July 1: In America the Supreme Court (house 9-Jupiter) in an historic (bipartisan 6-3) landmark ruling (Uranus) finds that Donald Trump (Sun) has immunity and cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can be for private acts. In her dissenting report Justice Sotomayor (Jupiter) wrote. ‘In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.’ Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky (in house 9 of America’s Mars-Uranus conjunction chart); Jupiter was trine Pluto in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was conjunction Mars in the Jupiter cycle.
In the Eastern Caribbean Hurricane Beryl (Saturn), the earliest category 4 storm on record, unleashes her fury and spirals towards the Winward Islands picking up speed with residents boarding up windows, stocking up on food and filling their cars with fuel as she threatens devastating damage and flooding. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
In Gaza the fighting (Mars) rages as Israeli tanks advanced deeper into parts of the enclave and the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad (Mars-Pluto) fires a barrage of rockets (Mars) into Israel. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
North Korea reports that it has successfully tested a new tactical ballistic missile (Mars) capable of carrying a 4.5-ton super-large warhead (Mars). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
In Soeul, South Korea, a car (Uranus) being driven in the wrong direction ploughs (Mars) into a crowd of pedestrians killing 9 people and injuring at least 4 others. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 2: In northern India at least 116 are killed and dozens injured in a stampede (Mars) at a Hindu religious festival (Jupiter). Progressed Jupiter was conjunction Mars in the Jupiter cycle.
In Turkey’s central Melikgazi region anti-Syrian refugee protests (Uranus) turn violent (Mars) with more than 470 people taken into custody. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
In a first-of-its-kind assessment (Uranus) the nonprofit World Benchmarking Alliance reports that more than 90 percent of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies, including Amazon, BMW, Nestle, Rio Tinto, Pfizer, Shein, and Standard Chartered are failing to meet societal expectations towards human rights (Aquarius), working conditions (house 6) and corporate ethics (Jupiter). Despite commanding revenues equal to 45 percent of the global economy, the world’s top companies are missing the opportunity to positively affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people. In the Pluto period of the Age of Aquarius Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 3: After destroying Union Island where ‘everybody is homeless’ (Saturn) Hurricane Beryl (Saturn), packing maximum sustained winds of 130 miles per hour (209 kph), thrashes Jamaica and having claimed at least 10 lives is now headed for Caymans and Mexico. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
With progressed Mars parallel Sun in the Mars cycle political (Sun) events and developments in France, Britain and America have the media excited (Mars). Mars conjunction Uranus in the sky heralds earth-shaking news.
July 4: In Lebanon Hezbollah launches more than 200 rockets (Mars) and drones targeting Israeli military positions in the second major retaliatory attack (Mars) for the killing of Muhammad Nimah Nasser in southern Lebanon on July 3. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Sun in the Mars cycle.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is experiencing the biggest outbreak of mpox aka monkeypox (Saturn) ever recorded, with tens of thousands of people infected with the viral disease (Mars) as of June 2024. It was declared an epidemic (Saturn) in December 2022. Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart.
Scientists report they have discovered (Uranus) in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi what they believe to be the world’s oldest artwork depicting three people gathered around a large red pig that was created some 51,200 years ago. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 5: The UK votes for change (Uranus) with Labor winning a landslide victory over the Tory conservatives. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 6: In Iran reformist (Uranus) candidate Masoud Pezeshkian wins the election run-off and will be the country’s next president. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 7: In France Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally was predicted to take charge of French politics and then Mars and Uranus energized the left and Uranus delivered a surprising, unexpected result with Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-wing New Popular Front alliance winning the most seats and a hung parliament threating political deadlock and instability. The situation is fluid and still unfolding. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
Massive flooding (Saturn) across swathes of India, Nepal and Bangladesh in recent days has killed scores of people and affected millions of others. Progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
July 8: In the deadliest wave of air strikes for months Russia rained missiles (Mars) on cities across Ukraine and blasted the main children’s hospital (house 12) in Kyiv killing at least 36 civilians. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky,
Hurricane-tropical Storm Beryl (Saturn) ends its destructive journey barreling into southeast Texas killing at least four people, flooding highways, closing oil ports, canceling more than 1,000 flights and knocking out power to more than 2.5 million homes and businesses; and in north-eastern India flooding (Saturn) at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam has killed by drowning at least six rare rhinos, 117 hog deer, two sambar deer, a rhesus macaque and an otter. Progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
According to data by the European climate service Copernicus global temperatures were at record high levels in June for a 13th consecutive month raising alarm over the warming climate. Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart.
