The "massacre" of the Virginia Tech students has left me numb. There has been such a series of shocks over the last 7 years I can hardly take in more without seeming to lose a part of my emotional attachment to horror and shock. Still at this idyllic setting for a college in the valley between the Alleghanys and Blue Ridge Mountains. Not a likely spot for a massacre. And yet 33 students lie dead and a reported 29 critically injured. The age old questions surface "why, why this campus, why us?" Likely those questions will never be answered.
Virginia Tech opened October 1st, 1872, the recipients of one of the Morrill Land Grants given to states for colleges (an example of the generosity and understanding of education for all at one time in our governments history) one of the stipulations was a promise of an education for blacks. This was part of the reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.
There are no answers, not even astrological. Oh yes, Pluto was squaring their natal Mercury, Saturn is stationary and soon to go direct to aspect their Pluto and oppose their progressed Mercury, and Mercury ruled the ascendant of their first organizational meeting (March 25/26th, 1872 in Richmond) Lots of energetic pressure on their institution of higher learning. The T Moon, representing the people, was exactly conjunct Virginia Tech's Chiron - their wounding.
All we know about the young man who shattered the struggling spring day at Virginia Tech, is he is 24 years old, Chinese, in this country on a student visa, and until three months ago he was in San Francisco and had either transferred to Virginia Tech or came to see his girlfriend. Little is known about him or his motive, much less his astrological signature.
Maybe it's April and the Aries in a square to the US Cancer and Capricorn energies, after all, the Columbine massacre happened 8 years ago this Friday. Aries, spring, a rise in energies. On April 20th 1999 Mars was in Scorpio in a square to Neptune, today Mars was in Pisces, Neptune's home sign, but even that doesn't explain it all.
I said in a recent post that it would be a violent week with T-Mars squaring the US Uranus, and the 2005 Inaugural Moon plus opposing GWB's Mars, the violence isn't over; sadly, Iraq lives with the horror Virginia Tech experienced, every single day.
Prayers need to go out to every family who has lost someone today, no matter where they live, for they must all walk through the "valley of the shadow."
ADDITION
As I am sure most of you know, the shooter was from South Korea and born Jan. 23, 1984 in Seoul, no time. I'm not sure of the date of birth but this is the date that was posted Monday night. An interesting side note is that his sister works for the US State Department.
Iraq citizens are still dying and in the 4 years since this war started over 3,300 Americans have been killed and in those same 4 years, 120,000 Americans have died from gun related homicides. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elayne-boosler/we-are-getting-tired-of-p_b_46196.html
I've heard it said that the "culture of guns and violence" cannot be changed in America, I say it can. I remember the day when a person could smoke in a hospital room, Dr. Office, any office, grocery stores, restaurants, theaters, dentists, and no one dared to ask you not to smoke in their home. A person could smoke anywhere they wanted. That culture was changed and now it's almost tacky to smoke at all. Oh yes, the gun and violence culture can be changed but we have to open an honest dialogue in this country and I hope there aren't too many more of these killings before that dialogue happens.