Hamas-Gaza Attack on Israel [War]

[Jim Eshelman]

October 7, 2023, around 6:30 AM EEDT, Tel Aviv, Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2 ... l_conflict

Following a surprise "unprecedented" attack by Hamas, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu announced that Israel is at war. At least 300 people in Israel died and thousands more are injured after Hamas launched "thousands of rockets" (at least 2,200 per Israeli media; Hamas claims 5,000 in 20 minutes) on Israel as Hamas troops entered Israel by land, sea, and air from Gaza. Israel was taken entirely by surprise with no intelligence that this was about to happen. (This is the first military conflict inside widely recognized Israeli borders since 1948, near the establishment of the country.) The report time of 6:30 AM was approximately daybreak (which was 6:38 AM).

Netanyahu said Hamas will "pay a price that is hasn't known until now."

This one is worth more monitoring in the news because ERIS is the defining planet all the way through, beginning with the Cansolar. Daily timing was right on the money. (The quotidians are particularly good.) All the Bridge elements are from the Cansolar so we look at the CanQ first, and find 0°00' timing for 6:30 AM! (I'd give the CanQ a +4 if I'd ever defined one.)

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Pluto.

Year: Cansolar {?}
Eris on Asc 0°03'
Sun on IC 1°04'
Jupiter on Asc 2°33'
Moon, Uranus, and Pluto more widely foreground
-- Mercury-Jupiter 0°37'
-- Moon-Jupiter 0°47' M
-- Moon-Sun co 1°31'
-- Uranus-Pluto sq 2°16' M
-- Moon-Pluto op 2°38'
Moon, Sun, and Jupiter all aspect Eris.

Bridge {+3}
Can Q Moon op Cansolar Pluto 9/5-11/5
t Mars sq Cansolar MC 10/2-8 [also WP-a 10/8-14, Dsc 22-28]
t Mars sq Cansolar Moon 10/5-8
Event window: Oct 5-8

Month: Caplunar
Neptune on EP-a 0°49'
Sun on Dsc 3°11
Mercury more widely foreground
-- Sun-Neptune op 1°53'
Moon-Eris sq 0°08'
Moon-Pluto co 1°12' M

Week: Arilunar {+3}
Pluto on MC 0°14'
Jupiter on Asc 2°03'
Eris on Asc 2°28'
Uranus more widely foreground
-- Jupiter-Pluto sq 1°49' M
-- Uranus sq non-foreground Venus 0°43'
Moon-Eris co 0°12'
Moon-Mars op 1°21' M
Moon-Pluto sq 2°51'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+3}
p Moon op s Pluto 0°02'
p Asc co p Moon 0°00', op p Pluto 0°02', t Pluto
-----------------------------
t Mars sq s MC 0°57'
t Mars sq s Moon 0°02'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits [+2 / -1 = +2]
p MC sq s Saturn 0°29'
p Asc sq p Moon 1°52'
-----------------------------
t Venus op s MC 0°04' [but an afflicted Venus, op Saturn 2°46']

[Mike V]

This is extremely fascinating and it lines up exactly with my perception of transiting Eris in solunar returns: "Yeah, I guess in hindsight that I should've seen that coming, but there was no way it was realistically gonna happen; too much information and not enough bandwidth to parse it."

At least, this is based on my understanding of the Israeli government's foreknowledge: "yeah we knew something roughly like this was being planned, but there's always something being planned."

I am a newbie at interpreting ingresses, but I feel like that Cansolar is meh for this event; Eris is great, Sun is possibly accurate for huge surge of government action, but Jupiter seems more protective than is warranted. If that was someone's SSR, I wouldn't interpret it as overwhelmingly dangerous. I'm curious what you think, Jim.

I think the Caplunar and the rest are pretty good too.

In all fairness to Venus and Jupiter, much of the world rallied around Israel after that happened, particularly the US (although I know much of the world has rallied around Palestine and demanded various things of Israel as well).

[Mike V]

I just re-read what you mentioned about the CanQ angles and their efficacy. I guess we can't totally separate those progressions from the base ingress chart, huh?

