The Iran Earthquake

A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Iran on Tuesday, according to the United States Geographical Survey. The quake struck at 3:44 p.m. local time (6:44 a.m. ET) in southeastern Iran, about 50 miles east of the city of Khash and near the Pakistani border, the USGS reported. Its depth was reported to be about 50 miles below the Earth's surface.

Earthquakes are found to be associated with eclipses and important planetary conjunctions and oppositions. An eclipse is always liable to cause seismic disturbances where it is visible, especially if it falls very close to the line of horizon i.e. the cusps of the first and seventh houses, or of the meridian i.e. the cusps of the tenth and fourth houses. Of these two lines, that of the meridian is more important; and that of the lower meridian i.e. the cusp of the fourth house is the most important of all. The same remarks apply to important planetary conjunctions and oppositions falling near these points. If these two factors are combined, the probability of the earthquake is much increased. In addition to this, certain of the zodiacal signs are more closely associated with earthquakes than are others. The four fixed signs are very important in this respect; and of these Taurus and Scorpio are more often related to great shocks of earthquake than are any other signs, when eclipses or important conjunctions occur therein, or when oppositions or squares are thrown to major planets therein. H.S.Green, Mundane or National Astrology

The rules outlined by H.S.Green are fully validated in the Iran quake as a look at the  chart for the upcoming eclipse shows. As mentioned in previous posts, eclipses can be pre-triggered by transits. In this case the transit Moon (4cn)  at the time of the quake (3:44 pm)  is  sesquisquare the Saturn end (8sc24)of the eclipse configuration. Rising on the Ascendant (29vi) is the star Benetnash (27vi).

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]

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Readers may like to ponder over the ‘multicongruence’. Just a day before we have Boston marathon blast with the same eclipse significantly aspected to the angles. Mars-Saturn combinations are known to pack a lot of violent energy that can be released in the form of an explosion or an earthquake.

Ref: Astrology of  the Boston Marathon blast. http://bit.ly/17hFYSx