Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús fire

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Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús fire

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December 8, 1863, about 7:00 PM LMT, Santiago, Chile, 33S26'18'', 70W39'10''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of ... mpany_Fire
Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús (Church of the Companions of Jesus)

From
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/dea ... story.html
The earliest major single building fire in history, and one that killed over 2,500 people, was in the city of Santiago, Chile in 1863. The fateful day was the 8th of December of that same year when this Jesuit church was set on fire. During this night of religious festivities, the gas lamps and oil lamps in the altar caused a fire. The veils that decorated the church caught fire, and the blaze rapidly moved to the wooden roof, and soon was seen engulfing the entire church in no time. The people were left only the main entrance as an exit, thereby causing a stampede-like situation and trapping everyone inside the inferno.
This was during the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a festival employing a vast number of candles and oil lamps. Wind blew the doors open and flew over candles, starting the fire. New York Times six weeks later gave the time as "a few minutes before 7 PM," but sunset was 7:01 PM, a time of shifting wind conditions and perhaps timely for the start of a church festival; this was also the time that Neptune crossed MC, so I'm inclined just to use straight-up 7:00 PM (not that the exact time matters much to us). Between 2,000 and 3,000 people died.

Year: Capsolar {+3}
Mars on IC 1°15'
Mercury on Asc 2°40'
Moon on MC 2°46'
Venus sq. MC 0°57'
Pluto sq. Asc 1°26'
Jupiter more widely foreground
-- Moon-Mercury sq. 0°06' in mundo
-- Moon-Mars op. 0°28'
-- Moon-Jupiter conj. 0°39' in mundo
-- Mercury-Jupiter sq. 0°45' in mundo
-- Mercury-Mars sq. 1°24' in mundo
-- Venus-Mars sq. 1°51'
-- Mars-Jupiter op. 2°10' in mundo
-- Mars-Uranus sq. 2°14' PVP
-- Moon-Venus sq. 2°19'

Bridge {+2}
t Pluto op. p Moon 11/6-12/23

Quarter: Libsolar (Dormant.)

Quarter: Cansolar {+1}
Moon on Dsc 0°22'
Sun on Dsc 1°44'
Jupiter & Neptune more widely foreground
-- Moon-Sun conj. 0°26'

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.)
(Nonetheless Moon and Saturn were closest to angles and expressive. There is even a wide Venus-Saturn mundane conjunction. The symbolism is all right but the chart isn't sufficiently vivid to kick off an event.)

Week: Liblunar {+1}
Pluto on Asc 0°38', sq. MC 0°39'
Jupiter on WP 0°29'
Moon-Venus conj. 3°40' in mundo

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 / -1 = +1}
t Pluto op. p Moon 0°14'
p MC sq. t Uranus 0°22'
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t Venus conj. s MC 0°16'
-- t Venus op. s Mars 0°38'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {+2}
p Asc op. t Mars 0°45'
Jim Eshelman
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