10 March 2026
During these days of troubling developments around the world, many people are looking for ways to make sense of it all. The war in Iran is a prominent case in point: what are the forces behind such craziness? Here is a perspective on the early days of the war in the Middle East. Longer-term outcomes are uncertain, but eventually a turn for the better is possible. We all need to take care of ourselves, align with others who share our values, and not cede hope to despair…
Israel and the United States launched full-blown war against Iran on 28 February 2028. Here are the charts for the war from each of the countries’ start times:
Three Horizons, One War
The Takeaway: Each of the the three nation’s individual perspective is reflected by the different local time at which war began, ie the chart Ascendant (rising sign) – the “window” we look out of, and through which others see us. It is also the determinant of the astrological houses for that chart, or the specific activity areas of life. Each country’s particular horizon therefore distributes the cosmic forces into different astrological houses, producing three fundamentally different wars within the same war.
The astrology: It all happened on the same day, just at different times based on time zone differences. So all three nations share the same sky on February 28, 2026. One of the most striking parts of all their charts is the the four-planet combination in Aquarius — Sun and Rahu (the eclipse-causing north node of the Moon) in near-exact conjunction, Venus and Mercury retrograde conjunct within one arc minute – and flanked by exalted Mars conjunct Pluto in Capricorn and an exact Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Pisces.
The Arc from Mars to Saturn
The Takeaway: The war machine is bounded on one side by maximum martial effectiveness and on the other by maximum institutional dissolution. Or put another way, the war begins at the peak of force. It concludes where structure dissolves.
The astrology: We can see that the active planets of this chart form a continuous arc spanning roughly 42 degrees across three signs, from Mars at Capricorn 25°21’ to Saturn at Pisces 7°25’, with the entire Aquarius cluster (or “stellium” in astrology terms) and the Saturn/Neptune conjunction suspended between them. The arc has a leading edge and a trailing boundary, and they could not be more opposed in quality. Mars (the god of war) in Capricorn is exalted at its highest dignity, its most disciplined and architecturally precise expression of force. Saturn in Pisces is at its most structurally unreliable, its institutional authority dissolving into Neptune’s fog.
This inversion is worth pausing on. Mars and Saturn are the traditional malefics — the planets of force and constraint — and in a well-ordered chart they work in concert: Saturn’s structural framework governs the domain within which Mars executes. Both planets share Capricorn as a natural home (Saturn rules it; Mars is exalted there), the sign where disciplined force, institutional authority, and manifest change are most naturally aligned. But at the present time, the natural order is inverted. Reading the arc from front to back traces something close to a plot: (i) exalted martial will launches the campaign; (ii) the ideological eclipse (Sun/Rahu) and communication reversal (Venus/Mercury retrograde) of the Aquarius stellium define its middle; and (iii) at the far boundary, the Saturn/Neptune conjunction — institutional form in the arms of its own undoing — shows how it ends.
What the 3 Countries’ Ascendants Reveal
From Tehran:
The Takeaway: Iran fights primarily through the frame of collective sacred mission — the IRGC is an ideological vanguard, not only an instrument of the state.
The astrology: Tehran’s Aries Ascendant hands rulership of the chart overall to Mars (Mars rules Aries). In whole-sign house terms, Mars is exalted in Capricorn in the 10th house alongside Pluto — the chart ruler is thus at its highest dignity at the governmental (Capricorn) apex, military and state fused into one. In addition to whole-sign houses, we can see through a Sripati house system some added dimension (look how the houses and signs in the chart largely overlap but don’t exactly conincide): Pluto remains in the 10th (the deep institutional power of the state), while Mars shifts into the 11th, joining the Sun, Rahu, Venus, and retrograde Mercury – in other words, the Islamic Republic’s military will is not simply identical to its institutional apparatus. The exalted Mars in the 11th aligns the war’s martial drive with the ideological and alliance network, the societal sense of evolution. Pluto alone in the 10th names what actually governs the regime’s structural power: the slow, transformative weight of the deep state. Saturn and Neptune remain in the 12th under both house systems – the house of material dissolution and loss, their exact conjunction quietly eroding the structural foundations beneath the martial confidence above.
From Israel:
The Takeway: The war is Israel’s identity, not something that happens to it from outside. Israel’s deepest popular resource is not just its recent penchant for conflict, but rather a capacity for strategic learning and driven by its indomitable will to survive.
The astrology: Tel Aviv’s Aquarius Ascendant at 19°30’ places the Aquarius stellium in the 1st house under both house systems: Mars and Pluto remain in the 12th in both — exalted military force operating entirely in concealment, the covert signature of Mossad operations and intelligence-driven strikes. Saturn and Neptune hold the 2nd house in both systems, their exact conjunction dissolving the financial resources and official speech of a nation whose public narrative cannot keep pace with events. The single whole-sign-versus-Sripati shift here is the Moon, which moves from the 6th house (whole-sign: the people in the domain of conflict and military service) to the 5th (Sripati: alongside retrograde Jupiter). This is a meaningful refinement, bringing a broader 5th-6th house combined interpretation: whole-sign (6th house) would place the Israeli population at the front line of the war’s daily operational reality, while Sripati suggests the people’s emotional ground belongs just as much to the 5th house sense of creative intelligence and accumulated merit.
From the United States of America:
The Takeaway: The moral authority that once made American power legitimate in the eyes of the world is in advanced dissolution.
The astrology: Washington’s Scorpio Ascendant describes a power that fights through concealment and intelligence precision. In whole-sign houses, exalted Mars and Pluto both occupy the 3rd house of tactical operations, the Sun–Rahu–Venus–Mercury Rx stellium fills the 4th house of domestic foundations, and Saturn–Neptune occupies the 5th. The single Sripati shift is decisive: Mars moves from the 3rd house into the 4th, joining the entire Aquarius stellium, and only Pluto remains alone in the 3rd. The implication is precise: America’s raw martial will — the decision to deploy force — is domestically driven, being in the same 4th house of political institutional pressure that houses the Sun–Rahu eclipse and the retrograde Venus–Mercury communication reversal. What operates as a genuinely independent force, answerable to its own operational logic rather than to domestic political imperatives, is Pluto alone in the 3rd: the pure surveillance and intelligence architecture, NSA’s listening function, the covert capabilities that precede and outlast any particular administration’s political calculations. Ketu conjunct the Leo Midheaven (our outermost presentation to the world), unchanged in both systems speaks to the dissolution of American political “legitimacy.”
The Final Word (for now)
The as-yet unpredictable outcome of the current situation – aside from the obvious and deepening chaos we are currently witnessing – is still unknown. One might surmise certain possibilities from the foregoing discussion, but as events continue to unfold, more precise developments (or at least the direction of them) will become clearer. Stay tuned…