah’s killing was announced.

 Protesters chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to Netanyahu the murderer” while waving Hezbollah flags.

Israel vows to keep up attacks on Hezbollah

Israel’s Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, said on Saturday, September 28, 2024 that the elimination of Nasrallah was “not the end of our toolbox,” this means that even more strikes were planned.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called it “the most important targeted strike since the founding of the State of Israel.”

Israel has vowed to step up pressure on Hezbollah until it halts its attacks that have displaced tens of thousands of Israelis from communities near the Lebanese border.

The recent fighting has also displaced more than 200,000 Lebanese in the past week, according to the United Nations.

Israel's military said that it was mobilizing three more battalions of reserve soldiers to serve across the country. It already sent two brigades to northern Israel to prepare for a possible ground invasion of Lebanon.

Shoshani, the army spokesperson, said Israel inflicted heavy damage on Hezbollah’s capabilities over the past week by targeting immediate threats and strategic weapons, such as larger, guided missiles.

But he said much of Hezbollah’s arsenal remains intact and that Israel would continue to target the group.

The Israeli military updated their guidelines for Israeli citizens, canceling gatherings of more than 1,000 people due to the threat.

Approximately 60,000 Israelis have been evacuated from their homes along the Lebanese border for almost a year.

This month, Israel’s government said halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country’s north to allow residents to return to their homes is an official goal.

Hezbollah began firing rockets on Israel in support of Gaza on Oct. 8, 2023 - a day after Hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing some 1,200 people and abducting another 250.

Since then, the two sides have been engaged in escalating cross-border strikes.

At this juncture of October 2, 2024, the Middle East is heading closer to a long-feared regional war the day after Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel and Israel said it began limited ground incursions into Lebanon targeting the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia.

Israel said it intercepted many of the missiles, and officials in Washington said U.S. destroyers assisted in Israel's defense.

Iran said most of its missiles hit their targets. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed late Tuesday, October 1sr to retaliate against Iran, which he said “made a big mistake tonight and it will pay for it.”

An Iranian commander threatened wider strikes on infrastructure if Israel retaliates against Iran's territory.

The United Nations Security Council called an emergency meeting for Wednesday, October 2, 2024 to address the spiraling conflict.

In September 2024, thousands of explosives that were hidden inside pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah detonated, killing dozens of people and maiming thousands, including many civilians.

Israel is widely believed to be behind the attack. Israel has also killed several other top Hezbollah commanders in Beirut, especially in the past two weeks, in addition to the attack that killed Nasrallah.

Associated Press reported that there may be a window of opportunity for Israel and Lebanon

According to the report: "Orna Mizrahi, a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv-based think tank Institute for National Security Studies and former intelligence analyst for the Israeli military and prime minister’s office, noted that Nasrallah was sometimes a “voice of reason,” - interested in engaging Israel in a war of attrition and holding the militant group back from using the full force of their formidable arsenal against Israel.

Nasrallah’s death could prompt some less senior members of Hezbollah to unleash much stronger weapons than have been used in the nearly year long exchange of hostilities, Mizrahi said.

The biggest question mark right now, though, is how Iran will respond.

She said that Nasrallah’s death could provide a window of opportunity - while the organization is significantly weakened - for Lebanon to dilute Hezbollah’s influence, especially in the south of the country that threatens to drag Lebanon into a full-scale war with Israel.

Both Sides of the Border Are Hot

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburb early on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. The Israeli military said Tuesday that its IDF troops have begun "targeted ground raids" in villages of southern Lebanon.
Image by: Fadel Itani/Getty Images

On Saturday morning, Sept. 28, 2024, the Israeli military carried out more than 140 airstrikes in southern Beirut and eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, including targeting a storage facility for anti-ship missiles in Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh.

Israel said the missiles were stored beneath civilian apartment buildings.

The IDF called for people living in more than two dozen villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate their homes immediately and move to the north of the Al-Awali River, which is around 30 miles inside the country.

While the IDF announced the "limited" ground operation on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, its spokesman Daniel Hagari said that Israeli forces have been operating inside Lebanon dozens of times over the past months, where they had destroyed tunnels.

"The purpose of this ground operation is to clear hubs that Hezbollah was preparing in proximity to the Israeli-Lebanese border," former Israeli intelligence official Avi Melamed told Newsweek.

"Those hubs are depots of weapons and communication systems and were supposed to be the launching pads to conduct a ground attack on Israeli communities next to the border," he said.

