Syria is winning. Despite ongoing bloodshed and
serious economic pressure, Syria is advancing steadily towards a military and
strategic victory that will transform the Middle East. There is clear evidence
that Washington’s plans – whether for ‘regime change’, for rendering the state
dysfunctional or for dismembering the country on sectarian lines – have failed.
That failure will fatally wound the US dream,
announced a decade ago by Bush junior, for a subservient ‘New Middle East’.
Syria’s victory is a combination of coherent popular support for the national
army, in face of a vicious sectarian Islamists (takfiris), firm backing by key
allies, and fragmentation of the international forces lined up against them.
The economic hardships, including regular
blackouts, are now worse but have not broken the Syrian people’s will to
resist. The government ensures basic foods are affordable and maintains
education, health, sports, cultural and other services. A string of formerly
hostile states and UN agencies are resuming their relations with Syria. An
improved security situation, the recent big power agreement with Iran and other
favourable diplomatic moves are all signs that the Axis of Resistance has
strengthened.
Nicholas
Campion in his "The Book of World
Horoscopes gives the mundane Horoscope of Syria as based on the French Transfer
of Powers on Jan. 1, 1944; 00.00. AM EET
(+00.00); Damascus, Syria; 36E18'00"; 33N30'00" [1]. The most
prominent transit to this chart in the recent past has been that of the epoch
defining Uranus-Pluto square to the angles. Uranus is on the descendant while
Pluto is on the IC. The following extract from Bill Herbst’s post “Uranus-Pluto:
War and Violence” explains the dynamics of the Uranus-Pluto square.
In its most basic symbolism, Uranus in Aries
indicates the awakening into action at the individual level. Considered from
that very general standpoint, the implications are not particularly shocking or
disturbing. The rebellious, revolutionary impulse of Uranus in the context of a
square to Pluto from Aries to Capricorn indicates the great likelihood that
selected individuals will commit themselves actively to challenging authority,
institutions, government, and the status quo of cultural rules and regulations.
Whatever the “ordinary” amount of individual disobedience against authority
would be, during the decade of the 2010s, this tendency will likely be enlarged
in quantity, heightened in dramatic quality, and made more eccentric and
willful. That’s easy to understand from the essential symbolism, interesting,
and significant, but not particularly worrisome. However, certain more
particular implications of Arian symbolism are enough to give one pause in
concern. Aries is not only the impulse to act in ways that are physical,
kinetic, pointed, urgent, and passionate, nor merely the drive to be “born”
into individual personhood, and not just sexual desire. Aries also “governs”
war and violence in general. When Aries is activated as the provocateur in the
Uranus-Pluto square in the dynamic tension of juxtaposition to the institutions
of society associated with Capricorn, the symbolic possibilities dramatically
increase that we would see increased war and violence. That’s a given. The
other side of the coin, however, is that war and violence may become the target
of various movements to change the status quo of what is considered acceptable
in civilization.
As we approach the pinnacle of the
Uranus-Pluto alignment, which defines the archetypal currents flowing through
the zeitgeist, now is the perfect time to stand up in protest against all forms
of unjust violence that corrupt our civility and threaten even the future of
civilization itself. To make that long uphill climb toward a better, more
loving world, we need the emotion of anger. This is the time to move into the
light whatever forms of cruelty and needless suffering have remained masked,
falsely justified, or hidden in the shadows.
The transit
of Uranus is on the descendant conjunct the radix TNPs Admetus-Hades.
Martha Wescott’s key phrases for the
combination describe perfectly the endurance of the Syrian people:
Admetus-Hades:
to endure in the face of difficulty and decline; to put up with humiliation, debasement or
mistreatment.
The MC
[14cn] of Syria’s chart is occupied by the US Sibly Sun [13cn]. This is
conjunct the star Sirius, alpha Canis Major. In China, this was the baleful
Jackal or “Wolf Star” associated with
thievery and looting, representing Hsiung-nu (Hun) tribes that warred with the
Han people on the NW borders of China. In addition, at least two Amerind
tribes, the Pawnee and Osage, called Sirius either “Wolf Star”or “Coyote Star”.
These descriptions bring out the nature
of the US action in Syria quite well now
that there is enough evidence of US support for ISIS.
On the
Ascendant [13li] are stars of Corvus and the Virgin which describe the role
played by ISIS in the Syrian war. About this area, Diana Rosenberg writes:
The worst of them are greedy, scavenging,
dishonest and exploiting opportunists, sinister, vicious and acquisitive. In a
gross distortion of the Virgin’s longing for purity, they may insist that there
is only one proper way to do things, one true path to follow, attempting to “purify”
the human race by ruthlessly eliminating those who are not of their race,
perceiving violence, terrorism and murder as solutions to problems.
But as
always there is never just one indicator to explain events. Here the progressed
Sun [22pi] conjunct Markab, alpha Pegasus squares radix Saturn [22ge] which in
turn is conjunct the star Bellatrix. Gamma (γ) Orion, Bellatrix, is a pale
yellow star marking the left shoulder of the Hunter/ Warrior. Warfare and conflict are Orion’s forte and
Arabs called Bellatrix Najid, the Conqueror. Markab is on the
wing of the Flying Horse which recall lifts Andromeda out of her troubles. Here this fortunate scenario would seem to
apply to Syria which appears to be winning the war.
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