[Jim Eshelman]

Your read on the strong Eris component is interesting, and consistent with what I think I know about it. I'm holding back on being too "this is it" on analyzing Eris - mostly ignoring it in comments - but, as you say, what we now know about advanced intelligence does match the basic themes. Eris has very precise contacts for this event!

When I've finished CSA Volumes I and II, and start working on Vol III - mundane astrology, basically a selective compression of the SMA book - I'll stop first and write SMA ver. 18. This will incorporate more events (those major events since Ver. 17 was written) and redo most of the thousands of charts from scratch. TMSA is so much more accurate, I want to rerun everything from there. We can already do the solar and lunar ingresses. I've been hoping that TMSA by that time would have (1) Meridian Longitude, which MikeN said he was adding as a new data column (2) PVP aspects as an option, which would save me dozens of hours of manually redoing all the PVPs for the thousands of charts, and (3) SQ and PSSR calculations (otherwise I have to recalculate the charts in TMSA, manually set them up in Solar Fire to run the SQ, and ignore investigating PSSIs altogether). Anyway (back to the present topic), I probably would include Eris in the re-do which would allow me to tally statistical results of Eris in mundane astrology as with all the other planets. My hope would be to discover specific categories of events for which Eris angularity, Moon-Eris aspects, and perhaps other Eris aspects show in order to start singling it out from the other heavy, disruptive planets.

I am a newbie at interpreting ingresses, but I feel like that Cansolar is meh for this event; Eris is great, Sun is possibly accurate for huge surge of government action, but Jupiter seems more protective than is warranted. If that was someone's SSR, I wouldn't interpret it as overwhelmingly dangerous. I'm curious what you think, Jim... In all fairness to Venus and Jupiter, much of the world rallied around Israel after that happened, particularly the US (although I know much of the world has rallied around Palestine and demanded various things of Israel as well).

The 0°03' Eris angularity you have addressed above pretty well. Ignoring Eris (as an "ultimately unknown and we're only intelligently guessing at the moment), the chart has strong Sun and Jupiter angularities that, as you say, would be generally protective, and wider Moon, Uranus, and Pluto angularities. I rated it {?} because this could go either way and I thought we'd learn more in time. I think you are partly right that it shows the strong support... but I don't think that's all.

Some thoughts: Sun and Jupiter are tricky here. There were also a couple of charts that strongly influenced the Sun-Jupiter aspect for Washington, DC for the attack on Pearl Harbor. If there were an actual Sun-Jupiter aspect (here it would be a 4° mundane square, which isn't horribly wide, but wider than usually shows) I would interpret it primarily as the big win for those who already have great money and great power. Sun-Jupiter isn't always all that positive for ordinary people in mundane astrology: Set up a chart for the capital of a country and partly it is the "ego center" of the whole country that is affected, but also it's especially those in political power acting as that ego center. The most common meaning of a Sun-Jupiter foreground aspect in mundane astrology is "usually positive events with protection against deeper harm," but the second most common theme is: "Politics egg on current circumstances, motivated by a non-philanthropic tendency of people with money and power wanting more." In short, it means events happen so that people with great money and power get to have even greater money and power. This shows as the most likely reading in so many major events that I've lost track.

In the Cansolar, something to keep in mind is that aspects tend (not invariably) to speak louder than angularities (although super-tight angularities have their own power - sometimes its best to collate the angularity and aspect orbs together and see what's stronger). In this case, once we are past Moon's aspects reinforcing the Sun and Jupiter, and the Moon-Pluto aspect affecting the entire world, we see that the strongest single voice in the Cansolar is the 0°37' Mercury-Jupiter square - I'll have a lot to say about that below. The other foreground aspect is Uranus square Pluto (2°16' M), which has obvious meaning.

So, about the Mercury-Jupiter square, the one strongest non-Eris factor in the whole Cansolar: In collating events for this aspect in SMA I was surprised how unlucky it often is. It's notably good for business and communication in the sense of diplomatic success especially plus commercial alliances, trade negotiations, and other "successful conversations." But so often there is a loud question of, "Is this really a positive aspect?" Other astrologers over the years have made a point of stopping just short of calling it a malefic aspect in the sense that Mercury and Jupiter are polar opposites with some sort of innate disagreement. I haven't been willing to go that far, but I did start a couple of threads on the site seeking people's thoughts about Mercury-Jupiter polarization.

