The Bangalore Express Fire

As many as 23 people are feared to have been killed, and 12 others injured after a fire broke out in a bogie of the Nanded-Bangalore Express in Anantapuram district of Andhra Pradesh on Saturday. The fire broke out at around 3.30am (28 Dec) near the Kottacheruvu station in the district in one of the AC coaches. The affected coach, B1, has been completely gutted while the adjacent bogie had also been affected. Though there is no official statement, sources say the fire might have been caused by a short circuit in the system. The fire has been doused and the injured have been taken to hospitals in nearby Dharmavaram and Puttaparthi.

As we have seen in several previous posts, an eclipse can produce events long after it has occurred. Shown above is the solar eclipse of 10 May 2013 at Dharmavaram, close to the site of accident. Notice that the eclipse [19ta31] is powerfully placed on the Ascendant [19ta57]. It is conjunct the star beta Fornax [20ta06]. This constellation is also known as the Furnace and by association with heat and fires [1]. The next question would be why the accident occurred when it did. A classical rule in mundane astrology is that eclipses are activated when transiting planets trigger them. On 28^th December morning, transiting Saturn [19sc59] was exactly on the descendant [19ta57] and opposite the eclipse [19ta31] triggering the stars of the Furnace. A chart for  3:30 am, the reported time of the fire, has Saturn on the Ascendant, confirming its role in the accident!

But as always, there is never just one indicator for important events in astrology. If we progress the eclipse chart by the Wynn Key Return method we find the current T-square of Uranus-Pluto-Mars on the angles. Uranus [8ar01] and  the MC [8ar38] are conjunct mu Cephei, “Garnet Star” in King’s head.   Cepheus wears a Crown of Fire! (Romans called him inflammatus). Ibn Ezra, an 11th century astrologer listed in place of Cepheus, “The Lady of the Flame”. In India, the two Bhadrapadha nakshtras (this is Uttarabhadrapadha) were known as “the Scorching Pair” connected with all things hot and burning. Research has proved this to be one of two areas with the highest number of fires in the zodiac among them.

Moon, Exeter Theatre Fire, 1887, England: 200 died, many suffocated by smoke; Mercury: Triangle Clothing Factory Fire, 1911, New York City: 146 dead; Saturn, L’Innovation Department Store Fire 1967,Brussels: 322 killed; Venus, start of fire bombing of Dresden 1945, 35,000 civilians killed, architectural  treasures destroyed; Bradford, England football stadium fire, 1985 (53 killed) and the “Move” cult bombing by Philadelphia police causing a fire that gutted an entire city block (11 dead, 200 homeless); Mars, a 10-hr fire destroyed Lisbon’s Chiado shopping district, 1988; Mars SR 1988, start of Yellowstone Fires and the 1988 Ramstein, Germany Air Show disaster when three planes collided and crashed in flames, parts hitting spectators (70 killed, 500 injured); Uranus at the 1257 Winter Solstice just before Genghis Khan’s grandson Hulagu with 200,000 Tartars pillaged and burned Baghdad, a centre of learning and culture and many others. [2]

[1] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Fornax.htm

[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.77-78)