Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Posted Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:49 am by Jim Eshelman
Starting the August thread.

Posted Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:51 am by Jim Eshelman
Here is a big, explosive event with no deaths - which seems rather extraordinary, when you look at the event. It might be quite worth looking at just from that point of view.

Today at 12:45 PM at Dubai International Airport, a Boeing 777 crash landed and exploded into a raging fire. All 300 people aboard were successfully evacuated. There were no deaths.

The ARISOLAR is still the prevailing quarterly ingress. Saturn is 2°12' from IC with a mid of other planets in the far-foreground.

But then the CAPLUNAR is dominated by Jupiter 0°02' from Descendant. (02'!) We can't always count on this being inherently protective, but that 02' orb is hard to ignore. CANSOLAR has the interesting mixture of Saturn-Neptune (Neptune squares MC 1 05', Saturn is 3°27' off MC, they square within 1°34') and Mercury-Venus (Mercury is 0°43' from Dsc, Venus a few degrees wider).

The CapQ, in addition to the continuing Moon-Uranus-Pluto progressions, has ingress Venus on MC. The CanQ has the Moon-Jupiter transits going on still.

So yes, there are a lot of benefics in play when the story is, "and they all lived" - but even the malefics are not the kind that suggest explosions and fires.
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Posted Sun Aug 07, 2016 2:34 am by TheScales_BothWays
They all lived, and the passengers managed to even carry back their luggages safely!
Sadly and irresponsibly it costed a brave firefighter's death — which could've been avoided if the passengers followed the cabin crew's instructions, and therefore firefighters would've extinguised the fire before the explosion occurred.

Posted Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:05 am by Jim Eshelman
As has been rumored for several days, Emperor Akihito of Japan would like to abdicate. He's 82, in poor health, and still has a very demanding schedule as emperor. However, the Japanese constitution has no provision for such a thing, and he's not eager to stir a larger conversation on whether an emperor is really needed today.

He opened this discussion, somewhat indirectly, in a TV broadcast last night. This in itself was extraordinary, because no Japanese emperor has ever addressed the public except twice - his father, Hirohito, at the end of WW II, and Akihito himself after the Fukushima disaster. The very act of the broadcast is somewhat historic almost independent of the content.

NY Times broke the news at 11:18 PM PDT about the 10-minute broadcast, so it probably occurred on the hour. That would be August 7, 2015, 3:00 PM JST, Tokyo.

Japan's CANSOLAR is definitely "all about the emperor," and evidently in a separatist way. It has Sun square Uranus (0°32') on the angles, with Uranus 0°22' from Descendant and Sun 2°45' from MC. There is also a "royal event" signature in a mundane Moon-Jupiter square (1°21'). This is an exceptionally descriptive chart: Look at the list in Appendix A of SMA to see how often Uranus appears for "change in leadership."

The CAPLUNAR is dormant (but has that Moon-Sun-Uranus T-square everyone in the world has). Then the CANLUNAR brings a mixture of royalty indicators, broadcast / news indicators, and a mark of change. Specifically, Mercury is on IC 0°48', Jupiter squares Asc 1°54', Moon squares Uranus 0°28', Saturn is widely on WP (2°57') and barely foreground, and square a non-foreground Neptune (the aspect is 1°33').

For the DAY, in addition to the ongoing CapQ Moon aspects with Uranus and Pluto, Capsolar Venus is on CapQ WP. Transiting Sun squares Capsolar Asc (0°28'). Uranus, of course, continues to transit Cansolar Dsc (0°10').

Posted Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:24 am by Jim Eshelman
All Delta planes everywhere in the world are on the ground this morning - all flights on hold - because of a computer glitch. I'm not sure which of their hubs is the best place (if any) to center this, but I note that today's MERCURY-NEPTUNE OPPOSITION is probably at the heart of it all - for the airlines and for the frustrated passengers.

Posted Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:27 pm by Jim Eshelman
August 8, 2016, 9:30 AM, Quetta, Pakistan. A hospital was bombed (suicide bomber), killing at least 70 people (74 per NY Times) and injuring 120 others. Those killed were a crowd convened at the hospital because a murdered attorney was being brought in. A Taliban faction aligned with ISIL has claimed responsibility both for the suicide bombing and for murdering the attorney.

