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Leo
The sensitive Leo
Leo and elitism
The Sirian force
The full moon
Uranus and the Pleiades
Uranus and the Pleiades: WWII
The liberating Lords
The bomb and the saving force
Nuclear madness
To know and to discover
Manhattan
Bleeding Kansas
Intervention
The Pleiades in Gemini
Sedna
Current events
The Gaza quagmire
Israel’s due date
Zangezur
Rumble in the Tundra
The summit
Look ‘im in the eye
Astrology of the summit
The media reaction
Follow the money
Vogue: Strike the pose
The shaming of Europe
Our Elites
In conclusion
Greetings Everyone!
Here in our fair city we just had a public holiday: St. Mary of the Snow, or in Italian, Beata Maria Ausillatrice. It is a big deal, or ‘big doins’ as we say in the South. It is celebrated on August 5th. My wife and I were sitting at one of the local watering holes that evening. The stores were all closed except for essential services, even many of the bars (Bars in Italy are generally coffee bars). As we sat there after a while we noticed two of the local police standing at the corner looking toward one of the roads, and it soon dawned on us that a procession was coming. You may want to know why. St. Mary of the Snow, celebrated in August – yes, during the heat of summer – is a yearly celebration of the consecration of the city in 1703 to the patron Madonna of Rovereto, one of the many ausillatrice Madonnas throughout Italy. As it turns out, the city in that year was besieged by the French. The fraternal celebration, as recounted by the Diocese of Trento is as follows:
“The celebration has distant roots, dating back to August 5th 1703, when, to be preserved from the destruction brought by the French general Vendôme in the Vallagarina, the city of Rovereto entrusted itself to the protection of Mary Help of Christians, the city’s principal patron saint, and vowed to celebrate the solemn memorial of thanksgiving every year on August 5th .”
This memorial of thanksgiving is not the Thanksgiving of Americans and Canadians. What exactly happened on that date instead, one might ask? The period in mention was during the War of the Spanish Succession. This French general had decided to test the fortifications of the area and pushed his troops up the right side of the Adige River, which runs through Rovereto. At the time Rovereto was only on the left side of the river. He threatened to overrun the city on the 5th, but then, lo and behold, there was a blizzard (so the story goes) that prevented the troops from crossing, so they had to move on. And it turns out the citizens of our city at the time, then under the control of the Venetians, made supplication to the patron Madonna of the City. Well, it was a miracle, and the citizens vowed to remember and celebrate their salvation from pillage and destruction every year on August 5th. Now, I can’t tell you if the story is true. I don’t remember being there in 1703, but I can tell you the tradition has continued since that date, which brings us back to the celebration.
Leo: The major characteristic of any Leo type is that they are intensely self-aware.[3] This can range from narcissism in the baser type of person, like “I am the center of the universe”, to that type of self-awareness that comes through the most intensive analysis of one’s mind in the graded stages of meditative practices. The Age of Leo, some 21 million years ago, was when the bulk of humanity today became self-conscious,[4] aware of our individuality. Of Leo and self-awareness, we may consider the following:
“The keynotes of this sign are exceedingly well known. They sound out the note of individuality and of true self-consciousness. Many people are convinced that they are self-conscious when they are only swayed by desire and are oriented towards the satisfaction of that desire or when they recognise themselves as the dramatic centre of their universe. Yet the only truly self-conscious person is one who is aware of purpose, of a self-directed life and of a developed and definite life plan and programme. Where [Page 289] these are present, the inference is that there is mental perception and some measure of integration. To be motivated only by emotion and actuated by desire is no indication of true self-consciousness. In the undeveloped man, it is far more instinctual than is self-awareness. In the truly developed self-conscious man not only is direction, purpose and plan present, but also a consciousness of the active agent of the plan and action. Ponder on this.”[5]
Leo is ruled by the Sun at all three levels, orthodox, esoteric and hierarchical.[6] But at the higher levels the Sun stands as a veil for two other planets. We have:
“1. The Sun—Full self-consciousness. This—through the influence of the physical Sun and the “heart of the Sun”—produces awareness of the relation of the higher self and the lower self. Man becomes aware of his essential duality.
2. Uranus—Occult consciousness or that intelligent, fusing condition which produces the scientific at-one-ment of the two factors, higher and lower self, through the intelligent use of the mind.
3. Neptune—Mystical consciousness or that innate sensitivity which leads unerringly to the higher vision, to the recognition of the inter-relation involved in man’s [Page 307] essential duality during the process of manifestation, plus the activity of the mediator.”[7]
Leo and elitism: To the Leo type (Sun or Ascendant) who has a measure of soul contact and who has undergone self-discipline and study, their sensitivity radiates and becomes magnetic. The heart is ruled by Leo and the idea of ‘heart’ as an expression is central to the Leo character. The 1st ray expressed through the Leo types tends toward leadership, making them the center of any group in which they find themselves. They can become imposing figures, in more ways than one. And if they have achieved mastery in some area of human life they will tend to exhibit the lede statement at the start of this letter. Problematic in that regard is a tendency toward elitism with the more advanced Leo type. In the West that is a curiously European dynamic, which the United States has borrowed in abundance when the US became the de facto leader of the West’s Empire after WWII. It is that with which we struggle today – the elites in the nations having Leo rulership who still think they know best how we should be governed and think they should still be running the world even after their own empires have gone to dust. The US has taken this on through its European ancestry. We will be looking at this later on in this letter.
