As Afghanistan’s benighted, backward-looking Taliban ruler, lays down increasingly draconian edicts restricting women’s lives, there are signs of discord from within the ranks. Some senior figures have openly criticised the policies of the leadership towards women. An official inside the Taliban’s morality ministry told The Telegraph most of the rules it was told to enforce were about “controlling women” and “often don’t even make sense”.
Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban’s supreme leader since 2021, has vowed to publicly stone women to death for adultery.
The Taliban has said Afghan women are not allowed to:
Drive a car
Speak in public
Speak loudly inside your house
Travel alone
Own a smartphone
Wear bright clothes
Wear high-heels
Go to high school or university
Sing
Read the Quran aloud in public
Look at men they don’t know
Attend a protest
Go to the gym
Go to the park
Work in the civil service
Ride in a taxi
Go abroad
Show their faces in public
Speak to a male doctor
Play sport.
The Afghanistan, 19 August 1919, 12 am Kabul chart has a hidden 12th house Taurus Moon conjunct Algol and the South Node and square a Leo Sun Mercury which makes sense of a punitive, destructive, primitive attitude to women. There is also a yod of Mars in Cancer sextile Venus inconjunct Uranus hinting at lawless defiance and a contrary and eccentric outlook.
The Afghanistan Islamic State 25 April 1992 chart is ruthless, brutal and also inclined to fanatical views with Mars trine Pluto, sextile Uranus Neptune in Capricorn. With (maybe) an Aquarius Moon (square a stubborn Taurus Sun) sextile Mercury inconjunct Jupiter.
There is no birth date for the present Supreme leader Mullah Akhundzada but he took office on 15 August 2021 after the USA withdrew. This chart is dominated by a strained yod of Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct a Leo Sun. The downside of a Sun on the focal point of a yod is a tendency to abuse power and authority though the drive for absolute domination usually backfires. His term chart has an undeserved dollop of good luck built in with a helpful Jupiter but it will be under massive, perhaps terminal pressure come 2026/27.
The Islamic State 1992 chart is also under significant pressure at the same time with tr Pluto is moving to square the Sun in 2026/27 alongside SA Neptune square the Pluto and SA Uranus square the Pluto.
The Afghanistan 1919 chart is showing disruptions through 2025 with tr Uranus conjunct the Moon, Algol and South Node and square the yod focal point Uranus.
Will be instructive to see which chart most accurately reflects events.
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