December 2020 events

[Jim Eshelman]

Starting the new month.

During the late Trump administration overall, and particularly under COVID-19's cloud, the type of events we've historically tracked - pinpoint events at a specific place and time with significant mass-mind impact, especially if easily categorized in one of the two dozen or so categories we've studied - just haven't been happening. Or, if happening, they haven't been getting reported very much (reducing the ability to say they were strong in mass mind).

Nonetheless, I'll keep a thread going in case something like this appears. We'll eventually swing back to a time when the news is filled with "worst of their kind" volcano eruptions, earthquakes, mine disasters, devastating hurricanes (we've had a few strong ones this year but rarely reported with the kind of precision of the past), floods, tornadoes, fires, bombs, transportation catastrophes, other explosions, impact events, deaths and comparable crises of leaders, major events in the British royal family, wars, end of wars, warlike assaults outside of war, uprisings of the people, mass murders, massacres, structural collapses, financial panics, and stunningly, unreasonably good events with outcome events. - For now, most of these have taken the year off.

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The National Weather Service issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” red-flag warning for the Santa Clarita Valley and the mountains in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, “Due to the combination of extremely dry vegetation, strong winds, and very dry air especially Thursday morning into Thursday afternoon.”

“If fire ignition occurs, conditions will be favorable for very rapid fire spread, long range spotting, and very extreme fire behavior which would threaten life and property,” forecasters warned. “The strong winds could also down trees and power lines.”

Red-flag warnings are in effect through Saturday farther south into San Diego County, where winds hit 90 mph in mountain locations Thursday morning.

Another Santa Ana wind event may affect Southern California early next week, too, the Weather Service said. In fact, there are signs of a strong offshore wind event with heightened fire danger in Northern California in the coming days, as well, which is extremely rare at this time of year. Normally, Northern California has received enough rain and mountain snow by this time of year to end the fire season, and would be moving into the heart of its rainy season.

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Driven by fierce Santa Ana winds, a house fire in California's Orange County that spread to nearby brush left two firefighters injured as it exploded to more than 11.25 square miles.

"There were two firefighters that were injured while battling the Bond Fire this afternoon," the Orange County Fire Authority said on Thursday on Twitter. "They were treated by firefighter paramedics and transported to a hospital for further care."

Firefighters responded to the blaze at about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday PST. By 1:50 a.m. Thursday, the fire had consumed more than 2 square miles and was threatening other homes, KNBC reported.

Red flag warnings were in place for much of Southern California because of the Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions.

Gusts over 75 mph were recorded in several locations Wednesday night, the National Weather Service reported.

[Jim Eshelman]

The LA area has Pluto on IC exactly in the Caplunar, but Jupiter nearby. It does, however, bring the worldwide Venus-Saturn 0°01' square into the wider foreground. (Note the three-week lockdown that begins tomorrow BTW.)

Then the Canlunar comes in tonight - similar symbolism - Pluto is most angular and is conjunct Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are more widely foreground. I'm a little more concerned about that Moon-Pluto opposition so close to the horizon with the other planets in play.

Jupiter does seem to stay in the mix, though.

This sounds like a "next 24 hours" kind of warning, but Cansolar Mars is just starting to move into orb of the CanQ MC. For, say, Newhall, the highest risk time is December 5-6 with ingress Mars-Pluto paran on the CanQ angles (but orbs of up to two days either side).

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Late Tuesday night (12-1-2020) to Wednesday morning (12-2-2020), rain and snow caused mudslides and evacuation in Haines, AK. Two people are missing although four others have been found. Residents have had to be rescued by boat as the roads are covered. The mudslides continue, and this morning, 12-7-2020, there's a layer of ice on everything.

Multiple precipitation records were broken last week across the region, including a single-day rainfall record from 1946, according to the National Weather Service in Juneau.

Forecasters reported 6.62 inches of rain in Haines last Tuesday.

