Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (“UFA”) is a 23-year-old Nigerian who attempted to detonate explosives he’d secreted in his underwear on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on December 25, 2009.
Flight 253 is a regular passenger flight shuttling between Amsterdam and Detroit every week. The flight generally leaves Amsterdam at 11:40 am local time and arrives at approximately noon local time in Detroit.
On Christmas Day, this Northwest Airlines stole the spotlight from Santa Claus to become known as the carrier who brought the Underpants Bomber to America.
PETN (Pentaerythritol tetranitrate) is one of the most powerful high explosives known. “It is more difficult to detonate than primary explosives, so dropping or igniting it will typically not cause an explosion . . .” so the 258 passengers (some of whom bravely went up against the bomber) were spared an unthinkable fate.
December 22, 1986, 12:00 PM (CET-1), Lagos, Nigeria (no birth time known – click image for larger view)
UFA’s horoscope reveals several easily identifiable triggers for violence; the kind most commonly associated with the psychology of the true believer that relies on the philosophy of the ends justifies the means.
His Mars-Jupiter conjunction in Pisces translates to extreme (Jupiter aggressive (Mars) expression of belief (Pisces). Both planets square erratic Uranus in theological/doctrinaire Sagittarius. Religious law Saturn and letter of the law Mercury in Sagittarius further enhance the aforementioned incendiary setup also in square to UFA’s natal Mars-Jupiter conjunction.
UFA’s Sun at 0 Capricorn conjoined to mystical Neptune reveals that by the time of December 22nd’s Winter Solstice (and his Solar Return), UFA was under significant pressure from transiting Pluto’s conjunction to his Sun in square to transiting Saturn in Libra. Saturn and Pluto in stress aspect are the two roughest energies fragile humans are called to confront and contain. Without a good support system and grounding in a friendly reality, these hard energies can result in destructive reactions.
UFA has been aligned with the “new” Osama bin Laden located in Yemen, the U.S. born Anwar Al-Awlaki. (April 22, 1971, Las Cruces, New Mexico. No birth time known).
Al-Awlaki “is a Muslim lecturer, spiritual leader, and former imam who has been accused of being a senior talent recruiter and motivator “for al-Qaeda and all of its franchises,” . . . Full BIO here.
Al-Awlaki has the distinction of being well educated. “Al-Awlaki returned to Colorado in 1991 to attend college, and holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University (1994), which he attended on a foreign student visa and Yemeni government scholarship, and an M.A. in Education Leadership from San Diego State University; he also worked on a Doctorate degree in Human Resource Development at George Washington University Graduate School of Education & Human Development from January to December 2001.[4][17][19][20][21][22] His Islamic education consists of a few intermittent months with various scholars, and reading works by several prominent Islamic scholars.”
Al-Awlaki’s Jupiter conjunct Neptune in Sagittarius reiterates the same mystical “true belief” themes displayed in UFA’s chart. Al-Awlaki also has an exalted Venus at 28 Pisces (recently square by transiting Pluto at the end of his tenure in Sagittarius). Without a birth time we don’t know the degree of his Moon in Pisces, but I suspect that it is most likely in opposition to UAF’s Virgo Moon (again no birth time prevents us from knowing UFA’s Moon degree).
If UFA’s Moon is anywhere from 16 Virgo to about 20 Virgo, he has the lunar opposition to his natal Mars-Jupiter conjunction. That would set up a T-square to his Saturn, Mercury and Uranus in Sagittarius. Al-Awlaki’s Moon in Pisces, if within range of 16 to 20 degrees, would feed into UFA’s t-Square serving as support for UFA’s already unstable Mercury-Uranus square Mars configuration.
Republic of Yemen, May 22, 1990, 0:00 am BAT -3:00, Sanaa, Yemen. Asc. 22 Aquarius. (Click image for larger view)
The unholy mix of UFA and Al-Awlaki with the Republic of Yemen chart is one scary brew. Yemen’s Ascendant at 22 Aquarius takes the full weight of a long Neptune transit, Jupiter is there and so is wounding/wounded Chiron. Neptune’s 7 year mutual reception with Uranus in Pisces supercharges Yemen’s Mars at 23 Pisces, the position of transiting Uranus!
