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Sacramento River Massacre

Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2023 1:15 pm
by Jim Eshelman
April 5, 1846, time unknown, near Redding, CA (Redding's Ranch: 40N32'24", 122W23'24")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_River_massacre

U.S. military led by Capt. John C. Fremont (after whom streets and towns have taken their name) killed hundreds of native Wintu people in Northern California on April 5,1846. Though less well-known than other massacres of Native Americans, this was a significant military slaughter during United States' "Manifest Destiny" westward expansion (in this case, expansion into all of California).

Settlers alleged to Capt. Fremont that a large native gathering was planning on attacking and killing White settlers. Travelling up the Sacramento River, they found an area covering hundreds of square miles where about 5,000 Wintu lived. When Fremont ordered his men to "give no quarter," they began firing into the defensive line (men standing in front of women and children protectively, backed against the Sacramento River). Men, women, and children were indiscriminately murdered. One witness called it, "a scene of slaughter which is unequalled in the West." Kit Carson, who was one of the attackers, called it "a perfect butchery."

At least 120-150 Wintu were shot (and perhaps as many as 900). Another 200 or so died while fleeing into the river.

By simple transits, this occurred the day of a Venus-Mars square with a nearly exact (7' at noon) Saturn-Neptune conjunction. Like most massacres, while showing the slaughter in several ways, the event is strongly Jupiter-influenced. However, the Canlunar, about a day earlier, shows the real horror of the occasion: It is a spectacularly horrible chart. Then the CapQ and transits to Cansolar nailed it (put the final nails in all those coffins)! - This event is back in the news with transiting Saturn conjunct Saturn of the event.

Year: Capsolar {at least +2}
Moon on EP 0°25'
Pluto on MC 1°23'
Jupiter on MC 3°27'
Sun & Saturn widely angular
-- Sun-Pluto sq 0°22'
-- Mercury-Pluto sq 1°29' PVP
-- Jupiter-Pluto co 2°03'
-- Mo/Sa on angles 0°27'
-- Sun sq non-foreground Mars 0°49' M

Bridge {+3}
t Neptune sq Cansolar Moon 3/2-7/15
t Uranus co Cansolar EP-a 1°00' 2/12-4/27
t Saturn sq Cansolar Moon 3/24-4/14
CapQ Moon sq s/p Jupiter sq 3/21-5/22
t Mars op CanQ Moon 4/5-8
Event window: Apr 5-8

Month: Caplunar {+1 or +2}
Jupiter on WP-a 1°26'
Moon-Pluto sq 1°17'
Moon-Mercury sq 2°09' M

Week: Canlunar {+3}
(Saturn-Neptune exactly conjunct in the exact EP degree, with both square Mars, sickeningly horrible Saturn aspects, etc.)
Saturn on EP-a 0°35'
Neptune on EP-a 0°52'
Jupiter on Nadir 1°15'
Venus and Mars widely foreground
-- Saturn-Neptune co 0°02'
-- Venus-Saturn co 0°06' M
-- Venus-Mars sq 0°15'
-- Mars-Neptune sq 0°18' M
-- Venus-Neptune co 0°33' M
-- Mars-Saturn sq 0°58' M
Moon-Pluto sq 1°35'

Day: Capsolar Quotidian & Transits {+2 at least}
[presumes noon, so orbs may be off]
p Moon-Jupiter sq 0°29'
p Asc op p Mars 0°47'
p MC sq t Sun 1°17'

Day: Cansolar Quotidian & Transits {+3}
[presumes noon, so orbs may be off]
p Moon 15°10' conj Antares
t Mars op p Moon 0°34'
-- t Venus sq p Moon 0°37'
-- t Venus-Mars sq 0°03'
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t Neptune sq s Moon 0°05'
-- t Saturn sq s Moon 0°12'
-- t Sa/Ne - s Mo 0°08'
t Uranus co s EP-a 1°00'
t Sun co s Asc 0°20'