Update to Astrology of the Iran War (and Peace)

Why prediction is hard, what peace looks like in a chart, and the bigger picture

In this post:

• Why predicting with astrology is hard

• Cycles that track the events of the war

  • Mars-Uranus transits mark escalations

  • Can Venus-Uranus transits predict peace?

  • Six “Peace Charts” involving Iran—ceasefires, etc

  • What potential “Peace Transits” are upcoming?

• The Big Picture (big cycles at play right now)

  • What is shifting? (geopolitics overview)

  • Are we doomed!? (Sag pep talk 😁)

I’m mildly embarrassed of my last article about the Iran War. I wrote it a bit hastily with the sense that “I really should do an article about this”. Also, a lot of it was predicting things that didn’t happen. 😆

• I thought the Mars-Uranus conjunction might signal an end to the war, but it escalated it instead.

• I thought Uranus moving into Gemini would change the character of the war to be about information rather than resources, but not only has the war been on repeat every week (we’re almost to a deal! nope, we’re bombing again!)—it most definitely is still about resources.

Predicting with astrology is difficult for several reasons

1. Each symbol can mean a lot of different things. It’s the interpretation that puts them all together, and you can interpret things in a way that is different than the Universe turns out to have meant it.

2. It’s uncomfortable to predict something nobody wants. I noticed this with how many people forecast a Kamala Harris win over Trump. When I looked at charts, especially the retrograde of Pluto back into Cap just for the election, I immediately thought, Oh no, Trump is definitely going to win. But I didn’t want to tell anyone I thought that! Astrologers are in the position of potentially having to contradict their audience’s hopes or expectations or deliver bad news and I’m not immune to that either.

3. I don’t want to see the war continue. So even in my own head, I don’t want to deliver bad news to myself! This produces motivated reasoning or “seeing what you want to see”.

4. I’m still learning. I’m not an expert at mundane astrology—these are more my research notes I’m sharing because I’m an astrology nerd and Substack is for nerds. 🤓

So I am trying to shift toward writing more in a way that shows my work—the charts I’m drawing from and what I’m seeing—so you can draw your own conclusions. This also creates more evergreen content, as we can always learn from historical charts.

So let’s dig into some of the cycles and charts that can show us something about war and peace with Iran.

Cycles that track the events of the war

The war starting on Feb 28 after the Saturn-Neptune conjunction on Feb 20 ties it to the Saturn-Neptune cycle, but that is a very long cycle. We won’t even reach the opening sextile for Saturn-Neptune until 2031, so we need to look at other cycles that triggers shorter-term events.

Mars-Uranus transits mark escalations

• The 12-Day War started at the Mars-Uranus opening square.

• The current war started at the Mars-Uranus closing square.

• The ceasefire started at the closing sextile.

• The Mars-Uranus conjunction occurred on July 3rd at 3° Gemini—this was the start of the funeral for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iranians came out in the millions, and some carried huge signs of “Kill Trump”, which did not endear Iran to the US president.

All three major players in this war have Mars-Uranus signatures:

• Iran’s chart has Mars-Uranus in a trine.

• The US chart has them co-present in the 7th house in Gemini.

• Israel’s chart has them in a sextile.

That makes Mars-Uranus transits into recurrence transits for these three charts. So it’s not a surprise they coincide with escalations in a war involving the three of them.

Here is the whole next cycle for Mars-Uranus (UTC):

• Oct 27, 2026 - opening sextile (Mars in Leo, Uranus in Gemini)

• Dec 4, 2026 - opening square (Mars in Virgo)

• Feb 17, 2027 - retrograde square

• May 29, 2027 - direct final square

• July 30, 2027 - air trine (Mars in Libra)

• Oct 28, 2027 - opposition (Mars in Sag)

• Jan 11, 2028 - closing air trine (Mars in Aquarius)

• Feb 18, 2028 - closing square (Mars in Pisces)

• March 28, 2028 - closing sextile (Mars in Aries)

• June 23, 2028 - conjunction at 11° Gemini

Of course I’m hoping the war ends sooner than 2028, but if it continues, these will likely be escalation points.

Can Venus-Uranus transits predict peace?

It occurred to me to look at “peace dates” to see if they had anything in common. It turns out they do! Let’s look at some charts!

These are all dates of “Peace with Iran” so they are compared against Iran’s chart. I looked at 6 charts, and what stood out was the interactions between Venus, Uranus, and the nodes.

It makes sense to me that Venus-Uranus is the peace counterpart to Mars-Uranus. The nodes being involved suggests to me that peace becomes possible once karma has unwound or the evolutionary impulse is exhausted.

Jupiter and the Sun also seem to play supporting roles, bringing light, order, and optimism.

Iran-Iraq War ceasefire (1988)

The Iran-Iraq war started in September 1980 and formally ended Aug 20, 1988 at 7am local time. Below is the chart of when the UN received the letter from Iran formally agreeing to the resolution to end the fighting.

