Dust Bowl Black Sunday

[Jim Eshelman]

Late afternoon April 14, 1935, during the terrible dust bowl years accompanying the Great Depression, an unusually severe dust storm - a "black blizzard" - struck a large region so harshly and darkly that the day gained the name Black Sunday. In addition to enormous crop destruction, it displaced an estimated 300,000 tons of prairie topsoil.

Some personal accounts of the event are quoted here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun ... ust_storms

Studying this mundanely has challenges since the event doesn't settle in one specific location. Primary issues hit most of Oklahoma, beginning with the panhandle and eventually covering most of the state and much of Texas. Surrounding areas also were affected but not as severely. Areas listed specifically were Beaver about 4 PM, Boise City 5:15 PM, and Amarillo, TX 7:20 PM. These are broadly in the same area so I'll pick the Boise City time and place as somewhat centered for the rest.

That this occurred the day of the Arisolar leads me to think a priori that the Arisolar will be highly descriptive (or, at least, that the expiration of the old Arisolar will be meaningful). We'll see! - The event occurred on a day Sun exactly squared Pluto, Mars closely opposed Mercury, and during hours when Moon conjoined Neptune.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Jupiter.
Neptune was on IC for much of the affected area, just not quite within 3° for Boise City. I find it interesting that the Neptune with some Jupiter pattern is consistent with tornadoes and, while this isn't quite the same, there are quite a few similarities.

The Cansolar is okay, not overly exciting and not bad. For Boise City, Uranus is on Nadir with a Sun-Pluto conjunction moderately foreground and a Moon-Neptune conjunction. Saturn and Uranus lines bound most of the affected areas. If probably filled in the gaps where the Capsolar was dormant, but isn't a showpiece chart.

Bridge {+2}
t Neptune op. Capsolar MC 2/4-8/28
t Uranus sq. Cansolar Asc 4/1-6/15
t Jupiter co. Cansolar MC 1/24-4/23
CanQ Moon sq. s/p Mars 2/13-4/28
Event window: Apr 1-23

Quarter: Arisolar (Dormant.) Moon-Saturn 28'
It's dormant - a little disappointing - but it dumped an exact Moon-Saturn aspect on the world, which is NOT disappointing. Pluto rose through the eastern edge of the affected area (I've chosen the western extreme, where the event began). Let's see how the rest of it goes.

Quarter: Libsolar {+3}
(Bingo! And the rising Moon-Saturn conjunction is exactly in the exaltation degree of Mars.)
Mars on Dsc 2°09'
Saturn on Dsc 2°28'
-- Ma/Sa on horizon 0°09'
-- Saturn-Neptune sq. 0°12' PVP
Moon and Neptune more widely angular
Moon-Saturn 0°08'

Month: Caplunar {+1}
(The Moon aspects are impressive but the Venus is unfitting.)
Venus on Westpoint 1°12'
Uranus more widely foreground
Moon-Pluto op. 0°01'
Moon-Mars sq. 0°39' M

Week: Canlunar {+3}
Uranus on WP-a 0°25'
Moon on Zenith 0°32'
Pluto on Zenith 0°32'
Sun on Dsc 3°01'
Mars barely foreground
-- Moon-Pluto co. 0°00'08"
-- Moon-Sun sq. 0°30' M
-- Sun-Pluto sq. 0°48' M

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 or better}
p Asc co. s Neptune 1°08'
p EP-a co. t Neptune 1°26', t Moon 2°01'
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t Neptune op. s MC 0°15'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {0}
(The Moon-Mars progression is perfect, but not local. The Jupiter is wrong, then it doubles up. It's going to work fine in the Bridge, though, where Jupiter will just mean "and it's about the weather.")
p Moon-Mars sq. 0°33'
p EP co. t Jupiter 0°38'
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t Uranus sq. s Asc 1°16'
t Jupiter co. s MC 1°00'

[SteveS]

Impressive Libsolar & Canlunar! So the Linsolar carried through & symbolized this event because we have a dormant Cansolar & Capsolar?

[Jim Eshelman]

Impressive Libsolar & Canlunar! So the Linsolar carried through & symbolized this event because we have a dormant Cansolar & Capsolar?

Not exactly. The Cansolar isn't dormant and (given the dormant Capsolar) the Cansolar was the YEAR chart. It was an OK chart, just not spectacular.

This still leaves the question of the QUARTER chart. The brand new Arisolar so dormant, so we roll back to the Capsolar as a quarter chart. But the Capsolar was also dormant, so we roll back to the Libsolar. The Libsolar was the most recent non-dormant solar ingress, so it has the voice for the quarter (which in this case was 9 months long).

The Capsolar's transits and quotidians also did really well for the day. Mars or Saturn would have done (we had them on other charts), but I Neptune describes the terrifying, swirling, suffocating dust storm quite well.

[SteveS]

Jim wrote:

The Libsolar was the most recent non-dormant solar ingress, so it has the voice for the quarter (which in this case was 9 months long).

Ah, got it, most interesting. Thanks