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2007 Psychic Predictions
The US's Presence in Iraq - An astrological view.
By: R.J. MacDonald
R.J. MacDonald's Website
The US's current administration's apparent measures to secure long term occupation of Iraq or at least Iraq's oil reserves is quite extraordinary. And it seems to belie other publicly communicated indications that the US is not intending to have a long term stay in Iraq. Kevin Zeese (DemocracyRising.US,) states in his article “We're Staying,” in relation to the new US embassy in Iraq, that it is “A 100 acre compound - ten times the size of the typical U.S. embassy, the size of 80 football fields, six times larger than the UN, the size of Vatican City.” He also states, in the same article, that “Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld has testified on February 17, 2005 in Congress: "I can assure you that we have no intention at the present time of putting permanent bases in Iraq." By all appearances the US needed to pull its troops out of Saudi Arabia, which country's Islamic fundamentalists reportedly felt that such troops were defilement to a country whose official institutions hold an unusual affinity with its religious precepts. The billions of dollars reportedly involved in securing American bases in Iraq testify more to a long-term agenda than the opposite and quite frankly the move from Saudi Arabia which may be considered to be an indirect threat from Al Qaeda, to Iraq seems all too suspiciously fitting in respect to the US maintaining its hold on Middle-eastern oil reserves. In fact Iran, the 3rd constituent oil country making up the triad of largest middle-eastern oil rich nations finds itself now threatened by the US - in fact, aside from Canada's complicated tar sands, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran are the three most oil endowed nations on the planet.
In reference to how this plays itself out astrologically, if we look to the solar chart's ninth house (using the equal house system) we find in the house of “foreign relations” the zodiacal sign Capricorn, which is ruled by Saturn. Saturn is currently in Leo which is ruled by the Sun and the Sun is currently in Taurus whose ruler, Venus, is currently in Pisces whose rulers, Neptune and Jupiter are in Aquarius and Scorpio respectively. Aquarius' ruler Uranus is currently in Pisces and thus Uranus and Neptune are in mutual reception thus indicating a close and “locked” interconnectivity between Pisces and Aquarius at present. With Jupiter being in Scorpio, at present, we find that sign's ruler currently in Sagittarius and that Sagittarius' ruler, Jupiter, again, being in Scorpio also indicating a mutual reception, so that there is a double mutual reception rooted in the current Solar Ninth house the cusp of which is now found in Capricorn. The sign corresponding to the ninth house is, of course, the natural 9th sign of Sagittarius, the sign which has “rulership” over foreign relations. Of course this whole complex is rooted in the Solar Ninth House of foreign relations which house is primarily influenced by Capricorn which is the traditional ruler of Islam and South and Central Asia and which area shares the co-rulership of Saturn as the planet that co-rules both Capricorn and Aquarius.
In this complex what is the significance of Saturn being in Leo currently in relation to the US occupation of Iraq? First principal is one of political persona in that Leo is highly associated with political “royalty” which function is one of show in contradistinction to practical purpose. In the case of Iraq the political mask is one of the US-UK concern for the nation of Iraq whereas it is held throughout the sober world the real underlying purpose is to secure the Middle East's energy reserves, especially in the face of dwindling supplies and in relation to rising and competitive international needs. Saturn is currently in the Solar forth house, indicating the foundational aspect of Iraq as being of paramount importance, particularly it's infrastructure of which it's “house” is it's architecture which is currently, as of the last few years, being both destroyed and restricted in relation to potential growth.
In looking to the position of the Sun we find that most central and significant body in Taurus, the sign of land, resources and assets, which complex is certainly conceptually substantiated in reference to petrochemicals, an extremely valued product of the Taurean earth. The significance of Taurus' planet Venus being in Pisces is more subtle in that, consistently with the nature of Pisces, the functional status of those assets (the oil reserves,) are in a state of Piscean confusion and uncertainty wherein, in principal “structures” are being broken down so that “chaos” ensues, thus causing the undermining of what otherwise might be conventional “order.” The Piscean compassion that emerges out of this situation of horrendous human suffering is certainly now at a fully cognitive international level and inasmuch as one cannot strangle water as that substance slips through one's hands the attempted stranglehold on the nation of Iraq, particularly of it's resources and infrastructure is simply being dissolved by the “waters of Pisces,” so to speak, that is by the confusion that ensues through the “insurgency.”
Venus is currently in the solar eleventh house indicating the West's idealistic frame of reference is based on illusion (Pisces) and deception. It is associately here that we meet the first mutual reception with Neptune being in Aquarius and Uranus being in Pisces. Capricorn may rule Islam which certainly extends into the Southeast complex of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India but Aquarius rules the “ever” unstable Middle-east and the principal of radical instability applies more to the main ruler of Aquarius, Uranus, certainly than any other planet. Neptune is currently in the Solar Tenth house. The astrological houses are the contexts of life experiences and if we can say that the forth and twelfth houses give rise to intuitive experiences then we can conversely say that the Tenth house gives rise to “cognitive” experience, that is thought and communications that are deliberate and often structured in the “clear light of day” and “on the table.” At this point the US-UK Iraq deception and agenda is virtually acknowledged in an open and on a world-wide level thus making it quite apparent that “the emperor has no cloths,” in other words that the attempted deception is publicly acknowledged (Neptune in the Solar Tenth.) Where the other planet of mutual reception (Uranus) comes into play is in respect to it's conjunction with the aforementioned placement of Venus in Pisces. The ideals - an eleventh house precept - are unstable - a Uranian characteristic and the radical, unstable pattern of shifting excuses wherein at one time it is “weapons of mass destruction” and at another it is the “freedom of the Iraqi people” testify to that affect. Finally, in respect to this contextual relevance in this Iraq context, we find Jupiter in Scorpio in the Solar seventh house. The seventh house rules business contracts and wherein Jupiter is in Scorpio, the sign of the “the intentionally hidden” aspects of human and social relations, we have the far less publicly acknowledged NGO business oil contracts that either have been or are being established and secured by international law for the benefit of the international corporations that deal in petrochemical energy exploitation and control. However it will be in November of this year that Jupiter will enter Sagittarius, thus indicating a possible fanning of the pre-emptive flames of arrogance, hypocrisy and possibly even expansion. But as that event will still retain the seventh house context until November at which point Jupiter will be in Sagittarius in the Solar twelfth house conjuncting Mars in Scorpio - a complex sign of potentially destructive activity.
A final comment: as the above may involve nothing less than what completely qualifies for the definition of “evil” - that is, very destructive and self-centered energies, it must be reaffirmed that that astrological energies do not rule our choices - rather they are far better described as being influential - we as individuals and as nations of individuals, choose and are responsible.
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