If you were expecting some kind of sun sign nonsense, forget it. This is real astrology. See the section above. Please note: this forecast is expressed in terms of Universal Time (UT).

Seeing Mars "either retrograde or within a degree of its July 19 direct station point throughout July", I didn't mince words in warning you to expect "more atrocities (on both sides) than you can shake a stick at in Israel; more ETA terror bombs and assassinations in Spain; civil wars heating up in Indonesia and Macedonia and elsewhere, etc. . . . more saber-rattling in the Middle and Far East". If you paid any attention at all to the news in July, you saw the forecast unfold like a newspaper front page. Despite all the peace pressures Washington could muster, Jews and Palestinians have been murdering each other with steadily increasing ferocity all month long. Israel even saw fit to unleash heavy-duty military weaponry - including tanks and helicopter gunships - against the Intifadah. (How else can one respond to suicide bombers, except to escalate?)

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Iraq was engaged in brinksmanship with Kuwait (air intrusions) and the US (attempting to shoot down a high-flying U-2 reconaissance plane with a specially-modified surface to air missile). While Iraq and the US have long played a cat and mouse game over the so-called "No Fly Zones" dictated by the victorious allies at the end of the Gulf War, these new incidents are unprecedented provocations.