December 2021 events

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Supreme Court will be seated at 10:00 AM Eastern today December 1, 2021 for oral arguments in the case on abortion to be heard today. This is the Mississippi case that could overturn Roe v. Wade not the Texas case that lets anyone sue over abortion.

[Jupiter Sets at Dawn]

They gaveled in and started at 10:03 AM eastern.

[Jim Eshelman]

They gaveled in and started at 10:03 AM eastern.

Very interesting chart, given the subject matter:

Uranus on IC +0°01'
Venus on Asc -4°05'
Pluto on Asc -5°52'
-- Venus-Pluto co. 1°47' M

More widely: Saturn on EP-a 2°15' (applying)

We'll have some impressions on which way they're going sometime this morning.

[mikestar13]

Not at all sure which way this one will go. I'm fairly confident that the Texas private law enforcement provision will be overturned when it reaches the Supreme Court even if the Court uses this case to overturn Roe.

From a technical legal standpoint, Roe is not the best decision and is more open to attack because ofbit. It extends the contraceptive rights granted under the marital privacy rights doctrine established and then extended to unmarried couples by Griswold v. Connecticut. Griswold is itself a questionable decision. In both cases I am am speaking of the decisions from the perspective of the principles of Constitution Law. I suspect that by now both contraception and abortion would be legal in all 50 states if our politics in the USA weren't so messed up, and I believe should be legal.

Roe, and Griswold from which it extends, are prime examples of legislation from the bench. Ironically, Griswold could and should have been decided on
First Amendment grounds: the enactment of of the Roman Catholic doctrine against artificial contraception as civil law was clearly a violation of the Establishment and the Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

I'm hoping this information will provide some background for the legal issues that may come into play.

[Jim Eshelman]

20 years ago, I suggested we could get rid of the Republican Party (as then constituted) by letting Roe be reversed - and every state pick up its own policies - and remove the one thing on which Republicans could reliably run in most red jurisdictions.

Today, though, I think the same action is simply likely to vitalize the conservative far right by giving them evidence that President Trump's actions were successful where nobody else had been, and that would encourage them further.

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December 10 to 11, 2021
Tornadoes killed dozens overnight in Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky. Mayfield KY has said 50 to 80 dead overnight.
It's not over.

[Jim Eshelman]

December 10 to 11, 2021
Tornadoes killed dozens overnight in Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky. Mayfield KY has said 50 to 80 dead overnight.
It's not over.

Is there a notable "worst hit" spot?

For the nation as a whole, the Mars-Jupiter Caplunar - usually not a horrible aspect - is consistent with ferocious storms, and this is one spin (no pun intended) on Venus-Pluto. But it would be especially interesting to know a "worst of the worst" spot.

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Mayfield KY where there at the time I posted they were saying at least 50 dead and are now saying at least 80, and maybe over a hundred.

But the tornado stayed on the ground for more than 280 miles.

[Jim Eshelman]

CNN just flagged this as "possibly the longest recorded single tornado path in history." I'll have to work it up more fully for inclusion in a future SMA volume. It might shake out as the deadliest tornado in Kentucky's history.

Mayfield has definitely been in the line of fire all year, and especially this week.

CAPSOLAR: The Capsolar's 0°34' Mars-Saturn square lands with Saturn 0°44' from Dsc and Mars 1°30' from Zenith.

CANSOLAR: Mercury exactly rising (0°22') with Neptune 4° off MC. An OK chart by itself, but, within the context of the destructive Capsolar, it puts the right focus on WIND and spinning, crazy circumstances stirring hysteria. - Most important, I think: A 0°16' Moon-Saturn mundane square (doesn't appear at all ecliptically: I wish we could map the stretch that has this aspect in orb, because it just might be the path of the tornado).

CAPLUNAR: For the month and week, Saturn is 0°28' from WP-a. That's the main point; and a few other things round it out, like Uranus near MC, the worldwide Moon-Venus-Pluto conjunction, etc.

DAY: We're ibn a vulnerable period for hard-struck hurt, with transiting Mars just moved into 1° orb of square CapQ Moon. With an otherwise silent CapQ, the CanQ has Saturn and Uranus (barely) on angles but, more importantly, transiting Neptune is 0°17' from Cansolar MC as Pluto continues (worldwide) to square Cansolar Moon (0°34') - which, today, is the fitting Venus-Pluto conjunction.

[Jim Eshelman]

For future research as the details sort out, WIkipedia now has a page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_o ... 9311,_2021

[Jim Eshelman]

December 14, 2021, 0:00 EST, Cap-Haitien, Haiti 19N45'05" 72W12'20"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap-Ha%C3 ... _explosion

I have moved this to it own thread:
https://www.solunars.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=6347

[TheScales_BothWays]

Continuous torrential rainfall since Friday morning caused floods in various states in the nation, the worst hit of which is Selangor - particularly in Port Klang, Klang, Shah Alam and Sepang.

