Major global events March 2022

March 1: Day 6 0f war in Ukraine; the fighting is getting fiercer; the civilian death toll keeps rising; Russia is becoming a ‘global pariah’ (Pluto); #nowar has gone viral (Pluto); the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (Jupiter) are racing (Mars) to provide billions of dollars of additional funding to Ukraine in the coming weeks and months; the European Union bans (Pluto) Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik from broadcasting in the bloc; Apple Inc (Neptune) has paused all product sales in Russia; Canada shuts its ports to Russian-owned ships (Jupiter); Hollywood (Neptune) joins the Moscow blockade; and Ukraine’s new age exodus has seen hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing (Saturn) the fighting. Mars was conjunction Pluto and Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Sun, Jupiter and Pluto in the Mars cycle; and progressed Saturn was trine Moon in the Saturn cycle.  

March 2: Day 7 of war in Ukraine; The fighting intensifies; a 40-mile long Russian convoy stalls on its way to Kyiv apparently hampered by fuel and food shortages (Saturn); the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly supports a nonbinding resolution that demands that Russia immediately remove its forces from Ukraine; a plot (house 12) to assassinate Zelensky is foiled when the unit sent to kill him is destroyed; Joe Biden closes US airspace to all Russian flights (house 9-Neptune); nearly 875,000 people have fled (Saturn) the fighting; the war is being fought on the internet, websites and cyberspace; global sports organizations (house 5-Pluto) are distancing themselves from Russia; and the price of oil (Neptune) soars to $110 a barrel. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Saturn was trine Moon in the Saturn cycle.

A two-year long investigation into online child sexual abuse (house 5- Mars-Pluto) has led to the arrest of hundreds of offenders worldwide and safeguarded 146 children. Progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart; Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and Sun was semisquare Pluto in the Sun cycle.

Record breaking rains continue to devastate Australia’s east coast escalating the flood crisis (Saturn) and forcing thousands to evacuate. Progressed Saturn was trine Moon in the Saturn cycle.

A ship (Jupiter) carrying thousands of luxury cars valued at close to $440 million sinks in the Atlantic Ocean after burning (Mars) for weeks. Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Jupiter in the Mars cycle.

March 3: Day 8 of war in Ukraine; fighting rages across the country; Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba says that the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (Pluto) – the largest in Europe – is on fire (Mars); Russia and Ukraine agree on the need for humanitarian corridors for fleeing civilians; more corporations are exiting Russia; Russia’s credit rating slumps to ‘junk’ status; and oil prices soar and stock markets fall. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Moon is semisquare Mars in the Aquarian Age chart. Saturn parallel Uranus in the sky starts.

March 4: Day 9 of war in Ukraine: the destruction and death continues; Russia’s seizes the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (Pluto); US calls the nuclear plant attack ‘a war crime’; Russia blocks access to Facebook (Neptune); Ukrainians are heading to Poland; Russians are heading the shops; oil (Neptune) has its wildest week on record as the Ukraine crisis roils markets. Mars was conjunction Pluto and Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Jupiter and conjunction Saturn in the Mars cycle.

A suicide bombing (Mars-Pluto) at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque (Jupiter) during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least 56 people and injures 196. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Jupiter in the Mars cycle.

March 5: Day 10 of war in Ukraine; major Ukrainian cities are under bombardment; Russian forces inch closer to Kyiv but encounter stiff resistance; Russia’s partial ceasefire in Mariupol and Volnovakha breaks down; (was it fake news?); Ukraine’s port city of Kherson is captured by Russian forces; the city of Mariupol has no water or heating; Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Kuleba calls on NATO for more support (Jupiter); his country needs fighter jets and air-defence systems; as the economic war escalates (Mars-Saturn) the International Monetary Fund warns that the conflict will have a devastating global economic impact; Paypal and Samsung shut down services in Russia; Russia’s inflation rate (Neptune) is accelerating; Ukrainian websites (Pluto) are under nonstop attack from Russian hackers; the BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, CBC and other foreign media (house 9) suspend reporting in Russia; thousands of anti-invasion protesters (Uranus) gather in Paris, London and New York; and Ukrainian athletes at the Paralympics clinch 7 medals including three gold in the biathlon. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; progressed Mars was conjunction and parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle; and progressed Pluto was square Jupiter in the Pluto cycle.

North Korea fires another ballistic missile into the sea. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky.

Thousands of South Korean firefighters (Mars) and troops (Mars) are battling (Mars) a large wildfire (Mars) that has been tearing through an eastern coastal area threatening a nuclear power station (Pluto) and a liquefied natural gas plant (Neptune). More than 6,200 people have been evacuated and at least 159 homes destroyed. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was conjunction Saturn in the Mars cycle.

