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2016 October stuff
Post Posted Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:15 am by Jim Eshelman
Starting the thread...
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Ethiopia deadly stampede during protests
Post Posted Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:18 am by Jim Eshelman
October 2, 2016, in Bishoftu, Ethiopia (aka Debre Zeyit), 52 people "were crushed to death... in a stampede after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse an anti-government protest that grew out of a massive religious festival" (AP). I don't have a time yet.
Other anti-government protests hit the city for three days beginning August 5.
There are no live solar ingresses for the area. The Caplunar is dormant, and the new Liblunar has Sun square Ascendant and Pluto on EP, in addition to the Moon-Uranus opposition. This is sufficient to show anti-government revolts, of course.
CapQ has Capsolar Mars exactly on Descendant. CanQ has Mars and Jupiter square on the angles.
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Palm Springs police shooting
Post Posted Sat Oct 08, 2016 6:56 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Three police officers shot in Palm Springs CA about 2PM today, October 8th 2016 during a stand off in a domestic situation. Two officers have died as of 5PM.
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Re: Palm Springs police shooting
Post Posted Sat Oct 08, 2016 7:08 pm by Jim Eshelman
Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
Three police officers shot in Palm Springs CA about 2PM today, October 8th 2016 during a stand off in a domestic situation. Two officers have died as of 5PM.
Transiting Saturn is within 2° of Capsolar MC for Palm Springs. Transiting Neptune squares Capsolar MC.
Transiting Mars is within 1° of square Capsolar Moon, something I expect to show accelerated violence all over the world.
The one puzzler is the current lunar ingress, the Liblunar, which (besides the universal Moon-Uranus square) has only one relevant factor: Venus in Libra partile conjunct IC.
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Thai king's death
Post Posted Thu Oct 13, 2016 9:21 am by Jim Eshelman
King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who ruled for just over 70 years, died in Bangkok today. (His name Bhumibol, BTW, is pronounced poo-me-pon.)
Thailand's CAPSOLAR shows an unstable year - the government is controlled by as military that relied on the ailing king for its authority - with Uranus-Pluto on the angles much like the U.S. (but without the foreground Mars we also have).
The CANSOLAR has the Moon-Jupiter square exactly angular - Jupiter 17' from EP, Moon 24; from IC. I've seen this sort of thing in the charts for the British royal family, where Moon and Jupiter themselves are quite common for any big events for the family, but generally not a Moon-Jupiter aspect for an event like a death.
The new Caplunar is dormant. The LIBLUNAR shows the impact on the country (where he was a much-loved figure broadly seen as the only thing holding the fragile nation together). It is Saturn-Neptune dominated. Saturn squares Ascendant tightly, Neptune tightly conjoins Asc, and they are square. Bangkok also has a mundane Moon-Uranus-Pluto T-square, so this was a shock and local destabilizing factor.
For the DAY, the CapQ brings a mix of the Uranus-Pluto square, progressed Moon, and transiting Sun to angles. Transiting Pluto is 01' from IC of Bangkok's Capsolar. The CanQ brings transiting Saturn to Asc, square ingress Neptune.
Overall, the death of their beloved king is shown and, even more strongly, a hard blow and surely a destabilizing blow, for the country. The Libsolar occurring next weekend has Mars on IC, so military authority and likely widespread violence can be expected.
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Boston cops attacked
Post Posted Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:58 am by Jim Eshelman
An assailant in body armor with an assault rifle shot and wounded 11 Boston cops about 11:00 PM yesterday.
I don't have Boston cited as a vulnerable area under my prediction for this month, which makes sense - the new Caplunar is dormant. The last live lunar ingress was the Liblunar, with Mercury on EP, which, while "tactical," isn't too impressive. (It's improved by a very exact Mars-Jupiter mundane square in the distant foreground.)
Transiting Uranus is a few minutes from square Boston's Capsolar MC, and the CapQ brings some Mercury and some weaker Uranus to the fore. The CanQ is particularly interesting not just because Pluto is exactly on Dsc, but because its angles are exactly the event chart angles of 11 PM.
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Los Angeles shooting
Post Posted Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:53 am by Jim Eshelman
Shortly after midnight today, three people died and 12 were wounded when "gunfire erupted" (as LA Times put it) at a party. I'll use 12:15 AM as a working time. (We can use West Adams, CA to get the closest post office.)
The restaurant wasn't named, though, just that it was around 29th and Rimpau. An LAPD spokesman said, "It's a bloody scene with shell casings everywhere." About 50 people were in the restaurant. An argument broke out. "Three men left and returned with firearms and began shooting. Others at the restaurant also opened fire." (This sounds quite similar to the lead-up of the San Bernardino shooting last year.)