The Sirian force: We end this section on Leo with the following quote and what is means for us every year:
“August, which is ruled by Leo, is the month of the Dog-star, or of Sirius, which thus brings Sirius into close relation to Leo. Leo, in the cosmic sense (and apart from our solar system altogether) is ruled by Sirius. Sirius is the home of that greater Lodge to which our fifth initiation admits a man and to which it brings him, as a humble disciple, Later, when the new world religion is founded and is working, we shall find that the major, monthly festival in August, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the Hierarchy, with Sirian force. Each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, as Sirius governs Leo. This I shall later elaborate in the papers to be written anent the new “Approaches” to spiritual reality.”[9]
The full moon takes place of 9 Aug 2025 at 07:55 UTC (17:55 AEST). That happens to be the anniversary of the use of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in 1945. This full moon chart is packed with geometric aspect combinations, as well as meaning. We will tie all these together in a bit. To start, the full moon axis forms a hard rectangle with a partile Mars/Saturn opposition. The Mars/Saturn opposition in turn forms a soft rectangle with the Mercury/Pluto opposition. The latter rectangle in turn forms the base of a house, with the ‘roof’ of the house consisting of the Mercury/Saturn trine from the soft rectangle with Uranus at the apex of the ‘house’. From here the chart gets even more interesting. There are two triangles that form the sides of the house. One of these is formed by a triangle with Mars trine Uranus as the base, with Mercury at the apex. On the other side we have the familiar triangle that characterises this quarter formed by a trine between Uranus and Pluto with the Saturn/Neptune partile conjunction at the apex. Then to finish it all off, and forming the central geometry of the chart is a Grand Trine formed by Mars, Uranus and Pluto. But there is one thing missing, and which is very important for our considerations here: the point opposite Uranus at the 2nd degree of Sagittarius, the Sabian symbol for which reads as follows:
That point would complete a 6-pointed star, nowadays used to represent Zionism – an interesting consideration. Dane Rudhyar gave the following keynote to that degree: “The mobilization of unconscious energies under the pressure of super-personal motives.” We will come back to that idea. Opposite this point, at the apex of the roof of the house configuration is Uranus, which is conjunct the stars of the Pleiades cluster. It is also conjunct the dwarf planet Sedna, all contained within the space of one degree, and thus being a powerful point of focus and transmission. The Sabian symbol for that is as follows:
Dane Rudhyar attributes the meaning of this symbol as ‘a rewarded faith in spiritual blessings’. The key word in this symbol is ‘furtive’. It is a symbol that speaks to the idea of ‘the mind being the slayer of the real’. In this we are talking about the lower aspect of the human mind that seeks to fixate on appearances and to place them in models, according to what has been learned from past experience and conditioning. What is about to appear to us in the world is going to be new, though, and may not conform to our old ideas. ‘Santa Claus’ here represents a higher power that has the ability to bestow gifts – spiritual gifts – but may not necessarily be our own souls. What would this mean to us? Well, first we must take the full moon axis into consideration because it sets the tone of the entire chart. We begin with the Sabian symbol for the solar degree:
The greatest music in the world is performed in groups. A single violin can show virtuosity and inspire others, but when that same violin is part of an orchestra the music becomes more than inspiring and has real presence and power. The great orchestral and band music that we know has appeal at a mass level. Even smaller groups, like popular music groups can have mass appeal and represent the ethos of a generation. The great symphonic classics are timeless, though. There is that aspect of the symbol, which implies group unity. But then one of the key words in the symbol is that of ‘volunteer’. And then we have that of the Moon:
Rudhyar’s interpretation of this symbol applies especially to Europe these days: “The development of the capacity to protect one-self and to safeguard one’s individual rights under complex social pressures.” However, the interpretation applies equally across the world, wherever pressure is brought to bear on nations to extract resources and tribute from those nations unable to protect themselves from economic and military coercion. The symbol can also be seen as an appeal to a higher power for protection, or from other nations for protection. We will come to that appeal to a higher power in a bit. Vivian Robson gives the following interpretation of Uranus with the Pleiades and it is not a happy story:
“Active mind, deformity from birth or through accident in childhood, many accidents and troubles, many unexpected losses often through fire or enemies, marriage partner proves false especially if female, troubles through women, occult interests, unfavorable for children, if any, and lack of harmony with them, heavy losses at end of life, violent death.”[11]
Uranus and the Pleiades: The ‘troubles through women’ comes via the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters). This was written back in the days when astrology was more fatalistic, and dare we say, more misogynistic. Uranus in those days was seen as a malefic influence, bringing sudden changes and calamities – which it can still do. But esoterically Uranus establishes a new rhythm and signals the urge to enforce conditions more suitable to one’s spirituality – which leads to greater freedom from the pull of material forces. Resistance to this is futile when Uranus is influencing a chart strongly. We either choose to be free under that influence or life has a way of changing in ways we do not necessarily like. However, what we like often runs counter to our soul path.
