Yet another air tragedy. Hundreds more weeping families. This time it is Flight 9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf on March 24th 2015 that ended in fragments all over an alpine gorge. There will be people railing at God, people in despair at the emptiness of life, people hurting with no hope of comfort. Yet when the astrologer looks at the time-line of such a catastrophic event, the heavens describe its unfolding. And because the heavens are so intimately involved with the choices and outworkings of human beings in all circumstances, there can only be purpose and consciousness in the universe of which we are all a part. That great consciousness we call by many names, and even in what we experience as tragedy it is calling closer to itself its constantly reincarnating, ever-growing children.
The key moment in the flight of this doomed plane was at 10h31 local time - CET -as it crossed the French coast near Toulon. There was an 'unauthorised' small adjustment of the flight path, and the sudden start of a ten-minute descent at considerable speed. At 10h41 radar contact was lost. The crash will have followed very soon afterwards. I don't have a time for this yet. But at 10h31 CET asteroid Barcelona was at the IC - the origin of the flight; asteroid Germania was setting - the destination of the flight; asteroid Phaethon was rising, emblematic of the pilot of the flight. The point is that this vivid picture is painted not in the radix chart but - yet again - in its Dwad. Moments beforehand, a tight radix conjunction of Mercury and Chiron had been touched by the rapidly-moving Dwad Ascendant; Chiron is the Maverick who is familiar with pain, who makes his own ungovernable choices, takes leaps of faith, heads into the unknown - and may choose suicide. Whatever this pilot was thinking or doing at 10h29 certainly turned out to be suicidal. A minute later as radix asteroid Opportunity at 22 Pisces met the Dwad Ascendant (!), the Dwad MC lined up with the nearby Jupiter-Pluto opposition, also squaring Mercury/Uranus/Chiron in the Dwad all opposite Dwad Moon and radix Sun/S.Node. Either we have here a spur-of-the moment decision, or a sudden attack of physical or mental illness. And from the 1 pm BBC news which I only just saw after I had written the last comments, we now know the 28-year-old co-pilot's act, locking his superior out of the cockpit and putting the Airbus into a steep dive, was deliberate - for whatever reason. Embedded somewhere in this nightmare and its cosmic pattern lies a higher purpose; it cannot, will not have been meaningless despite all the misery and pain left in its wake. The flight was doomed from its departure - it left the gate in Barcelona at 09h35 CET even though actual takeoff was delayed, and at that moment Saturn was setting, while in the all-important Dwad Saturn and Descendant were joined in a violent impact by Mars (near radix Ceres) and Ceres at the IC - the bereaver of families - lined up with the radix Moon. In coelo, Swissair was rising and Alps setting. The critical moment, relocated, brought all this devastation to Barcelona and to Haltern in Germany where many children were lost; at 10h31 CET in Barcelona the local Dwad MC/Ceres was closing along with Asc/Mars/ Saturn/ N.Node conjunct the radix Ceres in Capricorn. At Haltern it was the Dwad MC that collected this same deadly pattern as the radix Ascendant picked up the Dwad Pluto-Jupiter opposition. At departure, the Dwad Moon was in late Pisces conjunct radix Phaethon, suggesting that the man in charge of the plane could be emotionally unstable. Now we know that Andreas Lubitz was only 28, this is highly likely; he would have been going through both his Saturn and progressed Lunar Returns, always a testing time. On March 24th 2015 asteroid Andreasdoppler's Dwad position was Cancer 4 with Dwad Pluto. Asteroid Andreashofer's Dwad position was 27 Scorpio conjunct Ceres and opposite radix Moon. Asteroid Andree's Dwad was at Cancer 26, opposite radix Ceres. Cherchez la femme. ... Seeing all this however doesn't stop the tears, doesn't answer the question in everyone's mind - Why? |
Well, we now have Andreas Lubitz's birth date, and presumably place. Many thanks to Heather Cameron who found the data on the Pilots' Forum and kindly posted it on the Mundane Astrologers' Facebook Group page.