The one finding that spun my head around was when I found Mercury-Jupiter to be one of the most common foreground non-lunar aspects for massacres! The other lead aspects were obvious - Mercury aspecting Mars and Saturn, Venus aspecting Saturn or Pluto, and Saturn-Neptune aspects - but Mercury-Jupiter was right there with them.

Along with this was the finding that, for massacres, Jupiter was the most commonly angular planet for massacres!! By massacre I mean "intentional slaughter of huge numbers of people (sometimes of a genocidal scope) by a government’s forces or other institution." This is precisely what has been happening! Why Jupiter? Because the negative side of Jupiter is bigotry and cultural chauvinism. Usually Jupiter was NOT (as here) on the solar ingress angles, but totally owned the daily timing - not what we see here. I wrote a long analysis of Jupiter and massacres on page 798 of ver. 17 of SMA. In part, regading massacres:

Jupiter contributes two themes to many of these events. The first is simple military victory. Just as an angular Jupiter marked the day of VJ Day for the English, Pearl Harbor for the Japanese, Hiroshima’s bombing for Americans, and the Benghazi attack for the Libyans, so are some of the events following (even when as horrible as Hiroshima) major military victories in the spirit of “home team” triumphs...

More pointedly for these events, though, Jupiter has emerged, in its shadow expression, as planet of ethnic divisiveness. This is simply another expression of Jupiter’s hierarchical nature, one group being deemed better, worthier, and more entitled than another. We have seen this in countless other events as ideological divisions, differences in value systems, and, especially, events (sometimes inspiring and sometimes horrifying) fueled by powerful religious or other belief-driven motives. Many of the massacres described below were religious suppressions. At root, the suppression or eradication of any group culturally or ethnically different from one’s own is part of Jupiter’s most primitive impulses to protect one’s own kind, clan, and community against outsiders...

Jupiter is commonly considered a planet of community. Digging into the psychological mechanics of this, we must admit that this means Jupiter is the principle in us that regulates the perimeter of community and inclusiveness. It should come as no surprise that Jupiter also expresses the exclusive.

In an astrological environment already dominated by Mars, Neptune, and Saturn through the solar and lunar ingresses, Jupiter then appears for daily timing and motivates these vast assaults on ethnic, religious, and political grounds.

I'm not at all ready to say Israel is undertaking genocide, or that the same aspects foreground in nearby Gaza had the same goal, but we do see these themes. This conflict, like the Israel-vs.-neighbors wars for most of a century, have been ethnic, religious, and cultural polarizations with what usually has looked like a sincere intention to completely obliterate - remove at least from the region (if not from the Earth) once and for all, the "opposing team."

I've always been uncomfortable with these findings, but they do seem to describe the current situation exactly. Besides the specific divisions, think of this from a business point of view and from the perspective of playing exactly into Netanyahu's hands: He has wanted for years to have the opportunity to say Israel is committed to obliterating its enemies permanently. These attacks gave him the opportunity and, in fact, he made that his primarily declaration on the first day of the attacks.

These findings about massacres including genocide led me to examine the other places Mercury-Jupiter aspects appeared in the foreground. I found a highly specific characteristic that matched both the positive and negative expressions but even stronger in the negative ones, a detail I haven't seen written anywhere else: These events are nearly always one party’s “win-lose” victory at the cost of another’s loss. (Even the successful diplomacy is driven by the win-lose mentality). It has also occurred for numerous well-planned, well-executed terrorist attacks. Part of its meaning is simply well-executed logistics.

This is my current thinking on what has to be the case for this specific attack, from the perspective both of Israel's government and the Gaza-based terrorists who inaugurated the attack.

I think the Caplunar and the rest are pretty good too.

The Caplunar was fine IMO as an "umbrella" sort of thing. Excluding Eris for the moment (Moon-Eris was 0°08' worldwide), it is a Neptune chart - Neptune within 1° of an angle and a 2° foreground Sun-Neptune aspect. Neptune is good for emotional turmoil and confusion. Sun-Neptune is specifically maelstrom-like (center of the hurricane) chaotic, disorienting events, often ferocious - which I think describes the first day's attacks in particular.

