UpStairs Lounge Fire

[Jim Eshelman]

June 24, 1973, 7:56 PM, New Orleans, LA (29N57'12'', 90W04'03'')

A gay bar called the UpStairs Lounge in the French Quarter in New Orleans, during a celebration at the end of Pride Weekend. 32 people died. The cause was evidently arson but officially remains undetermined, but is not believed to have been a hate crime. This was the deadliest attack known in a gay club in the U.S. until the Pulse Nightclub shootings.

The event chart alone is staggeringly intense. A 0°21' Moon-Uranus opposition is exactly aligned with the meridian, paran the setting Sun, all very tight. Sun, in turn, is ecliptically square a Mars-Pluto opposition. Just off the angles is a near-partile Saturn-Pluto mundane square. -- After that, the chart aren't spectacular except that the Day timing off the Capsolar is tragically exact.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.) Moon-Sun.

Year: Cansolar {0}
Mercury sq. Asc 0°15'
Neptune on EP 2°46'

Bridge {+2}
t Saturn op. Capsolar MC 0°32'
t Uranus conj. CanQ Moon 0°22'

Quarter: Arisolar {+2}
Uranus on Dsc 3°01'
Sun, Venus, Mercury, Pluto more widely angular
-- Sun-Pluto op. 0°33' in mundo
-- Venus-Pluto op. 1°06' in mundo
-- Sun-Venus conj. 1°12'
-- Sun-Uranus op. 1°40' in mundo
-- Uranus-Pluto conj. 2°13' in mundo
-- Venus-Uranus op. 3°18' in mundo
Moon-Saturn sq. 1°05'

Month/Week: Caplunar (Dormant.) Moon-Mercury.

Week: Liblunar {+1}
Uranus on EP 1°05'
Mercury & Venus more widely foreground

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transit {+2}
p MC op. t Neptune 0°28', s Neptune 0°52'
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t Saturn op. s MC 0°32'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {+1}
t Uranus conj. p Moon 0°22'
-- t Moon op. p Moon 0°43' (on meridian for fire start)