July 8: The NATO summit opens in Washington with the US and its allies pledging (Jupiter) to deliver five additional air defense systems, including Patriot missile batteries (Uranus) and Patriot components to Ukraine and NATO reporting it has placed an order for Stinger anti-aircraft missiles (Mars) worth almost $700 million (Jupiter) in the name of several member states; in southern Gaza at least 29 Palestinians, mostly women and children, are killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike (Mars) on a camp for displaced people outside a school (house 5); in southeast Texas millions of Americans endure brutally hot conditions (Mars) without air conditioning after deadly Tropical Storm Beryl knocked out power (Uranus) to a large portion of the region; and in Canada wildfires (Mars) raging in the province of Alberta trigger an immediate evacuation order and fire restrictions in two forest areas. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky and progressed Mars was parallel Jupiter and Uranus in the Mars cycle.
July 10: In Washington at the NATO summit allies move to counter the growing threat Russia (house 7) poses to Europe. In 2026 the US will start deploying longer range missiles (Mars) in Germany. The decision to send the most potent US weapons to be based in Europe since the Cold War would have been banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by the US and the Soviet Union in 1987 but that collapsed in 2019. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky and house 7 of NATO’s and Germany’s Mars-Uranus conjunction chart.
July 11: In Washington Volodymyr Zelenski take center-stage at the NATO summit. The United States announces a new security package for Ukraine worth $225 million, which includes a Patriot missile battery, additional ammunition for high-mobility artillery rocket systems and missiles, among other items; and on July 10 NATO leaders pledged €40 billion ($43 billion) worth of military aid to Ukraine in the next year and declared the country’s path to NATO membership ‘irreversible.’ In Zelenski’s chart progressed Sun in house 11 (friends) was trine progressed Mars (weapons) in house 2 (finances).
In Gaza it’s been one of the fiercest weeks of the war (Mars). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky and progressed Mars was parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle.
July 12: In central Nigeria at least 22 people, including students, are confirmed dead with more than 100 trapped in the rubble after a two-story school building collapsed (Saturn). Progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle; progressed Mars was semisextile Moon in the Mars cycle; and Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 13: In Pennsylvania Donald Trump is shot (Mars) at a campaign rally in what authorities are calling an assassination attempt; in Gaza an Israeli airstrike (Mars) that targeted Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif (Mars) kills at least 90 Palestinians and injures over 300; and Taiwan’s defense ministry is monitoring ‘waves’ of missile tests (Mars) taking place in China’s far northern region of Inner Mongolia and its air defense forces are on alert. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle.
July 14: In Somalia a car bomb (Mars-Uranus) explodes outside a café in Mogadishu killing at least nine people and injuring several others. Al-Shabab claims responsibility. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle.
July 15: In Florida Judge Aileen Cannon (Jupiter-house 9) dismisses the US justice department’s classified documents case against Donald Trump on the grounds that special council Jack Smith was improperly appointed. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky > their conjunction is in house 9 of America’s Mars-Uranus conjunction chart; progressed Mars was parallel Jupiter and Uranus in the Mars cycle; and in America’s chart progressed Moon was semisquare progressed Pluto in house 9.
In Oman at least nine people are dead, including three suicide attackers (Mars-Uranus), in an attack at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque (Jupiter). Islamic State claimed responsibility. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Jupiter in the Mars cycle.
In India thousands of lawyers (Uranus) in New Delhi protest (Uranus) an overhaul of criminal legislation and boycott (Pluto) court hearings (house 9). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 16: In Gaza the fighting rages with at least 57 people killed in Israeli bombardments (Mars) of southern and central areas; in Bangladesh at least five people are killed and scores injured in a second day of violent (Mars) nationwide protests (Uranus) that saw tens of thousands of students protesting against a quota system for government jobs (house 6); and in Peru a bus crash in the Andes mountains kills at least 23 people and injures more than a dozen others. Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky.
July 17: Joe Biden tests positive for covid-19 (Mars-Saturn) for the third time and is suffering mild symptoms and Democrat congressman Adam Schiff from California calls on Biden to step aside as he has serious doubts about whether the president could beat former president Donald Trump.
