Astrology of the Germany floods

 

At least 42 people have died in western Germany and many more are missing following severe floods, police say. The worst of the flooding has been in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, where buildings and cars have been washed away. July 15 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57846200

The cardinal ingresses  of the Sun are the primary mundane maps used in Astro-Meteorology.  Here is the chart for Sun’s entry into Cancer drawn for Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. As always alignments with the angles are the ones to pay attention to. Here we notice Jupiter in Pisces conjunct the star Fomalhaut in the constellation Pisces Australis – the Southern Fish:

The Southern Fish is a separate constellation to Pisces, lying much further to the South, though in ancient legend it is often referred to as the parent of the zodiacal pair.  The area in which it lies has an heavy emphasis upon constellations with watery imagery, the goat-fish (Capricorn), the whale (Cetus), the water-pourer (Aquarius), the fishes (Pisces), and the dolphin (Delphinus) all located nearby, obviously earmarking this region as one that related to the rainy season of the ancient year, by which many of its stars are associated with floods or troubles at sea. The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn. https://www.skyscript.co.uk/pis_aus.html

The immediate trigger comes from the New Moon [18cn] which makes a hard aspect (sesquisquare) to Jupiter [2pi] in the Cancer ingress chart. The New Moon and the transiting Sun in the last few days are moving through the Chinese asterism Pe-Ho, the Northern River and Nan-Ho, the Southern River.These are also conjunct a tiny star just above Nan-Ho in Canis Minor that was part of the asterism Choui-Wei, the Situation of the Waters, which governed the overflowing of rivers. The Chinese astrologers  said that if this asterism was clear and tranquil, it was a good omen, but if it faded or seemed to drift and combine with the Milky Way, the rivers of the empire would overflow and flood the land [1].

 

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.703)