September 5: Defense: US President Donald Trump signs (Mercury) an executive order that directs the Department of Defense to be known as the Department of War (Mars). The move restores a name the agency last held in the 1940s which will be used as a ‘secondary title’ while the administration seeks congressional approval (house 11) to make the change permanent. Mars was square Jupiter in the sky; progressed Mars was opposition Mercury in the Mars cycle; progressed Sun was square birth chart Mars in America’s chart; and progressed Mercury was conjunction birth chart Mars in Donald Trump’s chart.
Conflict: In northeastern Nigeria’s Borno State Boko Haram fighters in an attack (Mars) on a village slaughter (Mars) 55 people and burn homes (Mars). Mars was square Jupiter in the sky; and progressed Mars was opposition Mercury and parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.
September 8: Revolution: In Nepal at least 19 people are killed and dozens injured in violent anti-government protests (Mars-Uranus). It was the worst unrest (Uranus) in decades. On Tuesday September 9 Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was forced to resign by angry young anti-corruption protesters who defied a curfew and clashed with police (Mars). Mars was square Jupiter in the sky; and Jupiter was square Uranus in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Uranus was trine Mercury (students) and parallel Pluto in the Uranus cycle.
Political crisis: In France Prime Minister Francois Bayrou (Sun) loses a confidence vote in Parliament, hours after warning that the country was facing ‘life-threatening’ debt. On September 9 Emanuel Macron names Sebastien Lecornu as Prime Minister; and on September 10 anti-government ‘Block Everything’ protestors (Uranus-Pluto) take to the streets in a show of anger (Mars) against the political class and proposed budget cuts. Mars was square Jupiter in the sky; and Jupiter was square Uranus in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Uranus was trine Mercury and parallel Pluto in the Uranus cycle.
September 9: Conflict: Israel launches an airstrike (Mars) against the leaders of Hamas in Qatar, killing 6 negotiators including a Qatari security official and escalating its military action (Mars) in the Middle East. Mars was square Jupiter in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.
September 10: Conflict: In Poland Russian drones (Mars) violate Polish airspace and are shot down (Mars) by Polish and other Nato aircraft during overnight attacks on Ukraine. PM Donald Tusk said ‘This situation brings us the closest we have been to open conflict (Mars-house 7) since World War Two.’ Progressed Mars was parallel progressed Uranus in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Mars was inconjunct Uranus in the Mars cycle.
Assassination: In America popular right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk is shot (Mars) and killed while speaking at a university campus (house 9) in Utah. He was 31. The land of guns and fear is plunged into shock and grief with some experts saying it’s a watershed moment that’s likely to inflame (Mars) an already-fractured country and inspire more unrest (Uranus). Progressed Mars was square birth chart Sun and progressed Moon was parallel progressed Sun and progressed Mars in America’s chart; progressed Mars was inconjunct Uranus in the Mars cycle; and progressed Sun was parallel Saturn in the Sun cycle.
September 11: In Brazil the Supreme Court (Jupiter-house 9) finds former president Jair Bolsonaro is guilty of plotting a military coup that included plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Mars was square Jupiter in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was semisquare Moon and square Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
September 18: Disease: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo 31 people have died from Ebola (Saturn) this month with 48 ‘confirmed and probable cases.’ Saturn was conjunction Neptune in the sky.
In Britain the Secret Intelligence Service aka MI6 announces that British spies (Neptune-house 12) are to use the digital shadows of the dark web (Lower-Pluto) to recruit informants and allow them to receive secret information (house 12) from agents in Russia and worldwide. Saturn was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Saturn was sextile Neptune in the Saturn cycle.
September 21: Philanthropy: Philanthropist Bill Gates announces the Gates Foundation will give (Jupiter) $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and urges governments to reverse global health funding cuts (Saturn). Progressed Jupiter was sesquisquare Jupiter and parallel Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
September 25: Diplomacy: At the third day of the UN General Assembly Mercury does a lot of talking and Jupiter makes a lot of speeches.
Trade: Donald Trump announces steep new tariffs (Jupiter) on pharmaceutical products (Neptune), big-rig trucks (Mars), and home renovation fixtures and furniture (Aquarius). Progressed Jupiter was parallel Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
Violence: In Ecuador at least 17 people are killed in a prison riot (Uranus) in the second deadly prison brawl (Mars-Pluto) to hit the country this week. Mars was square Pluto in the sky and the Mars cycle chart.
Accident: In Nigeria’s Zamfara State at least 100 people are feared dead following the collapse (Saturn) of a gold mining pit. Progressed Mars was sesquisquare Saturn in the Mars cycle.
Corporate trickery: In America Amazon (Neptune) reaches a historic $2.5bn settlement (Jupiter) with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which said the online retail giant tricked (Neptune) customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so. Amazon will pay $1bn in civil penalties – the largest such fine in the agency’s history for a rule violation – and $1.5bn will be paid back to consumers. Progressed Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the Aquarian Age chart; Saturn was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Neptune in the Sun cycle.
In France former-president Nicolas Sarcozy is sentenced to 5-years in prison for criminal conspiracy. See his chart progressed to September 25
September 28: Conflict: In Ukraine Kyiv comes under heavy drone and missile bombardment (Mars) in what independent monitors say was one of the biggest Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital and surrounding region since the full-scale war began in February 2022. Mars was square Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was inconjunct Mars in the Mars cycle.
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