"The purpose here is to degrade and actually neutralize the master plan of Hezbollah, to conduct a ground attack style October 7 on the Israeli community."

Meanwhile, reports said that Hezbollah launched dozens of projectiles across northern and central Israel and deep into the Israel-occupied West Bank, damaging some buildings in the northern town of Safed.

In Beirut’s southern suburbs, smoke rose and the streets were empty after the area was pummeled overnight by heavy Israeli airstrikes.

Shelters set up in the city center for displaced people were overflowing.

Many families slept in public squares and on beaches or in their cars.


On the roads leading to the mountains above the capital, hundreds of people could be seen fleeing on foot, holding infants and whatever belongings they could carry.

A total of 1,030 people - including 156 women and 87 children - have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon in less than two weeks, the country’s health minister said on Saturday, Sept 28th.

Thomas Juneau, a professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, said that Iran will be under significant pressure to respond to Nasrallah’s killing without escalating violence in the region.

“At the same time, Iran is severely constrained in its ability to respond,” Juneau told The Associated Press. “Iran understands that its military options are limited, given the conventional military superiority of Israel and the U.S.”

The IDF said in a statement on X that a 'political decision' had been made to target Hezbollah terrorist targets in southern Lebanon "based on precise intelligence."

It added that Operation "Northern Arrows" will continue "according to the situational assessment and in parallel to combat in Gaza and in other arenas" as the statement reiterated one of its goals to "return the citizens of northern Israel to their homes."

ON THE ROAD TO ALL-OUT WAR?

Under these planetary transits, it appears that transits over Israel and Middle East since 2022 are heighting the violence  throughout the entire region, with growing populations of refugees forced on the road and into camps.

As Rosh Hashanah A top Iranian military commander has warned that his country will hit Israel’s infrastructure if it takes any action against its territory.


Iran’s armed forces joint chief of staff Gen. Mohammad Bagheri said Wednesday that the Revolutionary Guard was prepared both defensively and offensively to repeat its missile attack with “multiplied intensity.”

“If the Zionist regime, that has gone insane, is not contained by America and Europe and intends to continue such crimes, or do anything against our sovereignty or territorial integrity, tonight’s operation will be repeated with much higher magnitude and we will hit all their infrastructure,” he said.

Bagheri said Iran avoided targeting Israeli civilians although it was “completely feasible.

Israel’s United Nation's ambassador says his government will decide when and how to respond to Iran’s barrage of close to 200 ballistic missiles that forced Israel’s 10 million population into bomb shelters.

 “But I can tell you one thing, it will be noticed," he said. "It will be painful.”

Danny Danon reacted to a statement from Iran’s U.N. Mission that any new Israeli action would be met with a “crushing response,” saying: “I would not advise Iran to challenge our determination, our capabilities. In the past, we have proved it. We will prove it again.”

“We have no desire for war or escalation, but we cannot sit idly by when our civilians are being attacked in such manner,” the Israeli ambassador said.

“Iran used to send boxes but now, when they send almost 200 ballistic missiles, that’s something that I don’t think any other nation in the world will ignore.”

However, as of October 2, 2024,  there is still suspense surrounding the actual cause of Nasrallah's death.

Despite the intensity of the attack, no visible injuries were found on Nasrallah's body, raising questions.

Experts are speculating that the powerful shockwaves and or toxic gases from the massive bomb explosions could have been the cause of death, rather than direct impact or injuries


Hezbollah fighters stand behind the coffin of their top commander Fouad Shukur, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike on July 30, as Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks through a screen during Shukur's funeral in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 1, 2024.
Photo by Hussein Malla/AP

The discovery of Nasrallah's body marks a significant moment in the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, but uncertainty continues to surround the precise circumstances of Nasrallah's demise.

Nasrallah led the Lebanese militant group for the past 30 years, transforming it into one of the most powerful paramilitary groups in the Middle East.

An astute strategist, the 64-year-old Nasrallah was said to have reshaped Hezbollah into an archenemy of Israel - cementing alliances with Shiite religious leaders in Iran and Palestinian militant groups such as Hamas.

Under his leadership, Hezbollah fought wars against Israel and took part in the conflict in neighboring Syria, helping tip the balance of power in favor of President Bashar Assad.

Adored by his Lebanese Shiite followers and respected by millions of others across the Arab and Islamic world, Nasrallah held the title of 'sayyid,' - an honorific to signify the Shiite cleric’s lineage dating back to the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam.

