Drive-by shootings in Santa Barbara

A gunman has killed six people in drive-by shootings near the Californian city of Santa Barbara, US police say. The shootings took place late on Friday in Isla Vista near the University of California-Santa Barbara campus.The suspected gunman was found dead in his car with a bullet wound. It is unclear whether it was self-inflicted. Police say they were alerted to the shootings around 21:30 on Friday (04:30 GMT on Saturday). BBC May 24

As most readers are aware we have been in the midst of a powerful Grand Cross for  the last several weeks. The current New Moon solar eclipse caught the Grand Cross on the meridian at Santa Barbara. As Mars now begins to move forward  while still stationed on the MC, it is beginning to release the tension contained in the Cross. It is well known that the Mars-Pluto element of the Cross has a difficult side that is  frequently linked to   frustration, anger, sexual abuse, rape, suicide and murder so that this incident shouldn’t come as a surprise.

A chart  drawn for the reported  time of the shooting (May 24, 04:30 GMT) has the transit Moon triggering the Grand Cross  which is  also aligned with the meridian axis  exactly in the same way as the New Moon configuration above.