Iraq militants seize Mosul

Iraq's prime minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency, after Islamist militants effectively took control of Mosul. Nouri Maliki acknowledged "vital areas" of the northern city had been seized. Overnight, hundreds of armed men seized local government's offices and police stations before taking control of the airport and the army's headquarters. About 150,000 people are thought to have fled and authorities have set up camps for them in three nearby towns. BBC; June 10

The solar eclipse of April 29  is significant for Mosul for at least two reasons (a) it places the Grand Cross on the horizon axis (b) it is tied to  the MC and the Mars leg.  Uranus-Pluto which forms the foundation of the Cardinal Grand Cross is  a configuration that ups the intensity and brings “things”—in all those places of tumult and turmoil  to a head.

Mars in Libra is now steadily coming up to speed after its long retrograde, and today, June 10, it conjoins its position in the eclipse chart [11li52]. This activates the Grand Cross  and signals what might be best understood as the “tension release phase” of the Grand Cross . From a collective point of view, this tension release phase is likely to exacerbate areas around the globe that are already suffering from too much stress and strain as it has done in Mosul today.

And if we remember that eclipses are also activated by progressed angles we can see here that today the progressed MC reaches a conjunction to the eclipse position.

The eclipse was conjunct the stars Schedar of  Cassiopeia and Hamal of Aries. Cassiopeia is often shown as an arrogant  Queen drunk on power while Hamal indicates a danger of ruin caused by a lack of diplomacy and an unwillingness to refine one’s attitude. Diana Rosenberg lists “historic battles” here [1]:

Andromeda’s longing for freedom and hatred of tyranny is evident: these stars were transited in 1792 when royalist Rouget de Lisa composed Le Marseillaise; at the 1871 Paris Commune uprising when the words of the Internationale were written; at the 451 CE Battle of Chalons, when Huns under Attila, “The Scourge of God” invaded Gaul facing a Roman-Visigoth alliance: in a ferocious cavalry battle, the Huns were defeated – a decisive battle of history; in 732 CE when Charles the Hammer Martel’s Frankish infantry defeated 60,000 mounted Muslim invaders at the Battle of Tours – the high water mark of Muslim invasion of Western Europe and a decisive battle of history.

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p. 149-55)