Uranus and the Pleiades: WWII: The last time Uranus was conjunct the Pleiades was from Aug 1941 to April/May of 1942. That was WWII, and there were decisive battles in the Pacific between the Americans and the Japanese. Most famous of those for American readers were the attack on Pearl Harbor and later the Battle of Midway. The Americans stopped the advance of the Japanese forces in that period, at Midway. At the same time the Nazis were stepping up the Holocaust and were opening their most notorious camps in Poland. The German plan at that point was to force the Jews in Europe to the east for use as slave labor for the German war effort. Those who could not be used for work were murdered. The eventual intended fate of all those people (and the Jews were not the only unfortunates) after they were used to the point of dropping was death – ‘arbeit macht frei’ (work sets you free). Whether one calls those camps death camps or work camps, the end result was the same. The siege of Leningrad started during that period was well. The turning point of the war in Europe would come with Stalingrad, just after the conjunction in 1942. It should be noted, though, that the genocide of European Jews was not the only genocide in Europe during the war. The same fate was meant for the Slavs of Eastern Europe, the number of those killed by the Nazis being over 17 million by estimates. We never hear about that. We can add to that number around 3 million captured Soviet soldiers. How many times have we heard about those people, who were ethnically cleansed for lebensraum? All of this is unpleasant, but it is reflected by what we see in Palestine now.
The liberating Lords: There was another event, or manifestation that took place during the Uranus/Pleiades conjunction of 1941 – the concerted effort on both sides (Axis and Allies) to obtain a nuclear weapon. There was ancient karma from Atlantis that was working out at the time, in that across the Atlantic Ocean ‘the Lords of the Dazzling Face and the Lords of the Dark Face’, symbolically represented now, were again engaged in a play for domination of the world’s resources. The linked article reads like a legend and total fantasy these days, but for people who can read the records of humanity over time, the article rings true. It was said during the recent period in 1942 that the spiritual Hierarchy of our planet was in preparations to withdraw their influence from the affairs of humanity, possibly for millennia, so close were the Axis powers to obtaining the bomb and success in their other efforts. If the Axis had obtained the bomb before the Allies it would have been used to subjugate humanity to fascism, feudal existence and authoritarian rule for generations at the very least. The need to withdraw was averted ‘when the Sun moved northward’ (after the Aries equinox) by the intervention by what are known as the Lords of Liberation.[16] What follows is a key statement, which holds just as true today. We do not realize fully what is at stake by the world’s inaction to offset the perceived insanity of some of our world leadership:
“The necessity to withdraw [from human contact] was averted. I may not say in what manner, beyond telling you that the Lords of Liberation took certain unexpected steps. This They were led to do owing to the invocative powers of humanity, used consciously by all those upon the side of the will-to-good and unconsciously by all men of goodwill. Owing to these steps, the efforts of those fighting in the realm of science for the establishing of true knowledge and right human relations were aided. The trend of the power to know and to discover (a definite form of energy) was deflected away from the demanding evocative minds of those seeking to destroy the world of men, leading to a form of mental paralysis. Those seeking to emphasise the right values and to save humanity were simultaneously stimulated to the point of success.”[17]
What we see with the leadership of the belligerent nations seeking to dominate in Palestine, for instance, is that a form of mental paralysis has ensued, especially for leadership in the far-right government of Israel, in the US, UK, France and Germany. In their case they persist with the idea, enforced on us as narrative, that Hamas is the sole cause of the conflict, that Israelis are not committing genocide, that to say otherwise is anti-Semitic, that Iran is the major source of terror in the region, whereas the conflict began over a century ago with Zionism – discussed in recent letters here – and is only now indicating that a possible end to that evil is nigh. This will be discussed fully further on here. But we return to the Atlantic sphere mentioned above, because what is taking place there has the possibility to end humanity as we know it.
The bomb and the saving force: We are never told the story about how the bomb came to be or why. All we know as the general public is that nuclear weapons can be used to end us once and for all. We are not told that the old weapons, fission and thermonuclear, are the precursors toward a type of nuclear energy as a saving force for the planet.[19] We cannot cover that here, as the story is too long. But suffice it to say that what started as a weapon of mass destruction was in fact a great occult event, representing a liberation for the mineral kingdom and a scientific achievement that would lead us to eventually harness the power of the Sun, controlled by human engineering, guided by human goodwill, here on Earth.[20] That event took place when the Sun was in Cancer in 1945, in the event known as the Trinity nuclear test.
