Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Posted Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:31 am by Jim Eshelman
Starting the thread...

Posted Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:05 pm by Jim Eshelman
Janet Yellen just announced that the Fed probably will raise interest rates this month, much earlier than previously expected.

In the recent past, this has triggered market drops. We'll see...

Posted Fri Mar 03, 2017 3:52 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Sweden announced today it's re-instituting a draft for both men and women. This is because they don't have enough people volunteering to maintain military strength, and partly because of the Russian invasion into the Ukraine, and Putin's sabre rattling.

Posted Fri Mar 03, 2017 4:09 pm by Jim Eshelman

Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
Sweden announced today it's re-instituting a draft for both men and women. This is because they don't have enough people volunteering to maintain military strength, and partly because of the Russian invasion into the Ukraine, and Putin's sabre rattling.


The recent Mars-Jupiter-Uranus trio has been playing out in some interesting ways, including its presence (a little closer mundanely than ecliptically for Stockholm) aligned with Moon in the recent Arilunar.

More on target, the Caplunar for Stockholm has Mars 0°02' from EP. Then, with a little squeeze from a high-latitude mundoscope, we find Mars-Jupiter-Uranus all aspecting each other in the foreground, shoehorned into < 2° of space.

Then today, transiting Mars squared Stockholm's Capsolar MC. This comes after a few days of CanQ Asc crossing transiting Saturn and the Galactic Center, so the decision probably came hesitantly and at no small emotional or financial cost.

Posted Fri Mar 03, 2017 6:47 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn

Jim Eshelman wrote:
Then today, transiting Mars squared Stockholm's Capsolar MC. This comes after a few days of CanQ Asc crossing transiting Saturn and the Galactic Center, so the decision probably came hesitantly and at no small emotional or financial cost.


From the news stories, I'd say that was spot on. It was also kind of a shock to some US lawmakers. Probably others too, but all I've heard reaction from is the US.

Posted Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:00 pm by Jim Eshelman
Violence broke out in Berkeley against a pro-Trump rally today.

The March 1 Arilunar has a Moon-Mars-Uranus triple conjunction at MC, with Moon < 3° from MC. Moon=Mars is partile, as is the more widely foreground Jupiter-Uranus opposition.

Transiting Saturn is conjunct the Berkeley Capsolar Descendant, and on CanQ IC for today. CapQ MC is 2° Aries, meaning that transiting Mars is on quotidian Midheaven. Mars and Saturn are exactly trine each other in space today, tying those two crossings together. Transiting Pluto conjoins Berkeley's Cansolar Ascendant. Quite a line-up!

Tomorrow, Trump has transiting Mars opposite his SQ Moon. (It's already in orb.)

Posted Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:59 am by Jim Eshelman
Well, the last 24 hours certainly brought the Caplunar out of hiding.

The House of Representatives introduced their plan for dumping and replacing the Affordable Care Act, which primarily favors the young, the healthy, and the rich, and disadvantages the elderly and old - classic Saturn hardships, with obvious partisan bias. New storm fronts are ripping up the South and the Midwest. North Korea said its recent missile tests were specifically a warm-up to direct attacks on U.S. bases.

Concentrating on the rising Saturn in particular (plus Moon's aspects to Jupiter and Pluto), I wrote of the Caplunar:

The main message is of hardship, difficulty, separations, and loss. Specific problems are themed to Moon-Jupiter. Saturn stands out for events involving significant loss, whether of life or loot: economic hardship, scarcity, economic narrowing, and deprivation. Diverse natural disasters occur with angular Saturn, and I think we can especially expect more severe winter weather along the East Coast. Moon-Pluto intensifies the impact, bringing an intensity that stuns our sensibilities, with no exit back to the way things were before.

Moon-Jupiter themes should be familiar by now: With Saturn and Pluto leading, this Jupiter is not likely to bring diplomacy and dignity. Rather, from the poor to the rich, from one race to another, whether religious or secular, whether right or left, a theme of “my people first” motivates divisions, with fault-lines along family, cultural, ethnic, and religious lines in particular.

Finally, Venus/Mars suggests that international relationships are strained, and conflict stirred. Inflamed passions prevail over reason.


That seems to get all the main points.

Meanwhile, the craziness and cloud cover in Washington continues with the Arilunar's Sun-Neptune + Mercury pattern. It's even centered on solar themes like the current president's accusing and maligning the last president. Oh, and this morning (this might actually be fun), WikiLeaks dumped to the public a pile of what it claims are confidential CIA documents. How's that for a Mercury + Sun-Neptune chart with a side of Moon-Mars? (And we haven't even hit the Mars-Saturn quotidian crossings that begin Saturday.)

Posted Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:06 pm by Jim Eshelman
I have written more fully about this here:
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=5257
(Jim's topic - "Cyclone Enawo" in Mundane Events)

A Category 4 tropical cyclone touched the Madagascar about 11:00 AM BAT today (8:00 UT). Winds have reached 145 mph with 175 mph gusts (another source says 105 mph winds with 145 mph gusts, but might be outdated). Two days of heavy rain preceded the landing. It landed between Farahalana and Antalaha (another source said between Sambava and Antalaha). I'll use 14S39, 50E13, based on this.

Posted Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:39 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Just after 2 PM today (March 7, 2017) a freight train smashed into a tour bus stalled on the tracks. Bus was full of people, mostly older, heading for the Biloxi casinos. Four dead, 30+ hurt badly out of maybe 50 total. Bus was dragged 30' down the tracks. Big bus.

Posted Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:27 pm by Jim Eshelman

Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
Just after 2 PM today (March 7, 2017) a freight train smashed into a tour bus stalled on the tracks. Bus was full of people, mostly older, heading for the Biloxi casinos. Four dead, 30+ hurt badly out of maybe 50 total. Bus was dragged 30' down the tracks. Big bus.


It's bizarre who carries what news. I look up this event on a search engine and find several articles - all from sites and news outlets I've never heard of, including one apparently from India called intriguingly Astro Awani. Another I thought was a German paper, but it's from a small town called Lufkin, TX. None of the big news sources are showing for it.

Apparently it was close enough to Biloxi to use that city for coordinates. I get 46 on the bus, with 35 taken to a hospital. Death toll is reported consistently as 4. Lufkin paper says it occurred "before 2:15 p.m.," which sounds consistent with your "just after 2 PM." At about that time (say, 2:10 or just after), Jupiter-Uranus crossed the meridian and a Moon-Pluto opposition squared from across the EP axis.

Year: Capsolar
Uranus sq. Asc (+1°11')
Jupiter sq. Asc (-0°30')
Sun on Dsc (3°12')
Pluto on Dsc (3°57')
-- Su/Pl on Dsc (0°23')

Bridge
t. Neptune sq. Cansolar MC or conj. EP 7/16-7/16 (all year)
t. Uranus sq. Capsolar MC 1/14-4/3
t. Jupiter sq. Capsolar MC 1/14-3/25
t. Venus conj. Capsolar MC 3/6-18
Event window: March 6-18

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.)
Moon-Jupiter sq. (2°18')
Moon-Pluto conj. (3°39' in mundo)

Week: Arilunar
(Yes, it was about transportation and was an accident - with a big OOPS factor!)
Mercury on Dsc (2°54')
Sun on Dsc (7°38')
Neptune (7°41')
-- Sun-Neptune conj. (0°02' in mundo)
Moon-Mars conj. (0°49')
Moon-Uranus conj. (2°50')
Moon-Jupiter op. (2°43')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
(Unfortunately, this just looks like a recreational outing! Focus on the fun part. Notice that Venus is near her station, only moving 8'/day.)
p. EP conj. p. Moon (0°17')
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t. Uranus sq. s. MC (0°34')
t. Jupiter sq. s. MC (0°04')
t. Venus conj. s. MC (1°52')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits
(Here we get the violence, not the CapQ.)
p. Asc op. t. Mars (0°41')
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t. Neptune sq. s. MC (0°39')

Posted Thu Mar 09, 2017 10:53 am by Jim Eshelman
"Twenty-one [update: 34] people - mostly teenage girls - were killed after a fire tore through a youth home Wednesday in San Jose Pinula, Guatemala [13 miles from the capital]. The fire spread after some kids ignited a mattress [on their way to breakfast]. Almost 40 people were injured. The center, which houses hundreds of disadvantaged youth, has been criticized in the past. Guatemala's attorney general threatened to shut it down last year after 40 teens escaped, and government leaders have now revived that threat. The director of the home has been fired, and an investigation has been opened." (CNN)

UPDATE: The arson is now reported to be a protest against rapes and other mistreatment. The home housed approximately 500 children.

