Once Upon a Time in Boston | Monthly Forecast | Hudson Valley | Chronogram Magazine

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I believe this represents Tamerlan, the older brother. We don't know his actual involvement in this, and the chart portrays him more as a victim, that is, as a scapegoat, than as a perpetrator. Now he's dead in the style of Lee Harvey Oswald, and we won't ever hear from him.

There's one last plot line to cover. The 7th house, where Neptune is looming, is also the house of open enemies (as contrasted with secret ones). We know that Neptune is sitting there in Pisces, warning us that nothing in the official version of events may be true. Pisces also has a traditional ruler—Jupiter.

Where is it, and what story does it tell? Jupiter is in Gemini, and also the 10th house of government. It's in a strange condition—called intercepted, which means that Gemini has no house cusp running through it (this doesn't happen in every chart, and it can happen anywhere when it does). Intercepted Gemini is like a house hidden within the 10th house, which you can think of as the inner sanctum of government, the intelligence establishment or black operations of some kind.

I will leave that angle alone for now. In closing I will say this. If you're thinking that two bombs justified the house arrest of more than a million people, please think more slowly. These ideas would best be phrased as questions rather than as statements. Was that governmental response justified? What was the emotional cost, and the price we paid in our freedom?

Many people who lived through having their homes searched are emotionally traumatized. They may never think of the concept of "home" the same way again. Our social contract in the US is clear. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated." Was the response we witnessed reasonable, in the moral and legal sense of the word? We need to have a long conversation with our neighbors about this.

We also need a national conversation. What we witnessed in Boston, from the improvised explosive devices to the firefights in urban areas to the door-to-door searches, are what the American government has been experiencing, or doing, in Afghanistan and Iraq for more than 10 years. The war literally came home to Boston and its suburbs. We don't like bombs going off in our public places and I hope we don't like armored vehicles, SWAT teams in our homes and high-powered rifles going off in the streets.

It's time to ask when we're going to stop doing this to other countries. It's also time for "nonpolitical" people to raise questions about the conduct of our leaders, both at home and abroad. It's time to learn how to not feel like an asshole for actually caring—and for being willing to speak up, including when it's considered socially inappropriate. Which is usually.

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