Beirut bombs

[Jim Eshelman]

A friend wondered why the recent Beirut bombings hadn't received the same attention as the Paris ones. I didn't bother analyzing the event at the time because original reports were that a couple of dozen people were killed and, in that part of the world, it just seemed like "another workday," nothing of unusual import - and what we expect astrology to show are matters of unusual import. (Most Los Angeles murders aren't reported in LA Times. It's generally too boring for readers to see more or less the same report, more or less every day.)

Paris was a world-scale assault on an entire culture, attempting to undercut the life-style elements that define lifestyle and culture in a nation that has long defined them. Lebanon was a neighborhood skirmish and regrettably routine. (BTW, the reported deaths are not stabilized at a bit over 40.)

Since the issue got raised, let's take a look: November 12, 2015, a bit before 6:00 PM, Beirut, Lebanon. A lot of charts are dormant, I've simply skipped them below.


Year: Cansolar
Uranus on Asc (1°46')
Mercury sq. Asc (0°20')
Pluto on MC (4°44')
Mars on IC (8°21')
-- Mars-Pluto op. (1°33')
-- Mercury-Mars conj. (2°26')
-- Mercury-Uranus sq. (2°30')

Bridge
t. Uranus conj. Cansolar Asc Sep 21 to Nov 12

Month: Caplunar
[Borderline, possibly should be considered dormant, but explosive otherwise.]
Saturn on Dsc (3°09')
Moon-Uranus sq. (0°00')
Moon-Sun sq. (2°01')

Week: Canlunar (flow-through)
Neptune sq. Asc (0°44')
Venus on MC (2°57')
Jupiter on MC (3°29')
-- Ve/Ju on MC (0°16')
Mars on MC (3°39')
-- Venus-Mars conj. (0°21')
-- Ma/Ju 0on MC (0°05')
Saturn on Asc (4°26')
-- Jupiter-Saturn sq. (0°57' in mundo)
-- Saturn-Neptune sq. (2°52')
-- Ma/Sa on angles (0°24')
-- Ve/Sa on angles (0°44')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian
p. Asc sq. p. Moon (0°01')
p. EP conj. t. Neptune (0°18')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Asc sq. t. Mercury (0°03')
t. Sun sq. p. Moon (0°12')
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t. Uranus conj. s. Asc (1°00')


Had someone been watching this, the following predictive path could have been taken: In a volatile, explosive (but perhaps more indicative of air crashes) year-chart, a two-month explosive, startling window was isolated Sep 21 to Nov 12. A deadly and, especially, explosive (0°00' Moon-Uranus) month-chart narrows this to begin Oct 20 to Nov 17 and a week-chart (that lasts two weeks) narrows this to Nov 2-17.

Within that, timing is difficult and we might have picked other days that were fiercer. The day of the event did show panic and confusion, plus the Moon and Mercury indications that mean sympathy and news attention; but we might well have picked other days.

[Jim Eshelman]

I didn't bother analyzing the event at the time because original reports were that a couple of dozen people were killed and, in that part of the world, it just seemed like "another workday," nothing of unusual import - and what we expect astrology to show are matters of unusual import.

Had someone been watching this, the following predictive path could have been taken: In a volatile, explosive (but perhaps more indicative of air crashes) year-chart, a two-month explosive, startling window was isolated Sep 21 to Nov 12. A deadly and, especially, explosive (0°00' Moon-Uranus) month-chart narrows this to begin Oct 20 to Nov 17 and a week-chart (that lasts two weeks) narrows this to Nov 2-17.

Within that, timing is difficult and we might have picked other days that were fiercer. The day of the event did show panic and confusion, plus the Moon and Mercury indications that mean sympathy and news attention; but we might well have picked other days.

Are there clusters of events spread out over time, but in the same area, and also spread out over area, but in the same time-frame that can be pinpointed astrologically? In other words, are the bombings in Beirut and in Turkey, as well as the Paris attacks and the Russian airliner crash related astrologically as well as by intention of the inciters?

I know this works with storms in the plains and south and midwest of the US. But those are storms, with the basic elements moving mostly west to east with the jet stream. What about this kind of thing? Is it essentially just another kind of storm? Is it predictable?

[Jim Eshelman]

Are there clusters of events spread out over time, but in the same area, and also spread out over area, but in the same time-frame that can be pinpointed astrologically? In other words, are the bombings in Beirut and in Turkey, as well as the Paris attacks and the Russian airliner crash related astrologically as well as by intention of the inciters?

Sometimes there are obvious patterns, particularly we have slow planet transits to ingress or progressed ingress Moons. (See what I wrote in the Bridge section of the Sandy Hook event in SMA.) Other than that, sometimes there are, sometimes not.

In this case, there is overlap between Beirut charts, anything going on in Syria (or originating from Syria), and the Sinai event with the Russian plane. Also, there are some similarities (but not identities) between Paris and Beirut. Each of these has been written up here and easy to compare.

Normally we can find these "storms" (as you rightly call them) from transits to ingress or progressed ingress Moons (world-affecting, not location-limited). Nearly always these are Capsolar and Cansolar derived. At the moment, though, we have nothing going on with those ingresses, but do have something going on with our old "friend," that ugly Arisolar.

Remember that the current Arisolar has:
Saturn 9°10' Scorpio
Venus 9°15' Taurus
Moon 10°58' Aquarius

And right this minute, transiting Saturn is at 10°49' Scorpio!

The time period for transiting Saturn squaring Arisolar Moon within 1° is November 8-25. While other localized charts have been timing the event window as ending earlier than that, this is the two to three weeks we could expect world-wide storming of tragedy.

[Jim Eshelman]

I might as well give you the quote from the Sandy Hook section:

CapQ Moon conjoins Capsolar Saturn November 29 to December 25. This entire period brought nearly daily news of death and pain leading up to and following the December 14 Sandy Hook massacre [December 14]. Other events from these 27 days include 125 deaths from bombings in Syria, and another 200 (about two weeks later) from Syrian warplane attacks. In about 24 hours (December 9-10), three bus accidents (in Taiwan, Guatemala, and Columbia) killed 28 children and injured 76 others. Hundreds of other deaths were caused by bombs in Iraq and Damascus, mortar attacks in Syria, landmine explosions (killing 10 young civilian girls) in Afghanistan, and a marketplace explosion in Pakistan; a Congo plane crash, Bolivia bus accident, China van accident, and Kazakhstan plane crash; a South Korea earthquake, collapsing block of apartments in Palermo, violent protests in Egypt, and even more violent fighting in Kenya. I list these as examples of how, year in and out, periods marked by similar Saturn transits collate death and tragedy into the few weeks of their operation.

[Jim Eshelman]

Sometime over the last few hours, 20 bombs were dropped on Raqqa, Syria by 10 French fighter jets. Pretty sure it's not a big deal in the overall scheme of things. Unless they got the "caliph" which is pretty unlikely.

[Jim Eshelman]

War's on!