2 Mass Shootings Last Week
Last week there were two mass shootings within two days. The first one, on Thursday, a Military Psychiatrist specializing in treatment of PTSD victims of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars gunned down a bunch of his comrades at Fort Hood in Texas. The story is complicated by the fact that the shooter was of Arab descent and has been showing signs of loyalties to his heritage rather than his nation. The military and the media is questioning whether or not this was a terrorist attack. Nobody is questioning whether or not modern psychiatrists know what the hell they are doing. Shouldn't they have been the first to question this guy's sympathies with suicide bombers?
My first thought after hearing of the shooting was that the psychiatrist had heard so many PTSD stories that he just lost his mind, kind reminded me of that old episode of Night Gallery episode about the dying Sineater. The Sineater's profession was to sit by the corpse of people who paid him to eat a meal. By doing this he absorbed the sins they had committed during their lifetimes and so releasing their souls to go on to Heaven. Complicated part of the story is that the Sineater is about to die and he wants his Son to take over his profession. The Son, of course, must not only take over his father's awful profession but also must eat all the sins that his Father now contains within his soul. And that's a whole boat load of sins. The last scene is a gory close up of the Son's face as he gorges himself with food and panic. (Wonder if that's when my anorexia started).
Anyway, that's what the story first reminded me of. I completely doubted that the Army Shrink would be a terrorist. Then I looked at his chart. He doesn't have an obvious chart for a mass shooter except that I would expect a Virgo Sun/Scorpio Moon to be a really good aim with a rifle. Well, there's also a Mars-South Node conjunction.
The Shooter/Shrink, Major Hasan, is just past his Pluto square. That can be a difficult passage in a person's life regarding all things Pluto, things concerning one's feelings of power and impotence. Hasan's has been especially difficult as transiting Saturn has been passing over his natal Pluto at the same time while Uranus opposes this past year. Uranus, Pluto, and Saturn working together will certainly bring out a vulnerability to PTSD. Saturn (fear of failure, bitterness) and Pluto (resentment, revenge) can bring depression and Uranus can bring shock, weird and erratic behavior. The orb is considered kind of wide, about 5 or 6 degrees. But, in my opinion, Pluto transits have a long aftereffect, especially when they've been accompanied by other heavy transits and progressions.
Hasan's progressed Mars has been hanging out on top of his natal Pluto and transiting Saturn. That can certainly inflame feelings of rage that seem to come from out of nowhere.
After looking at the shooter's chart I immediately felt that he had not been acting alone. Maybe it's just difficult for me to understand why someone with Middle Eastern heritage would take a job like this in the first place.
Something interesting is that Hasan has a natal Venus-Jupiter conjunction, just like James Arthur Ray, the guy who recently led 3 people to their deaths in a Sweat Lodge in Sedona. (I wrote about this in my blog entry, 1957 problems). Hasan's natal Venus is at the end of Libra conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio. Not only was he going through his Venus Return during the shooting but Venus is squaring transiting Nodal axis. Not the usual transit for a shooting but it stands out.
Hasan's Progressed Venus has been passing through the sign of Scorpio for all of his life and it is now in conjunction with his Neptune at the end of Scorpio. I think it might be a notable connection that the Juipter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction was conjunct the Ascendant at the time of the shooting. At some point Venus has passed over his natal Moon in Scorpio.
I definitely am thinking that this is a frustrated guy thing especially with the Virgo Sun and Middle Age thing. Plus, he's probably been on meds (p.Venus on Neptune) and those things have a repeated history of creating shoot-em-ups. There's this weird conundrum is that the psychiatric profession urges people with traumatic disorders to "get help." And then the truth is they don't have treatments for the trauma.
I wonder if the military or the psychiatric profession is going to do anything to make amends to his patients. In addition to the victims who were slaughtered last Thursday, these people have had insult added to injury.
Hasan started working in psychiatry in 2001 and his mid-Virgo degree Sun would have been squared by the Saturn-Pluto opposition that centered on the Twin Towers attacks. (I sort of remember Michael Lutin pointing out that tense Saturn-Pluto contacts are very often related to the Middle East conflicts). What bad timing for a guy of Arab descent to be entering the Military. That's a bummer job, even for a Virgo Sun/Scorpio Moon workaholic.
