Lunar Eclipse and the Carr fire

A raging wildfire in northern California has killed two firefighters and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. The fires in Shasta county are being sucked up by strong winds to form "fire tornados" that are uprooting trees and overturning cars, fire officials say. The blazes, known as the Carr fire, have destroyed at least 500 structures and are threatening thousands of homes.  July 28 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44990976

Eclipses can be very powerful when they appear on the horizon or meridian.  The total lunar eclipse at Shasta  is placed exactly on the meridian forming a T-square with Mars and Uranus. Mars which is currently retrograde reaches the opposition to the Sun on July 27 at which point it is the closest to Earth. Richard Nolle describes this phenomena thus:

Mars Max is a new kind of astrology. Like SuperMoon, it’s a concept with deep roots in ancient astrology; but it has been lost down through the ages, as astrology turned away from the night sky and into books and tradition. I call it Mars Max because it’s a cycle anchored by the Red Planet’s close approach to our home planet. Astronomers call this close approach to Earth perigee, and it is the key to both Mars Max and SuperMoon. Any planet in perigee appears abnormally big and bright in the sky – the Red Planet during a Mars Max cycle – and particularly around the time of its peak, the Sun-Mars opposition (July 27) that defines the Mars perigee – and you’ll see Mars burning bigger and brighter than usual - roughly eight times bigger and brighter than it does when farthest from Earth. An increase in accidents also accompanies this cycle; along with a surfeit of fires and explosions, whether natural or human caused. http://www.astropro.com/forecast/predict/2018-all.html

But let us go a little further  and look at how Uranus [2ta] on the descendant is also adding to the theme of fires (and whirlwinds).  Among others, Uranus  is conjunct stars of Cepheus  and Sharatan, beta Aries. Diana Rosenberg writes:

Cepheus’ fiery influence is represented  by the 1930 fire that raced through the severely crowded Columbus, OH State Penitentiary killing 320 prisoners; thieves siphoning oil from a Nigerian pipeline caused a violent explosion and inferno in 1998 killing 800 and destroying entire villages; in 1934 passenger liner Morro Castle  caught fire and burned to a shell killing 134 passengers; the boiler of old, severely  overloaded paddle-wheeler Sultana exploded and burned on the Mississippi – 1238, most of them Union soldiers returning  from the Civil War were killed outright or drowned.

 Al – Sharatain was said to produce “whirlwinds”  and Diana Rosenberg  gives several examples of tornadoes and hurricanes connected with these stars.