Evolving news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_20 ... ta_bombing

The full work-up is here: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=922&p=5090&hilit=quetta#p5090 - Here are the highlights:

The CAPSOLAR has Saturn tightly on IC, among other factors (including a foreground Venus-Jupiter square, and Jupiter/Neptune midpoint on angles). Whatever the details, it shows a year of tragedy for the area. The CANSOLAR adds an angular Mars.

The BRIDGE leveraged a Neptune transit and progressed Moon aspects with Uranus and Pluto to pick July 28 to August 13 as a Uranus-Neptune-Pluto window (and today is the day CapQ Moon is exactly halfway between s. Pluto and s. Uranus).

Lunar ingresses have recurring Moon-Uranus aspects. The CANLUNAR is a big complicated and not entirely satisfying, with Jupiter most angular, and some Neptune, plus the Moon-Uranus.

For the DAY, the CapQ brings the Moon-Uranus-Pluto, plus a Mercury-Neptune transiting opposition across the Capsolar angles. The CanQ Puts Saturn and Neptune both mere minutes from angles, plus the Mercury-Neptune opposition.

Posted Wed Aug 10, 2016 11:56 am by Jim Eshelman
A horrible Baghdad story that, for a change, has nothing to do with war or terrorism.

Early on August 10, a fire broke out in the pre-term birth ward of Yarmouk Hospital. They were able to save 8 babies, but 11 died of suffocation. The fire was caused by an electrical short.

I don't have a time. I'm sure 6:00 AM is close enough for our purposes.

Baghdad's current Caplunar has Neptune 0°48' from Eastpoint closely square a widely foreground Saturn. There is also a partile mundane Moon-Mars square (no such aspect ecliptically, so it's local to the incident). And, of course, Moon aspects Uranus.

The CapQ also brings ingress Neptune exactly to Asc, transiting Saturn not quite within orb (and Mercury on WP). Transiting Sun conjoins Capsolar EP. It is the CanQ that brings ingress Mars to exactly square quotidian Ascendant.

So this is quite distinctive from Baghdad terrorist events, and much more resembles what we would expect if 11 babies were killed in a fire in a Canton, OH hospital: Gruesome signs of tragedy with Neptune and Mars, with the Neptune fortified by Saturn and a touch of Sun. It's pretty much what we get from all the catalogued fires.

Posted Fri Aug 12, 2016 12:59 pm by Jim Eshelman
11 bombings occurred in Thailand yesterday and today (all in one 24-hour period covering August 11 and 12), stretching across 5 provinces, killing at least 4 people, and injuring at least 36. The death toll isn't high, as such things go, but the impact of 11 incidents around one small country is harsh.

The first explosion was about 3:00 PM. Others went off in the evening, overnight, and this morning.

Since nobody has claimed responsibility, and the police think they don't resemble terrorist attacks, it's possible the bombings aren't related... but such a coincidence would, itself, be a remarkable thing to study. Let's presume, for now, that they're related. At the very least, they would seem to be coordinated local sabotage.

Looking at it for Bangkok, centered on 3:00 PM August 11...

CAPSOLAR marks an explosive year, with placements I consider consistent with terrorism. Uranus on Dsc (53'). Pluto sq. Asc (23'), Uranus sq. Pluto (1°11')

CANSOLAR throws the Moon-Jupiter square on the angles. This is not a negative chart at all, though it does have the potential to stir ethnic differences. I'm not sure of anything of his sort is suspected.

With a dormant Caplunar, the current week's LIBLUNAR reigns without interference, and nails the event. In addition to the ongoing, explosive Moon-Uranus aspects (only 30' wide in this chart), the Lublunar has:

Saturn on WP (0°22')
Venus on IC (2°40')
-- Venus-Saturn sq. (0°18' in mundo)
Neptune on MC (4°36')
-- Saturn-Neptune (1°29')
Mercury on IC (5°24')
-- Mercury-Neptune op. (0°48' in mundo)
-- Ve/Ne on meridian (0°58')

As we know, the DAY charts are inherently explosive and disruptive these days, with CapQ Moon conjunct Uranus and square Pluto. For Bangkok, the only addition in the CapQ is transiting Sun square Ascendant, which is probably a long-term, ongoing contact. But we also have transiting Pluto square Capsolar Asc (32'). The CanQ then essentially replicates the Capsolar angles, so transiting Pluto is also square CanQ Ascendant.

