Battle of Osawatomie

[Jim Eshelman]

August 30, 1856, morning, Osawatomie, KS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osawatomie

For five years between 1854 and 1859, a period known as Bleeding Kansas existed as a conflict over the issue of slavery in response to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. One incident of the period, of particular note, was the Battle of Osawatomie in which five men were killed and five others wounded.

Osawatomie was an abolitionist settlement of about 200 people. Abolitionist John Brown and his family lived there at the time. On the morning of August 30, several hundred pro-slavery men entered town and (it's a long story) started a conflict that initially killed Brown's son and then escalated. In the end, it was judged a victory for the pro-slavery faction, which burned most of the buildings in town, looted what was left, and took prisoners.

Absent an exact time, I will judge "morning" to mean about 9 AM. It was the day of a New Moon. The charts are OK (not great) and I'd have liked to see a lot of Mars for the bloodshed and fires. (Maybe in the Arisolar and Libsolar methods? No, I checked.) I have to settle for the closely angular Mars in the Arisolar.

Year: Capsolar {-1}
Venus sq. Asc 0°37'
Jupiter on Asc 1°24'
Neptune sq. MC 1°32'
Moon-Mars op. 2°24' mundo
Moon-Saturn sq. 2°53' mundo

Bridge {+1}
t Neptune sq. Capsolar MC 8/21-1/13
t Neptune sq. CanQ Moon 8/17-9/17
Event window: Aug 21 to Sep 17

Quarter: Cansolar (Silent.) Moon-Jupiter Moon-Neptune.

Quarter: Arisolar {+1}
Mercury on Asc 1°15'
Mars on Dsc 2°06'
Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune more widely foreground
-- Mercury-Mars op. 0°12'
-- Venus-Jupiter conj. 1°28' mundo
-- Jupiter-Neptune conj. 2°31' mundo
-- Venus-Neptune conj. 3°58' mundo
-- Jupiter sq. non-foreground Saturn 0°52'
-- Venus sq. non-foreground Saturn 1°22'

Month: Caplunar (Silent.)
Week: Canlunar (Silent.)

Week: Arilunar {+1}
Uranus sq. MC 1°40'
Sun more widely foreground
-- Sun-Uranus sq. 2°23'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 / +1 = +2}
p MC op. p Mercury 0°16', s Mercury 0°48', sq. s Pluto 1°10'
-- p Mercury-Pluto sq. 0°54'
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t Neptune sq. s MC 0°46'
t Venus sq. s MC 1°02'
-- t Venus-Neptune op. 0°44'
t Sun op. s Asc 0°33'
t Moon op. s Asc [orb unk., New Moon was on angle]

Day: Cansolar Quotidian {+1}
t Neptune sq. p Moon 0°09'
t Venus sq. p Moon 0°35'



At 4:55 that morning was a New Moon. The chart for Osawatomie has Uranus exactly on MC, stationary - it was indeed a day of big surprise and sudden disruption. The New Moon worldwide was closely trine Pluto. The New Moon and Mars were widely foreground. It's an OK lunation chart, not fantastic.