At 05:29:45 on 16 July at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunning Range in New Mexico. The atomic age had begun. It is worth noting that the Midheaven for that chart was a mere 6 seconds of arc from 0° Aries, showing the inauguration of the new age. The energy that blast represented was meant for eventual peaceful use of the masses of humanity, shown by the Sun in Cancer, with Cancer rising, with the Sun conjunct the Ascendant and Saturn in the first house of the chart. Saturn transmits the energy of Sirius[21] represented in the chart
Nuclear madness: What is more important for us in the present moment is that certain of our Western leadership have become convinced that Russia and China are a threat, and that the use of nuclear weapons against them can somehow result in a victory for the West, maintaining the Western hegemonic order. Let’s just be clear: There are no winners in a nuclear war. And you do not want to survive one if it happens (see video with Ritter, below). There are things worse than death. But as an indicator, our tech elites have bought into the belief that retiring to a bunker in the event of such a war is ‘surviving’. Those people may be brilliant at tech, but their foresight and wisdom is sorely lacking. Why would anyone want to emerge from a bunker when the world around it is destroyed, without life, full of disease? Even worse is those people are a very large influence upon our leadership through their control of media, money and influence. Again, we digress.
Apparently the German plans for a bomb were very advanced and done in top secrecy – and would have worked if they had been able to access the fissile material. But they lacked the measures necessary to obtain and refine the uranium. Aside from nuclear weapons there were a great many other technological advances being made on all sides of the war for their war efforts, many of which benefit us today, aside from atomic energy. To name a few we had the first computers, radar, microwave technology, sonar, ballistic missiles (space exploration), early solid state electronic developments, electronic warfare, encryption tech in communications, jet aircraft, penicillin, advances in surgery and pharmaceuticals…It is too much to go into here. The main point to be had here is about the pursuit of atomic energy.
“Beyond these two distant planets, lies another planet as yet undiscovered, though speculation is rife about it, owing to certain unexplained movements of the planet Neptune. It is through this planet that the Forces (as they are related to Leo and Aquarius) are focussed in one potent stream of force; these pour into our planetary life during the month of August, and distribute themselves, via Uranus and Neptune. You have, therefore, in this connection:
The ‘undiscovered planet’ mentioned at the time of that writing is Pluto. There is a further point to be made about the conjunction of Uranus with the Pleiades which will round out what this conjunction means. That takes us back to 1857, the ‘first’ time we had that conjunction.
Bleeding Kansas: The previous conjunction of Uranus with the Pleiades was in the period from mid-1857 to May of 1858. There was Bleeding Kansas in the US and the Panic of 1857, the latter which closed the banks in the US for several months. The banks in the US did not fully recover until after the Civil War. But the big event for the US was Bleeding Kansas, a fight between pro and anti-slavery factions in the territory of what was to become the state of Kansas. That conflict acted as a catalyst and directly precipitated the American Civil War. The Panic of 1857 added to the tensions. Slavery was the big issue in the United States at the time. The nation was divided, with the agricultural South relying on slave labor to remain viable, while the North was industrialized. The Panic of 1857 brought the matter to a head. The political infighting in the US as a result precipitated the American Civil War. What, then, did the Uranus-Pleiades conjunction birth that would precipitate such a conflict, but ultimately lead to the elimination of overt slavery in the US? Well, there is a point to note here: At both instances of the conjunction the enslavement of a part of humanity was the issue, with the corresponding fight for freedom. We see that today as well, but with a different character, which we will address shortly.
The personality of the West is governed by the 4th ray, with ideological schisms being prevalent, as well as being the mode whereby those differences are resolved. Conflict tends to lead to quick resolutions of differences, especially when there is some understanding between the exponents of various sides of an issue. But such was not the case in 1857 in the US, in the Axis powers as it was 84 years ago and in the two major conflicts we see now, expressed through ethno-nationalist factions. War is the result. The Pleiades through Venus express the 5th ray to humanity, while Uranus expresses the 7th ray of order. What we see with this conjunction is a new order born out of human thought if possible, or through enforced order when the ideology is too fixed to be moved. It gives a scientific approach to humanity’s immediate need for freedom.
Intervention: We are at the point of precipitation now, one which we may call ‘intervention’. It will come – must come – from humanity if we want to see an end to the horrors we are witnessing in West Asia. The conflict in Ukraine will end as it was always going to end, with Ukrainian capitulation and the defeat of NATO. Keep in mind that it was the Western powers who provoked that war, seeking to balkanize Russia, which we have examined many times over the past few years. We won’t go over old ground here. But the conflict in Palestine is of a different type, involving a religious element, whereas the war in Ukraine does not. There have been attempts to involve a schism between the Ukrainian and Russian orthodoxies, but those will soon enough be resolved when freedoms return to that sad country. It would profit us to keep the following in mind as well:
“The Prince of Peace will lead His people—through war—to peace. Those who think only in terms of peace as they understand it and desire it are apt to forget the Biblical implication that the Prince of Peace takes a definite part in the battle of Armageddon (now in full progress). After achieving victory, He will then lead His triumphant cohorts through the gates into “Jerusalem,” the city of peace.”[23]
The Pleiades in Gemini: Being in Gemini this time around, the Uranus-Pleiades conjunction will have a different character. It was more physical in its results when in Taurus. We have not gone further back in history because we did not know about Uranus at the time of that conjunction (1773-1774), even though every 84 years that conjunction has occurred throughout our existence on this world. What would we expect for this conjunction in Gemini, though, for the first time at least 25 millennia? We are entering new ground here. It is not difficult to surmise, however. Gemini is an air sign, representing intuition, whereas the Taurean conjunctions over the past 2500 years have resulted in physical and geopolitical effects. We can expect a collapse of the current narratives we constantly hear in the West with the present conjunction. We can expect further revelations about electrical phenomena. We can expect advances in space exploration and flight (reflecting intuitional telepathy). And we can finally expect a breakthrough that will give us the energy from a thousand tiny suns here on earth, erasing our need for oil and petroleum, the vestige of the passing age. Then, there is Sedna, only discovered a few years ago.