Posted Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:10 am by Jim Eshelman
I don't remember of the NO flooding has hit this thread, but I wanted to record it as a significant event of the month. "Unseasonal excessive rain" and more were forecast from the Caplunar Moon on IC (the only angle where Moon is shown to produce rain) + Uranus.

To put the scope of this in perspective, here is a summary from CNN this morning:

It was a weekend of wet misery in Louisiana -- five dead and more than 7,000 rescued from their homes in massive flooding in the state. Tens of thousands have been evacuated. It's not going to get any better today because swollen rivers are still on the rise. The governor's deployed the National Guard; President Obama's issued a declaration of emergency. More than 24 inches of rain have fallen in Livingston, just outside of Baton Rouge, since Wednesday. If that sounds like something that almost never happens, you're right. The National Weather service says the chances of such flooding is around 1%.
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Posted Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:28 am by SteveS
My friend in Gulf Shores, Alabama knows Shrimp/Fishing Boat Captains. He was told by more than one Captain in their 60's, they have never seen in their life such torrential amounts of rain-fall off the Gulf Coast.
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Posted Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:31 am by Jim Eshelman
It goes back to the Bradley et al. NYU rainfall studies: Jupiter and Venus on angles go along with excessive (more than seasonal) rain. Moon does also, but only if on IC, as in this case.

Posted Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:36 pm by Jim Eshelman
Jim Eshelman wrote:
Liblunar (August 8)

MERCURY & NEPTUNE especially slide together through Philadelphia & New York and other places due north or south of their center. SATURN squares MC just west of them.


Well, nothing like a last-minute piece of drama before flipping to the new month. Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane "was convicted Monday night [tonight] of nine criminal charges, including perjury and criminal conspiracy. A jury found Ms. Kane, 50, guilty of leaking grand jury information, and then lying about it, in an effort to discredit a political rival." (NY Times)

This news came in around 6 PM Pacific Time, so it was ahead of the new Caplunar. The Liblunar for Harrisburg has Saturn 0°00' square Midheaven and the Mercury-Neptune opposition along the meridian. (Neptune is 2°01' from IC, Mercury 3°00' from MC.) Saturn-Neptune, of course, is standard for removing people from office. I think the Mercury-Saturn and Mercury-Neptune aspects speak well for the situation, too.

Posted Tue Aug 16, 2016 11:53 pm by Jim Eshelman
With all the fires we've had this year, I'm sure none of them came on this fast - this is like burning flash paper! When it first broke out early today, almost immediately 1,000 acres were reported burned, then 3,000, then 5,000, then 8,000, and the number keeps growing. The fire is in the general area of Phelan, CA and going absolutely crazy.

The new Caplunar has Saturn at MC (partile), with foreground Sun, Mars, and Neptunbe, all aspect Saturn by one means or another.

All year, Neptune has set on EP, square a more widely culminating Saturn. The Cansolar added an angular Sun-Uranus square right on angles.

Transiting Saturn is currently 0°01' from the Phelan Capsolar MC! CapQ Moon, of course, continues to conjoin Uranus within minutes, and still squares Pluto.

Transiting Uranus still squares Cansolar Asc. CanQ Asc squares transiting Mars, and is getting closer.

EDIT: This is now called the Blue Cut Fire, and it burned 18,000 acres in under 12 hours, evacuating 82,000 people so far ("in waves," as CNN called it).

Posted Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:25 am by Jim Eshelman
Today at 9:20 AM, in Elazig, Turkey, a car bomb tore through a police station killing 3 people, and wounding 217 people thus far. Reuters reports this as part of "a renewed escalation of violence across the region."

A few hours later (seems it was around 1:00 PM), a roadside bomb killed four others and injured seven others. Total casualties were 7 dead, 224 wounded.

The lead-in (setup) charts aren't particularly impressive, though the Caplunar is adequate. The CapQ absolutely nails it, though, and there's no complaint of the CanQ.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.)

