July 1: In Ukraine a Russian missile (Mars) attack near the port of Odesa kills at least 21 people; in Sudan thousands of protesters (Uranus) take to the streets in Khartoum after nine people are killed in demonstrations against the country’s ruling generals (Mars); and in Libya fury (Mars) at the country’s feuding leaders boils over as protesters (Uranus) storm the parliament building in Tobruk and stage the biggest demonstration for years in the capital Tripoli. Mars was square Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was square Pluto in the Mars cycle.
July 3: Russia claims its forces have taken full control of Luhansk province in eastern Ukraine after capturing Lysychansk; in Denmark 3 people are killed and several wounded in a shooting at a shopping centre in Copenhagen with the 22 year old shooter arrested; in Southwest Pakistan a passenger bus slides into a deep ravine in heavy rain killing 19 people and injuring 12 others; and covid-19 cases are again surging around the world amid Omicron variant mutations. Mars was square Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was square Pluto in the Mars cycle.
In Sydney, Australia thousands of residents evacuate as torrential rain (Saturn) and damaging winds pound the east coast causing rivers to flood and dams to overflow. Saturn was square Uranus and Mars was square Pluto in the sky.
July 4: In northwest Burkina Faso at least 22 civilians are killed by armed assailants (Mars); and in Chicago, Illinois at least six people are killed and two dozen others injured after a gunman (Mars) opened fire on an Independence Day parade. Mars was square Pluto in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Venus in the Mars cycle.
With no fuel and no cash, Sri Lanka grinds to a halt. Progressed Moon was inconjunct birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart > peak power date was July 2.
July 5: The Bank of England (Jupiter) warns that the economic outlook for Britain and the world has darkened (Saturn) and told banks (Jupiter) to ramp up capital buffers to ensure they can weather the storm; the European Union’s single currency sinks (Saturn) to its lowest level against the US dollar since 2002 as data points to a growing risk of recession (Saturn) in the eurozone; and Australia’s central bank (Jupiter) raises interest rates as it struggles to contain surging inflation (Neptune) at the risk of triggering an economic downturn (Saturn). In the Cancer new Moon cycle chart the Sun-Moon lunation is exact square Jupiter and sesquisquare Saturn; progressed Jupiter was parallel Mars in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Moon was inconjunct birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart.
July 7: Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson resigns as British Prime Minister. Progressed Sun was parallel Pluto in the Sun cycle. See his chart progressed to July 7, 2022
According to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 71 million people worldwide are experiencing poverty (Saturn) due to soaring food and energy prices (Jupiter) driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Progressed Moon was inconjunct birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart; and progressed Jupiter was parallel Moon and Mars in the Jupiter cycle.
July 8: In Japan the former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is fatally shot (Mars) while delivering a campaign speech. Progressed Pluto was parallel Mars in the Pluto cycle; progressed Mars was conjunction Venus in the Mars cycle; and progressed Sun was parallel Pluto in the Sun cycle.
In southern France more than 900 firefighters (Mars) backed by aircraft are fighting a mega-fire (Mars) that has burned 600 hectares (1,500 acres). Progressed Mars was conjunction and parallel Venus in the Mars cycle.
July 9: Following a day of violent protests (Mars-Uranus) in which demonstrators set fire (Mars) to the prime minister’s home in Colombo Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Sun) bows to intense pressure (Pluto) and announces he will step down on June 13. The island nation of 22 million people is in a dire economic crisis (Saturn). Saturn was square Uranus in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Venus in the Mars cycle; and progressed Sun was parallel Pluto in the Sun cycle > Boris Johnson resigned under the same aspect.
Heavy monsoon rains cause extreme flooding (Saturn-Uranus) in southern Pakistan killing at least 57 people. Eight dams burst and hundreds are homeless. Saturn was square Uranus in the sky; progressed Pluto was parallel Saturn in the Pluto cycle and the Sun-Moon lunation was sesquisquare Saturn in the Cancer new Moon chart.
July 10: The Uber files – a trove of more than 124,000 records, including 83,000 emails and 1,000 other files involving conversations, spanning 2013 to 2017 – expose (Uranus) how Uber courted top politicians and how far it went to avoid justice. They detail the extensive help Uber got from leaders (Sun) such as Emmanuel Macron and ex-EU commissioner Neelie Kroes and show how the taxi firm’s former boss personally ordered the use of a ‘kill switch’ to prevent raiding police (Mars) from accessing computers (Pluto). Progressed Pluto was parallel Uranus in the Pluto cycle; progressed Jupiter was parallel Mars and Neptune in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Mars was semisextile Jupiter in the Mars cycle.
