Lake Nyos disaster

[Jim Eshelman]

Lake Nyos, Cameroon (06N26 10E17) suddenly dumped 100,000 to 300,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere on August 21, 1986. This suffocated about 1,700 people within 16 miles of the lake. I'll use noon CET as a representative time.

Year: Capsolar
Ecliptically, it looks like Pluto is minutes from the Ascendant. It's not: Mundanely, it's 3°21' below Asc, which is borderline to counting. Either The Capsolar is dormant, with Moon squares Uranus (1°20'); or that aspect is joined by a rising Pluto.

Quarter: Cansolar
The Cansolar is dormant. So is the Arisolar (but, again, with Moon-Uranus, an opposition 3°08') and Moon square Mercury (1°39').

Therefore, either the Capsolar is the prevailing ingress or, if we deem it dormant, then we roll back to the Libsolar from October 18, 1985 - which also has moon-Uranus, this time a 2°10' conjunction. It's also dormant.

So... the Capsolar or nothing (but lots of Moon-Uranus!).

Month: Caplunar
Neptune on EP (1°09')
Venus on MC (6°37')
-- Venus-Neptune square (2°50' in mundo)
There's the gas!

Day: Capsolar Transits
t. Pluto sq. Capsolar MC (0°40')
t. Jupiter conj. Capsolar Moon (1°11') ???

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits
CanQ MC conj. t. Mercury (about 1°)
t. Mars sq. Cansolar Asc (1°27')

I've seen worse. I've seen better. The striking recurrence of Moon-Uranus in this and the Bhopal event is fascinating.