2020 July events

[Jim Eshelman]

Starting the new month.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Trump is planning to visit Mt. Rushmore tomorrow. Except Mt. Rushmore is on Oglala Sioux land, and they are (and have been) blocking people from entering their territory because of the pandemic and have told him he doesn't have permission to visit.

The Governor of S. Dakota, which puts on a fireworks show at the monument every year, is livid.

All the fireworks are probably not going to be in the sky tomorrow.

[Veronica]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/06/busi ... google.com

Temp. Shut down of the piping of oil across the Sioux Nation. Seems the Army Corps permits were subpar.
Great victory for the Sioux Nation as the pipe goes across the Missouri River and would/could/did foul thier drinking and cleaning water.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Last election, three electors pledged to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote (in their case Mrs. Clinton) chose instead to write in votes for Colin Powell, in an effort to persuade electors pledged to Trump to also vote for Powell.

Didn't work, and the Supreme Court ruled today electors pleaded to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their state may not vote for someone else, and may be fined if they try.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

SCOTUS rejected a challenge to the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act, intended to stop the nuisance of computer-dialed cellphone numbers, 6-3. In 2015, Congress added an exception to the law, allowing robocalls made to collect debts owed to the federal government. That was challenged as discriminatory (by fundraisers, pollsters and political groups) based on the content of the call. The court said it was discriminatory, but struck the provision from the law, so we aren't going to have political robocalls blowing up our phones for the next four months.

[SteveS]

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Scotus rulings this morning (10 AM in DC)
The executive order Trump issued allowing some businesses to refuse to pay for birth control under the AWA because of the business owners religious or moral stands.

Religious organizations who refuse to hire people based on their faith or lack thereof may continue to do so, without being challenged for religious discrimination.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

The Democratic Convention next week is officially going to be fully virtual.

Probably time to figure out "where" in regards to virtual conventions and such. I think it's going to matter more often, and there may not always be one principle (such as Biden) to center on.

[Jim Eshelman]

Good point. We should try to find out where Biden will be.

But it's not next week. It got moved to mid-August, a week before the RNC.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

You're right. The Democratic committee is being sued by the (Republican) owner of the original venue to pay the entire rental amount, and I think that's what's going to happen next week.

[Jim Eshelman]

You're right. The Democratic committee is being sued by the (Republican) owner of the original venue to pay the entire rental amount, and I think that's what's going to happen next week.

A couple of months ago, it was rescheduled to August 17-20 . I remember noting that Biden has terrible transits.
https://www.demconvention.com/

But Biden's August 10 SLR for Delaware has natal Venus on WP as the closest angularity. (I still don't like Saturn opposite his Jupiter - triggered by Mars a couple of days later - while Neptune transits his IC. Progressed Moon squares Saturn a month later.)

Ah, but he has this going for the convention (just discovered): SQ Moon square SSR Jupiter (to the minute)!

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

We're supposed to get a ruling from SCOTUS tomorrow on Trump's tax papers being made available to Congress and to the NY state prosecutors. Last decision from the Court this session.

[SteveS]

Jim wrote:

Ah, but he has this going for the convention (just discovered): SQ Moon square SSR Jupiter (to the minute)!

Bingo!!! Bradley's # 1 combo for winning political positions (Dem Nominee).

[Jim Eshelman]

Well, yeah, but for that event all it means is that he's winning the nomination.

[SteveS]

Yes, winning the Dem nominee, but what this shows me is another excellent example that your work with his A rated chart is an accurate timed chart. Very important for us to have for his possible presidency.

[Jim Eshelman]

Two 7-2 Supreme Court decisions on Trump's taxes this morning - surely decided together with some horse trading behind the bench.

First, they found Trump cannot block the NY prosecutors from getting his taxes, under the "nobody is above the law" argument.

Second, they found that Congress' demand for these records required more work. The lower courts had not developed the opposing argument adequately (about separation of powers). They sent it back to the lower court to develop this, and Congress can't get them in the mean time.

It seems to me that the real purpose of the second decision was to delay this until after the election. Once the court can no longer be accused of interfering (advertently or inadvertently) in a political process, they will almost certainly apply the "nobody is above the law" and "Congress has a constitutional duty" standards.

