January 1: A 7.6 magnitude earthquake (Saturn-house 4) shakes Japan causing home to collapse, at least 30 deaths and triggering a tsunami warning. Jupiter was conjunction Saturn in the sky and progressed Mars is conjunction birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart on January 24.
In Israel, following months of turmoil and nationwide protests, the country’s Supreme Court (Jupiter-house 9) strikes down (Saturn) the Netanyahu government’s controversial judicial reforms (Uranus). Jupiter was parallel Saturn in the sky; and progressed Saturn was parallel Sun in the Saturn cycle.
January 2: In Beirut, Lebanon, Hamas deputy leader Saleu al-Arouri (Pluto) is killed in an Israeli drone strike (Mars), raising the potential risk of war (Mars) in Gaza spreading well beyond the Palestinian enclave. Progressed Pluto was parallel Mars in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Mars was semisextile Pluto in the Mars cycle.
January 3: In Iran at least 95 people are killed and scores wounded in two terrorist bomb blasts (Mars) at a ceremony to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani who was killed by a US drone in 2020. Mars was square Neptune in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisextile Pluto in the Mars cycle. January 5:
January 5: The US Supreme Court (house 9) agrees to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a judicial decision barring him from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot. Oral arguments are scheduled to commence February 8 with Mars conjunction Pluto and Jupiter conjunction Uranus in the sky. In America’s chart progressed Sun (Trump) is parallel birth chart Saturn (cusp ruler of house 9); progressed Jupiter is square birth chart Saturn; and progressed Moon is square birth chart ascendant and birth chart Uranus. In Trump’s chart progressed Mars (cusp ruler of house 9) is parallel birth chart Jupiter; and progressed Moon is parallel progressed Jupiter. It’s unprecedented and high stakes for the conservative (Saturn) justices. The Colorado Republican primary is scheduled for March 5.
In the skies over Portland Oregon a door plug tears off the left side of an Alaskan Airlines jet (Neptune) forcing pilots to turn back and passengers to panic. The Boeing 171 planes have been grounded until deemed safe to fly. Mars was square Neptune in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisquare Uranus in the Mars cycle.
January 6: Fighting (Mars) rages on inside Gaza; Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group fires rockets (Mars) at Israel; top US and EU diplomats (Jupiter) visit the region seeking to keep the war from spreading; and pro-Palestinian protesters (Uranus) in western cities demand an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict (Mars). Progressed Mars was semisquare Uranus in the Mars cycle.
January 7: In Bangladesh a fire (Mars) in a refugee camp destroys about 800 homes (house 4) leaving nearly 7,000 Rohingya refugees homeless. Mars was square Neptune in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisquare Uranus in the Mars cycle.
January 8-10: In Ecuador at least 10 people are killed in a series of attacks (Mars) blamed on armed gangs (Mars-Pluto), as the country plunges into chaos (Neptune) in what President Daniel Noboa calls an ‘internal armed conflict’ (Mars). He declares a 60-day state of emergency (Mars). Mars was square Neptune in the sky; and progressed Mars was square Mars and Jupiter in the Mars cycle.
January 9: US and British naval forces (house 9-Mars-Jupiter) shoot down 21 drones and missiles (Mars) fired by Yemen-based Houthis towards the southern Red Sea. It was the largest attack (Mars) in the area by the militants (Mars) to date as the Israel-Hamas war (Mars) spills over into other parts of the Middle East. Progressed Mars was square Mars and Jupiter in the Mars cycle.
January 11: In response to Houthi attacks (Mars) on ships (Jupiter) in the Red Sea the United States and Britain launched strikes (Mars) from the air and sea against Houthi military targets (Mars) in Yemen. Mars was trine Jupiter in the sky; and progressed Mars was square Mars in the Mars cycle.
In Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape declares a 14-day state of emergency (Mars) in the capital, Port Moresby, after 16 people are killed in riots (Uranus) as crowds (Pluto) looted (Pluto) and burned shops (Mars). Progressed Mars was parallel Moon and square Mars in the Mars cycle.
January 14: North Korea tests a new solid-fuel missile (Mars) fitted with a hypersonic warhead (Mars) as it continues efforts to develop more powerful, harder-to-detect weaponry (Saturn-Mars). Progressed Saturn was inconjunct Mars in the Saturn cycle.
January 15: In Germany thousands of farmers (Saturn), truck drivers (house 3) and agricultural workers (house 4) gather in central Berlin to demonstrate (Uranus-Pluto) against the government’s plans to end tax breaks (house 8) on diesel fuel. Progressed Saturn was semisextile Saturn and square Pluto in the Saturn cycle.
January 16: Qatar and France broker a deal with Israel and Hamas (Pluto) to deliver urgent medication (house 6) to some 45 Israeli hostages (Pluto) held by Hamas in return for humanitarian (Pluto) and medical aid (Mars) for the most vulnerable Gaza civilians (Moon). Progressed Pluto was semisextile Uranus in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Mars was inconjunct Sun and parallel Moon in the Mars cycle.
January 18: United States forces in a fourth day of direct attacks (Mars) launch strikes on 14 Houthi missiles (Mars) ‘that were loaded to be fired’ from Yemen; in response to an Iranian missile strike (Mars) on Sunni Muslin militants (Mars) in southwest Pakistan on January 16 Pakistan retaliates by attacking (Mars) separatist militants in Iran in the first air strike on Iranian soil since the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war; in southwest Syria an estimated 10 civilians (Moon) are killed in air strikes (Mars) by Jordanian forces targeting the neighbouring towns of Arman and Malh; and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tells the United States that he opposes (Pluto) the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any post-war (Mars) scenario. Mars was parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Moon and semisquare Saturn in the Mars cycle.
