The night, to be precise, of Saturday January 31st 2004 at 6h39 pm, on the A49 somewhere in the beautiful (but invisible) environs of Church Stretton. Pitch dark, pouring rain, 70mph storm. Tree falls on road, BMW hits anchors but ploughs into it, Mercedes with brakes locked slides full-tilt through soggy debris and crashes into BMW’s rear bumper. Two shocked men exchange required details and despite damage manage to get home. The Mercedes was being driven by Gerard, my husband.
Under stress, I find astrology very therapeutic. It has helped me work through a very Plutonic fortnight, and thrown up such interesting data that I thought you might like to take a look.
You wouldn’t think that a chart could be cast for a car; but an 11th-hour booking for a local motoring club one year threw down a challenge that couldn’t be ignored. For want of any other data or ideas, I asked for the dates and times of registration of some of the members’ Saabs and found to my delight that not only was each car’s condition, quirks and colour described meticulously, but also its behaviour when driven by the master or mistress of the house. We had an extremely amusing evening!
‘Q’ CHARTS
Our old Mercedes had a couple of owners before us. After some experimentation it was clear that there were two charts that consistently worked: the ‘B’ date of initial registration (January 1st 1991 in Canterbury - legally at Noon), and the ‘A’ date of pre-delivery inspection. But at what time? The answer lay in the ‘Q’chart. ‘Q’ stands for Quotidian. This is the chart for the current date, but set for the true time of your own birth or a key event. A ‘Q’ chart offers a picture of what that day holds for the owner of the chosen birth-time, and has proved to be of enormous value where no other time is available. So our car’s Inspection chart ‘A’, on December 12th 1990 in Bedford, was set for 13h50 UT, the same time as when (‘C’) on January 29th 1999 Gerard first set eyes on her. This third useful chart describes the Mercedes perfectly - white and pearl-grey, utterly feminine and graceful, with her rising Moon on an 8̊ Cancer Ascendant (remember this!) and culminating Pisces Venus. He knew it was his car! It virtually became part of him. Asteroid LeCar (the car) was also rising, Crane with asteroid Storm conjunct the Sun ... and Mercedes precariously in the South Node in the 9th. The final chart needed for the accident is Gerard’s of course. (Birth date removed from public gaze.) |
THE END OF THE ROAD
No surprise, then, that Gerard had his first collision in 50 years of driving with Pluto bestriding both his Sun and the Sun of Mercedes A, especially as his Daily Progressed Ascendant at departure (the progressed MC moving approx. 1̊ a day throughout the year, with D.P.Asc adjusted according to current latitude) was also carrying that transiting Pluto. (Yes, I had noticed; yes, I was worried; no, I couldn’t stop him going.) But what about the crucial Q charts? At 00h35 that day (Q Gerard), wet, wild and slippery Neptune was on the Aquarius IC with Mars setting. At 13h50 (Q Mercedes A & C) we find a most dramatic picture which again obliges us to introduce that literal component of Sign Language, the Asteroids. Rising was a tight conjunction of Saturn/Crane in 7̊ & 8̊ Cancer (transiting the Ascendant of Mercedes C) with Storm at Cancer 4̊, and on the Midheaven was Uranus in Pisces. The ruling Moon in 6̊ Gemini was almost precisely conjunct Mercedes, right opposite a trio of Fortuna, Gluck (luck) and Incidentia in 6̊ Sagittarius. |
MANY UNHAPPY RETURNS
In the Solar Return for Mercedes A last December, these three plus Carr and Rennsteig (running upwards - into the back of the BMW in front!) were all clustered around the Moon’s South Node in Scorpio. Her luck was literally running out. Storm was exactly rising close to Saturn, Caecilia (blinded, by rain and darkness) was right on the MC squared by destructive Siva, and Hazard was at the IC. How’s that for the power of a Q chart? And, please note, it’s retrospective - we didn’t meet the car for another eight years! Didn’t I promise to show you some mysteries of time? |
Will our retrospective Q-chart, Mercedes A, still perform when we do her Lunar Returns? Oh yes! Here we are, back with the same set of angles again, would you believe, Saturn & Storm rising, Uranus (with Venus) culminating. Bang!!! The Lunar for Mercedes B repeats Saturn & Storm on the MC. The Lunar for Mercedes C approaches the same Full Moon of January 7th 2004, tied to Saturn, Storm and Crane, with Siva and Pluto rising on Gerard’s Sagittarius Sun. Consistent enough for you?