March 8, 2017, about 9:00 AM CST, San Jose Pinula, Guatemala (14N33, 90W25). A partile (I mean to the minute of arc!) Moon-Mars square occurred at 9:00 AM, with Mars 02' from square MC.

The charts are tragic at the year and month level. The CanQ nails it for the day.

Year: Capsolar (Dormant.)

Year: Cansolar
Saturn on MC (0°39')
Neptune sq. MC (0°36')
-- Saturn-Neptune sq. (1°23')
Moon-Jupiter sq. (0°37' in mundo)

Bridge
t. Neptune sq. s. MC 7/16-4/11

Quarter: Libsolar (Dormant.)

Month: Caplunar
Saturn on Asc (2°42')
Venus on IC (9°54')
Moon-Jupiter sq. (2°18')

Week: Canlunar (Dormant.) Moon-Uranus sq. (2°32')
Week: Arilunar (Dormant.) Moon-Mars conj. (0°49'), conj. Uranus (2°50'), op. Jupiter (2°43')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
p. EP conj. p. Moon (0°30')
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t. Venus sq. s. Asc (0°54')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits
p. MC sq. t Mars (0°13'), p.MC conj. t. Moon (0°13')
-- t. Moon-Mars sq. (0°00')
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t. Neptune sq. s. MC (0°48')

Posted Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:35 am by Jim Eshelman
"At least 38 people were killed and 13 others injured in northern Haiti after a bus plowed into a festival crowd before dawn Sunday, in what local authorities said was a hit and run incident." Descriptions sound all like the bus was intentionally being used as a weapon (i.e., this wasn't an accident). This occurred during all night celebration of Rara, "a popular festive season in Haiti that stretches from Mardi Gras until Easter Sunday."

March 12, 2017, "before dawn," near Gonaives, Haiti. Visual sunrise was 6:01 AM, so I will estimate 5:00 AM as a time that was clearly before dawn.

The Caplunar has Mars and Pluto less than a degree from an angle, and less than a degree from square - plus foreground Mars-Uranus. Notice that Mars-Pluto is distinctly stronger than Mars-Uranus: This was not an accident so much as using the bus as a weapon. The CapQ and transits to Capsolar then nails the event in place with Saturn and Mars, respectively. The CanQ and Cansolar transits then reverse this, with Mars and Saturn, respectively (and gives the clear sign that this is a transportation-related tragedy)!

Year: Capsolar
Sun on WP (0°35')
Jupiter on IC (5°13')
Uranus on MC (7°06')
-- Sun-Uranus sq. (0°18' in mundo)
-- Sun-Jupiter sq. (1°35' in mundo)
-- Jupiter-Uranus op. (1°51')

'Bridge

Month: Caplunar
Mars on IC (0°51')
Pluto sq. MC (0°09')
-- Mars-Pluto sq. (0°40')
Uranus on IC (3°44')
-- Mars-Uranus conj. (2°32')
Jupiter on MC (4°56')
-- Jupiter-Uranus op. (0°50')
-- Mars-Jupiter p[. (3°22')
Venus on IC (9°39')
Moon-Jupiter sq. (2°18')

Week: Canlunar
Moon on Dsc (0°24')
Uranus sq. Asc (1°01')
Jupiter sq. Asc (1°42')
Pluto on Asc (4°47')
Mars on IC (7°29')
-- Jupiter-Uranus op. (0°12' in mundo)
-- Mars-Pluto sq. (1°42' in mundo)
-- Jupiter-Pluto sq. (2°49')
Moon-Uranus sq. (2°32')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits
(The Full Moon later in the day fell exactly on CapQ horizon, refecting the bacchanal festivities among other things.)
p. Asc op. t. Sun (0°34'), sq. s. Saturn (0°20')
-- t. Sun sq. s. Saturn (0°55')
p. MC op. s. Saturn (0°08'), sq. t. Sun (0°45')
p. EP op. p. Mars (0°55'), s. Mars (1°02')
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t. Mars sq. s. Asc (0°20')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits
p. Asc conj. p. Mars (0°46'), s. Mars (0°55')
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t. Saturn conj. s. MC (0°15'), sq. s. Asc (0°44')
t. Mercury conj. s. Asc (0°33'), sq. s. MC (0°26')
-- Mercury-Saturn sq. (0°11')
t. Sun sq. s. Moon (0°40')
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Ethiopian landslide

Post Posted Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:12 am by Jim Eshelman
Saturday night (March 11), near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a landslide at a large landfill killed over 60 people and injured "dozens more." The landfill was known to be dangerous, and the government had been attempting to resettle residents, but apparently encountering resistance.

Not having a time other than "Saturday night," I'll use 9:00 PM as a working time.

There are so many dormant ingresses that this is a difficult event to peg. For example, the only viable lunar ingress in the last month is the Liblunar, which only has Mercury 0°42 from IC, unaspected unless you count (as we are not wont to do) a partile sextile to Mars. (Add Moon aspects to Jupiter-Uranus.) We could strengthen this a little with an experimental matter I've been investigating: Since Neptune is only 0°09' from due west (Vertex in Azimuth), it forms a near-partile square to Mercury, which is at least consistent with the kind of commotion and confusion such a landslide would cause in a small community. (Mercury-Neptune foreground aspects have occurred for various major earthquakes, the Oso mudslde, massive hurricanes and flash floods, etc.)

But the daily level gets us through in agonizingly accurate fashion. With nothing at the Capsolar level, the CanQ offers the following. (Moon is for the estimated time and might not be so close.)

15°22' Sco p. Saturn
15°55' Aqu p. Asc
15°56' Leo t. Moon
16°06' Aqu p Neptune
7°06' Aqu t. Neptune
17°12' Aqu p. EP
19°53' Sco p. MC

Simple transits to the Cansolar angles also were meaningful, with a transiting Jupiter-Pluto square (Jupiter 1°11' past IC, Pluto 1°40' before Dsc). Transiting Sun squared Cansolar Moon more or less to the minute.

Altogether, it's a fine example of a local event with no over-awning national or international implications.

Posted Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:53 pm by TheScales_BothWays
A ghastly three-lorry collision took place on the South Klang Valley Expressway (SKVE) around 8.00AM, 13/3, south of Shah Alam southernmost sections. One of the lorry driver's body was gruesomely severed into two.
One of the lorries was carrying cooking gas cylinders and the other was carrying toulene. The severed lorry driver was driving a container lorry. The toulene leaked but I'm not seeing any further mention about the gas cylinders, so I believe they were unimpacted.

