1995 Apr 19, 9:02 AM CDT, Oklahoma City, OK (35N28'22", 97W31'01")
Prior to the 9/11 attacks half a dozen years later, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was the worst act of terrorism on American soil in the history of the United States. Death claimed 168 people, and more than 680 others were injured. Damages (which included the destruction or serious damage to over 300 nearby buildings totaled about $652 million (just over $1 billion in 2013 dollars).
Timothy McVeigh, in retaliation for the government’s actions in the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges a few years earlier, selected the Waco anniversary for his attack. He filled a rental truck with explosives, parked it in front of the Federal building, and detonated it.
This event has value as an example in its own right, as an event in Oklahoma City, and addi- tional value when examined for Washington, DC. The first justification for this is that McVeigh’s attack aimed specifically at the U.S. government, and struck at a government building with strong symbolic import. The second justification is that this instantly became a national-level event. Be- low are analyses of charts for both Oklahoma City and Washington.
Year: Capsolar & Cansolar
For Oklahoma City, the Capsolar is dormant. However, the secondary “master chart of the
year,” the Cansolar from the prior July, spoke plenty! As you can see from the illustration below, the Sun is exactly rising – a symbol of the Federal government – opposed within 0°1619' by Uranus and, more widely, by Neptune: sudden, explosive confrontation of government authority with el- ements of stealth, deception, and plenty of confusion. {+2 Very Good}
For Washington, Pluto is 1°47' from the Eastpoint (in RA). Mars is in the upper foreground,
square the rising Pluto. Mundanely, the square is partile; ecliptically, it is nearly so. Being set at the nation’s capital, this is a chart for violent, explosive, unprecedented political insurrection. {+2
Very Good}
Quarter: Arisolar
For Oklahoma City, Mars at 20°01' Cancer squares the 20°52' Libra Ascendant. As we shall
see below, Mars follows through as the most commonly recurring planet in the Oklahoma City charts for this event. {+2 Very Good}
For Washington, the Sun’s Aries ingress has:
Jupiter square the Midheaven (0°34').
Venus conjunct Saturn (0°46'), 6°-8° from the IC. As usual, we read Venus strong and
afflicted as meaning weeping for loss.
Ecliptically, this chart looks more impressive than its mundane actuality. For example, it ap- pears (on first impression) that Pluto is within a degree of the Ascendant, whereas it actually is 7½° away. However, that 0°27' ecliptical Pluto-Ascendant conjunction also means that transiting
Pluto is at once within half a degree of conjunct the Arisolar Ascendant, since such transits are
measured in celestial longitude. {+1 Good}
Month: Caplunar
For Oklahoma City, the most angular planet is Venus, 0°56' from square to the Midheaven.
She is part of a foreground Venus-Pluto square (less than 2° mundanely; wider ecliptically). Sup- porting this, the more widely foreground planets hit exactly the right theme: a stationary Mars is 7° above the Descendant with Uranus 5° above the Ascendant. {+2 Very Good}
For Washington, the Caplunar did not show the event. It is a highly auspicious chart, with
Jupiter in the degree of the Midheaven and Venus 3° from the Ascendant. Although matters grad- ually built toward a climax in Oklahoma, Washington was taken by surprise. {-2 Very Bad}
Fortnight: Canlunar
For Oklahoma City, the April 8 Canlunar is only a mild reinforcement. One might say, “folks
A 0°46' Moon-Neptune opposition squares the Midheaven within 1½°.
A foreground Sun-Uranus mundane square (1°33'), about 5° from the angles, supplements the sense that rebellious things are starting to happen.
The Moon joins this Sun-Uranus in a mundane T-square. Interpret this as a culminating Sun at the Moon/Uranus midpoint (0°18'): Populist rebellion confronting government. Mars is barely foreground, 9½° below the Ascendant.
The whole is reasonably representative of an insidious and violent populist revolt against gov- ernment. {+1 Good}
For Washington, though, the April Canlunar is much simpler: Mars squares the Midheaven
within 0°41'. Bingo! {+2 Very Good}
Week: Liblunar
For Oklahoma City, the Liblunar is dormant.
In Washington, everything comes to a head in this Liblunar:
Mars squares the Ascendant (1°02'). Neptune culminates (2°23').
Neptune at the Midheaven is in partile square to the Sun, Moon, and Mercury. Ecliptically, Neptune at the MC anchors a T-square with the two luminaries, as shown below.
Moon 0°00' Libra
Sun 0°22' Aries
Neptune 0°50' Capricorn
Mercury 1°25' Aries
Liblunar MC 1°58' Capricorn {+2 Very Good}
Day: Capsolar Transits & Quotidian
For Oklahoma City, transiting Uranus has advanced to within 1°22' of square the Capsolar
Ascendant. {+2 Very Good}
In the CapQ, ingress Neptune is 0°22' from the Ascendant, describing the local panic and con- fusion, although it does not describe the violence itself. {+2 Very Good}
For Washington, we see an unmistakable aggressive, violent pattern. At the time of the ex-
plosion in Oklahoma City, transiting Mars (22°06' Cancer) was only 0°18' from square the Wash- ington, DC Capsolar Ascendant (22°24' Libra). This was the attack: No chart at the event site said this any better than this one master chart of the year for the nation's capital.
Transiting Mars is also in partile conjunction with the Washington CapQ Descendant (21°34' Capricorn). That the same Mars – the exact same 22°06' Cancer position – was square the Wash- ington Capsolar Ascendant, opposite the Washington CapQ Ascendant, and exactly on the Okla- homa City lower meridian at the time of the explosion is remarkable. {+2 Very Good}
Day: Cansolar Transits & Quotidian
For Oklahoma City, the Cansolar really drives home the Neptune theme for the day, both by
simple transit to its angles and by its quotidian.
First, transiting Neptune (0°51' Capricorn) is exactly conjunct the Canlunar Descendant (0°26' Capricorn). This also placed the angular Neptune exactly opposite the Cansolar Sun, which, of course, is 0°00' Cancer.
Then the CanQ Ascendant reached 27°01' Pisces. This exactly squares Cansolar Neptune (27°12' Sagittarius). To ice the figurative Cansolar cake, progressed Cansolar Moon is 29°42' Libra, 1°00' from exact conjunction with Cansolar Pluto. {+2 Very Good}
Hour: Event Chart
As the bomb exploded, Mars was 0°17' from the IC, with a partile mundane Jupiter-Pluto conjunction about 5° above the Descendant, as shown in this mundoscope at right. Alto- gether, it speaks of anti-authoritarian (anti-institutional, anti- establishment) violence.