#Tarot Ukraine Question. When does war end? Possibilities. Neptunian Hanged Man Rev (even looks like Zelenskyy!) suggests March 7, 2023-May 24, 2025 during Saturn in Pisces. Pisces=breach of boundaries. Saturn=redrawing/restoration of boundaries. But this tsunami leaves a long and turbulent wake.
Saturn in Pisces
A Saturn in Pisces transit lasts 2-2 1/5 years. This one we are currently experiencing, March 7, 2023-May 24, 2025 is still not over then, and will be back again September 1, 2025 to February 13, 2026.
Saturn takes about 28-29 years to come full circle and weaves in and out of its present zodiac sign due to retrograde cycles.
So what?
These are deepest waters we are navigating right now, deeply unsettled times. Deep and dreamy Neptunian Pisces blurs boundaries of all kinds; physical, mental, emotional, social, legal, technological. Saturn imposes boundaries, borders, regulations, oversight, containment, structure. Pisces is all about inspiration – and illusions and delusions. Saturn strips away illusions, forcing us to face realities – and our duties and responsibilities head on.
Robin is Pisces, Batman is Saturn with a whole lot more slapping still to come.
Putin dreams of a new Russian Empire and the Emperor is himself. And he is ready to spill a lot of blood to make that a reality. But history has moved on while others are also dreaming of rebuilding former empires. Or are utterly determined never to be be subsumed ever again. Meanwhile, there are others waiting in the wings, even worse than Putin.
The Hanged Man
This card is associated with the planet Neptune and also with the zodiac sign of Pisces (as is The Moon card.)
This card is saying, what would Zelenskyy sacrifice for peace? But here the card has been drawn reversed or upside down, and this is the Tarot’s way of saying what we already know, that Zelenskyy is not ready to negotiate or to make any sacrifice for such an unreliable and short lived peace as this would inevitably prove.
Why should the government of Ukraine sacrifice anything to an enemy who has proved so utterly ruthless, and who will be back for more, until they’ve got the lot, no matter what? How CAN they?
It is startling, how like the real Zelenskyy he looks, the figure in this version of The Hanged Man (deck is the Tarot Illuminati)
This card is associated with the zodiac sign of Pisces and the 12 House, although Zelenskyy himself is an Aquarius subject (King of Swords) while so far as we know Putin is a Libra subject (Queen of Swords.) I say so far as we know because the birth data is not considered 100% reliable though it is the year that is open to question and not the date.
Putin’s birthday is officially 7 October 1952 but some have suggested it is actually 7 October 1950. Either way, the Queen of Swords remains Putin’s natal court card.
This is Nemesis at work. These two, Zelenskyy and Putin, the King and Queen of Swords are locked in some long fated duel.
Putin had every reason to think he could do this. Russia has succeeded in its previous territorial invasions during his regime. In Georgia. In Crimea and with a real and present threat to the territory of Moldova.
This time, the cards show Putin will not win, meaning, Russia may succeed in tearing further chunks out of Ukraine and hanging on to some of them at least, though Ukraine is now taking back some lands, but Putin will not succeed in re-integrating Ukraine under Russian control. A horrible stalemate seems the most likely outcome.
Whatever stops Putin now, with the stakes so high for himself, personally, it seems to be the fear of losing this war, and a Ukrainian counter offensive that takes back Crimea. But it may also come down to the interests of Turkey and the machinations of Xi and the West’s responses to China.
Xi has made food security a top priority but seems to be facing difficulties with his agricultural policies. This article makes no mention of crackdowns by ‘rural enforcers’ against people growing their own fruits or veg in their own back yards. Covid restrictions were partly to do with it, but there is something more to this, and Xi has now faced a pushback, and had to rein in the ‘rural enforcers.’
Putin must reckon with, in a way Zelenskyy perhaps does not, with China’s own ambitions and the growing tensions between China and India, Taiwan, Japan- the entire Indo-Pacific, and the West.
Money talks loudest, and though Ukraine says it took the precaution of not over-planting wheat close to the fighting zones, Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka Dam has rendered some wheat silos inoperable, with a resulting jump in the price of wheat and other grains with implications for Turkey and the developing world far beyond the Black Sea.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global prices for wheat and corn soared Tuesday after a major dam in Ukraine collapsed, renewing market fears about the fragility of the country’s ability to ship food to Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia as it fights a war with Russia.
Wheat prices gained 2.4% in early trading Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, to $6.39 a bushel. The cost of corn rose more than 1%, to $6.04 a bushel, and oats gained 0.73%, to $3.46 per unit. Prices were higher earlier in the day but faded.
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam and hydroelectric power station, which sits in a Russian-controlled area on the Dnieper River, raised concerns about disruption to Ukraine’s affordable supplies of wheat, barley, corn and sunflower oil getting to developing nations where people are struggling with hunger and high food prices.
“Anytime this war shows signs of getting further escalated, there’s a lot of concern,” said Joseph Glauber, senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. “Markets react to that.”-SOURCE
Some have questioned whether it was Russia’s doing. It was Russia. I don’t doubt it. Russia has used this tactic before, during WW2 when it blew up the Dnieper Dam to hold back the German advance.
The Moon
Back in December 2021, in a piece first published at Ask Astrology, and then again in December 2022, The Moon card (Pisces again) figured ominously in the general predictions for 2022 and then again for 2023.
The Moon card, among its many other meaning in tarot, represents danger, contagion- and flooding. A sweeping away of boundaries. Chaos, muddle and mess.
The Moon can mean cancer. It can mean Poison. The floodwaters of the broken Kakhovka dam are contaminated with pesticides. This water is undrinkable. Poisonous. This is a man-made ecological tragedy, as well as a human disaster.
Here is Pisces at its fathomless worst before Saturn can get a grip on it again and reimpose order, though what kind of order will it be?
#Tarot Moon card showed higher risk major flooding 2022. Then landslide in Peru March 2022. Pakistan monsoon floods June-August. Australia severe flooding Feb-late April and again from Oct. Posted 20 Dec 2022 unease re 2023 Saturn (STRUCTURE/dam?) in Pisces (fresh water flood)
The Ten of Swords
Time and time again since the invasion in February 2022, asking about the prospects for Vladimir Putin, and the outcome of this war for him personally, the Tarot has shown me the 10 Swords. This card classically means ruin. The end. It is time for a new dawn. It also traditionally signifies betrayal, as in a “stab in the back”. (UPDATE. This is particularly interesting in light of today’s news 24/6/2023 and the unfolding situation with the head of the Wagner group Prigozhin The 10 Swords says no matter what happens next, this is the start of the end for Putin as Russian leader.)
Image: Rider Waite.
In terms of health, I have known this card to flag up issues to do the neck, spine, colo-rectal issues and nervous system issues. I am not suggesting that Putin is dealing with any of these health problems. I am simply pointing out that this card has come up time and time again, and these are lesser known card meanings for the 10 Swords.
Reading this card purely in terms of timing, the 10 Swords traditionally correlates with the third decan of Gemini and the dates 11 June -20 June.
Which is where we are right now at the time of writing. But are we looking at 2023, 2024 or 2025? Slow Saturn in chaotic Pisces suggests a culmination during this transit, by or before the end of June 2025. Saturn, planet of old Father Time, reintroduces and re-establishes order, structure and boundaries before it leaves Pisces.
Saturn “dams a flood”.
Here is the end of a “tsunami”- the end of a cycle, though we’ll all be hoping it comes before we reach that point in the astrology. I wouldn’t be surprised, based on the cards, if we will look back and see that Putin left office or stood down before Christmas 2024.
I need to look at Navalny and Kara-Mirza next time.
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