January 19: In central China 13 students (Mercury) are killed in a fire (Mars) that ripped through a dormitory in a boarding school (house 5). Progressed Mars was sesquisquare Mercury in the Mars cycle.
In southwest Mali more than 70 people are killed in an accident (Mars) involving an artisanal gold mine collapse (Saturn). Progressed Mars was semisquare Saturn in the Mars cycle.
January 20: In Syria 10 people are killed, including leaders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, in an attack (Mars) in south-west Damascus most likely carried out by Israel. Mars was parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was sesquisquare Mercury in the Mars cycle.
January 20/21: In Germany a hundred thousand people (Pluto) take to the streets to protest (Uranus) against the far-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) (Saturn) and its stance against migrants. Progressed Saturn was semisextile Uranus in the Saturn cycle; and progressed Pluto was semisextile Uranus in the Pluto cycle.
January 21: At least 27 people (Moon) are killed and 25 injured after a market on the outskirts of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk was shelled. The attack on the suburb of Tekstilshchik was blamed on the Ukrainian military. Mars was parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Moon in the Mars cycle.
January 23: Atomic scientists keep their Doomsday Clock set at 90 seconds to midnight citing worry about Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons (Mars-Pluto) amid its invasion (Mars) of Ukraine, Israel’s war (Mars) on Gaza, and worsening climate change (Saturn) as factors driving the risk of global catastrophe. Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and parallel birth chart Uranus and birth chart Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart.
In America nearly 90 weather-related deaths have been recorded after the country was pummelled by ferocious winter storms (Saturn for the past week. Progressed Saturn was square Pluto in the Saturn cycle.
January 24: NATO (Pluto) launches its largest exercise since the Cold War with about 90,000 personnel taking part in the months-long wargames (Mars); and North Korea tests a new strategic cruise missile (Mars). Progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle.
A Russian military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war (Mars), six crew and three people accompanying them crashes (Mars) in Russia’s Belgorod region near Ukraine killing all on board. Progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle.
In China at least 39 people are killed and nine others injured in a fire (Mars) that broke out in the basement of shops in the city of Xinyu. Progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle.
In Argentina tens of thousands of people join protests (Uranus-Pluto) in the first major challenge to President Javier Milei’s plans to slash workers’ rights (Saturn-house 6). Progressed Saturn was semisextile Uranus and square Pluto in the Saturn cycle.
January 25: The World Court (Jupiter-house 9) orders Israel to prevent acts of genocide against the Palestinians and do more to help civilians, stopping short of ordering a ceasefire as requested by the plaintiff South Africa. Mars was parallel Pluto and Jupiter was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
In Alabama convicted murderer Kenneth Smith is executed (Mars-Pluto) by asphyxiation with nitrogen gas. The state called the new method of capital punishment since lethal injections began in the US four decades ago ‘the most painless and humane method of execution known to man.’ Mars was parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle.
January 26: In New York a federal jury orders Donald Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in defamation damages. See his chart progressed to January 26, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi hit a fuel tanker transiting the Red Sea with a missile strike (Mars) sparking a fire (Mars) on board. Mars was parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle.
January 27: In Kenya thousands of people protest (Uranus) against the recent slayings (Mars) of more than a dozen women (Moon-Venus) in the largest anti-femicide demonstration held in the country. Progressed Mars was parallel Moon and trine Uranus in the Mars cycle.
Progressed Mars is conjunction birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart. No matter where you live you can feel the anger and smell the fear.
January 28: Three US service members are killed and 34 injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack (Mars) in northeastern Jordan that was blamed on radical Iran-backed militant groups (Mars-Pluto) operating in Syria and Iraq; Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso – military-led (Mars) West African nations – announce their immediate withdrawal (Pluto) from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (Pluto) accusing the body of becoming a threat (Pluto) to its members; and North Korea fires several cruise missiles off its east coast. Mars was conjunction and parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle.
The world’s largest cruise ship (Jupiter) sets sail from Miami, Florida, on its maiden voyage (Uranus) making a seven-day island-hopping voyage (Neptune-house 9) in the Caribbean. Jupiter was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
January 27/28: 52 people are killed and 64 wounded in attacks by armed groups (Mars-Pluto) in a disputed region (Mars) between South Sudan and Sudan. Mars was conjunction and parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Moon and Pluto in the Mars cycle.
January 29: A court in Hong Kong orders debt-laden (Saturn) Chinese property giant Evergrande (Saturn) to liquidate (Pluto?). Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Saturn was square Pluto in the Saturn cycle.
Farmers (Saturn) in France block (Uranus-Pluto) major motorways with tractors (Mars) in a standoff with the government over concerns about inflation and competition from cheap imports. Progressed Saturn was semisextile Uranus and square Pluto in the Saturn cycle.
January 30: Israeli commandos (Mars) disguised as medical workers and Muslim women burst into a hospital in the occupied West Bank killing three Palestinian militants (Mars). Mars was conjunction and parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Mars cycle.
January 31: In its 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index report Transparency International (Pluto) says ‘there has been a global decline in justice (Saturn) and the rule of law since 2016,’ and that ‘weakening justice systems (Saturn) that reduce the accountability of public officials is a key factor in allowing corruption (Pluto) to thrive globally.’ In the Pluto period of the Aquarian Age progressed Mars was parallel birth chart and progressed Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart > start date was June 2015 > end date is July 2025.
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