Yemen is described as being a police state and is a rather closed system. Not many people visit the country so there aren’t many cross-cultural release mechanisms. The population is distressed by poverty, high unemployment and many are strongly supportive of Islamic extremism. The combined Republic (created from what was once South and North Yemen) is only 4 years younger than is UFA!
Yemen’s Midheaven at 0 Sagittarius takes on the full projection — and sends its own out — to both UFA and Al-Awlaki through their Pisces, Virgo and Sagittarius cross-chart planetary sets.
Both UFA and Yemen are of the Pluto in Scorpio generation. Yemen has a grand water trine comprised of fight-for and-against-a-cause Mars in Pisces, Jupiter exalted in love of homeland Cancer and submersion into underworld Pluto in Scorpio.
These immersions into feeling are harder for UFA to bear because his chart has no air in it. Hence, it becomes nearly impossible for UFA to mobilize the rational (intellectual) component of his psyche that is lying dormant.
UFA would need to compensate for the lack of the air element by aligning himself with a thinking type who could help him develop this aspect of his consciousness.
UFA can recite much of the Koran by heart, but recitation is not necessarily an indication of mental comprehension. UFA’s chart shows him to be gifted artistically and deeply intuitive, but without steady guidance provided by a well-grounded personality, he wouldn’t be able to cope in the wider world.
Mars in square to Uranus is also an aspect of sexual excitation. With Jupiter conjoined to UFA’s Mars, one can only imagine what this devoted Islamist practicing celibacy must have been trying to endure.
Mars-Uranus results in nervous irritability but with his Venus conjoined to Pluto in Scorpio, one would have to assume that UFA is an erotic, passionate, sensual young man struggling against his natural instincts. Perhaps he tried compensating by recruiting his Virgo Moon to act as “chastity police.”
The beleaguered Moon by herself is unable to withstand the strength of Mars conjunct Jupiter in square to Uranus and Venus conjunct engulfing Pluto.
UFA struggled hard to sublimate his intense sexual desire into the sacrificial passion of the true believer. Such extremes and violence against the laws of one’s being are destined to fail.
Starcats — January 7, 2010
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Earthquake In Haiti
Haiti Earthquake
Jan 12, 2010
4:53:09 PM EST +5:00
Port au Prince, Haiti
18N32, 72W20
Asc: 14 Cancer
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — “International aid groups were feverishly trying to get supplies into quake-ravaged Haiti on Thursday to prevent the situation from going from ‘dire to absolutely catastrophic.'”
“Hospitals in Port-au-Prince have collapsed, and the few facilities still open can’t handle the needs of the injured. The United States and other countries were dispatching medical supplies, facilities and personnel. People who suffered broken bones from falling debris have been unable to get treatment; there’s simply too many of them.”
Haiti, de jure Independence
Haiti history HERE
Jan 1, 1804
12:00 pm LMT
Gonaives, Haiti
19N27, 72W41
(No time for declaration known)
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Astro-Commentary
The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 was the third in a series of warning quakes across the western world that began during the shadow days leading up to tonight’s Solar Eclipse.
On January 9 there was a 6.5 magnitude quake in Eureka, California followed by a 4.3 quake in Riverside, most likely an aftermath event of the Eureka temblor.
January 17, 2010 marks the 16th anniversary of the California Northridge quake designated a magnitude of 6.7 but the “ground acceleration was one of the highest ever instrumentally recorded in an urban area in North America.”
I survived the Northridge quake and can testify to the terror of such an event.
What makes the Haiti quake all the more tragic is the country’s poverty, misery, poorly organized government, lack of resources and crumbling infrastructure. To those who would say that government is the enemy and that spending money on infrastructure is a waste hasn’t survived a disaster.