March 6: Day 11 of war in Ukraine; the shelling and suffering continue; Kiev requests the west for more weapons and tougher sanctions; 2 evacuation attempts from Mariupol fail (Saturn); a huge Russian convey north of Kyiv remains stalled (Saturn); anti-war protests take place around the world; police in Russia detain more than 4,300 protestors; the number of Ukrainian refugees exceeds 1.5 million; and the Russian flagship airline Aeroflot suspends all its international flights. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was conjunction and parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.

According to NCoV2019live the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic (Saturn) has exceeded 6 million. Saturn was parallel Uranus in the skyl and progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.

March 7: Day 12 of war in Ukraine; fierce battles are being fought in the center, north and south of the country; Russian shelling continues to prevent evacuations; hearings begin at the International Court of Justice (Jupiter) over possible Russian war-crimes (Mars-Pluto) without legal (Jupiter) Russian representation; Russia is now the world’s most sanctioned country; Nike, Ikea and Hermes shut shop in Russia; and the price (Jupiter) of crude oil (Neptune) jumps by more than $10 a barrel and share markets (house 5-Neptune) are sharply lower (Saturn). Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle; Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; progressed Jupiter was semisextile Mars in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Sun was parallel Neptune in the Sun cycle.

March 8: Day 13 of war in Ukraine: Russian forces intensify their bombardment of Kyiv; families flee as the bombs drop; Ukrainian civilians begin leaving two besieged areas after Russia opened ‘humanitarian corridors’ but evacuations from southeastern city of Mariupol failed again; the UN refugee agency says two million people have fled (Saturn) Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion; Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the UK House of Commons; Joe Biden announces a US ban on Russian oil (Neptune) and other energy imports; Japan freezes the assets of dozens more Russian and Belarusian officials and oligarchs; a growing number of high-profile Scotland-based food and drink firms have halted exports to Russia; Shell says it will stop buying Russian oil and gas (Neptune) and will shut down all its operations in the country; Coca Cola, PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Unilever and L'Oreal are temporarily shutting shop in Russia; and the London Metal Exchange halts trade (Jupiter) in nickel after prices (Jupiter) of the metal, a key component in electric vehicle batteries, doubled to more than $100,000 a tonne. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle; Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Neptune in the Sun cycle.

America: Mars conjunction Pluto in house 1 didn’t see civil war erupt instead it united the country against Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine; it grabbed the opportunity to destroy Putin; but Florida’s Senate passes a bill to ban discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in primary schools and that divided America.

Women and girls are fighting for equality on International Women’s Day. Progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Venus in the Aquarian Age chart.

March 9: Day 14 of war in Ukraine; Russia’s multipronged invasion continues; Ukrainian troops repulse efforts by Russian forces to enter Kharkiv; the mayor of Mariupol says a total of 1,207 civilians have died during a nine-day siege by Russian forces; a Russian air strike hits a children’s hospital (house 12) in Mariupol; hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped in besieged cities without water, food and electricity; around 35,000 people are evacuated through humanitarian corridors from three cities; The European Union announces more sanctions (house 8-Saturn) against oligarchs and lenders in Russia and Belarus; Nestle, Philip Morris and Sony (Neptune) step back from Russia; The US Congress allocates $13.6 billion (Jupiter) in emergency aid for Ukraine; The International Monetary Fund (Jupiter) approves $1.4 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine; Ratings agency Fitch downgrades Russia’s sovereign debt rating into junk territory (Saturn) saying the decision reflects the view that a default (Saturn) is ‘imminent’; and global stocks (house 5-Neptune) stage a ferocious rebound (Mars) from the war-induced rout. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle; progressed Jupiter was semisextile Mars in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Sun was parallel Neptune in the Sun cycle.

March 10: Day 15 of war in Ukraine; Russian military units edge closer to the capital Kyiv; Ukrainian forces are fiercely resisting the Russian advance; Russia renews its bombardment of the southern port of Mariupol; half of Kyiv’s population have fled the city; Kyiv says it lacks weapons such as missile defence systems and anti-tank missiles; diplomatic talks between Ukraine’s and Russia’s foreign ministers fail to make progress; and there are concerns for the safety (Saturn) of Ukraine’s nuclear power plant at Chernobyl. Mars was conjunction Pluto and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle; and progressed Jupiter was semisextile Mars in the Jupiter cycle.

A train crash (Mars) in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 60 people. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was sextile moon in the Mars cycle.