The CAPSOLAR has Neptune 1°10' from square MC, and Saturn in the upper foreground. Saturn and Neptune don't have a close ecliptical aspect, but they do have a partile mundane square for LA (0°46'). Among other things, this has timed with our more oppressive smog (air has no place to go) after years of being out from under this serious problem, plus a rising crime rate (though that's more of a national problem).
The CANSOLAR either doesn't refer to this event itself, or is strange and unclear. The Cansolar's partile Sun-Uranus square is on angles.
The new CAPLUNAR has:
Moon on Asc (1°46')
Mars-Pluto conj. (3°00')
-- Pluto on Asc (4°31')
-- Mars on Asc (7°31')
Sun sq. Asc (2°24')
So, basically, a tightly angular Moon and a foreground Mars-Pluto conjunction, which describes the event well.
For the DAY, the CapQ begins quite strangely - perhaps showing the social gathering, but broadly inappropriate for this event by itself. However, it gives us an implicit Venus-Neptune aspect, which is an aspect highly typical of mass shootings. CapQ Asc conjoins transiting Venus (0°05'). CapQ MC opposes ingress Neptune (1°53'). We could even call this an implicit Venus-Neptune aspect - a Coangularity - with an orb of 1°58'. In this case, it may have been "social stuff gone wrong." It's not as clean as I'd like, but I'd give it a +1 for this aspect.
More insidious, but longer term, transiting Neptune squares Capsolar MC (0°29'). Since transiting Venus squares Capsolar Asc quite precisely (0°02'), we have a second Venus-Neptune co-themed chart, so the social context and Venus-Neptune themes are clearly the signature of this particular event.
And Venus continues to stir things in the CanQ, this time with a different playmate: CanQ Asc opposes transiting Venus (0°36') and Cansolar Mars (1°59').
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Re: Los Angeles shooting
Post Posted Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:01 am by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Jim Eshelman wrote:
The restaurant wasn't named, though, just that it was around 29th and Rimpau.
"a makeshift restaurant at a home in the 2800 block of Rimpau Boulevard" according to authorities from the LA police dept.
"It's a single-family residence that was kind of a makeshift restaurant. It has canopies; they have a DJ, they have tables set up to play dominoes," said LAPD Sgt. Frank Preciado.
According to the owner of the restaurant, "There was a birthday party going on" when an argument broke out.
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Varanasi stampede
Post Posted Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:06 pm by Jim Eshelman
In Varanasi (Benares), India, during religious festivities today, a stampede killed at least 24 people and injured several more. I don't have a time, but I have reports as early as 11 hours ago (i.e., around 6 AM PDT = 6:30 PM in Varanasi). Times of India specifies "Saturday afternoon." I'll estimate 3 PM.
The ARISOLAR is the active solar ingress, and has Venus closest to an angle (2°52'), with Pluto 3°24' from another (no aspect). Uranus is also foreground, more widely.
All four lunar ingresses are dormant.
For the DAY, we have something we've seen elsewhere today: The CanQ has transiting Venus on Asc (1°+) along with ingress Mars (0°). I suppose, just as we had violence at a party in LA with this, we have violence at a festival in Varanasi.
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Oregon storms
Post Posted Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:51 pm by Jim Eshelman
As an aftermath of an off-shore hurricane, Oregon is in the midst of high-damage wind storms. I can't find a reference that says rain is involved, even though that would usually be the case for this sort of aftermath.
The October 9 CAPLUNAR has Mercury-Jupiter exactly square Ascendant, with Jupiter square Mars, which is near Ascendant. There is also a mundane partile Mars-Pluto conjunction foreground, with Pluto in orb of conjunct Moon. This is all quite consistent of violence, storms, high wind, etc., though I'd also expect rain from it.
During the days when this has been happening, transiting Mars has been crossing Cansolar Ascendant for, say, Portland (central and capital).
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Re: Varanasi stampede
Post Posted Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:49 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
I'm pretty sure nobody who's writing for news media knows the exact time, and I think 3 PM is close.
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What's up in Kansas.
Post Posted Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:43 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Three men were arrested Friday morning, October 14, 2016 in Liberal Kansas, for plotting to bomb a housing complex that includes a mosque in Garden City, KS. The bomb was going to be set to go off November 9, the day after the election. About 200 Somali immigrants live in the housing complex and work at the Tyson meat packing plant nearby. The men arrested are members of an anti Muslim "militia" group. They said their intention was to "wake people up."
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Re: What's up in Kansas.
Post Posted Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:53 pm by Jim Eshelman
Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
Three men were arrested Friday morning, October 14, 2016 in Liberal Kansas, for plotting to bomb a housing complex that includes a mosque in Garden City, KS. The bomb was going to be set to go off November 9, the day after the election. About 200 Somali immigrants live in the housing complex and work at the Tyson meat packing plant nearby. The men arrested are members of an anti Muslim "militia" group. They said their intention was to "wake people up."
