New York City police this morning evicted the Occupy Wall Street movement from Zuccotti Park in a surprise raid. The operation was timed for 1 am and by most accounts was running a little late; I have cast the chart for 1:05 am. [Note — a state judge has ruled that the Occupy movement as the right to take the park back after the cleaning is complete, and that the neither the city nor the company that owns the park has the right to evict them again. Another hearing, presumably an appeal, is scheduled for 11:30 am in New York City.]
Summing up this chart: it looks like the self-undoing of the New York City government, in particular Mayor Bloomberg. His Honor and his police commissioners have given many gifts to the Occupy movement, starting with the pepper spray incident that got the whole thing into the news, and then the arrests of 700 people who were trapped on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1. If you’re not from New York City, I can tell you that we play by different rules from the rest of the country. The people of the city are extremely tolerant to diversity, disruption and constant change; and culture itself has momentum that cannot easily be altered by external forces.
When evaluating a chart, I check two things first: the position of the Moon, and the angles — and in this chart they are loaded. By ‘angles’ I mean the mundane angles: the ascendant (rising sign) and its opposite point; and the midheaven (topmost dark line) and its opposite point, abbreviated from Latin as the IC (bottom dark line). All are interesting here; there are planets clustered around them — and the Moon in Cancer is directly in the game, aspecting Mercury, Venus, Pholus and Ixion. That illustrates the adjustment to the ‘home’ space of the chart, but also the extent of public interest that will be generated by what has happened today.
But there is something even more stunning about this chart, which involves a little-known historical fact. Look at the way that 12 Gemini is on the midheaven and 12 Sagittarius is on the IC. These mundane angles — remember that term — are the most sensitive lines in the chart. They are like the fingers that reach into consciousness and draw in energy, events, themes — and which also reach across time and space.