At least 15 people are killed and about 20 more are feared buried under rubble after Russian rockets (Mars) struck an apartment block in Chasiv Yar, a town in eastern Ukraine; at least 15 people are shot dead (Mars) when gunmen (Mars) entered a bar and opened fire in the South African township of Soweto; and wildfires (Mars) sweep across northern and central Portugal with an estimated 3,000 firefighters (Mars) and more than 60 aircraft battling to quell the flames amid scorching temperatures. Progressed Mars was parallel Venus and semisextile Mars in the Mars cycle.
July 13: In Sri Lanka furious protesters (Mars-Uranus) defy tear gas, water cannon and a state of emergency (Mars) to storm the prime minister’s office after the country’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees (Saturn) to the Maldives; and several thousand Hungarians protest (Uranus) against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government in the second day of anti-government rallies after lawmakers fast-tracked (Mars) legislation sharply raising taxes (house 8) for small firms (house 10). Progressed Pluto was parallel Mars, Saturn and Uranus in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Sun was inconjunct Saturn in the Sun cycle.
US inflation (Neptune) jumps to 9.1 percent in June; and the Bank of Canada (Jupiter) raises its interest rate by 1 percent to 2.5 percent and New Zealand’s central bank lifts its interest rate by half a percentage point to 2.5 percent in their attempts to curb inflation. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Neptune in the Jupiter cycle.
Covid-19 cases caused by the highly infectious BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants are surging around the globe. Saturn was square Uranus in the sky.
July 14: Wildfires (Mars) rage across Portugal, Spain, France and Croatia, burning homes, as much of Europe bakes in a heatwave that has pushed temperatures into the mid-40Cs in some parts. Progressed Pluto was parallel Mars in the Pluto cycle.
Mars conjunction Uranus in the sky starts.
July 15: Ukraine’s military is escalating its push to develop a high-tech (Uranus) ‘Army of Drones’ (Mars). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 16: Russia’s military announces it is stepping up its attack (Mars) firing missiles and shells (Mars) at cities and towns across Ukraine; and Israeli fighter jets strike a rocket-manufacturing site in central Gaza following rocket launches (Mars) from the Palestinian territory. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
Nine people (Moon) are shot dead (Mars-house 8) in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua in an attack by armed separatists (Mars-Uranus). It comes days after protests (Uranus) about a new law that will see the region divided from two into five provinces. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisextile Moon in the Mars cycle.
Extreme heat grips Europe and China. Thousands of firefighters battle wildfires in Portugal, Spain and southwestern France and dozens of cities across China have issued extreme weather warnings. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 18: The Acting President of Sri Lanka declares a state of emergency (Mars) amid ongoing protests (Uranus); and Europe scorches in a ferocious heatwave (Mars-Uranus) with wildfires raging out of control in France, Spain, Portugal and Greece. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisextile Sun in the Mars cycle.
July 19: The UK records its highest ever temperature when thermometers hit 40.3C at Coningsby in Lincolnshire, while 33 other locations went past the UK’s previous highest temperature of 38.7C. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisextile Sun and parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.
July 20: Amid mass evacuations (Saturn) firefighters and emergency services (Mars) battle wildfires (Mars) that are raging across swathes of southern Europe; and in Spain more than 500 heat related deaths (Mars-house 8) have been reported during the 10-day period of extreme heat. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.
Hundreds of protestors (Uranus) in Puerto Rico's capital San Juan demand that the island’s government cancel its contract with power grid operator LUMA Energy (Uranus) over chronic power outages (Uranus) and frequent rate hikes; and in Panama ongoing anti-government protests (Uranus) continue as the country battles a financial crisis. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 21: After months of political turmoil Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigns after key coalition parties (Pluto) withdrew their support for his government. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was opposition Pluto in the Sun cycle.
The European Central Bank raises interest rates (Jupiter) for the first time in 11 years joining several other central banks in prioritising concerns about runaway inflation (Neptune). Progressed Jupiter was parallel Neptune in the Jupiter cycle.
July 22: Russian and Ukrainian officials sign a deal (Jupiter) to allow grain exports (Jupiter-house 9) from Ukrainian Black Sea ports helping to ease a global food crisis. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Moon, Mars and Neptune in the Jupiter cycle.
