{"id":8704,"date":"2008-12-29T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=8704"},"modified":"2011-06-07T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T22:45:57","slug":"hamas-astrolog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/hamas-astrolog\/","title":{"rendered":"I talked to dad and his wife in Israel today…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

Yesterday I made the case that Israel was being ruthless in its retaliation against the Palestinians. Today I want to look at the other side of this, politically and astrologically. Apparently, Israel is serious about this and is getting ready to move in on the Gaza Strip. My father is currently in Israel. I spoke with him and his wife for an hour today, and want to take a moment and share his thoughts and a few more of my own.<\/p>\n

In the days since a cease-fire expired between Hamas and Israel, the Palestinians have been sending about 75 rockets a day over the border into Israeli territory. All the news reports and my dad and his wife agree, this is why Israel is currently bombing and getting ready to invade this small area. Already nearly 300 Palestinians have been killed, and in these air strikes, civilians are always among them.<\/p>\n

The Israelis have just one demand: stop the rockets. Stop bombing anything, including relief convoys bringing food and medical supplies into your own territory. The Israelis are the only country providing relief in the Gaza Strip. And even these come under rocket fire.<\/p>\n

Though they are low-tech artillery and cannot even be aimed accurately at any significant distance, they are definitely a form of terrorism. Israelis are afraid to send their kids to school, lest one of these things land in the schoolyard. These rockets have killed relatively few people over the past eight years, but they are a form of live-fire psychological warfare.<\/p>\n

Falling randomly from the sky, their use is designed to do nothing except provoke fear and retaliation. While we are all inclined to feel sorry for the Palestinians who are being subjected to high-powered air strikes, I am really wondering: what is the point? They send over the rockets and they KNOW what’s going to happen: they’re going to get bombed.<\/p>\n

This is a form of “assisted suicide.” It is martyrdom, which radical Islam is famous enough for. I am picking up a subtext: we are inclined to have an emotional response to the dead Palestinians. And this is by design. It works. Nobody wants to see kids lined up in coffins. Not me, not the Israeli people not their families and I would guess not you. The only reason I can think of that Hamas is sending these rockets across the border is because whoever is doing it and whoever is allowing it is insane.<\/p>\n

The Israelis for their part are loath to lose even one soldier or airman. In the United States, apparently our troops are expendable — we call them GIs, or “government issued” — like a canteen or a helmet. Our government does not seem to distinguish between the uniform and the soldier wearing it. As a culture, the Israelis are not inclined to fight indiscriminantly, and they are inclined to be hardcore warriors. So it really makes me wonder why, unless one is entirely self-destructive, anyone would fire rockets at them.<\/p>\n

I am not saying it’s cool that Israel has killed 300 people the past three days. I am asking, would you walk up to a State Trooper and sock him in the stomach?<\/p>\n

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Palestinian independence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday I posted the chart for the Palestinian Independence declaration in 1988. Here is that horoscope<\/strong><\/a>, set for the place where it actually happened, Algiers. It has Virgo rising and the South Node right in the ascendant — a bit stuck in its ways. (The chart can be relocated to Jerusalem as well. When you do that, you get a Libra rising chart with Venus in Libra; they are incredibly nice people who deserve none of this.)<\/p>\n

This dualism is depicted in the situation as we see it now. Are they nice people being bombed due to the folly of their so-called leaders, or are they, as a tribe, something a bit more sinister? Is this even a fair question? I am not sure.<\/p>\n

There is definitely a Scorpio flair to this tribe, at least in its modern expression. We see this with the Scorpio Sun and we see it with Mercury conjunct Pluto in the 3rd house — also in Scorpio. I cannot think of better astrology to say “death obsessed.” You could also say, “intense everyday life” because the 3rd house represents “everyday life.” But obviously anyone death obsessed is going to have an intense life.<\/p>\n

[Notably, on the topic of Scorpio, when Yassir Arafat died and his body was being delivered to the territory from Paris, there was a New Moon in Scorpio, conjunct the centaur planet Hylonome, which has the keywords, “self inflicted.” The New Moon and the helicopters landing were synched within minutes, and it was one of the most breathtaking moments of live astrology I have ever witnessed.]<\/p>\n

When I cast this chart I looked immediately at the minor planets, and I noticed two things. One is that a centaur planet called Asbolus is rising. This is a planet associated with surviving abuse. In the long run this is definitely true of the Palestinians. In this chart it’s also associated with an abuse complex: a mental construction in Virgo. It is three degrees from the ascendant, in the 1st house. It’s a very, very strong identity.<\/p>\n

Next, we have the thing that to me tips the whole chart. The Sun in Scorpio is conjunct Ixion, exact to the degree. Ixion was the first murderer of human origin, who then tried to rape Hera, the wife of Zeus. To me this point is the symbol of, “Anyone is capable of anything.” It is about the original sin — murder and rape. When a point is conjunct the Sun, that can seize the entire identity.<\/p>\n

Last bit: Sun and Ixion conjunct Quaoar, to less than half a degree. Quaoar represents things of a collective, tribal nature — including the creation myth. I dare not say what this represents. It’s just too dark.<\/p>\n

Let’s stop the killing, and the suicide. There are fig trees and kids to take care of.<\/p>\n

Yours & truly,<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I posed the chart for the Palestinian Independence declaration in 1988. Here is that horoscope, set for the place where it actually happened, Algiers. (The chart can be relocated to Jerusalem as well. When yo do that, you get a Libra rising chart with Venus in Libra; they are incredibly nice people who deserve none of this. This dualism is depicted in the situation as we see it now. Are they nice people being bombed due to the folly of their so-called leaders, or are they suicidal nut cases?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,52,874,556,875,279],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}