I saw this, but there didn't seem to be a point event. They were stopped before they did anything, right? It did seem there was some psychological commotion, the police needing to assure the Somalis in town, etc. (The one article I saw also seemed to be saying the arrests etc. happened last week. Was it really yesterday?)
The CAPSOLAR has Venus and Jupiter exactly angular. One normally would expect better from this (oh, actually, it was: they caught them before they did anything). I think this also shows the ethnicity theme. (And the Jupiter theme is reinforced by the universal Moon-Jupiter in the Cansolar, and the universal Jupiter transit to Capsolar Moon right now.)
The Caplunar and Liblunar are dormant, but the prior CANLUNAR has Mars 2°32' from Descendant and a widely foreground Saturn. Again, we get a Moon-Jupiter theme: They are in partile mundane square for that part of Kansas.
For the DAY, CapQ MC still conjoined Jupiter yesterday, and Asc had reached square to Neptune today. CanQ MC squared Mars yesterday.
So it's a deeply Jupiter event (both the "no harm done" an the bigoted motivation) under a Mars chart of the week.
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Re: What's up in Kansas.
Post Posted Sun Oct 16, 2016 1:15 am by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Jim Eshelman wrote:
(The one article I saw also seemed to be saying the arrests etc. happened last week. Was it really yesterday?)
Friday the 14th, sometime in the morning.
ABC news story
KWIC (local tv)
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Re: What's up in Kansas.
Post Posted Sun Oct 16, 2016 1:58 am by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Oh, there's this:
Caplunar Wichita Nov 6 (Election the 8th)
Moon 0 Cap 00 Detriment
Asc 2 Can 20
Mars 2 Cap 45 Exaltation
Jup 17 Vir 15 Detriment
MC 18 Pis 03
Another bombing plot? Or a nasty flood? Lotta very angry ol' white men in Kansas, since the Republican governor and Republican state legislature implemented a nearly pure Republican budget. (It's still the tax cuts)
2016 October stuff
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GOP headquarters vandalized, firebombed in NC
Post Posted Sun Oct 16, 2016 4:06 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Don't know what time, but last night somebody broke into the GOP headquarters in Hillsborough, NC. They wrote nasty stuff on the walls, then threw a bottle of gasoline through the front window, burning furniture and yard signs, and maybe some completed but not yet filed early voter registrations. An adjacent business had a swastika and the words, "Nazi Republicans leave town or else" spray painted one wall. The damage was found this morning when someone who owns a nearby business arrived this morning to open up.
The building, other than the front window, wasn't damaged and nobody was hurt (except the people thinking they're registered to vote if those registrations can't be filed.
There are suggestions this was done by a Trump supporter to discredit Democrats, but that's just spin. Authorities don't know who did it or why.
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Re: GOP headquarters vandalized, firebombed in NC
Post Posted Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:00 pm by Jim Eshelman
Ugly. "Firegate" we don't need. Let's take a look for around midnight.
Hillsborough's CAPSOLAR has Pluto only 0°07' (both Pluto and MC squared by Uranus), so it isn't surprise something radical and disruptive centers there this year. (As for DC, Mars is widely foreground.)
The CANSOLAR centers the Moon-Jupiter quite precisely on angles.
The CAPLUNAR is also crazy (and fire-prone). In addition to the universal Moon-Uranus square, Neptune is 1°34' from Asc, square a foreground Saturn.
Setting up the DAY, transiting Pluto has been in long-term conjunction with Capsolar MC, and is now only a few minutes away. It also hits CapQ Eastpoint, so something disruptive and stunning would be expected.
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Battle for Mosul
Post Posted Sun Oct 16, 2016 6:12 pm by Jim Eshelman
The battle to retake Mosul from ISIL has begun, according to the Iraqi prime minister. I'd use 2:00 AM BAT Monday as the likely time (that was just a few minutes ago, and the news just broke). This is the battle to reclaim the final ISIL stronghold in Iraq; and earlier today ISIL fled from Dabiq, Syria, where they had prophesied a "final, great" battle would occur. They're on the run!
We are on the eve of the new, severe Libsolar, so I can't help but thing about that in relation to this event. If they are connected from the U.S. point of view, then we are waiting for another shoe to drop
For MOSUL
The CANSOLAR has Uranus on MC (0°18'), Sun square MC (0°01') (!), and Mercury-Venus rising (0°03', 0°02' respectively on opposite sides of Asc!), along with the universal Moon-Jupiter square. This is quite a remarkable chart for a war of liberation! These placements, of course, give us not only the partile Sun-Uranus square, but partile mundane squares of Mercury-Uranus and Venus-Uranus.
