Comments on: A Rattled Country

By: Mary Plumb

Mary Plumb — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:07:10 +0000

Here's a good (non-astrological) article about the conversation above:

By: Mary Plumb

Mary Plumb — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53:35 +0000

Hello AF,

I do agree with your eloquent assessment of the US empire..

I was merely making one point about the particular symbolism of Chiron ascending at the moment of the Fort Hood incident in relationship to the healing, wounding principle..and the immediate mental health debate..

I realize the issues are deeper and longer and more complex, and, as I said, you wrote sensitively about the bigger picture…

Thanks for contributing..

By: AF

AF — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:33:45 +0000

I think the final paragraph misses the point entirely. Instead of providing more mental health services to the military, let us fix our gaze a bit deeper. That is, let us look at the fact that continuous, years-long acts of aggression by our country on others is taking it’s toll on the hearts and minds of american soldiers – the canaries in the coal mine. What is being revealed here, through this criminal act of murder, is the larger institutional insanity by which americans are being led around by the nose. The psychic wounding of the people by that larger insanity is being revealed at this time. This singular act is born of the same dynamics occurring in places of abusive power far larger than the individual who has enacted this particular symptom (violence) of the larger whole. “As above, so below. As within, so without.” The horror we feel here on our own soil is a reflection of the horrors we have perpetrated upon others in foreign lands. It will continue and grow until we wake up and understand the lessons of the heavens.

By: Mary Plumb

Mary Plumb — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:22:08 +0000

Hi Alex,

Those asteroids are so amazing…

Thank you for adding so much to the picture…

By: Alex Miller

Alex Miller — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:46:07 +0000

Asteroids fill in some of the gaps for the shooting. Jupiter (religious beliefs, political philosophy)at the Ascendant is traveling with Osiris (Egyptian god of the dead),Damocles (the unseen doom hanging over one’s head), and Requiem (the funeral mass) at 17, 16 and 12 Aquarius, all in the Twelfth House of hidden enemies. TNO Ixion, named for the first murderer in Greek mythology, is elevated in the Tenth at 14 Sag, squaring Hasan’s (DOB 9/8/70) 15 Virgo Sun, and exactly trine Atropos the Cutter, named for the Fate who severs the thread of life at death, just under the Descendant at 14 Leo, in the Sixth House of military personnel, squared the exact Sun/Mercury conjunction, which is also conjoined by Apophis at 13 Scorpio, named for the Egyptian deity personifying pure evil, and these conjunct Hasan’s natal Osiris at 12 Scorpio. Natally, Hasan has an exact triple conjunction of Jupiter, Ixion, and Icarus all at 3 Scorpio, on the Quasar at 4 Scorpio, combining politics/religion with murderous acts and rash, reckless behavior, spotlighted by the Quasar which brings prominence or notoriety. There’s more, but those are the highlights.