Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

US Airways Flight 1549 took off from La Guardia Airport at 3:26 PM on Thursday. It's plummet into the Hudson occurred within minutes after (but I haven't seen a time for the splashdown). Here's the chart for takeoff:



The event was a plane crash. The psychological impact of the event on mass mind, though, was the almost-miraculous efficiency of everyone involved.

The Saturn-Uranus opposition dominated the meridian. By the time the plane hit the water and rescue efforts were underway (a process that took less than 10 minutes), Uranus was at the Midheaven - indicating not only the surprise and similar Uranian themes but (with Saturn) the resourceful ingenuity.

But for the miraculous or near-miraculous we expect Pluto - and we see a close (though not partile) Moon-Pluto aspect prominent in the chart. How prominent? In mundo, Pluto was 1°40' below the Descendant. It's the most angular planet in the chart.

In fact, the Mundoscope discloses a number of other factors such as the partile mundane square between Uranus and Mars, suitable for all sorts of accidents.



And it never hurts my feelings to see a Mercury-Saturn aspect for an airplane catastrophe. In this case, it's the half-degree Mercury-Saturn sesquisquare.

Very cool. I've quite settled into the idea that SLRs and lunar ingresses progress at the quotidian rate, and this is a very good showing.

With splashdown reported at 3:31 PM, and for Just off of Battery Park City (40N43, 74W01), this gives:
Midheaven 23°20' Aquarius
Ascendant 14°56' Gemini
Eastpoint 25°09' Taurus
Vertex 2°15' Scorpio

Ecliptically, Uranus was almost partile to the Midheaven; but mundanely (measured in PV longitude) the following is quite interesting:
Uranus 2°26' shy of MC
Mars 3°56' shy of Desc
Pluto 2°28' past Desc
(MA/PL 44' from Desc)
Saturn 5°38' shy of IC

Every now and then, when we get an exactly timed event I like to go back to old curiosities and check the event chart in multiple house systems with one question in mind: Are there any planets exactly on house cusps? Technically, the house cusps (in a particular system) are mundane trines and sextiles to the Midheaven and Ascendant, regardless of whether houses exist per se. The Koch system made its explicit claims (and, in fact, was invented on the premise) that exact contact of house cusps was relevant. How about this event?

CAMPANUS: Mercury almost partile conjunct VIIIth cusp; taken in mundo (which surely is the correct way to do it with Campanus), it's 27' from the cusp.
KOCH: Jupiter conjunct VIIIth 49'.
RE4GIOMONTANUS: Neptune conjunct IXth 1', Jupiter conj. VIIIth 5'
MERIDIAN, MORINUS, PLACIDUS, TOPOCENTRIC: Nothing

Not to make too big of a deal out of a single example... but any of these three could be regarded as descriptive. Was it a Mercury event? Sure, it was travel etc. A Jupiter event? Yeah, looking for the showing on "...and they survived" which benefics on angles usually bring. But, in this one case, Regiomontanus surely takes it. Mathematically, this would be described as Neptune in mundane trine to the Ascendant and Jupiter in mundane sextil to the Midheaven, both within a few minutes. Neptune on the IXth? Geese?!?!?! Why sure! LOL

Today, seven and a half years later, we've come a long way on this site... and Steve brought this event back to our attention today. It should get the treatment we'd give any mundane event.

I'm using the time and place of the splashdown, January 15, 2009, 3:31 PM, in the water just off 40N43 74W01.

I'm rather unimpressed with the whole thing... until we get to the CanQ. Not only is this wondrous save shown by a tight Moon-Jupiter progression (in Sagittarius, sign of aviation), but the malefics easily mark the moment. Ultimately, this wasn't a major event - it was an extraordinary everyday event, in the sense that it was a guy who went to work, did his job incredibly well with skills he had legitimately honed, some stuff came up and he handled it - with nobody hurt.

Year: Capsolar
(This occurred about 23 hours before the event.)
Sun on Dsc (0°21')
Jupiter on Dsc (7°16')
Mars on Dsc (9°53')
Moon-Uranus op. (3°43')
Moon-Venus op. (4°00')
-- Moon 0°08'from their midpoint

Bridge
t. Neptune conj. Cansolar Asc 7/24-1/30
CanQ Moon-Jupiter conj. 12/6-2/6
Event window: Dec 6 to Jan 30

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.)
Moon-Mercury conj. (0°23' in mundo) (+ Jupiter more widely)

Week: Canlunar
Pluto sq. MC (1°48')
Venus sq. Asc (2°36')
Saturn on MC (8°07')
Moon-Sun op. (3°26' in mundo)

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Asc op. s. Sun (0°23'), t. Sun (0°35'), midpoint 0°06'
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t. Sun conj. s. Dsc (1°20')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Moon-Jupiter conj. (0°21')
p. Asc op. t. Venus (1°01')
p. EP conj. s. Saturn (1°18')
p. MC sq. s. Mars (0°22')
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t. Neptune conj. s. Asc (1°29')


SUMMARY

SteveS wrote:Jim wrote on Jan 19th 2009:

Very cool. I've quite settled into the idea that SLRs and lunar ingresses progress at the quotidian rate, and this is a very good showing.

Jim, have you done much research with other major events progressing SLR’s and lunar ingresses? Did Bradley do any research with these chart progressions?

I'd quite forgotten about this. I think I picked words that overstate. "I've quite settled into" means, I think, that I'm comfortable admitting the possibility.

I've seen spotted examples of this. Most SLRs have no opportunity for such things. In theory, every chart is subject to the Q2. - No, I have no information that Don ever dug into this.