Year/Quarter: Cansolar
Mercury on Asc (1°52')
Venus on Asc (1°59')
-- Mercury-Venus conj. (0°07' in mundo)
Uranus on MC (4°08')
Sun on Asc (7°53')
Pluto on WP (2°04')
-- Mercury-Uranus sq. (2°16' in mundo)
-- Venus-Uranus sq. (2°09' in mundo)
-- Sun-Uranus sq. (0°32')
Moon-Jupiter sq. (1°51')

Bridge
CapQ Moon conj. s. Uranus (0°12')
CapQ Moon sq. s. Pluto (0°59')

Month/Week: Caplunar
Moon-Uranus sq. (0°21' in mundo)
Sun on Asc (0°39')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Moon conj. s. Uranus (0°12')
p. Moon sq. s. Pluto (0°59')
p. Asc conj. t. Neptune (0°43'), sq. t. Saturn (0°31'), midpoint 0°06'
p. MC conj. s. Venus (0°59')
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t. Sun conj. s. Asc (1°58')
t. Moon op. s. Asc (0°50')
-- Full Moon (1°08')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian
p. MC op. s. Mars (1°33'), sq. t. Moon (1°12')
-- t. Sun sq. s. Mars (0°47'), but just outside it's own angular orb
t. Mercury sq. p. Moon (0°39')


SUMMARY
Year (Capsolar): (Dormant.)
Year (Cansolar): Mercury Venus (Uranus Pluto). Moon-Jupiter Sun-Uranus Mercury-Venus-Uranus.
Bridge: Uranus Pluto (Cap).
Month: Sun. Moon-Uranus.
Day (Capsolar): Venus Saturn Neptune Moon-Uranus Moon-Pluto Saturn-Neptune (CapQ). Moon Sun Moon-Sun (transits).
-- Day (CanQ): Mars. Moon-Mercury.
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Posted Sun Aug 21, 2016 11:31 am by Jim Eshelman
So far, 51 have died and 69 others were injured by a suicide bomb that went off at a Kurdish wedding in Turkey. August 20, 10:50 PM, in Gaziantep. ISIL militants are believed to be responsible.

The suicide bomber was between 12 and 14 years of age. The bridge and groom were injured, but not critically. Body parts were reported "scattered everywhere."

With a dormant Capsolar, the year and quarter are both marked by the CANSOLAR. Pluto is on WP (0°12'), With a foreground Mercury-Venus-Uranus triple aspect (mundane), and a little Sun. Moon squares Jupiter as for most of the world.

Sun takes the lead in the CAPLUNAR, where it is the only angular planet (rising 1°20'). Like the rest of the world, this region has a Moon-Uranus square (0°35').

As usual, the DAY indicators are highly descriptive. I have other disasters that occurred during a wedding where one important part of the picture was that the charts showed a wedding occurring, and this is no exception - though it also shows the psychological tone of the event. Like the rest of the world, Turkey had CapQ Moon conjunction Uranus 0°06' (no longer square Pluto, as of a day earlier). It's angularities include:

p. Asc conj. t. Neptune (0°56'), sq. s. Saturn (0°46') - midpoint 0°05'
p. MC conj. s. Venus (0°23')
p. EP op. t. Venus (1°22')

A side issue is that Capsolar Mars was exactly on EP at the moment of the blast. I've only recently noticed that this is a very common pattern - that Capsolar planets are "permanent" fixtures of the year and, when they hit the angles every day, are felt strongly. Check all the fires in SMA and you will see that where the event chart did not have an angular Mars or something equally relevant, it nearly always had Capsolar angular within a degree or so in the event chart.

The CanQ was also volatile. Transiting Sun kept the solar theme going, conjoining CanQ Asc (0°32'), a contact that likely lasted for weeks; but, for the bombing, CanQ IC hit Cansolar Mars (0°54').
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Posted Sun Aug 21, 2016 3:36 pm by Danica
Jim Eshelman wrote:
So far, 51 have died and 69 others were injured by a suicide bomb that went off at a Kurdish wedding in Turkey. August 20, 10:50 PM, in Gaziantep. ISIL militants are believed to be responsible.