Pluto was on the IC at Mercedes A’s next Lunar; the car was declared a write-off. The other two post-crash Lunars had Chiron angular. Make-or-break time for man or machine. She surrendered herself to the salvage ramp here in Llandudno as Pluto set conjunct Carr at 11h45 am on Friday 13th February. And at the same hour, as Pluto/Carr/Gerard’s Sun set on Valentine’s Day with t. Sun right opposite LeCar, we were driving her replacement out of the sales forecourt. Of course, we have called her Valentina - and all through the drama asteroid Valentine has been in early Cancer, quietly cosying up to Storm, Saturn and Crane! MAKING PROGRESS ... Were there, you may ask, any warnings in the annual Progressions? Oh yes. And we’re back to the future again: it is in the Converse Secondaries that we find the end of the road for our old motor - Mercedes A has (you’ve guessed it) angular Uranus, rising with Neptune as Pluto exactly culminates close to the nodal axis of the crash. Mars confronts the Sun. As for Mercedes B, the Nodes lie right along the Asc/Desc with Moon conj. Saturn rising in Capricorn, Chiron setting, and Mars at the IC. Mercury, Venus and Uranus are all conjunct in sensitive 8̊ Capricorn - opposite that critical transit of Saturn and Storm on the day. Not only the Secondaries carried the warning; even the annual TrueTertiary for Mercedes A on December12th 2003 at 13h50 placed on the Descendant a conjunction in Aquarius of Saturn and Storm, provoked by Mars rising in Leo with Stoss (impact) and Jupiter the weather god. Her daily Tertiary for the crash swung that angry axis round to the Meridian, as the Sun rose with Siva opposite blinding Caecilia. Gerard’s direct daily Tertiary has Neptune rising, but it’s the Converse pattern again which is so powerful; this is where we find Mars and Pluto fighting the MC, Caecilia at the IC, and yet again Storm setting - this time in Aries - with Uranus just below the horizon. Over and over again, the same patterns of loss of control, shock, finality and damage appear with Uranus, Saturn, Pluto, Nodes, Neptune and Mars on the Angles. If only there were space here to display more than the seven charts I have chosen! Over and over again the Solar and Lunar Return charts prove themselves; converse Secondaries and converse Tertiaries can speak even louder than direct progressions. The Asteroids’ rubric, as you can see, is extraordinarily precise. |
In the Solar return for Mercedes B the force of the coming impact is delivered in yet another rising conjunction of Saturn & Storm opposite the setting Sun, all squared by Mars in its own sign - and with Uranus and Gerard in the Midheaven opposite LeCar.
The Solar Return for Mercedes C on January 29th 2004 is remarkable for its angular Uranus on the 7th cusp and Moon’s Nodes spanning the Meridian ... because two days later the crash occurred under the self-same angles! ... LeCar was rising, and Stoss (impact) close to the South Node/IC. |
But above all, the value of the Q chart (here, Mercedes A) should now be self-evident, including its lessons for us on the peculiarities of time. The space-time continuum is emphatically non-linear; indeed, all consciousness, all phenomenal experience appears to be omni-directional in a universe of many dimensions. An asteroid discovered and numbered one year but named years later will, when plotted for an event relevant to its name centuries beforehand, take up a strong and thus properly descriptive position in that chart. In terms of the various systems of progression and symbolic direction, each birth behaves like an explosion in the Multiverse that instantaneously interacts with its macro- and microcosmic medium in every conceivable direction and at many vibrational levels from the grossly material to the most spiritually refined. Maybe the whole creation is pure, eternal Idea, in which our conscious experience, shining its little torch here and there, is the only thing that moves?...
© Rev. Pam Crane 2010
© Rev. Pam Crane 2010