These outcomes (plus the president's niece's book) seem perfectly covered by his current SLR, with his next Demi and full SLR leading up to a very damaging few weeks. Here's the current "Trump Watch" -
viewtopic.php?f=46&t=4285#p31777

[Jim Eshelman]

Soul's mayor was reported missing by his daughter and, soon after, found dead. Not a lot of details yet.

The Cansolar tells the story the best. For Seoul, transiting Jupiter-Pluto squares its MC - consistent with such things as coups, especially political overthrows, especially if ideologically fueled. One of my standard sentences for this is, "Political undermining or reversals (leaders attacked, removed; fall of regimes; reversals in political dominance; covert operations)."

Then, today, CanQ Dsc crossed Saturn at 4° Capricorn, as CanQ MC 21° Pisces squared ingress Saturn.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Naya Marie Rivera, born 12 January 1987 at 1:56 PM (AA) in Santa Monica, CA
Arrived at Lake Piru, Ventura County, CA about 1 PM Wednesday July 8, 2020 with her four year old son.
Rented a boat. Did not return rental at 3PM
Searchers found the boat about 4PM, floating free with the baby asleep inside. No sign of Rivera. Child said he and his mother had gone swimming but she didn't get back on the boat.
The search continues today.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

It's been the law since the 1890s that the Federal government has sole jurisdiction over Native Americans who commit major crimes on a Reservation. The State of OK said since individuals have sold their ownership of plots of land on their reservation to non-Native Americans, the reservation has been disestablisthed and the state has jurisdiction over Native Americans who commit murder or rape while on the Reservation.
The Supreme Court said, nope. Only Congress has the authority to disestablish a reservation, and selling plots of land doesn't change the jurisdiction of the land.

OK also said since the land was purchased by the Creek Nation instead of originally being federal land and given to them, it wasn't really a reservation. Court said nope. Congress made it a reservation and it is.

OK also said it's been their historical practice to act as if they have jurisdiction over Native Americans no matter if they were on or off the reservation. Court said, nope. Breaking the law doesn't negate the law.

In this case, Roberts was part of the 4, and Gorsuch not only was the 5th of 5, but he wrote the majority report.
Gorsuch has a lot of interest in this kind of decision, and is likely to side with Native Americans in many of these jurisdictional disputes in the future. This one decision has what are likely to be far-reaching consequences, limiting states overstepping both past and future.

[Jim Eshelman]

This is a really fascinating wave of decisions. Roberts id doing a remarkable job of maintaining and strengthening the overall integrity of the court.

One very interesting thing is that the Supreme Court is usually done with their season by the end of June. This year, they're rolling strong through July. This coincides with Jupiter having retrograded into Sagittarius and (possibly also relevant) conjoining Pluto.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

They stopped holding in person arguments for awhile because of the Corona Virus. Then they held arguments by phone, and in a really big deal break from tradition, the sessions were open so anybody could listen in, and a lot of people did. They extended into July so they could get all the cases out they would have if not for the virus.
The two Trump cases were the last for this session and they won't reconvene till after the election.

[Veronica]

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/10/88966725 ... duled-soon

Seems very Mars in Neptune.

They are asking for a stay primarily based on fear of exposure to covid.

[Jim Eshelman]

The two Trump cases were the last for this session and they won't reconvene till after the election.

They're not reconvening the first week of October as usual?

[Jim Eshelman]

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/10/88966725 ... duled-soon

Seems very Mars in Neptune.

They are asking for a stay primarily based on fear of exposure to covid.

I think this is just more Saturn-Pluto (and Saturn in Capricorn). The same stuff that's triggering essentially everything this year.

The last several years of writing monthly mundane forecasts has made increasingly evident that, dang, one could be very right about every month of the year if you just repeat the Capsolar forecast unchanged every month, perhaps supplementing it with transits across its angles. This year it's foreground Sun-Saturn-Pluto square Uranus with the Saturn-Pluto conjunction being the closest aspect in the set - and then Saturn went into Capricorn January 31.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

They won't be issuing decisions till after the election. They probably will do what they usually do in October, unless the virus is worse. Which it might be. That's when the regular flu starts.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Trump has commuted Roger Stone's sentence. Announced at 7:49 PM 7/10/2020 by White House.

