Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Thu May 07, 2015 1:38 am
It is a dark and stormy night. We've had a couple inches of rain and are expecting a couple more before the night is through. If we could just tip the country a bit we could cure the California drought with the water flooding the roads. There were tornadoes south of Lincoln. Rain-wrapped spinning up in the dark to tear apart homes and farms and businesses.

Forty years ago this evening, there was just one tornado. It was an EF-4 which touched down at 4:29 PM at 132nd and Harrison Streets (41.190682, -96.119556), then again just south of 84th and L Street (41.213317, -96.042362) bounced up and down a couple of times, hitting the Bergan Mercy Hospital(41.259627, -96.024026), then screamed its way directly north for 7 miles on 72nd street, tearing down buildings, throwing cars and their occupants into the air, crossing Dodge, the main east-west street, (41.259627, -96.024026) and finally petering out in Benson Park (41.297716, -96.021076) at 4:58PM, 29 minutes and 10 miles from where it first came down.

Only 3 people were killed, 133 hurt, 25 or so seriously. Three schools were hit, all had let out for the day an hour before. It did 1.1 billion dollars in damage, making it the most costly tornado to that date, and even now, it's the third costliest, behind the 1999 OKC F-5 and the 1979 Wichita Falls tornados.

Capsolar - Mars is more than a degree from the IC.
Cansolar - Mars 35' from the IC.
Libsolar - nothing angular, although Mars is only 30' from conjunct the Sun
Arisolar - Jupiter is 2:41 from the Dsc while Saturn is 2:27 from the MC. Their midpoint is 44:53.

Caplunar - chart of the week, the Sun is 3:52 from the MC.
Liblunar - nothing angular, although Jupiter is 1 degree from square Saturn, 3:07 from opposing Pluto.
Canlunar - Neptune 3:44 from the IC. Is that active?
Arilunar - Pluto 3:10 from the Ascendant, opposing Jupiter by 3:32, although Jupiter is 6 something from the Dsc.

CapQ - Mars 41' from the Asc.
CanQ - Jupiter 27' off square of the MC
LibQ - Pluto conjunct the MC by 22' (and trine Neptune by 24', which is square Jupiter 27')
AriQ - Sun 1:35 from conjunct the Dsc, Uranus 10' from square the MC, Jupiter 52' from opposing Pluto and the Moon square Mars 40'.

They're saying there were 16 tornados from this train of storms tonight, but it's over now. Unusual to have tornados in May.

Jim Eshelman wrote:

Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:...touched down at 4:29 PM...

Pluto was exactly rising at the minute this touched down.

Great example BTW. Tornados have been hard to study since they are rarely localized to one spot. Your examples have been great.

Capsolar - Mars is more than a degree from the IC.
Cansolar - Mars 35' from the IC. [...]
Arisolar - Jupiter is 2:41 from the Dsc while Saturn is 2:27 from the MC. Their midpoint is 44:53.

What a run - two Marses and a Saturn on the meridian. Of note with that Jupiter BTW is that it is partile opposite Pluto. Jupiter-Pluto aspects in the foreground are typical of disasters that have a "financial ruin" quality. In most respects, for natural disasters, a foreground Jupiter-Pluto aspect is roughly equivalent to Saturn (except it doesn't necessarily or inherently mean loss of life). Think of the Sumatra-Andeman earthquake, most of the "worst of their kind" coalmine disasters, last year's Serbian floods, the Great Fire of London, and a few other city-scope devastations as examples.

Caplunar - chart of the week, the Sun is 3:52 from the MC.
Liblunar - nothing angular, although Jupiter is 1 degree from square Saturn, 3:07 from opposing Pluto.
Canlunar - Neptune 3:44 from the IC. Is that active?
Arilunar - Pluto 3:10 from the Ascendant, opposing Jupiter by 3:32, although Jupiter is 6 something from the Dsc.

I'd consider all of these dormant except maybe the Arilunar. Especially in the absence of any other lunar ingress presence, that "just past 3°" Pluto probably should be counted. (3° is an arbitrary distance for a cut-off, but has proven to be essentially correct to determine whether an event is localized to one spot; but "just past" has shown strongly in other examples, so I certainly don't think of it as an absolute wall.) Once Pluto qualifies the ingress as active, we get to count all the foreground planets, which in this case means that, again, the Jupiter-Pluto opposition is a foreground aspect.

CapQ - Mars 41' from the Asc.

Wow. That nails it. (Especially after the run of tightly angular Mars placements in the solar ingresses.)

You also have t. Saturn and s. Saturn less than 1° from Westpoint in the CapQ.

Rats. Meant to mention the Jupiter-Pluto in the transits too. At least I got it into the Qs. Hard to think straight when it's past bedtime with thunder that shakes the whole house.

Everything I posted was from the mundoscopes, so I didn't check the East-West point axis, because I wasn't using RA. I would have if I'd decided to take the time to check the horoscope. Should the EP axis be checked in the mundoscope?

Jim Eshelman wrote:

No just by straight RA. U also want to keep an eye out for elliptical squares to MC & Asc.