Posted Wed Mar 15, 2017 7:26 am by Venus_Daily
This is nothing about political judgments, but Dutch elections are today. Either way things turns out, something controversial will happen.

Posted Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:20 am by Jim Eshelman

Venus_Daily wrote:
This is nothing about political judgments, but Dutch elections are today. Either way things turns out, something controversial will happen.


This isn't a predictive thread, but we might as well take a quick look at the mundane charts for Amsterdam today.

These are definitely distrusting and unstable times for the Netherlands. With a dormant Capsolar, the master chart remains last July's CANSOLAR, which has Pluto 1°21' above Descendant and Neptune 2°48' west of MC. Sun is also widely rising, and there is a universal Moon-Jupiter square. If I'd been looking at charts for this country, I'd have predicted major earth-shifting changes arising out of an almost mythic attachment to a vision or fantasy that is ultimately paranoid, with a hyper-protectiveness that leaves them vulnerable to fascist tyranny, Quite severe. Or, to put it another way, here is my standard paragraph on Neptune-Pluto in mundane astrology: "Heightened, surreal, reality-altering emotion to the point of insanity combined with mind-halting, senses-stunning events that are inherently decisive and separative."

The month has been harsh there, and the February 23 CAPLUNAR reflects it. Mars-Uranus opposes Jupiter across horizon, with Mars being closest to an angle (2°03' below Ascendant). Then, today's new LIBLUNAR shifts the tone - Venus is most angular, 1°35' above Descendant, though with Mars nearby and a foreground Mars-Pluto square. Emotions obviously run very high. This is nearly a map for war, though with the predominant tone being trying to keep peace. Moon-Jupiter are in close ecliptical, and partile mundane, conjunction.

That same Venus transits Capsolar Descendant, but that's a pretty flitting transit. The CapQ brings Neptune to IC conjunct Capsolar Venus, so people are distrusting each other and running on emotion, not reason. The same Neptune transits Cansolar Midheaven (near where it was when the chart set up).

I think "deathly distrust of each other" will prevail in the Dutch mind today and the far-right forces have the strongest momentum.

Posted Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:19 pm by Jim Eshelman
The Federal Reserve just raised the prime interest rate as expected. Surprisingly, the market's reaction was to blip upward.

Posted Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:21 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn

Jim Eshelman wrote:
The Federal Reserve just raised the prime interest rate as expected. Surprisingly, the market's reaction was to blip upward.


No no not a surprise! It's what was expected and has already been discounted. If Janet Yelsen had announced she was holding the rate, the markets would have dropped hard.
The market doesn't go up and down on "bad news" but on unexpected news.
Something to keep very much in the front of your mind when you're trying to predict markets. Traders hate being surprised, and all surprises are bad.

Posted Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:29 pm by Jim Eshelman
It looks like I was wrong about the Dutch elections above. Those issues were certainly alive, but it looks like the incumbent is pushing back the far-right anti-Islamic, anti-immigration extremist, according to exit polls.
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Posted Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:26 pm by Venus_Daily
No, Jim, you were in no way being myopic.
Even though the incumbent won, the foreign minister took the opportunity to say that it's not good enough, claiming there will be holy wars when most of the dutch people have been very accommodating to Muslims (some might even say to a fault).
Wilders basically said, you can't unring a bell, which is 100 percent correct.
Right wing populism is growing after everything that's been happening.
Even people on the left are calling this a stupid move on the part of the minister.
Turkey is now trying to directly influence European voting policies, and the president of Turkey has even slammed Angela Merkel for siding with the Netherlands. The president also reached out to foreigners living abroad in the West to "mobilize Islam". I am not taking political sides, but I had a feeling this would happen.

Also, the president brought up old wounds over wars claiming that the EU and the West in general are completely responsible.

Posted Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:18 am by Jim Eshelman
Terrible violence in Syria - even in Damascus - is so common that it almost isn't news. Nonetheless, the astrologer might want to inquire why yesterday, in particular, was singled out for two major suicide bombings (a courthouse and a restaurant) in Damascus, in which two dozen people died.

In an explosive Cansolar year, the new LIBLUNAR yesterday had:
Moon 1°01' before Dsc
Pluto 1°32' before MC
Mars 2°37' before Asc

This gives the following mundane T-square:
Moon-Pluto sq. 0°31'
Mars-Pluto sq. 1°05'
Moon-Mars op. 1°36'

Toss in a little Uranus and Jupiter, farther from the angles, for appropriate subthemes; but the Moon-Mars-Pluto tells the story all by itself.

In case that wasn't enough, CapQ Ascendant conjoined transiting Saturn exactly for the day.

Most recent lunar ingress... CapQ... under a compatible solar ingress. Usually that's way more than we need (and, usually, it's what we actually see). Just a reminder (they come almost daily) that there is no remaining doubt about the boundaries of the zodiac down to seconds of accuracy.

Posted Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:01 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Senators Burr and Warner, the chair and vice-chair of the senate Intelligence Committee gave a joint statement saying based on the information available to them, they could see no indication there was any surveillance of Trump Tower by any element of the US Government before or after election day.
This is a definitive answer. Very short, very absolute. Direct "Nope" in response to Trump's accusations last week and last night.

Posted Fri Mar 17, 2017 8:39 pm by Jim Eshelman
We know what the charts look like for the Washington, DC area, and they have been volatile, including expectation of psychological, if not physical, explosions. Last night, it got literal.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/home-e ... ?ocid=News

In Rockville, MD an explosion occurred in a house that reduced it to a pile of bricks. So far, it doesn't appear there are casualties, but they still might find someone. A cause isn't yet given. This occurred March 17, 2017, at about 1:00 AM. A fire ensued, which it took 75 fireman an hour or so to extinguish.

The CAPLUNAR has Saturn rising (2°) and a mundane Moon-Pluto conjunction as its primary features. The LIBLUNAR puts the same Saturn on EP (1°) and a Moon-Uranus conjunction closer than the wide Moon-Jupiter.

The CAPQ has p. Asc sq. s. Saturn half a degree, and p. EP opposite s. Mars under a degree - playing up a Mars-Saturn square in the Capsolar. Transiting Uranus conjoins Capsolar MC, and transiting Pluto sits on its WP. Even the CanQ pulled s. Mars to an angle.

People didn't sleep through the night in that part of Rockville.

Posted Fri Mar 17, 2017 10:55 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
A five alarm fire started March 16th 2017 shortly before 10 PM on the second floor at 314 W. Jones St, Raleigh, NC, where the Metropolitan Apartment Complex was under construction. It was brought under control by 1 AM. There was so much smoke it showed up on doppler radar. Cause is still unknown.
Nobody was living there, and nobody apparently was hurt. But buildings, including apartments and businesses, in a five block radius were evacuated.
People living in the area will be allowed in to get belongings and pets tomorrow morning

Posted Tue Mar 21, 2017 10:37 am by Jim Eshelman
So far this morning, the DJIA has dropped early 200 points. What's going on out there?

We are under a Saturn (specifically, Sun-Saturn) Month and Week chart, and Saturn is exactly on CapQ IC today; but I'm more interested in what's the "real world" cause. I doubt it's yesterday's news, because this didn't happen yesterday. We've basically lost a month's generous growth this morning. (Of course, it may shake out before the day is over.)

PS - We're so far into the month (nearly at its end) that I forgot I'd forecast "economic hardship, scarcity, economic narrowing" as manifestations of the Caplunar. This, of course, was reinforced in the Liblunar and in today's CapQ. It has not been a month lf economic narrowing overall, though the rising Saturn has found other obvious expressions. It would be quite interesting if this plunge is sustained through today and part of tomorrow, as if the Caplunar were having it's "last word before I'm out the door."

