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As a Japanophile, I was completely out of words this morning when I heard the news about the 8.9 earthquake near Sendai, Japan. There are places on television right now that I recognize from my vacations to Japan. It’s unreal. My heart goes out to Japan and its people.
As an astrologer, I noted the time the earthquake took place so I could draw up and interpret the chart. You must understand that astrology can’t “foresee” any of these events. Firstly, because the astrologer must *look* for it. If you do not specifically look for it, you will not notice it. If you do not ask, you will not receive an answer. It’s as simple as that. Secondly, even if there were indications of a mundane disastrous event, to pinpoint the location is nearly impossible. It would take hundreds, maybe thousands of hours of study and the place in danger is at best a big geographical band stretching the entire globe diagonally.
Regardless, and with ease of hindsight, I present the chart of the Japan earth quake of 11th of March 2011, 14:46 PM local time, Sendai, Japan.
What was supposed to be a celebration to the Dutch, ended in tragedy. Today, at around 10 to 12 a black car drove into a crowd of people watching the Queen’s Day parade. At the moment I’m writing this a press conference has yet to take place. Until now 1-2 dead, 12 injured.
I’ve drawn up the chart for this event:
What immediately stands out is the position of the Moon’s nodes (fated events). They are extremely close to the axis. Such is often the case when these types of things take place. Also take note of the position of Mercury @ 29 degrees in Taurus (the anateric degree). The fixed stars around this degree are in the Pleiades, according to Ptolemy of the nature of Moon/Mars; violent death. It is actually described as the constellation ‘that really gives you something to cry about‘ if an important planet is positioned at this place.
The 11th house also is described in the Rulership book of J. Lee Lehman as “The King’s allies”, “The King’s Servants”. You could deduct that the 11th house are the people that were watching and enjoying the parade. Mercury receives hard Squares from the 8th house, which traditionally means ‘Death, Way of Death’.
Midpoints show interesting developments around Mercury showing “disruption”, “sudden events”. These are the midpoints:
Mercury = Moon/Mars (dist. > 1.30 degrees) – Violent accident
Mercury = Uranus/Node (dist. 12 minutes) – Sudden fated event
Mercury = Uranus/ ASC (dist. +/- 1 degree) – Sudden event
For other planets, these midpoint structures are of importance:
Uranus = Moon/ Mercury (dist. 13 minutes) – Fear and nervousness.
Uranus = Mars/Saturn (dist. 27 minutes) – Sudden accident
Mars = Uranus/MC (dist. 2 degrees – From the 10th house: a nation in shock)
All in all, a very insightful chart which displays several of the indications usually found in the charts of shocking events.
