August 1: The United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres says (Mercury) that nuclear threats emanating from the war (Mars) in Ukraine as well as in Asia and the Middle East have put the world ‘one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’ (Pluto).
And Nancy Pelosi commences a trip to Asia with China saying (Mercury) its military (Mars) will not ‘sit idly by’ if the US House of Representatives Speaker visits Taiwan. She will.
And rival demonstrations (Uranus) by competing Shia Muslim groups affiliated with heavily armed militias (Mars) bring thousands to the streets of Iraq’s capital as tension soars over the failure to form a government after months of deadlock (Pluto).
And in Thembisa township, South Africa, at least four people died during angry protests (Mars-Uranus) over the high cost (Jupiter) of electricity (Uranus) and other basic services. Protests over poor services occur regularly in South Africa. Power cuts have become frequent in recent months, as national utility company Eskom battles high debts and a labor strike.
And in Johannesburg, South Africa, more than 80 gunmen (Mars) arrested following the gang rape (Mars-Pluto) of eight women on Thursday (July 28) appear before a court (house 9) in what the police minister described as the ‘shame of the nation’.
And in Sierra Leone doctors (Mars) begin an indefinite strike (Uranus) to protest low pay and lack of benefits. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury, semisquare Mars and parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle.
The United States announces a new tranche of weapons (Mars) for Ukraine’s forces worth $550m (Jupiter), including ammunition for rocket launchers and artillery guns. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Mars in the Jupiter cycle.
In Ukraine the first ship (Jupiter) carrying grain leaves the southern port of Odesa. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Moon in the Jupiter cycle.
In California the McKinney fire rips through dry terrain wrecking homes and forcing thousands of people to evacuate. Mars was square Saturn and conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was semisquare Mars in the Mars cycle.
August 2: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives in Taiwan saying (Mercury) her visit shows an unwavering commitment to the Chinese-claimed self-ruled island. China condemns the trip and the US navy deploys warships east of Taiwan. In the Mars-Uranus conjunction chart Venus (Nancy Pelosi) is sextile (fortunate opportunity) Mars and Uranus.
And Russia says (Mercury) that the United States is directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine because US spies are approving and coordinating Ukrainian missile strikes on Russian forces. (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the most serious Russia-West crisis since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.) Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury, semisquare Mars and parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle.
In Mexico’s northern border state of Coahuila a tunnel wall collapse (Saturn) in a coal mine (Saturn) triggers flooding (Saturn). (By August 6 ten miners have been trapped underground for more than three days.) Mars was square Saturn in the sky.
The United Nations announces that Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the country’s Houthi rebels have agreed to extend the truce (Jupiter). Progressed Jupiter was parallel Mars and Neptune in the Jupiter cycle.
South Korea’s inflation rate (Neptune) hits 6.3% in July. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Moon and Neptune and the Jupiter cycle. Jupiter is conjunction Neptune in the cycle chart.
August 3: China begins an unprecedented six days of military exercises (Mars) featuring J-20 stealth fighter jets and test firing of conventional missiles to protest (Uranus) Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.
And more than 5,000 soldiers (Mars) from Indonesia, the US and other countries begin their annual joint combat exercises on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, signalling stronger ties amid growing maritime activity by China in the Indo-Pacific region. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was opposition Mars in the Sun cycle.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slams the ‘grotesque greed’ (Saturn) of oil and gas companies (house 10) and their financial backers (house 8) and urged governments globally to ‘tax (house 8) these excessive profits’ to support the most vulnerable people. Mars was square Saturn in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Mercury in the Mars cycle.
The Dutch government declares a water shortage (Saturn), following an unusually dry (Sun-Mars) summer. Mars was square Saturn in the sky.
In a shock (Uranus) result voters in Kansas reject an effort to remove abortion (Mars) protections from the state’s constitution. Mars was conjunction (unpredictable) Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was opposition Mars and square Uranus in the Sun cycle.
