Testing 13 Coal Mine Disasters
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 12:14 pm
In his original 1957 report on Sidereal mundane astrology, "Unveiling a New Tool," Bradley gave a demonstration of how each week's lunar ingresses stood on their own and didn't need the Capsolar to back them up. (We've confirmed this in our own work: Caplunars clearly have the longer reach, covering the whole four weeks, but weekly lunar ingresses actually score higher than the monthly chart.)
For this demonstration, he reported on one of his sub-studies involving coal mines. From a list of the "126 worst coal mine disasters in U.S. history" (based on a publication from the federal Bureau of Mines), he found that 14 of them had Saturn within 100' (1°40') of an angle (horizon or meridian), measuring strictly by ecliptical longitude (instead of calculating the mundane positions: with Saturn, there is usually little difference). This 14 examples out of 126 may not sound like much if you're trying to predict coal mine vulnerability, but it's really quite impressive! As he already calculated for us, slightly about 5 of the disasters, purely by chance, would be expected to have Saturn this close: 14 instances was 4.36 standard deviations above mean expectancy, which is just a little shy of the 100,000-t0-1 level against chance occurrence.
He published the available particulars of these 14 instances, which I reproduce here:
By itself, this is quite a significant findings. However, when I did my own (much smaller) study of mundane charts for the very worst coalmine disasters in world history, Saturn (though a persistent presence) was a mediocre factor in the overall planetary involvement - not meaning it was insignificantly present, but that it was somewhere in the middle of the list of most common planetary angularities. Even if we limit ourselves to all lunar ingresses, Neptune and Pluto were easily the most commonly angular.
Possibly this is due to the much smaller list I had, limiting myself to the single worst in various categories. Therefore, I'm using the above list to run some additional tests. I don't have access to the original list of 126, but I thought I'd take these 14 charts - already identified as more pronouncedly Saturnian events by one criterion - and see what else I could see.
In my SMA collection, taking angularities across all active SMA charts for each event, Mars and Uranus emerge as the most active planets, with a heavy preference for Mars. Moon-Mars and Moon-Pluto are most angular as well. There are other subtleties, such as Saturn being a persistent presence, and Venus (and to a lesser extent Jupiter) being angular if afflicted. Mars was especially the most common angular planet for the daily timing (quotidian angles or crossing solar ingress angles by transit).
I will now take the above 14 events and calculate the Caplunar (to compare against the weekly charts already catalogued); the weekly lunar (to compare mundane position angularity to the ecliptical ones already reported); and daily timing of transits to the Capsolar and CapQ angles (using noon on the event date). We'll miss some stuff, because I'm not bothering with the Cansolar as well (anyone is welcome to do that and add it if you wish), but probably will learn some things along the way.
For this demonstration, he reported on one of his sub-studies involving coal mines. From a list of the "126 worst coal mine disasters in U.S. history" (based on a publication from the federal Bureau of Mines), he found that 14 of them had Saturn within 100' (1°40') of an angle (horizon or meridian), measuring strictly by ecliptical longitude (instead of calculating the mundane positions: with Saturn, there is usually little difference). This 14 examples out of 126 may not sound like much if you're trying to predict coal mine vulnerability, but it's really quite impressive! As he already calculated for us, slightly about 5 of the disasters, purely by chance, would be expected to have Saturn this close: 14 instances was 4.36 standard deviations above mean expectancy, which is just a little shy of the 100,000-t0-1 level against chance occurrence.
He published the available particulars of these 14 instances, which I reproduce here:
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Lunar Ingresses and Fourteen Coal Mine Disasters
Event Date Mine Site Deaths Ingress Saturn’ Position
May 23, 1899 Cumnock, N.C. 39 Libra 1°15' West of M.C.
May 27, 1901 Dayton, Tenn. 20 Cancer 0°04' Below ASC.
July 10, 1902 Johnstown, Pa. 112 Cancer 0°46' West of M.C.
Feb. 20, 1905 Virginia City, Ala. 108 Cancer 1°35' East of I.C.
Mar. 18, 1905 Red Ash, Va. 24 Cancer 0°33' West of M.C.
Jan. 4, 1906 Coaldale, W. Va. 22 Aries 1°26' Below ASC.
Jan. 29, 1907 Stuart, Va. 84 Cancer 1°30' East of I.C.
Dec. 1, 1907 Fayette City, Pa. 34 Libra 0°56' East of M.C.
Dec. 6, 1907 Monongah, W. Va. 361 Libra 1°21' East of M.C.
Jan. 10, 1909 Ziegler, Ill. 26 Cancer 0°42' Under DESC.
Mar. 20, 1912 McCurtain, Okla. 73 Aries 1°26' West of M.C.
Mar. 28, 1924 Yukon, W. Va. 24 Capricorn 0°47' Above ASC.
Mar. 16,1940 St. Clairsville, O. 72 Aries 0°40' Above DESC.
Dec. 26, 1945 Pineville, Ky. 24 Cancer 1°40' Below ASC.Possibly this is due to the much smaller list I had, limiting myself to the single worst in various categories. Therefore, I'm using the above list to run some additional tests. I don't have access to the original list of 126, but I thought I'd take these 14 charts - already identified as more pronouncedly Saturnian events by one criterion - and see what else I could see.
In my SMA collection, taking angularities across all active SMA charts for each event, Mars and Uranus emerge as the most active planets, with a heavy preference for Mars. Moon-Mars and Moon-Pluto are most angular as well. There are other subtleties, such as Saturn being a persistent presence, and Venus (and to a lesser extent Jupiter) being angular if afflicted. Mars was especially the most common angular planet for the daily timing (quotidian angles or crossing solar ingress angles by transit).
I will now take the above 14 events and calculate the Caplunar (to compare against the weekly charts already catalogued); the weekly lunar (to compare mundane position angularity to the ecliptical ones already reported); and daily timing of transits to the Capsolar and CapQ angles (using noon on the event date). We'll miss some stuff, because I'm not bothering with the Cansolar as well (anyone is welcome to do that and add it if you wish), but probably will learn some things along the way.