Event forecast period was March 23 – April 28, 2024
March 22: In Russia at least 137 people are killed (house 8) and 145 wounded when gunmen (Mars) open fire with automatic weapons (Mars) on concertgoers (house 5) near Moscow in one of the deadliest attacks (Mars), in decades.
March 25: The United Nations Security Council (Pluto-Saturn) adopts a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire (Saturn) between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas after the United States abstained from the vote.
March 26: In America a massive cargo ship crippled by a loss of power (Saturn) rams into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending it crashing (Mars) into the Patapsco River.
In South Africa a bus taking Easter pilgrims from Botswana to the northern province of Limpopo plunges of a ravine (Mars) killing 45 people.
In Madagascar Cyclone Gamane wrecks destruction killing eleven people and washing away houses and roads.
March 30: Sudan slips into famine (Saturn) as warring sides (Mars) starve civilians. It’s a humanitarian disaster and according to a UN backed global authority on food security immediate action is needed to ‘prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods and avert a catastrophic hunger crisis’.
April 1: In Iran seven officers (Mars) of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are killed in an Israeli strike (Mars) on the Iranian consulate building in Damascus: And Doctors Without Borders aka MSF says Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital is ‘in ruins’ (Mars), a day after Israeli troops (Mars) withdrew (Saturn) from the complex following a two-week raid (Mars).
In Gaza an Israeli air strike (Mars) kills seven aid workers (Jupiter-house 12) from Australian, Poland, UK and Palestine who worked with the World Central Kitchen charity (house 12).
In Venezuela firefighters (Mars) are battling a record number of wildfires (Mars) as a climate change-driven drought (Saturn) plagues the Amazon rainforest region.
April 2: In Turkey at least 29 people are killed when a fire (Mars) engulfs Istanbul’s underground Masquerade nightclub (house 5).
North Korea fires a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile (Mars) into the sea off its east coast.
April 3: Taiwan is rocked by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake (Saturn-house 4) – the strongest in 25 years – that toppled buildings, collapsed tunnels, caused landslides (Saturn) and killed at least 9 people and injured more than 900.
In Ecuador former Vice president Jorge Glas (Sun), who has been holed up (Saturn) in Mexico’s embassy seeking political asylum since December, is arrested and seized (Mars) after Mexico granted his request. Mexico suspends bilateral relations.
April 8: In Russia an emergency (Mars) is declared in the Orenburg region near Kazakhstan after swiftly melting snow triggered the worst recorded flooding (Saturn) in Russia’s Ural Mountains, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes as some of Europe’s biggest rivers (Pisces) swelled to bursting point. Swathes of Orsk, a city of 230,000 about 1,800 km (1,100 miles) east of Moscow, have been left submerged.
In Colombia, the capital Bogota will start rationing water this week to alleviate droughts (Saturn) wrought by the El Nino weather pattern, which has exacerbated the Andean country’s dry season and caused reservoir levels to fall (Saturn).
April 9: According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service the world just experienced its warmest (Mars) March on record, the 10th straight month of historic heat, as sea surface temperatures also hit a new high. Vast tracts of the planet from parts of Africa to Greenland and South America to Antarctica endured above-average temperatures during the month.
In Russia and Kazakhstan torrential rain (Saturn) and swiftly melting snow (Mars-Saturn) overwhelms scores of settlements in the Ural Mountains and Siberia forcing more than 100,000 people to evacuate. Rivers are bursting in the worst flooding (Saturn) in the area for at least 70 years.
April 12: In Myanmar civilians are fleeing (Saturn) the strategically vital town of Myawaddy near Thailand after it fell (Saturn) to anti-junta resistance (Uranus) that is gaining strength (Mars).
In Russia’s Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan the deluge of melt (Saturn) continues. In the Russian city of Orenburg thousands of residents evacuate immediately due to rapidly rising flood waters (Saturn).
In Australia six people including five women (Venus) are killed and 12 injured in a stabbing rampage (Mars) at a shopping mall in Sydney’s beachside suburb of Bondi.
April 13-14: In its first ever direct attack (Mars) on Israeli territory Iran launches over 300 aerial drones (Neptune) and missiles (Mars) with the salvo expected to reach its ‘specified targets’ at 2.00am on Sunday (April 14).
April 12-14: In Afghanistan heavy rains and flash flooding (Saturn) kill at least 33 people; and in central Indonesia heavy rainfall and landslides kill at least 15 people.
April 14: In America an investigative analysis of the political situation by a Washington Post reporter concludes that ‘voters think the nation is going off the rails, not just in their own state’.
April 15, 2024: People living in the Russia’s Kurgan and Tyumen regions are evacuating and swaths of northern Kazakhstan are flooded (Saturn) as the Tobol River swells with meltwater and bursts its banks; and in Tanzania from April 1 to April 14, 2024, there were 58 deaths caused by the heavy rains (Saturn), which led to flooding.
April 16: Torrential rain (Saturn) lashes Pakistan and Afghanistan causing flash flooding and landslides (Saturn), destroying homes and killing at least 100 people; in Oman heavy rains and flash floods kill at least 18 people; and in Denmark a fire (Mars) engulfs Copenhagen’s Borson, an historic 17th-century Dutch Renaissance building (Saturn), causing its spire to collapse onto the roof.
April 17: In Dubai the heaviest rainfall in 75 years causes flooding (Saturn) and chaos (Neptune) with flights cancelled and delayed at Dubai International Airport (house 9-Neptune).
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which stretches for some 2,300km (1,429 miles) off the country’s northeastern coast, is suffering its worst bleaching event (Mars-Saturn) on record.
April 18: The United States vetoes (Pluto) a draft resolution at the UN Security Council (UNSC) which recommended granting the State of Palestine full membership in the United Nations. Twelve countries voted in favor of the resolution, which was introduced by Algeria, while the United Kingdom and Switzerland abstained.
According to a study by World Weather Attribution (WWA) human-caused climate change contributed to an unusually intense and lethal hot spell (Mars) throughout West Africa’s Sahel region between from April 1 and April 5 when the temperatures in Mali and Burkina Faso reached 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).
April 19: Israel launches a minimal (Saturn) strike (Mars) on Iran in retaliation (Mars) to Iran’s massive drone and missile attack (Mars) on April 14.
In Myanmar fighting rages (Mars) at the border with Thailand forcing 3,000 civilians (Moon-house 1) to flee (Saturn) as rebels fight to flush out Myanmar junta troops (Mars) holed up for days at a bridge border crossing; and the ruling military junta declares a law governing mandatory military service will be enforced for men ages 18 to 35 and women ages 18 to 27 for up to two years.
April 22: North Korea fires a ballistic missile (Mars) and carries out its first nuclear counterattack drills to simulate its ‘nuclear trigger’ management system (Saturn).
In China 110,000 people have been evacuated (Saturn) from their homes (house 4) in Guangdong, as days of heavy rain caused massive flooding in China’s most populous province.
In Tanzania flooding and landslides (Saturn) caused by weeks of heavy rain (Saturn) have killed 155 people and injured 236 others; in Kenya roads in the capital Nairobi turn into rivers as days of heavy rain (Saturn) cause extreme flooding with 32 lives lost and 40,000 forced to evacuate their homes; and in Nigeria overnight heavy rains destroy parts of a prison facility (house 12) near the capital, Abuja with more than 100 inmates escaping.
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