Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #9

Explosion in San Diego, Monday 8th, caused by fighter jet crash.

A fighter jet returning to a Marine base after a training exercise crashed in flames in a San Diego neighborhood Monday, killing three people on the ground, leaving one missing and destroying two homes.

The pilot of the F/A-18D Hornet jet ejected safely just before the crash around noon at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Explosions rocked a neighborhood of half-million-dollar homes, sending flames and plumes of smoke skyward.

"The house shook; the ground shook. It was like I was frozen in my place," said Steve Krasner, who lives a few blocks from the crash. "It was bigger than any earthquake I ever felt."

Three people were killed in a house where two children, a mother and a grandmother were believed to be at the time of the crash, but fire officials did not immediately know who died. Another person remained missing, and officials said the search was suspended until Tuesday morning.

Pluto90MC (1:08) in sunrise. That makes 4 out of 11 incidents reported so far where Pluto is complicit.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #8

Huge fire in Mount Hua National Park, Shaanxi, China - apparently flared up 1:30pm Monday 8th, still burning 20 hours later.

A mountain forest in northwest China's Shaanxi Province has been ablaze for nearly 20 hours and at least 100 forestry workers are still working all-out Tuesday to extinguish the fire. The fire started in the weeds and bushes near the Huangfu Valley in the renowned Mount Hua at 1:30 p.m. Monday, said a clerk with the mountain's management committee. She said the committee and the local government sent a fire fighting team to the site shortly after smokes and flames were detected. "But it was impossible to put out the fire right away because the place was extremely steep," the clerk said on condition of anonymity. A second team was sent to the fire site at 5 a.m. Tuesday, she said. "Until now, I can still see thick smokes through the windows of my office." She said no casualties had been reported so far and the cause of the fire was being investigated. Mount Hua, in the Qinling Mountain Range, is about 100 kilometers east of Xi'an, the provincial capital. It is one of China's five renowned Taoist mountains and has several influential Taoist temples.

Pluto90MC in sunrise chart. Interestingly, the orb of this aspect in sunrise for 8th is 1:35. The orb on 7th is 0:19. Therefore, we conclude the fire started in the period of jurisdiction held by the sunrise chart on the 7th ... ie. before sunset on the 7th. So reports of the fire starting 1:30pm on 8th may be inaccurate.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #7

Mountain fire, Gordons Bay, Cape Town, Dec 8th.

A raging mountain fire in Gordon's Bay on Monday has resulted in dozens of people being evacuated, fire officials and police said.

"The fire jumped across a dam on the Cape Town side and has now gone down the mountain," said Reinard Geldenhuis of Cape Nature Conservation Fire management.

An inspector at the Steenbrass Forest station said it was suspected that the fire was started on a farm and spread quickly due to "strong wind conditions".

He said no fatalities had been reported but that firefighters had been battling to contain the flames.

Said Geldenhuis: "We are still fighting the fire on our side and trying to prevent it from going towards the residential area."

BML120MC in sunrise chart.

Pics below taken on evening of Dec 8th.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #6

Fire guts Russian naval ship in Baltic port, Dec 8th.

One naval officer died in a fire on Russia's Baltic Fleet frigate the Neukrotimy (Indomitable) on Monday, a senior Navy official said. "The body of an officer was discovered during a thorough search of the ship," Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo, an aide to the Russian Navy commander, said. Earlier reports said no one had been hurt in the fire that broke out early on Monday on the frigate anchored at Baltiisk, the Baltic Fleet's main base. A regional emergencies official said the fire was put out at 14:00 Moscow time (11:00 a.m. GMT). He said five firefighting teams, including a special firefighting boat, had been involved in extinguishing the fire. The Baltic Fleet press service said only insignificant damage had been caused to the vessel, while the cause of the fire had yet to be established by a special investigations commission. Dygalo said the frigate, at the end of its operational life span, was due to be taken out of service, adding there had been no weapons on board the ship when the fire started.

Merc 60 MC, Jup 90 MC in sunrise chart. Note similarity to UPDATE #5.

Mars cj Sun = explosion: UPDATE #5

Seven dead in methane explosion in Vietnam mine, Monday Dec 8th.

A blast Monday at a coal mine in northern Vietnam killed at least seven workers and injured 15, a company executive said. Rescue workers pulled their bodies from a 750-foot-deep 230-meter-deep) tunnel in Quang Ninh province and were still searching for another victim following the methane explosion early Monday morning, said Nguyen Van Thuan of the Khe Cham Coal company. Fifteen miners were being treated for burns, while 103 others escaped unhurt, he said. Authorities believe the miners died from severe burns. Investigators were trying to determine what started the blast, Thuan said. Quang Ninh, about 120 miles (190 kilometers) east of capital Hanoi, is Vietnam's main coal mining region.

In sunrise chart we have Merc90MC, Jup120MC. Mars 0 Sun 0:33 separating.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #4

Peshawar again - 62 NATO trucks go up in smoke on Dec 7th.