Turkey’s inflation in July rose to a fresh 24-year high of 79.6 percent. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Moon and Neptune in the Jupiter cycle.
August 4: A furious (and irrational) China (Mars) in a large scale military protest (Uranus) deploys scores of planes and fires 11 ballistic missiles (Mars) into waters around Taiwan. (Progressed Moon is parallel progressed Mars in China’s chart > start date was July 26 > peak power date is September 22.)
And government websites in Taiwan are under cyber attack (Mars-Pluto) from website addresses in China and Russia.
And in South Africa thousands of angry (Mars) residents in Krugersdorp attack (Mars) a group (Pluto) of illegal miners (Pluto-Saturn) with machetes, golf clubs and hammers (Mars) after a gang rape (Mars-Pluto) on July 28. They blame the miners for high levels of crime (Pluto-house 12) in the area.
And in the US public health officials declare monkeypox (Mars) a public health emergency (Mars-Saturn).
Mars was square Saturn and conjunction Uranus in the sky; progressed Mars was parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle; and progressed Sun was opposition Mars and square Uranus in the Sun cycle..
Three people, including a prominent local journalist (Mercury), are shot dead (Mars-house 8) inside a bar in central Mexico, marking the 13th murder (Mars) of a media worker this year as violence (Mars) against Mexican journalists (Mercury) escalates. Progressed Mercury was parallel birth chart Mars in the Aquarian Age chart; progressed Mars was parallel Mercury in the Mars cycle; and progressed Sun was opposition Mars in the Sun cycle.
The United Kingdom’s central bank (Jupiter) raises (Jupiter) interest rates (house 2) to 1.75 percent to curb surging energy costs (Jupiter-Uranus) and soaring inflation (Neptune) . (It warned the country that a long recession was ahead.) Progressed Jupiter was parallel Moon and Neptune in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Sun was square Uranus in the Sun cycle.
August 5: Israel warplanes attack (Mars) Gaza killing at least 10 people including Taysir al-Jabari, a commander of the al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle.
China halts bilateral processes with the US in eight key areas including defence, narcotics, transnational crime and climate change. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky.
August 6: The UN’s nuclear watchdog (Pluto) calls for an immediate end to any military action (Mars) near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (Pluto), warning of a ‘very real risk of a nuclear disaster’. Russia seized the plant in March and on Friday (August 5) the site was seriously damaged by Russian military strikes (Mars).
And Israeli air strikes (Mars) pound Gaza for a second day while the militant Islamic Jihad group fires hundreds of rockets (Mars) into Israel. According to the health ministry in Gaza 24 Palestinians have been killed and at least 204 wounded since the shelling began.
And multiple Chinese ships and planes conduct missions (Mars) in the Taiwan Strait.
And a bomb blast (Mars) in a busy shopping street in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul kills at least eight people and injures 22.
And in Cuba a second fuel storage tank near a supertanker port in Matanzas explodes (Mars) following a blaze (Mars) started by a lightning strike (Uranus) on Friday (August 5). Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle.
August 7: Russia again shells (Mars) the Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine damaging three radiation sensors heightening fears (Saturn) of a radiation disaster (Mars). Mars was square Saturn and conjunction Uranus in the sky.
A truce (Jupiter) in hostilities (Mars) between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza goes into effect at 11.30pm local time. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Mars in the Jupiter cycle.
August 8: China’s Eastern Theatre Command announces fresh military drills in the seas and airspace around Taiwan.
And in Cuba a third crude storage tank at the country’s main oil terminal in Matanzas catches fire (Mars) and collapses in what is Cuba’s biggest oil industry accident (Mars) in decades. Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was parallel Uranus in the Mars cycle.
The FBI (house 12) executes a search warrant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence (house 4) with Federal Agents removing boxes of material from the property. It was a major escalation of the classified documents investigation and the first time (Uranus) in American history that a former president’s home (house 4) was searched as part of a criminal investigation (Pluto-house 12). Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Uranus in the Sun cycle.
