Richard Branson rockets to the edge of space

 

UK businessman Sir Richard Branson is on his way to fulfilling a lifetime's ambition: flying to the edge of space. His Virgin Galactic rocket plane has taken off for a 1.5-hour mission which will see it reach an altitude where the sky turns black and the Earth's horizon curves away into the distance. The entrepreneur says he wants to evaluate the experience before allowing paying customers aboard next year. The mission above New Mexico began shortly after 08:30 EST (15:30 BST). https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57790040

In mundane astrology, the cardinal ingresses of the Sun (entry into the  four cardinal signs i.e. 00 deg of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn ) have a traditional reputation as important mundane events  Presented here is the chart for the Sun’s entry into Cancer on June 21 drawn for New Mexico. Mark the Saturn-Uranus-TNP Apollon T-square aligned significantly with the meridian.

When tradition and security oriented Saturn and rebel and freedom-seeking Uranus clash, we experience the expansion of what we think is possible. Saturn enduring structures  and accepted ways of doing things can come into conflict with the accelerated vision of Uranus that resists restrictions and insists on making innovative changes to the status quo. Among  other things a Apollon-Uranus combination in linked to scientific and technological breakthroughs.

 

But more specifically for the stars that align with Uranus, Diana Rosenberg  writes  “history making and history changing  inventions and events” : Here are runner Joan Benoit, winner of the first Olympic Woman’s Marathon; Ellen MacArthur , solo competitive sailor who broke the world’s circumnavigation record; Robert Hayes, Olympic gold medal champion sprinter, “the greatest 100 m runner of all time”; Isambard Kingdom Brunei, “greatest engineer of his age,” designer of the first transatlantic steamer; engineer/inventor Rudolph Diesel ; aircraft manufacturer William Boeing; auto manufacturer Henry Ford; Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb”;  Babbage’s first description in 1822 of his plan for a calculating machine, forerunner of the computer; Bell’s first successful telephone experiment in 1876; Edison’s first successful electric vacuum light bulb in 1879; the discovery by Dr. Robert Koch of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis; the discovery of the world’s first oil well in 1859 and the launch of  Sputnik, the first artificial Earth satellite in 1957, inaugurating the Space Age. 

Finally here is the current solar return chart for Richard Branson [1].  

Notice the Sun opposite Saturn-Pluto  aligned with the horizon. For Ebertin this is: 

Hard struggle for success; participation in achievements brought about by a large group of people; the pursuit of difficult work of painstaking and thorough research. 

  

[1] https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Branson,_Richard