Brussels is the new Paris

[Jim Eshelman]

(4/33/2016)

Shortly after 7:30 AM today, two explosions at Brussels airport sent "hundreds of passengers running as large plumes of smoke billowed from the building" (LATimes). The airport was "force evacuated." "At least one of the two airport explosions was touched off by a suicide bomber" (NYT). []NOTE: See below. 7:58 seems to be the exact time.]

At 9:11 AM, a third explosion occurred in a subway tunnel (in the last car of a train) near the European Union headquarters in central Brussels.

At last report, 34 people have died (14 at the airport, 20 at the subway station). Another 170 people were wounded. A primary result of this is that Brussels is mostly shut down, public transportation halted, and people advised to stay home and indoors. Much of Europe is on high alert. ISIL has claimed responsibility.

In the "I hate to be right sometimes" department, when the final main figure in the Paris attacks was arrested in Brussels a few days ago, I told friends, "So obviously Brussels is getting hit next." It was a no-brainer.

Using 7:45 AM as the working time for now...

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.)

Year: Cansolar
Neptune on EP (0°30')
Venus-Jupiter conj. (1°26' in mundo)
Venus on Dsc (1°20')
Jupiter on Dsc (2°46')
Moon on Dsc (5°07')
-- Moon/Neptune on horizon (1°00')

Bridge
t. Neptune conj. Cansolar EP or sq. MC 12/19-7/17
CanQ Moon conj. s. Jupiter 3/14-5/18

Quarter: Libsolar
Mercury on Dsc (1°59')
Uranus on Asc (3°50')
-- Mercury-Uranus op. (1°51')
Mars on Dsc (4°51')
Sun on Dsc (5°12')
-- Sun-Uranus op. (1°22')
Jupiter on Dsc (5°20')
Neptune on Asc (7°08')
Venus on Dsc (8°52')
-- Mars-Jupiter conj. (0°19')
-- Venus-Neptune op. (1°14' in mundo)
-- Jupiter-Neptune op. (2°18' in mundo)
-- Mars-Neptune op. (2°47' in mundo)
Moon-Venus sq. (2°59')
-- Sun/Jupiter (0°04')
-- Sun/Mars on Dsc (0°11')
-- Mars/Uranus (0°30')
-- Jupiter/Uranus (0°45')

Month: Caplunar
Uranus on Asc (1°00')
Jupiter on Dsc (8°34')

Week: Canlunar
Mars sq. MC (1°34')
Venus on IC (2°10')
Neptune on IC (6°14')
-- Venus-Mars sq. (2°51')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian
p. MC op. t. Saturn (0°35'), sq. t. Jupiter (0°27'), sq. t. Moon (1°44')
-- Jupiter-Saturn sq. (0°08')
p. EP op. t. Venus (1°46') [t. Venus sq. s. Saturn 0°30']

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Moon conj. s. Jupiter (0°45')
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t. Neptune conj. s. EP (1°17')
t. Venus sq. s. MC (0°10')


SUMMARY
Year (Capsolar): DDormant.)
Year (Cansolar): Venus Jupiter Neptune (Moon). Moon/Neptune Venus-Jupiter.
Bridge: Jupiter Neptune (Can).
-- Quarter (Libsolar): Mercury (Sun Venus Mars Jupiter Uranus Neptune). Moon-Venus Su/Ma Su/Ju Sun-Uranus Mercury-Uranus Venus-Neptune Mars-Jupiter-Neptune Ma/Ur Ju/Ur.
Month: Uranus (Jupiter).
-- Week: Venus Mars (Neptune). Venus-Mars.
Day (CapQ): Moon Venus Jupiter Saturn. Venus-Saturn Jupiter-Saturn.
-- Day (Cansolar): Moon-Jupiter (CanQ). Venus Neptune transits).

[Jim Eshelman]

it has been becoming more obvious how these charts intersect and cascade down to a particular event. The initial key is usually the Bridge as a starting point. Let's see how it works out for this event.

