On April 13, 2026 at 5.31am GMT Mars is conjunction Neptune in the sky.
January 8, 2026: Security forces in Iran launch a brutal crackdown on protestors with an estimated 30,000 people killed; and on February 3, an American F-35C fighter jet from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln shoots down an Iranian drone to protect the carrier and personnel on board. It had been sent to the region after Donald Trump demanded Iran make concessions with its nuclear program. Mars was conjunction Pluto in the sky.
February 28, 2026: America and Israel attack Iran killing Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Mars was square Uranus in the sky.
The conflict’s astro-parent is progressed Mars sesquisquare progressed Uranus in the Aquarian Age chart and it seems that the in-sky Mars-Uranus square played a stimulus role in timing the conflict.
Since then the war has expanded with Iran launching attacks on its Gulf neighbors and Israel launching attacks on Lebanon. True to Uranus the conflict has become complicated and unpredictable.
According to Donald Trump the war is all about protecting the world from Iran’s nuclear weapons. It’s an idealistic Saturn-Neptune international security issue.
In April 2026 the in-sky Mars-Neptune conjunction merges their mundane matters here on Earth bringing them into prominence.
Mars rules war and violent destruction and Neptune rules oil, aviation, inflation, stocks, uncertainty and chaos.
The Mars-Neptune conjunction is in Aries – the sign of military activity – and is conjunction Mercury (talk and controversy), semisquare Venus (peace moves and women), conjunction Saturn (safety issues and the destruction of buildings), sextile Uranus (shocks and unexpected developments) and sextile Pluto (cooperation and propaganda).
It maps the next phase of the Middle East conflict and with the inner-plane astral atmosphere saturated in Mars energy an end to the hostilities is unlikely.
It starts March 28 and ends May 4, 2026 and forecasts two or three major events of international significance: and an event of national importance as indicated by its house position in a nation’s Mars-Neptune conjunction chart.
It forecasts war, an escalation in the fighting in conflict zones, oil refineries on fire, oil supply disruption, an oil price rise shock, galloping inflation, attacks on air ports, plane crashes etc.
There are 195 countries and each has its own Mars-Neptune conjunction chart which operates in its unique political, economic and cultural environment.
No country has the Mars-Neptune conjunction in house 1.
Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Bolivia have it in house 2 > major events involve and affect financial transactions, treasury, banks and affect the wealth and personal property of the people.
America, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and Cuba have it in house 3 > major events involve and affect road and rail transportation, communications, phones, emails, postal services, newspapers, public thinking and neighbor countries.
No country has the Mars-Neptune conjunction in house 4 or 5.
New Zealand, Fiji and Vanuatu have it in house 6 > major events involve and affect labor, employees, civil servants, police, harvest, stored grains, food, restaurants and illness.
Japan, Australia and Tuvalu have it in 7 > major events involve war, disputes, foreign policy, international relations and enemies.
Japan’s Mars-Neptune conjunction chart
Chart data is April 13, 2026 at 2.31pm JST (35N42; 139E46)
China, Indonesia, Philippines and North and South Korea have the Mars-Neptune conjunction in house 8 > major events involve and affect tariffs, taxes, pensions, insurance, debts due from foreign countries, death and the death rate.
Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam have it in house 9 > major events involve and affect trade, import-expert, shipping, aviation, tourism, religion, the law, Supreme Court, teaching, radio, television and internet.
Israel, Iran, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan have it in house 10 > major events involve and affect their leaders who’ll be taking aggressive action but are in serious danger. These nations are the ones to watch. The Israel and Iran charts are identical.
Iran’s Mars-Neptune conjunction chart
Chart data is April 13, 2026 at 9.01 IRST (35N40; 51E26)
Ukraine, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Gaza, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen, Sudan, Senegal and South Africa have the Mars-Neptune conjunction in house 11 > major events involve and affect parliament, parliamentarians and ambassadors sent to foreign countries.
Spain, DR Congo and Libya have it in house 12 > major events involve and affect secret activity, secret deals, undercover operations, spy agencies, spies, crime, criminal activity, secret enemies, prisons, incarceration, hospitals, nursing homes, charitable institutions, refugees, asylum seekers, detention centers, disappointment and restriction.
The next Mars-Neptune conjunction will occur March 28, 2028 at 12.43am GMT in Aries.
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