New Zealand bloodbath

The horrific events that transpired on Friday March 15 don’t need me to give them extra publicity, but I will outline the basic facts because it is astrologically relevant. In Christchurh NZ at 1:40 pm a gunman opened fire on two different sets of innocents, killing 50 people.

I will use my customary calculation method for a national chart, and that is the aries ingress prior to the last change in governmental style for a nation. I have chosen November 1876 as the time the provinces were abolished, to be administered by an elected government. Aries ingress before that happened was March 20, 1876, 17:39:54 in Wellington, New Zealand. 

Just a very quick look at this chart, it has an 8th house Sun which shows New Zealand’s preferred role in the backgound of world affairs. One notable exception is its nuclear policy where it has steadfastly rejected any involvement with nuclear power. This can be seen in this chart with the Pluto conjunct Mars conjunct Venus in 9… when the layers are peeled back (Pluto) there is nothing to be gained (Mars in Taurus) nor is there any moral justification (Venus in Taurus) for NZ to give harbour to nuclear vessels.

Mercury rules both angles in this chart, therefore Jupiter has 7th cusp and IC covered. We can See Mercury 2° from Saturn in Pisces (not a great place for either planetary energy) both being governed by Jupiter in Sagittarius. However we do see strong idealism in their non-nuclear-proliferation stance and they will have that stance regardless of any consequence (a very Saturn in Pisces in 7 stand). Capricorn Moon means NZ will not be easily moved from its course.

I would draw attention to the nodes, NN being just over 8 ° above the descendant, less than 1° behind the Sun; and New Zealand feeling that they have a real role to play in world affairs despite their less prominent visibility.

Having satisfied myself that this is a valid chart for NZ, I would then like to have a look at the shooting with reference to that. 

This chart has Gemini rising, which makes Mercury paramount, and a Mars MC which shows us the importance of his position. It also has Sagittarius as the 7th cusp which means we should not neglect Jupiter either. Mercury is just over half a minute from an exact conjunction, in retrograde motion, with the Sun. Mercury turned retrograde on the nodes of this NZ chart, and that conjunction is taking place about 3° above the descendant. So Mercury is retrograde in the 7th house this NZ chart, very visible and very prominent. Mars is in the middle of the Pluto/Mars conjunction in this chart, and such a bloodbath is unfortunately, very ruthless in a Pluto/Mars kind of way. Both Jupiter and Mars were quintile the Mercury of this chart, suggesting that this act was to gain maximum publicity. The MC of this chart was near to the midpoint of Mercury and Mars and makes a decile aspect with both. There is no doubt that this bloodbath was engineered to send a graphic massage. Before I go on with that massage and what it actually means for us, perhaps I should look at the chart itself without it overlaid on the chart I chose to represent the country. 

A few things we notice here. Firstly, the chart has a Gemini Ascendant, thus maximising the ‘information’ component of the ‘message’. Its MC is in Aries and Mars is in the 12th house (final dispositor is Saturn in 8) suggesting that this bloodbath caught the authorities entirely by surprise. We have already spoken about Mars in relation to the national chart. Sun is with Mercury in the 10th whole house (9th equal MC-as-10) so visibility is high and the ‘’message’ is idealised. Jupiter is 6° above the descendant in Sagittarius, so there was every intention for this to spread wide and far. I believe 1500 utube and FB videos were destroyed. That this chart is just 7 minutes and 40 seconds form the exact conjunction of Mercury with the Sun means that in the midst of the rampage, that aspect became exact. Moon in Cancer, the rampage was intended to tear at the heart strings. SN conjunct Pluto and Saturn, shows an event which had prolific and deadly impact.

I guess it comes as no surprise that our society has radical elements within it that hold such hateful views. That such hateful individuals can have so devastating an effect within our society is sobering however. There is no easy answer for this. Freedom of expression has long been promoted as a virtue of western democracy, and driving an influence underground has always assisted in its promotion, so censure of hateful material is not going to happen.

What then should happen? Should people come face-to-face with just how ugly xenophobia can get?

I am going out on a limb to say that unless we, as a global society see how ugly it can be, we run a very real risk of giving xenophobia power.