Baltimore's deadliest month in years

[Jim Eshelman]

(2/5/2017)

Remember those extreme, violent predictions I made about the December 30, 2016 Caplunar? Day-by-day the news didn't seem to be carrying much to substantiate them, other than the psychological violence of the national divisions over the income Trump administration.

However, in the aftermath, other details are coming out. One of these is the report today that January was Baltimore's deadliest January in over a decade, and one of its deadliest months ever.

The December 30 Caplunar for Baltimore had:

Saturn 0°05' before MC
Neptune 1°19' past Asc
Mars 1°51' past Asc

These are all in aspect with each other. The Saturn is so close that it is 0°00' for some parts of the city. The Mars-Neptune conjunction is 0°32'.

Baltimore had 32 homicides in the first 31 days of 2017 (more than a murder a day), and 26 of those days were under this Caplunar. This tied the 2005 number. Only 1973 (with 35) had more.

In 2005, the mid-December 2004 Caplunar had a Moon-Saturn opposition with Saturn closely square Ascendant, followed by a mid-January Caplunar with Mars 1° from Descendant and Neptune at Midheaven. In 1973, the first few days were under a Caplunar with Pluto partile conjunct Ascendant, then, on January 5, it switched to one with Pluto exactly square Ascendant.