Around 3,500 people have been evacuated to shelters. Two casualties. Some places have lost power, and some roads, highways and businesses are closed. Many are claiming that this is the worst flood to hit the area in decades. Neighbourhoods that aren't usually affected by floods have gotten hit too. Selangor records 380 millimetres of rain, breaking previous rainfall records. Some claim that the rains are caused by a tropical depression linked to Typhoon Rai. The Met issued warnings of continuous rainfall across peninsular Malaysia until tomorrow.

My neighbourhood has been safe from the floods so far, thankfully. My family and I are also safe.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-as ... ian-states
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/ ... -the-state

Have a look at the Capsolar for Kuala Lumpur: Mars is on MC and Jupiter squares MC, both partile.

Regrettably, Mars-Jupiter combos also tend to stir racial tensions in the country. A few days ago, a former PM claimed that one of the challenges in assimilating the Malaysian ethnic Chinese community is "their use of chopsticks" to eat. Disappointing.

[Danica]

Some claim that the rains are caused by a tropical depression linked to Typhoon Rai. The Met issued a warning of continuous rainfall until tomorrow.

It's really strange to me how people still keep seeing/focusing-on only isolated bits and pieces of the picture, instead of finally starting to grasp that we're facing a global phenomenon of unprecedent scale and nature.

My neighbourhood has been safe from the floods so far, thankfully. My family and I are also safe.

I am so so happy to hear this.

[TheScales_BothWays]

It's really strange to me how people still keep seeing/focusing-on only isolated bits and pieces of the picture, instead of finally starting to grasp that we're facing a global phenomenon of unprecedent scale and nature.

True. You wouldn't expect loads of rain in Selangor this time of the year, or at any time at all. It's a relatively dry state sheltered from the monsoons by mountains in the east and Indonesia's Sumatra island by the west. We usually get isolated showers, not continuous downpours. Some people jokingly wondered how did the monsoon that affects the east coast this time of the year made its way to west-coast Selangor. The recent floods have also gotten a few to wonder how habitable coastal regions (and the country as a whole) will be as climate change worsens.

[Jim Eshelman]

Scales, it's good to hear from you - and that you're safe. Thanks for this report. (And yeah, I agree with all the above.)

In passing: I don't remember if you have TMSA yet. I think of you occasionally when new features come out. Even though you have SF, I think your mind will run full speed ahead with what TMSA offers. If you haven't installed it, you have some nice surprises coming.

[TheScales_BothWays]

In passing: I don't remember if you have TMSA yet. I think of you occasionally when new features come out. Even though you have SF, I think your mind will run full speed ahead with what TMSA offers. If you haven't installed it, you have some nice surprises coming.

I installed the first version and gave a few comments, but I haven't had the chance to download the later versions. Florence recently mentioned to me some new features it has, and I am impressed + very excited! Looking forward to run the latest version soon

[mikestar13]

Scales the current version here viewtopic.php?f=60&t=5664#p41404 works quite well, but the upcoming version (about New Year's Day) will have substantial improvements.

[Jim Eshelman]

December 20, 2021, 20:10:18 UT (= 12:10:18 PM PST), 40N18'53'', 124W44'21'' near Petrolia, CA

So far, I haven't heard of any damage or injury from this. But it was a big quake. It triggered at local noon just a few minutes after Neptune rose, but the quake over all is a good ol' fashioned Saturn-Uranus affair.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.)

Year: Cansolar {+2}
Saturn on MC 1°36'
Uranus on EP 1°54'
-- Saturn-Uranus sq. 3°00'
Moon-Sun sq. 0°18'
Moon-Pluto sq. 0°51'

Bridge {+3}
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t Uranus sq. Cansolar MC 9/21-4/27
t Saturn co. Cansolar MC 12/16-1/22
t Mars op. Cansolar Asc 12/18-24
Event window: Dec 18-24

Quarter: Libsolar {-2}
(Quite poor unless it means "nobody was hurt.")
Venus on WP-a 1°25'

Month: Caplunar {+1? +2?}
Pluto on Dsc 0°03'
Moon on Dsc 1°47'
Venus on Dsc 1°47'
-- Moon-Venus co. 0°01' M
-- Moon-Pluto co. 0°09'
-- Venus-Pluto co. 1°32'

Week: Arilunar {+2}
Uranus on Asc 2°19'
Moon on EP-a 1°19'
Saturn & Pluto widely angular
-- Moon-Pluto sq. 0°21'
-- Saturn-Uranus sq. 1°16'
-- Pluto co. non-foreground Venus 0°30'
-- Saturn sq. non-angular Sun 1°26' M
Moon-Venus sq. 0°51'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits (Dormant.)

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+3}
p MC co. t Moon 0°51'
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t Uranus sq. s MC 1°12'
-- t Uranus sq. s Saturn 0°10'
t Saturn co. s MC 1°38'
t Mars op. s Asc 0°55'