A fiery orator viewed as an extremist in the United States and much of the West, he was also considered a pragmatist compared to the militants who dominated Hezbollah after its founding in 1982, during Lebanon’s bloody civil war.

Despite the power he wielded, Nasrallah lived largely in hiding for fear of an Israeli assassination.

Born in 1960 into a poor Shiite family in Beirut’s impoverished northern suburb of Sharshabouk, Nasrallah was later displaced to south Lebanon.

He studied theology and joined the Amal movement, a Shiite political and paramilitary organization, before becoming one of Hezbollah’s founders.

Hezbollah was formed by Iranian Revolutionary Guard members who came to Lebanon during the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Libra. They arrived in the summer of 1982 to fight invading Israeli forces.

Hezbollah was the first group that Iran backed and used as a way to export its brand of political Islam.

Nasrallah built a power base as Hezbollah became part of a cluster of Iranian-backed factions and governments known as the Axis of Resistance.

Two days after its leader, 39-year-old Sayyed Abbas Musawi, was killed in an Israeli helicopter gunship raid in south Lebanon, Hezbollah chose Nasrallah as its secretary-general in February 1992.

Five years later, the United States designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

Under Nasrallah, Hezbollah was credited with leading the war of attrition that led to the withdrawal of Israeli troops from south Lebanon in 2000 - after an 18-year occupation.

Nasrallah’s eldest son, Hadi, was killed in 1997, fighting against Israeli forces.

After Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, Nasrallah rose to iconic status both within Lebanon and throughout the Arab world. 

His messages were beamed on Hezbollah’s own radio and satellite TV station.

Hassan Nasrallah in solar year 2003.

His status was further cemented when, in 2006, Hezbollah fought Israel to a stalemate during the 34-day war.

When Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011, Hezbollah fighters rushed in, siding with Assad’s forces -  even though Hezbollah’s popularity took a dive as the Arab world ostracized Assad.

A day after the Israel-Hamas war started on Oct. 7, 2023, Hezbollah began to attack Israeli military posts along the border calling it a 'backup front' for Gaza.

In speeches throughout the conflict, Nasrallah argued that Hezbollah’s cross-border strikes had pulled away Israeli forces that would otherwise be focused on Hamas in Gaza and insisted Hezbollah would not halt its attacks on Israel until a cease-fire was reached in Gaza.

Nasrallah  maintained a defiant tone, even as tensions rose dramatically in September 2024 with Israel announcing a new phase in the conflict intended to push Hezbollah back from the border to allow thousands displaced from northern Israel to return.

Israel launched that killed top military commanders with the group. Israel was also blamed for the explosion of thousands of communications devices, mainly used by Hezbollah members, that killed 37 people and wounded thousands.

Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute, writes:

"The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is not only the most significant targeted killing in Israel’s history but also the first chapter in what could be a new, more hopeful future for Lebanon, its long-suffering northern neighbor.

Here are six implications of Nasrallah’s death:

First, after wiping out virtually the entire Hezbollah political and military command, from its spectacular exploding pager and walkie-talkie operation to its killing of Nasrallah, Israel is unlikely to suspend its military operations in Lebanon.

To the contrary, Israel is likely to take advantage of Hezbollah’s disarray to do everything it can to destroy the group’s offensive capabilities, including its entire arsenal of precision-guided missiles and what’s left of its infrastructure for cross-border attacks in southern Lebanon.

Hopefully, Israel will achieve its objectives swiftly and avoid the fatal attraction of the long-term reoccupation of Lebanese territory.

Second, some of the third-level leaders who will inherit control of Hezbollah are likely to argue that Nasrallah and his comrades were vulnerable because they lacked an asset that Hamas had in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 - hostages.

This could lead to reckless plots to kidnap foreigners inside Lebanon; efforts to launch cross-border raids into Israel through underground tunnels; and perhaps even activation of Hezbollah terrorist cells around the world, including in America.

Third, Iran -  Hezbollah’s patron, funder and supplier - has so far shown that it wants to stay out of this fight, but its inactivity could become an acute embarrassment and difficult to sustain.

As an Arab, Nasrallah was not as important to Tehran as Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, whose killing in a 2020 U.S. drone strike prompted a retaliatory attack against American troops in northern Iraq.

But he was closer to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei than any non-Iranian, and his death will be viewed as a personal blow.

In this context, it would not be surprising for Iran to unleash its proxies - from Yemen’s Houthis to Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria - against American, allied and Israeli targets.

Iran-backed terrorism against soft targets in the West cannot be ruled out.

