April 2021 events

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Starting new month

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April 2, 2021 1:02 PM Eastern at Capitol Building, Washington, DC
A vehicle slammed into two Capitol Police, then rammed a barrier on Constitution Ave at the US Capitol. Driver got out of the vehicle with a knife, lunged at police and was shot. Two police injured, one seriously. Driver (only one in vehicle) also injured. All taken to hospital.

Driver died at hospital and one of the Capitol Police who was injured has died.

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Governor of Florida issued an executive order Saturday night declaring a state of emergency in Hillsborough, Manatee, and Pinellas counties due to these counties’ proximity to the Piney Point phosphogypsum stacks. The Piney Point wastewater pond is leaking, and if it breaches it could send a 20' wall of water over the surrounding area. Efforts to reinforce the walls of the pond were unsuccessful.

At 11 AM Eastern officials sent out an emergency phone message telling residents to evacuate now.

There appears to also be a hurricane coming.

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April 9, 2021, Buckingham Palace, London, England announced at Noon London time by tweet.
Prince Phillip died sometime in the morning. He was age 99.

[Jim Eshelman]

April 9, 2021, Buckingham Palace, London, England announced at Noon London time by tweet.
Prince Phillip died sometime in the morning. He was age 99.

Thank you. I'll work on getting the time this morning. BBC says the announcement appeared on the family's web site "Friday morning." The notice said, "His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle."

The way these things go, I suspect he didn't wake this morning: I'm using a "working time" of 6 AM until I can pin down something more exact.

UPDATES:
LA Times and NY Times broke the news just after London-time noon, matching the tweet you mentioned. (Their 'breaking news' emails were both 4:13 AM PDT, or 12:13 PM BST.)
https://www.cnn.com/uk/live-news/prince ... index.html

One CNN article on this says it was last updated 10:19 AM Eastern Time, which is 5:19 AM in London, so it was no earlier than that.

[Jim Eshelman]

I'll settle (at least for now) on: April 9, 2021, 5:00 AM BST, Windsor, England

The only solar ingress voiced or active for England was the Arisolar, lasting an entire year - and it was pretty perfect. The only lunar ingress active the Caplunar, was OK. The CapQ was barely involved, which is OK because the entire Bridge is from the Cansolar; and, in the absence of a strong Capsolar for the daily activity, we need to look at all the other three solar ingresses for the day and they all were incredibly strong with the AriQ being of great interest: Besides a partile progressed Moon-Saturn conjunction, it has a progressed Sun-Jupiter conjunction nearly to the minute, conjoined by transiting Pluto, and all of them hitting the Q angles.

Year: Capsolar (Silent.)
Year: Cansolar (Silent.) Moon-Venus.

Bridge {+2}
CanQ Moon sq. s/p Neptune 0°09'
t Mars conj. CanQ Moon 0°49'

Quarter: Libsolar (Silent.) Moon-Mercury Moon-Uranus.

Quarter: Arisolar {+3}
(Saturn angular and a Sun-Jupiter-Pluto trio inter alia!)
Saturn on WP 1°06'
Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, & Eris widely angular
-- Sun-Pluto sq. 0°03'
-- Sun-Jupiter sq. 0°50'
-- Jupiter-Pluto conj. 0°53'
-- Mars-Eris sq. 1°05' mundo
-- Pluto-Eris sq. 1°05'
-- Sun-Eris conj. 1°08'
-- Sun-Mars sq. 1°45' mundo
-- Jupiter-Eris sq. 1°58'

Month/Week: Caplunar {+2}
(Jupiter and Sun are the most commonly angular planets for significant events involving the Royals, and the aspects are consistent with the emotional nature of the event, so it deserves the score.)
Jupiter on Asc 0°06'
Moon, Saturn, & Neptune more widely foreground
-- Mo/Ne on Asc 0°03'
-- Saturn sq. non-foreground Uranus 2°27'
Moon-Eris sq. 1°01'
Moon-Pluto conj. 1°39'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p Moon-Neptune sq. 0°09'
t Mars conj. p Moon 0°49'
p MC op. s Venus 1°22'
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t Moon conj. s MC [depending on the exact time of death]

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+1}
(This is quite weak: Sun crossing WP is exactly on target, Venus is off-tone. Mostly ho-hum.)
p EP op. s Venus 1°45'
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t Sun op. s EP-a 0°53'

