What this is. A working record of dated, falsifiable predictions about the ongoing Iran war and adjacent geopolitical/financial events, derived from astrological chart analysis pulled on April 13–14, 2026. The methodology combines transit-to-natal aspects, annual profections (Hellenistic technique), event chart analysis, and synastry across the relevant entities.
What this is for. Testing whether mundane astrological technique produces above-chance predictions when held to specific date windows and explicit hit/miss criteria. Each prediction has a tier reflecting confidence and information value, a date window during which the criterion can be satisfied, and a clear yes/no/partial test.
Scoring. Tier A = 3 points (high confidence, narrow window, specific criterion). Tier B = 2 points (medium confidence, broader). Tier C = 5 points (swing-for-the-fences, low prior). Tier D ("OUT THERE") = 10 points (highest payoff, lowest prior). Partial credit at half value.
Interpreting the score. Maximum possible if everything hits is roughly 100. A purely-random baseline given the criteria as written would land somewhere in the 12–20 point range because some predictions are broad enough that base rates make them probable. Above 30 is interesting. Above 45 is genuinely surprising. Below 15 is the null result.
Anchor predictions. Two predictions — D2 (Pezeshkian operational consolidation around May 9) and D3 (war framing pivot on May 1) — are flagged as the calls I'd stake the whole reading on. They have specific dates backed by exact aspects, they run against default expectations, and they're falsifiable in three weeks. Grade those carefully.
Retrodictive note. When these charts were pulled on April 14, 2026, the analyst was working from outdated context and did not initially know that Khamenei had been assassinated on February 28, 2026, that the US-Israeli war on Iran was already six weeks in, or that Mojtaba Khamenei had been installed and then incapacitated. The astrological techniques produced descriptions of his "removal from public position" before the analyst realized he was already dead. That retrodictive correctness is part of the test record and should not be edited out: the technique hit; the practitioner missed context. Both data points matter.
Profections run for: USA (10th house year, Mercury in Cancer in 8th, retrograde · time lord). Iran (12th house year, Sun in Aries in 8th · time lord). Trump (8th house year, Jupiter in Libra in 2nd, retrograde · time lord).
Eclipses in window: August 12, 2026 and August 28, 2026.
D2 — Pezeshkian operational consolidation by May 9, 2026. Pluto trine natal Sun exact May 9, applying. Empowerment transit landing on the senior surviving civilian on the Interim Council. Predicts that the civilian reformist president, not Mojtaba Khamenei or a cleric, becomes the effective center of power in post-Khamenei Iran.
D3 — War framing pivot on May 1, 2026. Neptune square the war chart's Ascendant/Descendant axis exact May 1. Predicts that the war as currently framed dissolves into something its own authors can no longer cleanly describe — ceasefire framework, mission redefinition, expansion, or loss of consensus on aims.
If both anchors are wrong, the reading should be updated downward substantially. If both are right — especially D2, which runs against the default expectation of clerical/IRGC control — the technique earned its keep.