As is usually the case, though, the Week chart is the most descriptive ingress. I gave it an "outstanding" +3. The main thing is Pluto a quarter degree from MC and the foreground Jupiter-Pluto square, with Moon aspecting Mars and Pluto. (The whole world got Moon-Pluto and, of course, the 0°12' Moon-Eris. The Israel larger region got Moon-Mars with it.)

[Jim Eshelman]

I just re-read what you mentioned about the CanQ angles and their efficacy. I guess we can't totally separate those progressions from the base ingress chart, huh?

Actually, we can. That is, it's not unusual to see a case where the base chart has one symbolism but its transits and progressions to a different way and identify the event. Matching symbolism is cooler, but not always the case.

In this case, as I just wrote above, the Cansolar probably is quite descriptive of the overall picture - things going on months before the attack and continuing after the attack.

The timing of this was stunning - I'd call it painful because it is SO precise that, since they had advanced intelligence, there is no reason that the exact day could not have been anticipated. The whole world experienced the Cansolar's Moon-Pluto aspect progress to a 0°02' orb - about a day's motion - and then, for the Israeli capital, come exactly - exactly! - to the angles:

2°50' Cap - t Pluto
4°09' Cap - s Pluto
4°10' Can - CanQ Asc
4°11' Can - p Moon

Simultaneously, the partile ecliptical Moon-on-IC of the Cansolar for Tel Aviv was triggered by Mars - with the same painful precision:

0°38' Cap - Cansolar MC
1°31' Can - Cansolar Moon
1°33' Lib - t Mars

Usually the Capsolar Quotidian ism ore important than the Cansolar Quotidian - I've published the statistics. However, something that became clear in the last couple of versions of SMA (and perhaps I didn't emphasize it enough) is that when the Cansolar is the only ingress involved in the Bridge, it tends to "finish the job" at the daily level, gaining priority.

The Bridge, in case you aren't familiar, is the set of middle-term transits and progressions to the Capsolar and Cansolar that show larger patterns leading up to the event. Mostly, it's the same as the daily factors excluding quotidian angles and transits by inferior planets' (closer in than Mars) transits. For the Bridge, the Capsolar and Cansolar seem to be of equal strength - either or both can forge this runway up to an event. In the current example:

• The entire world got the Cansolar's progressed Moon-Pluto opposition, which was partile from September 5 to November 5.
• Within this, Israel specifically had transiting Mars cross its Cansolar angles several times, the first being Cansolar MC October 2-8, then its WP October 8-14, then its Descendant October 22-28. This would have been a martial time regardless, perhaps with fires or violence.
• Within this narrowed time, the whole world has transiting Mars square Cansolar Moon October 5-8. This was localized by its simultaneous square to Israel's Cansolar MC.
• There were no similar transits or progressions affecting the Capsolar, so the Cansolar's quotidians get to "finish the job."

Finish it they did! Within that October 5-8 period, on the morning of October when Mars' transit to Moon was most exact, the local Cansolar Quotidian angles rotated to bring the exact Moon-Pluto aspects to the MINUTE of an angle.

This reminds me of other events where transiting Mars simultaneously aspect a Moon and an angle. I think you were personally present for the Chelsea bombing September 17, 2016 causing extensive property damage such as shattered windows up and down both sides of a block with flying debris (with other explosives later found on the Jersey side). I gave a longer analysis in Chapter 7 of SMA but the main feature was that transiting Mars was within 1° of aspecting Cansolar Moon and Cansolar angles for both Washington and Manhattan. (That entire Chapter 7 discussion is worth reading as an example of the many events that can happen from a convergence of the same charts.)

[SteveS]

Not till I discovered SMA with your help Jim, have I found such exactness with a mundane method of astrology, it boggles my mind.

[Jim Eshelman]

Not till I discovered SMA with your help Jim, have I found such exactness with a mundane method of astrology, it boggles my mind.

This was an unusually precise one. I'm used to the symbolism being good, but the raw mathematical precision of this one is stunning.