Last summer's CANSOLAR remains Belgium's "master chart of the year." Most acutely, it has Neptune exactly on an angle. It also has a closely foreground Venus-Jupiter conjunction. In Paris (which had the same placement, in just slightly different relationship to the angles) this was a better fit, because the attacks centered around places of entertainment, luxury, comfort, pleasure - which wasn't true in Belgium, where the activity was centered around transportation and adjacency to political target. All the Cansolar does is provide a general emotional tone of the year.

But the LIBSOLAR, which remains the effective Quarter chart, was highly descriptive. A Mercury-Uranus opposition across the horizon even is the most common aspect for transportation disasters (the last car of your train blowing up!) but also common for explosions and general disruptive events. The rest is a concentration of volatile planets and mixes, especially a Mars-Jupiter-Neptune trio (dramatic terrorizing violence, especially belief-driven violence), the homicidal and dramatic Venus-Neptune, explosive Sun-Uranus, and a mix of midpoint contacts including Sun/Mars, Sun/Jupiter, Mars/Uranus, and Jupiter/Uranus. This is quite good for a religion-fuelled war undertaking at the center of European government and finance. Quite a good chart, unfortunately.

The BRIDGE starts off superbly if diffusely: Transiting Neptune is in orb or Cansolar angles from December 19 until the end of the Cansolar year in mid-July. This describes well the terror attacks and the larger picture of Belgium having become a geographic center of plots and espionage. We then get what, at first, might be a surprise and seem wrong: CanQ Moon is now within 1° of conjunct Cansolar Jupiter. However, over the last several years we have seen, repeatedly (almost constantly), that this Moon-Jupiter is connected to belief-driven politics (whether specifically religious, or merely polarized-ideological), belief-driven violence, and an underlying drive not just for power but for specifically fighting for "one's own kind" in a very passionate way. I am curious whether we have entered a two-month window (March 14 to May 18) in which a new rise of this kind of activity will again prevail. (I mean in a bigger way that one-sidedness has been driving everything all year anyway <g>.)

This has narrowed the event window to a couple of months.

Within that, the CAPLUNAR is simple and explosive, with Uranus exactly rising. The CANLUNAR then narrows the week with one of the most descriptive charts of the set, one that is fiercely war-like. The day of the week is isolated by the Jupiter-Saturn hit to the CapQ, including a Venus-Saturn transit. It all starts cascading very fast once we identify the two-month window, and then snap through the month, the week, and find a day.

[Jim Eshelman]

Last summer's CANSOLAR remains Belgium's "master chart of the year." Most acutely, it has Neptune exactly on an angle. It also has a closely foreground Venus-Jupiter conjunction. In Paris (which had the same placement, in just slightly different relationship to the angles) this was a better fit, because the attacks centered around places of entertainment, luxury, comfort, pleasure - which wasn't true in Belgium, where the activity was centered around transportation and adjacency to political target. All the Cansolar does is provide a general emotional tone of the year.

I'm still learning about mundane astrology, but from what I can piece together, it seems as though the Cansolar remained in the position of main chart of the year due to the fact that 2016 Capsolar was relatively inactive just having Uranus widely conjunct the MC along with the Moon plus Mars just out of reach of the Nadir, I hope I have this correct.

[Jim Eshelman]

I think you have it right.
SMA page 34:

An ingress chart is dormant unless it has at least one planet within 3° of an angle (or 2°-3° of a minor angle*). A quotidian chart is dormant unless it has at least one planet within 2° of an angle.

*Though endeavoring not to create rules that are overly complicated, this “2°-3° of a minor angle” remark prob- ably deserves clarification. In practice, I have found the useful “dormancy” cutoff for minor angles to be 2° if only a solitary planet is involved, but 3° if two or more planets are in tight aspect in that 2°-3° range. Several examples will be evident in the chapters following.

[Jim Eshelman]

My condolences go to people who have suffered because of these attacks. I am sure Trump/Drumpf will use this to try and feed his hate campaign and I think that is so sad.

