All sources are reporting<\/a><\/strong> that nearly 300 Palestinians have been killed in the past 48 hours by Israeli ‘retaliation’ so far, with hundreds more injured and numerous civilians among them. I am reading that the Israelis are now moving into position for a ground assault. If all of this is not a slaughter of the Palestinians, I would like to hear why not.<\/p>\n Saturday’s New Moon was precisely square the natal Eris in the chart for the State of Israel<\/strong><\/a>. My psychological interpretation of Eris (the postmodern identity crisis of Westerners) notwithstanding, Eris was indeed the goddess who, in mythology, instigated the Trojan wars of Greek antiquity. The so-far endless war between Israel and its neighbors is one of epic proportions, verging on mythical. Certainly it rivals any war or massacre chronicled in the Bible.<\/p>\n If indeed Israel’s Eris is implicated in this incident, that does not bode well for the future. Its position is 7+ Aries (square that New Moon to one degree), and in the short run, Mars in Capricorn is about to complete the square. We will get a second test of this Eris position in a few days: on Jan. 5, Mars squares Israel’s natal Eris. We need to watch developments between now and Jan. 5 to have a feeling for how this point in Israel’s chart responds. Additionally, a chart of this magnitude can have effects for a season or longer; big charts often as threshold events.<\/p>\n The real problem I see is in the long-term, because many planets are headed for the early cardinal signs, most particularly Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, and everything is close to the Aries Point: deeply personal and larger than life at the same time.<\/p>\n Hassan Nasrallah is the head of Hezbolah, the ruling party of the Palestinians and one of the cleverest minds in the Middle East. He is being pushed into a bad corner, with few options. Some would say he has to fight back with real artillery, or he will be revealed to be a fraud. Will he respond, and how? Does he have missiles that could crater the Israeli runways while the airplanes are out on bombing runs? Israel’s vulnerable point is its air force. It does not want to reveal the existence of its nuclear armed submarines that prowl the planet.<\/p>\n The Palestinians, for their part, have natal Saturn at 1 degree of Capricorn<\/strong><\/a> — precisely where the Mars-Pluto conjunction is right now. This is ominous, and it suggests that they will be under sustained attack. Israel is running out of countries to take its compulsive rage out on. They have a peace treaty with Egypt; the Saudis are obviously off limits; the Iraqis are not a military threat; Iran has not revealed itself to be more than a rhetorical threat (in other words, so far, all words and no action). The Syrians get bombed to bits by Israel every now and then and can do little about it. The Lebanese fight back so they are not a suitable target.<\/p>\n This basically leaves the Palestinians, whose chart does not look good. Nor does their situation. They have no economy. They can barely feed themselves; it’s a miracle they are surviving at all. (Of note, their chart has Asbolus close to the ascendant, which I have often seen in the charts of the survivors of severe long-term abuse.) They can easily be cut off from all provisions by Israel, and are economically and every other way at the mercy of the Israelis. There have been protests around the Middle East expressing the outrage of the Arab people at these attacks. Here is a photo gallery from the New York Times.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The moral high ground that the Israelis typically enjoy is based on the fact that the Jews and many other people — nearly every nationality in Europe at the time — were subjected to a holocaust between 1933 and 1945<\/strong><\/a>, after which the State of Israel was founded. However, this high ground is being slowly eroded by the Israelis’ treatment of the Palestinians, who once occupied the land that they now do.<\/p>\n We are following the story and will check back in if there are further key developments. Otherwise we will resume our break from blogging with this post. Your comments are welcome. Thanks to those on the Planet Waves staff, readers who have written in and Dave Roell at the Astrology Center of America<\/strong><\/a> who assisted with this brief entry.<\/p>\n It would appear that a bar fight has led to all-out war; but so far, this particular one appears to be a one-sided war. My father is in Israel at the moment, and I am sure he does not agree (his apartment there has a bomb-proof room that the family can retreat to if his city is under attack, which it is not). But the homemade rockets being launched from Gaza into Israel have killed nobody in the past few days. 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