In a statement UN chief Antonio Guterres (Pluto) says Israel’s policy toward the occupied West Bank is dooming any prospect of a two-state solution with the Palestinians. Through administrative and legal steps (Jupiter-house 9), Israel is changing (Uranus) the geography of the West Bank and settlement expansion (Jupiter) is expected to speed up (Mars) due to big land seizures (Saturn) in strategic areas and changes to planning, land management and governance. Israeli military raids (Mars), arrests of Palestinians and settler violence (Mars) have soared in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem since Israel launched its war (Mars) on Gaza in October. Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Pluto was semisextile Saturn in the Pluto cycle.
July 18: In Bangladesh thirteen people are killed as thousands of students (Mercury) armed with sticks and rocks clash with armed police (Mars) in the worst day of anti-quota protests (Uranus) since the violent unrest (Mars-Uranus) began two weeks ago. Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky.
July 16-18: In a remote region of Papua New Guinea at least 26 people, including 16 children, are killed in ‘shocking’ (Uranus) violence (Mars) as a result of a land ownership (Saturn) disputer (Mars). Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky.
July 19: A massive global IT outage (Uranus) disrupts (Uranus) businesses and institutions in multiple countries, throwing airports (house 9), airlines (Neptune), rail companies (house 3), government services (house 6), banks (house 2), stock exchanges (house 5), supermarkets (house 6), telecoms (Uranus), health systems and media outlets (house 9) into chaos (Neptune). According to some cybersecurity experts it was the ‘largest IT outage in history’. In the Aquarian Age chart progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and parallel progressed Uranus and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn; Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky; Saturn was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Mars was sextile Neptune in the Mars cycle.
The International Court of Justice (Jupiter) in a 12-3 ruling finds that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end ‘as rapidly as possible’. It found that Israel is forcibly displacing Palestinians from their lands, exploiting water sources, annexing large swaths of the occupied territory ‘by force’ and is violating the right of Palestinians to ‘self-determination’. Progressed Jupiter was trine Venus and sesquisquare Pluto in the Jupiter cycle.
July 20: In retaliation against a Houthi drone attack (Mars) on Tel Aviv Israeli fighter jets strike Houthi military targets in the area of Hodeidah port in Yemen; an Israeli air strike targets a depot storing ammunition (Mars) belonging to Lebanese armed group (Mars-Pluto) Hezbollah in southern Lebanon; and Israel intensifies its bombing (Mars) campaign in Gaza. Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was sextile Neptune in the Mars cycle.
In Canada 158 wildfire (Mars) events of which 55 are out of control are raging through the northern part of Alberta forcing evacuations of three communities. Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky.
July 21: US President Joe Biden in an earth-shaking-moment steps down and abandons his reelection bid endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democrat Party’s candidate to face Donald Trump in the November 6 election. Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus and trine Pluto in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was trine Venus (Harris) in the Jupiter cycle.
In Bangladesh the Supreme Court (Jupiter-house 9) rolls back most of the controversial quotas on government jobs which sparked violent student protests (Mars-Uranus) for two weeks. Progressed Jupiter was trine Venus and semisquare Pluto in the Jupiter cycle.
According to preliminary data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service today was the hottest (Mars) ever recorded with the global average surface air temperature reaching 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees Fahrenheit). Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 22: In a rare gun-violence incident (Mars) in northwestern Croatia five people (Pluto) are shot dead and six others are wounded by a gunman in a private nursing home (house 12). Progressed Mars was trine Pluto in the Mars cycle.
In southern Ethiopia at least 229 people are killed in two landslides (Saturn) triggered by heavy rains (Saturn). Progressed Moon was sesquisquare Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
July 23: In the UK a police report reveals that women (Venus) and girls are suffering ‘epidemic’ levels of violent crime (Mars-Pluto). Such violence accounted for 20 percent of all reported crime (Pluto-house 12) in England and Wales from 2022 to 2023 with more than 1 million such offences within a year. Progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Venus in the Aquarian Age chart > peak power date was November 2022.
July 25: After causing widespread flooding (Saturn) and landslides that killed at least 22 people in the Philippines and capsizing an oil tanker (Neptune) prompting fears of the worst oil spill (Neptune) in the country’s history typhoon Gaemi lashes Taiwan with wind gusts (Mercury) of up to 227 kilometers (141 miles) per hour, some of the strongest ever recorded in the Western Pacific Ocean, before heading to China’s eastern seaboard making landfall in Fujian province with over 240,000 people evacuated. Gaemi and its giant storm bands are forecast to unleash intense rainfall (Saturn) in at least 10 Chinese provinces in the coming days. Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
In Canada a raging wildfire (Mars) hits the town of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies, causing ‘significant’ losses (Saturn) as firefighters (Mars) work to hold back the flames. Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was sextile Mars in the Mars cycle.