The best news I got yesterday morning was that everyone in our Brussels office was safe and accounted for.

[Jim Eshelman]

Glad to hear that Jim. It sure was a relief to see that people we know were ok and it was a relief that there were "only" dozens who died, and we didn't have to see hundreds or thousands body counts, although the loss is still there.

[Jim Eshelman]

Hello everyone,

For what it worths, here is what I just got from Belgian astrologer Marie-Christine Sclifet who quote a press release from Belgian authorities:

- The first bomb exploded at 7h58ms27s and a second one 10 seconds later (Brussels airport);
- The third one exploded at 9h11 in the metro (although time not confirmed by authorities.

Best regards,
François

[Jim Eshelman]

Thanks François.

[Jim Eshelman]

The first bomb exploded at 7h58ms27s and a second one 10 seconds later (Brussels airport);

Thanks. Do you know their source? I read one report from a couple that were scheduled to arrive at 7:30 and were running "a little bit late." I combined this with the "a little before 8:00 AM" common report to estimate 7:45.

[Jim Eshelman]

Hello Jim,

I don't have sources, except "authorities". Will try to get them and come back. However, most French medias (France Press Agencies and Belgian medias, for instance) do have "a little before 8h".

Best regards,
François

[Jim Eshelman]

------ U P D A T E -- OFFICIAL DATA -----------------
==== MASSIVE JIHADIST ATTACKS IN BRUSSELS ====
Just listened to the authorities press conference. Data hereafter.
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Technical details of the bombings
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- First bomb at Brussels Airport
Time from authorities
Exact location from Wikipedia
22 March 2016; 7:58:28; GMT+1; Brussels Airport, Belgium; 50°53'52"N; 4E29; —; ;
- Second bomb at Brussels Airport
Time from authorities
Exact location from Wikipedia
22 March 2016; 7:58:37; GMT+1; Brussels Airport, Belgium; 50°53'53"N; 4°28'59"E; —; ;
- Third bomb in Brussels Metro
Time sourced in media as no exact time as yet given by authorities
Exact location from Wikipedia
22 March 2016; 9:11; GMT+1; Brussels Metro, Belgium; 50°50'38"N; 4°22'37"E; —; ;
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Perpetrators
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Two brothers, Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui
- Ibrahim
Perpetrated one of the two bombings at the airport
Bith time unknown
Location from authorities
9 October 1986; 12:00; GMT+1; Brussels, Belgium; 50N50; 4E20; —; ;
- Khalid
Perpetrated the bombing in the metro
Birth time unknown
Location from authorities
Khalid El Bakraoui; 12.01.1989; 12:00; GMT+1; Brussels, Belgium; 50N50; 4E20; —; ;
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Facts as known at this moment, on 23 March 2016 early afternoon.
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- In the published CCTV security photo, below, Ibrahim is the man in the middle.
- The man on the left has not yet been identified.
- The man on the right has not yet been identified.
- This man on the right has fled before the explosions. He left behind a bag containing the biggest amount of explosives. The bag exploded in the afternoon as the mining experts were coming to disarm it because its contents was so unstable. Thankfully, no-one was injured in this explosion which, as mentioned, was a spontaneous explosion, not a controlled one.
- A taxi cab took three people to the airport. The driver tipped off the police later and gave the picking-up address.
- At the address, a search was performed which yielded 15 kilos of TATP explosives, 150 liters of acetone, 30 liters of oxygenated water, nails and screws and various useful items to build bombs.
- A computer was found in a bin in the street. The last will and testament of Ibrahim El Bakraoui was found inside it. Herein, he states that he is in a rush, does not know what to do as he is chased everywhere, and does not want to go to jail with someone (not clear). Media say this jailed bird might be Brahim Abdeslam who was caught a few days ago and is spilling some beans.

