Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

...our notes regularly pointed out a peculiar sensitivity of the 23rd or 24th degrees of the [Tropical] signs, or, simply, the areas known to contain the dividing lines between the [Sidereal] constellations. The best example we observed was the fact that Mars was stationary around the 24th degree of the [Tropical] sign Capricorn during much of August 1939.

But even this astonishing situation is not the whole story inasmuch as there had been a conjunction of the Moon and Mars within a degree of being exact [1°03' by today's calculations] at the time of the Sun's ingress of sidereal Capricorn earlier that year. And when one realizes that in the sidereal Cancer ingress, taking place in July 1939, there was a close opposition of the Moon and Mars [0°06'], the picture becomes fabulous...

...we found that the Moon's entries into the cardinal constellations (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) produced charts which were often uncanny in their symbolic description of mundane affairs of the periods and places for which they were calculated. After having accumulated quite a batch of experimental lunar ingress maps, for momentuous events of every kind ranging from tornadoes to assassinations, from conflagrations to royal weddings, we could see that only a minor displacement [from the then-presumed boundaries of the zodiac) of a few minutes of arc in the Moon's longitude would yield awesomely perfect angular contacts in many cases, and improve the "symbolic pictures" in many other instances.

A correction was readily arrived at: all we had to do was push the Moon back about six minutes of arc, and, behold, the shoe immediately fitted. We've worn it comfortably ever since.

The clincher in making this discovery was the remarkable similarity between the lunar Capricorn ingresses covering the dates and places of the two most devastating volcanic eruptions of modern times.

Angular cusps of the solar ingresses are very sensitive to malefic transits, as witness their synchronization with tragic happenings. Following this cue to correct our charts [after the initial 6' correction required by the lunar ingresses]..., we found from inspection of ephemeris positions for the hours of 27 major catastrophes of the past that an average displacement of ten minutes of time would yield the desired correction. But when it became conspicuous that the dating of events was a matter of progression via the "Quotidian rate," we were provided with a means to pinpoint [exact timing]... This process soon led to the realization that only a two-minute difference sufficed. In other words, only a 5" correction of the [previously obtained tentative value] was called for.

By rights, all mundane charts should be cast in the form of "mundoscopes" ...

Early in our evaluations of a wide variety of charts we had noticed a persistent tendency for the Capricorn and Cancer lunar ingresses to carry more weight than the Aries and Libra charts. Getting down to brass tactics on this cue, we decided to calculate the four preceding ingresses for each date and place at which something of great moment had occurred. This confirmed the suspicion that the Capricorn and Cancer charts were stronger than the other two. Then a process of separation proved that the Capricorn charts had it all over the Cancer charts, implying that the Capricorn ingress stands out as a "master chart" for the whole year. It is as though the other ingresses are clinchers and timers [emphasis added], helping to narrow down the periods in which a series of stresses are most likely to precipitate as the event itself. Moreover, the cusps of the Capricorn charts are painfully sensitive to subsequent transits, often dating exactly the major event of the period in question. A rough rule we have derived in accord with the facts as we have found them is that there is a 4-1-2-1 ratio involved in estimating the power of the four cardinal points, Capricorn being twice as strong as Cancer and Cancer being about twice as significant as Aries and Libra.

Although weekly "stepping up" is characteristic of lunars, as witness the August 1939 series, do not get the impression that a single chart for a given week is not wholly self-contained, for there is sufficient proof that each wheel is radical in itself [emphasis added]. Our mass of data suggests that it is always worthwhile, in fact, advisable, to study a given event in the light of the "chain of charts" leading up to it, with emphasis on the Capricorn and Cancer charts, in that order. Still, the immediate lunar is usually so lucid, alone considered, that prior links in the chain may be thought of as auxiliaries or backdrops.