Day: Arisolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 or +3}
p Moon-Saturn conj. 0°57'
p MC sq. p Jupiter 0°48', sq. t Pluto 1°02', conj. p Sun 1°51'
-- p Sun-Jupiter sq. 0°03'
-- t Pluto conj. p Jupiter 0°46'
-- t Pluto sq. p Sun 0°43'
p EP-a op. s Pluto 1°19'
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t Sun sq. s Moon 0°24'

Day: Libsolar Transits {+2}
t Saturn sq. s Moon 0°36'

[Jim Eshelman]

April 15, 2021, about 11:00 PM, Indianapolis, IN

I haven't had time to go through all the news feeds for fine points, but at least eight people died when a gunner (who is apparently now dead) shot up a FedEx facility. I'm sure there will be more details.

Year: Capsolar {+1}
(The story is in the foreground aspects, though that precise Jupiter halts us for a minute: Something not known to me was operating here, e.g., was it a robbery?)
Jupiter on Dsc 0°01'
Uranus on Z 0°59'
Pluto on WP 1°18'
Sun on WP 1°40'
Mars on Z 1°56'
Saturn on Dsc 2°36'
Moon, Mercury, Eris more widely foreground
-- Sun-Pluto conj. 0°23'
-- Moon-Mars sq. 0°26' mundo
-- Mars-Saturn sq. 0°34'
-- Jupiter-Uranus sq. 0°42'
-- Pluto-Eris sq. 1°18'
-- Sun-Eris sq. 1°35'
-- Mars-Jupiter sq. 2°13'
-- Jupiter-Saturn conj. 2°37' mundo
-- Mars-Uranus conj. 2°55' conj.
-- Mercury-Jupiter conj. 3°50' mundo
-- Mo/Su on Dsc 0°04'
-- Mo/Pl on Dsc 0°35'
-- Me/Sa on Dsc 0°38'

Bridge {+2}
t Eris conj. Capsolar MC +0°46'
CanQ Moon sq. s/p Neptune 0°06'
t Neptune conj. Cansolar EP-a 1°19'

Quarter: Arisolar {+1?}
Uranus on MC 0°24'
Venus, Jupiter, Saturn more widely angular
-- Saturn-Uranus sq. 2°34'
-- Ju/Sa on Dsc 0°55'
Moon-Jupiter sq. 1°37'

Month: Caplunar {+2}
Mars on WP 0°34' sq. non-foreground Mercury 1°32' mundo]
Neptune more widely foreground
-- Mars-Neptune sq. 2°37'
Moon-Pluto conj. 0°07' mundo
Moon-Eris sq. 0°34' mundo

Week: Arilunar {+2}
Pluto on Asc 1°35'
Jupiter on EP 2°02'
Saturn more widely foreground
Moon-Eris conj. 0°57'
Moon-Mars sq. 1°13' mundo
Moon-Pluto sq. 1°43'
Moon-Venus conj. 0°38' mundo
Moon-Sun conj. 2°24'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {0}
p EP-a op. t Mercury 0°00'
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t Eris conj. s MC +0°46'
t Mercury conj. s MC -0°27'
-- t Mercury conj. s Eris 0°22'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p MC op. s Neptune 0°01', t Neptune 1°07', sq. p Moon 0°07'
p Moon-Neptune sq. 0°06'
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t Neptune conj. s EP-a 1°19'

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April 17, 2021, about Noon, CDT at the Westroads Mall, Omaha, NE

Just about Noon, police were called to the Westroads Mall where two suspects opened fire. Two people were injured, a man critically, and a woman who took herself to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The two suspects fled, and about 1:15 PM, the police said this was no longer an active shooter situation. The suspects are still at large.

Unlike last time, I was not at the Mall during the shooting.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... es_in_2021
That's a list of active shooter incidents since Jan 1 2021. In the description column, there's often a footnote number which often includes a time the police were first called or other relevant timing.

There are too many ASIs (Active Shooter Incidents) in the US to really keep track of here. There must be some wider aspect or sign occupation going on, but I don't know what.

[Jim Eshelman]

There are too many ASIs (Active Shooter Incidents) in the US to really keep track of here. There must be some wider aspect or sign occupation going on, but I don't know what.

