Westside Middle School Massacre

[Jim Eshelman]

Before there was Columbine, there was Westside, perhaps the first of the school shootings that started a modern trend. It occurred 20 years ago this Saturday.

On March 24, 1998, at Westside Middle School (near Jonesboro, Arkansas), two boys aged 13 and 11 shot and killed five people - four female students and a teacher - and wounded 10 more people. (They faked a fire alarm at 12:40 PM, then shot at students and teachers that filed out of the building, according to contemporaneous NY Times reporting,)

It remains the deadliest shooting massacre in a U.S. middle school. It occurred, quite strangely, with a 0°10' Moon-Venus conjunction, but at a time that all three malefics were approaching angles (Mars 3°, Neptune 6°, Mercury 7°, Saturn 10°).

Year/Quarter: Capsolar {+2}
Mars on WP (0°27')
Moon on EP (1°07')
Jupiter on Dsc (6°00')
-- Mars-Jupiter conj. (3°25')
Moon-Mars op. (0°16')
Moon-Jupiter op. (2°18' in mundo)

NB - I see a 2° Venus-Neptune conj. I wonder if this will come up for the shooting.

Bridge {-2}
CapQ Moon op. p Jupiter (0°53')

Month: Caplunar {+1}
Venus sq. Asc (0°08')
Moon-Saturn sq. (2°17' in mundo)
Moon-Mercury sq. (2°36' in mundo)

XTRA: Non-angular Uranus conj. Venus (3°10')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+2}
(Yes! The exact aspect I plucked out of the Capsolar is angular!)
p Asc sq. s Venus (0°14')
p MC op. p Neptune (1°16'), t Neptune (0°59'), Ne/Ne (0°08')
p Moon op. p Jupiter (0°53')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {0}
p MC op. t Sun (0°34')


SUMMARY {0}
Year (+2): Moon Mars (Jupiter). Moon-Mars Moon-Jupiter Mars-Jupiter.
Bridge (-2): Jupiter (Cap).
Month (+1): Venus. Moon-Mercury Moon-Saturn (Venus-Uranus).
Day (CapQ, +2): Venus Neptune. Moon-Jupiter.
Day (CanQ, 0): Sun.