9/11 and Our Trauma-Bonded Society

Thursday, it’s been 24 years since we got the announcement that everything would now be different. In this article, I plan to review that deeply personal transformation and also take a new look at the astrology associated with it. I propose that the wounds inflicted by the Sept. 11 incident have been left untended, and that neither as a society nor as individuals have we begun to process the grief it created. We just think we can move on, or that we have. Yet the suppressed grief of violent incident after incident is making people less stable, less trusting and leading to many mental, emotional and physical complications.

Planet Waves Weekly Astrology for Sep. 11 — #1,576

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — As your ruling planet Mercury aligns with the Sun in your birth sign, you may discover a diversity of new opportunities opening up for you. Some will come through other people, such as friends and longtime associates. Others will be the direct reward for your accomplishments.

Planet Waves Weekly Astrology for Sep. 4 — #1,575

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) — Relationships are probably the single greatest challenge in the lives we live on Earth. Humans are variable and inconsistent; and there are so many of us. Saturn’s return to your opposite sign Pisces is suggesting that there is something from the past that you need to work out. This is accompanied by a lunar eclipse right nearby, also in Pisces.