{"id":66285,"date":"2013-04-19T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=66285"},"modified":"2013-04-19T18:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T22:25:26","slug":"an-explosive-week-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/an-explosive-week-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"An Explosive Week — In History"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I scrapped a whole version of Planet Waves. Amanda Painter helped pull this research together. Here is some of that text:
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\nThe week we just lived through was dominated by activity in the sign Aries. There was one event after the next that involved an explosion, starting with the Marathon, then on Wednesday, fertilizer plant went off near Waco, Texas, leveling part of a town and killing several people. There were also several explosions reported in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

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Moments after Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981. That was during the immediately prior Sun-Mars conjunction in Aries. The most recent one was this past Wednesday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two aspects describing this stand out. One was that Mercury entered Aries after more than two months in Pisces (including the Mercury retrograde in Pisces). Mercury entered Aries on Saturday, and walked across the Aries Point — the sensitive first degree of the zodiac.<\/p>\n

As it did, that put it on course for the Mercury-Uranus conjunction that happens Saturday and the Mercury-Uranus square on Sunday. That aspect shows up prominently in the chart for the Marathon bombing and the other explosions, as we\u2019ll see in a moment when we do the chart. The Mercury factor often represents a message, or something that can be read as one.<\/p>\n

And the Sun was conjunct Mars in late Aries, which was in effect all week though exact on Wednesday, the day that the the senate voted down any new firearms regulations. That\u2019s a hot, fiery conjunction in an assertive or aggressive sign.<\/p>\n

Notably, this was the first Sun-Mars conjunction in Aries (the sign ruled by Mars, and where the Sun is exalted) since April 2, 1981. That conjunction was within one degree of exactitude on March 30, 1981, the day that Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed by David Hinckley.<\/p>\n

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That crime was the one that led to the passage of the Brady Bill, an important gun control law named for Reagan\u2019s then-press secretary, who was maimed in the assassination attempt. That law, which included magazine limits, an assault weapons ban and FBI background checks, had important provisions expire under the Cheney\/Bush administration.<\/p>\n

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Spectator in Boston area videotapes the excitement with her iPhone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This time of year has many violent incidents throughout history, including the start of the Revolutionary War. That was the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which began April 19, 1775. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1864. The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.<\/p>\n

More recently, there was the Waco, Texas siege on April 19, 1993. There was the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The mass shooting at Columbine was on April 20, 1999. The shooting at Virginia Tech was on April 16, 2007. The BP explosion and oil spill happened April 20, 2010.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no easy explanation for this pattern. Some of it is by design; some of these events commemorate one another. I think, however, that it\u2019s significant that the earliest date in this chain is the start of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775. That was celebrated as Patriot\u2019s Day in Massachusetts, but was recently moved to the nearest Monday, which is also the day of the Boston Marathon.<\/p>\n

The most salient fact out of all of this is that the bombing took place not just at the marathon but also on the day that commemorates the start of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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