The suicide bomber was between 12 and 14 years of age.

oh, man this is heartwrenching

Posted Mon Aug 22, 2016 7:49 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Friday 9 AM August 19, 2016, Bozeman MT, 183 miles of the Yellowstone River was shut down to swimmers, boaters, fishers, waders, tubers, floaters and everybody else. A microscopic parasite related to jellyfish has been transported from somewhere in Canada to the Yellowstone, where it has killed over 2000 mountain whitefish, with an estimated tens of thousands affected, and is beginning to kill Rainbow and Cutthroat Trout. The shutdown is an attempt to protect other rivers from being infected. It's not known how long the shut down will last, but this is very serious.

The announcement was posted about 9 AM and there was a press conference beginning at 11 AM.
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Posted Mon Aug 22, 2016 8:38 pm by Jim Eshelman
This is very interesting. I've been interested in finding disease outbreaks, infestations, and the like - I'd expect things like Mars-Neptune - and the events are hard to come by.

This could, of course, be a pure Washington event - all federal and stuff - but let's check it for Bozeman.

Capsolar is dormant. The CANSOLAR, in addition to the universal Moon-Jupiter square, is primarily solar, with Sun 0°54' from Descendant (the government got involved), plus a foreground mundane square of Mars to Mercury-Venus.

With the CAPLUNAR, we started to get some interesting stuff!

Moon-Uranus sq. (0°35')
Venus on WP (0°36'), on Dsc (5°21')
Sun on Dsc (3°32')
Neptune on Asc (4°12')
Mercury on Dsc (5°21')
-- Mercury-Venus conj. (0°00' in mundo)
-- Mercury-Neptune op. (1°09' in mundo)
-- Venus-Neptune op. (1°09' in mundo)
Jupiter on Dsc (9°30')
-- Sun/Neptune on horizon (0°20')
-- Sun/Venus on Dsc (0°54')
-- Sun/Mercury on Dsc (0°55')

This is a very pointed example of Mercury-Venus at work - the mundane aspect is 0°00', and the Cansolar's Mercury-Venus is currently progressed to a 0°00' orb, so I think this has to be a key example of the aspect somehow. The safety measure? Something else? I plan to watch the next couple of weeks to see just what new key concepts I can find about Mercury-Venus aspects, which I think have more to them than we've historically thought.

The new Arilunar is dormant. Had we counted it, the main feature would have been a rising Sun. This is clearly a case of, "the government came to town." All we get is a partile universal Moon-Uranus conjunction.

For the DAY, The CapQ has MC opposite Pluto and square the Moon-Uranus conjunction that is now 0°08'. "Shakeup and a shocker" describes these. I get at least a taste of my Mars-Neptune wish, because Mars is half a degree from square Capsolar Neptune, which somewhat rises in the Capsolar for Bozeman; but Mars isn't foreground or angular, so I don't think I should count it.

The CanQ is curious, in the sense that I don't know what to make of it: CanQ Moon is 17' from quotidian MC at 9 AM, with transiting Moon crossing CanQ Ascendant. I'm tempted to note that the progressed Moon (exactly culminating in the quotidian) is at 27° Scorpio, conjunct Lesath, the sting of the Scorpion, which seems to me related to this particular jellyfish-like parasite (I'm thinking out loud, not uttering astrological truth).

Posted Mon Aug 22, 2016 9:06 pm by Jim Eshelman
Nobody died, but 13 people were hurt in a 27-vehicle pileup August 21, 5:00 PM, northwest of Atlanta. (A brief, severe storm was the troublemaker, according to authorities.) I think it's close enough to Atlanta to use that as a location.

This may be an entirely local event, but I thought it worth a look, at least for the daily factors.

And, in fact, that's where we find it: CapQ Asc conjoins ingress Mars (along with the 10' Moon-Uranus progressed conjunction). Big collision accident sponsored by freaky storm indeed! The CanQ added Pluto on MC. But also transiting Mars and Saturn squared Atlanta's Cansolar Ascendant, which is kind of a big deal aspect for the area!

