New Moon reveals incurable mental ailments linked to war

“In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers”. (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain   Speech at Kettering, 3  Jul.

The bloodstained floor of his father’s garage is a long way from the Iraq streets where Isaac Sims served two tours of duty in the U.S. Army’s famed 82nd Airborne Division, but it was there that the violence finally caught up with him.

Tortured by symptoms of PTSD, turned away by an overbooked Veterans Administration hospital—his mother says she pleaded with doctors to let him sleep on the hospital floor—Sims was shot by Kansas City police on Sunday after they answered a neighbor’s 911 call. Police say Sims was firing a gun from inside his parents’ home and was killed when he moved to the garage and leveled the weapon at the SWAT team.

Family members don’t believe that the 23-year-old veteran was a threat to police. “With his sniper training, if he was shooting at them he would’ve hit them,” his sister Shawnda Anderson told TIME. But everyone could agree that the root cause of the confrontation was that Staff Sergeant Sims was falling to pieces, and felt like he had nowhere to turn. TIME, May 27

The news comes to us around the New Moon. The chart for the New Moon of May 28 is significant for Kansas City, since it is placed on the MC. It is conjunct the stars of the Hyades – a stormy group [1].

Gamma (γ) Taurus, Prima Hyadum, is the chief star of the Hyades; six stars situated on the face of the Bull. The Hyades are: this star gamma (γ, Prima Hyadum), theta1 (θ1), theta2 (θ2), delta (δ Hyadum 2), and epsilon (ε Ain). Some include alpha (α Aldebaran).

The Hyades were the seven daughter of Atlas and Aethra, half sisters of the Pleiades, with whom they were entrusted by Jupiter with the care of the infant Bacchus/Dionysus. They were placed among the stars as a reward for their sisterly love, which was evinced by their sorrow at the death of their brother Hyas who was drowned in a well [in another version he was killed by a wild beast in Libya]. The Roman poet Ovid (43BC.-17AD) records that the sisters were grief-stricken and their tears fall on us as rain.

With Sun: Evil disposition, disturbed mind, failure in study, muddled thinking, misfortune, murderer or murdered, death by blows, stabs, shooting, beheading or shipwreck. [Robson*, p.189.]

For the Hyades, Diana Rosenberg includes [2]:

Intensely emotional loners, their unstable, stormy passions makes daily life a melodrama. Brooding and resentful, in some cases they may be persecuted sometimes leading to ferocity and violence

Neptune [8pi] , the planet associated with mental disintegration, is square the New Moon [8ge]. For stars in this area around 8 Pisces, Diana Rosenberg writes:

May suffer a great battle with pessimism and struggle to keep themselves from despair. India’s nakshatra Satabhisaj means “Requiring a Hundred Physicians”

(One can extrapolate and imagine that the problems here are perhaps almost incurable.)

On the MC [13ge] are stars of Orion – the constellation most associated with the military. Diana Rosenberg lists, “injuries, wounds, disabilities, insanity” among other issues here. Meanwhile on the descendant [15pi] is the star Achernar. This is a first magnitude star that marks the end of the River Eridanus. Aratus called Eridanus “The River of Many Tears”. It has been linked to battles, massacres, acts of violent religious intolerance, physical afflictions and brain ailments [3].

If we put the pieces together, it is not too difficult to see the  Iraq War with all its brutality as the cause of the incurable sorrow and subsequent death of Isaac Sims.

[1] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/PrimaHyadum.html

[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.243)

[3] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.732-33)