The ARILUNAR has Neptune square Asc (0°12'), Saturn rising (2°07'), and Moon conjunct Uranus and both opposite Sun (reinforcing the Cansolar's Sun-Uranus message). It doesn't look pleasant or happy in the least. so, while the Cansolar looks swift and decisive, this looks long and drawn out.
The Arilunar Ascendant is the CapQ Descendant, so Neptune again squares the horizon. Jupiter, as we know, opposes Capsolar Moon (0°08'), a universal aspect affecting the entire world (and something that would certainly ripple through the whole world.
CanQ MC squares transiting Uranus. This is repeatedly shown as a Uranian event from the perspective of Mosul itself.
For BAGHDAD
Mosul is 36N20, 43E08. Baghdad is 33N21, 44E25. We would expect this event to have different meanings for the two locales.
For Bagdad, the CANSOLAR is essentially the same, but with somewhat wider orbs. This is broadly going to be true for all the ingresses.
The CAPLUNAR, though dormant for Mosul, is quite live for Baghdad, with a repeat o the Uranus on MC, Moon-Uranus square on the angles, and add a mundane Moon-Sun square only 0°01' (the orbs on these charts are startling!). The people and the government are quite united on this one!
For Baghdad, the ARILUNAR focus is pure Saturn - Neptune is out of orb of square Ascendant, and Saturn is 0°19' below Asc. (And, of course, the universal Moon-Sun-Uranus is there.)
We would expect the most differences in the DAY charts, given tighter orb tolerances. An interesting thing is that the CapQ Ascendant barely moves, so Neptune is exactly square Asc (a rarely present factor for military actions, suggesting much more doubt and uncertainty that is typical for such launches). Jupiter's universal transit to Capsolar Moon persists, of course.
And maybe the biggest difference, the CanQ shows more executive authority in the capital. Whereas it emphasizes Uranus in Mosul (and that is still in orb in Baghdad), the capital brings CanQ MC square transiting Sun, where it has been riding for days and will continue to ride for days more.
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anhydrous ammonia leak
Post Posted Tue Oct 18, 2016 12:21 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
About 6 miles north of Tekamah, (Burt County) NE, yesterday, October 17, 2016, someone called the sheriff's dept at 8:20 PM to report an anhydrous ammonia leak. Fire and rescue was dispatched at 8:40 PM to evacuate people living in the area. At 10:05 PM someone called to report a man was down in the area of the leak. Fire and rescue reached him about 2:25 AM, and removed the body. He was pronounced at the scene.
People living in the area remain evacuated, but are being allowed home for short periods under supervision of an air quality team to tend to their livestock and pets. The roads between Tekamah and Decatur are closed till at least tomorrow. The dead man's brother said he hadn't gotten a good start on the harvest, and he and the neighbors will be getting the crops out.
Anhydrous ammonia is used as fertilizer and the pipeline is owned by the Magellan company, which also has a pipeline less than two blocks from here. I don't know what that carries, but I think I'm going to find out.
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Re: anhydrous ammonia leak
Post Posted Tue Oct 18, 2016 5:33 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
The only thing I can find for this is the SQ showing Saturn on the ASC, and Mars and Neptune in a background trine. I expected more.
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Re: anhydrous ammonia leak
Post Posted Wed Oct 19, 2016 2:51 am by Jim Eshelman
OK, let's see if I can find more. October 17, 2016, 8:20 PM, Tekamah, NE as a starting point.
Here's a subtlety. The new LIBSOLAR is dormant, but it has mundane lunar aspects that are going to be geographically specific:
5°25' Moon
7°30' Pluto
8°45' Venus
9°22' Mars
I wouldn't count the Moon-Mars, which is a square more than 3°, but the whole pattern is at least interesting, and the Moon-Pluto is worth noting. It isn't there ecliptically.
Since the Libsolar and Cansolar are dormant, the last "live" solar ingress (and thus the effective Quarter chart) is the ARISOLAR, which has a Sun-Uranus conjunction rising, a mundane Moon-Mars square (1°15'), Pluto and Mercury more widely culminating, and a 0°08' Mercury-Pluto square. Had I been watching this in advance, I'd have detected it as violent and disruptive, something breaking if not exploding, and something characteristic of Mercury-Pluto - which probably would have led me to think more explosion than slow leak, since the most common expression of Mercury-Pluto is "something that stuns the mind, shakes the intellect, and remaps the thinking." Probably, in hindsight, it means there is a discovery, will be an investigation, and something will come of that investigation.
