This chart is set for
August 4 1929, 3.00 local time (EET) Cairo.
it is put together from a variety of sources.
In
a Dutch Magazine (HP De Tijd Dec 14), it says
that some people believe Arafat's birthdate
to be August 4 1929, but in 1988 some British
journalists supposedly found out that this
should read December. In the same article his
wife Soha is claimed to say of Arafat that he
is a Leo. I understand that reporters have
little knowledge of astrology, and not even
of sunsigns half the time, because being born
December 4 one certainly isn't a Leo. In his
book Horoskope Lexicon Hans Taeger gives
August 27 as his birthdate. However, this
makes Arafat a Virgo and the chart he comes
up with, doesn't speak to me. So I used the
Leo chart, August 4 1929, for Cairo, and for
a birthttime Arafat is claimed to have stated
himself: 3.00 hours. (source: also Taeger).
The ensuing chart feels totally correct, for
whatever I know of Arafat, and that is
appallingly little. But I read up on him in
this article in this magazine.
Yasser
means"easy, without worries": this
name was given to Yasser Arafat at school. It
may be a Leo attitude he was showing at the
time giving him that name, or Neptune
conjunct cusp 3 (Koch).
He
was 4 years old when his mother died: Pluto
transitted the Moon in his chart. His father
was wealthy (fittng for a 2nd house Leo) but
Yasser couldn't get on with him. (Apparently:
the chart doesn't confirm this too well with
a Sun sextile Jupiter). He was sent to school
to Jerusalem, (Neptune rules the 9th house
and is conjunct cusp 3) - where he turned out
to be hyperactive and superintelligent
(Uranus is dominant in this chart, (ruling
the 8th house - the guerilla.. ): it exactly
squares this Ascendant!
Yasser
Arafat is a leader with an incredible power
of convincing others. (Sun in Leo, Pluto conj
the Ascendant). He has incredible energy too
(Mars in Virgo) .
Venus
is also dominant in this chart, which
accounts for the fact that he is quite an
amiable person, charming. His moods
apparently change without reason (Moon in
Cancer conj Pluto, conj. a Cancer ascendant).
His wife Soha is 30 years younger (not
uncommon a feature for a Capricorn
Descendant: to marry someone with a huge age
difference) .In 1965 he became a father. He
doesn't see much of his wife, who is in Paris
a lot apparently (7th house ruler in the 12th
house of the 7th). Their son is said to have
leukemia (Scorpio 5th house?)
The
chart for Palestine (Termination of Mandate,
May 15 1948, 0.00 am EET, Jerusalem), shows a
Moon/Pluto/Saturn conjunction at 9,12 and 16
Leo respectively, exactly in conjunction with
the Royal Leo Sun of 'Kings' in Arafat's
chart (conj Mercury). Jupiter is at 27
Sagittarius opposite Uranus at 24 Gemini,
conj the Saturn-venus opposition in Arafat's
chart: the man who gave form to the ideals of
freedom for the Palestinian's.
But
Arafat himself is said to have Parkinson. He
is becoming fragile and old. The Pluto-Saturn
transit is right on the axis of his 6th/12th
house, meaning that this process is the major
process in his life right now, and will
naturally grow much worse in the years to
come. The solar eclipse last week (december
2001) sat exactly on his Saturn: the
Israeli's were after him personally all of a
sudden. Neptune is transitting his 8th house
cusp, meaning that there are very few people
he can trust.
2002
will see Pluto transit square his Mars: it
could be quite a combative timeframe for him,
or one where he has to surrender his personal
will. Saturn will transit his 12th house
opposite Saturn natally. Given his age and
his disease, given the current politics, I
doubt that this passage of Saturn through the
12th will mean an Arafat with a sacred
mission. On the contrary, he is likely to
disappear from public life somehow or other
during that timeframe.
(Joyce Hoen DF Astrol S, NL,
Dec. 18 2001)
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