The bombing at Istanbul Airport in Turkey has claimed over 40 lives with 240 injured. It occurred around 10pm on June 28 which puts the retrograde, vengeful Mars in Scorpio exactly on the midheaven, still in a stressed Yod, quincunx Uranus Moon sextile Mercury. So explosive, angry, relentlessly determined and a brutal statement. There’s also a 6th house (health) Venus (Sun) in Cancer opposition a hidden 12th house Pluto square the 3rd house Moon Uranus – causing major disruption to travel.
There have already been three bombings in Turkey this year, causing many deaths and the Ankara railway bombing last October which claimed 103 lives. The assumption is that it is ISIL behind what seems to have been a very professional atrocity.
The Turkey chart has tr Uranus exactly in opposition to the 4th house Mercury Saturn, so a major jolt. And with tr Saturn moving to square the Pisces Uranus and MC late Oct/Nov this year there may be more high tension situations to come. The September Eclipse willoppose the Uranus. Then tr Neptune will conjunct Uranus in 2017 which will be nervy, high-wire and fanatical. Almost exact at the moment also is Solar Arc Neptune conjunct the 5th house Jupiter which will undercut speculation and enjoyment, and presumably undermine the tourist trade.
Turkey is overwhelmed with crises at the moment with the Kurdish insurgency, the Syrian refugees, Russian planes flying overhead and ISIL on the rampage.
Hard-line President Recep Erdogan’s life isn’t going to get easier with his Term chart facing the September Eclipse conjunct the Sun and opposition Neptune; with next Feb’s Pisces Solar Eclipse reversing the order. Plus tr Pluto sextile the Saturn Mars in Scorpio from 2016 to late 2018 which looks dangerous and ruthless.