A fire in Brazil 's largest port has burnt
some 180,000 tonnes of raw sugar, damaging six warehouses and pushing
international prices to a one-year high. The authorities in the port of Santos said it took six hours to bring
the fire under control. The cause of the blaze is still being investigated. Brazil
is the world's main sugar exporter, accounting for nearly half of international
sales. Port authorities added that the fire
began at around 06:00 local time on a
conveyor belt taking raw sugar into one of the warehouses.
The Full
Moon eclipse at Santos has Neptune
[2pi46] on the MC [3pi47] opposite Mars [2vi06]
on the IC. Since Mars is the ruler of the eclipse that occurred in the fire sign Aries and Neptune
is associated with the sea it is not surprising that the fire took place at a
ware house on a port. But more interesting are the stars on the MC which was transited at several great
fires.
At the 64 CE Great Fire of Rome
during Nero’s reign; in 1812 when three-quarters of Moscow was burned during
Napolean’s invasion; at the start of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; at the
Brooklyn Theatre Fire of 1876; at the 1906 San Francisco quake fires that ravaged the city; at the 1919
Mayaguez movie theatre fire, San Juan PR that killed 150; at the 1947 Texas
City disaster: a ship loading ammonium nitrate fertilizer, on fire, went up in
a titanic explosion that wrecked the city, knocked two planes out of the sky
and obliterated a 50-acre chemical plant, a second ship exploded the next day:
552 were killed, 3000 injured, 200 were missing; at the first alarm of a 1966
New York City Fire that killed 12 firefighters (the worst loss of NY firefighters
before 9/11); at the 1987 Aries Ingress preceding the Great Black Dragon Fire
accidentally spilled gasoline started the worst forest fire in 300 years in
vast areas of China and Soviet Union destroying prime timber land and many more
[1].
The MC
(meridian) of a chart drawn for the
06:00 local time, when the fire is reported to have occurred, is 24 cn forming
a T-square with the eclipse axis confirming the role of the eclipse in the
fire.
Finally, in
passing, we note that the eclipse forms
a hard aspect to Venus – the planet associated with all things sweet and
sugary!
[1] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg [v.2, p. 681]
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