12°04' Sco t. Mars
13°17' Aqu Cansolar Asc
14°50' Sco t. Saturn

Mars/Saturn midpoint is 13°27' Scorpio.

Posted Tue Aug 23, 2016 10:47 pm by Jim Eshelman
A 6.2 quake hit near Norcia, Italy, August 24, 2016. 1:36:33 UT, 42N42'50", 13E10'19". Almost an hour later, a 5.5m quake hit essentially the same place.

I've moved the prior write-up to here, and will update and expand it there:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1054

Posted Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:53 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
I've been meaning to post this since I saw it in the Atlantic a couple days ago but needed a time.
August 22, 2016, Port Huron, MI at 1 PM, several thousand people using plastic blow up rafts, inner tubes, coolers, life jackets and so on got into the water at Lighthouse Beach, intending to float down the St. Clair River to Chrysler Beach in Marysville, MI.

The wind kicked up, the rain started, and between 1500 and 2000 of them were blown the opposite direction and ended up either being fished out of the water by the Canadian coast guard or beaching on the beach in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. They were loaded on buses and sent back across the river to Port Huron. The last bikini clad American was loaded up about 7:30 PM for the trip back.

No lives were lost. The American coast guard was busy further down the river keeping the shipping lanes shut down so nobody got run over by a barge and fishing floaters with hypothermia out of the river. Everybody appears to be accounted for. Nobody arrested, and only a few parking tickets were issued.

Posted Fri Aug 26, 2016 9:57 am by Jim Eshelman
Two nuns were murdered in Lexington, MS. I don't have a lot of details - they were found stabbed to death yesterday, August 25. They didn't make a morning appointment. Presumably they were killed sometime during the night.

This is a particularly suffering-prone part of the country right now, since the CANSOLAR has Saturn right on MC, square Neptune, and over the last couple of days the transiting Mars-Saturn conjunction (square Neptune) has been within orb of Lexington's Cansolar MC.

Depending on exactly when this occurred, I think CapQ Ascendant was conjunct Capsolar Mars to nail the couple of day window.

NOTE: Apparently this was in nearby Durant, not in Lexington. I don't think this affects anything said above.

Posted Fri Aug 26, 2016 1:35 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
A man was yelling and gesticulating in the parking garage at Eppley Airport in Omaha about 9:30 PM last night, Aug 5, 2016. When police approached, he ran through the parking garage, scaled a barbed wire fence into the runway area, found a truck left running and started driving toward the runways. Cut off by airport security, he turned and ran right into the front landing gear of a SouthWest jet as passengers were getting off the plane. Plane was badly damaged. Truck was wrecked. Man is in custody, but isn't being identified, which is unusual around here.

Barbed wire is not meant to keep people out, and doesn't do a good job if used for that purpose. Since cows don't climb, twenty foot high fences of barbed wire are pretty much useless for anything. I would think people here would already know that.
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Posted Fri Aug 26, 2016 3:37 pm by Jim Eshelman
Yeah, you'd think Omaha folks' understand "bob wire."

Omaha, of course, is in that one stretch that the Arilunar paints with a mean brush this week. And the CapQ MC was within 2° of square CapQ Mars (added to the universal progressed Moon-Uranus conjunction). Add transiting Mercury on the local Capsolar Descendant for a transportation theme (or at least a headline), and CanQ Ascendant on transiting Uranus.

Posted Mon Aug 29, 2016 9:35 am by Jim Eshelman
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff''s impeachment trial begins today. This should take a few weeks. She's widely expected to lose.

Uranus is known to show for various forms of change of leadership, including the removal of a nation's leader. The CANSOLAR has a partile (32') Sun-Uranus square with Uranus 0°47' from EP. Also foreground are Sun and Pluto (and there is the universal Moon-Jupiter square).

The Caplunar is dormant, though it has a 0°35' universal Moon-Uranus square. Ditto the Canlunar and the last Arilunar. So we're still stitting under the August 8 LIBLUNAR with [/PLUTO RISING 0°01 and Moon opposite Uranus (0°30').
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Posted Wed Aug 31, 2016 12:20 pm by Jim Eshelman
Well, this happened faster than they predicted. Still under the same ingresses as above.