Given that Iran relied on Hezbollah as a deterrent against U.S. or Israeli direct attack, the group’s weakness means Iran is less likely to launch its own revenge assault against Israel, along the lines of its April 13 volley of missiles and drones.

A key unknown is whether Iran’s sense of vulnerability triggers a rethinking of nuclear strategy, with its leaders now more determined to acquire a weapons capability as quickly as possible to compensate for the loss of Hezbollah.

Fourth, Lebanon is in shock at the sudden change in Hezbollah’s status.

Just days ago, Hezbollah was the unquestioned power in the country, behind the mere facade of a Potemkin government.

Now, there is a moment of opportunity for the disparate, often disputatious elements of an anti-Hezbollah coalition to organize itself before the remnants of Hezbollah find their footing and try to reimpose control.

One key variable is whether the Lebanese Armed Forces now believes it is relatively powerful enough to assert authority in the name of the state and has the cohesion and leadership to take that fateful step.

Another question is whether external actors - from Washington to Paris to Riyadh - will coordinate effectively to empower local allies to fill the void left by Hezbollah’s disarray. 

Israel may have set the table, but it cannot deliver the meal of a new Lebanese political architecture.

Only the Lebanese themselves - with the help of their foreign friends - can do that. But the possibility is more real today than it has been at any moment in recent memory.

Fifth, as the anniversary of the Oct. 7th Hamas attack approaches, the heady Israeli success in Lebanon will have its own impact on Gaza. 

The most obvious implication is the likely hardening of opposition by Hamas' Yahya Sinwar to giving up hostages in a cease-fire deal, as he probably concludes that keeping that “asset” has kept him alive after nearly a year of war.

The result is likely to be the freezing of an unsatisfying status quo in Gaza, in which Israel’s main battle operations are effectively complete but the situation stays in limbo.

In this stalemate, Hamas cannot mount a serious military threat to Israel, but the rag-tag remnants of its fighting force remain enough to terrorize the local population and to prevent anyone else from governing the Gaza Strip.

In this situation, the real losers are local Palestinians, who will likely remain caught between the roving street gangs of Hamas’s diminished but still potent brigades and the targeted operations of Israel’s counter-terror missions in Gaza.

Sixth, the killing of Nasrallah should be a moment for the U.S. to cheer that justice has been done, given the blood of hundreds of Americans that are on Hezbollah’s hands.

But this is also a moment for the Biden administration to shift focus from its Sisyphean pursuit of a Gaza cease-fire to taking advantage of the opportunities presented by Israel’s seismic shock to Hezbollah.

With assertive, engaged diplomacy, the Biden administration can help engineer a new security regime that allows civilians to return to their homes along the Israel-Lebanon border and work with local and international partners to help build a new political architecture for Lebanon.

This isn’t the Saudi-Israel peace and normalization accord that the Biden administration hoped to leave as a legacy - though there might be one last bite at this apple during the presidential transition - nor even the Gaza ceasefire for which the White House has labored for months.

But after a year of tragedy and sadness, this would be real progress. 

At the same time, it is essential for Washington to warn Tehran about the high price it will suffer if it decides to make a dash for a nuclear-weapons capability.

By building on Israel’s killing of Nasrallah, President Biden has the opportunity to leave the Middle East better today than it was on Oct. 8, 2023 - which is no small achievement."


Your Nativity, Progressions & Returns:
Get Ready For 2025 & The Mid-2020s


Forecast by Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.sci

The year 2025 is just ahead and it will be that year that officially starts the middle years of the decade of the 2020s.

In my astrological view, those at the ages of 28-30, also the ages 43-46 and those in their mid-50s should be especially keen to know their own horoscopes, the transits to their nativites and their secondary progressions.

The reasons are that the year 2025, according to my calculation will ultimately determine the course that will dominate the late 2020s and into the early to mid-2030s.

Therefore, in my estimation of world transits, it would be a wise thing to have advance knowledge of the 'weather' that you will encounter so that your understanding will successfully guide you through the months and years to come.

The major transit of 2025 will be the ongoing conjunction of transiting Saturn and Neptune, both in tropical Pisces, as they hover close to and conjoin the Vernal Equinox point of 0-Aries.

I consider the soon-to-be Saturn-Neptune conjunctions of 2025 and 2026 to be malefic. Not only is Saturn afflicted and debilitated in 'fall' in tropical Aries, but the conjunction itself is sinister.

It has an affinity with the midnight point, the Imum Coeli, or Nadir in applied astrology, and so with that, I would advise that individuals and families use the second half of 2024 into very early 2025 to get ahead of matters in due course.

