Astrology of Storm Barry

Throughout history people have noticed correlations between the Moon and the weather. Serious astro-meteorologists often cast a chart for each phase of the Moon for the location they wish to study. The planetary alignments within the chart and especially  those to the angles provide clues as to what the weather will be like.

Here is the chart for the Gibbous Moon of July 12 cast for Shell Beach, Louisiana where Hurricane Barry is expected to make landfall. Notice the sharp alignments with the horizon and meridian. The Sun-Saturn-Pluto opposition is on the horizon while the Mars-Uranus square straddles the meridian.

The Gibbous Moon [5sa23] is conjunct the three Black Holes Circinus X-1, Scorpio X-1, Hercules X-1. Diana Rosenberg writes:

Black Holes are often transited at storms: there were placements here in 1748 at John Newton’s Storm; at the 1815 Autumn Equinox, the day the devastating Great September Gale hit New England; at the Winter Solstice of 1898, a series of hurricanes and gales swept the North Atlantic from the end of December to March 1899 causing havoc with shipping; at the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900; at the Sept. 1928 New Moon during the huge Lake Okeechobee Hurricane, second deadliest in US history; at the Great Florence flood of 1966; in Oct 1998 when Category 5 Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America.

But the position of the Moon is planetary in scope so why is the hurricane targeting Louisiana. To answer that we look at the stars that form the backdrop to the planets that aspect the angles. The Sun and North Node on the descendant are amid stars of sidereal Gemini which Diana Rosenberg links to “storms” and “extreme barometric lows” giving several examples.

This was Uranus at a 440 CE Solar Eclipse: the city of Ys in Brittany was “submerged in a great flood;” there was a July 1281 New Moon here at Khublai Khan’s second attempt to invade Japan: a vast aramada of 4,400 ships and 142,000 Mongol troops set out in July; in August a typhoon struck destroying 4,000 ships and more than 100,000 troops; this was the North Node at a July 1591 solar eclipse the year four hurricanes in one month sank 100 ships in the Western Hemisphere; Mars at the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Placements here were active at the 1935 Category 5, Labor day Hurricane that hit the Florida Keys; the 1946 Hito Bay Tsunami that killed 165 and many others.

Next we turn our attention to the Mars-Uranus square that aligns with the meridian. Here Mars is at [7le] amid stars of Argo and the Crab. For this area too  Diana Rosenberg lists several storms and hurricanes.