Oh, here's where it gets interesting: The last non-dormant lunar ingress was the September 24 CANLUNAR. It becomes non-dormant due to Sun-Jupiter square Ascendant (which doesn't seem to describe the situation except that there will surely be a close government-led investigation). Much more interesting, though, is Saturn 1°23' from WP, and more widely foreground Mars and Neptune. (Mars is 4°13' from Dsc, Neptune is 5°15' from MC, they average 0°31' from the angles.) Again, I'm not sure of the Jupiter issue (unless it's that this was caught before there was more damage?), but the rest of the chart is quite on-target. Have you noticed how may of these toxic spills and breaches have Saturn-Neptune?
For the DAY, yes, you nailed it: CapQ Asc is conjunct ingress Saturn (0°07') and transiting Saturn (0°23').
In summary, the dormant Libsolar has Moon-Pluto especially, the most recent "live" solar ingress has Sun-Uranus, Moon-Mars, and Mercury-Pluto. Then the most recent lunar ingress has three malefics concentrated on angles plus a less obvious Sun-Jupiter. Within this, for the day, the primary quotidian brings Ascendant directly to Saturn.
What you were missing was that, when you found a completely flat, inexpressive ingress, you didn't look at its predecessors to find the most recent non-dormant ("live") ingress.
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Indonesia quake
Post Posted Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:57 am by Jim Eshelman
A magnitude 6.6 quake hit near Java this morning.: October 19, 2016, 0:26:01 UT, 4S55'01", 108E09'36". There was no tsunami warning, and I haven't heard that there were injuries or damage.
CAPSOLAR:
Sun sq. Asc (1°44')
Uranus & Pluto widely foreground and in tight square (1°13' in mundo)
Mars very widely foreground
(So far, it just seems like a news event.)
LIBSOLAR:
Uranus on Dsc (0°34')
Sun on Asc (1°29')
Mercury on Asc (3°57')
-- Sun-Uranus op. (2°00' in mundo)
-- Mercury-Uranus op. (3°23')
Pluto (4°49') & Mars (5°38') on IC
-- Mars-Pluto conj. (0°49' in mundo)
CAPLUNAR: (Dormant.) Moon-Uranus sq.
ARILUNAR:
Venus sq. Asc (1°40')
Moon-Sun-Uranus aspects
CapQ just brings two Suns to the angles.
Transits to Capsolar include t. Uranus sq. MC (0°21'), t. Sun on s. Asc (0°39'), and of course the universal Jupiter op. s. Moon (0°16')
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Re: anhydrous ammonia leak
Post Posted Wed Oct 19, 2016 1:27 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Jim Eshelman wrote:
What you were missing was that, when you found a completely flat, inexpressive ingress, you didn't look at its predecessors to find the most recent non-dormant ("live") ingress.
That's exactly what I was missing.
I need a way to automate creating the stack of charts with SQs and transits. We all need that. I used to be pretty good with macros in Word and Excel. I've yet to figure out Solar Fire's macro abilities... or it just doesn't have them. Has to be a way.
If we can automate the process, more people will be interested in looking at the stack for their region.
Heck if we can do a bulleted step by step list of what to do, more people will be interested in looking at the stack for their region. We need to set things up so a newbie can plug in the year and their location and get a report they can use to look stuff up in SMA.
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Review of analyzing mundane events
Post Posted Wed Oct 19, 2016 2:11 pm by Jim Eshelman
Here's a basic click-through (a bit abbreviated, but I think you'll get it) for studying an event. It's the fastest route I know, because it preloads certain buffers along the way to require less typing.
First, calculate a chart for the event. Note the Sun and Moon signs so you know which ingresses you want to calculate. Close it.
Select the event chart and press Shift+F12. This is the relocation wizard, but it has the advantage of loading the event chart name, date, and time into the buffers. On Place, you can click the down-arrow and select the city etc. you just used for the event chart. Once it's loaded, you won't have to type it for the process that follows. Press Esc to leave the relocation box.
To calculate an ingress, press F5, make sure Current is checked, selected Advanced & Ingress, click OK. Select Sun, click Position or Ingress, either select Cp from the dropdown or just type those two letters, hit OK. (You now have the Capsolar, and have saved yourself many steps for what follows.)
To do the Cansolar next, just press F5, click Options (or just press Enter, since Options is likely already the focus), type Cn in the box, press Enter (or click OK).
Want to do another solar ingress, e.g., Libsolar? Press F5 again, press Enter (or click Options, type Li in the box, and press OK.
For the lunar ingresses, go in and pick Moon for the planet and repeat.
After doing the lunar ingresses, click on the Capsolar, press F4 this time, and (if, like me, you keep progressed angles set on Quotidians and the F4 list set on Secondary Progressions), all the right data will already be populated and you just have to press Enter or click OK to get a CapQ. Select the Cansolar, press F4, press Enter, and you have a CanQ.
After I have the event chart, I can do all the charts for a specific event in about a minute.