Using the preceding lunar ingress no matter which cardinal point happened to be involved, a simple tally shows that 14 of the 126 mine disasters occurred with Saturn within 1°40' of the angular cusp by straight ecliptic reckoning. This means that if astrological influences are a grand delusion, according to probability theory there should be 4.71, or close to 5, rather than 14 of the 126 charts with Saturn so precariously mounted in the wheels. Since the standard deviation is 2.13 and the excess over mean expectancy is 9.29, the test ratio amounts to a boisterous 4.36, much too big to be dismissed as a mere coincident. Scientifically, a ratio only half this size would be enough to give a skeptic pause, since a ratio of 3.89 marks the 10,000 to 1 level of significance while 4.42 means that the odds are 100,000 to 1 against chance being an explanation for the high number. As our actual ratio is very close to the 100,000 to 1 level, it is safe to declare that the weekly Moon charts are radical in themselves.

One has only to compute the ingress figures for such whopping big events as the Halifax explosion, the Texas City disaster, the Chicago fire, and the San Francisco catastrophe, to appreciate the clarity and unassailability of the sidereal system. Even more conclusive than single examples, of course, are groups of charts having something in common, such as a series we have compiled of the 40 worst railroad wrecks in our nation's history, or another, that of the most tragic fires on record... In actual practice, the play of the malefics typifies unfortunate events of any kind and the exercising of the benefics is typical of welcome developments, so the arenas of planetary action are really quite simple to identify.

"Historical worsts" are clearly our best bets, so we will by-pass examples of happier events even though it is a temptation to exhibit such superb charts as the Capricorn entry of November 9, 1918, 7:36 PM GMT, which draped Jupiter, trine the Sun and Venus, across the horizon of the Western Front.

Mercury prominent and afflicted is typical of travel tragedies of all kinds.

Our collection of sidereal ingress charts for "worst fires" has Mars conjunct an angle so often that we are easily convinced that this discovery will rapidly become one of the basic tools of Mundane Astrology.

The secret of actual dating of events lies in the Sun's Capricorn ingress. Lucid as the lunars usually are by themselves, they cannot hold a candle to the effectiveness of the solar ingresses, as we shall prove.

The [Capsolar], endless data proves to our astonishment, is the master chart of the entire year, just as the Caplunar is a master chart for the whole sidereal month. Why this should be so we do not know, but the facts are incontestable and must be reported, and acted upon, without adulteration by preconceptions we might have had. We are obligated to believe an impressive parade of prof that, so far as mundane affairs are concerned, the Capricorn ingresses wield the baton. [...]

What is surely one of the most incredible coincidences in astrological history is the situation involving the placements of Saturn in the Capricorn charts for the Krakatau and Mont Pelée catastrophes... At the very minute of the Moon's entry into sidereal Capricorn in both cases, Saturn was exactly on the western horizon of the volcanoes to the exact minute of arc. But the coincidence does not end there. The other half of the story is the Sun's Capricorn ingress charts for the years in question. Transiting Saturn, on the very dates of the eruptions, was on the angular cusp in the Capsolar maps - on the Ascendant of Mont Pelée and on the Midheaven of Krakatau! [sic] This is amazing only because such wonderful astrological performance is not commonly met with in systems previously used.

...Saturn indeed denotes calamity, both the Solar and Lunar ingresses for calamitous events of all kinds testifying to this truth.

The bitter cold on the morning... was terrible even for a Nova Scotia winter. Out in the Narrows, a waterway linking Halifax Harbor and Bedford Basin, a freighter rammed into a munitions laden vessel at approximately 8:30 AM Atlantic Standard Time. Tanks of benzine stowed on the main deck of the Mont Blanc caught fire. At just 9:06 AM, occurred one of the worst man-blamed disasters on record. The gigantic explosion of the munitions ship killed a total of 1,2666 people on shore, injured more than 6,000, and left 25,000 homeless in frigid weather.

The Halifax disaster would have been worth citing had Saturn been a full five or even more degrees from the Caplunar Midheaven. But as you can see, the meridian conjunction was exact.

There's more to the Halifax story story than this Moon ingress, for the Solar chart [Capsolar, 1/14/17] is also eloquent. On the day of the disaster the transiting Moon was conjunct Mars in the Capsolar Midheaven, both square the transiting Sun...

...the progressed Capsolar is one of the many examples of the way in which the quotidian rate of progression accurately dates the fulfillment of a radical indication. At the Capricorn ingress, Mars at 10°10' Capricorn opposed Neptune at 10°11' Cancer. On December 6th, almost eleven months later, progression brought this opposition to alignment with the meridian of Halifax itself With the Caplunar so perilous at the same time, "all hell broke loose."