This chart has:

• Venus at 17 Gemini, square the nodes in the sky and in Iran’s chart

• Venus loosely opposite Uranus

• NN in Pisces, the house/sign of Iran’s Venus

• It was also a nodal reversal for Iran

• Sun was conjunct Iran’s Jupiter with Jupiter in Iran’s 10th loosely opposite Iran’s Uranus

• Sun-Jupiter sextile

JCPOA initial agreement (2015)

This was the first agreement in principle to the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) by all parties. This wasn’t technically the end of a war but it did lead to the lifting of certain sanctions, and sanctions are a form of war by economic means.

This chart has:

• Venus at 19 Taurus (Iran’s 10th), opposite Iran’s Uranus

• Venus trine Iran’s NN

• Uranus conjunct the SN and the Sun, on Iran’s Sun, all trining Jupiter in Iran’s first house

JCPOA formal announcement (2015)

This is several months later, when the JCPOA was formalized.

This chart has:

• Jupiter and Venus conjunct in the Iran’s 1st house squaring Iran’s Uranus

• Sun on Iran’s Jupiter trine to Iran’s Uranus and sextile it’s NN

• Sun square Uranus in the sky

The 12 Day War ceasefire (2025)

This war started June 13 and ended June 24, 2025. This chart is for when Trump announced the ceasefire on Truth Social.

This chart has:

• Venus back at 18 Taurus, opposite Iran’s Uranus

• Venus sextile the NN

• Venus co-present with Uranus in Taurus

• NN back in Pisces, once again a nodal reversal for Iran

• Sun and Jupiter conjunct trining Iran’s Venus

Current Iran War First Ceasefire (2026)

This was the ceasefire Trump announced right before his deadline where he said he would destroy Iran’s civilization if they didn’t agree to a deal.

This chart has:

• Venus at 10 Taurus exactly on Iran’s MC.

• NN still in Pisces, past the nodal reversal now and almost to Iran’s Venus.

• Uranus is back at almost the same spot in Taurus as it was in the last chart almost 10 months ago.

• Jupiter was square the Sun and trine Iran’s Uranus

• This was a few days after Iran’s Solar Return and a bit before Iran’s Jupiter return.

Venus is in Taurus every year as it goes around the chart once each year, but it’s interesting that in three of these charts it has been there. Venus is strong in Taurus and it’s Iran’s 10th house, opposite Iran’s Uranus.

The MOU (2026)

This was the formal signing of the Memorandum of Understanding at Versailles which was supposed to stop the war.

This chart has:

• Uranus trine Iran’s Venus, and the NN which is conjunct it.

• Almost to the Iran’s Jupiter return.

• Venus-Uranus sextile in the sky

• Venus in Iran’s 1st house.

Where are we now?

After looking at all these charts, I wanted to see what our current chart looked like. I realized we were just a few days past Venus conjuncting Iran’s NN. And then it occurred to me that a few days ago is when Trump stopped bombing Iran (after 13 days of strikes), without any formal announcement.

The only reason I could find was to “give diplomacy a chance” and also top military officials and Vance had a meeting with him and were like, “bruh, we are running out of interceptors”.

What is upcoming?

I started clicking through the days to see where these planets are going next. Just a few days from now, July 29, there is a Jupiter cazimi (conjunction with the Sun) in Iran’s 1st house and sextile Uranus, while Venus sextiles Iran’s Uranus. Interesting.

Then I got to Aug 12 and noticed Venus trines Uranus in the sky while the Sun squares Iran’s Uranus exactly. And then I was like—

WAIT—THAT IS A SOLAR ECLIPSE. AUG 12 IS THE NEXT SOLAR ECLIPSE. Holy shit, that’s an eclipse three degrees from Iran’s Ascendant.

Eclipses are tied to the nodes, so they are sort of like nodal energy on steroids. They are turning points in the plot of our lives. Especially when they hit our chart.

In addition, this chart has:

• A weakened Mars debilitated in Cancer, and out of sight of Uranus

• A strengthened Venus in domicile in Libra, Sun in domicile too

• Jupiter trining Iran’s Sun

• Venus loosely opposite Iran’s Sun

Hey, maybe there will be peace in our time after all. A girl can dream.

The Lunar Eclipse on Aug 27 is also interesting:

• The eclipse is 1 degree from Iran’s Venus

• Uranus is square to the eclipse

• Jupiter (in Leo, ruled by the Sun) is trine Iran’s Sun

Eclipses are by nature not very predictable and I haven’t done any research into what eclipses mean for country charts, so I’m not going to predict what will happen—just that this eclipse season looks impactful for Iran.

