March 2024 Events

[Jim Eshelman]

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[Jim Eshelman]

March 22, 2024, 8:00 PM BAT, Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk at 55N49'33" 37E23'23"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Croc ... all_attack

All morning, news reports have been flashing as new details emerge of shooting at a concert venue on the western edge of Moscow. Now, we know that at least 40 people [UPDATE 3/25: 137] have been killed and over a hundred others [UPDATE: over 182] injured when approximately five armed attackers opened fire into the crowd with automatic rifles.

This occurred at the Crocus City Hall concert venue. Multiple explosions were heard. The building was seen burning, "engulfed in flames," with a "large plume of black smoke billowing" upward and has partially collapsed.

The one exact aspect for the event - suitable in all respects - was a partile Venus-Saturn conjunction, though it was in the immediate background of the event chart.

The charts are... wow! Just... wow! (The closest thing to a contradiction is one angular quotidian Jupiter, but even that fits for an entertainment venue.)

Year/Quarter: Capsolar {+2}
Saturn on WP 0°06'
Moon barely foreground
Moon-Neptune co 1°49'
Moon-Venus sq 2°54'

Bridge {+3}
CapQ Moon-Neptune co 2/5-5/27
t Saturn op Capsolar Asc 2/29-4/3
t Mars on Capsolar angles 3/21-3/31
Event window: Mar 21-31

Month: Caplunar {+2}
Neptune on Dsc 2°41'
Mercury more widely angular
-- Mercury-Neptune co 3°03' M

Week: Canlunar (Dormant.) Moon-Neptune.

Week: Arilunar
Mercury on WP-a 1°26'
Sun and Neptune widely foreground
-- Sun-Neptune co 3°17'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {-2 / +3 = +2}
p Moon-Neptune co 0°50'
p Asc sq s Sun 0°38'
p MC co p Jupiter 0°23'
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t Saturn op s Asc 0°43'
t Mars op s WP 0°17'
t Moon sq s MC 0°02'
-- t Moon sq s Saturn 0°04'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {+2}
p Asc sq t Moon 0°40', co p Mars 0°02', s Mars 0°23'
-- t Moon co s Mars 0°03'

[SteveS]

The charts are... wow!

Indeed!

[Jim Eshelman]

Death toll 8s now over 100 (at least 115). Islamic State has claimed credit.

[Veronica]

Death toll 8s now over 100 (at least 115). Islamic State has claimed credit.

I gotta admit that sometimes when I hear someone taking "credit" for an event.....something inside me says...nope

[Jim Eshelman]

March 26, 2024, 1:28 AM EDT, Baltimore, MD at 39N13'01", 76W31'42"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_S ... e_collapse

An iconic Baltimore bridge critical to local traffic flow collapsed this morning when it was struck by a freight ship (the Dali out of Singapore carrying Danish cargo). Cars, trucks, and individuals were thrown into freezing water, including people who were working on the bridge at the time of the collision.

Seven people are believed lost in the river (search teams are looking for them). Two other injuries occurred, one minor and one critical. Baltimore's mayor called it "an unspeakable tragedy."

According to the ship's crew, they lost power and issued a Mayday before the collision.

Will this register as a structural collapse or a collision? (I suspect the latter, or a blend.) Historically, the few examples of structural collapse have emphasized Mars and Pluto angularities, a stark absence of benefics; Moon aspects to Uranus, Neptune, and Sun (and avoiding aspects to Venus and Jupiter); and Venus-Pluto, Jupiter-Saturn, Jupiter-Uranus, and other key aspects. (For example, the Capsolar below is quite the opposite of what we tend to see.)