According to the European climate change service the record for the world’s hottest day (Mars) has tumbled twice in one week with the global average surface air temperature reaching 17.15C on July 21. It prompted UN chief Antonio Guterres to call on countries to take action to address the effects of ‘crippling heat’ as billions of people around the globe experience ‘an extreme (Uranus) heat (Mars) epidemic’ fueled by climate change. He said ‘extreme heat is the new normal.’ Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 22-25: In Gaza more than 180,000 Palestinians have fled (Saturn) bombardment (Mars) around the southern city of Khan Younis according to the UN. Recent ‘intensified hostilities’ (Mars) have fueled ‘new waves of internal displacement (Saturn) across Gaza’. Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
July 26: In France saboteurs (house 12) strike the country’s TGV high-speed train network (house 3) in a series of pre-dawn attacks (Mars) causing travel chaos (Neptune-house 3) ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony (house 5). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisquare Mercury in the Mars cycle).
July 27: In Gaza Israeli forces attack (Mars) a school (house 5) that was being used as a field hospital and shelter in central Deir el-Balah, killing at least 30 people, including 15 children; a rocket attack (Mars) on young people playing football in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights kills at least 12 people and wounds 13 others from the Druze community; and in California a rapidly expanding wildfire (Mars) forces thousands of residents to flee (Saturn). Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; Mars was conjunction Uranus and trine Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisquare Mercury in the Mars cycle.
July 28: In response to the rocket attack that killed 12 children in the Golan Heights Israeli jets hit targets in southern Lebanon.
With progressed Moon trine birth chart Mars and sesquisquare birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart the major progressed Mars-birth chart Saturn conjunction is under powerful stimulation and Israel and Hezbollah are on the brink of all-out war.
July 29: In Venezuela protesters (Uranus) gather in towns and cities after President Nicolas Maduro (Pluto) claimed victory in a tense weekend election, despite growing evidence of a resounding win for the opposition. Independent pollsters called that result implausible and opposition leaders and foreign observers urged the electoral authority to release vote tallies. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; progressed Uranus was parallel Sun and Pluto in the Uranus cycle; and progressed Pluto was semisextile Uranus in the Pluto cycle.
In the UK three girls (house 5) are killed and five children and two adults injured in a ferocious knife attack (Mars) at a children’s dance workshop (Venus-house 5) in Southport. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisextile Venus in the Mars cycle.
In Gaza the health ministry declares a worsening public health emergency (Saturn) as polio (Mars) poses a health threat to residents and neighboring countries. Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
A study involving 154 countries by the World Health Organization finds that around 24% of adolescent girls (Venus) have experienced physical or sexual violence (Mars) by an intimate partner at least once in the past year. Progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Venus in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Mars was semisextile Venus in the Mars cycle.
A study by the Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE) finds that forests and other land ecosystems failed to curb climate change (Saturn) in 2023 as intense drought (Saturn) in the Amazon rainforest and record wildfires (Mars) in Canada hampered their natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide. It means a record amount of carbon dioxide entered Earth’s atmosphere further feeding global warming. Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart.
July 30: In retaliation (Mars) for a cross-border rocket attack (Mars) that killed 12 children Israel’s military (Mars) claims it killed Hezbollah’s most senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Mars was semisextile Venus in the Mars cycle.
In southern India landslides (Saturn) sweep through tea estates and villages in the Wayanad district of Kerala killing at least 151 people as unexpected heavy rain (Uranus-Saturn) collapses hillsides and triggers torrents of mud, water and tumbling boulders: and in North Korea’s city of Sinuiju and Uiju County over 4,000 homes have been flooded due to heavy rainfall (Saturn). Progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars and sesquisquare progressed Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Saturn was square Moon in the Saturn cycle.
In California the largest wildfire (Mars) in the US swells to over 600 square miles, bigger than the city of Los Angeles, as more than 5,500 firefighters (Mars) battle the blaze (Mars) in a wilderness area north of Sacramento. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars in the Aquarian Age chart.
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