Blaze devastates Russian academic library

Phoenix Burning

One of Russia's largest academic libraries, which contains millions of unique historical documents, has gone up in flames in Moscow. A part of the building’s roof collapsed before dozens of fire fighters managed to contain the blaze. The fire erupted at around 10 p.m. local time (7 p.m. GMT) on the third floor of the Academic Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION) in Moscow. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, some 2,000 square meters were engulfed in flames, forcing the roof to cave in. Jan 31; http://rt.com/news/228075-moscow-fire-unique-library/

The current chart for Russia is set for December 25, 1991, at 5:19:40 pm GMT or (other source) 5:25 pm GMT (flag up), in Moscow [1]. The directed Solar Arc Ascendant [14vi35] is exactly conjunct Jupiter [14vi35]. Both these are 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. It has a well known connection  to catastrophic fires.

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.]

So what happened on Jan. 30 to set off this important solar arc direction. The first trigger is transit Mars [14pi] opposite Jupiter [14vi]. Note that Mars-Mercury-Jupiter are square in the radix and Mars is ruler of the 9^th house so that along with Mercury it is connected to books, libraries and places of learning. The second trigger is the diurnal Ascendant for Jan.30 which works out to 14Virgo once again conjunct Jupiter. Among other things Mars is linked to fires and accidents and Jupiter itself has a connection to higher learning so that a fire in a library can be expected.

More specifically transit Mars [14pi] is conjunct Ankaa [15pi].

Alpha (α) Phoenix, Ankaa, is a star on the neck of the mythical Phoenix. The phoenix in mythology is said to live for 500 or 1000 years. At the end of its life, it builds and settles on a nest or funeral pyre of spices, and when the sun reaches its apex, the heat of its rays ignites the nest and the phoenix perishes in the flames. Another story says it lights the fire by striking a rock with its beak and fans the flames with its wings. Three days later from its own ashes a little worm crawls forth which became the new phoenix. [2]

Finally, we look at the mundane planetary conjunction of Sun with retrograde Mercury that was exact on Jan.30. A chart for this conjunction at Moscow has it placed very significantly on the horizon axis with the prominent T-square of Uranus-Pluto-Zeus straddling the meridian.  Uranus [13ar] is conjunct zeta Cephei –  in the King’s Crown.  Cepheus was known to the Romans as “inflammatus” and linked to devastating fires and we also know that  the TNP Zeus is  connected to fires. So whichever way we look at it, the fire was waiting to happen.

[1] http://www.astrologyweekly.com/countries/russia.php

[2] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/stars/Ankaa.html