“A fire in an airplane — not such a good thing.”
— Jasper Schuringa
Dear Aunt Sally
Now what do I say?
Well, thank you very much for the underwear
There. Now what do I write?
I always love underwear…
— Danny Kaye
Okay so — what exactly was in the astrology chart of the Underwear Bomber incident on flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit? [Note, the time used in this article is one hour off. The correct chart appears in the comments area below, and we will revise the interpretations based on the new time. In essence, the new chart makes the same points more clearly. The old chart maintains some validity as the “original stated time.” However, this puts us on alert that there is a time issue. Let’s keep an eye on this, since the time seems to be slippery. I would appreciate if we could focus some discussion on refining the time, and also take a look at the takeoff chart from Amsterdam. Thank you and back to writing Cosmic Confidential.]
Before we go there, I just want to point out that the Security Machine likes to make big moves after something sort of happens. Remember the Shoe Bomber? Now for the rest of eternity we will have to take off our shoes going through airport security. I have always secretly wondered what would happen if somebody tried to sneak a bomb in a baby one day. Would we have to X-ray every baby?
Now are we going to have to take off our shoes, coat and undies before we go through security? Will Victoria’s Secret be present at all airports to assist TSA employees?
Why don’t they use the perfectly good security measures they already have, and that we already pay for? They’re telling us that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was on the terrorist watch list, and his dad reported him to the Feds, but he strolled through ticketing and security? Does anyone remember the time that Sen. Ted Kennedy, as recognizable as Bono, Bill Clinton or George Bush, was held up boarding the flight he took home regularly (as in, for decades) because his name matched a suspected terrorist on the watch list?
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab can get on an airplane with high explosives, but Sen. Kennedy was detained?
Really? Shut the fuck up. I know Umar boarded in Amsterdam, where security officials step out for a few bong hits and a quick romp with a hooker during their ‘coffee’ breaks. Even the sniffer dogs get a little dognip as a treat, when they’re not playing Frisbee. But the watch list is supposed to be used by US airlines to track people coming into the United States. We can chalk this up to Mercury about to station retrograde in our chart; in the sign Capricorn — corporate and government officials not quite doing their bit. We can, that is, if we assume Mercury is always retrograde in Capricorn.
One funny thing about the chart is that a planet called Borasisi is rising in Pisces. This is a cool planet, named for a Kurt Vonnegut concept, from the religion Bokononism. “The foundation of Bokononism is that all religion, including Bokononism and all its texts, is formed entirely of lies; however, if you believe and adhere to these lies, you will at least have peace of mind, and perhaps live a good life,” says the Wiki entry on this scifi religion.
Let’s take this chart from the top: Moon’s aspects, Sun’s aspects, and the 12th house ruler — the house of secret enemies.
1. The Moon is in Aries. It’s about to make a sextile to Nessus and a trine to retrograde Mars. Then it will square Mercury in Capricorn and the lunar nodes (representing a reversal of direction or a total reorientation of some kind). The whole situation seems to work out for the better. Just like the couple who crashed the party at the White House, this is revealing problems that we need to solve. Nessus is in the 12th, the Terrorist Bar and Grill (including the terrorist in your mind), and this opens the door to that secret haunt. Mercury retrograde in Capricorn is a review of government policy. The retrograde is the review and the policy is Capricorn.
2. The Sun is in Capricorn, having just made a conjunction to Pluto and about to make a square to Saturn. The real danger is over and there may have never been an actual danger. The Sun-Pluto conjunction is separating. If it were applying, that would be another story. However, the Sun is applying in a square to Saturn — that one is about to happen (that’s what the word applying means in astrology). Sun square Saturn is about discipline and focus. So we’ll certainly be seeing a bit more of that.
3. The 12th house ruler is Saturn. This is because Aquarius is on the 12th cusp; and the ruler of the 12th is about the secret actor. Here is the twist in the chart: in yet another important terrorist chart, one ruling planet for the government (always Saturn first) is the same as the ruling planet for the perpetrator. (This was also true several different ways in the Sept. 11 chart.) I’m going to take a guess from this that the guy had some inside help (if only through negligence, though the precision of this aspect makes mere negligence seem unlikely). There are other factors in this chart suggesting the potential for an inside job, such as Jupiter, the ruler of the 10th house of government, in the 12th.
