New York Terror Attack

"With great power, comes great responsibility", that's a quote from the movie, Superman. The superpower known as America is a stranger to that concept however, because it can't stop waging incessant, futile wars. With the rapidity that change can occur in geopolitics these days, this callous American attitude can easily provoke a catastrophic global war. Although one can justifiably blame the elites for this debacle, equally culpable are the American people who loudly cheer or silently bless the perpetual wars. Selling a war in the U.S. is like giving out candies on Halloween. Americans Love Perpetual Wars

A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians, before striking a school bus in what officials branded a “cowardly act of terror.” The truck driver struck just blocks from the 9/11 Memorial, on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, and close to schools and a park at 3:05pm as children and their parents geared up to celebrate Halloween.  Nov. 1 https://goo.gl/81uY46

Shown here is the US Sibly with only the planets relevant to our discussion. Notice that Mars [21ge] occupies the 7^th house and is square Neptune [22vi]. Lately, transit Saturn [24sa] from the 1^st house has been forming a T-square with the radix Mars-Neptune.

7^th  House In Mundane Astrology:

Public enemies, ie., enemies to the nation - outlaws and fugitives who are not imprisoned.

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h7.html

1^st House In Mundane Astrology:

The common people. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h1.html

Mars in the 7^th would aptly describe a nation that is at perpetual war (as in the quote above). When karmic Saturn aspects Mars, the war can come home. Transit Saturn opposition to Mars can refer to violence inflicted by a public enemy (e.g. a terrorist) on the common people. On October 31, transit Moon [21 -24 pi] completed a Grand Cross with the radix Mars-Neptune and transit Saturn (between 11 am to 5 pm) triggering the violence contained in the T-square. 

DYNAMIC REPORT

Sibly - Natal Chart

 4 Jul 1776 NS, 5:10 pm, LMT +5:00:39

 Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 39°N57'08'', 075°W09'51''

 Geocentric Tropical Zodiac

 Koch Houses,  True Node

Selection: Transit aspects

P1 (H)          Asp                P2 (H)          EXL Type    Date             Time             Zone         Pos1             Pos2            

Mon (3)      Sqr                 Mar (7)       (X)  Tr-Na   31 Oct 2017  11:20:52 am   EDT       21°Pi22' D         21°Ge22' D

Mon (3)      Opp               Nep (9)       (X)  Tr-Na   31 Oct 2017  01:13:31 pm    EDT      22°Pi25' D         22°Vi25' D

Mon (3)      Sqr                 Sat (1)        (X)  Tr-Tr     31 Oct 2017   05:07:42 pm EDT       24°Pi35' D         24°Sg35' D

*** END REPORT ***

Mars [21ge] is in tropical Gemini – a sign ruled by Mercury and associated with vehicles. Moreover Mars is  conjunct the star Al-Hecka. Zeta (ζ) Taurus, Al Hecka, "The Bull's southern Horn", is a star that marks the tip of the southern horn of the Bull. About this star, Diana Rosenberg writes:

Unless they find ways to master  and/or channel their impulsive, eruptive emotions they could be overwhelmed by them. These are sharp horn-tips of the head-down charging Bull: if denied what they believe is their rightful place in the world, they can become combative, eccentric cranks, heedless, sullen, ill-tempered and surly, with a capacity for full murderous rage.