On May 25 North Korea conducted its second underground nuclear test and the next day, in addition to test firing short-range ballistic missiles, the isolated regime and international pariah unilaterally withdrew from its 1953 armistice treaty with South Korea.
Astrologers will observe that the June 1950 outbreak of the Korean War has now had its second Saturn return. Will hostilities continue to escalate?
Your correspondent has rectified the mundane horoscope for the outbreak of the Korean War. According to military records, hostilities commenced in the pre-dawn hours of June 25, 1950 when the North Korean army crossed the DMZ, invaded the South, and wound up occupying Seoul in just three days.
Rectifying the war chart to 04:29:10 AM local time places the Ascendant at 21°22′ Gemini, which is precisely conjunct the U.S. Sibly Mars (exact to the degree and minute of arc). Progressing this war chart diurnally (using 19:29:10 GMT of the previous evening – the equivalent to 04:29:10 AM local time the next morning) to North Korea’s unilateral withdrawal from its armistice with the South on May 26 (May 25 GMT), one finds transit Mars in an exact-to-the-minute-of-arc conjunction with the war chart’s progressed MC. (1) The Sun in the war chart has also progressed to a conjunction with the IC (end of matter), exact to 03′ of arc.
With so much bellicose rhetoric coming out of Pyongyang, and the nullification of the truce ending the Korean War, it is no wonder that the retrograde station of Uranus in 26° Pisces is exactly opposite the progressed Mercury in the 1950 war chart. North Korea’s arrogant and cocky flexing of its military muscle can also be clearly seen in the progressed Mars of the war chart now applying to a trine with Jupiter (exact to 02′).
It has been this writer’s experience that the Galactic Center degree of 26° Sagittarius is highly malefic and here we find the war chart’s current secondary progressed Moon. In December 1941, for example, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought the United States into World War II, the U.S. Sibly progressed Sun had just entered 26° Sagittarius the month before. In April 1865, the month that President Lincoln was assassinated, the U.S. Sibly Midheaven was also in 26° Sagittarius.
Indications of severe international condemnation for this unpredictable and isolated country are also evident in the mundane horoscope for North Korea. Saturn is transiting its national Sun three times, with the final pass becoming exact on June 27. What is quite disturbing, and a troubling indication of the possibility for a violent outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula, is the direct station of Pluto in 00°39′ Capricorn on September 11, of all days, in exact opposition to the North Korean Uranus. These planets, with their rulerships of plutonium and uranium, can be associated with the potential for the usage of nuclear weapons.
Sober astrologers will take no heart in the progressed Sun-Pluto square in the North Korean horoscope nearing exactitude. The nearly exact progressed trine of Mars and Pluto (2) is a further indication that the North now has the technology mastered in order to put a nuclear warhead onto a ballistic missile. Japan is in range of the nuclear capabilities of North Korea and with the progressed Mars in the 1950 war chart in the same degree as the progressed MC in the North Korean horoscope, one should not expect U.N. Security Council sanctions to do anything other than to prod this regime to pull the trigger on the South or to engage in naval warfare with the United States if interdiction of its vessels is attempted.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, at an annual meeting of defense and security officials in Singapore, recently stated that North Korea’s progress on nuclear weapons and long-range missiles is “a harbinger of a dark future” and he also said that “We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia – or on us.”
In order to properly assess the mounting tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the likelihood of war breaking out, astrologers should also examine the nativity and progressed horoscope of Kim Jong-il, the eccentric and despotic leader of the North Korean people. (3)
Remarkably, the retrograde station of Jupiter in 27°01′ Aquarius precisely conjoins his Sun. As transit Pluto forms a cardinal t-cross with his lunar nodes in 02° Aries–Libra, he has arrived at his “life-purpose moment.” Will the irrational hubris of Jupiter further delude him into launching a nuclear war? Or will the planet signifying one’s guardian angels whisper into his ear and tell him that he cannot unleash the violent destruction that an ill-thought-out commencement of war with the U.S. would bring to earth.
