In Riyadh, there’s a new king in town; and he is a
very different man than his brother before him. After shaking up the government
and replacing the heads of Saudi Arabia’s two corporate behemoths (SABIC &
Saudi Aramco), his new majesty seems to have the right people in place to carry
out what seems to be an entirely new set of policies. Case in point was this
past Thursday’s meeting in St. Petersburg where President Putin received the
Deputy Crown Prince and Saudi Defense Minister Muhammad bin Salman (son of the
king), along with Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and the all-powerful Oil
Minister Ali al-Naimi. The two sides signed a total of six new cooperation
agreements that included the nuclear and military spheres. June 20
The
current New Moon at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is placed in the mundane 7th
house of “enemies” [1]. In his commentary
“Creative Initiative & the Horns of the Bull” on the New Moon,
Nick Fiorenza writes:
The Mars-New Moon, on the cusp of sidereal
Taurus-Gemini, conjoins Al Hecka of
Taurus.
Al Hecka, Zeta Taurus, the south horn, is of
stalemates, standoffs, and brick walls—fighting old and antiquated
crusades—particularly of a religious-political nature—and blindly or
automatically continuing the fight out of habitual pattern even though the
original purpose behind what we were fighting for is long gone. Al Hecka can
express as beating one’s head against the wall, a relentless and futile
pursuit. Al Hecka brings attention to when the accomplishment pursued is of a
time no longer applicable—the time to surrender the physical struggle and move
onward into a field of mutual cooperation.
This
elegantly summarizes the change taking place in Saudi Arabia’s attitude towards
Russia.
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