Nidal Malik Hasan: An astrological analysis of the Fort Hood shooting

I don't think there's necessarily a coverup. With that level of confusion, it would be easy enough to misidentify one of the dead men who looked similar to the shooter as the actual shooter. And if some of the other people there returned fire, that would explain why people reported more than one shooter.

Lynn,

One factor that is not mentioned much, but certainly added to the mix is the impact of his treating returning war veterans for PTSD. In addition to seeing horrific physical wounds, suffering and broken bodies on a daily basis, he listened to horrific details of their stories, and their emotions -fear and terror - anger - guilt - horror, and hearing this over and over and over again. I've read that he was deeply distressed by this. I'm sure he internalized many of those images - not only of Americans being wounded and killed, but also of civilians - Muslims - as well.

Ask any therapist who works with trauma on a daily basis. It can play havoc with the psyche and many therapists have had to give it up or lose themselves.

So in addition to everything else going on with him, he may have been suffering from PTSD as well.

How does this show in the chart?

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Lynn, I disagree that Hasan's chart was garden-variety and not particularly difficult. Having natal Saturn opposed to natal Neptune is very challenging. Neptune dissolves the ability to see the outer world as it is, while Saturn is the reality principle. In addition, Saturn structures the ego while Neptune is an ego-denying influence. Saturn can create deep-seated, intense fear, while Neptune can create illusions and delusions. I'm struck by the intense terror that Hasan experienced about his deployment to Afghanistan. Saturn would trigger the fear while Neptune would exaggerate this fear out of all proportion. Although the Virgo planets gave Hasan the ability to analyze and use reason, when his fear became overwhelming, his reason flew out the window. It was very difficult for Hasan, as it would be for anyone, to integrate the energies of Saturn and Neptune which are pulling in opposite directions. In Hasan's case, his consciousness began to disintegrate. To stand on a table and fire 100 shots indiscriminately against your fellow soldiers in a matter of several minutes shows how disordered and disintegrated he had become. Outwardly, he displayed a calm demeanor, a kind of robotic behaviour, which hid the fact that he had already bought the guns and had clearly planned this mass murder. By this time, he was already over the edge. Very sad!! Some therapists say that mass murderers really want to commit suicide but are afraid to do it, so they carry out the murders in the hopes that someone else will kill them. I suspect that this was Hasan's deepest wish, but this didn't happen. I imagine that when he comes to consciousness and sees that he is still alive, the full weight of what he has done and the consequences that he will be facing -- he has already been called by some in the media "the most hated man in America" will all come crashing down on him, and I suspect that he will be extremely suicidal. This is a terrible tragedy for those he murdered and injured, for Hasan himself, and for all Americans. May God bless us all with his Love, Wisdom and Mercy while we struggle to process this awful event.

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Jay, I too found it interesting that Hasan's role as a psychiatrist took him deeper into his own fears. I frankly can't imagine how soldiers of any persuasion can face the kind of risk and stress every day that these people have and not break down. Especially in the kind of grinding war with seemingly no purpose and no end such as we face in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Louis, thank you for your comments. Obviously there are difficult aspects in this chart, as I describe in my analysis. However, there are not the extreme aspects of Saturn, Chiron or Pluto that normally creates extreme psychic distress.

I myself have Saturn in square to Neptune, and am very familiar with the Saturn/Neptune dynamic. By itself, it does not lead to the kind of behavior that involves a massacre. Your beautiful description of the roles that Saturn and Neptune play in alternatively defining (Saturn) and breaking down (Neptune) the ego is beautifully stated, and combined with the stress between the fierce sense of Virgoan duty and the Sagittarian desire to flee (via suicide?) clearly there was a great deal of psychic stress.

However, I see charts every day that are far more difficult than this one, and I would never want anyone to think that a Saturn/Neptune opposition in itself would create this kind of behavior.

It ultimately is not natal aspects that decide who and what we are but the choices we make in each life. Natal aspects are a road map. A fork in the road presents clear choice though it may be clouded and stressful. The sad karmic situation here is that not only may his death wish eventually be fulfilled but karmically there is no release from such choices and the soul may be fated to face the same stresses yet again..