It should be a working autumn 2024 and winter 2025 for those in the northern hemisphere and the same for those experiencing spring and then summer in the southern hemisphere.

Try your very best not to get distracted by the laziness and inconsequential talk of others; as the theme for this span of time going into early 2025 must be about taking care of business and being on the ball in setting your plans accordingly.

So that by the time the Saturn-Neptune conjunction is well within orb by April 2025 and for the rest of that year - you will have already planned in advance and can make successful choices and decisions based on your previous thinking and then concrete plans.

I have seen that under the Saturn-Neptune world conjunction, as it rotates around the world in 2025, that there will be major issues that, if left unattended, can cause great turns in family fortunes. The complications, losses and even an entire breakdown of credit to families and their prestige will be under threat.

There can also be vast political changes within nations that are chaotic and destructive as the Saturn-Neptune conjunction among the last degrees of Pisces and the first degree of tropical Aries signifies great endings, but also great new beginnings for many people worldwide depending on their personal horoscopes and secondary progressions.

Here are the remaining major planetary configurations and aspects of 2024 and into mid-2025 that everyone will be influenced by according to the state of their personal horoscopes:

These solar, lunar & planetary transits of 2024 initiate a year filled with action and presages:

*Red color indicates strong global influence*

·   September 1, 2024 – URANUS RETROGRADE AT 27-TAURUS

·        September 18, 2024 - PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE AT 25-PISCES

·        September 26, 2024 – SATURN SEMI SQUARE PLUTO (2nd exact world semi-square)

 

·        September 28, 2024 – MERCURY HEADS SOUTH IN DECLINATION

·        October 2, 2024 – ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE AT 10-LIBRA

·        October 9, 2024 – JUPITER RETROGRADE AT 21-GEMINI

 

·        October 12, 2024 – PLUTO DIRECT AT 29-CAPRICORN

·        November 15, 2024 – SATURN DIRECT AT 12-PISCES

·        November 26, 2024 – MERCURY RETROGRADE AT 22-SAGITTARIUS

 

·        December 6, 2024 – MARS RETROGRADE AT 6-LEO (until February 23-24, 2025)

·        December 7, 2024 – NEPTUNE DIRECT AT 27-PISCES

·        December 13, 2024 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO

 

·        December 15, 2024 – MERCURY DIRECT AT 6-SAGITTARIUS

·        December 24, 2024 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (2nd of 3 world squares)

 

·        January 26, 2025 – SATURN SEMI SQUARE PLUTO (3rd exact world semi square)

·        January 30, 2025 – VENUS HEADS NORTH IN DECLINATION

·        January 30, 2025 – URANUS STATIONS DIRECT AT 23-TAURUS

 

·        February 4, 2025 – JUPITER STATIONS DIRECT AT 11-GEMINI

February 4, 2025 - VENUS ENTERS ARIES

·        February 24, 2025 – MARS STATIONS DIRECT AT 17-CANCER

 

·        March 2, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS NORTH IN DECLINATION

·        March 2, 2025 – VENUS RETROGRADE AT 10-ARIES

·  March 14, 2025 - LUNAR ECLIPSE at 23-24 VIRGO

·        March 15, 2025 – MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE AT 9-ARIES

20 MARCH 2025 - VERNAL EQUINOX - SUN ENTERS ARIES

· 22 March 2025 - VENUS TURNS MORNING STAR

·  March 29, 2025 - PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE AT 9-ARIES

·        April 3, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS SOUTH IN DECLINATION

 

·        April 4, 2025 – SATURN SEXTILE URANUS - 1st of three sextile aspects)

·        April 7, 2025 – MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT AT 26-PISCES

·        April 13, 2025 – VENUS STATIONS DIRECT AT 24-PISCES

 

·        April 17, 2025 – JUPITER SESQUI QUADRATE PLUTO

·        April 23, 2025 – MERCURY TURNS NORTH IN DECLINATION

· 30 April 2025 - VENUS RE-ENTERS TROPICAL ARIES

·        May 4, 2025 – PLUTO STATIONS RETROGRADE AT 3-AQUARIUS

·        June 4, 2025 – JUPITER SEMI-SEXTILE URANUS

 

·        June 15, 2025 – JUPITER SQUARE SATURN (3rd and final world square)

·        June 19, 2025 – JUPITER SQUARE NEPTUNE

·        June 24, 2025 – JUPITER QUINCUNX PLUTO



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