Planet parade and the war with Iran: is there a connection?
Author forecast. First published on March 5, 2026.
A planet parade, from an astrological point of view, becomes meaningful only when it falls on one axis of houses or when the planets gather in one constellation. In the current parade this is not the case. From an esoteric point of view, however, any rare phenomenon is treated as a special sign, and such a sign is worth watching.
The current planet parade is not the rarest one: it will repeat in 2040. Some planet parades repeat once in a hundred or even two hundred years. But today I am interested in another configuration.
Look at my forecast for February 2026. I will continue the analysis based on it.
On February 17 Mars began moving from Capricorn into Aquarius. This means its destructive energy started affecting two constellations at the same time. Mars has many other useful energies as well, but here we are looking at its negative qualities, because when a planet changes constellation it weakens and becomes “angry”. Mars in transition is the most harmful of all planets.
Mars has a cycle of about two years. By itself this is not a very rare factor, so Mars alone does not bring too much trouble. But when its action is connected with something else, we should look closer. In this case Mars enters the same constellation as Rahu, and this happened on February 23.
Rahu and Ketu, the lunar nodes, have a cycle of roughly 19 years. Together with Mars they meet in Aquarius once every 38 years. If the Sun, Mercury and Venus also enter that field, the rarity of the configuration increases. If we also include the planet parade, the probability of such an event becomes very low. So this is a serious signal. This is what I wrote about in the February 2026 forecast.
What the news showed
Now let us compare the news flow with my forecast.
I said that around February 11, plus or minus two days, Mercury would give a hint of the difficult situation ahead. Now we know what it was: Iran publicly stated that its missile program was a “red line” and not a subject of negotiations. In the media this was presented as a hard limit for any deal.
On February 17 Venus joined Rahu, and the chain of events continued. In the forecast I said this would be a reaction according to the symbolism of Venus. The news reported contacts and negotiations between the United States and Iran, including talks in Geneva in mid-February. Media described this as an attempt to avoid direct war amid growing military tension.
The financial market reacted during the same period. On February 21 the Basel Committee warned about the boom in synthetic risk transfer, while the ECB strengthened supervisory discipline. From February 22 to 28 there was a hit to trust. Private credit again appeared as a source of systemic risk: outflows, fears about software-company credit quality, and accounting methods that can hide the real condition of borrowers were all discussed.
To avoid unnecessary detail: the financial market reacted. Bitcoin fell for the third time in a month on February 24. When the financial sector reacts to an event, the way it reacts can show the scale of what is coming.
On February 27-28 there was a sharp escalation between Pakistan and Afghanistan, including border clashes and diplomatic attempts to stop the conflict from developing further.
On February 27 the Sun joined Rahu. At the same time Mercury shifted from direct to retrograde motion. One expert suggested that the United States carried out a large intelligence operation while escalating the conflict with Iran, forcing Iran to reveal the location of strategic objects. In the spirit of retrograde Mercury, Iranian intelligence may have been misled.
On February 28 the United States attacked Iran, and on March 1 Mars left transition. Those who have read me for a long time know that I always give an event window of plus or minus two days. The events occurred within that window.
What it means
In my February forecast, the situations were laid out chronologically and matched reality. But what is happening now does not yet feel as critical as it may become around March 13, plus or minus two days. At that time Mars will be in exact conjunction with Rahu, which means multiplication of Mars action. We should expect not merely the continuation of the U.S. war with Iran, but wars. In the plural.
In the twenties of April, Mars together with Mercury will join Saturn. One could confidently say that these wars will be limited by Saturn and end quickly, if not for the weakening of Jupiter on April 25-26, exactly in the same week when the “wars” should end.
When Jupiter goes into transition, the whole world loses happiness. Either the ending will be unpleasant because of the consequences, or there will be no ending.
From March until May 16, 2026, Mars will be in the same constellation either with Mercury or with the Sun. This means constant media coverage of Martian matters: war and conflict. So things will not end quickly, as the United States plans.
The world has decided to accumulate the karma of conflict and confrontation, where the strong tells the weak their place. Nothing good will come from this. After March 13 we will be waiting for the consequences of reckless decisions by presidents. And if this negative tendency continues, more unstable actors will join the existing ones.
The world did not find a way to stop one war, so it decided to start others.
Maybe next time the world will make a wiser choice. If, of course, there is a next time.
Project context
Forecasts like this matter not only as an attempt to see future events. They show the method: how an astrologer looks at time, how planetary symbolism is compared with facts, and why a forecast cannot be reduced to one date or one sign.