Posted Tue Mar 21, 2017 10:37 am by Jim Eshelman
So far this morning, the DJIA has dropped early 200 points. What's going on out there?

We are under a Saturn (specifically, Sun-Saturn) Month and Week chart, and Saturn is exactly on CapQ IC today; but I'm more interested in what's the "real world" cause. I doubt it's yesterday's news, because this didn't happen yesterday. We've basically lost a month's generous growth this morning. (Of course, it may shake out before the day is over.)

PS - We're so far into the month (nearly at its end) that I forgot I'd forecast "economic hardship, scarcity, economic narrowing" as manifestations of the Caplunar. This, of course, was reinforced in the Liblunar and in today's CapQ. It has not been a month lf economic narrowing overall, though the rising Saturn has found other obvious expressions. It would be quite interesting if this plunge is sustained through today and part of tomorrow, as if the Caplunar were having it's "last word before I'm out the door."

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Posted Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:35 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
I think the whole "It appears Russia was trying to affect our elections, we can't prove they actually did or not, but they're going to keep trying and we don't know how to stop them" theme to the news the last few days has a lot to do with the loss of optimism in general, as well as on Wall Street.

Posted Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:56 pm by Jim Eshelman
This afternoon's analysis says banks are hitting the skis - a number of big banks have falling yields, and there is concern over some finance-related House votes. Various indices fell 1%-2% or more, with DJIA down not quite 250 points.

One fact that spilled out of the discussion is that the energy sector is the worst-performing sector this year. It also looks to me that tech is one of the best, since Nasdaq hit a new all-time high before it started plummeting. Goldman-Sachs was the primary reason S&P fell so hard, though banking in general went for a tumble today.

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Posted Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:52 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
The banks are all getting out over their skis with the Bannon/Trump attempts to deregulate them again. Goldman Sachs has already fired up their mortgage division again, ready to get into sub-prime bundles, hoping for 2005 again. You know, right before they took the foundation out from under the entire world's economy.
The energy sector has been getting exactly what they've been demanding. Access and permission to cause earthquakes and destroy watersheds. As a result they've been producing shale oil apace, and oil prices are sliding into the abyss. It helps keep Middle Eastern countries and Russia from making much money so they can't buy ammo, and keeps gas prices down so the US public forgets we're at war.

This cake is going to fall as soon as the oven door is opened. We just don't know when that's going to happen or whose hand will be on the door handle.

Posted Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:04 pm by Jim Eshelman
There aren't any lunar ingresses tending to a serious money crisis before the Cansolar expires mid-July (and this was a potentially pro-crash Cansolar). The successor Cansolar doesn't have the telltale signs.

But the lunar ingresses do start looking shaky in late summer and fall. With a warning shot in September, and more serious fire in October, we get a series of Saturn ingresses, followed by Neptune in November-December. I don't see the bigger picture in the solar ingresses, as we historically have seen for the big financial crises. Even the Libsolar has a partile Mercury-Jupiter conjunction exactly square Ascendant - good for business, good for money - to go with its Uranus and Pluto.

All of which says, with 5 minutes of looking, it's hard to see a time this year when the cake might fall.

But... given the amount of attention this is getting... I'm inclined to take it as a successful prediction for the Caplunar, manifesting on its last day just as the Week and Day charts agree with it.

Posted Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:28 am by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Just broke into regular programming to announce shots fired just outside Parliament in the UK. Some people were run down by a car, and there were shots fired (or something) on Westminster Bridge. At least one police officer has been shot.
It's an ongoing situation.

Edited to correct spelling.

Posted Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:58 am by Jim Eshelman
I have moved my analysis to a separate thread:
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=5280&
(Jim's Thread - "2017 Westminster (Parliament) Attack" in Mundane Events)

For those paying attention yesterday, you will see some differences. There are a couple of charts I thought (on too cursory a look) were dormant, but they aren't; so the analysis is a little different than I thought. Don't miss that the Liblunar has not only a angular Neptune, but a sizzling-precise Moon-Mars mudane opposition. Also, the Caplunar is quite complex, though boils down to a few groups of patterns, Finally, Venus-Neptune recurs several times.
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Posted Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:08 am by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Reports first came into police at 2:40 PM of a 4x4 (small SUV) purposely hitting five to six people on Westminster Bridge. Then "a heavyset man" and through the gates to Parliament with a knife. One police officer was stabbed and the knife wielder was shot by police.
Parliament is still in lockdown now (12:04 PM EDT) and the bridge is blocked off. Officials say the Queen is safely at home in Westminster Palace and the Prime Minister is safe in an undisclosed location.

Posted Wed Mar 22, 2017 12:56 pm by Jim Eshelman
March 21, 2017, 4:45 AM, a 7-alarm fire in an abandoned factory was reported in Boston, engulfing the building within minutes. Homes were evacuated. Wind made it hard to contain the blaze, but they succeeded in keeping it localized to the original building. School openings were delayed today and about 1,300 customers were without power, so I guess (despite no casualties) that it was a significant fire.

This was anticipated: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=513

Jim Eshelman wrote:
Caplunar (February 23) Map 1 Map 2

Saturn, Mars, and Pluto intersect in Massachusetts (see both maps: within 150-200 miles of this spot will be the most painful and probably most violent part of the country for these four weeks. I foresee a horrible act of violence in New England this month.

Liblunar (March 15) Map 1 [https://1drv.ms/i/s!Ansnmu2xbktakN1_fCAgGSZddIIKJA]Map 2[/url]

SATURN-NEPTUNE intersect just off the VA/NC coast. While the Neptune line curves along the coast (touching south Florida and, in the north, both Boston and Portland), Saturn slices vertically to pass near DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia...

Since MERCURY also passes near Boston and Portland, much attention is being focused on the area, especially as a Mercury-Neptune combination suggesting confusion, disorientation, and bad (confused) choices, uncertainty in the form of wondering, “What’s next?” or, “What happens now?”, and impairment of transportation and communication routes. This is likely the week of the Boston-area event mentioned under the Caplunar, or its immediate aftermath.


Moon was still in mid-Sagittarius when the fire started.

In the CAPLUNAR:
Saturn on Asc 0°39'
Mars on IC 1°19'
Uranus on IC 2°40'
Jupiter on MC 4°23'
-- Mars-Saturn sq. (0°40' in mundo)
-- Jupiter-Uranus op. (0°50')
-- Saturn-Uranus sq. (2°01' in mundo)
-- Mars-Uranus conj. (2°32')
-- -- Ma/Ur on IC (0°40')
-- Mars-Jupiter op. (3°22')
Moon-Pluto conj. 1°45' in mundo)

In the LIBLUNAR:
Neptune sq. Asc (0°20')
Mercury on IC (0°41')
Wide Sun and Venus angularities
Moon aspects to Uranus and (wider) Jupiter

CapQ has transiting Sun angular (as it probably has been for quite a while), square ingress Mercury on IC - adequate but unexciting. The real key to the timing (besides the framing of the Liblunar) was in transits to the Cansolar. Transiting Saturn has been conjoining Boston's Cansolar MC and square its Asc; on the day of the fire, transiting Sun squared Capsolar MC.

Posted Thu Mar 23, 2017 3:26 pm by Jim Eshelman
Four people have died in a series of attacks in Weston, WI yesterday. (The shootings started as a domestic dispute at a bank, and then accelerated from there and crossed to three different locations.) The first incident was "midday" yesterday, March 22. (Since the third happened at 1:30 PM, and three locations were near each other, it feels like 12:30 PM is a reasonable estimate.