From here we start our examination of events with Palestine.
The Gaza quagmire: The Israelis knew October 7th was coming, as was recently revealed by an Israeli soldier with the Golani Brigade. The Israelis let Al-Aqsa Flood happen, as many people have suspected, which was then used as the pretext to commit the genocide we see now in Gaza. Since then, about a quarter – ca. 500,000 – people of Gaza have been murdered. Along with that, Netanyahu’s political crisis deepens by the day. In response to that crisis he has hatched a plan to keep the extremist factions of his government onside. As mentioned above, the Israeli Security Cabinet has announced plans to enter Gaza City and begin the occupation of Gaza. The IOF chief is opposed to the idea, and with good reason. The IOF is fighting an urban guerrilla war in Gaza, which is the most wearing type of warfare psychologically. There is no rest for occupying soldiers. At any moment a fighter could appear out of nowhere and attack. There are hiding places in every blown-out building and pile of rubble. It is the main reason why Russian forces avoid entering large population centers and instead lay siege to them, like we saw in Syria and to an extent in Ukraine. Thus far over 10,000 IOF soldiers have been killed or wounded in Gaza beyond returning to combat. Over 80,000 have been admitted to rehabilitation, with 26,000 of those with various mental disturbances, a third of which are PTSD related. Sixteen Israeli soldiers have committed suicide this year alone. None of this is surprising in the least, as much as the Israelis try to cover it up.
“There was also a weakening of the tension which had hitherto successfully held the forces of evil together, and a growing inability of the evil group at the head of the Axis Powers to surmount the incidental war fatigue. This brought about, first of all, a steady deterioration of their minds, and then of their brains and nervous systems. None of the men involved in the direction of the Axis effort in Europe is today normal psychologically; they are all suffering from some form of physical deterioration, and this has been a real factor in their defeat, though one that may be difficult for you to realise. It is not so in the case of the Japanese, whose psychological make-up is totally different, [Page 496] as are their nervous systems, which are of fourth rootrace quality…”[25]
The quote above has parallels with the leaders of Ukraine and Israel today. Netanyahu is not a well man. Neither is Zelenskyy. And if we were to delve into the people around these two men we would likely find much the same situation. We might even say the same about some our Western leaders. Zelenskyy these days looks particularly worn. It has long been known he is drug-addled. It is alleged there is quite a bit of drug abuse in Washington, too, which does not help in making informed decisions. Cocaine is particularly troublesome in that regard (see Seth Harp video, below). Netanyahu has been in and out of hospital. Both of the men have scraped the bottom of the barrel (think: Sedna in terms of their relationship with the larger world) for what they can do to at least extend their very survival. Trump is almost 80 and is showing signs of cognitive decline.
On the international stage Israel and the United States have committed reputational hara-kiri, with the EU not far behind. Our government has become unhinged, divorced from the will of the people and defiant of international law. With the man-made starvation strategy of the IOF now plain for all to see, despite Netanyahu’s denials, the leaders of Western nations have started trying to save face by announcing they will recognize the Palestinian State at the UN. It will be pointless, and they know it. The Europeans are in a panic because they fear another Nakba – not because of humanitarian concerns, but because it puts them in a bad light because of their ongoing support for the Israelis. They also fear another refugee crisis. If they really cared about the plight of the Palestinians they would have acted long ago to end the genocide. Their words and promises are empty. No nation in the Global South believes there will be a two state solution to the crisis. And Netanyahu, along with the Likud Party have openly stated their aim is to occupy and control every inch of territory ‘between the river and the sea’, and hopefully beyond. Their aim is the Greater Israel project, supported by the rest of the far-right elements in government, hence their designs on disarmament of all the Resistance groups in the region. And now we hear Trump has asked Netanyahu to step up military operations in Gaza, because ‘Washington’s (his) patience is wearing thin’.
The IOF is overstretched, exhausted and is facing a manpower shortage. Fifty percent of reservists are refusing to front up for the carnage, citing burnout, saying the war has no strategy or purpose. They see no future for Israel in pursuing the war. The Haredi are refusing military service altogether even though their exemption from military service has been overturned. Only a few dozen have signed up so far. For the first time the IOF has approved a reserve unit composed of individuals between ages 50 – 55, reflecting the manpower crisis. Reflecting the manpower shortage the IOF has instituted a one-time program called “Starting Anew”, which grants amnesty to draft dodgers and deserters over a five-day period, which would allow the absentees to enlist without facing jail time. The IOF is short 12,000 troops. The offer ends on Thursday (21st). To cap off the manpower shortage, the IOF is casting its net overseas, trying to attract Jewish youth from abroad to come and fight for Bibi.
