Shooting in Baton Rouge

This morning we woke to the news of yet another shooting — this time in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  The alleged killer was identified as Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri.  He chose to carry out his murderous attack on six police officers on his 29th birthday.  Mr. Long was a former sergeant in the Marines.  His time of birth is unknown.  Here is his sunrise chart for Kansas City.

A striking feature of this chart is Mars in Leo almost exactly square Pluto in Scorpio.  This aspect is an indicator of powerful drives, the urge to dominate and control, extreme effort, and intense emotions with a potential for violence.  (At present we don’t know his time of birth, but Mars square Pluto became exact at 4:47 PM CDT on his date of birth.)   Also noteworthy is that Pluto is stationary retrograde in Scorpio, giving the significations of Pluto prominence (transformation, death and rebirth, coercive force) throughout the life of the individual.

If we superimpose the current Solar Return on the sunrise natal chart, we get the following:

What is most striking in the comparison chart is the almost exact square of transiting Uranus in Aries to his natal Sun.  Transiting Uranus is also stressed by a close quincunx from transiting Mars in Scorpio.  His natal Mars/Pluto square was being triggered by the solar return Mercury/Venus conjunction.  In addition, Mr. Long was in the midst of his Saturn return.  The transiting Moon in his return chart, which disposes his natal Sun, Mercury and Venus, is conjunct both his natal and return Saturn, suggesting that he has been dealing with difficult emotional issues and frustrations during this Saturn return period, especially during this Solar Return year.