Jussie Smollett is sentenced to 150 days in jail after a jury found he lied to police about being the victim of a hate crime. See his chart progressed to February 20, 2022 

March 11: Day 16 of war in Ukraine; Russian forces bombard cities across the country; Putin approves the deployment of up to 16,000 volunteers from the Middle East; over 2.5 million people have fled (Saturn) Ukraine; America hits Russia on trade (Jupiter), shuts down development funds (houses 8) and bans imports (house 9) of seafood, vodka and diamonds; and the US will revoke Russia’s ‘most favoured nation status’. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle; and progressed Jupiter was inconjunct Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says sanctions imposed against Russia would rebound against the West, including in the form of higher food and energy prices, and Moscow would solve its problems and emerge stronger. Oops – he should have checked out Russia’s Aquarian Age chart.

China orders the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun into lockdown (Pluto) amid a new spike in covid-19 cases (Mars) attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant. (The variant emerged in Japan and South Korea.) Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.

March 12: Day 17 of war in Ukraine; civilian fighters and residents in Kyiv prepare for a major attack as Russian forces surround the city; the US and NATO are shipping weapons (Mars) into Ukraine at break-neck speed, including shoulder-fired missiles called Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems that can take down aircraft; the humanitarian crisis (Aquarius-Pluto) worsens; the US imposes more sanctions (Saturn) on Putin’s inner circle; disinformation (Pluto) about the war is rampant; a Russian law (Jupiter-house 9) giving Moscow stronger powers to crack down on independent journalism (Mercury-Uranus) places Russia under a ‘total information blackout’ on the war; and YouTube blocks (Pluto) access around the world to channels associated with Russian state-funded media, citing a policy barring content that denies, minimises or trivialises well-documented violent events (Mars). Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle; and progressed Jupiter was semisquare Mercury in the Jupiter cycle.

Saudi Arabia executes 81 men including seven Yemenis and one Syrian in the kingdom’s biggest mass execution (Mars-Pluto) in decades. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky; and Mars was inconjunct Mercury in the Mars cycle.

March 13: Day 18 of war in Ukraine; fighting intensifies on the outskirts of the Kyiv; the cities of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol remain surrounded > they’re under heavy Russian bombardment; Russian troops launch multiple air raids on a military training ground outside Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, near the border with Poland; US journalist Brent Renaud (Mercury) is shot dead outside Kyiv; ‘around 1,300’ Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the start of the invasion; and up to 30,000 men, women and children join an anti-war demonstration (Uranus) in central Berlin. Mars was conjunction Pluto and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was inconjunct Mercury in the Mars cycle.

March 14: Day 19 of war in Ukraine; Russian missiles and artillery fire pound several Ukrainian cities; the city of Mariupol is a humanitarian disaster (Pluto); nearly 2,200 of the city’s residents have been killed since hostilities began; Russia has effectively isolated Ukraine’s strategic Black Sea coast from international maritime trade (Jupiter); the refugee exodus (Saturn) reaches 2.8 million; European Union member states agree on a fourth package of sanctions (house 8-Saturn) against Russia; Instagram is no longer accessible in Russia; and Russian police detain more than 800 people across 37 cities for protesting (Uranus) against Moscow’s ‘military operation’ in Ukraine. Mars was square Uranus and conjunction Pluto in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was inconjunct Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

Peace and cease-fire talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials are ongoing. Venus is conjunction Mars and Pluto in the sky; Jupiter is conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Venus in the Sun cycle.

Government websites in Israel are hit by a cyber attack (Mars-Pluto). Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky.

March 15: Day 20 of war in Ukraine; Kyiv is under relentless shelling; a 35-hour curfew is imposed; about 20,000 people escape Mariupol but hundreds of thousands remain trapped; Russian forces take full control of the southern region of Kherson; the prime ministers of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic met with Zelensky; Kyiv and Moscow resume talks via videolink; the US Senate unanimously passes a resolution condemning Vladimir Putin as a war criminal; the confirmed civilian toll in Ukraine is 691 people killed although the true figure is probably ‘considerably higher’; Russia denies targeting civilians; Russia retaliates by sanctioning Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau and other top US officials; the EU hits Moscow with fresh sanctions, including bans on Russian energy sector investments, luxury goods exports (Jupiter-house 9)to Russia, and imports (house 9) of steel products from Russia; and the UK adds 350 more Russians to its sanctions list, hikes tariffs (Jupiter-Saturn-house 9) on a swath of imports from vodka to steel, and bans exports of luxury goods. Mars was conjunction Pluto and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was inconjunct Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

Mars conjunction Saturn in the sky starts

March 16: Day 21 of war in Ukraine; Russian bombs rain down on Ukrainian cities, Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses the US Congress and urges US lawmakers to do more to protect his country from Russia’s invasion; Joe Biden announces $800 million more in security assistance to Ukraine including weapons to take down Russian planes and tanks; Joe Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’; Putin didn’t like that; the International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders Russia to cease military actions in Ukraine immediately, saying it is ‘profoundly concerned’ by Moscow’s use of force; and Vladimir Putin unleashes another venomous tirade against the West. Mars was conjunction Saturn and Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; progressed Mars was sextile Mars in the Mars cycle; and progressed Jupiter was semisquare Mercury in the Jupiter cycle.