The chart I am using demonstrates the importance and usefulness of the 'Q' chart, where a chart with an unknown birth time (so far!) is erected for the time of an incident key to that person's life. So Here is Andreas Lubitz Q his action that led to the deaths of 150 people ten or so minutes later. Here as expected, both in the Dwad - his conscious , thinking inner identity - and in the radix, is maverick, suicidal Chiron in tight opposition to the Sun. At this critical moment in the cycle of the day the Dwad MC meets a volatile conjunction of bereaving Ceres with Uranus, compromising any emotional stability offered by the Leo Moon (remember the Moon moves extremely fast in the Dwad.) In the sky, Ceres is rising with Venus in Capricorn. It is fascinating to find, too, asteroids in the Helio chart resonating with this key Q-chart: Phaethon (the pilot) is at 24 Libra on the Dwad MC with Uranus opposite Swissair at the Dwad IC in 20 Aries. The depression to which he was prone will be at least in part due to a very close conjunction in the radix of Mercury with Saturn only two degrees from his Sun/Uranus conjunction opposite Chiron. At 10h31 the radix MC is 5 degrees past the Scorpio Moon., and asteroid Andree lies between them. Andreasdoppler is setting. Andreashofer's Dwad position of 14 Sagittarius is 9 degrees below the Ascendant. It is as if this is a moment that reinforces his identity. It literally makes his name. And it is a moment when the Woman - especially the Mother - is in the forefront of his mind. There may be more family complexities than we know of ... he was, at 27, still living for much of the time with his parents. You can see Scorpio in his face, in the photographs; a Scorpio Moon, and that ruthless Mars/Pluto conjunction, intensifies emotion and commitment, turns these inward, and can also precipitate profound depression. This moment is for him also a moment of release. At the Dwad IC is radix Jupiter, and Dwad Jupiter is conjunct the radix MC. This is emphasised when the Q-chart is relocated to Toulon, over which he was flying. Dwad Jupiter's conjunction with radix MC is, here, exact. An the Dwad MC is with his Virgo South Node opposite Neptune - a pattern so often seen when a life, a future, is lost or thrown away. The Dwad Ascendant is rapidly closing in on its Pluto-Saturn opposition. It is entirely appropriate to work further with Q charts, even though in this case everything is retrospective, as we would have no idea how important 10h31 CET would be until he and 149 others were dead on a mountainside. So here is the 2014 Solar Return. I have put its Dwad at the centre as the running themes are displayed so clearly. Jupiter and Neptune are rising opposite the radix Moon. In the Dwad is a Moon/MC conjunction with the Return radix Sun, Ceres, IC. All over again, woman, mother, bereavement, release. In the radix, suicidal Chiron has just set. The Progressions are extraordinary. In the Annual direct chart Chiron is exactly on the IC opposite his natal radix Mercury/Saturn/Sun - end of life through suicide. In the annual converse chart Chiron conjoins the Descendant. The Annual converse shows his converse New Moon about to close in late Scorpio, right on the axis that keeps reappearing in the event charts; also how close converse Venus now was to Saturn. But look again at that Annual Direct chart - here is another Scorpio Moon, just past Pluto and Dwad Uranus; and in the Dwad the MC is right where we found it natally in his natal Q-chart at Toulon! ... 25 Virgo, with the radix South Node, and the dreaded Ceres exactly opposite on the IC. Dwad Chiron 'sets'. The progressed Capricorn Sun is closing on natal Ceres - and transiting Ceres has returned to that same position. On that plane were many children away from their parents. There was a mother and her baby. There were parents away from their families. And something was desperately wrong with Andreas Lubitz's private life. He killed them all. In August 2014 I discovered completely by accident a remarkable phenomenon which I call Directional Dwad Returns. It turns out, highly significantly, that Lubitz had reached the exact time of his first DDR. This happens when the Dwad of the progressed Sun re-conjoins the natal Dwad Sun, in his case at 10/11 Libra. What then happens is that when the Dwad is applied to the Solar Arc chart (which is of course usually based on the annually Progressed Sun) all the natal planets and angles are found at their Dwad Return! (Don't be thrown by the natal date on the Solar return chart - to tweak it to work with the Dwad I had instead to do a User Return, which doesn't require date input, only arc.) This extraordinary pattern shows the inner life, 'the I behind the eyes', coming full circle. It happened when the Yorkshire Ripper began his killing spree. It happened when I started astrology ... and my 'twin' Janis Joplin died. Every 27+ years or so this pattern will recur (unless a sign cusp gets in the way, but I haven't encountered that yet.) It marks, so strongly, the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. Probably all Andreas could feel was this overwhelming sense of an ending, with nothing left to hope for. |