Note how much there is in the 12th; all of it in Aquarius, the sign of groups and networks. Unfortunately, this does seem to be part of some kind of coordinated effort, and I suspect that a good bit of that hidden effort will be unraveled as a result of this mishap. When your suspect is dead, that’s not so good. When your suspect is alive, that’s helpful.
It’s also helpful that all the passengers are alive, and that Jasper Schuringa will have a cool story for his grandkids. Thank God for miracles and remember, with all the billions and billions of dollars spent to make the world safer, Jasper paid for his ticket and helped out for free.
Oh what a tangled web we weave…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434
excuse me while I go and find out where I left my tinfoil….
Capricorn, Libra and Cancer respectfully request that you call it the Cardinal Point unless it’s actually 0 degrees Aries. Calling all of them the Aries point is a reflection of top down head superior to everything authoritarian bullshit. Thanks.
No one seems to have notice how many people joining Al-Qaeda after living in America and Europe. Many of the newer leaders are coming from our areas. Something is happening here in our backyards.
Also, I’m wondering if the young man wasn’t trying to set the plane on fire rather than blowing it up. Perhaps a new way of calling attention to their cause. Sorta like the immolation of the Buddist monks during the Vietnam War. Or else using the caustic materials of the aircraft to do more damage to the passengers.
“Detroit terror attack: US aviation security system failed, Napolitano admits”
Headline in one of the establishment papers over this side of the pond…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6901972/Detroit-terror-attack-US-aviation-security-system-failed-Napolitano-admits.html
And I forgot to mention the Saturn transit in my last comment about Nigeria’s chart.
Saturn is in process of conjoining their Libra stellium in the 4th house, squaring the natal Mars-transiting Pluto conjunction in the 7th house, at the same time opposing their natal Chiron in the 10th house.
This is pretty much a TICKING TIMEBOMB !!!
Yah, I would not have put it that way, shebear, but I will glibly glide alongside you in the seemingly infinite metaphoric quagmire to define? prohibit? revoke? the use of underwear explosives, particularly phallic ones, as weapons of mass destruction.
It would of course it’s always funny until someone gets hurt.
Gauri – Thank you, i’m in awe. i’m such a klutz at progressed charts that i normally avoid them like the high board at the pool.
Rossa – thank you for the additional info. Wonder if the smartly dressed man was also an attorney.
This local news website in Detroit already has a report that a smartly dressed man was seen helping the alleged terror suspect. The two witnesses are a couple of lawyers returning on the same flight from a safari. They provided a boarding card to prove they were on the same flight and therefore present at the gate before they boarded in Schipol.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/flight_253_passenger_says_at_l.html
Also there are reports here in the UK that the chemicals he had on him both in the syringe and pouch containing the powder were not only too little to do any real damage but were more suitable for an incendiary device rather than explosives. So while there was certainly a fire on board there was nothing sufficient or suitable for blowing a hole in the fuselage. He apparently claimed the syringe was medication for his diabetes which is exempt from the restrictions on fluids on board. Will they now ban all liquid and powder forms of medication unless you have a note from your Doctor?
Eric,
I did the chart for Lagos, Nigeria, with Oct.1, 1960, for midnight with -1 for time (that’s what I keep getting UTC -1).
It’s an Aries Point chart, with Cancer rising at zero degrees.
Pluto at 25 degrees Virgo is conjunct their Virgo IC at 27 degrees.
Chiron is in opposition to the Pluto, conjunct their MC.
Libra Sun at 7 degrees conjunct both Mercury and Uranus at 4 degrees Libra, all in the fourth house.
Mars at 6 degrees Cap, in the seventh house, which means transiting Pluto is within orb (applying) of conjunction with Mars in the 7th house. Pluto conjunct Mars in the seventh house should give rise to violence towards ‘others’, which will worsen as the conjunction becomes exact over next year or two.
Gemini Moon conjunct Nessus in the 12th house.
That chart (not quotidian) progressed for Dec. 26, 2009, brings progressed Saturn in Taurus conjunct their progressed MC.
