NewsScope for April 26, 1999
by WolfStar
Natural Born Killers
The two boys who stormed the Colorado’s Columbine High
School last week had fed their psyches on a steady stream
of violent media, including Oliver Stone’s Natural Born
Killers, the Basketball Diaries which featured a trenchcoat
killer played by Leo DiCaprio, and the gory video game
Doom.
Astrologically, this thunderbolt to America’s homeland was
clearly foreshadowed by a planetary confluence around the
powerful angles of the U.S. horoscope. The murderous
rampage came only one day after the deadly Mars-Saturn
opposition aligned with the U.S. Scorpio Ascendant
(discussed here last week). On the day of the shooting
(Hitler’s birthday, April 20) the Great Awakener Uranus
was also exactly on the U.S. fourth house cusp, the gateway
to America’s domestic political climate.
Uranus here also activates the U.S. Leo Midheaven,* which
represents America’s destiny and reputation as the global
leader in the entertainment industry. Uranus was last in this
degree zone 84 years ago when the first full length movie
was made. D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation perfectly
fits the astrological symbolism of Uranus across the U.S.
foundation point.
Technically innovative and masterful, the film portrayed
the Ku Klux Klan as heroic patriots and fueled a surge in
domestic racism. Uranus is once again entering the U.S.
fourth house when Americans must come to terms with
who is “us” and the entertainment industry’s role in
shaping our collective psyche. In a few months Saturn and
Uranus will be squaring each other, pitting responsible
control versus freedom of expression.
Ceres, Juno, and Vesta
While the shocking savagery of last week’s event was a
clear manifestation of angry masculine planets, the
feminine planets and asteroids also played a major part in
the action. The U.S Ceres, which governs the parent-child
relationship, has been under stress for the last year from
transiting Pluto, the planet of death and regeneration.
Across America people are wondering what went wrong in
the families that created such monstrous children.
Eric Harris (April 9, 1981) was born with his combative
Aries Sun square Ceres, indicating a family environment
that promoted paramilitary attitudes. Dylan Klebold
(September 11, 1981) was born with his service-oriented
Virgo Sun conjunct Ceres, which can also be interpreted as
a family background devoted to military service, especially
since his Mars is in proud and defiant Leo (see Senator
John McCain’s horoscope in NewsScope 4/09/99 for an
eerie parallel).
The central polarity in Eric Harris’s chart happens to
perfectly align with America’s Juno-Chiron axis. Juno in
the U.S. twelfth house feels like a social outcast, and by her
opposition to an aggressive Aries Chiron (in the sixth house
of public health and military service), tends to act out
violently and irrationally. This planetary combination
points to America’s violence as a national health crisis
rooted in social envy and feelings of isolation and
abandonment.
Vesta, the asteroid governing secret societies, also played a
prominent role in this tragic event. Vesta represents the
boys involvement in the Trenchcoat Mafia. By transit Vesta
was conjunct Klebold’s Mars, Harris’s North Node, and the
U.S. North Node. These numerous Vesta links point to a
Trenchcoat Mafia concerted action.
Social Outcasts
Astrologers looking at the horoscopes of Eric Harris and
Dylan Klebold will find signatures indicating a
dysfunctional home combined with an active fantasy world
and explosive rage. Both boys had severely afflicted Moons
(emotional and family life): Harris with his Gemini Moon
opposite Neptune and squaring Mercury was not living in
the real world. Klebold’s Aquarius Moon feels unwanted
and wounded by squaring his Uranus-Chiron opposition.
Harris, with his Aries Sun-Mars opposite Pluto, was a clear
candidate for expressing vicious hostility against others.
The Mars-Pluto combination by itself brings extreme acts
of anger, as does Mars in Pluto’s sign Scorpio, or Mars
tensely linked to Scorpio planets. Klebold’s Mars in Leo
squared Juno in Scorpio, a combination that grows furious
under peer group pressure.
Perhaps the most unexpected common element in these two
charts is the prominence of Libra and Venus, the so-called
Love planet. These boys belong to the generation born with
Pluto in Libra, and so naturally are exceptionally intense
about their peer relationships. And they both have Saturn in
Libra, plus several other planets and asteroids in the sign of
social acceptance. But these planets are all under severe
stress, and social acceptance was too difficult to find.
Both boys have Venus-Pluto aspects. Kip Kinkel (b. August
30, 1982), who perpetrated High School assault in Oregon,
also has a Venus-Pluto link, (plus Venus squaring ruthless
Scorpio Mars). All three of these deranged teens became
unbalanced by their Venus-Pluto aspects. At the time of
last week’s shooting, transiting Venus and Pluto were
opposing each other, and Juno, the most socially aware of
the asteroids, was also conjunct Pluto.
* For more on the
U.S. Midheaven
, visit the Political
Astrology web pages. Reader feedback is welcome.
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