Yes: Starting with the Capsolar's Mars-Saturn aspect (exact and exactly angular) dominating the entire U.S. for the current Capsolar year. As forecast at the start of the year:

For the United States, the 12 months beginning January 14, 2021 are more severe than 2020.... MARS squares SATURN (0°34') with Mars 0°29' and Saturn 0°18' from an angle. Harsh, hateful, hurtful, and destructive, Mars-Saturn incites many forms of destruction and hardship: Deadly violence, fires, explosions, and financial crises are among the kinds of event it accompanies. In an annual chart, its psychological impact is worse: Mars-Saturn fosters hate and the conflict that arises from feeling powerless, shamed, and diminished. In the United States, 2021 will feel like our nation is filled with primitives competing for basic survival amidst widespread hardship.

Then read the month-by-month Bridge forecast, especially for the last month or so. The Bridge and the Arilunar marked this last week as a peak in terrible trouble.

I see this as a national event that happens to break out in different locations that are vulnerable at the time. I suggest reviewing the Bridge forecasts especially for the monthly forecasts beginning March 8 until now.

[Jim Eshelman]

April 9, 2021, 8:41 AM AST, 13N20, 61W11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Soufri ... 1_activity

On the main island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the La Soufrière volcano, the highest peak in St. Vincent, "sent two explosive plumes of ash and smoke" upward (NY Times) causing 20,000 people to flee. (Prior eruptions were 1718, 1812, 19-02, and 1979.)

There have been signals of another eruption since December, including the start of lava flow inside the volcano forming a new dome. [Note to myself while writing this: Expect significant Cansolar involvement.] On April 8, a red alert and evacuation were declared. The first explosive eruption was the next morning, described as "a very, very loud bang," with other pulses in the afternoon. Consequences besides the evacuation order were smoke, thick ash plumes, flashes of volcanic lightning, stones falling on roofs, power outages, and interrupted water supply.

At the moment of eruption, Jupiter was precisely on Midheaven. Will this turn out to be another "big belly burp" type of eruption? - No, this was the only such Jupiter indicator. The charts turn out to be fine enough with the tell-tale quotidian angle to Mars for the eruption.

Year: Capsolar {+1}
Moon on Dsc 0°51'
-- Moon-Uranus sq. 0°09' PVP
Mercury widely foreground

Bridge {0}
(Moon-Neptune aspects are rare for volcanoes, like most other explosive events.)
CanQ Moon-Neptune sq. 0°08'

Month: Caplunar {-2}
Sun on IC 0°04'
Venus on IC 3°01'
-- Sun-Venus conj. 2°31'
Moon-Pluto conj. 0°40' mundo
Moon-Eris sq. 1°01'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p Moon-Neptune sq. 0°08'
p MC op. s Mars 0°05', t Mercury 0°55'
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t Sun conj. s Asc 0°13'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+2}
p Asc op. t Uranus 0°26'

[SteveS]

Jim wrote:

Starting with the Capsolar's Mars-Saturn aspect (exact and exactly angular) dominating the entire U.S. for the current Capsolar year.

I see the worst of this potent angular Mars-Saturn aspect as manifesting sometime between May 16-July 17, with the Ingress Lunars for 5/16, 6/5, 6/13, 6/26, 7/2, 7/17, and with t Saturn forming a Paran to Capsolar Mars during this time period. But, TIME only knows for sure.

[Jim Eshelman]

April 24, 2021, Saturday night, Baghdad, Iraq at 33N18'46'' 44E21'41''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_hospital_fire

A massive fire (caused by exploding oxygen tanks and described as "a volcano of flames") in Ibn al-Khatib Hospital killed at least 82 people and injured at least 110 others. Within minutes of its eruption, charred bodies were being carried out of the hospital.

The hospital housed primarily Covid-19 patients in a poor area. It had no smoke detectors, sprinklers, or fire hoses.

I have not yet found a time closer than Saturday night 4/24, with the fire continuing until early 4/25 (even from Al-Jazerra). For now, I will estimate 7 PM. (This might be close, since it was when the Saturn-Uranus square crossed the local angles during a partile Moon-Mars square.)

The charts look good down to the day. Even there, the Bridge elements of the day are quite clear. The problem is that the quotidians for the day put the wrong "final seal" on it - the general period looks terrible, but the exact day looks like a happy, bright spot in the midst of a terrible time.

Year: Capsolar (Silent.)

Year: Cansolar {+2}
Saturn on WP-a 1°07'
Uranus on Z 1°15'
Eris widely foreground
Moon-Venus conj. 1°35'
-- Saturn op. non-foreground Sun 3°54'

Bridge {+3}
CanQ Moon sq. s/p Neptune 3/15-5/12
t Saturn op. Cansolar Asc 3/12-7/17
t Uranus sq. Cansolar Asc 4/11-6/25
Event window: Apr 11 to May 12

Quarter: Arisolar (Silent.) Moon-Jupiter.
Quarter: Libsolar (Silent.) Moon-Mercury Moon-Uranus.