[SteveS]

Does anyone know WHY there is becoming an accute shortage of coins in the country?

[Jim Eshelman]

Didnt know there was. And I can't think why it would be an issue rigjt now sonce most businesses are discouraging cash transactions.

[SteveS]

In 1977, a very wise man told me I may live to see a revaluation of our currency. He told me to start horading Susan B Anthony $ when they came out--said if they revalue the currency the gov would not call in coins. I never really understood what he was trying to explain to me. But he said all face value of coins could increase 10-20 fold. If this is getting ready to happen, I figure the word is leaking out and people are beginning to hoard coins.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Does anyone know WHY there is becoming an accute shortage of coins in the country?

Because people are paying with debit cards, not cash, and all the coins are sitting in boxes on people's dressers or in the bottom of their purses.

There isn't a shortage of coins. They just aren't being circulated right now.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

If this is getting ready to happen, I figure the word is leaking out and people are beginning to hoard coins.

This is not getting ready to happen. People aren't "hoarding" coins. They just aren't using cash right now, so coins are not in circulation. As soon as people start going to buy lattes while on break or hamburgers at lunch (ie back to work away from home) the coins will show up again.

[SteveS]

So coins are being taken out of circulation because of Covid-19 with people not using cash/coins--but credit cards. Makes good sense.

[Danica]

Now this

Kazakhstan: New cases of the unidentified pneumonia have been increasing significantly since mid-June across the country, said the embassy, adding that in some places, authorities are reporting hundreds of new cases a day.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/asia/kaz ... luFndtq2fI

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

Now this

Kazakhstan: New cases of the unidentified pneumonia have been increasing significantly since mid-June across the country, said the embassy, adding that in some places, authorities are reporting hundreds of new cases a day.

Oh bother.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

July 12, 2020 9 AM Pacific time San Diego, CA
The USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship and light aircraft carrier, docked at the US Naval Base in San Diego while undergoing scheduled maintainence between deployments, suffered an explosion below decks, probably caused by welding.
Several sailors are being treated for light injuries and San Diego firemen for smoke inhalation. The Navy has stated there is no indication of foul play.

[Jim Eshelman]

July 12, 2020 9 AM Pacific time San Diego, CA
The USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship and light aircraft carrier, docked at the US Naval Base in San Diego while undergoing scheduled maintainence between deployments, suffered an explosion below decks, probably caused by welding.
Several sailors are being treated for light injuries and San Diego firemen for smoke inhalation. The Navy has stated there is no indication of foul play.

As often happens, the event chart itself has nothing to offer.

Like all of Southern California, San Diego's Capsolar has Neptune rising, good for all sorts of excitement. The Arisolar has Mercury rising.

Of great interest, though is the Caplunar: San Diego was primed for something like this. Neptune is < 2° from square Asc, Mars is < 1° from IC. (This is in addition to the ubiquitous Moon-Pluto partile aspects.)

With a long-term backdrop of transiting Neptune square Capsolar MC, the CapQ also brought Neptune to an angle - both Neptunes on its Descendant - with transiting Mars 25' from opposite CapQ Moon worldwide. It's quite on the money (though Neptune angular events often are a lot of commotion and worry for an ultimately small event).

Oh, for explosion itself (rather than just commotion and fire), the Cansolar got in the mix: Transiting Uranus is 0°06' from its San Diego Descendant. Then, CanQ angles swung around to conjoin Cansolar Mars and Uranus.

It's quite a precise convergence of factors.

[TheScales_BothWays]

Sudan's post-revolutionary transitional government has (over the past week?) approved several law reforms, among which are repealing the death penalty (which were applied to crimes like apostasy [now decriminalised] and gay sex [reduced to a prison sentence]), repealing corporal punishment such as public flogging, criminalising female genital mutlation (FGM), abolishing the requirement for women needing a permit from a "male guardian" to travel with their children, allowing non-Muslims to drink in private and some others.

Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/worl ... gging.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... t-policies
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-suda ... SKCN24H30J
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/16/sud ... irst-step#

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

July 17, 2020 Representative John Lewis died this evening.

