Solunars

Today is the exact Mars-Uranus square. From a mundane point of view, it's important worldwide because it's right on Cansolar Moon (which was exactly square Uranus in the Cansolar). Personally, though, it's on my SSR Ascendant relocated to my home, 10°39' Aries. (The square is exact at 10°31' Aries.)...

June 15, 1991, 1:42 PM AWST, Luzon, Philippines 15N08'30", 120E21'00" The second most powerful volcanic explosion in the 20th century occurred concurrent with the landing of Typhoon Yunya which brought a deadly quadruple threat of all four elements to the area. The particles it ejected into the atmo...

June 6, 1912, about 1:00 PM BET, Katmai National Park, Alaska 58N16'00", 155W09'24" The most powerful volcanic eruption in the 20th century, lasting 60 hours and releasing 30 times the magma volume of Mount St. Helens in a blast heard (an hour after it occurred) 750 miles away in Juneau. I find no r...

October 24, 1902, about 8:00 PM LMT, Guatemala at 14N45'20", 91W33'06" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Mar%C3%ADa_(volcano) Ending hundreds to thousands of years of dormancy, and following major seismic disturbances in the first months of the year, the Santa Maria volcano (locally known as Gagxa...

UK PM Boris Johnson was moved from 10 Downing Street to hospital last night, and just a few minutes ago, 2:30 eastern (although he's in London) to ICU, in case of his having to go on a ventilator. The mundane astrology question is: Does anything show for the Prime Minister being down like this. (Re...

The NYSE just finished its worst Quarter in its entire history being obviously oversold . I think the market may stall its descent with a consolidated rally in prices with some nice Jupiter transits to the 2020 DC Capsolar. It opened by 4% today. My monthly forecast, for the Canlunar this week, inc...

For this kind of aspect, yes. (I can have a theoretical reason to allow 2° but in practice it doesn't appear to work.) Remember, also, that I'm not saying this is valid. I'm saying that there are some really interesting examples of distinguishing a new location, which leads one to think that these a...

Feb 8, 2020, 3:30 AM, Korat, Thailand (Nakhon Ratchasima Province) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nakhon_Ratchasima_shooting In Thailand, a soldier went to his superior officer's home near the military base to discuss a property dispute and eventually killed the commander and another member of t...

Another example: Donald Trump for birthplace in Queens, New York has the following parans at birth: Sat Asc 005°55' Nep IC 005°57' Ven Asc 006°53' Mon Dsc 328°48' Mar IC 329°26' In other words: Saturn-Neptune square (0°02'), Moon-Mars square (0°38'), Venus-Neptune square (0°56'), and Venus-Saturn co...

With the Janus software it gives sidereal times with Solar fire it reads like a normal clock? I think Ken said 4 minutes was equivalent to one degree? I have limited aspects in mundo to 2 degrees. There's n easier way to do it in Solar Fire, but it's a trick. First of all, you can either have RAMC ...

In contrast, here are the parans of my horoscope relocated to the city where I have lived my entire adulthood: Jupiter-Uranus conj. 06' Jupiter-Uranus conj. 32' Jupiter-Uranus conj. 13' Jupiter-Uranus conj. 13' Mercury-Saturn conj. 38' Mercury-Saturn conj. 38' Sun-Jupiter sq. 17' Sun-Uranus sq. 51' ...

Using my own birth chart as an example, at birth - for my birthplace - I had the following potential parans within 1°: Jupiter-Uranus conj. 38' Jupiter-Uranus conj. 13' Jupiter-Uranus conj. 12' Jupiter-Uranus conj. 13' Mercury-Saturn conj. 38' Mercury-Saturn conj. 38' Mars-Jupiter op. 37' Mars-Uranu...

Interestingly, I also use Einstein's chart as one of my favorite examples and give his chart side-by-side with Bill Gates and Marie Curie in my book Sidereal Mundane Astrology . When I say "mundane aspect," I usually mean aspects measured along the prime vertical. (This has proven strikingly importa...

So the answer is complicated. Some of these things I think are most worthwhile, others are in some situations, and others... well, I don;t have the confidence in them I once did. Here's the big problem: I don't know of ANY astrology software that does the correct job of precessing natal positions to...

My copy of Ken's book is in storage, so I can't consult it at the moment. Can you remind me... by "mundane aspects" was he talking about parans (which, in any case, I know Ken is a big fan of) or was he talking about aspects in the prime vertical?

It sounds like a beautiful occasion, but I'd be stretched to call it a beautiful chart. With Saturn exactly at Midheaven conjunct Neptune and trine Venus and Jupiter, it seems, instead, to anticipate the "trail of tears" that marked indigenous Americans' plight in the decades ahead. It is a fascinat...

In "keep it simple" terms... the COVID-19 pandemic is really the one, only story right now. I keep looking for other stories with Capricorn related themes (among the biggest stories each day) but, really, half of the Top Five already about the pandemic directly or indirectly and other potentially co...

Starting it off...

Someone here might. I've made it through 20+ years in IT without ever touching an Apple computer

There is a lot more Sedna operating in the U.S. chart in March; I'll leave you to dig it out in the top post on your own. I just wanted to mention that the transits were pretty accurate this month! (Also the Solar Arc overlap of Mars and Neptune to natal Moon, one 15' separating and the other 56' ap...

p Sun trines p Jupiter, completing the one positive set of progressions at present. It will be exact March 23, then expire a year later. This aspect (currently applying by 2') suggests great fortune for the nation, its economy, and its esteem. This has to be one of the biggest "fails" I've ever see...

A few observations about the U.S. natal chart for April... SECONDARY PROGRESSIONS Several long-term progressions currently exist. Many are heading toward exact contact in 2020-2022. The currently active progressions are: p Venus squares p Pluto (with p Sun octile both) ends April 3. This aspect, la...

To add another note about 1907 that I think will intrigue you, Steve: The Libsolar October 17, 1907 gets a "0" (Neutral) score from me with respect to the October 22 crash. It's main feature is a Venus-Mars square - Venus 0°15' from square MC, Mars 2°42' from MC, and Venus square Mars 0°27'. My basi...

As I work on a rewrite of the financial panics chapter of SMA, I'm finding better times / dates for several events. Sometimes just tiny shifts, sometimes a little larger. It probably isn't making a significant difference in the final statistics, though I haven't quite gotten to the place where I can...

I think your intuition on 8:30 might be right (though I can't use it without confirmation). I do know that 14 years later, in 1907, the stock exchange closed at 3 PM instead of today's 4 PM. (This emerged from the story of JP Morgan's temporary last-minute save of the market in the 1907 panic.) If i...