Astro-Forensics of the Boston Marathon Bombings
By Alex Miller
When we’re looking at a tragedy of this type, be it the mass shootings at Aurora, Colorado or Sandy Hook Elementary, the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, or this latest atrocity at the Boston Marathon, the forensic astrologer has a unique set of tools at his disposal — asteroids; specifically, the more than 15,000 named asteroids, which can be divided into names with mythic resonance, and those more prosaic or everyday.
In addition to the names of ancient deities and mythic figures like Dionysos, Heracles, Isis and Anchises, the heavens are now full of common first and surnames like Anna, Paul, Johnny, Holmes and Stevens, as well as place names like Manhattan, London, Bavaria and America.
While traditional planetary energies will answer the why of an incident like this, these PNAs, or “Personal-Named Asteroids,” can be vital in answering the who, what and where, especially when we have a confirmed when — in this case, the detonation of the first bomb at the finish line of the race, at 2:50 pm EDT in Boston, Massachusetts on Patriot’s Day, Monday April 15, 2013.
It may be difficult to accept, especially in a society as geared toward free will as ours is, but the asteroids representing the proper names of people and places significant to the event regularly appear in positions that describe their roles in the story.
Sometimes the match is exact; sometimes it’s formed by a phonetic, linguistic or associative bond between the subject and an asteroid. In the story of the Boston Marathon, we can begin with two exact matches for the locale, and explain how these fit seamlessly into the day’s events. First is asteroid Massachusetts (#4547), the state in which the bombing occurred.