[Veronica]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/13 ... -fire-USGS

Earthquake in the ring of fire area of Alaska.

[Jim Eshelman]

July 24, 2020, 1:00 AM, Phoenix, AZ
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... =hvper.com

The Arizona Democratic Party headquarters was "completely destroyed" in an arson attack early Friday morning.

There was genuine loss (but jot of life). According to a Huff Post article, "The inferno destroyed decades’ worth of gathered voter and candidate information and memorabilia, according to local news reports." The actual time was a bit before 1 AM because that's when firefighters arrived.

Year: Capsolar {+2}
(This Capsolar also likely shows te disease rampage through the state.)
Neptune on Asc 1°39'
Moon & Venus very widely foreground
-- Mo/Ve = horizon 0°09'
-- Moon-Neptune sq. 2°49' PVP

Bridge {+2}
t Neptune conj. Capsolar Asc 3/28-9/25
t Uranus sq. Cansolar Asc 7/16-10/15
Event window: July 16 to September 25

Quarter: Cansolar {+1}
Uranus sq. Asc 1°05'
Saturn distantly foreground [op. non-foreground Sun 3°21' in mundo]
Moon-Venus conj. 1°35'
Moon-Neptune sq. 2°18' in mundo

Month: Caplunar {+1}
Mercury on WP 1°44;'
Mars more widely foreground; Neptune widely angular
-- Neptune sq. non-foreground Venus 0°43' in mundo
-- Mercury-Mars sq. 2°18'
Moon-Pluto conj. 1°03'
Moon-Jupiter conj. 1°38'

Week: Canlunar {+2}
Mars sq. Asc 1°44'
Mercury on Asc 3°58'
Moon, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto widely foreground
-- Moon-Pluto op. 0°50' in mundo
-- Jupiter-Pluto conj. 1°50' in mundo
-- Moon-Jupiter op. 2°40'' in mundo
-- Mars sq. non-foreground Sun 1°22' in mundo, sq. non-fore Saturn 0°57' i.m.
Moon-Sun conj. 3°11'
Moon-Saturn op. 3°39'

Day: Capsolar Transits {+2}
(It's slow and indistinct, but one of the two main planets for fire.
t Neptune conj. s Asc 0°27'

Day: Cansolar Transits {+1}
t Uranus sq. s Asc 0°56'


Since the CapQ is dormant, I'll check the minor ingresses also. It pays off at once!

Day: Arisolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
t Pluto conj. s Moon 0°06'
p Asc conj. t Sun 1°36', op. s Saturn 1°06'
-- t Sun op. s Saturn 0°30'
p MC sq. t Jupiter 1°01'
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t Mars conj. s Asc 1°10'
t Mercury sq. s Asc 1°30'

Day: Libsolar Transits {0}
t Uranus op. s Moon 0°52'
t Neptune sq. s MC 0°54'
t Venus op. s MC 1°47'
t Moon sq. s MC 0°31'

[Jim Eshelman]

Landfall: July 25, 2020, 5:00 PM, Padre Island, TX (26°N50'40'', 97°W22'04'')

It's a small storm (Category 1, 90 mph winds at landfall), but the only one we've had this year so we might as well take a look. It landed as Neptune crossed IC of the area.

A big part of the story is that the area hit (around Corpus Christi) has had an unusually bad time with COVID-19.

I'm expecting a poor showing - except, that would be appropriate for a small storm. I've been watching the area all year and, while other parts of the Gulf coast are very threat-prone this year, Texas has been dominated by benefics. Let's see how it shakes out for today... (Conclusion: It looks like a whole lot of rain and, at best, the kind of event that has low or no casualties... until the Week, when all hell breaks loose! The Canlunar is perfect, then the CapQ finally nails it.)

Year: Capsolar {?}
Jupiter on MC 2°53'
Moon on Dsc 3°16'

Bridge (None.)