There are fears in Israel of another attack by Iran. But Iran will not pre-emptively attack Israel. There are reports of the US repositioning sensitive equipment out of Iraq to other US military bases in the event of another war with Iran. Washington must know that another war with Iran is in the cards. Iraq has just signed a security agreement with Iran (in Arabic) that its territory will not be used to attack Iran. Washington is unhappy. As well, the Iraqi PMU forces have refused to disarm. And Hezbollah is poised and ready to strike. Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani had just paid visits to Iraq and Lebanon. In Iraq the security agreement he signed with the Iraqis focused on border security, smuggling and rail links, which would promote trade and travel between the two nations. Millions of Iranians travel to Iraq during the annual Arbaeen pilgrimage, the largest in the world. But the Iraqi government is still cowed by the US. Larijani was not entirely pleased with his visit to Iraq. The same is pretty much true of Lebanon. Upon his arrival in Beirut he stated that Iran would stand beside the Lebanese people ‘under all circumstances’. There are few details on any of the agreements, but they send a message to the Israelis that Iran still stands by The Resistance. The timing of this just after the announcement of the occupation of Gaza City is clear enough.
Israel’s due date: Does the Israeli state have a due date? Many people think so. Consider the following, from what we have examined above, from an Israeli political commentator:
“Above the entrance gate to one of the pavilions in the Auschwitz death camp, I read with trembling a quote from the American philosopher Santayana (1863–1952): “Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” And I remembered then the dark prediction of former Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba: “The Arabs should not fight Israel; the Jews in their internal quarrels will destroy themselves.” The State of Israel, now in its eighth decade of life and about to celebrate its 75th birthday, is today closer than ever before to the danger of a fratricidal war, each man against his brother. This is the moment to learn from history, before we destroy ourselves through the fire of hate. We have much to learn from history…”
That was written in 2013. In 2012 Henry Kissinger was quoted as saying there would be no more Israel in ten years. He missed the mark a bit, if he said it. The statement was based on the assessment of 16 American intelligence services, but qualified by stating that Israel could be saved with a few trillion more dollars and American troops destroying some of Israel’s enemies. The intelligence assessment was called “Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East”. As much as it may upset some readers, if Israel becomes too problematic and American and coalition forces refuse to contribute troops to the Israeli wars, then Washington will simply walk away from Israel, like it is getting ready to do with Ukraine. Added to that, there are rumors of another Israeli-Iranian war by the end of this month. The Israelis have stated they want to prevent Iran from becoming militarily superior over Israel. Apparently they learned nothing from the last war. The Iranians have stated that any further attacks by Israel will be met with a response far more severe than that of the 12-day war. Would Israel survive another war with Iran? Then there is the Zangezur corridor, the latest attempt by Washington to counter Iran and Russia.
Currently the only significant force preventing the opening of the Zangezur corridor is Iran, who have reminded Armenia and Azerbaijan about what happened to Ukraine when NATO used Ukraine as a proxy against Russia. There is another corridor running parallel to the Zangezur in Iran, called the Araz corridor. The Turks are quite happy to use either one. Azerbaijan had been looking at the Araz corridor as well until Pashinyan caved in to Western pressure. So, there are several machinations by foreign powers at work here. The Turks under Erdogan are seeking their pan-Turkic expansion through Central Asia. Zangezur removes Iran from the equation. The Israelis rely on oil from Azerbaijan to fuel their military and industries. Israel has close strategic ties with Azerbaijan, as we saw in the recent 12-day war, where Azerbaijan was used as a flight path by Israel to bomb Iran, and from where drones were launched against Iran. And for the Western powers the Zangezur is seen as a win, as a dividing line between Iran and Russia and as a disruption of the INSTC corridor. The Araz corridor would maintain Iran’s connection with Armenia. And let us not forget the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, which the Western powers would like to see torn up. Overall the Zangezur corridor will be a source for conflict very soon, especially if Israel attacks Iran again. Then, we have the summit in Alaska.
Rumble in the Tundra: For context, on the 6th of this month Steve Witkoff, Trump’s billionaire general purpose envoy, had a tête-à-tête at the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin. He went bearing gifts – an offer the Russians found ‘acceptable’. What that offer was we will soon find out. Perhaps the acceptable part was the logistics of the meeting itself. We’ll have a look at what might eventuate from the summit and down the road from it, but first this: Over the next couple of days from that Kremlin meeting the Russians began to make significant advances in the Donbas, pushing against already weakened Ukrainian defences. Four key cities in the Donetsk People’s Republic were on the menu, the largest being Pekrovsk, and the most heavily fortified. After the fall of those four cities all that remains between the Russian armed forces and Kiev is open steppe.