July 23: Following a worldwide upsurge in cases monkeypox (Saturn) is declared a global health emergency (Mars) by the World Health Organization; and Russian missiles (Mars) hit infrastructure in Odesa threatening the deal to allow grain exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports. Mars was parallel Saturn and conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.
Protestors (Uranus) in major cities across Pakistan rally to denounce what they call a ‘theft’ of the mandate of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party in the Punjab provincial assembly; and protestors in Tunis rally to protest against a draft constitution proposed by President Kais Saied, two days before a planned referendum on the charter. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 24: Wildfires (Mars) rage across Greece as Europe's heatwave spreads east; a state of emergency (Mars) is declared in Mariposa country, California, as the Oak fire blazes out-of-control; and in central Kenya thirty-four people are killed in a bus accident. Mars was parallel Saturn and conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 25: Pope Francis (Jupiter) apologizes to Canada's native people for the Church’s role (Jupiter) in schools where indigenous children were abused (Mars), calling their forced cultural assimilation (Pluto) a ‘deplorable evil’ and ‘disastrous error.’ Progressed Jupiter was parallel Moon, Mars and Neptune in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Sun was sesquisquare Jupiter in the Sun cycle.
Myanmar’s military government (Mars) executes four anti-coup activists (Uranus), including a close ally of Aung San Suu Kyi. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Mars in the Sun cycle.
July 26: The International Monetary Fund again cuts (Saturn) global growth forecasts, warning that downside risks from high inflation (Neptune) and the Ukraine war (Mars) were materialising and could push the world economy to the brink of recession (Saturn) if left unchecked. In its World Economic outlook it forecast that real GDP growth will slow (Saturn) to 3.2% in 2022. The IMF’s Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said: ‘The outlook has darkened significantly since April. The world may soon be teetering on the edge of a global recession, only two years after the last one.’ Mars was parallel Saturn in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle; and progressed Mars conjunction birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart starts September 19, 2022.
In Lagos hundreds of demonstrators (Uranus) march on the first day of a planned three-day nationwide demonstration against the continued closure of Nigerian universities (house 9); and in western India’s Gujarat state at least 28 people die and 60 others became ill after consuming toxic liquor (Mars). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 27: The Russia-Europe energy (Uranus) war (Mars) escalates with Russia cutting (Saturn) supplies and reducing (Saturn) the capacity of Nord Stream 1 pipeline to a fifth of its total capacity. This will make it harder, and costlier, for the EU to fill up storage ahead of the winter heating season. Mars was parallel Saturn and conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Saturn in the Mars cycle.
Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators (Uranus), mostly supporters of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, break into the heavily fortified Green Zone in protest (Uranus) at a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
Australia’s inflation rate (Neptune) hits 6.1%. Progressed Jupiter was conjunction Moon and Neptune in the Jupiter cycle.
July 28: In Guinea protests (Uranus) organized by The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution against the military government (Mars) and its handling of plans to return to democracy bring the capital to a standstill. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
July 29: Spain’s inflation (Neptune) rate hits 10.8%. It’s the highest since 1984. Most European countries are facing an inflation surge due to fallout from war in Ukraine and the reopening of economies after lockdowns. Progressed Jupiter (rising prices) was parallel Moon and Neptune in the Jupiter cycle.
In America at least 25 people have died due to historic flash flooding (Saturn-Uranus) caused by torrential rains (Saturn) in eastern Kentucky. Mars was parallel Saturn and Saturn was square Uranus in the sky.
July 30: In Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy orders the mandatory evacuation (Pluto-Saturn) of people in the eastern Donetsk region, scene of fierce fighting (Mars) with Russia. He said the hundreds of thousands of people still in combat zones (Mars) in the larger Donbas region, which contains Donetsk as well as the neighboring Luhansk region, need to leave. And in Italy the fatal attack (Mars) on a Nigerian street vendor which was filmed by onlookers sparks outrage (Uranus). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Mars in the Sun cycle.
In Iraq supporters of powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr again storm (Mars) parliament (house 11). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was conjunction Uranus in the Mars cycle. In Iraq’s Mars-Uranus conjunction chart Mars and Uranus are in house 11.
July 31: In Afghanistan the al-Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri (Uranus), is killed in a drone strike carried out by the CIA in the capital, Kabul. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
In a park in Bogotá, Colombia, hundreds of people take part in a same-sex kiss-a-thon (Venus) in support of a gay couple who were confronted (Mars) by a group of crazy women, one wielding a broomstick. Colombia legalised same-sex marriage in 2016 but homophobic attacks are common. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was sesquisquare Neptune in the Sun cycle.
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