2017 December stuff

[Venus_Daily]

There was an explosion in St. Petersburg. I know this is a smaller event, but it seems in synch with the rest of the violence that has happened.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/27/europ ... index.html

[Jim Eshelman]

There was an explosion in St. Petersburg. I know this is a smaller event, but it seems in synch with the rest of the violence that has happened.

The Caplunar for St. Petersburg has Mars 0°09' from square Ascendant, so something fiery and violent was certainly expectable.

Transiting Uranus is 0°12' from Capsolar Descendant at the moment. The "nobody is hurt" part is probably because CapQ EP is not only zooming in on the same Uranus, but also still conjunct Jupiter. (And, for the whole world, we are in the midst of CapQ Moon opposite Neptune.)

[Venus_Daily]

Thanks for the input, Jim
Glad things were not too bad.

[Jim Eshelman]

December 28, 2017, about 10:30 AM, Kabul, Afghanistan

A suicide bomber at a Shiite cultural center, entering a hall where 150-200 people were convened before triggering the explosion. At least 41 died and 84 injured, most of them participant in a news agency program (Afghan Voice Agency) housed in the cultural center. ISIL claimed responsibility.

Neptune was rising when this occurred, reiterating the main long-term theme in Kabul these days: The LIBSOLAR has Neptune on IC.

The CAPLUNAR is too benefic - Jupiter being its main feature, which does speak to ethnic wars and religious settings, but doesn't describe the event well. But the new ARILUNAR has Mars on EP and the usual Moon-Uranus conjunction widely setting.

The CapQ is dormant (but has the ongoing Moon-Neptune progressed opposition). The Cansolar steps in and does its job with Mars conjunct ingress Ascendant. This was sure to be a fiery, deadly day in Kabul.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

It's going to be 17° below zero (-27°C) so Omaha is cancelling it's usual fireworks display in a downtown park for New Year's Eve. This is the first below zero stretch of days in 20 years.
Water mains have been blowing up all over the city, but the water board claims it's because there was a drought and the soil is so dry it's shrunk away from the pipes and no longer supports them so they break. The same thing they say happens in summer when the water mains break then.
I think they should have dug down another couple of feet when installing the pipes.

Omaha canceled Halloween in 1991 after an icestorm hit October 25-26th, knocking out power to 300,000 homes.

[Jim Eshelman]

New York City experienced tonight its deadliest fire since the Happy Land Social Club fire in 1990. At least 12 died in an apartment fire that (based on first call) began December 28, 2017, 6:51 PM, Bronx, NY.

It is a rare serious fire where there is no Mars factor in the daily timing.

Year: Capsolar
Sun on WP (1°48')
Jupiter & Uranus more widely foreground
-- Jupiter-Uranus op. (1°41')
-- Sun-Jupiter sq. (2°37')

NOTE: Ceres is 0°29' from MC, 0°02' from square Sun

Bridge
t Pluto op. Cansolar Asc 7/27-1/28
CapQ Moon op. p Neptune 12/4-1/15
Event window: Dec 4 to Jan 15

Quarter: Libsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Venus conj. (1°13').

Quarter: Cansolar
Pluto on Dsc (0°45')
Sun & Mars are more widely foreground
-- Sun-Mars conj. (2°22' in mundo)
Moon-Uranus conj. (3°57')
Moon-Mercury sq. (2°40' in mundo)

Month: Caplunar
Neptune on Asc (0°08')
Mercury sq. Asc (1°46')
Venus is widely foreground
-- Mercury-Neptune sq. (1°48')
Moon-Uranus sq. (0°21')

NOTE: Ceres is 2°17' below Dsc

Week: Arilunar
Sun on Dsc (1°52')
Mercury sq. MC (1°49')
Venus, Saturn, Neptune more widely foreground
-- Saturn-Neptune sq. (0°20' in mundo)
-- Venus-Saturn conj. (1°02' in mundo)
-- Venus-Neptune sq. (1°22' in mundo)
-- Sun-Venus conj. (2°43' in mundo)
-- Sun-Saturn conj. (3°44' in mundo)
Moon-Uranus conj. (0°24')

NOTE: Moon-Ceres sq. (0°41' in mundo)

Day: Capsolar Quotidian
p Moon op. p Neptune (0°10')
p EP op. t Sun (1°00')
p Asc op. p Sun (0°24'), s Sun (1°22')

Day: Cansolar Transits
t Pluto op. s Asc (0°58')

[Jim Eshelman]

It's going to be 17° below zero (-27°C) so Omaha is cancelling it's usual fireworks display in a downtown park for New Year's Eve. This is the first below zero stretch of days in 20 years.
Water mains have been blowing up all over the city, but the water board claims it's because there was a drought and the soil is so dry it's shrunk away from the pipes and no longer supports them so they break.