Gauri – while I’m writing horoscope 799 in a Greek restaurant, our good friend David Roell at the Astrology Center of America looked up the Nigeria data for me, from Nick Campion’s Book of World Horoscopes. Here is what he wrote. If you create a chart from this information, please give your thought process. I suggest you research the points of contention, such as the time zone.
Best to compare a few charts.
Band on the Run…
January 1, 1900, the British form the colony & protectorate of Southern Nigeria, as well as the protectorate of Northern Nigeria. Which, combined, amounts to the present state. This would have been decreed in London, but you should make a parallel chart for Lagos. Campion gives no time. If it was an Act of Parliament, then it would have come into force at midnight. If it was an administrative decree, then it would have been a daylight thing. The Sun would be in 11 or 12, nothing else makes sense.
October 1, 1960, midnight, Lagos, independence.
January 15, 1966, 2:00 am CET (-1:00), Lagos, military coup. Nigeria has remained under military rule pretty much ever since then.
Lagos is 3 E 24, 6 N 27. Both Campion & Shanks give -1:00 as the time zone, but for the dates mentioned I would be skeptical of that, as it makes no sense, especially on the equator. LMT is a possibility.
Wow, this is the Planet Waves community at its best!
Eric – thank you for all the work you put in on the event chart(s), it’s like a graduate course in astrology. Given the time of year (and yourworkload) it’s very generous.
BK – Love how you combine your erudition with a ramblin’, gamblin’ style.
Gauri, Mandy – points well taken, thank you.
shebear – ouch!
Actually, the Solar Eclipse (the last one, not the upcoming one) has Saturn at 18 Virgo 21 square Venus at 18 Gemini 38. This would create a mutable square to his planets in Sagittarius and Pisces and of course his Chiron at 17+ Gemini. I guess he saw it as no way out. . . except in flames.
Abdulmutallab’s north node at 16-17 Aries is conjunct the Christmas “event” chart’s Moon.
The last Solar Eclipse (July 21) has Venus at 18 Gemini 38 which would be conjunct his Chiron and Hephaistos (and square or oppose all that other stuff). Perhaps his heart got broken or his parents cut off his funding?
So we definitely have a time issue with this chart. I’m not going to retract this article, based on the well-established “stated time phenomenon” in astrology. I have to get back to Cosmic Confidential. Here’s the new chart. The 12th is still ruled by Saturn. Aquarius goes into the 11th. The 10th is a fuckload more interesting, with Pluto there, and now ruled by Capricorn. Saturn doubles up once again as the planet of the government and the chart of the “secret enemy.” The 12th is still more interessting with a Moon-Eris conjunction; but a lot less organized than if Aquarius were in there.
I am not ready to call this a total inside job, false flag, hoax pile of hogwash — but we need to be paying attention for clues about inside activity. This incident is not what it seems; but then again, when are they? I’ll believe the government is interested in stopping terrorism when I see my first bomb sniffing dog in an airport in the “post 9-11 world.” So far I have not seen one.
http://planetwavesweekly.com/resources/chart110.html
Oh, and his Sun is on an Aries Point. (duh)
Birthdate for Abdulmutallab is 12/22/86. no time yet
This man has just experienced Pluto to his Sun, and his natal Neptune conjuncts his Sun at 5+ Capricorn, which Pluto is closing in on. He has a Mars/Jupiter conjunction in Pisces and a Saturn/Uranus/Mercury conjunction in Sagittarius and they square each other. His Chiron at 17+ Gemini forms a t-square with the 2 conjunctions.
Hephaistos does conjunct his Chiron.
The bigger concern about this whole incident is NIGERIA. It is rapidly emerging as the hub of activity for Al Qaeda. NYT reported over the weekend that the terrorist camps in Nigeria rival those in Pakistan. It would be interesting to see what is going on in Nigeria’s chart.
Umar boarded the plane in Lagos, which is where his journey started. Amsterdam was a stop over.
I flew out of Amsterdam just 3 months back on my way home, here to US, the ‘security’ in Amsterdam was TIGHT. You had to go through so many check points, so many screens to get to the airplane. And it was just a stop-over for me too.