[Jim Eshelman]

Late Tuesday night (12-1-2020) to Wednesday morning (12-2-2020), rain and snow caused mudslides and evacuation in Haines, AK. Two people are missing although four others have been found. Residents have had to be rescued by boat as the roads are covered. The mudslides continue, and this morning, 12-7-2020, there's a layer of ice on everything.

Multiple precipitation records were broken last week across the region, including a single-day rainfall record from 1946, according to the National Weather Service in Juneau.

Forecasters reported 6.62 inches of rain in Haines last Tuesday.

Haines was set for some precipitation extremes this year most likely. The CAPSOLAR had Jupiter 2°22' above Asc, Saturn 2°39' below (and closely conjunct Sun-Pluto in mundo - all very tight). The CANSOLAR went heavier on the negative with Saturn 1° from EP

With this setup, the lunar ingresses didn't particularly show precipitation [oh, wait: Moon-Jupiter aspects, which here was Moon-Jupiter-Pluto, is sufficient for higher precipitation most places] but they did show hurt. The Caplunar is dormant but the ARILUNAR has Mars 0°03' from IC, partile square Sun 0°52' from Ascendant.

The night of the deadly mudslides (using 0:00 12/2 as a working time), CapQ Ascendant conjoined ingress Mars within 1°. With this clear a showing, we don't need the CanQ - which was mixed - but it did include (among other things) Neptune minutes from MC. Transiting Neptune had also been in long-term square to the Haines Cansolar Asc and was only 0°03' away for the mudslides.

For the subsequent freezing temperatures, the December 3 Canlunar has:

Saturn -0°11' from Dsc
Jupiter +1°26' from Dsc
Neptune +3°15' from MC
Pluto +4°42' from Dsc
Moon +5°40' from Asc

Moon-Pluto op. 0°59' mundo
Neptune-Pluto sq. 1°25' mundo
Jupiter-Saturn conj. 1°37' mundo
Moon-Jupiter op. 1°45'
Jupiter-Neptune sq. 1°50' mundo
Moon-Neptune sq. 2°24' mundo
Jupiter-Pluto conj. 3°15' mundo
Moon-Saturn op. 3°40'

[Jim Eshelman]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... s-campaign

With no little media attention, the first injection of the first fully approved, released vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 was administered to 90-year-old Margaret Keenan December 8, 2020, at about 6:45 AM in Coventry, England, as reported above by The Guardian. (I hope dearly that the two luminary-Neptune close aspects don't mean "fooled ya!")

UPDATE: BBC gives 6:31 AM. The event chart now has Moon 1°23' from MC, at least suitable for "woman in the news."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55227325?fb ... K8QJGwUTX0

I see almost nothing in the ingresses for this event - at least for the leadup. Nearly all the solar and lunar ingresses for Coventry are dormant, though the Arisolar (the only "live" solar ingress) put Saturn square MC 12', perhaps indicating a patch of Earth where virus impact was particularly harsh; but also Jupiter on WP partile square Sun (highlighting the Jupiter-Pluto partile conjunction, actually).

The Canlunar interestingly puts the Moon-Pluto opposition square Ascendant with some help from Jupiter - the Jupiter-Pluto traits of healing recovery that I've been mentioning all year are somewhat obvious in some of these charts.

But for the final day and time, the quotidians come through: CapQ Ascendant opposes Capsolar Jupiter within 1° with the added "science" (or maybe "press") detail of transiting Mercury on CapQ WP 0°06'. Transiting Uranus squared Capsolar Asc (0°32').

The CanQ was a treat: Q Asc squared transiting Jupiter 38, Q MC squared transiting Uranus s51', and (just to activate the chart all the stronger for the day) transiting Sun opposed CanQ Moon 12'.

[SteveS]

for the Q's.

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8:15 AM 12-08-2020 fire and rescue was dispatched to 51st and L St, in north Omaha. Neighbors were pulling people out of a crater where a house had been despite flames 15' high. Fire crews shut off the gas and electricity and began treating the people. Of four people in the house, 2 were killed and 2 critically injured, one dog was killed and a second received oxygen and was taken for treatment and is doing well. Two other houses were badly damaged.

