US navy fires missiles at Iranian Touska vessel
After a warning to vacate the engine room, the US Navy has opened the fire against the Iranian vessel Touska on April 19th, 2026.
I have researched time stamps of news reports but no precise time for the shooting is given. In addition, there is always an obvious gap between the news report and the event itself. There is, however, a way to get at least the approximate time.
The last Maritime traffic update on the ship’s position, closely at the (supposed) line of blockade, is from 13:08 UTC, which translates to 16:38 IRST. This is not necessarily the time of the shooting nor of the arrival of the ship at that point, it only marks the time when there were no more updates about the ship’s position and journey. And of course, the vessel is still there, loaded with containers.
That being said, the Centcom has published a video when actually several missiles are being fired.
The video shows different moments. In the first images, the Touska is seen in plain daylight, which agrees with the afternoon. In the last images, when the missiles are actually been fired, time has evidently passed and we can clearly see not only a greater (or safer) distance between the US and the Iranian vessel but also a dimmer light. The Sun is clearly lower in the sky but not yet setting.
The following image is from the official video, notice the Sun position.
Checking the time for the local sunset, I found it occurred around 17:38 Iranian time (calculated for the nearest city, Bandar Abbas). The chart cast for this hour has an AC at 23° Libra, which also means that Aries was setting.
However, the missile was shot when the Sun was still up in the sky, I would estimate at about 1 h or 1,5 before sunset. This leaves us with a less-than-two-hours window with Aries at the DC.
Three planets are in Aries, the exalted Sun at the very last degree and the almost exact Saturn/Mars conjunction.
The time this conjunction is EXACTLY at the DC is at 16:28 IRST and therefore in the time window I estimated judging from the Sun’s altitude, which is shortly the time indication from Marine Traffic.
Those missiles were shot before the official end of the cease-fire and the day before new talks are planned in Islamabad.
Moon and AC ruler Venus are in the 8th house and the Moon’s next aspect is (once she exits her current sign) a sextile to Mercury, in the 7th house, very close to Mars. Iran had promised to retaliate bombing refineries and energy supplies. Let us pray this won’t happen.
However, amazingly played by astrology. Not by the people.
(c) Tania Daniels 2026
Here are other posts on the latest Iranian events:
This is about the begin of the US counter blockade
And this one is about the failed negotiations, which- I published on Substack notes a few days ago.
Her is also a link to a podcast with detailed analysis about the US shooting which I found helpful for the timing.