Ankara Attack on 23 October

On 23 October 2024, according to local news, the attack in Ankara took place at 15:30 local time, killing five people and injuring 22.

If we look at the event chart at first glance there are no angular planets, but if we put this event chart on top of the 1923 Turkey chart we will see that Chiron was close to M.C and opposite Mercury ( the I.C ruler) and Saturn (the 8th house ruler) at I.C.

The transiting Sun not far from Mercury & Saturn and transiting Pluto also square this Mercury-Saturn conjunction in the national chart, not least transiting Mars also square Turkey’s Mercury-Saturn as transit Mars is about to opposite transit Pluto.

I always combine other mundane techniques when analysing such events, for example in the Ankara Libra ingress chart Pluto is right on the Ascendant and 8th house ruler Mercury opposite Neptune square Jupiter. If we use the full moon on 17 October, we will see Pluto again on the Ascendant and Uranus close to I.C.

When my friend Kenan sent me the exact time, I was surprised that the event chart has M.C at 14ºSagittarius, because the recent bright comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was exactly at this degree when the event occurred.

At this moment we have the Sun just move in to Scorpio and square Pluto, Mars is also opposite Pluto too .

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Rod has studied astrology for over 20 years, both through self study and through LSA and Faculty of Astrology. His favourite aspects are mundane and a humanistic approach to astrology. He has written a number of books on astrology in Chinese and has taught it in Mandarin for around 10 years. He is co-founder of the Academy of Astrology with Jupiter Lai, which aims to promote Western Astrology to Chinese speakers.