Posted Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:04 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Ryan went to Trump and they decided to pull the Republican Health Care Bill about 3:40 PM Eastern. Waiting on Ryan to announce at press conference coming up any minute (it's just after 4 PM Eastern now.)

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Posted Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:27 pm by Jim Eshelman

Jupiter Sets At Dawn wrote:
Ryan went to Trump and they decided to pull the Republican Health Care Bill about 3:40 PM Eastern. Waiting on Ryan to announce at press conference coming up any minute (it's just after 4 PM Eastern now.)


Yeah, we were actually listening to the House proceedings live. Sweet sweet sweet.

Term of the day: "wealth-care reform." I'll be stealing that in the future. As we've been seeing for the last week or so, and as showed so much today...

Jim Eshelman wrote:

Liblunar (March 15)
As the new Caplunar is dormant, the old Liblunar describes March 15-28. It targets the president personally. Sun squares Saturn (closely angular), which anticipates sad, difficult, demanding events. Examples include limitation or constraint of national leaders, and government gridlock or other lockdown that involves suppressive, restrictive, controlling, or failing government. The main target of negative focus, though, is the president himself. Moon opposes Uranus: Expect sudden, eruptive, shifting conditions characterized by their surprising, explosive nature.

Posted Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:14 am by Jim Eshelman
Sunday (i.e., March 26), Moscow and about a hundred smaller towns were hit by a wave of anticorruption protests that are getting attention today because of the considerable youth of the protestors. Questions hanging in the air include whether this is a passing fancy or the start of a genuine wave.

The Moscow Capsolar is dormant. The CANSOLAR has Pluto 0°25' from EP, a close, universal Moon-Jupiter square (1°51'), and more widely foreground Mercury, Venus, and Uranus. The main resulting aspect is a foreground Mercury-Venus conjunction (0°09') - I've been wanting to look at foreground Mercury-Venus conjunctions for more subtleties than we normally have observed, so I mention this in particular. Basically, the Cansolar would be take as generally good-natured and positive except not letting that interfere with radicalism.

The CAPLUNAR has Jupiter-Uranus across the EP axis, and Pluto on IC. Without getting into fine points, it is quite civil rights / populist arousing / protest spirited in a 1960s sense. I would have expected a more peaceful protest, though, given Venus' exact angularity.

Transits to Capsolar plus CapQ crossings get feisty at the end of this week. We can expect violence. But the CanQ had Saturn on MC this last weekend.

Posted Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:13 am by Jim Eshelman
NE Australia was hit yesterday with a Category 4 Cyclone, which made landfall near Proserpine (closer to Cannonville, but I don't have coordinates for there) about 2:00 AM GMT (2:00 PM Local Time) March 28 with gusts of about 160 mph. The usual ensued: Damaged structures, loss of power to large numbers, and frightening conditions. So far, I think there are no deaths.

The CAPSOLAR is pretty classic. For Proserpine, it has Neptune 1°, and Venus 3°, below Asc.

The CAPLUNAR has Moon square Uranus universally. Mars is most angular for the afflicted area, which is quite accurate, though it's far enough away that the ingress is technically dormant. The LIBSOLAR took care of this, with Mars < 2° from square Ascendant and a Moon-Uranus opposition.

The ferocious red planet continued to hold sway in the CapQ, where it conjoins Ascendant for landfall.

For those unfamiliar, the three strongest planets in hurricane charts overall are Saturn, Mars, and Pluto, with Neptune backing them. Saturn and Pluto aren't really active in this one, which I suspect is a reflection of there being no deaths, and perhaps (we shall find?) easier recovery for the area rather than scathing decimation.

Posted Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:43 am by Jim Eshelman
A minibus, transporting seniors back from a church retreat, collided with a pickup truck yesterday (March 29) about 2:00 PM, near New Braunfels, TX. 13 people died and 1 other was seriously injured. One witness called it "a really gruesome scene."

I don't yet have an exact geographic location, but it probably isn't too far from New Braunfels, and that's where the church is - meaning, it's the community hardest hit by the deaths.

The CAPSOLAR has a transportation theme for the year, with Mercury half a degree from square MC and a moderately foreground Pluto.

Every lunar ingress lately has a Moon-Uranus close aspect, and this includes (for example) the dormant Caplunar. Yesterday's ARILUNAR, though, only half a day before the accident, has classic impact-and-disruption indications. It also has a strong Jupiter, but exactly where we expect to see it: Jupiter is routinely active, but in a secondary (less angular etc.) role for events that are described by the rest of the chart, but have a religious connection. In this case, it provides correct symbolism for the context of a church-related event. Here is the Arilunar breakdown:

Uranus on IC (0°46')
Pluto on EP (1°56')
Mercury on IC (2°26')
Moon on IC (2°28')
-- Moon-Mercury conj. (0°02' in mundo)
-- Moon-Uranus conj. (1°25')
-- Mercury-Uranus conj. (3°12' in mundo)
-- -- Mercury/Uranus on IC (0°50')
-- -- Moon/Uranus on IC (0°51')
Sun sq. Asc (1°01')
Jupiter on MC (4°58')
-- Jupiter-Pluto sq. (0°12')

It's all there! Uranus and Pluto show the overall impact, collision, etc. Moon-Uranus has similar symbolism. Mercury is a key player, and especially as Mercury-Uranus, the most common non-lunar aspect for transportation disasters. I'm not sure what Sun does beyond highlighting the area, but this leaves only the distantly angular Jupiter - and the usual interpretation would be, "something about the conditions or context is Jupiter-themed:"

For the day, the community impact is pretty obvious. The CapQ for New Braunfels for the time of the accident shows transiting Neptune conjunct ingress Venus, both on WP. (It is applying, i.e., as the day went on and the news circulate, the extreme emotion would increase). - The CanQ has Mars more than 2° from each nearby angle, so I think I don't have the right location for the accident itself.

Posted Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:15 am by Jim Eshelman
To put this crash in perspective, the two worst bus crashes in American history killed 32 and 29 people, respectively. This is less than half that many, but still bad as bus accidents go; and, of course, the impact on the local community - the unexpected deaths of 13 seniors active in one church - is surely profound.

Posted Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:11 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Quote from NBC News:

The driver of the pickup truck, identified as 20-year-old Jack Dillon Young, of Leakey, Texas, survived and was airlifted to a San Antonio hospital after the crash, which occurred about 12:23 p.m. (1:23 p.m. ET) near Garner State Park in Concan, Sgt. Conrad Hein of the state Department of Public Safety told NBC News.

Quotes from ABC News:

The San Antonio-area church said on its website that the members were returning from a three-day retreat at the Alto Frio Baptist Encampment in Leakey, about 9 miles (15 kilometers) from the crash site.

Wednesday's collision was one of the deadliest in Texas in recent memory. Eight people were killed in May when a charter bus headed to a casino rolled over north of Laredo. In 2015, eight inmates and two corrections officers were killed when their prison bus skidded off a highway near Odessa, traveled down an embankment and was struck by a passing freight train.

Seventeen people died in 2008 when a charter bus crashed in North Texas near the Oklahoma border, and 23 nursing home residents being evacuated from the Houston area as Hurricane Rita approached in 2005 were killed when their charter bus caught fire near Dallas.

Quote from Fox News:

A total of 14 senior adults were on the bus and the driver was the only person in the pickup when the vehicles collided about 12:30 p.m. on U.S. 83 outside Garner State Park in northern Uvalde County, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Conrad Hein and a church statement.