[Jim Eshelman]

Hello everyone,

The previous post is a copy-paste from the FB post of Anna-Cristal de Lyon, who listened to the radio, when the prosecutor of King of Belgium gave a conference. She took notes and posted it. You may want to become FB friend with her and get all the info needed (she's a great tropical astrologer, though):
https://www.facebook.com/AstroXa?fref=nf&pnref=story

Best regards,
François

[Jim Eshelman]

I used the progressed Capsolar with eclipse charts. The Capsolar is a chart done for the Sun's entry into Sidereal Capricorn using the Fagan-Bradley ayanamsa.

Resulting charts are presented in the Tropical zodiac for the convenience of most.

I have used eclipses with progressed natals, progressed solar and lunar returns for years.

Progress the Capsolar (using the apparent Sun difference) to an event then place an eclipse chart around it. I use all eclipses occurring during the previous year before an event.

Progress the Capsolar in Brussels and place the March 9th solar eclipse around it. The Capsolar Venus-Saturn midpoint is on the IC as is the Sun-Mars midpoint (IC 255°18', Venus-Saturn 255°27', Sun-Mars 255°58'). Please forgive any typos. I Lost my hard drive last Primary night and am working with a used backup I bought for an occasion like this. Not familiar with everything yet as the previous owner had some special graphics software on it which is still here. And the function keys are in different places.

After looking at the charts I like to eliminate points not aspecting the angles. In Solar Fire create a file (I named mine SPECIAL) in "Chart Options", "Displayed Points". Edit it to populate it with the points you want displayed. Put the biwheel into a program to erase or fill over points you have chosen that are not relevant to the finished display. You can edit the file later to repopulate it to use with other charts.

The progressed Capsolar MC was 75°18'. The March 9th SE Saturn was on the IC when the MC was at 75°11', transit Saturn at 255°25' was stationing on the IC in square to the eclipse and the Neptune-eclipse midpoint. The SE set at 74°26'. A square to the MC (W Pt) was at 345°18'. The Neptune-Eclipse midpoint (or Neptune-Sun, then Neptune-Moon, if you want to separate them) was square at 345°45'.

Placing the September solar eclipse around the progressed Capsolar (MC 75°18') yields the eclipse on the Asc at 76°11' and the eclipse Saturn-Pluto midpoint (260°55') on the Nadir (260°23'). NOTE: The Nadir is not the IC. It is a point exactly 90 degrees from the Asc in right ascension.

[Jim Eshelman]

Progress the Capsolar using the apparent Sun difference in right ascension.
Lunar returns using the Moon's difference instead of the Sun.
Natals using Q2 with Mean Quotidian angles.

You seem to have been following my posts elsewhere. Something is up in September but I am busy with other charts right now as well as having computer problems.

[Jim Eshelman]

Placing the September solar eclipse around the progressed Capsolar (MC 75°18') yields the eclipse on the Asc at 76°11' and the eclipse Saturn-Pluto midpoint (260°55') on the Nadir (260°23').

Are you predicting another disaster in September?

The September solar eclipse referred to was the September 13, 2015 one.

In recovering data from the hard drive crash I found a chart for the Sibly progressed Moon opposite Sibly progressed Uranus exact on Labor day, Sep 5, 2016.

Paired with the Aug 28, 2016 Canlunar located in Washington, DC, (MC 247°56' with Mars and Saturn on it [Saturn 248°35', Mars 250°23'; Sun at 157°50' almost an exact to the minute of arc square. In Philadelphia the MC is at 249°48' with the midpoint of Mars-Saturn at 249°29' on it.] has me thinking of a possible terrorist attack at either site prominent in our democracy on a national holiday.

The Sep 1 solar eclipse at 160°56' is square the Canlunar MC and Mars.

The 2016 Capsolar progressed to noon Sep 5 in Philadelphia has a MC at 158°27' with East Point at 248°27' holding transit Saturn at 248°50'. The progressed Capsolar MC will sweep the Sep 1 solar eclipse point a few days later. There is more involving the August and September 2016 eclipses but I have lost the charts and notes.