His erratic and unpredictable behavior can be seen in the Aquarius Sun in square to Uranus. He was born at the Grand Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 9° Taurus in 1941 and his natal Uranus is in the exact degree of the May 2000 Jupiter-Saturn alignment. In addition, his progressed Jupiter is also passing through the 23rd degree of Taurus over a four-year period. The direct station of Mercury on May 30 occurred in 22°52′ Taurus.
Much has been written about his love of cognac and Hollywood films, his fear of flying, and a penchant for beautiful women. Astrologers see that he is highly intelligent, as he possesses one of C.E.O. Carter’s six aspects of raw brainpower – a sextile of the Sun and Mars (sextiles and trines of the Sun to Mars, Jupiter or Uranus make up this category of “mensa aspects”).
It is distressing to speculate that during the month of June, the future of the world hinges on the decision of one isolated world leader who with the push of a button could unleash unspeakable devastation upon humanity. One must have faith that the upcoming conjunction of Venus and Mars in the power degree of 15° Taurus at the Cancer ingress on June 21 will favor peace over war. Venus is in dignity while Mars is in detriment, and one prays that another page of world history will be turned without a chapter of war again having to be written.
References:
(1) Using solar arc in longitude progression of the MC.
(2) Both of these are progressed-to-progressed aspects.
(3) Kim Jong-il; Feb 16 1941; Vyatskoye, Soviet Union (48°N16′ 135°E06′); 12:00 PM UZ9. Source: Wikipedia, noon chart used.
© 2009 Robert P. Blaschke
6 Comments
Wow Robert, this is a great piece.
Thank you.
Bravo on the rectification of the start of the Korean War, conjunct the Sibly Mars..
Yes, here’s to Venus and Mars on the summer solstice!
May peace prevail..
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stunningly erudite
There is nothing at all “unpredictable” about this “isolated country” (N.Korea) as a real study + appreciation of its 1,000’s of years of Han history will prove.
There is really only one Korea but it is the chronically “arrogant and cocky flexing” of the USA’s “military muscle” on the Korean peninsula since 1950 (with the UN’s blessings) which is at the heart of the problem today just as the US “eagle’s wingspan of 10,000 miles” was in 1898 when the USA invaded both Cuba + the Philippines thus giving itself a naval base in the Western Pacific/China Sea for its gunboat diplomacy.
The inevitable result was the rise of Japan, the defeat of the Russian fleet, the attack on Pearl Harbor + WW2 in the Pacific, uhh. We are still seeing the consequences of decisions in the 1940’s -50’s with developments today as the N.Koreans are obsessed with the threat posed by 26,000 US troops permanently stationed in S.Korea + 1,000’s more on nearby islands nominally under the control of Japan.
There is actually no need for talk of “a dark future”….. it is simply time for the USA to take its forces home + to finally stop pretending that the world is its oyster to play with or destroy at its whim (especially its major financial creditors). Let’s not kid ourselves that this is not really all about China + Western prejudice as N.Korea is merely only a buffer state in world affairs.
North Korea is another bogey-man type of third world imaginary threat hyped up by the corporatist military complex in the media and government. Truth is NK is a backwards nation hardly able to feed it’s people, let alone be a threat to the US mainland. NK’s missile tests have been mired by technical failures. I highly doubt that the NK Taepodong is any threat at all even to Hawaii.
This info apparently is taken from ‘official’ US sources, which are no doubt highly biased towards making war on NK.
From the bigger perspective, the US would be interested in NK’s activities since gaining control over that territory would bring it much closer to it’s goal of the encirclement of Russia and China and the central Asian republics.
A little distraction from the curly haired guy in NK is useful. He actually has a lot to be grateful from the US, a lot of this so-called dangerous technology was actually given to them by the US.
CB
I think that the above two persons are deluded. I think that North Korea is fully capable of selling nuclear technology to terrorists. This is what the US should worry about the most. Another Korean war is unlikely since their leadership in their 80s would remember how terrible it was for them. North Koreans are clever and they will not seek war but will seek money from third world nations by selling weapons. This is what the U.S must stop completely. Finally, this is a duty of the U.S. Also, please stop aiding them, The U.S. must stop all forms of humanitarian aid. These are used for weapons build-up only.
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