The bigger picture

There are three big cycles I’ve talked about before that are actively playing out right now:

• the US is in a Uranus return and Saturn opposition—a reckoning for US both domestically and on the world stage

• an alignment of outer planets that creates a minor grand trine between Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto that will persist for the next few years—a turning point for the whole world

• the Saturn-Neptune conjunction we had at 0 Aries on Feb 20th—a “reset” for reality

We won’t understand the full scope of what is changing right now until we can look back from the future. But I can tell you what I see playing out right now from where I sit in Portland OR as a leftist autist with a special interest in politics:

• America is losing power

• Iran is gaining power

• China is benefitting from the shifts in power

Also:

• We are heading for oil shortages soonish

• We are heading for food inflation and famine eventually (given fertilizer disruptions)

• These will both create political instability

In other words: even if we get peace with Iran, the world is not going to settle down anytime soon.

What is shifting?

There is a huge change underway in the relationship and balance of power between “the West” and “the Global South”.

The propaganda is wearing thin

The Western image of Iran from the Bush War-on-Terror era, Israeli propaganda, and American exceptionalism are breaking down. More people in the West are beginning to see that:

1. “Terrorism” is a not a neutral label and Hamas and Hezbollah don’t exist for no reason; they are resistance groups agains Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Their violence is a response to violence.

2. Iranians do not actually behave like crazy religious extremists; they are strategic and patient and willing to negotiate even after being attacked and their head of state and his whole family assassinated. It’s the US that keeps breaking agreements and bombing without provocation.

The US is not winning this war

The whole world is seeing the limits of the American military. The US military-industrial complex was built around producing fancy expensive weapons, which takes time. Modern warfare involves fast cheap deployment of drones and portable missile launchers.

Patriot interceptors cost $3-$4 million per shot, while THAAD interceptors are $12-$15.5 million. Attack drones like Shaheds are $20-50k to produce. The US is trying to pivot to low-cost interceptor drones, but we can’t use those for missiles which Iran can still make cheaper and faster compared to US making interceptors—which we are rapidly running out of.

We also just cannot realistically do anything militarily to open the Strait of Hormuz—a ground invasion would be a disaster, and it only takes a few drones and mines to deter ships from trying to pass through it.

The way this war has played out is a significant blow to the image of America’s total military dominance.

And this is on top of the total destruction of American soft power by Trump gutting USAID, threatening to annex our allies, and tariffing the whole world.

Elite corruption has become normalized

Trump has been using the presidency to enrich himself in innumerable ways from crypto scams to outright bribes for favors or pardons. When corruption becomes this overt, it undermines the legitimacy of the entire government and the rule of law generally. Even if the Democrats can take back the senate, any attempts at accountability will be seen as partisan maneuvering, not the enacting of justice.

In addition, the total lack of accountability for the people involved with Epstein is perpetually lurking in the corner asking, “WTF?”.

In other words, America has a lot of internal empire-rotting-from-the-inside issues to deal with.

America no longer controls the seas

While global trade isn’t going to grind to a halt tomorrow, the era of global “freedom of the seas” guaranteed by American hegemony is coming to an end.

What the new normal will look like, I’m not sure. We aren’t there yet. It is most likely to devolve into “spheres of influence”, but what that does to global trade, I don’t know.

What I do know is China is not going to want to stop trademaxxing (i.e exporting their manufactured goods to the rest of the world), so they have a vested interest in stability, and that’s a good thing.

Bond markets are flashing warning signs

Recently the 30-year Treasury yield has been above 5% for the longest stretch since 2007. Remember 2007?

I’m not an expert in bond markets but I do know two things:

1. they are the bedrock of the economy

2. they are what scared Trump enough to get him to back off his insane tariff shenanigans after “Liberation Day”

In 2026, the 30-year has traded above 5% for about 28 days so far (including a consecutive run of about 12 trading days in July). That is the most days above 5% in a year and the longest consecutive streak since 2007, when it spent 50 days above that level. Just some warning bells.

Are we doomed!?

I hope not! I mean, I don’t think so. But we are definitely living through a time of significant global change.

But, we’ve done that before. We lived through 2007, we lived through WWII, we lived through the Protestant reformation—humans have lived through everything in history. Humans are very resilient.

So while “When will the Iran war end?” and “Is this another forever war?” are compelling questions, and I wish I could give you a precise answer—the future is not that knowable.

What is knowable is your own heart and soul and what you want to do with your time on Earth.

What astrology teaches ultimately is that time is a series of cycles where lessons repeat and it’s up to you to learn them or not. But you can’t control what other people learn or don’t learn—including the country you are part of.

We are each a tiny part of huge cycles and movements of people and flows of resources of which we have no control. That can either be terrifying or freeing—it’s up to you.

But I advise seeing the world changing as just what the world does. I find it interesting to track and study—but if it causes stress for you, focus on something else.

Focus on what your soul wants you to focus on in this life—that’s what we are actually here to do. And only you know what that is. 💚