Venus-Pluto: Rape in Mumbai

Rape of Persephone: Classical mythology

The Mumbai Police on Friday arrested all the five accused allegedly involved in the shocking gang-rape of a 23-year-old photo journalist here. The photojournalist, who was working as an intern with an English magazine, was allegedly gang-raped by five men at around 8pm on Thursday near Shakti Mills in Lower Parel area of the metropolis. The victim was on an assignment, doing a story on 'chawl' when the incident took place, police said.

24^th August 2013, 10:01 UT Venus (9 li 10'16") square Pluto (9 cp 10'16" Rx)

In mundane astrology a chart drawn for an exact planetary configuration becomes significant for a place when planets aspect the horizon or meridian (angles).  Shown below is a chart drawn for the Venus-Pluto square at Bombay. Notice that Pluto is rising on the Ascendant square Venus. Venus-Pluto hard aspects have been related in  Greek mythology to sexual violence and rape. [1] [2]

[1] Rape of Persephone http://bit.ly/AoZCr0

[2] The Astrology of Fate, Liz Greene; http://bit.ly/1c3vgmJ