First Atomic Bomb Explosion (Trinity Test)

[Jim Eshelman]

In Spica Vol.X, No, 3, Helen Boyd gave data for the time and place of the first atomic bomb explosion: July 16, 1945, 5:30 AM, Alamogordo, NM s part of the Manhattan Projet. (A source I trust better lists 5:29 AM.) The event chart is deadly, toxic, tragic, and fearful. From other sources, the location in the desert near Alamogordo is 32N40'38", 106W28'31".

On just the quickest of preliminary checks, the angles of the CapQ are nearly identical with those of the event itself. The 1945 Capsolar had a tight Mars-Saturn-Neptune T-square which came to the angles at Alamogordo for this successful explosion. (The Neptune leg of the T-square was already on the Capsolar MC.) The Caplunar had Pluto 0° from Dsc. One chart after another has Saturn exactly angular, including the Week chart (0°03') and the CapQ. Overlal, there is no shortage of Sun, previously discovered the hallmark of nuclear explosions.

Dr. Oppenheimer called this the Trinity Test.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Sun.
NOTE: While dormant, this chart had great severities, especially a partile Mars-Saturn-Neptune T-square that placed Neptune within 4° of MC at Alamogordo.

Year: Cansolar {+2}
Sun was 29°34' Gemini for the test, so this is a good test of the Cansolar's persistence.
Moon on MC -0°52'
Uranus on MC +0°15'
-- Moon-Uranus conj. 0°35'
-- -- Mo/.Ur on MC 0°18'
-- Venus-Uranus sq. 0°50' PVP

NOTE: Of possible interest, Chiron is exactly rising, square the culminating Moon-Uranus.

Bridge {+2}
t Neptune conj. Capsolar MC 0°11'

Quarter: Arisolar {+3}
A splendid mix of horror and celebration of a technical success, all wrapped in dread
Sun on IC 0°22'
Saturn on Dsc 0°57'
Venus on IC 1°07'
Mercury on IC 2°53'
Neptune sq. Asc 1°21'
-- Venus-Saturn sq. 0°10' in mundo
-- Sun-Saturn 0°34' in mundo
-- Saturn-Neptune sq. 0°41'
-- Sun-Venus conj. 0°44' in mundo
-- Mercury-Venus conj. 1°46' in mundo
-- Mercury-Saturn sq, 1°56' in mundo
-- Sun-Mercury conj. 1°11'

Month: Caplunar {+2}
Pluto on Dsc 0°44'
Moon-Venus sq. 0°03' in mundo

Week: Canlunar {+2}
Saturn on Dsc 0°22'
Sun on Dsc 2°47'
Moon more widely foreground
-- Sun-Saturn conj. 2°25'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+3}
p MC op. s Neptune -1°45', t Neptune +1°16', sq. s Saturn 1°17', sq. s Mars 1°49'
-- s Mars-Neptune sq. 0°04'
-- s Saturn-Neptune sq. 0°26'
-- s Mars-Saturn op. 0°30'
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t Neptune conj. s MC 0°11'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {+2}
p MC conj. s Uranus 0°46'

Hour: Event Chart {+2}
Moon sq. Asc 0°34'
Saturn on Asc 1°42'
Neptune more widely foreground
Sun & Jupiter widely foreground
-- Moon-Saturn sq. 0°59'

NB - Perhaps of interest, Chiron was 1°30' from IC.