The shifting sand storms in the Middle East are brewing up more chaos with rebel forces taking control of Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo. Although Russia has launched air strikes in response, for the first time since 2016, the rebels know that Assad’s old allies in Hezbollah, Iran and Russia are overstretched fending off Israeli attacks and coping with Ukraine.
An analyst says: “Years of economic collapse, internal fragmentation and the rise of unchecked militias have left Assad severely weakened. In many ways, the regime is now a hollow version of the one Russia and Iran fought to save in 2015.”
Assad may tilt towards Russia and the Arab states, as well as try to curry favour further west as European nations will be keen to return Syrian refugees.
His Presidency chart, 12 July 2000, has been dealt a devastating blow exactly now with the Solar Arc Neptune square Saturn; with 2026/27 looking to be mired in confusion and paralysis with tr Pluto conjunct the Neptune.
His personal chart, 11 September 1965 4.43 pm Damascus is following a similar trajectory – an undermining SA Sun conjunct his Neptune now into 2025; his SA Pluto in a potentially destructive conjunction to his Mars in Scorpio now, and in a total-confusion conjunction to his Neptune in 2027. 2025 sees high hopes dented with tr Neptune square his Jupiter with a major setback from his SA Saturn opposition his Mars in 2026/27.
The Syria 12 January 1944 chart also points to 2026 as being an explosive moment of change with tr Uranus conjunct the Uranus Mars in Gemini; and tr Saturn Neptune opposing the Neptune.
The civil war started in 2011 when tr Pluto was conjunct Syria’s Capricorn Sun.
An endless mess and unconscionable suffering for the displaced.
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