Firstly, the alleged divisions between the US and Europeans on Ukraine is a smoke screen (see Berletic video below for full explanation). What this summit is ultimately about from the side of the Washington foreign policy establishment is the US side seeking to find a way of walking away from NATO’s Ukrainian debacle, passing the maintenance (weapons and money) of the conflict to the Europeans – ‘sharing the load’ – so the US can focus upon stopping China’s rise. This is straight out of old RAND Corporation playbooks. If you watch Berletic’s video it is plain enough to see. A war with China would be a fandango far more foolish than what the US tried in Ukraine. This summit was not about ending the war in Ukraine. It was preparatory. More likely is that it will take many more months to end the war. People should not get their hopes up. The Washington establishment wants something like a Minsk 3 – a frozen conflict – wherein Ukraine could rearm and reconstitute in order to prosecute the war against Russia at a later date. From their side the Russians are adamant they want an end to the war, but only so long as the root causes of the war are removed. That brings us to why the Russians agreed to the summit.
Some comment prior to the summit was that Putin was walking into a trap. In fact, the summit was also about Trump removing himself from his proposed sanctions against Russian oil he had set for himself, the deadline for imposing them having been the date (8th), the day the summit was declared.. With the successful conclusion of the summit Trump has walked away from the threat of sanctions. He had tried to sanction India about Russian oil, but India is too big and balked. That backfired on Trump, so he needed the ‘out’ the summit promised. But there was another reason for the urgency of the summit, revealed by insiders in the Trump administration: He needed a victory at the summit to deflect all the attention being garnered about the Epstein affair. He also needed the neocons and the Europeans off his back and he wanted the gift to give to his MAGA base, where he had promised to end the war. As a result of the success at the summit his approval ratings have shown a sharp uptick. As far as domestic policy goes his approval ratings are still under water. But now the US can conceivably walk away from the war and leave it to the Europeans and Zelenskyy. For them, it is either put up or shut up. The problem for Europe is they have nothing to put up.
Astrology of the summit: As a result of both sides getting what they wanted from the summit, the two leaders looked like old neighbors talking to each other over the fence. The mood was jovial, much to the shock and consternation of the neocons and the Western media. The friendly atmosphere was shown by a Venus-Jupiter conjunction straddling the Midheaven of the chart for the start of the summit. There is quite a lot of information in that chart, which we will have to examine in a separate post. But here we might mention that Libra was rising at the start of the actual summit (when the parties sat down for the serious talks), with Mars close-by in the 12th house, suggesting secret deals being discussed regarding the military situation in Ukraine. There was also a dwarf planet (Makemake) conjunct the Ascendant, which speaks to the healing of ruptures in relationships as well as being able to sort out and understand many apparently unrelated factors. Ceres featured in the chart as well, square the Meridian axis in the 7th house, showing a turning point in the litigations. All that will be covered in the separate post. Just to add in passing, elevated Jupiter in the 9th house implies theatre and politics in play and with Venus in the 10th – business deals. How the chart compares to the US and Russian charts will be covered separately.
There is a point worth noting here. The European elites have a visceral hatred of Russia which goes back several centuries. Their hatred, especially in London and Berlin, is pathological. They have tried to conquer Russia, now for the third time, and each time have failed. The first two times Europe tried to conquer Russia, Russian troops ended up marching into their respective capitals at the end of those attempts. This time, too, they will have to accept defeat, but without the Russian troops. The Americans are a different story. They see Russia as a strategic rival, but without the hatred. We just saw that at the summit.
Follow the money: If you really want to know what the summit will produce, look to the business world. On the day of the summit, just before meeting with Trump, Putin signed a decree:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree that could allow foreign investors, including top U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil (XOM.N), to regain shares in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project. The signing of the decree comes on the day Russian president Vladimir Putin meets Donald Trump in Alaska for a summit where opportunities for investment and business collaboration will be on the agenda, alongside talks to find peace in Ukraine.”
Never forget that Donald Trump is first and foremost a businessman. One of the quickest ways to establish good relations between nations is through business dealings, which works to establish trust over time. Trump gets it. So do the Russians. The Europeans will fall all over themselves, shoot themselves in both feet and miss the train, except for a few nations. Italy, due to its astrological connections (Leo and Taurus) will be one of the first to re-establish business connections with Russia. Once the war is over in Ukraine elections in Europe will be very interesting. Speaking of interesting, this week will be interesting, because now Trump has to sell what was discussed at the summit to Europe and Zelenskyy. But this is where the secrecy and theatre comes in, because in fact, Europe is wholly on board with the US. Western European elites are by and large bought and paid for by the US. A recent comment (below) tallies with what Berletic outlined in his video:
“The upcoming meeting between EU leaders, Zelensky, and Trump risks becoming another political spectacle. While they may publicly posture as adversaries, the underlying agreement appears to be that Europe will shoulder the full burden of the conflict—a dynamic referred to as the “division of labor.” Under this arrangement, the EU would keep Russian forces tied down in Europe while the U.S. pivots its focus toward China. Trump’s objectives are clear: he opposes any reconciliation between the EU and Russia, demands increased European military spending, and seeks to weaken both Russia and the BRICS alliance. Above all, he aims to avoid the humiliation of a perceived U.S. defeat against Russia. The EU lacks the autonomy to challenge the U.S., as its leadership remains aligned with American and globalist interests. If Trump truly desired it, the war could end immediately—but that is not his goal. Achieving peace with Russia and acknowledging a Western defeat would mark a historic shift, signaling the decline of U.S. dominance.”
