Good evening or good morning. I thought I would get a chart going for the suspected security breach at Newark Airport’s C Terminal. Two times are going around (differing by 10 minutes); after some research and deliberation, I’ve used the one published by the Newark Star-Ledger, which is 5:20 pm, the time a man was seen walking the wrong way through the exit from the non-secure area of the airport into the ‘sterile’ area. As a result, the terminal was put on lockdown.
If you’re doing traditional astrology, the chart gives Leo Moon void of course. The last aspect was an opposition to Jupiter (exaggeration; polarized emotions; drama, characterized by the Leo Moon). This is in the 8th house — a good crisis; lots of intrigue; in Aquarius, involving the public, in this case quite directly.
The Moon makes no new aspects to major planets before entering Virgo a few hours later. So by the rules of traditional astrology, this is a non-event. However, it was a really exciting non-event, especially if you were there: the evacuation of a huge terminal; boarded planes being evacuated; all to have thousands of passengers re-screened. Plus, this is all in the context of the recent Underwear Bomber, whose handiwork was the result of a significant security breach — boarding sans passport and avec explosives. With a solar eclipse on the horizon, nerves are naturally tense. With Mercury retrograde, there is the potential for plenty of confusion, which was precisely the scene at Newark last night.
If we look at the chart with extra points and asteroids, the Moon tells an interesting story. It’s exactly conjunct the asteroid Child (simple, all things childish or involving children). It is heading for a conjunction to the asteroid Apollo (repeating actions over and over, failing to learn the lesson, what could this possibly be referring to?). Then it ends its run through Leo with a conjunction to a dependable hypothetical point called Transpluto, which talks about something narrow, focused, restrictive or specific: but we don’t know what. We will find out, however.