The January 6, 2021 insurrection occurred with Mars conjunction Uranus in the sky. See Donald Trump’s chart progressed to August 8, 2022
And the South Korean capital, Seoul, is deluged with torrential rain (Saturn) – the worst in 80 years – that knocks out power, triggers landslides (Saturn) and floods (Saturn) homes and the city’s metro system. At least 7 people died and 6 are missing in the disaster (Mars). Mars was square Saturn and conjunction Uranus in the sky.
August 10: Sierra Leone imposes a nationwide curfew after a day of anti-government protests (Uranus). Protesters threw rocks and burned tyres and two police officers (Mars) and one civilian died in clashes.
And wildfires (Mars) tear through the Gironde region of southwestern France destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of 10,000 residents.
And the worst fire (Mars) in Cuba’s history that blazed for 5 days at the Matanzas oil terminal has been brought under control. Mars was conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky.
August 11: A first-of-its-kind satellite analysis (Uranus) shows that Antarctica’s coastal glaciers (Saturn-house 4) are shedding icebergs (Saturn) more rapidly (Mars) than nature can replenish the crumbling ice, doubling previous estimates of losses (Saturn) from the world’s largest ice sheet over the past 25 years. Mars was square Saturn and conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Sun was parallel Saturn and Uranus in the Sun cycle.
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant (Pluto) in southeastern Ukraine is again struck by shelling (Mars) with Moscow and Kyiv blaming each other. Mars was square Saturn and conjunction and parallel Uranus in the sky.
France’s ‘monster’ wildfire (Mars) rages for a third day. Mars was square Saturn and parallel Uranus in the sky.
Argentina’s annual inflation rate (Neptune) rises to 7.4% fuelled by price spikes and a currency rout. It’s the highest in two decades. And the Bank of Mexico raises (Jupiter) its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to a record 8.5 percent after inflation (Neptune) climbed to 8.15 percent, a 22 year high. Jupiter is conjunction Neptune in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Sun was inconjunct Jupiter in the Sun cycle.
August 12: In Juarez, Mexico, 11 people are killed in a prison riot (house 12-Mars-Uranus) and shootout (Mars) involving rival cartels (Neptune); in Montenegro 11 people are killed and six injured in a mass shooting (Mars-Pluto); and Indian-born novelist, Salmon Rushdie, is stabbed (Mars) onstage at a lecture in New York state. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was square Saturn and sextile Neptune in the Mars cycle.
August 13: With Mars conjunction Uranus in the sky much of Europe has faced successive heatwaves and weeks of baking temperatures; firefighters in France, Portugal and Spain have battled enormous wildfires; water levels of the Rhine River in Germany have depleted; parts of England are in severe drought; and the source of the Thames River has dried up.
August 14: A fire (Mars) tears through a packed Coptic Orthodox church near Egypt’s capital, Cairo, killing 41 worshippers including at least 10 children; and an explosion (Mars) rips through a fireworks (Mars) warehouse in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, killing at least five people and injuring dozens more. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was conjunction Mercury in the Mars cycle.
August 16: Explosions (Mars) at an ammunition storage facility in northern Crimea force the evacuation of more than 3,000 people and disrupt power supplies. Russia’s Defense Ministry blames saboteurs (house 12). Progressed Mars was trine Pluto in the Mars cycle.
Liz Cheney loses her bid to win re-election in the Wyoming Republican primary. See her chart progressed to August 16, 2022
August 17: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (house 2), the world’s largest, made a record loss (Saturn) of 1.68 trillion Norwegian crowns ($174bn) in the first half of 2022 as stocks and bonds (house 5) were hit by global recession fears (Saturn) and rampant price inflation (Neptune). Saturn was square Uranus in the sky; and progressed Pluto was parallel Saturn in the Pluto cycle.
August 18: The death toll from wildfires (Mars) burning in mountainous area of Algeria rises to 37 with at least 183 people injured. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was trine Pluto in the Mars cycle.
