Friday, May 24, 2013

Astrology and the Oklahoma tornadoes

Sun: 3'Gemini
Moon: 23' Scorpio
Full Moon (within 1 day)

As a trained storm spotter, I understand something of the challenges faced by NOAA and the local Emergency Management departments in reacting to such a swift-paced and dangerous storm.  As a trained civilian search-and-rescue assistant, I also understand exactly what the communities across Oklahoma are going through right now and I extend my fullest sympathies for the all the great losses they have suffered.

As an astrologer, I have not yet gotten around to drawing a chart for the tornado event at Moore, OK.  However, I spotted this on Astro.com and found it to be a thoughtful piece on the effects of the outer planets on personal lives.  Often, the outer planets (Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) are thought of as being only "generational" in effect due to their distance from Earth and the time it takes for each of them to make even a single revolution around the Sun.
Yet Mercury is the planet associated with Air as an element, and Uranus is its higher octave (associated with Aquarius - Fixed Air).  Where Mercury is rapid and light and often scattered, Uranus can be highly focused, but highly disruptive, even chaotic, and absolutely unpredictable.  Like the lightning bolt it is often associated with (another common feature of a Great Plains supercell storm) - or a tornado - Uranus and his effects are there, and then they're gone.  Uranus' current transit of Aries - Cardinal Fire - is likely to only feed that tendency even more: "fools rush in..." is a great keyword of this placing.

Mercury is, by the way, at 17 degrees Gemini (Mutable Air) at the time of this writing - he's in the sign that associates most strongly with the switching winds, or the fair breeze that becomes a tempest in a moment.

A tornado is, in plainest terms, an attempt by the rotating mesocyclone - the greater storm above - to reach below itself for greater air inflow to keep itself going because what it can grab from around itself is not enough, and it cannot grow any taller (due to having hit the boundary between troposphere and stratosphere). 

As Uranus is Mercury-squared, one might also say the same of Pluto to Mars.  Mars is in Taurus at 24', which on the 2-dimensional wheel of astrology places him on the fixed star cluster Capulus, high in the raised sword hand of Perseus.  (The 2D wheel does not consider declinations.)  It is worth noting that Constellation of Words mentions of Perseus:

"The constellation is indicative of events effecting large numbers of people, especially those events caused by major meteorological phenomena. "  (Emphasis mine)

Interesting....

The plot thickens.  Pluto, grinding away backwards at 11' in Cardinal Earth sign Capricorn, is busy chewing up the very foundations of daily life.  And he's not too clean about it, but the explosive/volcanic side of Plutonian energy is suppressed in the retrograde movement.  He was too far from Mars to be able to count a trine aspect even with "orb" - allowances made by planetary importance in a chart.  But he was in a painfully precise square aspect to Uranus down to the degree at that very moment that the tornado touched down, and down to the minute/second three hours later.  The involvement of all three Earth signs (Virgo as the Rising Sign) is a gross pointer to a general type of location (farmland, in this case), and Jupiter on the Geminid Midheaven (a fine astrological representation of a massive and powerful supercell thunderstorm immediately overhead) is a strong pointer of location.


And one more note: the exact midpoint of the Pluto-Uranus square was at 06'Pisces (Mutable Water, with its traditional ruler Jupiter on the Midheaven and its modern ruler Neptune barely a degree away from the midpoint - now we have the elements of a storm here).  06'Pisces on the two-dimensional wheel is the degree of fixed star Biham, in Pegasus.  Pegasus, the son of Medusa and Neptune, is the swift winged horse whom Zeus (Jupiter to the Romans) chose to bear his thunderbolts, and Constellation of Words has this to say about him:

"The constellation portends events concerning ships and the ocean and also changes in the weather." (Emphasis mine.)

Curiouser and curiouser.

Am I saying "the stars caused this"?  Of course not.  And I am not the Westboro Baptist Cult (that is another topic for another post), either: there was no causing this, and there was no stopping it, and there was no fault on anyone's part for it.  But I will go so far as to say there were signs and pointers all over the skies, in meteorology and in astrology, that indicated the potential for a major and extreme weather event, and to great sorrow the events shadowed by the transits did in fact play out.  Again, my heart goes out to all those who have been hurt in some way by this tragedy, and my deepest regrets that I cannot be there now to assist in the recovery.

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