A massive landslide engulfed a gold
mining area in mountainous Tibet
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 Lhasa
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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