The United Nations seeks to raise over $4 billion at a pledging event for war-torn Yemen where more than 17 million people need food assistance and this could rise to 19 million in the second half of the year. Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was semisquare Mercury in the Jupiter cycle.

The US Federal Reserve (house 2) raises interest rates by a quarter percentage point (Jupiter) and signals that it would raise rates six more times in 2022 in an effort to fight the fastest inflation (Neptune) in 40 years. Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was semisquare Mercury in the Jupiter cycle.

March 17: Day 22 of war in Ukraine; Russian forces are blasting cities and killing civilians but no longer making progress on the ground; according to British military intelligence and the Ukrainian armed forces the Russian invasion has largely stalled (Saturn) on all fronts in recent days amid heavy losses (Saturn);over 350,000 people are sheltering in the besieged southern port of Mariupol; rescuers are combing the rubble of a theatre that was bombed; a ‘very, very big gap’ remains as the peace talks stall; and Russia accuses the United States of stoking ‘Russophobia’ and says it has the power to put its ‘brash enemies into place’. Progressed Moon was semisquare Mars in the Aquarian Age chart; and Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky.

(With Mars conjunction Pluto in house 8 (death) of Russia’s Mars-Pluto conjunction chart many Russian soldiers will have died in the fighting.)

Mars conjunction Pluto in the sky ends

March 18: Day 23 of war in Ukraine; ferocious fighting continues; it has reached the center of Mariupol; Russian shelling prevents the establishment of effective humanitarian corridors; Russian troops attack an army barracks in Mykolaiv; Australia and Japan impose more sanctions on Russia; Joe Biden warns Xi Jinping to not provide Russia with military equipment; Vladimir Putin speaks to tens of thousands of Russians at an event celebrating eight years since the annexation of Crimea; and the United States and Western allies slam Russia for spreading propaganda, disinformation and ‘nonsense’ at the United Nations Security Council by alleging that parts of biological weapons were being made in Ukraine. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury and square Uranus in the Mars cycle.

Hong Kong is now the center of the coronavirus pandemic. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was square Uranus in the Mars cycle.

March 19: Day 24 of war in Ukraine; the fighting is ongoing in Mariupol, the southern cities of Mykolaiv and Kherson, and the eastern town of Izyum; tanks and corpses are on the streets of Mariupol – it’s hell on Earth; Russia uses hypersonic Kinzhal (Dagger) missiles to destroy a large weapons depot in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region; Ukrainian forces push back Russian troops trying to surround Kyiv; Ukraine’s allies are delivering planeloads of weapons shipments to bolster its military capacity; Zelenskiy calls for comprehensive peace talks (Venus) with Moscow and urges Switzerland to do more to crack down on Russian oligarchs who are financing Putin’s war; China refuses to condemn Russia’s invasion and the US warns of consequences if Beijing supports Moscow; 30% of Ukraine’s economy has stopped working; Poland’s PM calls for a total trade ban between the EU and Russia; and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko reckons that Vladimir Putin is healthy, sane and in ‘better shape than ever‘. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury, trine Venus and square Uranus in the Mars cycle.

Archaeologists (Uranus) discover five ancient tombs adorned with well-preserved paintings at a cemetery in Saqqara, just outside the Egyptian capital Cairo. Progressed Mars was square Uranus in the Mars cycle.

March 20: Day 25 of war in Ukraine; fighting rages in Mariupol; Russian and Ukrainian forces fought for control of the city; many of its 400,000 residents remain trapped with little food, water and power; shelling hits Kyiv; Zelensky addresses the Israeli parliament questioning Israel’s reluctance to sell its Iron Dome missile defense system to Ukraine; and more than 3.3 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the invasion. Progressed Moon was semisquare Mars in the Aquarian Age chart; and Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky.

A speeding (Mars) car (Uranus) slams into carnival revelers in a small village in southern Belgium, killing six people and leaving 10 with life-threatening injuries. Mars was square Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was square Uranus in the Mars cycle.

It’s International Happiness Day and Finland is the happiest country on Earth.

