Following the Moon: Oct. 28, 2023In the New Moon chart for Oct 14 (click here to see the article and the chart) the Sun and Moon were in the Ninth House which indicated that all the action would be taking place in the courts. Of course, thanks to former President Donald Trump and his vast array of criminal and civil litigations, that's not a difficult order to fill. Still, the Ninth House came through with flying colors during this lunation period with several dramatic developments involving more than one of these cases.I also said that the square between Mars in Scorpio and Pluto in the First House of that chart would keep our attention on the Israeli/Hamas conflict, though I feared that it might also describe an extraordinary outbreak in violence in this country. That happened in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night. Instead of the usual amateurs, this mass shooting was carried out by a firearms expert with a military background. The body count (18 and counting) is a sad reflection of his expertise.Mars also plays a big role in the Full Moon chart for Oct. 28, (click on Full Moon to see the chart) though here it is placed in the Eighth House where it is conjunct Mercury and opposed to Jupiter. These connections are far less belligerent than what we saw in the Oct. 14 chart. Still, they do seem to promise more dramatic developments involving court cases. (Jupiter is the natural ruler of the Ninth.)