Month: Caplunar {+2}
(Might be a +3, but I'd rather understate. Lots of death, would prefer some Mars.)
Pluto on MC 1°23'
Saturn on Z 1°16'
Uranus on Asc 2°01'
Eris on Asc 2°11'
Moon more widely foreground
-- Venus-Uranus sq. 0°06' PVP
-- Uranus-Eris conj. 0°09' mundo
-- Uranus-Pluto sq. 0°38' mundo
-- Pluto-Eris sq. 0°48' mundo
-- Venus-Pluto sq. 0°58' PVP
-- Moon-Eris conj. 1°01'
-- Moon-Pluto conj. 1°39'
-- Moon-Uranus sq. 1°42' mundo
-- Saturn-Uranus sq. 2°27'

Week: Canlunar {0}
Moon on WP 0°33'
Sun, Mars, Pluto, & Eris more widely angular
-- Moon-Pluto op. 0°21' mundo
Moon-Eris sq. 0°52'
Moon-Venus sq. 1°56' mundo

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {-2 / +2 = +1}
p Moon-Neptune sq. 0°24'
p EP conj. t Venus 0°30'
p Asc sq. t Jupiter 1°20'
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t Uranus sq. s Asc 1°16'
t Saturn op. s Asc 1°15'
t Sun conj. s MC 0°11'
t Venus sq. s Asc 0°38'
t Mercury sq. s Asc 0°28'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits (Silent.)

[Jim Eshelman]

I'm curious when the recent, much-cheered first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter shows in the same way as earlier (Moon-shot era) NASA victories. The helicopter flew 30-40 seconds, 10 feet off the ground in a Martian atmosphere 1/1000th the density of Earth's atmosphere, beginning April 19, 2021, 3:34 AM EDT. The impact on Earth was just before 7 AM EDT (4 AM PDT) at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (probably the Pasadena location, though the other offices are nearby). I'm not sure whether the charts should be done for JPL, where figurative corks were popped, or for Washington, as all earlier breakthroughs during the '60s shows as U.S. national victories.

Let's start with Pasadena, where Uranus was rising and Pluto on MC as they saw the transmission. The event occurred a few days after the new Arisolar, which shows successes everywhere and, for Pasadena, said they would be Mercury successes. - The charts are good until the Day level, where they fall apart.

Year: Capsolar {+1}
Neptune on MC 0°37'
Venus on Dsc 1°48'
-- Venus-Neptune sq. 1°11' mundo

Bridge {?}
CanQ Moon-Neptune sq. 0°13'

Quarter: Arisolar {+2}
Mercury on Z 0°51' [conj. non-foreground Eris 3°48']
Pluto more widely foreground [sq. non-foreground Eris 2°39']
Moon-Jupiter sq. 1°37'

Month: Caplunar {+1 or +2}
(Basically good - Uranus nails it - but Saturn makes it look less successful.)
Uranus on Dsc 0°24'
Saturn on IC 3°01'
Jupiter barely foreground
-- Saturn-Uranus sq. 2°27'
Moon-Pluto conj. 0°47' mundo
Moon-Eris sq. 0°37' mundo

Week: Arilunar {+2}
(Basically positive with closely angular Sun, strong Moon-Venus plus Mercury themes. Mercury-Mars might have been expected not to land so nicely.)
Sun on IC 2°41'
Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, & Eris more widely foreground
-- Venus-Pluto sq. 0°14'
-- Moon-Eris conj. 0°57'
-- Moon-Venus conj. 1°27' mundo
-- Sun-Eris conj. 1°28'
-- Mercury-Mars sq. 1°36' mundo
-- Moon-Sun conj. 2°24'
-- Mars sq. non-foreground Neptune 1°26'
Moon-Pluto sq. 1°43'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+1}
p EP-a op. t Neptune 0°10'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {-2}
p Moon-Neptune sq. 0°13'
p Asc sq. t Saturn 0°34'

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From the Wall Street Journal:

The head of Iraq’s civil defense, Gen. Kadhim Bohan, said the fire began in the second-floor intensive-care unit of Baghdad’s Ibn al-Khatib hospital late Saturday. The three-story building lacked an automated fire-extinguishing system, he said.