March 21: Day 26 of war in Ukraine; Russia has failed to seize any major city or topple the government; its assault has stalled (Saturn) along most fronts, but shelling and missiles are causing devastation; Ukraine defies Russia’s demand for soldiers to lay down arms in Mariupol; the city is in ruins > laid waste by bombardment (Mars); hundreds of thousands of resident are facing catastrophe; Russia’s ruthless mercenaries (Pluto) like killing people; a missile strike hits Odessa – Ukraine’s Black Sea Port; a new curfew (Saturn) set to last from Monday to Wednesday is announced in Kyiv; Russia summons US Ambassador John Sullivan (house 5) telling him that Joe Biden’s calling Vladimir Putin a ‘war criminal’ (Mars-Pluto) pushed bilateral ties to the brink of collapse; the European Union (Pluto) approves a new defense strategy (Saturn) designed to increase the bloc’s capacity to act, including setting up a 5,000-strong rapid reaction force (Mars); Russia withdraws (Saturn) from peace treaty talks with Japan and freezes joint economic projects (Saturn) related to the disputed Kuril islands (Mars-house 4) due to sanctions imposed by Tokyo; a Russian court (Jupiter-house 9) labels Meta Platforms Inc (Neptune) an ‘extremist organisation’ (Uranus) banning its activities on Russian territory; and many anti-war Russians (Uranus) are flocking (Saturn) to Turkey. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury and Venus in the Mars cycle.

The Biden administration declares that Myanmar’s military (Mars) has committed genocide (Uranus-Pluto?) against the Rohingya minority. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky.

A plane (Gemini) carrying 132 people crashes (Mars) into a mountainous area in south China with no survivors. Mars was square Uranus in the sky.

Egypt’s pound (house 2) depreciates (Saturn) by almost 14 percent as foreign investors (house 8) pull out billions of dollars (Jupiter) from Egyptian treasury markets (house 5) following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The central bank also increases overnight interest rates by 100 basis points (Jupiter) in a surprise monetary policy meeting (Uranus) citing global inflationary pressures amplified by the war in Ukraine. The poor and middle class will bear the brunt of the of the rate increase.

And Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh Jupiter) is charged with illegal enrichment and money laundering (Neptune) during Lebanon’s economic meltdown.

And in Washington Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s (Jupiter-house 9) confirmation hearings begin.

Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus, Jupiter was conjunction Neptune, and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was parallel Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

March 22: Day 27 of war in Ukraine: Russian and Ukrainian forces are fighting in the streets of Mariupol; the city is under relentless shelling; Ukrainian forces regain control of the key Kyiv suburb of Makariv; Russia says the war is going to plan; America says Moscow has ‘failed’ to achieve its objectives; Emmanuel Macron keeps talking to Vladimir Putin; the UN refugee agency says 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion; and Moldova and Romania are getting the jitters. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury and Venus in the Mars cycle.

Four Israelis are killed and several others wounded in a knife attack (Mars) outside the BIG shopping centre in Beersheba. The attacker was shot dead (Mars) by a bus driver. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky.

On March 13 (with Mars conjunction Pluto in the sky and progressed Mars inconjunct Mercury in the Marts cycle) the Senegalese military launched an operation against rebels fighting for independence (Uranus) in the country’s Casamance region which borders Gambia. More than 6,000 people in Gambia and Senegal fled their homes following the flare-up in fighting.

Multiple tornadoes rip through parts of Texas and Oklahoma causing death, injury and widespread damage. The storm system (Saturn) was bringing heavy rainfall and thunderstorms with the risk of dangerous tornadoes and powerful winds. Mars was conjunction Saturn and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky.

Russia’s most prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny is given nine years in a ‘strict regime penal colony’ in a fraud case (Neptune) rejected by most as a fabricated sham (Neptune). There’s no room for dissent (Uranus) in Putin’s Russia. Mars was square Uranus, Saturn was parallel Uranus, and Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Pluto was parallel Neptune in the Pluto cycle.

March 23: Day 28 of war in Ukraine; Russian forces use long-range weapons fired from the sea to hit a Ukrainian targets in the northwestern city of Rivne and the outskirts of Kyiv; and Western leaders are gathering in Brussels to plan (Saturn) more measures to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt his campaign. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky. And... 

NATO nations’ leaders agree to deploy four new battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Mars was conjunction Saturn in house 1 of their Mars-Saturn conjunction charts.

The United States says it has assessed that members of Russia’s forces (Mars-house 6) have committed war crimes (Mars-Pluto) in Ukraine. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky.

