2025 Bondi Beach Terror Attack

The 2025 Bondi Beach Terror Attack was the deadliest act of terrorism in Australia's history. On the afternoon of 14 December 2025, at Archer Park beside the Bondi Pavilion, two gunmen opened fire on a Chanukah by the Sea gathering of roughly one thousand people marking the first day of Hanukkah. Fifteen were killed, among them a child, and about forty were wounded. Police and intelligence services declared it an Islamic State-linked attack driven by antisemitism. One gunman was shot dead by police; the other was taken, critically injured, into custody. Bystanders and off-duty lifeguards, some running in under fire, gave first aid until supplies ran out.

Cast for the moment of the emergency call, the event's chart carries a Sagittarius Sun in the seventh house, the solar light of belief and the foreign turned toward the domain of others; a Libra Moon in the fourth, the sign of harmony and the golden rule wounded at the very root of home; and a Gemini Ascendant, quicksilver and chattering, over an afternoon of horror. Read only as a diagnosis of the moment, a chart maps circumstance. It never excuses the choice to kill. The victims, and the strangers who tried to stop it, are what should be remembered.