My Lai Massacre: History In The Stars

Fifty years ago, a platoon of US soldiers stormed the quiet hamlet of My Lai in South Vietnam, unleashing a barrage of gunfire, grenades and sexual assault which left as many as 500 dead.

On March 16, 1968 an army unit entered My Lai. The troops were ordered to lay waste to anything "walking, crawling or growing" on a search and destroy mission that lasted four hours and left the village razed to the ground. Not even crops or livestock were spared. The atrocities of My Lai would remain largely hidden for 20 months, until vivid images and accounts of the massacre appeared in newspapers, shocking Americans and sparking massive anti-war protests.

https://www.sott.net/article/380164-My-Lai-Slaughter-50-Years-Ago-Today-US-Military-Massacred-A-Village-And-Tried-To-Cover-It-Up

The table  below gives the solar arc directions and transits for the US Sibly in  1967-68, covering the period of the My Lai Massacre.

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: Solar Arc Dirns

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

Asc (7)     Cnj           Mar (7)    (X)           Sa-Na      12 Sep 1967            21°Ge22' D              21°Ge22' D

Asc (7)     Sqr           Nep (9)    (X)           Sa-Na      20 Sep 1968            22°Ge25' D              22°Vi25' D

Selection: Monthly Transits

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

Sun (3)    Sqr           Mar (7)    (X)           Tr-Na       11 Mar 1968           21°Pi22' D               21°Ge22' D

Sun (3)    Opp         Nep (9)    (X)           Tr-Na       12 Mar 1968           22°Pi25' D               22°Vi25' D

Plu (9)     Sqr           Mar (7)    (X)           Tr-Na       18 Mar 1968           21°Vi22' R               21°Ge22' D

*** END REPORT ***

Notice that the progressed Ascendant triggers the radix Mars-Neptune square. And slow moving transit Pluto (“hour hand’)  squares Mars while the fast moving transit Sun (“minute hand”) acts as the final trigger.

Mars-Pluto's intense energy and fanatic drive to win has a dark side. Reinhold Ebertin mentioned war victims and victims of violent acts. http://astropost.blogspot.in/2014/09/ebertin-spot-on-mars-pluto-and-brutal.html

But  let’s get back to some basics. The Sibly Mars [21ge22] is conjunct the star Alnitak [21ge33], zeta (ζ) Orion while Neptune [22vi25] is conjunct Alkaid [23vi46]. Orion as pictured above with his raised club is a heartless Hunter or Warrior while Neptune is associated with the weak and vulnerable.  Diana Rosenberg links the stars conjunct Neptune with “massacres”. Pluto and Uranus were here at the My Lai masscare of 16 March 1968. And just two days before transit Sun formed a sharp opposition to transit Uranus with the opposition axis falling square the horizon at My Lai almost as though choosing this place for the grisly drama to be played out.