What a Difference a Day Made
July 6th 2005, 12h49 BST; London erupts with joy at the success of its bid to host the 2012 Olympics. A New Moon strongly configuring the England and UK charts is culminating as Neptune’s dream-come-true of sporting success in the 5th trines rising Jupiter and sextiles competitive Mars with the Dragon’s Head in Aries, 7th.
July 7th 2005, 08h50. London reels in shock as four bombs cripple the transport network of tube and bus, killing a total of 56 people, including the four young would-be martyrs. At the IC is grieving Ceres. The Moon, still in her own sign, and ruling the 12th, the hidden enemy, has reached the orbs of Saturn (in the Dwad opposite Mercury across a travellers' horizon) on its cusp. Mars is now in the 9th, ruling this and the IC pointing unambiguously to an overseas and/or religious threat digging deep into our home soil. In the Dwad, it is with the MC. Sportive Mars has changed his laurels for the helm of violence and invisibilty. He has become the God of War.
The Q-chart with England 1066 for both days, at its BST equivalent of 12h54m44s, is almost identical; all that has moved is the Moon. This is where the Dwad comes into its own, magnifying the smallest differences twelvefold. Both repeat the inescapable presence of Mars, close to the nonagesimal; but where the Olympic joy spills over in the union of Sun and Moon in Sagittarius with empowering Pluto trine Neptune in Leo, Venus with the Midheaven and radix Sun on the Descendant, a day later the Sun in sober Capricorn confronts the shock of opposing Uranus; the horizon suffers under radix Chiron-Saturn and the Moon grapples with loss opposite radix Ceres in her South Node. Yet she shows the stoicism of the people - she is in her exaltation, in Taurus, in a powerful degree.
Could we have seen this coming? So much of our astrology is brilliant retrospectively, yet so difficult to harness in the service of forecasting. I’ve been tracking planetary footprints again through some favourite lenses - and we may be getting lucky.
First, there needs to be a cast-iron reliable natal or inceptional chart which we can expect to be consistently responsive. Only a legitimately-timed chart will do. Then we need to apply easy techniques that clarify and don’t confuse; essentially we want to see planets coming consistently to angles and little else. Otherwise we’re back to needles in haystacks. We want one or two unambiguous signatures, and reliable timing.
Without a useful chart for London, the one I have settled on (after checking the available selection) is the chart for Blair’s government. The one that works is Friday May 2nd 1997 when the first New Labour election victory was declared at 03h17 BST, set for London. This is what happens to it when we make a Composite with the Olympics announcement: C Jupiter/Chiron/Pluto/Asc in Sagittarius conj. MC, C Sun & Mercury in Gemini conj. IC, C Uranus in Aquarius conj. Asc - all strong by sign and full of their wonderful surprise.
If you are wondering why we should composite event charts, they show the all-important moments when an arc (not necessarily an accepted aspect) in the radix is mirrored by the transit of one or both of its two planets or angles.
The following day we still have the shock of C Uranus conj. Asc - but the C MC has moved to square C Saturn, and C Asc is in Scorpio square C Uranus, displacing Jupiter by Mars as ruler conj. N.Node. Both days focus on the message of the slow-moving mirror patterns - it is time for a major contest to try the strength of our culture, faith and influence through both pleasure and pain.
First, there needs to be a cast-iron reliable natal or inceptional chart which we can expect to be consistently responsive. Only a legitimately-timed chart will do. Then we need to apply easy techniques that clarify and don’t confuse; essentially we want to see planets coming consistently to angles and little else. Otherwise we’re back to needles in haystacks. We want one or two unambiguous signatures, and reliable timing.
Without a useful chart for London, the one I have settled on (after checking the available selection) is the chart for Blair’s government. The one that works is Friday May 2nd 1997 when the first New Labour election victory was declared at 03h17 BST, set for London. This is what happens to it when we make a Composite with the Olympics announcement: C Jupiter/Chiron/Pluto/Asc in Sagittarius conj. MC, C Sun & Mercury in Gemini conj. IC, C Uranus in Aquarius conj. Asc - all strong by sign and full of their wonderful surprise.
If you are wondering why we should composite event charts, they show the all-important moments when an arc (not necessarily an accepted aspect) in the radix is mirrored by the transit of one or both of its two planets or angles.
The following day we still have the shock of C Uranus conj. Asc - but the C MC has moved to square C Saturn, and C Asc is in Scorpio square C Uranus, displacing Jupiter by Mars as ruler conj. N.Node. Both days focus on the message of the slow-moving mirror patterns - it is time for a major contest to try the strength of our culture, faith and influence through both pleasure and pain.