Omaha has "weather" charts similar to large stretches of the country, with Jupiter-Uranus square Ascendant in the Capsolar and Mars-PLuto on the angles of the Libsolar. (That one is pretty harsh! Mars and Pluto are both partile conjunct angles, and 0°15' from mundane square.) Surprisingly, neither lunar ingress is noteworthy,

But Saturn is transiting the Capsolar WP (as it conjoins Capsolar Mercury).

[SteveS]

Soon, its going to get very cold here in the South, but nothing compared to what JSAD is experiencing in Omaha and rest of Northern Country. I have already burned more firewood this winter than last, and ordered some more firewood to make sure I get through this winter. My firewood man says he will break a record for selling firewood this winter based on pre-orders. I think next week will break a record for successive nights with temp below 20. I am having to take certain precautions to make sure my water pipes do not burst with potential wind chill factors. I can’t imagine what people are having to do up North with water pipes bursting. I fear for the elderly who live alone.

Jim wrote:

…and Mars-Pluto on the angles of the Libsolar. (That one is pretty harsh! Mars and Pluto are both partile conjunct angles, and 0°15' from mundane square.)

Yes, this combo is always a ‘powerful force’ within itself.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Fortunately, it's only the water mains in the streets bursting. Pipes would burst anytime it went much below 30° if we were insulated like you probably are. We just have to remember to remove hoses and drain any outside faucets, and leave the cupboard doors open under sinks with faucets on outside walls when it's really bad.

The mains burst because they're old cast iron and not buried deeply enough, so the ground around them freezes while the water (which is maybe 40°) is still flowing, so the pipes flex, crack, and water pressure blows them apart.

One thing I wonder about. With extreme cold comes house fires and suffocations. Blocked chimneys and carbon dioxide, fireplace sparks and space heaters. Is there an astrological signature that covers both the cold and the particular manner of indoor deaths?

[Jim Eshelman]

Is there an astrological signature that covers both the cold and the particular manner of indoor deaths?

Several overlaps, I think. Let's list a few things to try to narrow it:

The extremes of weather - especially cold (but I've seen it for deadly summer heat, also), is the angular Saturn. For increased deaths in general, we expect Saturn.

Anytime there is involvement of noxious fumes (poisoning), I expect Neptune. Not invariably, but usually.

Fires are basic to a lot of these tragedies. The signature centers on the three malefics, Mars, Saturn, and Neptune (and, unless it's at a club or the like, an absence of Venus and Jupiter). Moon aspects to the same three malefics are most common. We have a string of familiar aspects, some of which seem (to me) to match the rest of the picture you paint, such as Venus-Saturn, Mars-Saturn, and Mars-Neptune, among others.
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So, I think we're looking at a focus on the three malefics, perhaps (giving the climate-weather centerpiece) with Saturn taking the lead, Neptune and Mars supporting. Lunar aspects to these as well. Almost no Venus and Jupiter, except that Venus prominent and tightly aspecting Saturn (and maybe Pluto), plus Mars aspects to Saturn and Neptune.

[SteveS]

A thought occurred to me. We may want to do some SMA research with the geographic center (link below) of the lower 48 for possibly predicting extreme weather conditions. This location is app located in the town of Lebanon, Kansas. As Jim has pointed out, we see a tight mundane square of Mars-Pluto in the Libsolar for this part of the Country, with a tight cnj of Saturn with WP. Also, a partile mundo 90 of Saturn-Neptune, all par-excellent symbolism for this severe cold weather. Let’s see if this extreme cold weather hitting the center of our Country is going to be one for the record books. If so, I will compile a list of record cold and drought years for US, starting another thread, checking to see if the geographic center of country shows par-excellent angular symbolism (solar ingresses) for record-setting extreme weather conditions in US.
Libsolar-Capsolar: Winter extremes; Aries-Cansolar: Flood-Drought extremes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographi ... ted_States

[Jim Eshelman]

Steve, you just gave me the idea to check that same general area (but centered a little bit southwest of there) for the dust bowl region of the '30s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl
It looks from the map that the worst hit areas centered around roughly the Colorado-Kansas-Oklahoma triple border. I'll find a town there and (in another thread) look at solar ingresses for the three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939-40.

[Jim Eshelman]

Five Denver-area deputies were shot, and one of them killed, responding to a domestic incident this morning. They arrived December 31, 2018, 5:15 AM at a home in Highlands Ranch south of Denver. (I assume that's a neighborhood. I've used Highlands, CO in Denver County.)

The solar ingresses set up the possibility, especially the Cansolar (flow-through Quarter chart) with Venus closely rising and Saturn closely setting (their midpoint within 1° of horizon). And Saturn (squared by Mars) was square the Capsolar MC within about half a degree.