If I had an event right now, with Sun in Libra and Moon in Taurus, I'd calculate the following charts: Capsolar & Cansolar (always; you want the first one always, and you need both for the quotidians), Libsolar (or whatever is the Quarter chart), Caplunar, Arilunar, CapQ, CanQ - as I said, about a minute or work after the event chart is calculated. If I find the most recent solar or lunar ingress is dormant, I'll stop and calculate a prior one until I get one that isn't dormant.
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High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:32 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
At 7:10 AM (11:10 UTC) October 21, 2016, the DYN company, which manages DNS for The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, Shopify, parts of Amazon, and a thousand other places, was hit with a DDoS attack. Dyn's offices are located in Manchester, NH.
Although the first attack was mitigated at 9:20 AM, a second, larger, attack was mounted at 11:52 AM and is ongoing.
These attacks are almost certainly state-sponsored, in an effort to locate weaknesses in the DNS and anti-DDoS systems, using botnets consisting of consumer machines, including things like "smart" refrigerators and car computers. Many of the new "smart" machines have password hardwired in. (That makes me sputter every time I think of it!)
Hey, you, get off the cloud.
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:46 pm by Jim Eshelman
Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
At 7:10 AM (11:10 UTC) October 21, 2016, the DYN company, which manages DNS for The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, Shopify, parts of Amazon, and a thousand other places, was hit with a DDoS attack. Dyn's offices are located in Manchester, NH.
Although the first attack was mitigated at 9:20 AM, a second, larger, attack was mounted at 11:52 AM and is ongoing.
These attacks are almost certainly state-sponsored, in an effort to locate weaknesses in the DNS and anti-DDoS systems, using botnets consisting of consumer machines, including things like "smart" refrigerators and car computers. Many of the new "smart" machines have password hardwired in. (That makes me sputter every time I think of it!)
I'm inclined, as a first impression, to treat this as a national issue - a targeting of the whole country for an assault on political and other resources. As such, it is especially reflected in the Libsolar which, along with the Sun-Mars-Uranus-Pluto mega T for Washington, has Mercury almost as tightly connected.
In this regard, please see my posted prediction for the Cansolar that begins in a day or two. If I'm right about that chart, then this current matter is just foreplay (as reflected in the sexier Arilunar <g>).
Transiting Sun conjoins Washington's CapQ MC this morning. It's been there since October 10, and will last until deep into November at least - they move at essentially the same pace. But today we're moving into a double Sun effect as CapQ EP starts across Capsolar Sun (it's just entered a 2° so give it four days of this). Sun, in attack scenarios, usually just paints the target on the government itself.
Of far greater concern is that transiting Mars is starting to move across Capsolar MC. (Pluto isn't in orb of the MC, but Uranus is on Capsolar EP. So far, Jupiter softens it with opposition to Capsolar Moon, but this also stands on the side of nationalism.)
Oh, and in case you wondered if we're REALLY under attack, the transiting Mars-Pluto conjunction (opposed by Moon before the day is out) is on CanQ Descendant.
Mars stays in orb of CanQ Descendant until mid-November.
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 2:21 pm by Jim Eshelman
Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
...The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, Shopify, parts of Amazon, and a thousand other places...
I just noticed the PayPal site isn't reachable. Won't return an IP by various attempts. This is hit and miss, I'm sure. NYT is up, VerizonWireless.com responds, Amazon core site is up. This could get shaky.
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 2:50 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Sites are going up and down like on a merry-go-round. The more they use "the cloud" the worse it seems to be.
Several credit card sites are down.
These are likely the same players who lock up access to small business online sites and demand ransom. It's been being warned against for the last few weeks, especially since Krebs got taken down and had to move his DNS from akami to google shield.
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:08 pm by Jim Eshelman
Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
These are likely the same players who lock up access to small business online sites and demand ransom. It's been being warned against for the last few weeks, especially since Krebs got taken down and had to move his DNS from akami to google shield.
I doubt that's who it is, unless that's part of a larger cover. I tend to think (given the Libsolar and tomorrow's Canlunar) that this is Russia getting up-to-date information on vulnerabilities for a (they hope) single clean one-shot battle at either compromising or taking down either (1) much of the U.S. infrastructure or (2) specific entities that are buried in the list of served domains.
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:18 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Yeah, that's who was taking down small businesses. It's state-sponsored, but that doesn't mean the actual people doing it haven't monetized it. Or that Russia is above shaking down small businesses.
The smaller-in-scale attacks the last couple weeks were to find vulnerabilities to exploit. This larger attack is to find more vulnerabilities. Then they're going to take out the electricity grids, or all state governments, or the department of defense. Or something.
