Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

On March 28, 2014, at 9:09 PM PDT a 5.1 earthquake hit near La Habra, CA (about an hour after a smaller quake hit the same area - an unusual line-up).Though there was a lot of small damage, there appears to have been no large damage or loss of life. I was on the phone to friends in a high-rise in downtown Los Angeles and they were very seriously jarred for over a minute.

Year: Capsolar
As mentioned previously, the Los Angeles area has Neptune on the Westpoint (just over 1° for La Habra). We'll get a lot of "worrisome," nerve-jangling quakes this year, I imagine.

Month: Caplunar
Uranus rising (0°11')
Pluto sq. Asc (0°47')
Jupiter sq. Asc (1°40)'
Ju/Pl midpoint 0°26' from Ascendant
Sun, Mars, Pluto in the foreground by lesser amounts, and a Mars-Jupiter-Pluto mundane T-square worth noting. Mars square Pluto is partile (0°58').

Day: Transits to Capsolar
t. Neptune sq. Capsolar MC (0°06')
t. Pluto op. Capsolar Moon (0°25')

Yes. I actually expected it from this one - because there was an area that had some wall-mounted shelves fall and stuff break etc. But, instead, it was the Uranus type of "sharp punch" quake.

But what's really interesting to me is the Neptune pattern for the year. How long will this go? The Capsular locks it in for the year, but the "season" seems marked by Neptune being within a few minutes of square the MC. That, of course, won't last all year, though it will come and go. I'm curious whether this will be an unusually high year for earthquakes around LA. We haven't really had much of anything (certainly nothing serious) in years - this 5+ last night might be the only 5+ we've had in most of the decade (I haven't checked, but I really don't remember any others off hand; it's been really quiet).

The 2014 Cansolar has Saturn square the Ascendant for LA. The Libsolar then has Neptune back within a degree of the Descendant. If it's going to be a bad quake year, it looks like the last half of the year and, especially, the fourth quarter.

Neptune exactly squares the Capsular MC around September 1. (That's the last pass before the Capsolar expires.) Neptune stays atop the Libsolar Descendant for the entire 4th quarter. Of the Caplunar of that quarter,

-- October 2 has Neptune on an angle
-- October 29 has Pluto exactly setting and Uranus square the Ascendant exactly - that one worries me a bit
-- December 23 has Neptune rising

So there's a lot of opportunity for seismic activity and shaking people up especially in the Libsolar's quarter.

The October 29 seems to be the only one to create actual concern (the others being the "make people really nervous" Neptune effect - but October 29 has the potential to really "bring the house down"). The November 12 Canlunar has Neptune more than 2 degrees and less than 3 degrees from the Westpoint, which leaves it on the dormant side. Significant benefic presence in the Liblunar would likely displace the quake out of the fourth week altogether, so the Caplunar itself is the biggest indicator - the first three weeks in general, and first week in particular, are the worst.

Capsular Quotidian hits during that time include:
Asc sq s. Uranus 11/2
Asc op. t. Pluto 11/5
Asc op. s. Pluto 11/6
Asc sq. t. Uranus 11/8
Asc sq. s. Mars 11/13 (but Venus a day later)
MC conj s. Uranus 11/18

If something is going to happen, I'd expect the day of one of the Uranus and/or Pluto crossings.

To try to get another piece of this, such as a Saturn showing, I'll run the same for the Consular Quotidian. For starters, MC squares s. Saturn exactly on the 29th. (Jupiter hits three days later.) Ingress Saturn hits the CanQ Asc 11/5, just as Pluto is on the CapQ Descendant. Transiting Mars squares CanQ Moon 11/9. November 16 has a double-whammy of t. Neptune on the IC and t. Saturn on the Asc of the CanQ.

So I'd say that, if anything is going to happen, 11/5 and 11/16 are the most vulnerable dates.