When Will Al Qaeda Avenge bin Laden?

6 weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda has appointed a new leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Like bin Laden, he has a price on his head. He is held to have been the ‘operational brains’ behind the 9/11 attacks. In a statement posted on the internet last week, Zawahiri vowed to continue the jihad begun by bin Laden “to expel the invaders from the land of Muslims and to purify it from injustice.” The first is a political/military goal which, in my opinion, has some justice; the second is a fundamentalist politico/religious goal to which Islam has always, from time to time, been prone.

The trouble with monotheism is that it believes there is only one reality, the reality of its one God. You can see how this easily slips into fundamentalism. Science has the same tendency to believe that its reality is the only reality. So does neo-paganism when it gets too hung up and literal about ‘the Goddess.’

Zawahiri’s Wikipedia entry opens with the words that he is “is an Egyptian Islamic theologian and terrorist”, as though ‘terrorist’ is a fact, rather than a term which America applies to its enemies, particularly those who engage in what has more objectively been called Asymmetric warfare. Wikipedia, it seems to me, has been pressured by the US government and probably has its hands tied. I don’t think you can always blame these organisations when they give in to governmental pressure, like Amazon did over Wikileaks.

I don’t want to take away from the fact that 9/11 was a terrible thing to do. But the US also does terrible things (which it often terms ‘collateral damage’), quantitatively far more so than Al Qaeda. My point is that there is at least a moral equivalence between the 2 sides.
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As with bin Laden, there seems to some uncertainty about Zawahiri’s birth date, but less so. That said, wrong charts have a way of becoming right charts if used for long enough. Like the US Sibly chart. Zawahiri was born in Egypt on 19/6/51.

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He was born on a Full Moon in late Sagittarius. He has been appointed head of Al Qaeda under a total lunar Eclipse with Full Moon in late Sagittarius, opposite the 9/11 Moon. So there is a ‘rightness’, from Al Qaeda’s point of view, about this appointment. I think Al Qaeda probably used an astrologer, because they seemed to for 9/11, which Zawahiri masterminded. In traditional Arabic astrology, the best time to start a war is when the Moon is in late Gemini. On the morning of 11 Sept 2001, the Moon was in late Gemini.

Why late Gemini? I don’t know the traditional reason, but Gemini is light and dark, even light versus dark. You often see Gemini in the charts of fighters. As a sign progresses through the degrees, it builds in intensity. So late Gemini is when this pugilistic sign peaks.

Zawahiri’s Mars is at 20 Gemini. The US Mars is at 21 Gemini. This is powerful. Being in the sign of Gemini, it suggests to me a war of light versus dark on both sides: for America, Al Qaeda are ‘terrorists’. For Al Qaeda, America is the ‘Great Satan’. Both sides are locked in a shadow projection onto the other.

Obama’s Mars is at 21 Virgo, square Zawahiri’s Mars. This suggests to me a personal enmity between Zawahiri and Obama, the Nobel Peace Laureate who delights in taking out his country’s enemies.

It was the same between George W Bush and Saddam Hussein – Bush has Mars at 9 Virgo, Saddam had Mars at 4 Sagittarius, square to Bush's Mars. Obama does not express himself in the same terms as George W, but the astrology is the same, and the pleasure is the same, as we saw in the killing of bin Laden. This contact between the Mars of Zawahiri and the Mars of both the US and Obama suggests to me that America may soon have another foreign public enemy No 1, to replace bin Laden. This seems to be a psychological necessity for the US, expressed by natal Mars in Gemini (polarisation) in the 7th House (foreign countries.) It is also psychologically primitive in a way that Western Europe, for all its faults, currently is not.

Al Qaeda owes America one for the death of bin Laden. Appointing the man who masterminded 9/11 as their head is a deliberate provocation to America, but they will feel the need to do more than this. Partly to show they are still a force to be reckoned with, and partly because Zawahiri will need to prove himself as leader.

I think we can use the 9/11 chart to speculate on the timing of Al Qaeda’s revenge, as 9/11 was the event that began this "war on terrorism." (The 9/11 Moon-Mars opposition sits along Zawahiri's natal Sun-Moon opposition, showing his strong connection to the event).

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I’d say the US needs to be on full alert on 27th July. That day will see a Moon-Mars conjunction in late Gemini, conjunct the 9/11 Moon and opposite the 9/11 Mars. And square Obama’s Mars. And conjunct the US Mars and square its Neptune: so, like 9/11, America might not see it coming. With transiting Moon-Mars in the US 7th House, an attack on a US foreign interest would seem most likely.

Using astrocartography, the late Gemini Moon on 11 Sept 2001 was on the MC appropriately right through the middle of the US. On 27th July this year, the Moon at 28.04 Gemini won't be on the MC in any significant places. But it will be on the Descendant - US foreign interests - on a swathe that cuts through Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. So they need to watch out for e.g. embassy bombings and attacks on their military in those areas on 27th July American time, 28th July in the East. The other possibility, though less likely, is the 9/11 Moon before that, on 30th June, in the same part of the world.