Regarding the inspired leadership, that may have been, and probably was, something unexpected, a flash of insight, or the pressure of events. Nonetheless, the two sides that will initially come out on top and who will lead to peace in Ukraine are the two main belligerents – The US and Russia. It will begin along business lines. The Russians, given their present trajectory, will go on from strength to strength with the emerging multipolar order via BRICS. The US, on the other hand and given its trajectory will probably go on to another foolish war. In the meantime Washington needs to clean up its act and its mess in Palestine. And what of Ukraine? Once the fighting is over the people of Ukraine face some very tough choices. The nation is practically destroyed of its infrastructure, heavily in debt and split between east and west of the Dnieper. The best bet would be a neutral and united Ukraine that can approach both East and West and slowly rebuild. Ukraine could be rich again, once it deals with its internal corruption and throws off its oligarchy. In fact, there is a potential candidate who has realized that and stated the same as his campaign platform, worth a read, and which truly would represent inspired leadership. He would face a sharp uphill battle. As it is, Eastern Ukraine is set to fare better than the western half because of its old connections with Russia, which would thereby benefit from connections with BRICS and the EAEU. Unfortunately, there is the visceral hatred of Russia in Galicia (western Ukraine). Analysts more familiar with Ukraine tend to agree that Ukraine is in danger of disintegrating.
Other than the preceding and truth be told, Putin probably offered something to Trump that Trump can claim, to great fanfare, as a victory. Trump sorely needs a victory, especially since the hiding his ratings have taken since his denial of the Epstein affair. The summit gives him a distraction from that, but Epstein’s ghost will haunt Trump for the rest of his years. If we really look at what was behind the summit and the subsequent Euro-meeting at the White House, it was driven by fear from a personality level – fear of a defeat in Ukraine and fear of exposure and entrapment on the part of Trump. But who can guess the means of the soul to effect the betterment of humanity? As a preliminary to end the war, then, what are we looking at about elections in Ukraine?
The shaming of Europe: On Monday after the summit Zelenskyy paid a visit to the White House, trailing along a coterie of Western European leaders – we use the term ‘leaders’ lightly – to sit before Trump and be told that the US is done with Ukraine, that Europe will be buying US weapons to give to Ukraine and that it is up to Zelenskyy and the Europeans to end the war to Washington’s and Moscow’s satisfaction. It was an embarrassment for Europe and an act of supplication to Washington. Seated in a row in front of Trump’s desk in the Oval Office they looked like a bunch of school kids being lectured by the principal. The optics and the atmosphere were terrible. All of the Western European lesser lions (scroll down for the map) were there, sitting in front of the King Leo (Trump, Leo rising) and then listening to what the the Big Leo to the east (Russia, Leo personality) said to Trump at the summit. Meloni (Italian PM, with Leo rising) sat through the ordeal rolling her eyes as Stubb from Finland, who appeared to forget Finland’s strange history from WWII, made his spiel to Trump. He was also unnoticed by Trump even though he sat across from Trump and had a name plate in front of him. It was altogether a strange meeting, but here is the gist of what was decided:
Our Elites: There is one final consideration before we close this letter, and it goes to why the European elites in particular feel themselves to be so self-important. The same goes for American leaders, too. As we read in the beginning of this letter, “It’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way.” It was a refrain – perhaps I have mentioned it in a past letter – that my co-workers and I heard quite often from a young Leo co-worker. Well, he was young and said it jokingly. The problem with the leaders of the Leo nations is that they actually believe Europe to be the perfect manifestation of world societies. It is a holdover from their days when their nations ruled the world, where they saw their values as the highest. And the United States suffers from the same delusion. Just because one has wealth and an empire does not mean one or one’s society is perfect in every way. Josep Borrell echoed the sentiment when he stated that Europe was a garden, and that the world outside was a jungle. The sentiment didn’t go down well outside of Europe, or even in Eastern Europe.
In conclusion: For this letter we leave with a quote, without much comment. For those people who fear what is coming – war, economic turmoil, environmental disaster, what have you – consider the following, written many decades ago, yet which still holds just as true today:
“There must be no pessimism as to the future of mankind or distress over the disappearance of the old order. The good, the true and the beautiful is on its way, and for it mankind is responsible, and not some outer divine intervention. Humanity is sound and rapidly awakening. We are passing through the stage where everything is being proclaimed from the housetops—as the Christ stated would be the case—and as we listen or read of the flood of filth, crime, sensual pleasure or luxury buying, we are apt to be discouraged; it is wise to remember that it is wholesome for all this to come to the surface and for us all to know about [Page 631] it. It is like the psychological cleansing of the subconscious to which individuals submit themselves, and it presages the inauguration of a new and better day.”[27]
That we are seeing the darkness around us only means that the light that emanates from us is waxing stronger by the day. We are undergoing a great planetary cleansing. It is like a lid has been lifted off a boiling pot and we are seeing what is inside for the first time as we clean the lid. Have faith, first in ourselves and then in the human spirit. As souls, we are perfect in every way. We just need to remind ourselves and humbly increase our bit of light, shining it out into the world.
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