November 2023 Events

[Jim Eshelman]

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[Jim Eshelman]

November 8, 2023: At 4:44 PM, LA Times announced that the SAG-AFTRA strike is over after four months. It likely was settled not long before. I don't know which part of Los Angeles is most relevant (since the entire local economy is affected), but I suspect the most relevant places are closest to the coordinates for West Hollywood.

Year: Capsolar {+3}
(Could any better planets mark a year of the greatest entertainment industry strikes in generations? It's a predominantly Mars chart with Jupiter and Neptune being not only representative of entertainment but the aspect in mundane astrology most common for strikes. [They aren't in aspect here.])
Mars on Dsc 2°55'
Jupiter and Neptune more widely angular
-- Mars-Neptune sq 0°44' M
Moon-Pluto 0°39' M

Bridge {+1}
The Uranus transit was there all summer, so this is thin for a Bridge.)
t Uranus sq Cansolar MC

Quarter: Libsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Neptune.

Quarter: Cansolar {+2?}
(The strike began July 14, just a few days before this set up. I think we can take this to show the strike more than its resolution. [It technically began under the Arisolar with Mars and Neptune angular and a Moon-Uranus square.])
Uranus on WP 0°10'
Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter more widely foreground
-- Mercury-Jupiter sq 0°37'
-- Venus-Uranus sq 1°26' M
Moon-Pluto op 1°26' M
Moon-Sun co 1°31'

Month: Caplunar {+2}
(Success... and back to work and paychecks!)
Jupiter on Z 0°04'
Saturn on EP 1°50'
Moon and Pluto widely angular
-- Moon-Pluto co 0°04' M
-- Pluto sq non-foreground Sun 0°19', Mercury 1°27', Uranus 2°59' M

Week: Canlunar {-2}
Less convincing. We don't know the terms yet, but this currently looks poor.)\
Saturn on Asc 2°37'
Moon-Pluto op 0°14' M

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
t Uranus sq s MC 0°57'
t Sun co s Asc 0°52'
t Mercury co s EP-a 1°00'

Day: Capsolar Transits
Transiting Moon may have been on Capsolar MC, depending on the time. Neptune had just backed outside the 2° orb of Capsolar IC, but was still there for part of town. Interesting but not anything you can pin an event on. Possibly the AriQ and LibQ should be run since the Cap produced nothing.

[Jim Eshelman]

I now understand why these charts were great through the Caplunar then essentially quit.

It isn't really over yet. What happened today was that the negotiating team made an agreement unanimously - it surely is a good one - but there are two more steps. It has to go back to the union's board, and then to the members for a vote. Every expectation is that these will go smoothly but, as of now - at least technically - it's not over yet.

[Jim Eshelman]

A downtown LA fire started Saturday afternoon Saturday (11/11), burned several cars, spread from a storage yard to ignite another storage facility, and eventually exploded in size enough that one of the city's major links to downtown traffic exchanges (I-10) is shut down indefinitely. We got phone emergency alerts last night that the 10 was shut down.

I haven't had time to gather all the data, but the basics are clear. Transiting Uranus has been square the LA Cansolar MC and, by Saturday, transiting Mars opposed Uranus and squared Capsolar MC. (The number of significant fires without Mars transiting a solar ingress angle or on a quotidian are miniscule.) Here are some quick notes on the backdrop:

YEAR: Capsolar has a foreground Mars-Neptune partile square (mundo) plus the universal Moon-Pluto square.

QUARTER: The Libsolar is dormant (though with a partile mundane Moon-Neptune square), and the Cansolar has that exactly angular Uranus. (The rest of the Cansolar isn't so bad, although if there was an actual explosion involved, the foreground Venus-Uranus square matches it.)

MONTH: Caplunar is a positive chart, with Jupiter exactly angular but Saturn not far behind. Add Moon-Sun-Pluto. Nort a great chart for the event, other than perhaps Mercury square the foreground Pluto meaning the traffic blocks.

WEEK: The new Liblunar is dormant. The Canlunar has Saturn within 3° of Ascendant (plus partile Moon-Pluto mundo).

Then Mars opposed Uranus and squared Cansolar MC.

[Jim Eshelman]

November 28, 2023, 3:20 AM, Los Angeles, CA 34N00'15'', 118W14'45''

An abrupt, massive fire in south Los Angeles, consuming an entire city block, drew 100 fire fighters and wiped out several homes "in a blink of an eye." (Five buildings were a "total loss," seven others were damaged.) Two seniors were hospitalized for serious burns. No deaths reported. (Address: 1585 East Vernon Avenue, misreported as Vernon Street but correctly reported as between Lima and Morgan.)

The fire seems to have started in an apartment building under construction with "downed power lines." 140 firefighters took 78 minutes to put out the fire.

The fire started with a Venus-Eris opposition across the horizon and Pluto near IC. I suspect the effect of houses irrevocably lost came as Pluto worked its way across IC. Venus was 2°04' past Ascendant and Pluto 2°10' before IC. Interestingly, at 3:20 there was a Moon-Sun-Mars exactly across the east-west axis (Vertex line) that does not show as an ecliptical aspect. By Azimuth and longitude:

90°03' - Sun - 10°53' Sco
270°17' - Moon - 24°16' Tau
91°27' - Mars - 7°49' Sco

Nonetheless, the three Class 1 ecliptical aspects were Sun conjunct Mars, Mercury square Neptune, and Mars square Saturn. Notice that while all of California is under the usual annual Capsolar effects that would be consistent with the fire, this exact pocket has a dormant Capsolar - it misses that particular effect. If it was the fallen electrical wires, look at how close Uranus is to the Cansolar angle!

Charts are decent (especially if it was an electrical fire), though daily timing was poor. Despite the immediate drama, this was a small local event. Technically the Cansolar takes the daily timing lead over the Capsolar because the Cansolar had the only Bridge content, but that content was a single long-term transit (and the CapQ was entirely wrong).

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Pluto.

Year: Cansolar {+1?}
Uranus on WP 0°03'
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter more widely foreground
-- Mercury-Jupiter sq 0°37'
-- Venus-Uranus sq 1°27' M
Moon-Pluto op 1°26' M
Moon-Sun co 1°31'

Bridge {+2}
t Uranus sq Cansolar MC

Quarter: Libsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Neptune.

Month: Caplunar {+1}
Mercury on WP 0°58'
-- Mercury sq non-foreground Saturn 2°20' M

Week: Arilunar {+1?}
Jupiter on WP-a 0°33'
Pluto on N 1°17'
Moon more widely foreground
-- Moon-Pluto sq 0°34' M

Day: Cansolar Transits {+2}
t Uranus sq s MC 1°52'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {-2}
p MC sq t Jupiter 0°59'
p EP-a co p Moon 1°50'
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t Mercury sq s MC 1°09'


The only truly appropriate daily timing was in the Arisolar and Libsolar, with some unusual precision:
AriQ Asc op t Saturn 0°31', sq t Mars 1°21' (MC sq p Moon 1°09')
t Neptune sq Arisolar Asc 0°09' (t Mercury co Arisolar Asc 1°03')
t Uranus sq Arisolar Moon 0°04'

LibQ EP-a co s Pluto 1°22', t Pluto 1°57'
t Sun co Libsolar Asc 0°19'
t Moon op Libsolar EP-a 0°54'