Quarter: Cansolar {+1?}
Moon on IC 0°29'
Venus on IC 2°17'
-- Venus-Neptune sq. 1°17' PVP
-- Moon-Neptune sq. 1°28' PVP
-- Moon-Venus conj. 1°35'
-- -- Mo/Ve on IC 0°54'

Month: Caplunar {+2}
Moon sq. MC 0°41'
Jupiter on EP 1°28'
Pluto sq. MC 1°44'
Sun & Mercury more widely foreground
-- Jupiter-Pluto conj. 0°35'
-- Moon-Pluto conj. 1°03'
-- Moon-Jupiter conj. 1°38'
-- Moon-Saturn conj. 2°25' in mundo
-- Mercury s. non-foreground Mars 2°18'

Week: Canlunar {+3}
Moon on Asc 0°24'
Pluto on Dsc 0°36'
Mars on MC 1°24'
Jupiter on Dsc 2°30'
Sun & Saturn more widely foreground
-- Sun-Saturn op. 0°25' in mundo
-- Mars-Pluto sq. 0°48' in mundo
-- Moon-Pluto conj. 1°00' in mundo
-- -- Mo/Pl on horizon 0°06'
-- Mars-Jupiter sq. 1°06' in mundo
-- Moon-Mars sq. 1°48' in mundo
-- Jupiter-Pluto conj. 1°54' in mundo
-- Moon-Sun conj. 3°11'
-- Moon-Jupiter op. 2°54' in mundo
-- Moon-Saturn op. 3°39'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p Asc op. t Mars 1°25'
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t Moon op. s Asc 0°20'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {+1?}
p Asc sq. s Venus 1°55'
p MC op. t Venus 0°49', sq. t Neptune 0°39', t s Neptune 0°46'

[Jim Eshelman]

CNN this morning:

It was another weekend of protests, arrests and calls for justice. In Seattle, at least 47 protesters were arrested on Saturday night alone. The Department of Homeland Security has said a response team from US Customs and Border Protection will be sent to the city to remain on standby to help protect federal facilities. A similar situation has unfolded in Portland, Oregon, which has become a focal point of ongoing unrest after President Trump sent federal agents to the city earlier this month to protect federal property. Other demonstrations took over city streets in Aurora, Colorado; Oakland, California; Louisville, Kentucky and other locations. In Austin, Texas, a man was killed on Saturday after shots were fired into a crowd of protesters. A suspect is in custody.

Seattle and Portland are on the same meridian of longitude - which is also the same as San Francisco and Oakland. If factors or on or square the MC axis of one, it hits all of them together.

In the 7/20 Canlunar, Mars squared Ascendant through Portland but didn't reach as high as Seattle. But it was the Liblunar, which didn't come into play until Sunday (after the worst of it in Seattle) that really shows this, with Saturn on IC near Seattle, Portland, and Oakland. Additionally, Pluto squares Ascendant through the Bay Area, while Jupiter-Pluto roughly straddle Seattle and Portland.

But if the Liblunar didn't come in until Sunday afternoon, why were things so terrible Saturday night? That would seem to have everything to do with the Cansolar Quotidian, which had transiting and ingress Saturns conjunct Ascendant.

[TheScales_BothWays]

Earlier today (July 28), former Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak was sentenced to 12 years in jail and a 210 million ringgit (US$49 mil.) fine after the Kuala Lumpur High Court convicted him on all 7 charges for the first of a series of cases involving the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal. He still has more trials to face, and he is now on bail/stay of execution pending his appeal to the Court of Appeal.

The sentence was delivered by the judge on/around 6.30pm, when t.Pluto was partile on the Eastpoint, t.Saturn was partile sq. MC, t.Jupiter was 2 degrees above the Ascendant (and the t.Jupiter/t.Pluto midpoint was partile on the Ascendant in mundo). Najib's Saturn-Neptune conjunction was also squaring the Ascendant partile, with his Mars squaring the MC around 1°. And oh, the Moon was in Libra.

https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-court ... llion-fine
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/ ... ve-updates
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53563065

[TheScales_BothWays]

Najib Razak was born on the 23rd of July, 1953 in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia (location can be found in Solar Fire's database). His birth time is unfortunately unavailable. I even found a video of him holding his renewed birth certificate, but there was no time of birth stated on it.