Yesterday, 12-7-2020 police were called to the residence just before 1 PM, and a restraining order issued sometime in the afternoon. The homeowner wrote she needed her grandson removed from her home, "before he destroys my house or harms me, the drugs make him crazy." She also wrote in the protection order, "He has put holes in the basement walls where he stays and you can't even walk in the basement he has electronics in the walls and ceiling. I am afraid he will start my house on fire."

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About 7:30 PM Eastern, 12/18/2020, the FDA approved the Moderna vaccine for Covid-19. This vaccine, 94.6% effective, does not require the very low temperatures the other needs, so is more suitable for rural areas and pharmacies.

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Tropical Cyclone Yasa, the strongest storm on Earth, was headed for a potentially devastating landfall in Fiji and should have hit by about noon 12/17/2020. It's a cat 5. Fiji has only faced cat 3s before.

You'd think we'd have heard more, but Google has failed. Everything's two days old.

[Jim Eshelman]

Wow. Hadn't heard a thing. I'll loop back on this when I can. (If it's that bad, then probably all communications out of Fiji are down.)

[SteveS]

JSAD wrote:

You'd think we'd have heard more, but Google has failed.

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From YaleClimateConnections.org https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020 ... mph-winds/ :

Tropical Cyclone Yasa made landfall on Fiji’s Vanua Levu Island (population 136,000) at 6Z (1 a.m. EST) Thursday, December 17, as a high-end category 4 storm with 145 mph winds, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC). Yasa is the second-strongest cyclone on record to make landfall in Fiji, behind Tropical Cyclone Winston, which hit Fiji’s Koro Island as a category 5 storm with 180 mph winds in 2016.

Yasa peaked as a low-end category 5 storm with 160 mph winds with a central pressure of 914 mb at 0Z Wednesday, and maintained category 5 strength through 12Z Wednesday. In the hours leading up to landfall, the cyclone underwent an eyewall replacement cycle (ERC), a process common in intense cyclones, in which the eyewall shrinks, grows unstable, and collapses, with a new eyewall forming out of an outer spiral band. This process weakened Yasa’s peak winds by 15 mph, but increased the storm surge, as the region of ocean experiencing hurricane-force winds expanded.

[Jim Eshelman]

I'm not sure if anyone else has been watching... but the COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Los Angeles area has reached terribly dangerous levels. County hospitals had to announce new policies last week limiting care. Most of a week ago, ICU beds were saturated, no free beds available. This morning the jolly news is that the hospitals are nearly out of oxygen and other emergency supplies with ERs overflowing. Patients who need ambulances are having to wait as much as eight hours.

The timing of this is no mystery. One chart has concentrated most of this: The current Caplunar from December 156 has Pluto (conjunct Moon) in the degree of Midheaven. That alone makes the chart classic chart for a city living in daily existential confrontation of its death toll. Uranus is exactly rising, placing a partile Uranus-Pluto mundane square on the angles. Mars in Pisces (where it has been for the worst waves of infection this year) squares Pluto in the Caplunar and, today, completes the square to Pluto.

Of course, the entire state - and especially Southern California - has been under Capsolar presence of Neptune year in or art, a planet that has marked earthquakes, fires, and now the waves of disease. For the central coordinates of Los Angeles, Neptune is 0°03' from EP this year. (The new Capsolar will be better here: Neptune in the degree of MC with Venus less than 2° from Descendant. Compared to what we've been through, I'll take a Venus-Neptune paran for the new year!)

[Jim Eshelman]

December 25, 2020, 6:29 AM, Nashville, TN 36N09'57'', 86W47'04''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nashville_bombing

Nashville's pandemic-emptied streets were shaken this morning by what police are calling "an intentional explosion" involving a vehicle (code for "car bomb," it seems). Though there are no casualties, this is one of the most stand-out events of its kind in a year of lockdown nearly bereft of such things, and so deserves examination.

The full discussion of this event has now been moved to its own thread:
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=4698