Trump has doubled down, embroiled himself in an escalation trap, rather than take a quick off-ramp like he did after his first targeted attack against Iran. When I looked at Trump’s two tweets in my last video, with his “unconditional surrender” demands, I saw two signals that Netanyahu was in the driver’s seat this time. It was based on the Moon at 22° Libra during the most recent tweet and the rising sign of the New Moon in Pisces chart at 24° of Libra located in Washington DC.
Netanyahu was born in the Dark of the Moon right before a Solar Eclipse in Libra with his Sun at 27° Libra and his Moon at 20° Libra. During his birth, Neptune was conjunct the South Node. It’s no wonder that he has attached himself to a "holy mission" to expand Israel’s footprint, even as others describe him as Godless. Neptune in Libra is more nationalistic than spiritual. He will do whatever it takes to achieve the vision of a “Greater Israel", where he fights to eradicate any existential threat by radical Islamists. How evasive external security becomes for someone with an undefined spleen. One can become trapped in a prison of their own making, constantly looking over their shoulder to ward off threats.
Trump says the United States will withdraw based on how he “feels”, which is to be expected if you understand his design. From the human design perspective, he’s an emotional decision maker. For emotional decision makers, it’s important to wait until our wave has settles between the high and low points before making important decisions.
If we have his correct time of birth, Trump also has a right-oriented mind and “hope motivation”. As people correctly observe, he’s not strategic. His mind doesn’t operate this way. But it’s a mistake to think someone with a right mind is not intelligent. They can be far more intelligent because they have the capacity to absorb more information than left-oriented minds. Ra describes those with "hope motivation" as having an innate “knowing” that something is coming and simply waiting for it to appear.
But the intelligence of someone who is right-oriented is highly dependent upon the people they surround themselves with, and right now, Trump has surrounded himself with people who wish to push us into Armageddon. One of those people is Pete Hegseth, whose natal Moon is conjunct this New Moon. Hegseth's natal Moon is just past an opposition with his natal Saturn in Virgo and transiting Mars in Pisces is applying to an opposition of his natal Mars in Virgo.
He has a Mars-Saturn conjunction in Virgo, a strong mind that can turn on itself. His inward dialogue can become destructively critical, which is most likely why he turns to alcohol as a means to escape. It is common for people to use alcohol to escape their own minds, echoing critical voices they picked up from early childhood. This abuse is particularly prevalent with people who were brought up in a religion with black and white thinking over what is "good" vs. what is "evil".
Some people accuse the Evangelicals surrounding Trump as eager to reproduce the crusades that happened between 1095 and 1291. The crusades were a series of military campaigns launched by the papacy against Muslim rulers for the recovery and defense of the Holy Land, encouraged by promises of spiritual reward … a call to arms for Christians to reconquer Jerusalem from the Muslims. This period started during a Pluto-Neptune trine with Pluto in Aries and Neptune in Leo. These crusades lasted until the Pluto-Neptune opposition with Pluto in Gemini and Neptune in Sagittarius.
As we enter the cusp between the Pisces Age and the Aquarius Age, we have been experiencing a resurgence of religious extremism in coordination or as a comparison with a monarchistic or dictatorship-like rule. As soon as one abuses their power, the people revolt and switch to another type of leadership. Vali-Nasr describes this dance as it relates to Iranian leadership.
The Pluto-Neptune sextile between Aquarius and Aries will lead us into a similar Pluto-in-Aries and Neptune-in-Leo trine in 2086. Is this simply a sneak peak of the real crusades to come or will we finally escape this kind of destructive and perverted religious fanaticism? It seems likely we'll experience some kind of breakthrough during this period. At least as it relates to the "rightful ownership" of "holy land". I hope we can still retain our connection with the spiritual in its purest uncorrupted form, where we find mutual reciprocity in both our relationship with each other and the world around us.
With Jupiter now moving direct, picking up speed, shifting out of Gate 39, the Gate of Provocation, and back into Gate 53, the Gate of New Beginnings, we are now inching closer to the new beginning the Saturn-Neptune conjunction promised. This New Moon in Pisces and the Aries Ingress just a couple of days later is collectively initiating us into this new beginning.
This is the last New Moon at 28 degrees and in the last sign of Pisces, it’s now opposing the 2025 Solar Eclipse at 29° Virgo. It happens on the Cross of Vessel of Love, where love can quickly turn to hate and dreams can be either turned into reality or exposed as the illusions that they are. Raven Kaldera calls this the Dreamer’s Moon:
It’s a good time for reading and writing fantasy or for utopian politics. Spend all the time you can afford daydreaming. It’s not a time for practical planning. Instead, write down what you wish was in the world without regard to pessimism or practicality. Picture the outcome in your head and meditate on it. Then wish hard, or clap your hands, or click your heels together three times, or whatever else comes to mind. Don’t let the rational side of your mind get in the way. Whatever you do, have faith; the Pisces strength is believing.