The area is about 75 miles west of San Antonio.

Posted Thu Mar 30, 2017 5:18 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
Quote from NBC News:

Williamson, 57, and Yarnall, 55, who worked as contractors for The Weather Channel, were following a storm when they were involved in a head-on collision just west of Spur, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon. Both men and the driver of the second vehicle, storm chaser Corbin Lee Jaeger, 25, were killed instantly.


Another head on collision, this one fewer people, but some were fairly well-known. This was on March 28, 2017, first reported at 1:47 PM

Posted Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:48 am by Jim Eshelman
In response to a large fire, a freeway overpass collapsed in Atlanta yesterday, taking out a section of it's very busy, big-deal I-85 route. Nobody was hurt.

I'm curious about this primarily because of my study of structural collapses. There aren't many good examples, and so even minor events are interesting to check. Before looking at the charts, my prediction would be the kind of profile shown for bridge collapses in the SMA article but, especially, I want to see if a significant chart has Jupiter right on an angle aspected by Saturn or Uranus. Since there is a current Jupiter-Uranus opposition, but several degrees apart, the theory would be that Jupiter is closer than Uranus (which, by itself, would be significant for such an event) so that we have "Jupiter angular, aspected by Uranus" specifically.

We also can expect signs of the fire, and perhaps "traffic delays" aspects.

On to checking. I haven't seen a time, but we'll be close enough with midday local time yesterday.

CAPSOLAR: Like the whole eastern edge of the country, Jupiter-Uranus opposition along meridian; but it's by no means the biggest deal in the chart, with Sun closely setting and Pluto in orb of square MC.

ARILUNAR: Pluto is rising (half a degree), Jupiter squares Asc 25' and Pluto 12'. This IS a strong Jupiter involvement, but not the kind that shows up in other bridge collapses. The Pluto is the main deal. (Mars is also more widely foreground.)

CAPQ: MC opposite transiting Saturn. (It doesn't quite loop in ingress Mercury but, today, as people are commuting, the combined Mercury and Saturn angularities, with the angle splitting it exactly, will be felt.)


So, we get appropriate indications for a local event - important locally and with forward-reaching impact until they get it repaired - but no deaths and relatively low damage. The indications are proportionate to the impact. We didn't get exactly the picture I was looking for, but we got an accurately descriptive one.

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Posted Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:33 am by SteveS
I have traveled this route many times in my life, booking/contracting movies for a company and later in life for my own Movie Theatre. This required me to be in Atlanta for movie screenings at least once a week for around 42 weeks a year. Where the collapse occurred was the exact exit ramp where I had to get off to go to the Screening Room & Hotel when I spent the night. News reports say it will take some time to get this part of the interstate and ramp repaired. This will make the rush commute a nightmare for many employees.

Posted Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:00 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn

Jim Eshelman wrote:
On to checking. I haven't seen a time, but we'll be close enough with midday local time yesterday.

The actual bridge collapse happened just about 6:30 PM.
The highway was shut down for about an hour and a half before that because of the fire under the overpass.

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Posted Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:53 pm by SteveS
The news is now reporting this is going to turn into a "major transportation crises," because the head of Atlanta's Transportation department says it will take 7-8 months to repair.
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Posted Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:01 pm by Jim Eshelman

SteveS wrote:
The news is now reporting this is going to turn into a "major transportation crises," because the head of Atlanta's Transportation department says it will take 7-8 months to repair.

I was going to estimate a year, based on similar events elsewhere, so that's pretty fast.

Yeah, it's not going to be rebuilt and open next week.
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Posted Fri Mar 31, 2017 1:30 pm by SteveS
I was suppose to meet a colleague in Atlanta next week to see a movie screening, we have canceled this trip.

Posted Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:36 pm by Jim Eshelman
Near Mocoa, Colombia, "surging rivers sent an avalanche of floodwaters, mud and debris through a small city, killing at least 200 people and leaving many more injured and homeless" (AP). This was a classic "rivers burst their banks" type of flood, like most I studied in the Floods chapter of SMA. (We expect Jupiter and Uranus, supported by Saturn, primarily.)

Reuters now gives death toll at 254, with 400 others injured, 200 missing. Numbers are expected to climb.

The surge is described as "in the early hours of Saturday." Unless a better time arrives, I'll use 6 AM.

CAPSOLAR: Jupiter 1°13' from IC, Uranus 3°04' form MC, Sun and Pluto moderately foreground on Dsc. Jupiter-Uranus makes a mundane T-square with Pluto, and Sun squares Jupiter ecliptically.

CAPLUNAR: Saturn 1°09' from Dsc.

ARILUNAR: Mars < 3° from IC.

DAILY (Capsolar): Nothing on the CapQ. Transiting Uranus is 0°28' from Capsolar MC, t. Pluto 1°50' from Capsolar Dsc.

DAILY (Cansolar): CanQ takes over for the dormant CapQ, and places ingress Saturn 0°10' from EP, Asc sq. s. Neptune < 2°, Moon setting off the whole thing a little before dawn.

THE GOOD NEWS: This event exactly - exactly! - matches the flood profile identified and published in SMA, Chapter 13.

THE BAD NEWS: But that means - dammit! - that these deaths were probably preventable. The flood-and-death potential for the region should have been suspect from the start of the year, totally confirmed by the start of the astrological month, confirmed and narrowed to the week, and pinned down within a day. Greater precautions could have been taken to protect people. Governments need to start using this stuff to intervene in likely tragedies ahead of time.

It's hard to decide whether this excites me or {nasses} me off more

Posted Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:01 pm by Jim Eshelman
From SMA, Chapter 13:

Predicting floods is one of the oldest undertakings of astrologers. Each year, ancient Egyptian priests staked their authority on predicting the regular, reliable flooding of the Nile. Biblical, and biblical-era, predictions of floods fill ancient literature.

For the modern researcher set on rediscovering the means of such prediction, we are at first baffled by the problem that floods are rarely brief and narrow events, occurring at an easily discernible moment in time and location in space. In most examples following, you will see the struggle to isolate the right time and place to begin the examination. Patient reason was our best friend in this.

As in other explorations documented in this book, what we have discovered is partly what we expected, and partly new information. So goes the path of discovery.

What distinguishes floods from every other type of disaster studied is that the primary contributors are the classic benefic planets. See the illustration above, which shows that Jupiter and Uranus are the planets most commonly angular and aspecting Moon in charts for these events. Venus is quite active also, on an event-by-event basis, but nowhere near as strong as Jupiter and Uranus.

This is, first, because floods – at least, most floods, and all the floods in this chapter – begin with excessive rain. As you already know, the single best demonstrated fact in Sidereal mundane astrology, and perhaps in all astrology, is that Jupiter is foremost a planet of rain. Horrendous excesses of rain are the only types of tragedies yet found for which Jupiter is a characteristic dominant planet.

Equal to Jupiter is Uranus. Perhaps this is further indication of storm (as in lightning), and certainly Uranus makes sense when startling, smashing walls of water strike a place; yet not all floods are flash floods. I think we especially see in Uranus’ dominance what is reflected in weather historians’ descriptions of these floods as “bursting the boundaries” of rivers and lakes. Water escapes its natural boundaries, overruns its usual containment. This (along with the psychological impact of the flood) is Uranian in a way that it is not (for example) Plutonian. They are quite different types of impact.

In each flood, we also see marks of destruction, damage, and loss, though these are not as strong as the marks of rain itself. Saturn is the third strongest planet in the list, and the most common planet in Bridge timing. Yet, despite this overall strength, dry Saturn is nearly absent in the lunar ingresses.

