Saudi Arabia vs. Iran

[Jim Eshelman]

Yesterday, Saudi Arabia broke off diplomatic relations with Iran in response to an attack of protestors on the Saudi embassy in Tehran (following the Saudi execution of a Shiite cleric). To put this differently: The effective world capital of Sunnis and the effective world capital of Shiites have severed diplomatic relations.

Riyadh
The Capsolar has been tense - Jupiter and Saturn both exactly angular but also with the Mercury-Venus conjunction in the wide foreground. Not the sort of year when one would go un-diplomatic. (Moon-Jupiter square is also angular.) The other solar ingresses haven't done much.

But yesterday's Liblunar pushed hard:
Moon 0°20' from Dsc
Mars 3°03' from Dsc
-- Moon-Mars conj (2°43')
Sun and Pluto in the upper foreground square Uranus rising
(Since Mercury isn't foreground, the partile Mercury-Mars square may not "count.")

Strangely, Venus was transiting the Capsolar Descendant yesterday; but Mars was crossing the Cansolar Descendant.

Tehran
The December 14 Caplunar has Uranus tightly on IC and opposite a foreground Mars at Midheaven. Sun is also foreground.

Yesterday's Liblunar has Moon square MC, with Moon and Mars foreground (mundane conjunction < 2°).

Yesterday's CapQ had transiting Venus exactly on Descendant, square CapQ Mars-Neptune. The CanQ had MC triggering the Cansolar Mars-Pluto opposition, which is also being triggered over the next few days by transiting Sun. Transiting Mars is crossing a Cansolar angle as well.

So... this is indeed volatile. Too early in the morning for me to have a well thought out reaction to it. Wanted to get the chart stuff in place here.

[Jim Eshelman]

While on my commute...

As usually happens, the Week chart and daily indicators are the main factors. The Liblunar is volatile & aggressive on both sides, and the Q's are very threatening. But I wouldn't worry about the Q's so much (they could just be passing news) if there wasn't a Bridge level trigger that puts this event in the Potential Big Event category. That trigger is Mars' transit across a solar ingress (Cansolar) angle for both locations - Descendant for Riyadh, Westpoint for Tehran.