Following one of my readers question regarding Gilad Shalit' release negotiations, I cast a horary chart, asking "Will Shalit be freed"?

December 23rd 2009

09.19 A.M.  Israel, Tel-Aviv.

Being a soldier, Gilad Shalit is represented by Mars. Mars in Leo and it's rulership Sun in the seventh house of open enemies. Mars is retrograde and peregrine  making no aspects towards any other planet.  
A person symbolized by a retrograde Mars is sick weak and ill, passively waiting, isolated and secluded kept in a hiding-place. A retrograde Mars also indicate withholding and suppression of information.

Shalit's capturers are represented by Leo and it's ruler ship Sun. This describes Shalit's capturers: vicious and cruel, obstinate, intimidate, revengeful, settled in wild and rocky area and inaccessible. Sun in 11^th house describes the mediation international efforts of friends to solve this case.

The Israeli side is symbolized by Saturn  in 8^th house. Hard aspects between Sun and Saturn describes the excessively high cost which capturers demand. However, Sun is ruled by Saturn (Israel) indicating that Israel has the power to move things ahead.

On one hand, this means that things tend to be left unfinished or are spoiled by our impatience or rashness and will suffer one setback after another because every decision runs into opposition and delays, however good our intentions are.

On the other hand, a retrograded Mars is moving backward in the zodiac suggesting that conditions are favorable for a return to an old situation, and this could be a sign of his return to his previous place, that is to say a return to the former situation, i.e.  before having been captured.

There is a warning in this chart advising us  that Shalit's release has to be done sooner better than later.  We should increase efforts and handle this matter carefully and seriously, adopting every possible step otherwise we might face again Ron Arad's loss.