Poland’s Interior Minister says that Poland has ‘expelled 45 Russian spies (house 12) pretending (Neptune) to be diplomats (Jupiter)’. Mars was conjunction Saturn and Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky.

The ripple effects of the Russia-Ukraine war (Mars) are hitting developing nations like Zimbabwe hard (Saturn) as supplies of fuel, food are disrupted. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky.

Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will start selling its gas (Neptune) to ‘unfriendly countries’ (house 7) in roubles (Jupiter-house 2). Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was parallel Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

Food and medical supplies (house 6) onboard more than 100 foreign flagged ships (Jupiter) stuck in Ukraine due to the conflict (Mars) are running low (Saturn), with little progress on creating a maritime corridor (house 9) to allow them to sail away. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

And Zelensky tells the Japanese parliament; ‘The world is on the verge of many new crises. The environmental and food challenges are unprecedented.’ He got that right. Progressed Mars conjunction birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart starts September 9, 2022.

In Afghanistan the Taliban announces the closure (Saturn) of girls’ high schools (house 5). Female students above the sixth grade will not be able to attend school. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury in the Mars cycle.

March 24: Day 29 of war in Ukraine; Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych says Russian troops do not have enough resources (Saturn) to push ahead with their offensive and this is leading to a slowdown (Saturn) in hostilities (Mars); Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says the European Union needs to ‘crush’ Russia with sanctions over the war which has turned into a ‘massacre’; the G7 are gathering evidence of war crimes; Ukraine’s neighbor Moldova maintains a military non-alignment over its fear (Saturn) of Russia, but signals its continued desire to be part of the European bloc; and Philip Morris International Inc. says it intends to leave the Russian market. And

At an unprecedented triple summit (Uranus) in Brussels, transatlantic alliance NATO, G7 rich nations and European leaders address the continent’s worst conflict since the 1990s Balkans wars. Western leaders pile on military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine and denounce Moscow’s invasion as ‘barbarism’. NATO announces plans for new combat units in four eastern European countries near Ukraine and agrees to help Ukraine protect itself against any chemical, biological or nuclear attacks. Washington and London increase aid, expand sanctions and are working to provide Kyiv with anti-ship missiles. And Justin Trudeau announces new sanctions against Russia and says Canada will continue to increase its defense spending. And

For the second time at the United Nations the 193-member General Assembly overwhelmingly isolates Russia over its invasion and votes to demand aid access and civilian protection in Ukraine. It criticizes Russia for creating a ‘dire’ humanitarian situation and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres blasts Russia’s ‘absurd war’. Five countries – Russia, Syria, North Korea, Eritrea and Belarus – voted against the resolution and China abstained. And

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says: ‘In many countries, violence (Mars) is wreaking more and more havoc, and that’s why there are more and more migrants; and it’s not a situation that is going to improve or slow down, not even in the years to come.’ And

North Korea tests a banned intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time since 2017. Japanese officials say it flew 1,100 km (684 miles) and fell in Japanese waters after flying for over an hour.

Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky.

March 25: Day 30 of war in Ukraine; Moscow signals it is scaling back (Saturn) its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory (house 4) claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the east as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive (Mars) to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv. Military analysts say that Russia has reframed its war goals in Ukraine in a way that may make it easier for Putin to claim a face-saving victory despite a woeful campaign in which his army (Mars-house 6) has suffered humiliating setbacks (Saturn) and has been stalled for weeks outside Kyiv. Mars was conjunction Saturn in house 12 of Russia’s Mars-Saturn conjunction chart; and progressed Mars was parallel Venus in the Mars cycle.

The war grinds on. Not the war in Ukraine, but the ruinous war in Yemen. It started on March 25, 2015 with Mars conjunction Uranus in the sky when Saudi Arabia intervened to support Yemen’s government against the Houthi rebels, who had seized the capital, Sanaa. Since then, tens of thousands of people have been killed and about four million displaced, while two-thirds of the nearly 30 million population depend on humanitarian assistance to survive. There was a sharp escalation in the conflict in early 2022 with Mars conjunction Pluto in the sky with almost one person being killed or wounded every hour. And on March 25, 2022 a raging fire (Mars) is reported at an oil depot in the Saudi city of Jeddah with Yemen’s Houthi rebels acknowledging they had launched a series of drone and rocket attacks on the kingdom. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky.

In a stunning – wow – moment (Uranus) Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat (Mars-Uranus) with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average. The record heat-spike in Antarctica was set on Friday March 18. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury and square Uranus in the Mars cycle.