Powerful storms (Saturn) batter areas of central and southern Europe, killing at least 13 people. The storms follow weeks of heatwave and drought across much of the continent. Saturn was square Uranus in the sky.
The number of monkeypox (Mars) cases in America climbs to 13,500 – one-third of the global total. Mars was conjunction Uranus and Saturn was square Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was trine Pluto in the Mars cycle.
August 19: China issues its first national drought alert (Saturn) of the year as authorities across the Yangtze River basin battle forest fires (Mars) and mobilize specialist teams to protect crops from scorching temperatures (Mars). China’s National Meteorological Center also renews its high-temperature red alert (Mars) for the 30th consecutive day. Regions from Sichuan in the southwest to Shanghai in the Yangtze delta have experienced weeks of extreme heat. As many as 66 rivers across 34 counties in the southwestern region of Chongqing have dried up. Mars was conjunction Uranus and Saturn was square Uranus in the sky.
And in Pakistan tens of thousands of people are currently at the mercy of an exceptional (Uranus) monsoon season (Saturn) that is wreaking havoc with no respite on the horizon. Pakistan is ranked eighth among counties most vulnerable to climate change (Saturn) despite contributing less than one percent to global carbon emissions, according to the Climate Change Risk Index 2021. Saturn was square Uranus in the sky.
August 20/21: In Somalia fighters from the al-Shabab armed group (Mars-Pluto) unleash a gun and bomb attack (Mars) on the Hayat Hotel killing at least 13 civilians and wounding dozens more. Somali security forces ended a 30-hour siege (Pluto). Progressed Pluto was parallel Mars and Uranus in the Pluto cycle.
August 24: The World Food Programme says that the number of people facing acute food insecurity (Saturn) worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million since 2019 due to the covid-19 pandemic (Saturn), conflict (Mars) and climate change (Saturn). Progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Saturn in the Aquarian Age chart.
People across South Africa take part in a nationwide strike (Uranus) in protest (Uranus) against the rising cost of living. They are frustrated by rising unemployment (house 6), increasing food and fuel costs (Jupiter), and daily power outages (Uranus). The largest rallies took place in Cape Town and Pretoria. Progressed Uranus was semisquare Moon in the Uranus cycle. (Uranus is conjunction Moon in the cycle’s birth chart.)
Six months after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine the war has its own character with the invaders being met with strong opposition and both sides inflicting heavy destruction and suffering heavy losses and casualties.
August 26: Pakistan’s government declares a national (flood) emergency (Mars-Saturn). Progressed Saturn was sesquisquare Mars in the Saturn cycle. Since June destructive monsoon floods (Saturn) have destroyed the lives of millions. Over 900 people have died. Saturn was square Uranus in the sky.
Thousands of postal workers (house 3) in the UK launch a series of strikes (Uranus) over pay, as the cost-of-living crisis prompts mass industrial action in numerous sectors. Progressed Uranus was semisquare Moon in the Uranus cycle.
August 29: The death toll from catastrophic monsoon flooding (Saturn) in Pakistan rises to 1,136 as the country is overwhelmed by the scale of the disaster (Mars). Progressed Saturn was sesquisquare Mars and semisquare Saturn in the Saturn cycle.
Tensions soar as deadly violence (Mars) erupts in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, amid protests (Uranus) by followers of powerful leader Muqtada al-Sadr. A political crisis (Sun) has left the country without a new government for 10 months. At least 30 people were killed and hundreds more wounded. Gunfire rang out in the Green Zone after al-Sadr followers stormed the government palace. Progressed Uranus was semisquare Moon in the Uranus cycle; and progressed Pluto was parallel Mars and Uranus in the Pluto cycle.
August 30: The war (Mars) in Ukraine grinds on and fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray war erupts along a new front near Sudan after a ceasefire collapsed last week. Progressed Saturn was sesquisquare Mars in the Saturn cycle.
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