Interestingly there was a gentleman, with typical Muslim attire/appearance traveling at the same time. No idea who he was, but he was with the security for an entire hour. Short of pulling out his guts, they checked EVERYTHING about him.
from Wikipedia, sourced twice:
The aircraft involved was a Northwest Airlines Airbus A330-300 twinjet, with 279 passengers, 8 flight attendants, and 3 pilots aboard.[6][7] It left Amsterdam around 8:45 a.m. local time (0745 UTC), and was scheduled to arrive in Detroit at 11:40 a.m. EST (1640 UTC),[8] but landed around 1 p.m.[7][9] The aircraft was painted in Delta Air Lines’ livery, as Northwest is a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta.[10][11]
Hey — can we do a little more work sourcing the time? I would trust the original reports. They got that airplane on the ground fast.
It has also been reported that he paid for his ticket in cash, was on a one way ticket and had no luggage… (for interest the 9/11 hijackers checked in luggage) but his actions should have sent up a red flag – watch list or not – BEFORE he got on the plane either at Lagos or Schipol.
We in the UK have to supply 60 or so items of information before we leave the country (by any means not just air travel…)
Eric,
“Mercury retrograde in Capricorn is a [review in government policy]”. To add to that, something that has been in effect for weeks now is a double trine of U.S. Mars to transiting Chiron, and the transiting Mars to U.S. Chiron. Mars could be party crashers or would-be terrorists and Chiron is really getting in our faces about these things. Air signs and fire signs! What will happen when the transiters form squares and oppositions when they get to Libra (Mars) and Pisces (Chiron)?
I’m intrigued by the fact that the bomb components were supposedly stashed near his genitals and supposedly in a condom. I’m guessing he was convinced he’d be outfitted with a newer and more indomitable penis in the afterlife, you know, so as to fully satisfy the endless lines of lusty heavenly virgins awaiting him.
By the way, I heard on CNN that the time had been moved up an hour (12:30), but since Mercury is rx, . . . . . . .
If we stick to the 11:30 AM time, this might be a clue to his “problem”. In an earlier post I asked readers about Hephaistos because (if event was at 11:30 Detroit time) this asteroid was on the nadir (or “the end of the matter” or “roots”). One of the key phrases attributed to Hephaistos was “parental abandenment” . A person interviewed who knew Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab said he had become estranged from his family as an adult. Another quote was “he was very obedient to his parents as a boy.” Perhaps this young man’s reason for committing suicide was more than just religious beliefs.
Just a guess.
It has been repeatedly reported that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was 23 years old, which would mean he was born in 1986. Just supposin’ he was born in mid August:
*His Sun would be opposed the present Aquarius Group of Neptune, Jupiter, Chiron, and transiting Mars would be conjunct his Sun.
* His Jupiter would be about 21 Pisces rx, where Uranus is now and just went direct this month.(A former teacher of his has said he had a “saintly aura” and got the nickname “the Pope”)
*His Uranus would be at 18+ Sagittarius rx and his Chiron would be about 20 Gemini. That would mean he would have a t-square, and that transiting Uranus would be activating it. (By the way, Uranus is also activating the U.S. Mars at 21+ Gemini and the U.S. Neptune at 22 Virgo square)
*If born on the 15th of August 1986, his Moon could be conjunct his Uranus
*If born on the 16th of August 1986, his Moon could be conjunct Neptune
* If born in the month of August, 1986, his Neptune would be at 3+ Capricorn, where transiting Pluto is right now.
Or, if he was born in mid February 1986, his Sun (25-27 Aquarius) would conjunct his Jupiter at around 28 Aquarius, and he would be experiencing a conjunction of the transiting Neptune, Jupiter, Chiron to his Sun/Jupiter. His Uranus would be at 21 Sagittarius (trine transiting Mars and square transiting Uranus). His Neptune would be 4-5 Capricorn (conjunct transiting Sun/Pluto and square transiting Libra Saturn)
If this isn’t Abdulmutallab’s birthday (either one) then it’s SOMEBODY’S birthday, and we had better start checking out birth dates as part of the screening to board airplanes!
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