Planets most frequently angular are, mostly, the same planets that have the most Moon aspacts. Uranus and Jupiter take a clear lead for Moon aspects, with Venus and Saturn coming next. Similarly, Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn are three of the five planets most often angular, interrupted only by the frequency of Pluto and Neptune. Pluto is especially common on angles of solar ingresses, though undistinguished in lunar ingresses or daily timing; and, contrary to disasters in general, Moon-Pluto aspects are rare in this collection of floods.

Among non-lunar aspects, the most common is Mars-Jupiter, a pairing suitably described as “storming.” When these planets are foreground together, one common outcome in nature is excessava rain paired with ferocity, as occurred in some of these examples. The next most common non-lunar foreground aspects are Sun-Saturn (known for sadness and loss, including structural failures) and Mars-Pluto (known for unleashing ferocious force, which great floods certainly do).

Posted Mon Apr 03, 2017 9:32 am by Jim Eshelman
Two explosions at St. Petersburg metro stations today have killed at least 10 people [EDIT: now 14] and injured at least 50 others. The blasts are likely politically motivated, since Putin is in St. Petersburg today; but, thus far, no responsibility has been cited or claimed.

The explosions occurred April 3, 2017, 2:45 PM BADT, St. Petersburg, Russia. Uranus had just passed Midheaven (2°), and Mars was a degree and a half past square Ascendant.

CAPSOLAR: Similarities to DC. Sun sq. Asc (0°36'), Jupiter rising (2°32'), Uranus setting (3°27'). Jupiter opposes Uranus, Sun squares Jupiter. I'm sure this wouldn't have happened without Putin in down, since it is aimed at the government in general and the head of state in particular, This is an example of the "radical ideology" side of Jupiter-Uranus, and how it comes out in a suppressive environment.

LIBLUNAR: (Caplunar and Arilunar are dormant.) Venus sq. MC (1°43'); but the main thing is Moon-Mars-Uranus etc. on angle. With Mercury's aspects, it even tabs the metro station (i.e., some transportation theme).

Moon on Dsc (0°30')
Jupiter on Dsc (2°38')
Mars on Asc (2°41')
Uranus on Asc (3°24')
Mercury on Asc (5°52')
Sun on Asc (7°33')
Neptune on Asc (8°28')
-- Mars-Jupiter op. (0°03' in mundo)
-- Mars-Uranus conj. (0°43' in mundo)
-- Jupiter-Uranus op. (0°46' in mundo)
-- Sun-Neptune conj. (0°55' in mundo)
-- Sun-Mercury conj. (1°41' in mundo)
-- Mercury-Uranus conj. (2°28' in mundo)
-- Moon-Uranus op. (2°11')
-- Mercury-Neptune conj. (2°36' in mundo)
-- Moon-Jupiter conj. (3°08' in mundo)
-- Moon-Mars op. (3°11' in mundo)
-- Mercury-Jupiter op. (3°14' in mundo)
-- Mercury-Mars conj. (3°33' in mundo)

DAILY:
CapQ Asc sq. t. Neptune (0°08')
t. Uranus op. Capsolar Asc (0°32')
CanQ MC conj. t. Saturn (0°03')
CanQ Asc op. s. Jupiter (0°03')

Posted Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:33 pm by Jupiter Sets At Dawn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Mocoa_landslide
April 2, 2017, 3AM. After hours of heavy rain, at least 262 people were known dead (including 43 children),[11][7][12] more than 400 were injured (including 167 children),[7] and a further 220 were missing when the the Mocoa, Sangoyaco, and Mulata rivers overflowed and left large portions of the city of Mocoa buried in several feet of mud. The heaviest rain began about 11 PM the night before. 3 AM is the time the flooding and mudflows began.

Posted Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:22 pm by Jim Eshelman
April 4, 2017, morning (est. 7:00 AM), Khan Shikhoun (Khan Shaykhun), Syria.

One of Syria's deadliest chemical attacks ever occurred this morning. At least 70 people are dead, including at least 10 children, and about 500 injured, after airstrikes hit the city releasing a poisonous gas, according to activist organizations in the area. EDIT 4/6: This has now been confirmed to be Sarin.

I don't have a time for the attacks, but a hospital reports about 125 injured people arriving around 7:30 AM, so I'm estimating 7:00 AM for the attack. That was approximately the time that Mars rose in Aries.

CANSOLAR: (Capsolar is dormant.) Pluto on WP half a degree. Several other planets around 5° either side of angles, with Mercury-Uranus and Venus-Uranus mundane squares most pronounced.

CAPLUNAR: In addition to a universal Moon-Uranus square, Mercury is 1° from Desc in perfect mundane square to Pluto 1° from IC (Me-Pl orb 0°19'). Mundane Moon-Uranus 10', Jupiter-Uranus more widely across horizon, but the real focus is Mercury-Pluto square on angles and Moon-Uranus square.

ARILUNAR: Saturn on Dsc < 3°.

DAILY: t. Mars op. Capsolar Asc (0°14'). CapQ has t. Sun sq. Asc (a sign that the government did this, as many suspect??). t. Jupiter-Pluto sq. piles on Cansolar angles.
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New Zealand levee failure, flood

Post Posted Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:28 am by Jim Eshelman
A concrete levee failed Thursday morning (April 6) in Edgecumbe, New Zealand, "flooding hundreds of homes and businesses" (AP), prompting community rescue efforts for about 2,000 residents.

This is apparently an aftereffect of Cyclone Debbie. Flood waters were over three feet deep in some homes, and one of the local rivers hit a record height.

With a dormant Capsolar, the CANSOLAR has Saturn on EP (2°11' a little wide) square Neptune (1°23'). Moon, rising 0°33', squares Jupiter (1°51') as for the whole world, but appropriate here for the rain.

Sticking with the Neptune theme, the CAPLUNAR has, in addition to a close Moon-Uranus square, Neptune rising 0°53'. The Canlunar is quite minor, with the universal Moon-Uranus square and Mercury 1° fro IC. Oh, Moon squares Jupiter mundanely (0°22'), one of the hallmarks of flood.

DAILY INDICATORS: CapQ Asc squares ingress Neptune today, and its WP conjoins transiting Saturn. We don't need more but, as part of the larger backdrop, transiting Saturn is partile conjunct Cansolar Ascendant.

Altogether, this is quite a striking set of charts.
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U.S. attack on Syrian air base

Post Posted Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:50 am by Jim Eshelman
U.S. warships launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield (Ash Sha'irat) believed to have launched the attack the other day. Ash Sha'irat is 34N30', 36E57. Six people were killed. The attack was launched April 7 2017, 3:30 AM EEDT.

For the target site, the CANSOLAR shows the long-term Pluto effects (plus Sun-Uranus and universal Moon-Jupiter). The CAPLUNAR has Mercury-Pluto and Jupiter-Uranus most marking the foreground. The CANLUNAR has Neptune setting. (We saw all this the other day.)

Transiting Pluto is on CapQ Ascendant exactly, squared by Jupiter.

Turning to the USA... the one relevant lunar ingress is the new Canlunar, with Mars conjunct Eastpoint as its only aspect, plus the close Moon-Uranus square. Uranus transits Capsolar MC (0°18') and Pluto the WP (1°10'). CanQ MC opposes two Neptunes, MC still (barely) squares ingress Saturn.