The Sun's entry into any of the four cardinal constellations produces a radical chart, but it appears that only the Capsolar wheel can be progressed. [This "only" view was modified later - JAE.] The reader will recall the rough rule we framed... to the effect that there seems to be a 4-1-2-1 ratio in the relative strengths of the four cardinal points, Capricorn being twice as potent as Cancer and Cancer having twice the impact of Aries and Libra. Moreover, we are certain that each chart is influential for the full cycle it inaugurates. This need not be viewed as a complication so far as the art of delineation is concerned, for we have reason to believe that for general purposes the work involved in religiously casting all possible charts in a sequence is often more bother than it is worth. Having all the minor charts available for detailed reference is, of course, desirable in every instance, and far be it from us to encourage slothfulness in study habits....

The Capricorn charts stand out head and shoulders over the others. For example, the horrible Ohio prison fire of 1930 was very clearly depicted in every ingress chart applying to the date and and locality, but the Capsolar chart does it so spectacularly, and dates the tragedy so exactly, the other maps seem to be but verification of the pattern.

Experiment has shown this to be the usual state of affairs so that the degree of importance a student can attach to the individual links in the "chain of charts" is a matter of scholarship and thoroughness of approach.

The angular cusps of the Sun's Cancer ingress appear to be almost as sensitive to transits as the angles of the Capsolar chart, particularly where natural disasters, earthquakes, tidal waves, tornadoes, and the like, are concerned. But only the Capricorn charts are "progressable," or at least that is what we have concluded thus far in our study. Any chart that is radical remains sensitive to transiting influences until its cycle elapses. Overshadowing and overwhelming all the "static radicals," however, is the Capricorn ingress with its ceaseless dynamics.

In the lunar ingresses for disastrous fires..., if Mars is not in the immediate foreground, chances are you'll find it exactly [square the Ascendant]. For events of colossal consequences like seismic upheavals, Saturn is apt to be exactly square the Meridian if it is not conjunct an angular cusp itself.

The actual date of an event is predetermined by the progression of the Capsolar chart via the quotidian rate... Outstanding events are mirrored in several ways, however, and it is often a question as to what particular configuration in a chorus of possbibilities actually screamed the loudest.

...every chart concerned is pregnant with significance, and could be offered as the cause of the episode.

Every chart pertinent to this event glitters with appropriate indications of the detonation and it would have been theoretically possible to have predicted a crisis of malefic influences for the New York area by any of a number of ways.

Most events are precipitated by a similar unison of forces. Once in a while, however, you'll find what apparently is an astrological lone wolf - a sigle, acutely powerful circumstance synchronizing with a particular happening. A good example of "lonewolfery" of this type is the way in which Mars, quite free of qualifying or reinforcing aspects, will transit an anglar cusp for a locality and give every fireman in town a good workout. It akes more than this to provoke an event of the first magnitude, however.

Naturally, in astrology a single factor is never sufficient by itself to spark a major event - hence the need for continous research, for continuous sorting, softing, weighing, and testing of all possible facdtors until the "certainties" come to light as codified precepts. In the study of earthquakes, the role of Saturn is unquestionable, a certainty of the first order. Uranus and Pluto also appear to puyll rank on the other planets where seismic disturbances are concerned, and we have many lunar ingress charts for earthquakes shoing Mars on an angle. The part played by Mars is probably more scenic than germane but we cannot besure until research isolates its chief duties in this regard. Mars symbolizes fire, fright, and pain, or in one word from the purely humanized point of view, adrenalin.

Astrologically it was a Uranian affair through ahd through, for Uranus was exactly on the Descendant of the Caplunar chart for the period, exactly on the Ascendant of the Cansolar chart for the year, exactly square the Midheaven of the Capsolar chart for the year, and was exactly on the Nadir of the quotidian for the day of the event itself - in short, as astonishing a display of Uranian contacts as one could ever run across. Just the same, Saturn was really the ringmaster of the Uranian circus, transiting at the Nadir of the preceding Cancer ingress.

