Event forecast period was July 25 – September 9, 2024
July 15: In Florida Judge Aileen Cannon (Jupiter-house 9) dismisses the US justice department’s classified documents case against Donald Trump on the grounds that special council Jack Smith was improperly appointed.
The International Court of Justice (Jupiter) in a 12-3 ruling finds that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end ‘as rapidly as possible’. It found that Israel is forcibly displacing Palestinians from their lands, exploiting water sources, annexing large swaths of the occupied territory ‘by force’ and is violating the right of Palestinians to ‘self-determination’.
In Bangladesh the Supreme Court (Jupiter-house 9) rolls back most of the controversial quotas on government jobs which sparked violent student protests (Mars-Uranus) for two weeks.
In California the largest wildfire (Mars) in the US swells to over 600 square miles, bigger than the city of Los Angeles, as more than 5,500 firefighters (Mars) battle the blaze (Mars) in a wilderness area north of Sacramento. Mars was conjunction Uranus in the sky; and progressed Mars was conjunction birth chart Saturn and progressed Moon was trine progressed Mars in the Aquarian Age chart.
August 1: In Washington the White House announces that the US has negotiated (Jupiter) the biggest prisoner (house 12) exchange of its kind since the end of the Cold War involving 24 prisoners with 16 moving from Russia to the West and eight held in the West being sent back to Russia.
August 4: In war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a ceasefire (Jupiter) between Congolese government troops and rebels from the M23 group begins.
In Gaza an Israeli airstrike hit two schools (house 5) and a tent camp inside a hospital (house 12) in Gaza City killing at least 44 people the day after a round of talks (Jupiter) in Cairo ended without result.
In the Gulf of Aden the MV Groton, a Liberian-flagged container ship (Jupiter), is attacked by ballistic missiles (Mars) fired by Yemen’s Houthi armed group.
August 5: In Bangladesh the hated dictator Sheikh Hasina (Mars-Pluto) resigns and flees (Saturn) to India following weeks of deadly protests (Uranus) that saw hundreds of people killed. Jubilant crowds (Jupiter) took to the streets to celebrate and stormed the presidential residence, carrying out looted (Pluto) furniture and TVs.
Global stock markets (Neptune-house 5) have plummeted (Saturn) in recent days and markets in the US, Europe and Asia again fall (Saturn) sharply as fears (Saturn) rose that the American economy is heading for a slowdown (Saturn).
In a landmark court decision (house 9) a judge (Jupiter) in America rules that Google (Pluto) acted illegally to crush its competition (house 7) and maintain a monopoly (Pluto) on online search and related advertising (house 9).
August 9: In Washington the US State Department says it will provide Israel with $3.5 billion (Jupiter) to spend on US weapons and military equipment (Mars).
August 10: In Gaza more than 80 Palestinians are killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike (Mars) on a school sheltering displaced people (Saturn) that was carried out during early morning prayers (Jupiter).
August 11: In Greece a fast-moving wildfire (Mars) outside Athens fuelled by hot, windy weather burns trees, houses and cars and forces residents to flee.
August 13: The United States approves the sale (Jupiter) of $20 billion (Jupiter) in F-15 fighter jets and other military equipment (Mars) to Israel over several years including tank cartridges (Mars) valued at $774 million, explosive mortar cartridges (Mars) valued at over $60 million and army vehicles (Mars) worth $583 million.
In India thousands of doctors (Mars) march in Kolkata and the surrounding West Bengal state to denounce (Uranus) the rape and murder (Mars) of a trainee medic at a government-run hospital (house 12), demanding justice (Saturn) for the victim and better security measures (Saturn).
August 15: In Gaza the Palestinian death toll in the war surpasses 40,000 according to Gaza’s Health Ministry with over 27,000 women and children killed. It’s considered an undercount with 10,000 people missing buried under rubble.
August 17: In India hospitals and clinics (house 12) turn away patients except for emergency cases as medical professionals (house 6) hold a 24-hour national wide shutdown (Pluto) in protest (Uranus) against the brutal rape (Mars) and murder of a doctor (Mars) in the eastern city of Kolkata.
August 18: In Libya the Tripoli-based central bank (Jupiter), the only internationally recognised depository for Libyan oil revenues (house 2), shuts down all operations and will not resume work until a kidnapped (Pluto) senior bank official (Jupiter) is released.
August 19: At Sabina Shoal, about 140km (86 miles) west of the Philippine Island of Palawan, ships (Jupiter) from China and the Philippines collide (Mars) during a confrontation (Mars) in the disputed (Mars) South China Sea, with each blaming the other for the incident.
The British registered luxury yacht, Bayesian, (Jupiter) with 22 passengers on board capsizes (Mars) in an unexpected violent storm (Saturn) off the Sicilian capital Palermo with one man dead and six others missing.
August 21: In one of the largest ever drone attacks (Mars) on Moscow Ukraine launches at least 11 drones that were shot down by Russian air defenses. The war escalated on August 6 when Ukraine sent thousands of soldiers (Mars) over the border into Russia’s western Kursk region.
August 25: In Lebanon Hezbollah launches more than 320 Katyusha rockets (Mars) towards Israel hitting 11 military targets (Mars) in retaliation for the assassination of a senior commander in Beirut in July. Israeli jets hit targets in Lebanon shortly before the strikes.
In northeast and southwest Pakistan at least 34 people including 12 pilgrims (Jupiter) are killed in two bus accidents (Mars).
In Iraq more than 21 million Shia Muslims take part in the Arbaeen pilgrimage (Jupiter) marking the 40th day of mourning (Saturn) for the martyrdom (Pisces) of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed and a founding figure in Shia Islam.
In the Netherlands thousands of people gather to celebrate their red hair (Mars) at the annual Redhead Days Festival (Mars-Jupiter) in the southern town of Tilburg.
August 29: In Gaza Israel agrees to a series of ‘humanitarian pauses’ (Jupiter-Pluto) to allow for the vaccination (Saturn) of around 64,000 children (house 5) against polio (Mars).
August 30: In the Red Sea on August 21 the Sounion, a Greek-flagged vessel (Jupiter), was struck by three unidentified projectiles (Mars) fired by Houthi militants, which sparked a fire (Mars) and left it without engine power.
A polio vaccination campaign (Saturn) begins in Gaza.
September 3: In Ukraine at least 50 people are killed and 271 wounded when Russian ballistic missiles (Mars) strike an educational facility and hospital (house 12) in central Ukraine’s Poltava city; and in Gaza Israeli forces (Mars) kill at least 35 Palestinians (but brief pauses in fighting allowed medics to conduct a third day of polio vaccinations for children).
In Brazil firefighters (Mars) succeed in reducing the extent of a massive wildfire (Mars) that blazed for two days and destroyed 20% of a forest in the Brazilian capital.
In Papua New Guinea more than 30,00 people (Pluto) pack a venue to celebrate a holy mass held by Pope Francis (Jupiter) on his three-day visit.
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