The second shooter was a frustrated mentally ill guy whose life has been in free fall. He went to an old workplace and started shooting. He is born only a year apart from Hasan. It's interesting to me that both men were born within a year of each other and in the same Month. Both share a Pisces North Node and a Virgo South Node. They both committed their crimes at their workplaces (Virgo). And they will both probably be considered victims (Pisces) in the end through their mental illness. Pisces also rules drugs so it sure would be interesting to know if pharmaceuticals were somehow to blame. It definitely looks like the Saturn-Uranus-Pluto t-square transit is really hurting these guys (and their victims and their victims' families and friends and coworkers).
Rodriguez' chart is classic for a shooter. Sun conjunct Uranus and Jupiter squaring Mars.
Last Thursday and Friday it's interesting to notice that the Moon was Out-of-Bounds and moving very fast. Plus it was passing over the Gemini-Cancer cusp which is an Aries Point and opposing Pluto and squaring Saturn. That's one busy Moon.
In addition, the Sun was conjunct Mercury in Scorpio and squaring Mars in Leo. Scorpio as a sign is related to all taboo behaviors, murder included. This square was vaguely angular over the Descendant and Midheaven cusps for both shootings.
It's also interesting that the attacks occurred while the Jupiter-Chiron-Neptune conjunction was in the 1st house of both event charts. In Hasan's case this reads out in literal terms as Religion-Wounded Healer-the Unexplained/Terrorism/BadReactionstoPsychMeds.
In the case of Jason Rodriquez' attack, Capricorn was rising and this conjunction was not a prominently placed but still angular in the 1st house. Mars was on the Descendant.
According to Wikipedia,
Major Nidal Malik Hasan
b. Sept. 6, 1970 Arlington, VASun Virgo; Moon Scorpio; NN Pisces
Shooting: Nov. 5, 2009 1:34 pm Fort Hood, Texas
Sun 14 Scorpio (H9); Moon 23 Gemini (H4); ASC 20 Aquarius; MC 3 Sagittarius; NN 25 Capricorn
Jason Rodriquez
b. Sept. 28, 1969 (Place?)
Sun 6 Libra; Moon Aries or Taurus; NN 21 Pisces
Work related shooting
Nov. 6, 2009 11:45 am Orlando, Florida
Sun 15 Scorpio; Moon 6 Cancer; ASC 22 Capricorn; MC 9 Scorpio; NN 25 Capricorn
Labels: Full Moon, Libra, out-of-bounds planets, Pisces NN, Saturn-Uranus-Pluto, Venus-Jupiter, Venus-Neptune, Violence, Virgo
posted by Out The Comet's Ass @ 1:29 PM
4 Comments:
The most rabid fundamentalists I have met have all been Virgo. Don't think Hassan is as much mentally ill as he is a fundamentalist. Also the NN in Pisces can symbolize "prison".
Really? I sort of think of Virgos as being sensible. Maybe fundamentalism appeals to the compulsive side of Virgo that wants to purify everything. I think that the Pluto in Virgo generation Virgos are not the usual Virgos, but what do I know?
Don't know what Hasan is other than a murderer. Sociopath?
Interesting point about the Pisces NN and prison because that's straight where these two are going. Although it's good to notice that there are way more Pisces NN people out there who are law abiding citizens.
Hadn't thought about the Pluto in Virgo connection because I have met Pluto in Leo Virgos who are of this ilk. However, the Pluto in Virgo connection would make them more intense about whatever they decided to be intense about. Think its not about purification but the concept that everything has to be "a certain way" (order in their universe).
Haha, I think that a lot of the Pluto in Leos are fundamentalists in general. They need to lionize themselves. A lot of the best of the Pluto in Leo Astrologers are Virgos. They experienced Uranus and Pluto passing over their Suns in the 1960s and I think it raised their awareness and leadership skills to incredible levels.
It seems to me that Virgo can't deal with other people on anything but their own level. So maybe that's what you mean that things need to be a certain way. Guess that's why Libra has to follow. They like their daily habits, that's for sure.
When talking about purification I was referring to their critical, analytical side which is trying to sort out the details. Blended with Pluto this becomes extreme. That explains the great advancements in technology and sciences. What I like best is interest in organic farming and interests in poorer nations. Lacks vision and heart, though, so they can't light anyone else's fire. This comes across in the arts very clearly. Art is supposed to be therapeutic in little small ways for Pluto in Virgo, not an expression of aesthetics or glory or sorrow.
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