The Serpent War - Iran and USA Bound in a Kala Sarpa Yoga
The Nodes of Fate Trap the Planets: Trump and Iran in the Serpents Net!
The sky looks strangely lopsided. Most all planets are fenced in by the invisible barbed wire created by the North and South Node axis, creating a lock down considered in Vedic astrology to be highly malefic.
This Serpent of Time configuration (see image below) brings in fated global events that are often volatile and difficult — such as the Covid pandemic, which was also ushered in with more than one such sky pattern between 2020 - 2023.
This serpent pattern is back now, enclosing all planets but the fast moving moon who will jail break every 14 days and glacial speed Pluto who is the only planet outside of this enclosure full time.
This hints at Pluto being the only guy with freedom from fate, a kind of loose cannon or superhero — time will tell. He’s retrograding now in early Aquarius in the USA 3rd house (was here last when the US Constitution was being written) and already in orb of Aquila, the Alpha star from the Eagle constellation, a star associated with military conquest and wining at war.
In the next four weeks Pluto’s landed his butt most closely on the beta star of Aquila, Alshain.
My Astro Gold Software says this about it: Potent change maker A power star pure and simple, as likely to uphold the status quo as to change it. Bestows an urge to make a difference. Unlikely to take things at face value.
What catches my attention is the Leo sky, which falls into the 12th house if we use the south Node as a first house placement — Leo is the rising sign for Donald Trump, JD Vance, Iran, perhaps Palestine.
Hidden enemies is one meaning of the 12th place — as well as isolation (jails and hospitals), hidden deals and negotiations, and self-undoing.
Jupiter is Out to Lunch
What makes this fenced in sky even more daunting is that Jupiter — the justice guy — is currently invisible under the suns beams where he has been hiding from about May 28th, not to be seen again until mid July.
When the sheriff of morality and goodness off duty, world events are prone to fall into anarchic chaos. As I mentioned in my recent Cancer New Moon video, of all things Jupiter on this June 25th lunation is conjunct the asteroid Chaos as well.
Ultimately Ketu/South Node is getting ready for a head on collision with Mars in Virgo on July 21/22 at which point Mars breaks the Kali Sarpa yoga that was initiated by Saturn in April as he crossed the North Node in late Pisces.
While Mars ends the difficult sky, he probably does so with a bang.
The Mars History Channel
Mars meeting the South Node happens every two years in a different sign. It was a Mars-Ketu combo conjunct the Libra Ascendant of Irael in October 2023 that coincided with the onset of the Gaza-Israel disaster. (And yes, there was also an eclipse there too).
The last two Mars - South Node meetups in Virgo happened September 6th 1970 and September 2nd 2006. Here’s what happened:
SEPT 6 1970: Four passenger aircraft were hijacked on the same day in an operation carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which boarded airliners from four different airlines (Pan Am, TWA and Swissair) that were departing for Europe from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
SEPT 1 2006: An Iranian passenger jet Tu-154, (Iran Air Flight 945) carrying 148 passengers crashes in Mashad, Iran killing 29 people.
But the end of August that same year, as Mars and the South Node moved close to the conjunction, we had this eerie echo from the current time frame:
August 24 2006: A senior Israeli source says that Israel "may have to go it alone," saying that the Iranian response to a package of incentives to halt its uranium enrichment was just to "gain time," and said that Iran had "flipped the world the bird."
August 26, 2006 Eyewitnesses claim that Israel bombed a Reuters armored car in Gaza City.
August 29th 2026: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenges George W. Bush to a live television debate. U.S. government officials decline and criticize the suggestion.
Also, in 2006 Israel was at war with Virgo Rising nation Lebanon, had invaded it and had enforced a naval blockade not lifted until September of that year.. The stories that August were about such matters as The UN's humanitarian chief accuses Israel of "completely immoral" use of cluster bombs in Lebanon.
Those were the days when the IDF, the “most moral military in the world” was given the benefit of the doubt.