March 26: Day 31 of war in Ukraine; four rockets hit the western Ukrainian city of Lviv in the most significant attack on the city since the start of the war; European Union leaders urge Russia to fully respect its obligations under international law and abide by the recent order by the International Court of Justice (Jupiter-Saturn) that told Moscow to withdraw from Ukraine; the US is providing $100 million to Ukraine in civilian assistance; thousands of Russians march through Prague protesting (Uranus) Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine; and Spotify (Neptune) halts its services in Russia due to the country’s strict new censorship law, which it says puts its employees and possibly even listeners at risk. Mars was conjunction Saturn, Saturn was parallel Uranus and Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky.

Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia has been hit by ‘powerful blows’ and ‘significant losses’ causing it to shift its military strategy to focus on Donbas and with progressed Mercury trine (luck) birth chart Mars (Russia) in his chart he could be right.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen launches a military operation to stop Houthi attacks on its oil facilities and ‘protect global energy sources’. Yemen’s Houthi group then suspends missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia for three days, in a peace initiative it said could be a lasting commitment if the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen stopped air strikes and lifted port restrictions. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky.

North Korea’s recent long-range intercontinental ballistic missile launch is the latest in a growing arms race (Mars) between North and South Korea. Mars was conjunction Saturn and square Uranus in the sky.

The US, UK and Canada impose coordinated new sanctions (Saturn-Pluto) on Myanmar, focusing on senior military officials (Mars) and those linked to the arms trade. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky.

In Peru the government gives approval for the expansion of the Las Bambas copper mine and local community groups (Pluto) say they will take all necessary ‘legal and social’ measures to prevent the development of a second open pit copper mine called Chalcobamba. The Chinese-owned mine (Saturn-house 4) has been at the center of protests (Uranus) and road blockades (Uranus) since it started operations in 2016, which have caused it to frequently curtail its operations. Mars was conjunction Saturn and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky.

March 27: Day 32 of war in Ukraine; Ukrainian troops launch counterattacks against Russian forces in some areas around Kyiv; Russian forces take Slavutych, where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live; Zelenskyy demands that the West provide a fraction of the military hardware in their stockpiles; more than 3.7 million people have fled Ukraine > around 90 percent are women (Venus) and children (house 5) and the UN estimates that another 6.5 million people are internally displaced. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Venus in the Mars cycle.

El Salvador’s Congress approves emergency powers (Mars) that temporarily suspended some constitutional protections after the Central American country recorded 62 criminal gang (Pluto) murders (on March 27). It was the most violent (Mars) 24-hour period since the end of the civil war in 1992. And two gunmen (Mars) kill two people and wound four others in a shooting spree (Mars) in central Israel before they were killed by police (Mars). Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Venus in the Mars cycle.

March 28: Day 33 of war in Ukraine; Russia’s continues its full scale armed invasion; Ukrainian forces repulse seven attacks in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk; the refugee exodus continues; and the next round of face-to-face talks between Ukraine and Russia  begin in Turkey. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Venus in the Mars cycle.

The first-ever (Uranus) UN Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Climate Week starts (ends March 31) as one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change seeks ways to address its dire threat. About 600 million people, or 50 percent of MENA’s population, may be exposed to ‘super-extreme’ weather events (Saturn-Uranus) by 2100 at current projections raising questions about ‘human survivability’ in some areas. Mars was conjunction Saturn and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Neptune in the Sun cycle.

March 29: Day 34 of war in Ukraine; Russia continues its missile and bomb strikes in an attempt to completely destroy infrastructure and residential areas of Ukrainian cities;  Russia says it has destroyed large ammunition depots in the Zhytomyr region and hit 41 Ukrainian military sites in the past 24 hours; Ukraine seizes back control of Irpin, near Kyiv; the eastern town of Trostyanets, south of Sumy, is back in Ukrainian hands; Russian soldiers who seized the Chernobyl site drove armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the ‘Red Forest’; the UN human rights office says 1,119 civilians had been killed and 1,790 wounded since Russia began its attack; and the Mayor of Mariupol says nearly 5,000 people, including about 210 children, have been killed in the besieged city. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Venus in the Mars cycle.

At least 20 people are killed in a mass shooting (Mars-Pluto) in central Mexico in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years; and a gunman (Mars) in Israel kills at least five people in Bnei Brak, suburb of Tel Aviv, before being fatally shot. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky.

US President Joe Biden signs into law (house 9-Jupiter) the first federal legislation (Uranus) that makes lynching a federal hate crime (Mars-Pluto) in the country after civil rights groups (Pluto) pushed for such a measure for more than a century. Mars was conjunction Saturn, Saturn was parallel Uranus and Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Neptune in the Sun cycle.

