Astrology of the Boston Marathon blast

Regular readers will by now be familiar with the fact that eclipses can act well before their time. Also if an eclipse makes aspects to an angle it is definitely important for that place.  Shown here is the upcoming lunar eclipse of April 25  which not only fulfills these conditions but also contains  violent explosive energy since it straddles a Mars-Saturn opposition in fixed signs. The eclipse Sun along with Mars is in 8^th house making a sesqui-quadrate (135 d) aspect to the ascendant while Saturn sits with Moon making a semi-square (45 d) aspect to the Ascendant. Here Saturn is ruler of the 5^th house while Mars is the ruler of the 8th.

In Mundane Astrology, the eighth  house is connected with public mortality [1]. Raphael notes, for example, that Mars in the 8th house shows "many sudden and terrible deaths by fire, accidents and crime”.  The 5^th house is associated with sports [1]  so that the Mars-Saturn combination is easily linked to accidents and death in connection with sports or at some place of amusement and games.  Also the Sun is the ruler of the 12^th house connected with secretive terrorist attacks [1] so that the pieces of the  jigsaw fall elegantly into place.

Astrologers researching in mundane events soon discover that there is usually more than one indicator pointing to an event along with other factors pointing to some detail.

Here we see that the Ascendant [17vi57] of the eclipse chart is conjunct the star Mizar [16vi]. Zeta (ζ) Ursa Major, Mizar, is a double star, possibly binary, brilliant white and pale emerald on the Tail of the Great Bear.

Supposedly, Mizar portends a Mars nature. The reputation of Mizar, if it is in maximal position in a mundane map, is that of being connected with fires of a catastrophic extent and mass calamities. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, p.55.]

It is reported that many people suffered injuries in the leg [2].  The MC [15ge45] of the chart is  conjunct Hasseleh of Auriga in Charioteer’s left foot. The ancient image of the Charioteer was connected with the military. George Noonan [3] associates Auriga in modern times with sports. The modern image of the constellation given in Urania’s Mirror (1823) is a man, possibly a war verteran, in a wheel chair suggesting injuries to the legs [4].

 Conjunct the eclipse Moon [5sc46] is 31 Bootis [5sc25] – a star in the Herdsman’s right leg.  More detail is available if we look at the chart of the Crescent Moon  [9ge36]  at 9:29 UT on April 14. We see that Ascendant is 23pi11 and MC is 26sa12.  The Moon is conjunct the stars 48 Persei [9ge40] near Perseus’ right knee and lambda Persei [10ge09] just above his right thigh. The Ascendant is conjunct lambda Pegasi, the horse’s prancing forelegs. Diana Rosenberg associates this area with sports that have to do with the feet (long distance running!).  On the MC is Hercules and tropical Sagittarius which Diana associates with love of the outdoor and travellers. More particularly there is here Tso Kang, 58 Ophiuchi [26sa20] in the right leg of Ophiuchus.[5]

[1] The Houses and What They Govern in Mundane Astrology

  http://www.aquasoul.com/Mundane_Astrology.html

[2] Boston Marathon blasts: 'So many people without legs'. http://bit.ly/YNwLSs

[3] Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, George Noonan, 1990, [p.15-16.]

http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Hasseleh.html

[4] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg [v.1. p.283]

[5] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg [v.1. p.256; v.2.p. 384,755]

P.S.

(a) For the event chart of the blast researcher astrodem notes:

http://bit.ly/11fTjZG 

On a whim I plugged in the asteroid Marathon. I do not know what this means, but the asteroid Marathon (4356) is conjunct the ARMC or the Meridian by exactly 15 arc minutes. 

http://serennu.com/astrology/ephemeris.php?inday=15&inmonth=04&inyear=2013&inhours=18&inmins=50&insecs=00&insort=declong&z=t&gh=g&addobj=4356&inla=42n22

(b) The first  quarter moon[28cn]  of April 18 at Boston has 17ge rising with Jupiter at 15 ge  on the Ascendant. Jupiter in Gemini is a school (Gemini) of higher learning (Jupiter) so that it is appropriate that the drama played out in the MIT . At 15 Ge is the star Cursa in the constellation of Eridanus, the heavenly river. While the Sun [28ar38] is conjunct Al Pherg [27ar] and Acamar [24ar] . Theta (θ) Eridanus, Acamar, is a star in the River Eridanus which along with Al Pherg Nick Fiorenza  calls a dam in the river of life. Apparently MIT and Watertown are close to a dam on the Charles river! Finally it  is being reported that the name of the suspect who died is Tamerlane Tsarnaev.  Historically,  the Turkic ruler Timur, was also called Tamerlane (from Persian: تيمور لنگ‎, Timūr-e Lang, Aksak Timur "Timur the Lame" in Turkish)...is this.another coincidence (?) ...given that so many victims had leg injuries.

The second suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who has been taken alive was born 22 Jul 1993. His radix Sun would therefore be at 29cn exactly where the first quarter Moon has taken place 28cn and of course square to the deadly recent Sun-Mars militant conjunction at 29 Ar.The first quarter moon is conjunct Chi Geminorium,[28cn] in Pollux’s head or cap. The star Pollux is of course always linked to Castor and the two together make up the siblings that Gemini is often interpreted as. During the hunt for the suspects there was a constant reference to their caps!