Though, I remember I estimated his birth time to be around 9.45am. It showed a fitting SLR for his arrest and arraignment two years ago.
His current SLR for Kuala Lumpur (which is also his residence) has transiting Sun and Mercury straddling the MC with their mundane midpoint conjunct it partile. It looks good for the court matter and media attention, but doesn't show the negative judgement, unless you count the SLR aspects:
t.Sun oct. r.Pluto 0°06' in mundo
t.Moon oct. t.Saturn 0°57' in mundo
t. Venus oct. r.Saturn-Neptune, 0°41' and 0°39' respectively in eclipto
t.Saturn conj. r.Sun 0°54' in mundo (0°56' in eclipto)
t.Saturn oct. r.Venus-Jupiter, 0°31' & 0°25' respectively in mundo

Quite fascinating that even in a locale near the equator, mundane aspects can add a lot of info, in this case, bringing "near-miss" ecliptical aspects into partile orb.

Looking at secondary progressions (using birth place) for 6.30pm, he has progressed Moon sesqui-squaring both p.Saturn (0°28') and t.Saturn (0°25'). Natal Pluto is partile on progressed MC (0°01'!) with progressed Pluto closely on MC and Zenith but partile on neither. p.Mars also semisquares a partile progressed Uranus-Neptune square. Intriguingly, p.Venus and p.Mercury are semisquare each other. p.Mercury also makes a partile square to natal Uranus (is this valid?)

He didn't have a lot of transits today, other than the Sun conjunct his Mercury (which lasted until the early afternoon), t.Jupiter opposing his Uranus (which I find odd, unless that refers to his million-ringgit cash bail/stay of execution) and t.Neptune 0°57' oct. r.Mercury.

His new SSR looks quite inactive, though when looking at ecliptical aspects from SSR to natal, the chart seems to lean positive. His demi-SLR looks inactive too.

Of course, this is just using an estimated birth time and it could be wrong.

[Jim Eshelman]

The hefty sentencing of the former PM was July 28, 2020, 6:30 PM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Canlunar, as acting Chart of the Week, is perfect! The daily timing is then adequately hostile.

Year: Capsolar {+3}
(It's a hard year for a president-type character!
Sun on IC 0°59'
Mercury sq. Asc 1°09'
Saturn on IC 2°57'
Pluto on IC 3°05'
Uranus on Dsc 3°20'
-- Saturn-Pluto conj. 0°08' in mundo
-- Mercury-Uranus sq. 0°33' in mundo
-- Sun-Saturn conj. 1°53'
-- Sun-Pluto conj. 2°03'
-- Sun-Mercury conj. 3°14'

Bridge {+2}
t Saturn sq. s Asc 1°19'

Quarter: Cansolar (Dormant.) Moon-Venus.

Quarter: Arisolar {+2}
Mars on IC 0°23'
Saturn & Uranus very widely foreground
-- Saturn-Uranus sq. 0°42' in mundo
Moon-Sun sq. 1°28' in mundo

Month: Caplunar {+1}
Uranus sq. Asc 1°24'
Moon-Pluto conj. 1°03'
Moon-Jupiter conj. 1°38'

Week: Liblunar (Dormant.) Moon-Pluto.

Week: Canlunar{+3}
Saturn on Asc 1°21'
Sun on Dsc 1°54'
Moon, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto more widely foreground
-- Sun-Saturn op. 0°33'
-- Moon-Pluto op. 1°24'
-- Jupiter-Pluto conj. 2°21'
-- Moon-Sun conj. 2°42' in mundo
-- Moon-Saturn op. 3°15' in mundo
-- Moon-Jupiter op. 3°28'

Day: Capsolar Transits {+2}
t Saturn sq. s Asc 1°19'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p Asc op. s Mars 0°28'

[TheScales_BothWays]

Breaking: Two huge explosions have rocked Lebanon's capital, Beirut. The Guardian says the explosion (probably the second, largest one) took place at 6.05pm. (Note: Lebanon currently uses Eastern European Summer Time, UTC+3, but Solar Fire doesn't apply DST time changes to Lebanon from this year onwards. Maybe it's just on mine.)

The explosions took place in the Beirut Port Silos (location can be found on Google Maps). The second explosion sent a blast wave carrying debris/dust and formed a red, mushroom-shaped smoke cloud. Firefighters handling the fire from the first explosion went missing. Lebanese officials claim the site is a warehouse of nitrates/combustible chemicals (initial reports from them said that it was a fireworks warehouse), and that the explosion is caused by ammonium nitrate.