In Iowa state USA a series of bird flu outbreaks (Mars) in commercial flocks requires the killing of more than 1.5 million hens and turkeys (house 6). Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky.

A hack on blockchain project Ronan Bridge (Neptune) on March 23, is discovered. In one of the largest crypto industry (Jupiter) attacks hackers (Neptune-Pluto) stole about $590 million. Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was parallel Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

Heavy rains (Saturn) again drench east Australia triggering evacuation orders for thousands of flood-weary residents for the second time this month with authorities warning the intense weather is likely to persist for the next 24 hours. Mars was conjunction Saturn and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky.

A sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron version of coronavirus known as BA.2 is now dominant worldwide, prompting surges in many countries in Europe and Asia and raising concern over the potential for a new wave in the United States. Mars was conjunction Saturn and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky.

March 30: Day 35 of war in Ukraine; there are reports of heavy shelling along the front line in the eastern Donetsk region; Russia announces a ceasefire in Mariupol to evacuate civilians; Kyiv accuses Moscow of illegally deporting at least 15,000 Mariupol residents to Russia under the guise of evacuation; Moscow says one of the aims of its military campaign is to ‘liberate’ largely Russian-speaking places such as Mariupol; Russian forces have begun to pull out of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power site after seizing control of the facility on February 24; the United Nations says more than four million people have fled Ukraine amid Russia’s offensive; the UK tightens sanctions targeting Russian oligarchs’ jets and yachts; and a cyberattack (Mars-Pluto) targeting a satellite network used by Ukraine’s government and military agencies knocks tens of thousands of broadband internet users across Europe offline. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisquare Moon in the Mars cycle.

March 31: Day 36 of war in Ukraine; for the moment Russian forces have given up on Kiev > the in-sky Mar-Saturn conjunction is in house 12 of Russia’s Mars-Saturn conjunction chart; Russia is building up its troops (Mars-house 6) in the east of Ukraine; heavy shelling and missile strikes continue around Chernihiv; and Russian hackers (Neptune-Pluto) attempt to penetrate the networks of NATO according to Google’s threat analysis group. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky.

And Russia demands that oil and gas payments be made in roubles by Friday; Germany warns of a possible emergency if Russia cuts supplies; the US and Europe are fighting energy disruptions (Uranus); the rouble (house 2) has bounced back; US stocks (house 5) tumble wrapping up their first losing quarter since the pandemic bear market; oil prices plunge (Saturn) on news that the US will release up to 180 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and inflation (Neptune) continues to surge across Europe’s biggest economies. Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was parallel Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

Police (Mars) in Sri Lanka impose a curfew in the country’s capital following clashes (Mars) with protesters (Uranus) who try to storm President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence amid a worsening economic crisis that has resulted in 13-hour-long rolling blackouts (Uranus). Mars was conjunction Saturn and parallel Uranus in the sky.

In Mali a surge in attacks since early March by an Islamic State affiliate has left hundreds of civilians dead. UN peacekeeping forces have been deployed to the country’s tri-border with Burkina Faso and Niger. Mars was conjunction Pluto and Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was sesquisquare Moon in the Mars cycle; and progressed Sun was sextile Mars in the Sun cycle.

With gang violence (Mars-Pluto) plaguing Mexico the severed heads of six men are discovered atop a car in a town in southwestern Mexico with a sign warning others they could face the same fate. Progressed Moon was semisquare birth chart Mars in the Aquarian Age chart activating major aspects progressed Mars parallel birth chart Uranus and progressed Pluto; Mars was parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was sesquisquare Moon in the Mars cycle.

In Sudan a protester (Uranus) is killed as thousands rally against last year’s military coup (Mars-Pluto) and worsening living conditions (Saturn). Mars was conjunction Saturn and parallel Uranus and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was sesquisquare Moon in the Mars cycle.

In Afghanistan a dire economic situation (Saturn) sees children dying of starvation as millions of Afghans struggle to put food on their tables and people are selling (Jupiter) babies and young girls to survive. Mars was conjunction Saturn and Saturn was parallel Uranus in the sky.

In Kenya the country’s top court (house 9-Jupiter) declares controversial constitutional changes (house 9) proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his allies illegal. Jupiter was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was parallel Saturn in the Jupiter cycle.

Farmers (Saturn) in largely desert Jordan and the second most water-scarce (Moon-Saturn) country in the world are battling (Mars) the consequences of water scarcity (Moon-Saturn) due to climate change – inconsistent rainfall and higher temperatures – and an unexpected increase of violence migrants (Mars) escaping the civil war in Syria. Mars was conjunction Saturn in the sky.


Author: DW Sutton

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