The Austin Bombings

The city of Austin, Texas has experienced a series of bombings during March. The first bombing took place on March 2, 2018.

When looking for aspects that would symbolize a bombing or an explosion, I look for hard aspects involving Mars and Uranus. Sometimes, other outer planetary aspects are involved as well, but almost always there is a Mars/Uranus connection.

As with many events of this type, a couple of prior eclipses had been activated by transiting planets - in this case, Mars. However, I wanted to find out why the location was Austin (in terms of Astrology). And, sometimes when the answer isn’t obvious with the location chart, it looks a great deal clearer when that chart is progressed. Such is the case with regard to these bombings in Austin.

The city of Austin was incorporated on December 27, 1839. The event chart for that day is somewhat inconclusive in terms of these bombings. However, the progressed chart is much more useful. In that chart, P Mars is at 19 degrees Gemini, P Uranus is at 20 degrees Pisces, and P Saturn is at 17 Sagittarius. On March 2, transiting Mars was activating that t-square in Austin’s progressed chart. There were a couple more bombings/explosions on March 12 as the Sun was activating this t-square. Those bombings were the main events, although there was another one on March 18 as T Mars opposed P Sun and the last three on March 20/21 as T Mars continued to oppose P Sun and had moved to conjunction of Austin’s N Sun. T Sun squares P Sun on the 21st as well.

The two eclipses involved are the March 8, 2016 total solar eclipse at 19 Pisces and the September 12, 2015 solar eclipse at 20 Virgo.