Pakistani police say suspected militants have killed a policeman and torched 62 trucks at a terminal used to supply Nato and US troops in Afghanistan. Police official Kashif Alam says about 30 assailants attacked the terminal near the northwestern city of Peshawar with rockets and guns early on Sunday. Alam says fire engulfed 62 trucks and containers likely carrying supplies to foreign forces in Afghanistan.

Pluto90MC in sunrise chart. Sun cj Mars (0:20 separating)

Sun cj Mars = explosions: UPDATE #3

Bomb blast in Peshawar Pakistan Dec 5th 2008:

At least 20 persons have been killed and over 80 others injured in a high intensity explosion in Koocha Risaldar located behind Qisa Khawani Bazar in Peshawar on Friday. Police sources confirmed the above casualties which resulted after a powerful blast in a narrow and congested ally where a market is situated. The injured including women and children are being shifted to different hospitals of the city including Lady Reading Hospital where emergency has been declared. Power went off in the area after the explosion, plunging the area into darkness. Ambulances and rescue teams headed towards the blast site - a congested area which has been cordoned off by the police. Windowpanes of the nearby buildings were shattered by the blast which also damaged many shops and vehicles. The blast also triggered fire which is being extinguished by the fire fighters. IG NWFP, Malik Naveed Khan talking to Geo News said about 20 to 25 kilograms of explosives were used in the blast which was planted in a vehicle. He said the explosion has left a crater on the ground which indicates the blast was not a suicide attack.

BML90MC in sunrise chart. Sun cj Mars (=Asc) (0:14). The conjunction is slowly separating now but remains lethal.

Sun cj Mars = explosions: UPDATE #2

Just in from Kamiros, Rhodes ...

Firefighters struggled in their attempts Thursday [4 Dec 08] to contain a blaze that started a day earlier in the Kamiros region of Greece, authorities said. Fire crews have been battling the fire on the island of Rhodes since Wednesday, but firefighting aircraft have been limited in their efforts by strong winds in the area. The area is under a state of emergency ordered by the civil protection general secretariat. Authorities told the news agency the fire had already consumed nearly 6 square miles of brushland and forest.

BML90MC in sunrise chart of Dec 3rd. Not an explosion, per se, but intense fire.

Sun 0 Mars has now moved beyond the nodal degree. The conjunction remains in 1 degree orb until Dec 10th. It is still an explosive, fiery force, and perhaps becomes more so as Mars applies to square Uranus, partiling on the 12th.

Sun cj Mars = explosions: UPDATE #1

The following report has just come in at 04:44 UTC (6:44am SA).

Montserrat's Soufriere Hills Volcano has erupted, hurling hot rocks more than half a mile in the air, and setting buildings ablaze in the abandoned capital Plymouth. Roderick Stewart Director of the volcano observatory in Montserrat, said buildings burned for several hours but no one was injured or evacuated. According to Mr. Stewart, the blast was smaller than the July explosion which spewed ash some 40,000 feet into the air. "It generally happen without any warning ... the first thing I heard was the explosion which alerted me that something was going on ... I went outside and there was a lot of ash in the atmosphere. Mr. Stewart added that there were lightening strikes associated with the ash clouds and glowing rocks could be seen on the side of the volcano that had been thrown out from the lava dome. "We could also see that a lava flow had gone down into Plymouth which had been abandoned a long time ago and there were actually some building burning several miles from the volcano," he added.

In the sunrise chart erected for Montserrat, we have Mercury90MC, Chiron150MC, Uranus0IC.

As an aside, you would be surprised at how often Chiron is complicit in extreme natural phenomena. The recent floods in Santa Catarina province in Brazil had Chiron written all over them. This wounded healer does a lot more wounding than healing, I think. It was also involved in the collapse of those two schools in Haiti towards end October.

Sun cj Mars = explosions

Traditionally in astrology, in return charts and lunations one is supposed to pay attention to planets in the degree of the Node as they are thought to be significant players in the forecast. I have not found this to be so. Planets that interact with angles of return charts, in tight orb (<1 degree) are far more important.

Occasionally, you get a blockbuster scenario where planets interact with angles AND tenant a degree of the Node. Such a case occurred today (3/12/08) in the sunrise chart. The rising Sun conjoins Mars both of which trine the South Node in 12 degrees of the fire triplicity. An even tighter orb of conjunction occurs in the sunrise chart tomorrow (4th).

This is an explosive combination. Already, an apartment complex has blown up in Gava, south west of Barcelona, in the early hours of the morning. And a fertilizer plant in southern Norway blew its lid later in the day. People have died and been horribly burnt in both cases. There will be other incidents before the setting of the Sun tomorrow evening (4th).

The question is where? How does one locate where these explosions are to take place? Sun cj Mars cj Asc in the degree of the Node applies across the globe in all the sunrise charts. The key to nailing down location is to look at aspects to the MC in the sunrise chart. In Gava, Pluto90MC. In Heroya (south), Jupiter90MC. Both within 1 degree orb.

With the current level of technology in astromapping, searching for such locations is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.