The New Moon falls in the Sibley 3rd house, highlighting the Saturn-Neptune conjunction on the Cusp of the 4th house. We must have faith that whatever is happening now will motivate us to enter a higher plane, to fight for a future that ensures the safety and security of all of us instead of the select few who want to lead us down a destructive path.
Mercury is now stationing direct, on the degree of the North Node, with Mars now separating from the North Node on the other side. The stationing Mercury and North Node is a trine relationship to Trump’s Mercury degree in Cancer. One can only hope Trump himself experiences an awakening at this moment, a call to something higher, leading to restraint, rather than aggression. Trump has an abundance of luck. Despite his hubris, will he be saved once again?
In January, I did a quick analysis of the Aries Ingress chart. I noticed the Ascendent-Descendent was flipped from the Sibley chart, placing us in the crossroads of our friends and enemies. Jupiter, in the 2nd house, rules the Descendent of the ingress chart located in Washington DC. It is in trine relationship to Mars in Pisces on the Cusp of the 11th house.
I pointed out that Epstein’s Venus-Mars conjunction was at the same degree, and how perplexing it was to see him still so present in the Aries Ingress chart. At that time, Congress had ordered the release of the files. I had no idea that three months later, we would still be waiting for the release of the entire collection. But now I see the narrative unfolding in the collective – that his compatriots (Jupiter in Cancer in the 2nd house) are fueling this "holy" war (Mars in Pisces on the cusp of the 11th).
While the New Moon opposes last September's Virgo Eclipse, Mars in the Aries Ingress chart conjuncts last September's Lunar Eclipse. It also activates the Saturn-Chiron conjunction of those who were born during the Pluto-Uranus conjunction of the sixties. Melanie Reinhardt says this about Chiron in Pisces:
With this Chiron placement, we may have difficulty gaining a sense of personal individuality and separateness; steps in this direction may initially be fraught with guilt or even accompanied by illness. On the other hand, if we are too defended against the oceanic experience of Pisces and the 12th house, and too enclosed in a shell of brittle defensiveness (echoes of Virgo/6th house) we might regress, drown our sorrows in drink, seek refuge in drugs, pursue a life of crime, or exile ourselves from society.” - You see how different people reacted to this time with the Pluto Uranus in Virgo conjunction opposing Chiron in Pisces?
If you have Chiron in Pisces or the 12th house, loss of personal identity through the experience of ecstasy and the feeling of unity with the entire cosmos is probably a strong psychological need for you, and your dilemma will be how to honour this in a constructive way that does not result in tides of material or emotional chaos surging through your life. Although the oscillation between order and chaos is natural, with this placement we are challenged to learn how to prevent this going to extremes which are too destructive.
The Moon in Aries in the Ingress chart also highlights the Sibley's natal Chiron in Aries, which is about gaining strength through adversity. In the United States, we have learned that we cannot become complacent about our democracy. We have to keep fighting for a just world. There are many things we have taken for granted, especially that we have certain "inalienable rights". These rights have been so easily trampled this year, raising the alarm that we must wake up and fix our systems before it's too late.
The new Cross that we are heading into in 2027 is about individuation, but individuation can only be expressed in relation to the whole. We are always expressed through the other, so what happens to the other also happens to us. There is this misplaced desire in some people, an illusion, that if they could just get rid of a "certain other"; if they could just invent a machine that alleviates the need to depend or rely on the other; they could finally live in peace and enjoy the fruits of “a promised land”.
Interestingly, Hegseth was born on the Cross of Separation. But there is no life to be found in this kind of separation. If all of our perceived enemies were eradicated, how soon do you think it would take for our very own brother to become our enemy? How easy has it been to turn Americans against each other, to rip entire families apart? This is the classic tale of Cain vs. Abel in the Old Testament. The mythology teaches us that we come from the same source, but we've reverted to killing the other out of some misplaced jealousy that we are "the chosen ones" to receive our Father's rewards. Haven’t we learned enough about this cycle to recognize this truth?
The Moon is also applying to a conjunction to transiting Chiron in this chart. The warning is about overstretching. Our leaders overstretching their hand will definitely impact the health and well being of their people, who are always the biggest losers in the high cost of war. I hold optimism for our future, but the people will have to fight for it. That does not mean we have to resort to violence either, which simply feeds into this larger cycle. We need to find new ways to take back our collective rights – to defend a more just and equitable world. I hear there is another "No Kings" rally on March 28th. Will you be there?
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