[Jim Eshelman]

We can repeat this for Washington, where I wouldn't expect it to be the most important story of the time, given everything else that's going on.

Overall, the charts are quite horrible, even when they reflect a positive detail or two. Washington is not where a major event occurred that hour. It was, though, the day Darren Chauvin's jury began to deliberate his fate, so I suspect this outstripped the short helicopter flight in mass mind.

Year: Capsolar
The terrible Capsolar that we have all year, but which also includes a foreground partile Jupiter-Uranus square. It's at least a +1, maybe better.

Bridge {-3}
CanQ Moon-Neptune sq. 0°13'
t Saturn op. Capsolar Asc 0°01'

Quarter: Arisolar {+2}
(A mark of celebration and victory, even with other drawbacks.)
Jupiter on Dsc 0°38'
Moon on Z 0°44'
Saturn on WP-a 1°17'
-- Moon-Jupiter sq. 1°37'

Month: Caplunar (Silent.)

Week: Arilunar {-2}
(A bad chart, showing technological failures despite other marks of celebration.)
Saturn on Asc 0°17' [sq. non-angular Uranus 2°33']
Jupiter & Pluto widely angular
Moon-Eris conj. 0°57'
Moon-Pluto sq. 1°43'
Moon-Venus 0°58' mundo
Moon-Sun conj. 2°24'
Moon-Mars sq. 2°32' mundo

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {-3}
p MC op. s Saturn 1°14', sq. s Mars 1°48', sq. t Mercury 1°42'
-- s Mars- Saturn sq. 0°34'
p EP-a op. s Uranus 0°15'
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t Saturn op. s Asc 0°01'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {-2}
p Moon-Neptune sq. 0°13'

[Jim Eshelman]

April 30, 2021, 12:40 AM EEDT, Mount Meron, Israel 32N59'51'' 35E24'44''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Israel_stampede

Dozens of people died (at least 44) and more than 300 were injured (of the 100,000 people gathered at a mountainside religious site to celebrate Lag b'Omer) in a stampede crush started by some celebrants starting to flee the scene. Witnesses said it began "in a split second" and was quickly over. Under debate is whether police barricades and blockades caused or significantly contributed to the disaster.

Timing was separately described as "late on Thursday [April 29]" and "in the early hours of April 30." The latter is probably more correct and incorporates the casual meaning of the former. Wikipedia gives 0:40 on the 30th (presumably local time, which was EEDT). A Sun-Uranus conjunction crossed IC as this happened.

It is being labelled "one of the worst peacetime tragedies in Israel's history."

Year: Capsolar {+1}
Moon on IC 1°48'
Mercury & Uranus widely foreground
-- Mercury-Uranus sq. 1°09'

Bridge {+2}
t Eris conj. Cansolar MC 0°51'
t Pluto sq. Cansolar MC 1°40'
CanQ Moon sq s/p Neptune 0°35'
t Neptune sq. CanQ Moon 0°58'
t Saturn sq. Capsolar Asc 1°40'

Quarter: Arisolar {-1}
(Mostly wrong. Moon seems to be a theme for this mob event, and Jupiter does highlight the orthodox religious festival.)
Jupiter on N 1°48'
Moon more widely foreground
Moon-Jupiter sq. 1°37'

Month: Caplunar {?}
Venus on EP 1°11'
Uranus & Eris more widely foreground
-- Uranus-Eris conj. 0°19' mundo
-- Ve/Ur on Asc 0°23'
-- Ve/Er on Asc 0°33'
Moon-Eris sq. 1°01'
Moon-Pluto conj. 1°39'

Week: Liblunar {+2}
Pluto on Dsc 2°14'
Moon widely foreground
-- Moon-Pluto sq. 1°46'
Moon-Eris sq. 0°48'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {0 / +2 = +2}
t Mercury sq. s Moon 0°40'
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t Saturn sq. s Asc 1°40'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 or better}
p Moon-Neptune sq. 0°35'
t Neptune sq. p Moon 0°58'
p Asc conj. t Mercury 0°35'
p EP-a conj. s Uranus 1°24', t Uranus 1°39', t Sun 0°42'
-- t Sun-Uranus conj. 0°51'
-- t Uranus conj. s Uranus 0°16'
-- t Sun conj. s Uranus 0°35'
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t Eris conj. s MC 0°51'
t Pluto sq. s MC 1°40'