IS REVOLUTION BREWING IN IRAN?

Why has there been such a popular uprising over the June 15th election results?  Because it was physically impossible for millions of paper ballots to have been counted the same day as the election (when the results were announced) or even within a week after it.  The astrology of the election that day reveals that transiting Uranus (its position in the sky) was conjunct Iran’s Mars and Mercury.  This is the first time since the birth of the Islamic Republic that Uranus has conjoined these planets and the Uranus-Mars conjunction is a classical indicator of revolution or rebellion.  Transiting Uranus conjunct Iran’s Mars, which began in 2008 and will continue through early 2011, symbolizes not just domestic demonstrations but also the nation’s belligerent, defiant attitude toward the international community.  Although Iran is a very independent country because its Sun is in Aries and its Mercury and Mars are in a grand trine with Uranus and Jupiter (the latter are very autonomous planets), transiting Uranus in this grand trine is now manifesting the country’s innate independent qualities even stronger.

Iran was born at a time when Venus, Ceres, Mars and Mercury were in Pisces, a religious, sometimes fanatical sign that also symbolizes oil, so it is no surprise that Iran contains one of the world’s largest reserves.  It is also delimited by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman on the south and by the Caspian Sea on the north (Pisces is a water sign).  Venus is symbolic of wealth and resources so this is another indicator of the country’s great wealth of oil (because Venus is exalted in Pisces) but Saturn opposite Venus indicates that there are restrictions on who they can sell it to and that their refining capacity is limited.  An interesting similarity of Iran’s chart with the U.S. birth chart is that both nations have a Mars-Neptune square, meaning that both are self-righteous, idealistic, and believe that their actions are motivated by high moral grounds (when, in reality, both are often hypocritical).

In comparing the U.S. birth chart with Iran’s, the Iranian T-square is focused on the position of U.S. Uranus, with the most problematic aspect being Iran’s Saturn in a very strong square (less than one degree) to U.S. Uranus.  This means that Iran’s conservative, fundamentalist (Saturn) theocratic government is at odds with the U.S. notion of freedom and liberty.  One manifestation of Iran’s Saturn in the U.S. 10th house is the attempt of the Iranian government to shift the blame (a typical Saturn tactic) to the U.S. government, saying that the U.S. and other foreign nations fomented the demonstrations after the election.  Iran’s Saturn in the U.S. 10th house also means that they fear being controlled by our government.  Given the amount of our debt securities and real estate China owns and controls (my next column will be about China’s chart and how it compares with the U.S. chart), China is likely to protect Iran, which is now China’s second largest oil supplier.  There are already strong trade links between these countries, the most recent example being a $4.7 billion deal with a Chinese firm to develop an offshore Iranian gas reserve (Reuters, June 3, 2009).

Another interesting set of aspects between Iran and the U.S. chart is Iran’s Sun is square the U.S. Sun and Jupiter and Iran’s Pluto is conjunct U.S. Saturn and square U.S. Sun.  These aspects are classical signatures of the huge power struggle between these countries.  The U.S. Sun square Iran’s Sun means that these governments really don’t understand or identify with one another and probably never will.  Iran’s Sun squaring U.S. Jupiter means that Iran is not going to make the U.S. government happy and is not going to conform to U.S. morals or laws.  Iran’s Pluto squaring U.S. Sun is power struggles, including the conflict over nuclear power/weapons (Pluto).