{"id":951,"date":"2019-09-21T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2019-10-03T14:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T15:34:37","slug":"the-2019-abqaiq-khurais-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2019\/09\/21\/the-2019-abqaiq-khurais-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 Abqaiq-Khurais attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just before the full moon on 14 September, at 3:31 am Saudi time, the oil facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in Saudi Arabia were rocked by the first explosions and thereafter large fires, later claimed to be the result of drone attacks launched by the Houthis in Yemen. This was a watershed event. The attacks were mysterious in many ways, as we will see, but blame was promptly placed on Iran by Washington. Such a rush to blame without citing evidence has raised alarms worldwide, reminiscent of the lead-up to the Iraq War in 2003. Oil prices jumped 15% the day after, the largest single jump in oil prices in 30 years, as the attack immediately cut 5% of the world\u2019s oil production. No deaths were reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wikipedia article cites that the attack took place at 4:00 am, but closer examination shows<\/a><\/span> that the emergency services at the facilities were called into action at 4:00, which would place the attacks slightly before:<\/span><\/p>\n

“At 04:00 (01:00 GMT), the industrial security teams of Aramco started dealing with fires<\/em> at two of its facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais as a result of… drones,”<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a report that the first UAV hit at 3:31. Panic would have ensued. It would have taken the security teams at least a couple of minutes to assess the needed response. It is important to note this because a 4:00 am chart gives the first degree of Virgo on the horizon, whereas even five minutes before gives the last degree of Leo, placing Aquarius on the 7th<\/sup> house cusp (the attackers). Aquarius fits better with the attack, having been aerial, and a surprise attack at that. The infrastructure\/facility would be indicated by the 4th<\/sup> house, ruled by Pluto in either chart, which rules underground resources (oil, in this case). That event chart is below (bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The attack and fires were at a refinery (distillation plant), used primarily to \u2018sweeten\u2019 the oil before it is shipped, removing the sulfur dioxide, which is explosive and hazardous to ship in bulk tankers. The process and the fires are indicated by the Sun\/Mars conjunction in Virgo (refinement) on the 2nd<\/sup> house cusp, which brings in a financial dimension to the event. The size of the attack is indicated by the square of the conjunction to Jupiter, which forms a t-square apex with the Moon\/Neptune conjunction in the 7th<\/sup> house, further reinforcing the oil fires. Neptune rules oil.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the more interesting features of the chart in terms of our newer astrological members (planets) is shown by the Sedna in the 10th<\/sup> house, roughly squaring the Horizon, showing the end of an era for a leader. From a recent article<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

“In general, Sedna represents a process, first of destruction, then of reassessment and then of reordering. The process demands determination and creative responses to evolving circumstances, to the point where there is sometimes the necessity for survival against the odds, and sometimes in the face of death. As a result, Sedna also reveals creative people, especially those who have faced the bottom \u2013 i.e., the depths of their despair \u2013 and then climbed their way back to success, using the \u2018bottom experience\u2019 as the springboard for their creativity.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This attack has certainly highlighted such a change, as well as the people who have hit bottom (the Houthis), as well as a determined and creative people (also the Houthis), but as well precisely because this attack represents a reordering of the Middle East, and has done so for the following reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n