Solar Eclipse
January 15, 2010
2:11 am EST +5:00
Asc: 14 Scorpio
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The aforementioned quake charts, including Haiti’s, are packed with planets in the cardinal earth sign Capricorn. Our Solar Eclipse at 25 Capricorn is the messenger. Saturn is ruler of the earth’s crust and the tectonic plates our cities and nations float upon.
Saturn, now stationing for its 4 month retrograde in Libra is strengthened by the slow-down and still is in square to Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto is the force that erodes, undermines, erases and transforms. Saturn is the structure and infrastructure upon which a nation, a city, a government or a people rest and depend.
A terrible irony of this earthquake is the crumbling of the presidential palace. The people of Haiti don’t even have an intact symbol of their country’s leader. Last night I attempted to visualize what it would be like to see the White House crumble. It seemed in my vision like our nation’s history and the focus of our national identity disintegrated.
What louder message to send planet earth about the transitoriness of fragile physical life than to “shake it up” at eclipse time with earthquakes?
The country of Haiti (see charts above) is experiencing its 7th Saturn return. Its independence was hard won after centuries of being plundered for goods and slaves commencing with Christopher Columbus in 1492. Haiti is also in line for another Venus Return. Its Venus at 29 Capricorn is in mutual reception (two planets trading houses of rulership) with its natal Saturn — the same celestial pattern we’re experiencing right now by current transit.
Haiti’s natal (and transiting) Saturn squares its Mars at 3 Capricorn and Chiron at 4 Capricorn. Transiting Pluto is conjoined to the Mars-Chiron conjunction. This harsh mix reveals that no matter what the event, physical or political, this beleaguered nation has a planetary set up that spells devastation.
As stated earlier, we don’t have a birth time for Haiti de jure Independence, so its hard to know if its pristine Virgo Moon opposes its eradicating Pluto in watery Pisces. We at least know that transiting Saturn, associated with cutting off or limiting supply, contacted Haiti’s Moon at some point during the last 2 1/2 years.
So, depending on the Moon’s degree and Saturn’s retrograde patterns and its transiting oppositions with disrupting Uranus in Pisces), its likely that Haiti’s Moon was hit at least 3 times by Saturn’s transit and Pluto was opposed once. Saturn to natal Moon bespeaks food shortages; malnourishment; deprivation; scarcity; lack; hunger; and stomach disorders. We know that in the last few years the Haitian people have experienced increased famine.
Another outstanding planet relationship in Haiti’s chart is the mutual reception between Pluto in sacrificial Pisces and Neptune in underworld Scorpio. This rulership exchange brings us into benthic waters (absolute depths) whether they be spiritual or historic in nature.
Haiti’s scorpionic Neptune is in a challenging square with transiting Neptune, Chiron and Jupiter in the common people’s sign of Aquarius. Fixed signs in challenging aspect give way or crack apart at some point when when other planet stressors set them off. Jupiter’s job is to expand; push limits; exceed boundaries and in the build-up to Haiti’s natal Neptune, perhaps the slip fault 6 miles deep finally gave way.
In the hours leading up to the earthquake, the transiting Moon at 26 Sagittarius — Galactic Center! — squared natal Pluto setting off a possible T-square if Haiti’s Virgo Moon is close in orb. Transiting Moon was at the Pluto square January 11th at 1:53 am.
Earlier I mentioned Haiti’s natal Saturn and its 7th Saturn return in square to transiting Pluto. As Saturn moves through its cycle in Libra it will square Haiti’s Sun in 2010 and Pluto will conjoin Haiti’s Sun in 2013. Disruptive Uranus’s move into Aries will create a cardinal grand square in Haiti’s horoscope. The nation is called to rebuild itself but it cannot do so without massive international intervention.
The Haiti earthquake is a stark reminder of the millions around the world who are forced to live and endure like conditions day after day, life after life. Let us hope that in these early years of the Third Millennium that human beings will begin making that next evolutionary step in consciousness that will allow for poverty and illness to be wiped from the face of the earth.
Starcats – January 14, 2010
USGS HAITI EARTHQUAKE
# Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 21:53:10 UTC
# Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 04:53:10 PM at epicenter
Haiti Earthquake – a guide on How to Donate
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