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Uranus-Pluto triggers Lhasa landslide

A massive landslide engulfed a gold mining area in mountainous Tibet, burying 83 workers believed to have been asleep early Friday morning, Chinese state media said.
About 2 million cubic meters (2.6 million cubic yards) of mud, rock and debris swept through the area as the workers were resting and covered an area measuring around 4 square kilometers (1.5 square miles), China Central Television said. The official Xinhua News Agency said the workers in Lhasa’s Maizhokunggar county worked for a subsidiary of the China National Gold Group Corp., a state-owned enterprise and the country’s largest gold producer.




For understanding this event we look at the Capricorn Ingress chart at Maizhokungga, the site of the accident. By the rules of Mundane astrology, the chart is strong since the powerful Sun-Uranus-Pluto square is on the angles.  The IC of the chart is 19vi38  within about 7 degrees of orb [1] to the star Alkaid [27vi]. Progressing the chart to the date of the disaster brings it to the Ascendant [28vi] triggering its potential causing landslides as the reference from Ebertin below indicates.




Eta (η) Ursa Major, Alkaid, is a brilliant white star on the tail of the Great Bear.

The last star in the Great Bear. Benetnash (Alkaid) means 'hired mourners'. If the influence of this star is exercised, an influence of a Mars-Uranus-Saturn nature is present. Experience has shown that many human lives are to be mourned. Reinhold Ebertin made a survey of this fixed star covering centuries when associated with transits of the major planets over this degree. The results have been recorded in the 40th yearbook for Cosmobiological Research 1969. In accordance with adopted belief of ancient times, this fixed star is supposed to be bound up with the realm of the dead and is therefore associated with death and mourning. In an important position in a mundane map, Benetnash will claim human lives in calamities such as mine accidents, collapse of houses and bridges, mountain slides, earth tremors and catastrophes caused by weather. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, no.46, p.57, under the name Benetnash] [2]

In Saturn-Pluto periods, there are strong attempts to repress (Saturn) the dangerous and destructive energies of the soul and the unconscious (Pluto). Uranus-Pluto periods, like the one that we are in now and  which runs through about 2016, bring powerful eruptions of this repressed energy into the world. If Uranus is the Awakener and Pluto is the Soul (specifically those parts of the soul that are confined to the “underworld” of the unconscious mind), then Uranus-Pluto hard aspects bring the awakening of soul or the eruption of the underworld into the above-ground world. Earthquakes are a great picture of this – when the earth’s plates crash against one another and the ground buckles upward, we become suddenly aware of the powerful subterranean forces that are, in fact, always flowing beneath our feet.[3]

So obviously, there is more  symbolic meaning to ‘natural’ disasters  and release of elemental forces than we would normally imagine.


[1]A Word about Orbs

Although we use a very tight orb for star alignments, within a degree or two, the themes of surrounding stars offer context to understand the stars in exact alignment with the points and planets in your chart.

However, unlike looking at star alignments with planets, where we use a very tight orb (±2°), the angles in your chart have an active orb of about ±7°. This active area around each angle is called the "immediate foreground." Stars and planets which lie outside of the immediate foregrounds are said to be in the "background." Planets conjoining the angles or within the immediate foreground of an angle (within the ±7° orb of an angle) are especially potentized in your chart, and their resonances in your makeup and life experience are of primary significance. http://www.lunarplanner.com/Astrology/HouseRotation/index.html


[3] Uranus-Pluto: The liberation of elemental forces
[4] It is also worth noting that on March 29, there was a Sun-Uranus conjunction at 8ar square the capingress Pluto 8cp

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