Israel is a modern country and so it has an accurate birthtime. The downside is that there are three birthtimes. Fortunately these times are all`within an 8 hour period. I have a birthtime that is half way between the first and the second which I prefer and when we look at the attacks of October 7 you will see why.

Israel 4pm

Currently Israel is much in the news because of the attack by Hamas on October 7 and the ongoing war with the Gaza Strip. This incident illustrates that the effects of Neptune are still quite prominent. Israel has what is probably the best intelligence service in the world and the Gaza Strip is one of the more heavily surveilled regions and still the Israeli government missed this attack which had been two years in planning according to Sky News; also Hamas had trial runs in the preceding weeks which were not noticed by Israeli intelligence. And they were warned several days in advance by Egypt and the United States — which also has a well developed intelligence service — that something big was coming. This intelligence failure was so large that some conspiracy theorists have suggested that Israel wanted this attack to happen so they would have an excuse to go into Gaza with big weapons. So October 7 illustrates the delusions of Neptune writ large.

Israel 4:17pm

But there is also something called “The Fog of War” which occurs in every war since it is difficult to see the truth with so many conflicting opinions and a tendency by each belligerent to slant their own truth in a way that is beneficial to them. I thought the ongoing conflict in Ukraine was very foggy, but this current conflict in the Levant far outdoes that war in the fog arena. But again, this is strongly Neptune.

Israel 4:32pm

So here are the three possibly charts for Israel. The first for May 14, 1948 is for the start of a speech declaring the state of Israel at 4 pm; the second is for the end of that speech at 4:32PM; the third is midnight the following day, May 15, when Britain gave up control of that area. For reasons that will be clear later, I prefer a time of 4:17PM on that same day.

Israel Midnight

There are three incidents that we will look at: the Hamas attack early in October, the Six-Day War of 1967, and the Yon Kippur War (also known as the October War), which lasted some twenty days, in 1973. Those last two are by now ancient history, but Israel astrologers consider them shown by that Israeli chart.

Let’s first look at the most recent event, one that is being referred to as Israel’s 9/11 and I’m sure the date October 7 or 7.10 (like much of the world Israel uses day first in dates) will be immortalized in that nation’s history. At 6:35 in the morning the airraid sirens announced the initial attack by Hamas on a music festival or rave and so that is the time we used for this event. I’m still seeing conflicting accounts of what exactly happened but the time is what counts. Perhaps in the future people will look back at this event as they now note the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 110 years ago.

Attack on Israel 4:17 chart

It is true of this chart and in fact all charts set in this period that Uranus is conjunct the Sun of Israel. Uranus is about one degree away and since it is retrograde it is separating. Was this a Uranian event? With Uranus expect the unexpected.

At the end of August 2023 Uranus went stationary retrograde at about one-half degree from the Israel Sun, which is the same no matter what chart you use. On October 7 Uranus was a little over a degree from the natal Sun. One suggested meaning of this transit is “expect surprises” and that is certainly what happened. Uranus Sun contacts suggest change and upset, things that we are seeing right now. But note that there was much protest before October 7 because the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was attempting to make the Israeli Supreme Court subservient to the Knesset (Israel’s unicameral legislative body – unlike every US state but Nebraska Israel does not have a bicameral legislature) instead of its equal. And currently there are many citizen who charge Netanyahu with bad response to these attacks.

Here is the chart of Israel with the transits for 6:35; the only difference between the four possible natal charts is the angles and with the 4:17 chart Mars for this incident is exactly on the Ascendant. This position exactly describes what happened — an attack with violence (Mars) aimed at the self-image (Ascendant) of Israel. In addition this natal chart puts Pluto opposite the MC and thus conjunct the IC — the foundation of Israel. Remember on 9/11 the United States had Pluto on the Ascendant so we can see where the idea of 7.10 being Israel’s 9/11 comes from.

Six Day War

The Six Day War was in the Sixties and we can see the familiar Uranus-Pluto conjunction in the eleventh house. Venus, the lesser benefic, is conjunct the MC and Jupiter, the greater benefic, is conjunct the Moon so we can expect that this war will be short and successful for the Israelis. This was indeed the case. Israel was attacked by Egypt and other Arab countries and as a result Israel took possession of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. However, note Neptune opposite the Sun at a little over one degree. This suggests that the government of Israel was a bit deluded about the meaning and outcome of the war. One can see the connection between that war and the current one because of of the areas in play now were captured then.