What Might We Expect this July?
Good news is Jupiter becoming visible sometime around July 16th, perhaps settling the chaos with a call for morality and justice, truth and wisdom.
As Jupiter rises as a morning star, he sits on asteroid America and against the “announcer” star Mirzam, while Venus sits on Bulls Eye war star Aldebaran in Gemini, in a general sextile to Jupiter. This could easily bode well for peace deals, yet we must consider that Venus herself is a morning star prone in this phase to war mongering.
On July 17th, Mercury sits within a degree and a half of the 17 degree Ascendant of Iran (It’s April 1 Constitution Chart), while stationing retrograde that very same day.
On July 22nd Mars breaks free of the Kala Sarpa containment fence created by the south node.
Clearly something big is happening in the Iran - USA narrative around this time. Before then, it’s certain that nothing will be certain. As I write this, breaking news is that the Iranian Uranian enrichment stockpiles were not destroyed afterall.
And futher chatter is that Trump called for a ceasefire because Israel was running out of defence missiles and that Trump had no desire to ditch his “I am a peacemaker” self image for a full out US defence of a flailing Israel, the anti-thesis of what he campaigned on for his MAGA base. (and honestly, after massively arming Ukraine and Israel over the last two years, USA weapons stockpiles will be depleted).
Trumps Mars Return
Trumps Mars returned just happened June 11th to its natal position. His Mars sits on fixed star Magha, the Throne of Kings and you can’t make it up that the No Kings Day Protests also happened just days afterward.
His Mars Return chart, like his solar return, bakes in a near perfect Mars - Uranus square from Leo to Taurus. This portends a two year period of shock, turmoil and even dramatic sudden health challenges — with Leo, think cardiovascular.
There is an ancient understanding: When the King is ill, the land suffers. It’s not just about physical health, its about the way the King/Leader SERVES the Kingdom. From Anne Maria Clarke of Hold the Light website:
“For the kingdom to flourish and thrive he must create and maintain order, dispense blessings and be fertile, ensuring the continuation of his line. He must know and protect his boundaries, be fair in judgement and support his people through continual acknowledgement of their talents and contribution to the whole. In this way he will create a stable and healthy community within which all souls feel valued. Crucially, he must possess humility.
He holds audience, primarily, not to be seen, but to see, admire, and delight in his subjects, to reward them and to bestow honours upon them.”
Moore & Gillette -
He must be able to put himself to the side as it were - to act for the collective good, always remembering the temporary nature of his position and the transitory nature of the rank he serves, as is most beautifully expressed in The Lion King film.”
With Netanyahu and Trump we are a long way from the fully realized Good King Archetype, which in the shadow side devolve into the polarities of Tyrant and Weakling.
The No Kings protest was about Kings, but no “mad kings” really.
And when historically a relatively good king arises, like “ask what you can do for your country” John F Kennedy, or peacemaker Jimmy Carter, they don’t survive.
Yet, there is hope in an increasingly jaded collective. We see the Emperor is naked, we know to follow the money, we suspect the deep state is real — call it what you will.
And I still wonder at the Dali Lama’s statement that Western women will save the world. Maybe it’s time for the Good Queen. Maybe it’s time for less testosterone laden women to rise up as they already are in a wave of female leaders like in Italy, Mexico, and more.
In the meantime, keep your eye on the sky. Mars has some more tricks up his sleeve as he works his way toward breaking free of the Serpent of Time net July 22nd. Until then wars will shock us and politics will divide us.
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Trump also has a Kala Sarpa Yoga Chart. In whole signs the moon is just breaking away by under a degree but all the other traditional planets are between the North and South Nodes.
Trump is playing a TV character in a show called Trumpamania; he could very well possess just enough humility to deliberately portray himself in a less than flattering way, thus exploiting the severe underestimation of him by others. The astrology shows he has a fated role in changing the world order, & that there is far more than meets the public eye with him.