But the daily factors were more expressive: CapQ Asc opposed transiting Saturn 0°09' for the event. CapQ Moon's opposition to Neptune (now only 0°04' wide) was right along the meridian within 2°. As a local event that, at least briefly, made national news, it was quite vividly mournful.

The CanQ backed this up: Quotidian EP was 1° from transiting Mars. (Mercury crossed the Cansolar Descendant today, probably propelling them into the news.)

[SteveS]

The weather service said Omaha's temperature low of 15 below zero (-9 Celsius) before midnight broke a record that had stood since 1884.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topst ... li=BBnb7Kz

JSAD, how are things in Omaha? I think the mundane square of Mars-Pluto in the 2017 Libsolar is definitely symbolizing itself as a 'powerful force' with this cold weather in your part of the country. I have not done a-lot SMA work for 1884's record cold in Omaha--but noted 1884 Capsolar featured a partile Mars-Pluto cnj.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Omaha is fine. All churches cancelled services yesterday, so most really vunerable people stayed home. Another record may bite the dust tonight, then the polar express will end. Another little dip on Friday, and we'll stay above 0° for the rest of the winter.

[SteveS]

I think 2017 Midwest (Omaha) Libsolar nailed the angular symbolism for this record cold wave, its been brutally cold!

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

There have actually been a lot of homes with frozen pipes. Did you know some people turn off the heat when they go visit family or off on a vacation for more than a couple of days? Not turn it down.. turn it all the way off. In Nebraska. In December. Never mind the extreme cold we've had. Just ten days, in Nebraska, in December.

[SteveS]

I hear you JSAD. A long time ago I learned the hard way (loss of $ cost & and repair wait time)---always take extra precaution with extreme cold weather for busted frozen water pipes. I used Pex replacing my old water line from main line not too long ago. And then insulated all piping under house. This house was originally built as a summer cottage with raised flooring to allow cool air to circulate under house. Then I take extra precaution for joints bursting with frozen lines. Saturn cycles love to teach us the 'hard way.'

[Jim Eshelman]

Yesterday, there was a newsworthy "hotline" communication between North Korea and South Korea - the first in about two years, and a sign of extended diplomacy in advance of the Seoul Olympics.

This has been a banner year for North Korea in many ways, reflecting its excellent Capsolar with Sun rising, and Sun-Ascendant square Jupiter.

I don't know if the call occurred before or after Moon entered Cancer, but the Canlunar has Pluto exactly rising, and Mars too close to MC for my comfort. Perhaps most importantly, it occurred the exact day transiting Jupiter crossed Capsolar MC for Pyongyang. We have repeatedly seen Jupiter as the chief astrological architect of diplomacy and sincere connection. (We then pick up a couple of angular Suns along the way.)

[Jim Eshelman]

Meanwhile, anti-government protest in Tehran have been prolific over the last week - the worst in a generation or so, it seems. At least 20 people have died and hundreds have been arrested. Observers have suggested that the ayatollah's position is at risk.

This is not surprising from the 2017 Capsolar, where Tehran has Moon exactly at MC - the characteristic mark of waves of people moving in a single mass mind. Moon was also the strongest factor in the Cansolar (which, more broadly, placed the quadruple Moon-Sun-Mars-Uranus on angles); the Libsolar is dormant.

And Moon is the most angular planet in the Caplunar, which mostly defines the period of this action-on-outrage. The recurring Moon-Uranus square (only 21' wide) is right on the angles, with Moon closest. Mars is exactly (I mean: within 02') square Ascendant in the Caplunar. This is the main chart for the last week's event, fed further by a 25' Moon-Uranus conjunction (yes, Moon again, and with Uranus again) exactly angular in the Arilunar.

I don't expect it to calm down this week, either, though there will be stronger police enforcement and some efforts at appeasement: The new Canlunar has Mars and Jupiter closely rising, in conjunction, with Mars a little stronger. Jupiter is moving into orb of conjunction with Capsolar Ascendant and, while the exact aspect won't occur before the Capsolar expires, it will be well within orb.

Of course, we have the CapQ Moon-Neptune progression as well, which became exact about yesterday.

[SteveS]

Jim wrote:

This is not surprising from the 2017 Capsolar, where Tehran has Moon exactly at MC - the characteristic mark of waves of people moving in a single mass mind. Moon was also the strongest factor in the Cansolar (which, more broadly, placed the quadruple Moon-Sun-Mars-Uranus on angles); the Libsolar is dormant.

Tehran’s 2017 Cansolar : Using Jim's "outstanding incident" rule in his book 'Interpreting Solar Returns', we clearly see a Mars-Uranus 'outstanding incident' with this combo angular and partile 90 each other.

https://imgur.com/a/hkxAj