2016 October stuff
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:23 pm by Jim Eshelman
Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
The smaller-in-scale attacks the last couple weeks were to find vulnerabilities to exploit. This larger attack is to find more vulnerabilities. Then they're going to take out the electricity grids, or all state governments, or the department of defense. Or something.
Electricity grid would normally be my first concern, and DoD second. Right now, though, I'm more concerned with an upcoming election and, perhaps, a desire to leave things looking like everything is fine, nothing happened...
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:56 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
MSNBC just said they'd talked to DYN a few minutes ago, and there's a third wave going on right now. Krebs is down.
These are called Mirai attacks because that's the name of the software in use.
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:28 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Digging around on Krebs... the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which sells Never Hillary t-shirts and posters to fund itself, was hacked about 6 months ago by Russian hackers, who didn't steal emails or anything. They've been siphoning off credit card data.
Since March 16 this year to last week.
In other news, Twitter is pretty much only tweets saying WHY IS MY TWITTER DOWN??? and my twitter doesn't work on wifi, and Is ANYBODY else having a problem on Twitter??
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Re: High level DNS / DDos assaults
Post Posted Fri Oct 21, 2016 7:02 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
It's been confirmed this was caused by at least one botnet run on Mirai malware that sought out DVRs and video cameras using inexpensive components made by one firm and sold to a lot of other firms that build these things. This can't be "fixed" because the components can't be upgraded to more secure software.
So this will come and go, getting better and getting worse till somebody finds a way to knock the components off the internet. I hope that doesn't end up making DVRs overheat and burn people's houses down or something.
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The Cubs won!
Post Posted Sun Oct 23, 2016 1:13 pm by Jim Eshelman
As Steve reported this morning, the Chicago Cubs, after 70 years, won the right to go to the World Series. This is a big deal!
See the full workup here:
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Bus collision near Palm Springs
Post Posted Sun Oct 23, 2016 6:29 pm by Jim Eshelman
13 have died and 31 are injured after a tur bus collided with a semi near Desert Hot Springs, CA. It occurred 5:17 AM this morning.
Like Southern California in general, there are malefic trends for the year. For Desert Hot Springs, the CAPSOLAR has Saturn 3°36' from MC and Neptune 41' from square MC. Mundanely, Saturn squares Neptune 2°12'. The LIBSOLAR is similar with Neptune 1°37' from square MC, Saturn very widely foreground, and Saturn-Neptune sq. 0°12' in mundo.
CAPLUNAR: Uranus sq. Asc 1°23', Moon 0°16' from Asc, Mars and Pluto also foreground just over 3° from conjunct. It's volatile and explosive.
WEEK: The Canlunar is dormant. The ARILUNAR shows (as one possible manifestation) a travel crisis. Pluto is on EP 0°28', Mercury is 1°04' from IC, Mercury squares Pluto 0°29'. (There are other hot factors, but this is the main one.)
DAY: Venus is still on CapQ Asc (1°38'), probably connected with it being a pleasuring outing. Neptune transits sq. Capsolar MC (1°21'). CanQ WP is 0°58' from ingress Mars, and CanQ Asc sq. transiting Neptune.
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Quetta, Pakistan terrorist attack
Post Posted Tue Oct 25, 2016 9:29 am by Jim Eshelman
Late Monday night, in Quetta, Pakistan, a police training academy was attacked by Al-Qaeda suicide bombers. 61 died, 117 were injured.
This occurred while the cadets were asleep, so I'd estimate it was 10 PM or later.
Quetta is in a vulnerable zone for the whole year. The CAPSOLAR has Saturn tightly on IC, with Neptune and a Venus-Jupiter mundane square more widely foreground. The LIBSOLAR then intensifies this, with Saturn 2°00' from IC and Neptune 2°55' from Dsc (on the other side) - they average half a degree from the angle.
The CAPLUNAR has Venus on Nadir (plus the Moon-Uranus). That seemed to be a protective sign until the CANLUNAR came in with Neptune 0°24' from Asc, and Saturn 2°09' from square Asc (plus Moon-Mercury-Uranus).
For the DAY, the CapQ has s. Jupiter on IC and s. Venus sq. MC - not what I'd expect. The weight seems to be, instead, on t. Saturn conj. Capsolar IC 0°25'.
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Central Italy earthquakes
Post Posted Wed Oct 26, 2016 3:17 pm by Jim Eshelman
Two large earthquakes hit central Italy today, the second one stronger than the first. I get:
October 26, 2016, 17:10:37 UT, 42.866 N, 13.056 E, Mag 5.5, near Visso, Italy
October 26, 2016, 19:18:08 UT, 42.949 N, 13.074 E, Mag 6.1, near Visso, Italy
ADDED the next morning: So far, no deaths reported. One town lost a historic church that was seriously damaged by the first quake and finished off by the second. Here are some astrological highlights:
The LIBSOLAR, which for every place on earth is substantially the same angles as the Capsolar, has Mars-Pluto on EP and a wider Sun-Uranus + Mercury on angles. The Mars-Pluto is quite close.