[Jim Eshelman]

I just remembered one interesting comment on Mercury-Jupiter aspects from our Hindu colleague James Braha:

Finally, there is the peculiar matter of Mercury and Jupiter harming each other when tightly conjunct or opposite. Because the two planets are benefic by nature, I believed their mutual aspects were extremely positive. However, many clients reported the opposite. While they always had wonderful creativity and communicative talents, they also had all kinds of troubles connected to significations of the planets (nervous system for Mercury, allergies or religious problems for Jupiter, etc.) and to the houses the two planets ruled or occupied...

Some astrologers would, of course, note that Mercury is an enemy to Jupiter in the friend/enemy scheme, which could cause troubles. However, I have never seen friends and enemies create such intense results, positive or negative. For example, Venus is an enemy to Jupiter, but aspects between the two always produce wonderful results. Likewise, Venus and Saturn are friends, and yet conjunctions and oppositions between them are horrific to Venus. For many years, as I kept witnessing tight Mercury–Jupiter aspects causing trouble, I assumed they were anomalies relating to the fact that astrology in practice is imperfect. The field is simply so vast and complex. Eventually, however, it became clear that the essential natures of these planets are so intensely dissimilar that they do not work well together. In practice these two benefics always damage each other when closely conjunct or opposite.

Much earlier, Charles Carter had surprisingly sharp things to say about this planet pair. Under Mercury-Jupiter aspects, even in his Harmonious Aspects section (by which he meant trines and sextiles), he wrote:

The chief difference between the favourable and unfavourable Mercury-Jovian contacts lies in the results from a material point of view. The harmonious contacts operate less eccentrically and are more often profitable in terms of cash. Even so, the aspects of Jupiter, in themselves, are seldom energetically ambitious. In fact, I should not call it a good combination for worldly success. There seems to be a distinct element of “self-undoing” in it, as a perusal of the ensuing examples will show. Even if this may be traced to other elements in the map, yet it is plain that the good aspects of Mercury and Jupiter do not prevent it.

This is not negated by the fact that several well-known modern astrologers have good aspects of Mercury and Jupiter, for Astrology at this period has to be practised professionally beneath the frown of the law and in a semi-surreptitious manner, conferring, in a worldly sense, much more blame than credit.

Under the Inharmonious Aspects (by which he meant the hard aspects) he wrote:

But there is a tendency for each planet to injure the other. [Many examples of how this is so, then continues:] It inclines to carelessness and imprudence, especially in small things; the native tends to exaggerate and scorns the dull formality of facts. Judgment is poor and the native is not likely to give good advice, especially in matters coming under either planet. He is a poor prophet, and astrologers with these afflictions are not likely to win credit for themselves or their art so far as predictive work is concerned. [Another paragraph of examples follows.]

In ordinary life this combination usually denotes many little troubles, but if the native should occupy himself with matters ruled by the two planets he may find them a constant and possibly serious danger, owing to the deception, duplicity, and muddle that they may cause... It tends to injure the health through the liver, and there is often a direct poisoning of the nervous system in consequence... There is often a distinct tendency to neglect worldly matters for art, religion, literature, or some cognate occupation.

[SteveS]

Jim wrote:

This was an unusually precise one. I'm used to the symbolism being good, but the raw mathematical precision of this one is stunning.

I remember another one (I think), there was precision with the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake with the CapQ. I have had a couple of Tropical astrologers ask me to prove to them the Sidereal Zodiac and I reply I can only do this if you learn Sidereal Mundane Astrology (SMA) with Fagan/Allen SZ. Cyril Fagan proved to me with his Ancient Egypt studies the Sidereal Zodiac was true from an archeology standpoint, but when I took-up the serious study of SMA, the Fagan/Allen Sidereal Zodiac was proven to me with pure precise math & geometry.

[Jim Eshelman]

You don't get angular hits like this unless the zodiac boundaries are known to with a few SECONDS.

[SteveS]

Exactly Jim! That is why this mathematical proof of the SZ boggles my mind. IMHO, only a few have seen/understood this mathematical proof of the SZ through a serious study of SMA.