FBI agents last night arrested a terrorist suspect in connection with Saturday’s attempted bombing of Times Square. This was an extraordinarily fast investigation. Politico has provided a description of the investigation (which I will post as the first comment) and lists the time of the arrest as 11:45 pm at Kennedy Airport, so let’s go with that.
Note that this will be an initial, cursory reading of the chart — the angels and the devils are all in the details, and those can take some time to come out, though certain things leap off the page.
In looking at a news chart or a horary chart, there are two things to check first: one is the last aspect the Moon has made, and the next one it will make; the second is the ascendant. Those give the initial clues; they set the tone of the chart and give some indication of the sequence of events. Based on some very old rules, you use the chart to make up a story; a narrative. The story is not ‘true’ — it’s like a sketch or a diagram.
One thing to note straight away is that Mercury is still retrograde, so everything that has happened is preliminary. That would count for the investigation, the arrest, and my interpretation — though I’m using that as part of the story. Mercury stations direct overnight [next] Tuesday to Wednesday, so we have plenty of room for new stuff to develop — and it’s clearly there, behind the scenes.
While most astrologers out of habit will glance at the ascendant of any chart first (that’s the dark, horizontal line on the left side of the chart) and see what is rising, which you can think of as arising (which is Capricorn, and several planets/points: plenty), let’s take a look at the Moon. That would also be in Capricorn.