Posted Mon Aug 29, 2016 9:41 am by Jim Eshelman
I'd missed this event until this morning's news: In Chicago, a sports celebrity's cousin was caught in gun crossfire and killed on Friday afternoon (26th) - while pushing her 3-week-old infant in a stroller. (The child is uninjured except, y'know, for losing its mother.) Two men have been arrested.

This is a bloody year for Chicago, With four people killed there by gunfire this last weekend, the annual tally is 455 thus far.

The CAPSOLAR has Uranus rising and Pluto square Ascendant (and they square each other). The CANSOLAR has Neptune on EP (1°09'), along with the universal Moon-Jupiter square. The CAPLUNAR repeats Pluto square Asc (0°07'), plus the Moon-Uranus square.

The ARILUNAR actually seems nice at first, with Venus 0°02' from Ascendant; but this is probably one of those thematic placements of Venus that reflects things like "beloved mother in the news" etc. The Arilunar also has a 0°01' Moon-Uranus mundane conjunction, a 0°05' (distantly) foreground Saturn-Neptune square, and a rising Mercury-Jupiter conjunction.

And yes, the CAPSOLAR QUOTIDIAN had CapQ Mars conjunct Ascendant Friday afternoon (but not for the weekend), while transiting Mars took over, conjoining Chicago's Cansolar MC during the weekend.

Posted Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:04 am by Jim Eshelman
Japan has been hit by three major storms within the last week, with the current one being a typhoon bearing down on it today.

The CANSOLAR has the Sun-Uranus square on the angles. This is not exactly representative of a storm, but is disruptive. My standard interpretation for Sun-Uranus in mundane astrology focusses on the psychological (if not physical) startling and explosive.

Both the Cansolar and Caplunar have Sun on MC. This is rather usual in any collection of hurricane charts I've seen, and probably reflects the considerable amount of government intervention after the fact.

The new Canlunar drops Pluto on IC for Tokyo.

Posted Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:29 pm by Jim Eshelman
I'd completely missed that, last week, Kansas City, MO had three days of fierce downpour which led to flooding "late Friday night." I don't think anybody died, but emergency services had to perform several rescues in KC.

This seems to have been a short-term affair, and so we would expect some difference from, say, the recent prolonged Louisiana flooding. In fact, the main lead-in was the Arilunar as Week chart, with Neptune < 2° from Westpoint, closely square the mire more widely foreground Mars-Saturn conjunction. In fact, in the mundoscope, their aspect proximity is quite obvious:

+3°49' Mars (IC)
+3°43' Neptune (Dsc)
+2°17' Saturn (IC)

Add the Moon-Uranus conjunction (flash floods) which mundanely was 0°18'; and there's just enough Venus in the wider foreground to account for the rain itself.

BTW, this event points out a weakness in my monthly prediction methods: The angular planet was on Westpoint. I don't have a way to map Eastpoint-Westpoint lines, so I always miss them. I'd identified this Mars-Saturn-Neptune for farther west, but not for this specific patch of the country. The SMA technique worked quite exactly, I just didn't use it to best effect.

For the flood date, CapQ Ascendant had just moved into orb of ingress Mars - this CapQ Asc to Mars hit a lot of places for a lot of events in the central part of the country the last few days. And we're still in the CapQ Moon-Uranus conjunction (not only 0°09' separate). CanQ added MC hitting Pluto.

Posted Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:59 am by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Trump is going to visit the Mexican president in Mexico, against State Dept advice.

They can't vote for him, they can't win against him, so the Republicans have decided to try to martyr him?
I mean I know the man's insane but I thought his kids had some grasp of reality.

Look out Mexico. No matter how this turns out for the rest of us, it's going to come out bad for Mexico.

Posted Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:57 am by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Greenville SC - Beginning August 21, 2016 after dark, but probably before 10 PM, there were numerous sitings of clowns in the woods behind a housing complex made by both children and adults. A photo was taken on the29th and posted to twitter @ 7:14 PM. The sheriff's dept issued warnings to parents to keep their children in after dark.
The clowns may or may not be carrying green lasar lights, and may or may not have attempted to lure children to a vacant house with "large amounts" of money. There was no sign of breakin or recent use when the sheriff's dept checked the house.