Japanese bombed Omaha in 1945

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Sat May 09, 2015 2:37 am
Saw on Rachel Maddow this evening that Omaha had been the recipient of a Japanese Balloon Bomb during WWII. It was a hydrogen filled paper balloon with an explosive payload, one of hundreds the Japanese, without the means to fly planes into the interior of the US, had released into the jet stream hoping to cause panic. They didn't do much damage, and were not talked about in the news media at the time at the military's request.

So, one of these balloon bombs came down in Dundee, a neighborhood of Omaha NE on April 18, 1945 after it was full dark and from the reports from the time, many people were in bed. I chose 11PM as the time. It exploded in air, and most people thought it was fireworks. The news of what had actually happened spread through the neighborhood, but children were told by parents and teachers not to talk about it.

April 18, 1945, 11 PM, close to the corner of 50th and Underwood, Dundee, (Omaha,) NE, 41°N17'11'' 096°W14'03''

Solar Ingresses:
Capsolar: dormant although Mars was 30' from opposing Saturn and 2' from square and Venus 15' from square Uranus ecliptically.
Arisolar: came in on the 14th, Saturn 4°05 north of the DSC, Jupiter 2°40 square Mars in the mundane chart
Cansolar: dormant, Mars 4°23 from conj Jupiter
Libsolar: Saturn 1°54 from angular in the mundane chart. Sun 52' from conj Moon, Neptune 3°14 from angular

Lunar Ingresses:
Caplunar: Mundane chart, Mars 1°56 from the ASC, 4°39 from opposing Jupiter
Arilunar: Chart of the week, dormant.
Canlunar: Uranus 4°48 from angular
Liblunar: Pluto 1°26 from angular

Quotidians:
CapQ: Venus 33' squ Uranus, Mars 43' opp Saturn, Mars 16' squ Neptune, Venus/Uranus 51' Asc
AriQ: Saturn 41 squ Neptune
CanQ: --
LibQ: Saturn 23' from conj IC

Transits: Jupiter conj MC 47', Mars conj IC 9', Mars opp Jupiter 57'.

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Libsolar: Saturn 1°54 from angular in the mundane chart. Sun 52' from conj Moon, Neptune 3°14 from angular

Fun event to study And it occurred just as there was as partile Mars-Jupiter opposition along the meridian [as you mentioned at the end] and Uranus near setting.

Yes, all the solar ingresses are dormant and (other than showing things true for the whole world by their lunar aspects), they're worthless. The exception is the Libsolar which flows through the dormant Cap and Aries ingresses. It almost seems overkill given the absence of any real damage. (It's the kind of chart under which a small town could have been very badly damaged. I think the saving grace was that Saturn and Neptune weren't in aspect, ecliptically or mundanely.)

Caplunar: ...Mars 1°56 from the ASC, 4°39 from opposing Jupiter

For the rising Mars... bingo!

I wouldn't count that opposition, but we also have to count Jupiter square MC 1°14' (lack of damage) and - quite appropriate for explosions and startling people! - Uranus square Ascendant 1°51'. This brings to light the explosive partile Mars-Uranus square (0°35').

Arilunar: Chart of the week, dormant.
Canlunar: Uranus 4°48 from angular

For the data you gave of the event, I get Moon at 2°55' Cancer when it occurred, making the new Canlunar the chart of the week. (I take it, therefore, that you used the prior Canlunar. The one for April 18, 1945, 5:34 PM CWT doesn't have the Uranus.) The Canlunar is dormant, though, making the excellent Caplunar the effective chart of the week.

CapQ: Venus 33' squ Uranus, Mars 43' opp Saturn, Mars 16' squ Neptune, Venus/Uranus 51' Asc

What we're interested in for the CapQ is angularity and lunar aspects. For that, we have two, and they're pretty simple. CapQ Moon is < 2° from square CapQ Ascendant, and transiting Mercury is a few minutes from CapQ EP. (The latter brings the established "air attack" symbolism.) Interestingly, this didn't get any press. Besides that, the CapQ is innocuous.

The CanQ also has simple lunar symbolism, and again it is from progressed Moon: CanQ Moon is < 2° from square CanQ MC.

Mostly, the quotidians show this as a non-event.

The only clear daily timing that wasn't pretty boring is transiting Mars crossing Cansolar WP to the minute of arc! (I just used the general coordinates for Omaha, so it would be a very few minutes difference for the neighborhood.) This is startling. Normally, with the CapQ showing anything at all, we wouldn't look at transits to the Cansolar angles (sort of a back-up thing), but this one is so close I think it right to mention it. Perhaps the significance of it in this less important chart is that it was a relatively minor event (thank goodness).