The CAPSOLAR is a variation of the same thing, but its technically dormant. Mars is 3°45' below Dsc, Pluto 4°50' above it. Nice midpoint, but neither is close enough to wake up the chart. Nonetheless, the same broad category of energies was bubbling.
The CANLUNAR then brought that to a boil. The Moon-Mercury-Uranus T-square (plus some Sun) is right on the angles, with Moon square MC 0°02', Mercury and Uranus close to meridian, Sun just a little further. Oh, and there is a mundane (meaning, locally distinctive) Moon-Mars opposition 0°06'.
For the DAY, the main trigger was t. Mars sq. Capsolar MC (0°06' at the time of the second quake). This is in the context of a longer term t. Pluto conjunct Cansolar Dsc (0°30' yesterday).
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Re: Central Italy earthquakes
Post Posted Sun Oct 30, 2016 11:09 am by Jim Eshelman
Another quake today, nd they keep getting stronger! October 30, 2016, 6:40:19 UT, 42N51'18", 13E05'17", magnitude 6.6, near Norcia, Italy. Notice this is only 0°00'39" in latitude and 0°01'55" in latitude from the first one on October 26.
The new LIBLUNAR has Uranus on EP 0°58'm as part of a Moon-Mars-T-square. Besides that Uranus placement, the other close angularities are Moon 0°48' below Dsc, Sun 1° above, Mercury 2°above, all in orb of conjunction; and a more widely angular Jupiter-Pluto square. This one seems more severe than the others in that regard. Transiting Uranus still conjoins Capsolar MC, but Mars is moved past.
So far, more buildings are collapsing and there are no deaths.
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Nebraska DMV computer system troubles
Post Posted Mon Oct 31, 2016 5:25 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Today, besides being Halloween, is the last day of the month. A lot of people wait till the last day of the month to do things like pay taxes and renew license plates and driver's licenses. A lot of laws are passed that go into effect on the last day of the month, so any changes to software have to be made on the last day of the month. You see where this is going, right?
Today the Douglas County Nebraska DMV implemented mandated changes in their software, which crashed and burned. Nothing could be printed, payments couldn't be accepted at the payment windows, and things went downhill from there. Somebody discovered they could still process payments online and print out from online, so they worked from the one computer per DMV office connected to the internet. Waits were 2-3 hours, average, but because it was the last day of the month, most people had no choice and had to wait.
Voter registration for this election ended the 21st so at least that wasn't affected.
Omaha is the Douglas COunty Seat. Offices opened at 7 AM and closed at 4:30 PM, although people are still waiting in line.
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Re: Nebraska DMV computer system troubles
Post Posted Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:43 pm by Jim Eshelman
Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
Today the Douglas County Nebraska DMV implemented mandated changes in their software, which crashed and burned. Nothing could be printed, payments couldn't be accepted at the payment windows, and things went downhill from there. Somebody discovered they could still process payments online and print out from online, so they worked from the one computer per DMV office connected to the internet. Waits were 2-3 hours, average, but because it was the last day of the month, most people had no choice and had to wait.
Well, gosh, let's start with the Liblunar having Saturn closely rising and Neptune square Asc. (Venus isn't as close as it looks, but gets the bronze.)
The CapQ is chaotic but inspecific: Uranus and Pluto on angles and a little progressed Moon.
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Lebanon's new president
Post Posted Tue Nov 01, 2016 9:22 am by Jim Eshelman
Lebanon yesterday chose a new president, 81-year-old Hezbollah ally and "charismatic retired general" Michel Aoun. They have been without a president for two and a half years. Lebanon's Parliament took this step yesterday, so I'll use noon on October 31 as the effective date.
The CAPSOLAR suggested IMO a populist wave that could include a change of leadership and not necessarily by the peaceful means that ensued.
Moon on Dsc (2°50')
Uranus sq. Asc (1°14')
Mars on WP (1°22')
More widely foreground Jupiter, Sun, Mercury, Pluto
-- Mercury-Pluto sq. (2°12' in mundo)
-- Mercury-Jupiter conj.
-- Sun/Jupiter midpoint on IC (0°17')
-- Moon-Sun sq. (2°44' in mundo)
Moon-Uranus sq. (2°14')
The LIBLUNAR only has Mercury square MC and the universal (background) Moon-Mars-Uranus.
The DAY doesn't look so promising, with transiting Venus-Saturn straddling the CapQ Dsc. They did catch a da when the CanQ had ingress Sun square Asc.