At least 13 are dead and more than 100 were injured in a van attack in Barcelona yesterday for which ISIL claimed credit; with five terrorists shot dead hours later in a Spanish seaside resort 70 miles away. The initial attack occurred at 4.50 pm on Las Ramblas, a busy tourist street. It’s the worst atrocity on Spanish soil since the Madrid train bombings by Al-Quaeda inspired terrorists on 11 March 2004, which killed 192 and injured more than 2000.
This attack happened when the Moon in late Gemini formed a Kite onto the Fire Grand Trine of an exact Sun North Node conjunction in Leo trine Saturn trine Uranus, with the Moon opposition Saturn. There was also a pushily confident, rule-breaking and emotionally intense 8th house Venus in Cancer opposition Pluto square Jupiter. Mars in Leo (conjunct the Sun Node), was also on the focal point of a Yod inconjunct Pluto sextile Neptune, so hyper-aggressive.
Next Monday’s Solar Eclipse has the Leo New Moon on the axis conjunct the Descendant; and the Lunar Eclipse of August 7th had Mars in Leo and the Sun conjunct the Descendant.
At the Madrid bombings, Pluto was also inconjunct Mars, so obviously a highly stressed and brutal time; and Pluto was square a Pisces Sun. Pluto was at 22 degrees Sagittarius and at the moment tr Saturn is at 21 Sagittarius – but there’s nothing on the modern Spain country chart that resonates to that.
The 22 Nov 1972 12.45pm Spain chart does have tr Pluto heading to oppose the destructive Mars/Saturn midpoint within days, which makes sense.
The Barcelona terrorist incident corresponded with a kite configuration involving a quite volatile combination of MA, JU, SA and UR. To wit one has JU=MA/SA (“Quick death”) and UR=MA/SA (“Violent separation and death. Sudden death”) in the first harmonic (the interpretations are due to Witte). The planetary picture JU=MA/SA can also mean “mass murder” since JU can be interpreted as a great in quantity and MA/SA is Ebertin’s “death axis”. Unfortunately this kite configuration persists until Aug 28th 2017. Expect to see something happen on the 25th when MA becomes closely conjunct the N.O. and MO conjunct JU, as well as SU conjunct ME.