January 2024 Events

[Jim Eshelman]

Starting the new thread early so that it's ready.

[Jim Eshelman]

January 5, 2024, 5:13 PM PST, Tigard, Oregon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Ai ... light_1282

Though nobody died and only three people suffered injuries (all minor), Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 had to be the scariest flight in a long time.

The two-month-old plane blew out its door plug minutes after taking off from Portland International Airport causing "uncontrolled decompression" of the plane. Fortunately, nobody was seated near it, but a few passenger items flew out the hole. The plane immediately returned to the airport for an emergency landing at 5:27 PM. It took off at 5:07 PM PST and suffered this incident about six minutes later.

I don't yet have the exact coordinates of the incident and may have to rely on the airport's coordinates. Ah, a map shows the incident almost exactly over Tigard, Oregon.

It was during a partile Moon-Jupiter opposition with Mars exactly square MC (half a degree). The Capsolar (a week before it expires) is consistent with the area having the scariest darn thing happen in a long time (more scary than damaging). We get two strong solar ingresses, a correct Bridge, a minimal but adequate lunar ingress, and to smashing daily timing charts.

Year: Capsolar {+2 or better}
Neptune on IC 1°39'
Mars widely foreground
Moon-Pluto sq 1°50'
Moon-Venus sq 2°12' M

Bridge {+2}
t Saturn sq Capsolar Asc 1°11'

Quarter: Libsolar {+2}
(Venus-Uranus is famously common for explosions, not always for obvious reasons. Moon-Neptune is perfect!)
Moon on EP 1°13'
Venus and Uranus more widely foreground
-- Venus-Uranus sq 1°31' M
Moon-Neptune sq 0°18' M

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.) Moon-Pluto.

Week: Liblunar {+1 at least}
Pluto on WP 0°51'
Moon more widely foreground
Also, Eris on MC 0°19', opposite Moon 0°55'.

NOTE: Mars' azimuth 270°06' puts it in 0°13' PVP square (azimuth square) with Eris.

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p Asc sq s Saturn 1°58'
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t Saturn sq s Asc 1°11'
t Mercury co s EP 0°10'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 or +3}
p Asc sq t Saturn +1°41', s Saturn -1°06', s Mars +0°51'
-- t Saturn op s Mars 0°50'
p EP co s Jupiter 0°24'
p MC sq t Moon 1°23'
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p Moon co s Asc 1°15'

[Mike V]

Jupiter seems like it's protective here, right? A catastrophe in which they somehow managed to avoid any loss of life.

Also really interesting to see Eris here in the Liblunar, though not a recurrent factor... I can't find a reference to it in the Wikipedia article, but I seem to remember reading something along the lines of "this could've or should've been caught during routine inspection but it was glossed over."

[Jim Eshelman]

Jupiter seems like it's protective here, right? A catastrophe in which they somehow managed to avoid any loss of life.

In the CanQ? Yes, that's my read on it. The CanQ is the least priority chart in the bunch since the CapQ is already active, but it aligns with the rest and definitely brings the "nobody died, nobody really got hurt" side.

Also really interesting to see Eris here in the Liblunar, though not a recurrent factor... I can't find a reference to it in the Wikipedia article, but I seem to remember reading something along the lines of "this could've or should've been caught during routine inspection but it was glossed over."

Yes, there were things that should have been caught. The plane kept getting a warning light nobody tracked down, so they restricted it from long flights over ocean (basically meaning, don't go to Hawaii).

I thought it worth noting that if we count the angular Eris, then we have Eris exactly angular with an exact (PVP) Mars-Eris square.