In Memoriam, 9/11

7 years ago today the United States was attacked. I don't know how to pay tribute to the innocent lives that have been lost as a result of that attack. Except I took a look at the Event Chart for that day and how it is aspected by today's planets.

The first attack happened at 8:46 am in New York City. This brings up a chart with Mercury at 15 Libra exactly conjunct the Ascendant. Right now there is a triple conjunction of Mercury-Venus-Mars conjunct this spot. The Secondary Progressed Moon from the original chart is also in conjunction with these planets from 12 Libra. Venus and Mercury working together can rule Markets. The Stock Market and Capitalism in general was a major reason for the Attacks. The U.S. Financial situation has gone down hill ever since.

7 years is a big deal in Astrological Cycles. It represents a major phase of maturation as it represents the first major challenging aspect to the two planets that rule Homeland and Government. These aspects are the first Saturn Square and the first Secondary Moon Square (which usually happens within 6 months or so). Saturn represents both extremes of Successes and Failures. It's good at this time to take a stern look at what is going wrong in order to fix the problems. It should be taken as an incentive to toss out old methods that don't work, to rebuild and fix what went wrong.

The original chart had a major outer planet opposition of Saturn at 15 Gemini to Pluto at 13 Sagittarius. Today Saturn squares that opposition from 13 Virgo. The Sun in Virgo is separating from its conjunction with Saturn and is opposed by Uranus. Uranus is within a degree conjunction of the Neptune of the natal chart.

Today's chart has an unaspected Pluto which is opposing the Gemini Moon of the Attack Chart to the degree. This represents the feelings that are most difficult to access. They are obvious reactions to Terrorism as they generally run so deep that they can't be expressed and have to just be accepted as that. Often they express themselves as controlling behaviors.

The original chart also had an opposition of Mars at 1 Capricorn to Moon at 29 Gemini. This is a very violent aspect and very strongly placed as the two planets are within conjunction of the Nodal Axis at 4 Cancer/Capricorn. As I said before, today's Pluto is at 29 Sagittarius and is directly opposing the Moon of the Attack event chart. This might be a very emotionally volatile time for the survivors. As Pluto reaches 1 Capricorn I hope we don't hear from Osama again unless he's in chains.

Today's Nodal Axis is layered loosely over the current Sun-Uranus opposition. Today's Neptune is within one degree conjunction of the event chart Uranus, planet of unexpected, shocking events.

And Neptune, where was Neptune? That's what everybody always want to know about Neptune. Here he's evasive and elusive and expressing himself aptly. In the Event chart, Neptune is unaspected at 7 Aquarius. And, as a matter of fact, the only planet from the Event chart that seems to be unaspected by today's transits is still Neptune. Osama who is a Pisces which is ruled by Neptune is still at large. And all Running mates for the President are going through major Neptune transits... and I'm going to shut up before I implode here.