But that Mars - particularly in its relationship to Jupiter - is the key to the whole event, inasmuch as it was exactly on the angles of the event chart.

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CapQ Moon is < 2° from square CapQ Ascendant, and transiting Mercury is a few minutes from CapQ EP. (The latter brings the established "air attack" symbolism.) Interestingly, this didn't get any press. Besides that, the CapQ is innocuous.

I saw that Mercury, and remember thinking it fit because "everybody" knew about this, but the press and the military had chosen not to publicize these balloon attacks so as not to create panic, they thought was the intent.
That the populace knew about it feels like the Moon would have something to say there. Didn't intend to leave those two out.

Normally, with the CapQ showing anything at all, we wouldn't look at transits to the Cansolar angles (sort of a back-up thing), but this one is so close I think it right to mention it. Perhaps the significance of it in this less important chart is that it was a relatively minor event (thank goodness).

I am working on getting a handle on an organized way to look at the stack of charts. Part of that is first you need the horoscope, then the mundoscope, then check the reports tab for both and progress the horoscope and which goes with the transits... I need to come up with a routine working in Solar Fire. Something I can eventually automate.
Missing the Canlunar had just come in is embarrassing.

But that Mars - particularly in its relationship to Jupiter - is the key to the whole event, inasmuch as it was exactly on the angles of the event chart.

That was the thing that really stood out to me when I was doing the charts.

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Here is how I look at the charts.

First, glance at the horoscope. Note squares to the angles and contacts with EP/WP, as well as Moon aspects.

Then cut to the mundoscope to get the horizon and meridian contacts and any mundane aspects (and, as you mention, midpoints to the angles).

By now, I know the whole list of what planets are angular, so I cut back to the horoscope to see if there are further aspects (or closer orbs of the same aspects than in the mundoscope).

That's my rhythm FWIW.

On the Quotidians, the only way I manage not to miss stuff (usually!) is to pop up a 90° dial. So, I start by putting event chart around CapQ, switch to 90° dial so I get all conjunctions, oppositions, and squares to the angles and Moon (and see progressed Moon aspects), then use the Charts button to change the inside chart to the Capsolar and catch anything to its angles and Moon; then ditto to CanQ, then ditto to Cansolar.

Don't beat yourself up for missing the Canlunar. You're learning, you're taking to this aggressively, you're looking for a rhythm. Bradley corrected me (first nicely, then less nicely) for all the math and other mistakes I made as a teenager. It took me years to realize (partly on a tip from Gary Duncan) that Bradley was acutely aware of it because he'd made gobs of mistakes himself and then had drilled himself to be a more precise, systematic scientist mentality. But he, like me, had an angular Aquarius Moon and a background Saturn, so it was easier to be just a bit relaxed and sloppy. I'm analytical, and I can be orderly and formatted when I want to, but I had to develop that side of myself. Everyone who has gone before you has made embarrassing mistakes (on that I think I can speak with authority! <vbg>).

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Regarding the angular Mercury: Mercury shows for transportation themes, and is the most active planet (with Mars close) for formal acts of war. Therefore, I'm not surprised to see it showing up for actual air attacks, of which this is a further example. The specific ones that I have catalogued from major events are:

Pearl Harbor for Hawaii (year, half year, week, day) & Tokyo (month, day)
Hiroshima bombing for Japan (quarter, week, day) & Washington (month)
Bay of Pigs invasion for Washington (week)
1991 Gulf War for Washington (day)
9/11 for Washington (day)
2001 Afghanistan war for Kabul (year, week, day)
2003 Iraq War for Washington (month, week)

That's not a small list. In a sense, you could add the major "firsts" in space travel, which all had military implications: first man in space, first woman in space, first spacewalk, and the moon landing.

And then, of course, there are "attacks by air" where were literally attacks BY air: Galveston hurricane (day), Hurricane Camille (week, day), Hurricane Katrina (week), Hurricane Sandy (day), Typhoon Haiyan (year, day), the Great Fire of London (which was fanned by air) (month, fortnigt), Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse (which was caused by wind setting the bridge in motion) (day).

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Honestly, I was looking at the CapQ angular Moon and angular Mercury while I was working up the charts, thinking of your million little pieces of paper.

Those balloons were made of paper. And this one went Boom!

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Here is how I look at the charts.

Thanks. That will help me a lot.
I haven't used a 90º dial before, but it sounds like that will make it a lot easier to see the transits.

I appreciate the encouragement.