Posted Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:54 am by Jim Eshelman
A small truck was used as a weapon a little while ago in Stockholm. The driver aimed it at a crowd of people and then slammed it into a department store. Four people were killed and many were injured. Officials say all the marks point to it being a terrorist attack of the variety ISIS has been encouraging.

This occurred today, April 7. One Tweet it time-stamped 6:37 AM PDT. NY Times sent a breaking news item at 7:18 AM PDT. I'm going to estimate 6:00 AM PDT, which would be 3:00 PM in Stockholm, just as Mars crossed MC and Moon rose. EDIT: CNN now reports this happened "just before 3:00 PM."

CAPSOLAR: Hardly a bad one with the same Sun, Jupiter, and Uranus as U.S.

CAPLUNAR: But a bad month. In addition to the universal Moon-Uranus square, Sun is 1°35' from Dsc, Saturn 3°32' from IC. There is also a mundane Moon-Mars sq., 2°37'. This chart definitely raised the risk factor.

ARILUNAR: (Canlunar is dormant. Moon conjunct Uranus 1°25' on one side, Mercury 2°12' on the other, for all parts of the globe. Saturn is 2°10' from Dsc. Mundane Moon-Mars conj. 0°12'. Oh, and ingress Pluto is on EP, too. Transits to the Capsolar play up the nicer part of the same planets, with the Sun-Jupiter opposition across horizon; I wouldn't have picked this event from those transits the way I would from the CapQ. Then the CanQ brings the violence (though still with Jupiter threads): Transiting Mars sq. CanQ Asc, ingress Jupiter on WP. Toda's Venus-Saturn square in space falls exactly on Stockholm's Cansolar angles.

DAILY: Quite off on first impression, but the key aspect has geopolitical assault implications: The CapQ puts the current Jupiter-Pluto square on angles, with ingress Uranus even closer, and this is consistent with the ideology-driven terrorist attacks we've seen.

Posted Fri Apr 07, 2017 11:30 am by Jim Eshelman
The U.S. Senate just confirmed Judge Gorsuch's appointment to the Supreme Court.

Posted Sun Apr 09, 2017 7:40 am by Jim Eshelman
Palm Sunday services in two Egyptian Coptic churches have killed dozens of people this morning.

The first, a planted bomb at St. George Coptic Church in Tanta (near Cairo), killed 25 people and wounded 60 others, while destroying most of the church interior.

The second, suicide bomb outside St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria, killed at least 11 and wounded at least 35 others.

No one has claimed credit yet. I don't have a time, but a Tweet reporting the first blast is time-stamped 2:48 AM PDT, which would be 11:48 in Cairo. I will use 11:30 AM as an estimate (about the time Pluto set, squared by Sun).

UPDATE a few hours later: NYT reports the first explosion at Tanta occurred about 9:30 AM. It was a suicide bomber who barged in and raced toward the altar, not a planted bomb. The second incident was "hours later," to perhaps was at around 11:30 when I first calculated.

With quite a few dormant ingresses in the area, the operative lunar ingress is the March 15 LIBLUNAR which has Pluto sq. Asc (1°36'), Uranus rising (1°45') Jupiter setting (1°31'), Moon and Mars more widely foreground, Moon-Uranus op. foreground, Jupiter-Uranus op. 14' in mundo, Mars-Pluto sq. foreground (1°20' in mundo) - quite the lethal, explosive, ideology-driven, radical-reactive type of chart.

CapQ Ascendant conjoins s. Pluto (27'), t. Pluto (1°29'), square t. Jupiter (2°); and MC is opposite t. Mercury (1°). That Mercury is also crossing Capsolar Dsc. Cansolar Asc is squared by t. Uranus.

Posted Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:02 pm by Jim Eshelman
A shooting occurred today at 10:30 AM at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino, CA. Two adults were killed (one was a teacher; I think the other might have been the shooter). Two students were injured. EDIT LATER: One of the students, an 8-year-old boy, has died, too.

San Bernardino, of course, notably had one serious shooting a year and a half ago. What I didn't realize is that shooting deaths have been on a sharp rise there over the last year (check their solar ingresses: they had an ugly year). Last year showed a 41% increase in murders (up to 62).

Year: Capsolar
This is a classic!
Neptune on MC (0°19')
Venus on MC (2°30')
-- Venus-Neptune conj. (2°01')
Mercury on Dsc (3°42')
Saturn on Dsc (4°17')
-- Me/Sa on Dsc (0°15')
-- Mercury-Venus sq. (1°17' in mundo)

Bridge (Dormant.)

Month: Caplunar (Dormant.) Moon-Uranus sq. (1°47').

Week: Canlunar
Sun on Asc (2°36')
Jupiter on Asc (6°00')
Uranus on Asc (8°08')
-- Jupiter-Uranus op. (2°08' in mundoi)
-- Sun-Jupiter op. (3°24' in mundo)
Moon-Uranus sq. (1°04')

Day: Capsolar Quotidian
And we get the Venus-Neptune aspect back in the CapQ.
p. Asc op. s. Neptune (0°11'), s. Venus (1°50')

Day: Cansolar Quotidian
p. MC sq. t. Mercury (0°05'), conj. s. Venus (1°08'), p. Mercury (1°17')
-- s. Mercury-Venus conj. (0°09')

Posted Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:38 pm by Venus_Daily
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/04/10/ch ... r-gay-men/

Posted Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:48 pm by Jim Eshelman

Venus_Daily wrote:
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/04/10/ch ... r-gay-men/


After some lengthy looking, I was able to find some major news sources sites. Interestingly, sites denied they had any news on the subject until I dropped the words "concentration camp" from my search.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/worl ... .html?_r=1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eu ... 4a874a9191

From various sources, it seems that the Chechen government has decided to eradicate homosexuality by reportedly imprisoning and even killing gay men. Human rights agencies have been talking about this for a while, and what New York Times considers are credible Russian news source broke the story April 1. Ove 100 men are claimed to have disappeared into captivity (and a few into death). The Chechen president claims that they can't be persecuting gays because there are no homosexuals in the Muslim-majority region.

It seems this has been going on for a while. It began when a gay group applied for pride parade permits in several cities. In Russia, pride day is called Moscow Pride, and is held in May. I suspect the request for permits was this year, in preparation for events next month.

For Grosnyi, the Capsolar is dormant. The Cansolar has Sun on EP (1°13'), Uranus on MC (3°24'), and Sun square Uranus (0°32'). Moon squares Jupiter (as it does everywhere). and Mercury-Venus exactly conjoined (0°09') about 5° above Asc, closely square the Uranus. This doesn't seem like a chart for suppression, arrest, and murder, but definitely seems like a chart for intentionally challenging a government for something resembling a joyous sexual rights parade.

What seems suppressive and deadly is the Libsolar. Saturn is 1°43' below Descendant.

The current Caplunar (March 22), under which the story broke, seems primarily to show the movement disclosing the government's acts and the breaking news about it. Jupiter-Uranus sits across the horizon, with Moon on IC, with some Mercury and Pluto to spare. Here is the breakdown of the interesting chart.

Uranus on Dsc (-1°11')
Moon on IC (+1°55')
Jupiter on Asc (+1°57')
Mercury on Dsc (4°18')
Pluto on IC (7°31')
-- Moon-Jupiter sq. (0°02' in mundo)
-- Jupiter-Pluto sq. (1°05')
-- Moon-Uranus sq. (1°47')
-- Mercury-Pluto sq. (2°18')
-- Mercury-Jupiter op. (2°21' in mundo)
-- Moon-Mercury sq. (2°23')
-- Jupiter-Uranus op. (2°55')
-- -- Ju/Ur on horizon (0°23')