...a similar setup is known to have prevailed where other West Coast earthquakes were concerned. In fact, Southern California's two worst earthquakes of modern times... synchronized with identifal performances of Saturn and Uranus.

Uranus as usual was in the immediate foreground of California's Caplunar, with Mars in the exact degree of San Francisco's Ascendant where it guaranteed an overproduction of adrenalin in the population. The immediate Lunar ingress, however, spelled it out in the unmistakable language of astrology at its simplest: Saturn was exactly conjunct the Nadir [IC] of the great San Andreas fault. And what is more, the quotidian for the San Francisco area that day had Pluto on an angule in mundo, repeating a feature of the quotidian of the 1906 shock!

The transit of Mars in the immediate foreground of the Capsolar quotidian is undoubtedly one of the chief indicators of disasters, particularly of the fiery and explosive type. The record of past performance by rthis one configuration is so amzing that henceforth mundane forecasts published for advance periods will hardly be complete without a description of the geographical area to be affected by such influences. Our first three illustrations [above] ... were quotidians for three of the worst public tragedies in modern history, viz.. the Bombay waterfront holocaust of 1944, the Ohio prison fire of 1930, and the Texas school disaster of 1937. Because of the closeness of Mars to an angular point in each of these cases, the three examples alone would be justification for listing the circumstances as another astrological certainty.

Subsequently, for most localities, Mars can make only two contacts with the anglular cusps in a year's time. In some regions, it is possible to have three actual contacts with the angles before the sidereal year expires. When Mars is within orb of such cuspal conjunctions, the general area is dangerously exposed to the likelihood of serious fires and appalling public tragedies. The closer the contact, the greater the danger. And if malefics hound the angles of the current Lunar ingress figures, or the quotidian transit is reinforcedby a similar adverse pattern in the static framework of the Solar ingresses, the possibility of a conflagration of some sort becomes a virtual inevitability.

The answer is an unqualified, resounding Yes.

The Sun is extremely emblematic of authority and political figureheads. So it is no surprise that Sun-Saturn angular formations in the ingresses, often supported by an ominous Neptune, are characteristic of charts spanning periods marked by the deaths of national leaders. It is startling to observe how effectively the planet Mars becomes intertwined in the pattern in cases of assassinations as contrasted with natural demise.

In winding this report up, the thought also occurs that a most effective means of using the Sidereal charats as predictive instruments for published mundane forecasts would be through simplified geographical maps showing the zones on the Earth's surface where planetary impulses are heavily concentrated during any given period. For the ingresses themselves as radical epochs, the zones of such maps would be "fixed" for the period in question. Special maps forcontinental or national regions could easily be designed so that the paths of moving bodies, particularly that of transiting Mars in relation to the quotidian angles, can be represented on a time scale given the dates when the planet passes over the hrizons and meridians of critics and places of particular interest like fault lines and defense installations!

SteveS wrote:The more I absorb Bradley’s ‘Unveiling a New Tool’ and Jim’s mundane forum interpretations with this tool, the more I realize we astrologers are looking at a profound mundane tool; which, for the first time in our modern astrological history allows our mind to see Ancient Egypt’s Maxim in Hermetic Philosophy at work:

“As Above, So Below”

It is an astrological honor and privilege for me to be allowed a part of this sight.

DDonovanKinsolving wrote:

Jim Eshelman wrote:

Bradley wrote:... the Manila earthquake (6/3/1868, 10,000 dead) had Saturn 0°08' from the MC

I have had cause to go back and examine this instance. The date is a misprint; the quake was 6/3/1863, and I have discovered a source that puts it at 11:20 UT.

http://earthquakes.findthebest.com/l/19 ... al-Bulacan

As we can see, Bradley was correct about transiting Saturn being on the MC of the Capsolar Q2. Using modern information, it's not as precise as Bradley had it, but very tolerable. The epicenter can only be regarded as approximate.



-Derek

SteveS wrote:Jim, when you introduced Bradley’s teaching for this thread, my D. Solar Arc Uranus was partile cnj my Natal MC. My Natal partile Sun 90 Uranus is a life full of discoveries and this Bradley’s new tool is indeed a very important astrological discovery in my life. Thank you again for your teachings.