Ceres’
nymphs striking land with famine
It has been a difficult summer for India. Drought
and a searing heat wave have affected an astonishing 330 million people across
the country. But this summer also marks the 150th anniversary of a far more
terrible and catastrophic climatic event: the Orissa famine of 1866. Hardly
anyone today knows about this famine. It elicits little mention in even the
densest tomes on Indian history. There will be few, if any, solemn
commemorations. Yet the Orissa famine killed over a million people in eastern
India. June 11
A chart for
the last solar eclipse drawn for London, from where the author posted the article,
is shown here. The eclipse is part of a T-square that straddles the horizon
axis. It is conjunct the asteroid Ceres, Memoria and Orpheus and square Saturn
on the Ascendant.
In ancient
Roman religion, Ceres was a goddess of
agriculture, grain crops and fertility. If we put this picture of Ceres with
Saturn, the ruler of scarcity and Orpheus, the asteroid associated with death
we have mass deaths caused by a famine. The image above from Antonio Tempesta
(Italy, Florence, 1555-1630) shows Ceres’ nymphs striking the land with famine
[1].
Progressing
the eclipse chart to June 11, the date of the news article, the entire T-square
is now anchored on the progressed descendant and thereby triggered. Finally,
let us remember that the eclipse is also conjunct the asteroid Memoria, linked
to memories of the past so that we are talking about a famine that took place
150 years ago.
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