Year: Capsolar {-2}
Jupiter on EP 0°18'
Uranus more widely angular
-- Jupiter sq non-foreground Pluto 0°21'
Moon -Neptune 0°15' M
Moon-Venus 2°34'

Bridge {+1 or +2}
CapQ Moon-Neptune co 0°58'

Month: Caplunar {+3}
Neptune on Z 0°50'
Mercury barely in orb of Zenith
-- Mercury-Neptune co 3°42'
Moon-Mercury 1°42' M
Moon-Neptune 2°04' M

Week: Canlunar {+2 at least}
Mars on Asc 1°53'
Venus on EP 1°03'
Saturn on EP 1°49'
-- Venus-Saturn co 1°41'
Moon-Pluto op 2°37'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+2}
p Moon-Neptune co 0°58'
p Asc op t Pluto 1°07'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p MC sq t Venus 0°48'
p EP-a op t Saturn 0°51'
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t Sun op s MC 0°55'
t Venus sq s Asc 0°11'

[Jim Eshelman]

March 28, 2024, morning (EET -2), near Mamatlakala, South Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamatlaka ... y_accident

A bus lost control and plunged off a cliff falling 165 feet into a ravine in South Africa today, catching fire on impact and killing 45 people on an Easter pilgrimage from Molepolole, Botswana to Moria in Limpopo. - The passengers were carrying canisters of fuel for cooking on their pilgrimage and this burst into flame after the impact: They were burned alive.

One person survived, an 8-year-old girl who was flown to medical treatment.

CNN describes the location as in South Africa's Limpopo province, in the Mamatlakala mountain pass between Mokopane and Marken. It was on highway R518. Limpolo province is roughly 24° South, 29° East. We'll probably have exact coordinates soon, along with a time of the accident.

UPDATE 3/29: It looks like we won't get exact location or time information (at least, not soon). I will use Mamatlakala and, for "morning," 10 AM. (The location is more critical to the ingresses than the time.) Using the spelling Mmatlakala, I have found a place on R518 exactly at Mmatlakala, which is about halfway between Mokopane and Marken. I just learned that the bus fell of the Mma Matlakala Bridge, which links two hillsides near Mmatlakala. I suspect it is the pass at 23S58'58'', 28E34'28'' (though that stretch isn't swervy). At 10 AM, Mars was culminating with Saturn soon to follow, so we're in the approximate range, I'm sure.

The Liblunar is exactly right! (The Caplunar is all the right symbolism and the planets are close enough! They make a good pair.) But then the CapQ is all wrong (unless you count it was deaths during a religious pilgrimage). The AriQ repeats the CapQ symbolism ore or less then adds more violent Moon transits.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Venus Moon-Neptune.
Year: Cansolar (Dormant.) Moon-Sun Moon-Pluto.

Bridge (None.)

Quarter: Libsolar {-1 or -2}
Jupiter on EP 0°44'
Mars widely foreground

Month: Caplunar {+2}
Sun on Dsc 0°11'
Mercury, Saturn, & Neptune more widely foreground
Mercury-Neptune co 2°37' M
Sun-Saturn co 2°57' M
-- Moon-Uranus sq 0°07' M

Week: Liblunar {+2 at least}
Mercury on IC 0°32'
Moon on MC 1°16'
Pluto on Asc 2°13'
-- Moon-Mercury op 0°02'
-- Moon-Pluto sq 0°56'
-- Mercury-Pluto sq 1°41' M

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {+1?}
[Rating this is difficult. It was a catastrophe on a religions pilgrimage, so this might be exactly right. Just hard to say.]
p Asc op t Jupiter 1°10'
p MC op t Pluto 1°17'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+1}
t Mercury sq s Moon 0°40'

Day: Arisolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 or +3}
p Moon-Sturn co 0°00'
-- t Mars co p Moon 0°04'. co p Saturn 0°04'
p Asc co t Jupiter 0°28', s Uranus 0°34'
t MC sq t Uranus 0°40'
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[Since we don't know the location, it's hard to judge this. Arisolar MC for the coordinates I'm using is 11°33' Aquarius, so t Mars conjunct ingress Saturn 0°02' and square ingress Venus 38' is just outside the usual 2° orb.]

Day: Libsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2}
p Asc co s Mars 1°05', sq t Pluto 1°34'
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[If the time estimate is right, t Moon was on Libsolar Descendant opposite its rising Jupiter.]

[Jim Eshelman]

I suspect it is the pass at 23S58'58'', 28E34'28'' (though that stretch isn't swervy).

If we have need to refine this, there is another pass with tight curves on either side at:
-23.973174525294713, 28.535943718706918
23S58'23'' - 28E32'09''

Barely any difference.