THE IRAQ PROBLEM…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/world/middleeast/08iraq.html?hp

“Scores Killed in Spate of Attacks on Shiites in Iraq”

Why does this go on… and on… and on? Let’s examine the mundane natal chart of the current nation of Iraq, born July 14, 1958, 7 AM Baghdad, Iraq.

One of the many red flags that I see in their chart is natal Mars at 25 degrees of Aries. Mars located in the sign that it rules makes it even stronger. It is placed in the 9th House… which rules religions, philosophy, and in mundane astrology, national relations with foreign countries.

Looking at the nation’s chart as a collective person, this would be one that aggressively promotes their philosophical or religious views… often fanatical… and it is in opposition by 8 degree orb allowance to both Jupiter at 22 degrees of Libra and Neptune at 2 degrees of Scorpio …and they both straddle the destiny point of the North Moon Node at 27 degrees of Libra…

Their potential destiny indicated by the Jupiter/Neptune conjunct to the North Moon Node… is of higher ideals… and abundance (Jupiter) though Neptune (oil)… but it is opposed and frustrated by Mars (conflict) that conjuncts the South Moon Node (past karmic issues)… indicating centuries of tribal and religious secular strife.

The current ‘trigger’ of violence is the transiting Mars conjunct to the natal Moon/Venus conjunct which is in opposition to the natal Saturn. Any time transiting Mars passes over one of these stressful opposition points violence may erupt.

Oppositions represent the challenge of spiritual evolution through the resolution of the opposites… This was what “Laurence of Arabia,” was trying to tell them during WWI… When they stand as one Arab people and Nation… they have the oil and don’t need anyone else. However, as long as they remain divided in tribal and religious secular thinking… some ruthless authority figure will come forth to rule over them… like Saddam Hussein or worse.

The people of Iraq are in this difficult and painful process of trying to come together… and perhaps they need the world to just leave them alone… and let them do it… by their own choices. If they resolve their differences… come together and declare themselves as a new unified nation with a new constitution… that would give them a new national chart.

With some research a fortuitous date and time could be selected to make such a national declaration… That’s exactly what some of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence did in 1776… many of them where Masons with astrological knowledge… and the country has a strong national chart and has had a dynamic and prosperous history for over a couple of hundred years now… Yes, it’s had a lot of ups and downs… but you don’t see boat loads of people trying to escape the U.S.of A.