The explosion damaged buildings and vehicles as far as 10 kilometres away, shattering windows and tearing open metal casings and gates. Lebanon's health minister announced that more than 25 people were killed and more than 2500 are injured. The explosion is said to be heard up to the cities of Sidon and Tyre, Lebanon and felt throughout Cyprus.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... -buildings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... on-capital

EDIT: Updated info.

[Jim Eshelman]

Thanks. There's already a Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosions

UPDATE 8/5: The explosion registered as a 3.3 quake and, therefore, USGS has pinpoint timing of it: 15:08:18 UT, 33N54'06", 35E31'11". Deaths are now "more than 113," more than 4,000 injured, and hundreds missing.

August 4, 2020. You listed the first explosion as 6:05 PM; the second, stronger (felt hundreds of miles away) explosion was about 6:30 PM. The location was 33N54'03'', 35E31'05''. So far at least 30 are reported dead and 2,700 injured (and large numbers missing).

While strong through te Week, the daily indicators fall short (the Pluto transit that is the only Bridge element being barely in orb and covering the entire year). (The Cansolar looks like a terrorist attack to me, but the reports seem solid that it was not.)

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.)

Bridge {+1}
t Pluto on Cansolar angles All year

Quarter: Cansolar {+1}
Sun sq. MC 0°12'
Jupiter on WP 0°25' [sq. non-foreground Mars 1°47' in mundo]
Pluto sq. MC 1°31'
Saturn more widely foreground
-- Jupiter-Pluto conj. 1°19' in mundo
-- Sun-Pluto op. 1°19'
-- Sun-Jupiter op. 3°03'
-- Sun-Saturn op. 3°40' in mundo
Moon-Venus conj. 1°35'

Month: Caplunar {+2}
Saturn sq. Asc 0°12'
Moon, Mercury, Pluto more widely angular; Mars very wide.
-- Moon-Mercury op. 0°05'
-- Mercury-Pluto op. 1°24' in mundo
-- Moon-Pluto conj. 1°42'
-- Moon-Saturn conj. 2°12' in mundo
-- Mars-Pluto sq. 2°33'
-- Mercury-Saturn 2°48'
-- -- Mars sq. non-foreground Jupiter 0°55' in mundo
-- -- Pluto conj. non-foreground Jupiter 3°20'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {-2}
p Asc conj. s Venus 0°14'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+1}
p MC sq. t Sun 1°26'
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t Pluto sq. s MC 1°57'


Of possible interest: Transiting Chiron opposed CapQ Moon 0°13'.

[TheScales_BothWays]

Thanks. There's already a Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosions

August 4, 2020. You listed the first explosion as 6:05 PM; the second, stronger (felt hundreds of miles away) explosion was about 6:30 PM.

Ah, great. Thanks, Jim.

Year: Capsolar {+3}
Mars sq. MC 0°50'
Venus & Neptune widely foreground
Moon-Saturn sq. 0°56' in mundo
Moon-Sun sq. 1°25' in mundo
Moon-Pluto sq. 1°37' in mundo

I didn't get this for Beirut's Capsolar (and other ingress charts). I think it's because of the typo in the longitude:

The location was 33N54'03'', 35W31'05''.

Lebanon's in the Eastern hemisphere of course.

[Jim Eshelman]

I was going to say the longitude was a typo (it was), but it seems the typo did propagate to all the charts. Oops! I'm going to redo all the above.

NOTE:
This is a rare occasion where lunar phase charts told a better story than the Sidereal ingresses. Almost exactly one day before this explosion, on August 3 at 5:59 PM EET, a Full Moon occurred at 16°44' Capricorn with luminaries closely square Uranus at 15°37' Aries. This is enough for the world at large to expect more Uranian events for two weeks.

For Beirut (specifically, the explosion site), it occurred with Saturn 2°43' above Ascendant opposite Mercury 2°52' below Descendant (0°09' mundane opposition). More widely foreground are the luminaries, Pluto, and Saturn - and, of course, Pluto conjoins the rising Saturn within a comfortably close orb. (Both Castor and Pollux are within a degree of Descendant, in case anyone wants to make something of that.)