[Fire] Great New Orleans Fire (1788)

[Jim Eshelman]

March 21, 1788, 1:30 PM LAT, New Orleans (French Quarter), 29N57'25'' 90W03'51''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_New ... ire_(1788)

Of the 1,100 structures standing in New Orleans, 856 were destroyed over a five-hour period. The city at that time consisted of what today is the French Quarter (Vieux Carré, "the Old Quarter). The fire covered the large square marked by the intersection of Conti and St. Phillip Street to Dauphine Street and the Mississippi River.

Compounding the damage, this fire occurred on Good Friday, so the priests refused to allow church bells to sound (the usual fire alarm). (Since the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis was later built atop and replacing the colonial 1727 church lost to this fire, the church that wouldn't ring the bells was exactly one block from where the fire broke out.) The fire broke out at a home at 619 Chartres Street (corner of Wilkinson), which is exactly one block from the current cathedral. Wind was strong from the southeast, so it drove the fire aggressively, but away from Jackson Square. - The fire set the stage for a complete architectural redesign of New Orleans, replacing the prior French architecture with the Spanish-Moorish design that has been retained in the French Quarter to this day.

Another city-wide fire six years later burned another 212 buildings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_New ... ire_(1794)
I'll address this in another post below.

Year/Quarter: Capsolar (Dormant.)
[Mars was the most angular planet, but wasn't close enough to break dormancy.]

Year: Cansolar {+1 or +2}
Moon Asc 2°54'
Moon-Neptune sq 1°48'

Bridge {+3}
CanQ Moon co s/p Uranus 3/19-5/8
t Saturn co CapQ Moon 3/9-4/3
t Mars co Cansolar Moon 3/17-24
Event window: Mar 19-24

Quarter: Libsolar {+2}
Mars EP 0°29'
Neptune IC 3°27'
Sun, Venus, Uranus more widely foreground
-- Sun-Venus co 0°17' M
-- Mercury-Uranus 0°19'
-- Uranus-Neptune sq 0°54' M
-- Venus-Uranus sq 1°03' M
-- Sun-Uranus sq 1°19' M
-- Venus-Neptune 1°56' M
-- Mars-Neptune 2°18'
-- Sun-Neptune co 2°13' M

NB: Eris WP 1°33' squares Mars-Neptune

Month: Caplunar {+1}
Venus N 0°45'
Moon Asc 2°40'
Mars Dsc 3°36'
-- Mo/Ma on horizon 0°28'
Moon-Neptune sq 1°07'

Week: Canlunar {+1?}
Venus WP-a 0°05'
Uranus Z 0°18'
Moon & Neptune more widely foreground
-- Jupiter-Neptune sq 0°30' p
-- Moon-Neptune sq 0°38' M [+Eris]

NB: Neptune square Eris is 0°01'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+1 or +2}
t Mercury op s Asc 0°49'
------------------------------
t Saturn co p Moon 0°02'
p MC sq t Jupiter 1°04'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 or +3}
t Mars co s Moon 0°12'
t Mercury sq s MC 1°59'
t Moon op s MC 0°38'
--------------------------
p Moon-Uranus co 0°57'
p EP-a co t Saturn 0°17'
p Asc co s Saturn 0°10'

[Jim Eshelman]

December 8, 1794, early afternoon, New Orleans (French Quarter) - use 29N57'25'' 90W03'51''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_New ... ire_(1794)

Another city-wide fire six years later burned another 212 buildings. (The entire city is the current French Quarter.) I'll use the same coordinates as for the other since, even if not correct to the second, are nonetheless relatively central to the French Quarter.

It began somewhere on Royal Street. The coordinates I gave are close enough (a few blocks from Royal; and we don't have an intersecting street). I can't find an exact time even with AI-enhanced searches, although I have narrowed it to "early afternoon." I'll use 1 PM as a working time. - This date was near the exact Saturn-Pluto square: I'm curious whether this fell on key angles for the event.

The solar ingresses are fantastic and the Caplunar holds its own. After that, though, the charts fall apart.

Year: Capsolar {+3}
Sun MC 0°02'
Neptune Dsc 1°54'
Mars WP-a 1°05'
Saturn more widely angular
-- Sun-Mars sq 1°45'
-- Sun-Neptune sq 1°56' M
-- Saturn-Neptune op 3°45' M
Moon-Uranus sq 2°21'

NB: Eris also involved including 0°39' Mars-Eris square.

Bridge None.)

Quarter: Libsolar {+1 or +2}
Mercury WP-a 1°21'
Neptune WP-a 1°46'
-- Mercury-Neptune co 1°03' M (0°25' in RA)

Month: Caplunar {+2}
[Here comes the Saturn-Pluto!]
Pluto EP-a 0°50'
Uranus WP 1°25'
Sun & Saturn more widely foreground
-- Saturn-Pluto sq 1°19'
-- Sun-Uranus sq 1°35'
-- Uranus-Pluto op 2°21' M
-- Saturn sq nearly-foreground Mars 2°50' M
Moon-Venus co 3°15'

Week: Arilunar {0 or +1}
Sun IC 2°50'
-- Venus-Mars co 2°56' p
Mercury widely foreground

Day: Capsolar Quotidian {-2}
p MC co p Jupiter 0°01'
p Asc sq t Sun 0°37'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {0}
p Asc sq t Sun 1°20'