During the Yom Kippur war Egypt and Syria had attacked on October 6, 1973, at 2 pm with Jupiter and Saturn in stationary orb.2 (more on stationary orbs) The Sun at 13 Libra was square the January Solar eclipse at 14 Capricorn as the stationary Jupiter at 02 Aquarius was conjunct a 1972 Lunar eclipse at 03 Aquarius.
The stationary Saturn at 04 Cancer 28 was in a very close square with the transiting Pluto at 04 Libra 37 to aspect the Israel Venus at 04 Cancer. (more on outer planet engagement) The transiting emphasized Venus at 26 Scorpio was square Israel Mars at 28 Leo. (more on emphasized planets)
Venus was the dispositor of the transiting Uranus on the Ascendant, in July a Lunar eclipse at 22 Capricorn was square the Israel Ascendant. Mars was also emphasized by the transiting Mars in opposition to transiting Mercury square the Israel Moon.
On October 19, 1973, President Nixon asked Congress for 2.2B for Israel and OAPEC immediately announced an embargo against the United States. The fallout had crippling effects on the United States economy and gas rations at the pump, a decade of rising prices and recession.3
Fifty years later on October 7, 2023, (Chiron was at 17 Aries 52 within a degree of Yom Kippur war position at 18 Aries 52) Hamas attacked Israel at around 6:30 am. Yom Kippur had the transiting Uranus conjunct the Israel Ascendant whereas now Uranus is conjunct the Sun with the dispositor, Venus and Mars emphasized. (Uranus in mundane astrology)
Transiting Venus at 28 Leo 24 was just coming out of shadow from the July retrograde at 28 Leo 36 to conjunct the Israel Mars at 28 Leo with transiting Mercury square the Israel Venus. The emphasized Mars, the stationary Pluto of kidnapping and death and the transiting North Node formed a transiting T-square to aspect the Israel Midheaven.
Israel hit an Iran consulate building in Syria on April 1, 2024, as the Sun was at 12 Aries in opposition to the Sun at 13 Libra of the 10/7 attack on the day Mercury became stationary at 27 Aries in opposition to the 10/7 Mars at 26 Libra.
The Mercury stationary was a thirty-three-year return to the Iraq ceasefire on April 6, 1991, the forty-six-year return to 1978 as President Carter was at odds with NATO over the neutron bomb which brought Moscow's criticism and to April 1, 1945, when the US captured Okinawa.4 (more on stationary returns)
The cancellation of the refill of the strategic reserve was just two days later. Don't be surprised if there could be gas shortages ahead since the current government is aligned with the WEF goals for the general population to do without independent transportation, thereby using much less fuels due to rising costs.
The next step in escalation of the Middle East came with the Iran attack on April 13, 2024, that exposed the Iron Dome was vulnerable as Venus at 09 Aries opposed the Neptune of Israel founding at 10 Libra and the Sun at 23 Aries opposed the founding Ascendant at 23 Libra.
As new conjunction cycles form, watch three weeks either side of formation. (more in-depth) The new Jupiter-Uranus cycle forming at 21 Taurus aspects the Israel founding Sun at 23 Taurus and the founding Chiron of vulnerability at 21 Scorpio which has revealed changing (Uranus) diplomatic policy (Jupiter) with the United States as well as difficulties obtaining the funding and weapons expectations.
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Notes
1. Timothy Gardner, "US strategic petroleum reserve replenishment slowed by rising oil prices," Reuters, April 3, 2024, https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/biden-administration-slowly-puts-oil-back-into-spr-emergency-stash-2024-01-04/; Richard Valdmanis, "US won't award contracts for Louisiana SPR site over oil price, Energy Department says,"
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-wont-award-contracts-louisiana-spr-site-over-oil-price-energy-department-says-2024-04-03/.
2. Nicholas Campion, The Book of World Horoscopes, 167-168; Bethan McKernan, "The next days were hell: how the Yom Kippur war realigned the Middle East," The Guardian, October 1, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/the-next-days-were-hell-how-the-yom-kippur-war-realigned-the-middle-east.
3. Michael Corbett, "Oil Shock of 1973-1974" https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/oil-shock-of-1973-74
4. Richard Burt, "Carter's Delay on Neutron Bomb Issue Irks Allies," New York Times, April 1, 1978, https://www.nytimes.com/1978/04/01/archives/carters-delay-on-neutron-bomb-issue-irks-allies-news-analysis-deep.html https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1227041/us-japan-honor-lives-lost-in-the-battle-of-okinawa/