Yom Kippur War

For the Yom Kippur War the natal Venus — the judiciary — seems to be the focus of interest. Not only is Pluto square Venus but Saturn is conjunct the natal Venus; so there is a Saturn-Pluto square that is almost exact. Saturn-Pluto hard aspects are not favorable (a Saturn-Pluto conjunciton was at the start o the Covid crisis), especially when the are configured with the natal chart. If we look at the 4pm chart we find Uranus on the Ascendant within a quarter degree.

In the upcoming years we will see in Israel as well as the Western world a developing split between what I call the Pluto Jews — represented by the government of Israel and Zionism – and the Uranus Jews – represented by groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace. As a result of this split seen around the world we may possibly see true democracy for the first time in history

Note the connections between this period — what I’ve called the Sixth Crisis — and the previous Fifth Crisis which was World War II. The Nazis were obviously quite important during the Fifth Crisis. But at this time we see that the concept of ” nazis ” is increasingly becoming prominent. Not only were the citizens of Israel traumatized by the horror inflicting by the original Nazis, but they have called Hames Nazis, while some think that the behavior of Israel’s government is like that of the Nazis. And in fact one Israel polymath — Yeshayahu Leibowitz — has warned of Judeo-Nazi behavior among the Zionists.

Suggested reading. Since one of the elements of this blog is history, I find that a real problem is that many are not aware of the history of any given case. For Israel and Palestine a fairly short and comprehensive history is found in the book Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian, which contains references to many source documents for a situation that has been developing for hundreds of years.

Uranus-Pluto Square

Something changed in Israel about 10 yeas ago according to people who live there which has led up to the current Netanyahu government which we are repeatedly told is the most “right-wing” in Israeli history. This is when there was the Uranus Pluto Square the effected the whole world. In Israel’s case Uranus was opposite the natal Neptune and Pluto was square that same Neptune, thus making a T-square between the outer planets though a hybrid one combining both natal and transiting points. These days most of the younger Israels are acting very jingoistic while the dissenters are mostly older Israelis who remember the older Israel that had socialist roots.

As another example of how Neptune plays such a prominent role in this conflict, consider that the Jews have PTSD from, most recently and most intense, the Holocaust during World War II. People with PTSD tend the overreact to minor threats, and in this case the Palestinians now too have PTSD from their treatment starting with their expulsion from their native lands — called the Nakba — in 1948. So we have two groups of people both of which have PTSD — not a good situation. Recently psychedelic drugs have been suggested as helpful to people with PTSD. In fact several cities and states in the United States have legalize psychedelic drugs for treatment of disorders. So perhaps a solution to this middle east problem is widespread use of psychedelic drugs in Israel and Palestine or as Bob Dylan said “Everybody must get stoned”.

15 years of Israeli History

Looking at the next few years for Israel shows many challenges coming up for the country as can be seen by the graphical ephemeris. Pluto squared the Ascendant-Descendant axis in 2019 and 2020 and that planet goes on to oppose the Midheaven in 2020,2021, and 2022 (1). These are the years that Israel became a laboratory of Pfizer and their vaccines. Finally Pluto will oppose the Moon of Israel in 2025,2026,2027 (2). This is a difficult decade for Israel even without considering the general problems the world will face as has been outlines here for months. The response to the events of October 7 will continue to plague the government and the people of Israel for the rest of this decade. Following these transits Israel will undergo the Pluto demi-return in 2030 through 2032 (3). Notice that it took the United States 250 year to see its Pluto Return, while Israel has a demi-return in only 82 years, one third of the time for the US instead of half as one would expect. This is because Israel was born while Pluto was speeding up as it moved closer to the Sun in its very elliptical orbit so the last 80 years have seen the fastest motion of Pluto. The US had its Pluto demi-return in the Thirties when the Great Depression was happening and there were many radicals organizing against the government Israel will also get a Neptune demi-return in 2029 and 2030 (4). Israel is undergoing some similar transits to the United States only a few years later but still in this decade in which many important global events are happening to all countries of the world.

And finally we will close this blog post with some singing from Israeli children: