Cuba: Strong turbulence and U.S. intervention ahead

Last year, I wrote how Neptune-Saturn conjunctions have a strong correlation with major events in the history of Russia and China: this is interestingly the case with other formerly or presently communist countries, too, such as Cuba and Vietnam, and, even more interestingly, this has been the case even in medieval history, when the communist ideology did not even exist. That does not surprise me, as future leads to the past as much as past leads to the future, a circle of "causality" that many people have difficulty wrapping their heads around, and which is where also modern Western science stumbles badly. Neptune signifies dreamy idealism, stumbling easily and often into delusional or utopian idealism: it is no surprise that the planet plays a major part in a communist land's history. Its conjunction with the cold Saturn is very uncomfortable: the stern, discipline-loving Saturn cannot take Neptune's dreaminess and brings shocks to it. (Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto was written in early 1848, soon after the 1846 exact conjunction of Neptune and Saturn.)

On February 20, 2026, Neptune and Saturn made an exact conjunction. Without much further ado, let us look at what happened the last four times this conjunction happened for the four lands in discussion. (You will find even more older history in the Russia-China post mentioned earlier.)

1882

Russia: Alexander II assassinated in 1881; Marx and Engels wrote a new preface for the Russian edition of The Communist Manifesto, and proposed that a largely agrarian Russia could become "directly" communist without undergoing capitalism

China: Treaty of Ili signed with Russia, leading to return of territory to China

Vietnam: French conquest of northern Vietnam (Tonkin), fall of Hanoi

Cuba: Nothing significant in year, but a gradual slavery abolition process was building up, with Spain eventually abolishing it in 1886

1917

Russia: The Bolshevik Revolution, end of the Tsardom

China: Warlord era begins in 1916-17, death of Yuan Shikai

Vietnam: Thái Nguyên Uprising

Cuba: Sugar Intervention (another U.S. intervention, with U.S. Marines stationed in the country!)

1952-53

Russia: Stalin dies

China: Korean War ends

Vietnam: First Indochina War reaches the verge of culmination, leading in 1954 to Partition of Vietnam

Cuba: Coup by U.S.-backed Fulgencio Batista; Cuban Revolution begins

1989

Russia: Liberal democracy movements begin, followed by the dissolution of the USSR

China: Liberal democracy movement (known in the West as Tiananmen Square protests), culminating in the June Fourth incident

Vietnam: End of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War; the Communist Party of Vietnam becomes the country's only political party

Cuba: Beginning of severe economic crisis because of events in Russia/Soviet Union, with the Soviets withdrawing their soldiers, culminating in the Special Period that would begin in 1991 with the collapse of the USSR

There is a pattern that emerges. In my post on China and Russia, I had said: "A pattern that emerges regarding China is that Neptune-Saturn conjunctions often produce or involve balance of power incidents or relations with foreign countries." For Russia, I had said: "[T]he events that occupy Russia during Neptune-Saturn conjunction years are mostly internal events. (And seismic events, completely pivoting Russia's history!)" I had assumed it would be end of the Putin era and a huge change to the country's identity and makeup as a result.

So what about Vietnam and Cuba? One often sees Vietnam being involved in violence and conflict around this time: thus, the coming couple of years will show if the pattern is sustained. I would expect so. In the case of Cuba, one sees strong foreign interventions (or their removal/lessening, if they were already going on: a toggle switch!) every time the conjunction comes around.

Let us focus a bit more on Cuba, and see how some major events in Cuba have revolved around Neptune (and Pluto, at times). In the case of Cuba, because of its history of slavery, Pluto, too, is very important, given that Pluto, named after the Roman god of the underworld, signifies the power dynamics between a master and a slave.

27 October 1492: Columbus lands in Cuba; Pluto-Sun exact conjunction

1511: First Spanish settlement; Neptune-Uranus conjunction

4 November 1549: Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto arrives in Cuba

1812: Aponte slave rebellion; Neptune-Pluto square (note how the two signifiers are in play: slaves, actuated by a then-utopian dream of slavery abolition, conspire against their masters)

1868: Ten Years' War (Cuban fight for independence) begins; Neptune-Jupiter loose-orbed conjunction (the Pact of Zanjón, which ended the war, was signed just as Mars had made a conjunction with Neptune, and the Sun had started to square tightly Pluto, with Uranus also in a loose square to Pluto)

7 October 1886: Slavery abolished; Pluto-Mars opposition

10 April 1892: Cuban Revolutionary Party founded by José Martí; Neptune-Pluto-Venus conjunction (Martí would be killed later in 1895 on the very day when Neptune-Mercury conjunction became exact!)

10 December 1898: Treaty of Paris signed, with Spain ceding control of Cuba to the U.S.; Neptune antiscia Mercury, and Pluto opposite Saturn

20 May 1902: Cuba formally gains independence from the U.S.; Pluto-Uranus loose-orbed opposition, and Pluto-Mercury close conjunction

28 September 1906: U.S. military occupation of Cuba begins again; Neptune-Jupiter conjunction

20 May 1912: The War of 1912, an uprising by Afro-Cuban rebels; Neptune-Mars loose-orbed conjunction

25 August 1917: U.S. Marines arrive to protect U.S. sugarcane plantation owners (beginning of what is known as the Sugar Intervention); Neptune-Saturn conjunction

4-5 September 1933: Cuban Revolution of 1933; Neptune-Sun conjunction

10 March 1952: Coup by Fulgencio Batista, leading to establishment of military dictatorship; Pluto-Mars square, and Neptune-Saturn loose conjunction

26 July 1953: Cuban Revolution begins; Neptune-Saturn exact conjunction (eventually, leading to the triumph of the Revolution and establishment of Fidel Castro's provisional government as 1958 ended, a year which saw Neptune-Jupiter conjunction)

2 December 1961: Castro proclaims on national television that he was a Marxist-Leninist, signaling Cuba's transition to a fully fledged communist state and its increasing dependency on the USSR; Pluto-Sun exactly square and Pluto-Mars close square

1965-1966: Defeat of Escambray rebellion against Castro government; Pluto-Uranus conjunction

29 January 2026: Executive Order 14380 signed by the U.S. government, blockading Cuba; Pluto-Mars conjunction, Pluto-Uranus antiscia, and Neptune-Saturn contra-antiscia

As you would have noticed, consistent with the significations for Pluto and Neptune earlier mentioned, events with strong shifts in power dynamics are mostly marked by Pluto, whereas revolts, uprisings and U.S. interventions are mostly marked by Neptune. It is curious to see how Sun's interactions with these two planets can often mark the exact date when events will culminate.

What is the status of planets as I write? Neptune and Saturn made an conjunction in February 2026: from the pattern just described, one would think another rebellion, or U.S. intervention, or both, is in the air. From our discussion at the beginning of this post, you would also know that this conjunction, which happens around every 35-37 years, is often very important for Cuban history (as it is for Russia, China and Vietnam). But while often things happen in the same year as the conjunction, big events sometimes can happen within a year or two later, too.

So when, then?

Let us now finally look at the Aries ingress chart of Year 2026-27 (period of March 20, 2026, to March 20, 2027) for Cuba:

Look at the almost EXACT conjunction of Uranus with the Ascendant! It promises big changes to the very identity of the country. To get a flavour of the backdrop. note the stellium in 12th house of the ingress chart, spotlighted by the Sun itself. A deeply combust Neptune is conjunct with Saturn, and both these, one the signifier of dreaminess and the other the signifier of mortality, are uncomfortable in Aries, the sign of growth and action. This chart is valid for Northern Hemisphere Spring 2026, but also for Year 2026-27, thus events can be in the spring itself or the year. I have not figured out the radix chart for Cuba as yet, and unless one has that, not much can be said on the basis of only the Aries chart. (The 1902 and 1898 charts do not work at all, and the 1868 and 1 January 1959 charts work a little bit, but not excellently. Thus, to determine the radix chart for Cuba needs more research.)

It could also happen that the big events happen in Northern Hemisphere Summer instead, or that intervention happens in Spring, but Summer brings further upheaval and violence. I say this, because look at the chart for the Summer:

Yet again, the Ascendant in play massively, with a Mars in detriment almost exactly conjunct the Ascendant! That signifies some restiveness! Note also the Venus-Pluto opposition across angular houses. I foresee a very hot and stormy Summer, with several incidents of fires: but are they all fires caused by weather only, or are there conflagrations of violence as well?

(Note that the words Spring and Summer here are used as Northern Hemisphere terminology, even though Cuba has just dry and wet seasons.)

I have given a few Critical Dates here for Cuba, but these are based entirely on ingress charts alone. From these, the month of June 2026, especially the second half, appears interesting.

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