Finding Water

For those who don’t know about it, there has been a huge flood in the South of Brazil.

Many cities of the State of Rio Grande do Sul are completely destroyed, under water and mud; no one knows for sure how many people are dead, but many thousands have lost everything.

If you feel like donating to them, there are many ways of reaching out to people who actually are helping there. If you can’t find anyone online, ask me and I’ll give you a couple of profiles/names in whom I trust.

Anyway. A while ago, I looked at the Solar Ingress for Brazil’s Capital, Brazilia (below) and told people I thought it was an unusually “moist” year.

This is a summarized translation of what I wrote:

“What — the purists will excuse me — caught my eye first here was Neptune. It’s conjunct the fourth and, by antiscion, opposed the Sun, which is, of course, always at 0 Aries, but not at the MidHeaven by antiscion, in an ingress.

The second thing of note is the Venus/Saturn conjunction.

Both testimonies (the Neptune-Sun-MC thing and Venus, cold and moist, conjunct Saturn, the ruler of the Ascendant, in a water sign) suggest me that this period, on average, must be wetter than the one that just ended. Everything suggests water.

What else can be seen here? The Moon — sorry again, trad purists — opposes Pluto; Mars conjuncts the third; Mercury conjuncts the North Node.

This Mercury seems even more important because its antiscion opposes Venus/Saturn, in a horrible reception.

[NOTE: A friend pointed out, after the disaster, that Mercury rules the tenth, the “South”]

There are no important stars involved, but among the less important ones, we have Propus, Castor’s foot, on the Descendant, AlmachMenkar conjunct Jupiter, and Acrab on the twelfth. The stars conjunct Jupiter, which rules the fourth, reinforce the ‘bad weather’ impression”.

Yep. Not good, and things got really, really bad. Some small towns literally disappeared under the mud (in the remainder of the judgment, I — not believing a thing like that was possible — proceeded to try and interpret these testimonies as things related to common stuff — problems with economy, goverment, etc).

Then, I mentioned the Arabian parts that seem to be doing something important:

“The part of Necessity, related to Mercury, is in 11 Virgo — highlighting the Mercury - Venus/Saturn opposition.

The part of Valor, associated with Mars, is in 13 Pisces, doing the same thing and including Mars in the mess.

The part of Spirit (of the Sun) and the Part of Captivity (Saturn, ruler of the first) are opposed and right inside the houses ruled by their associated planets (Spirit in 29 Leo, Captivity in 28 Aquarius), emphasizing the houses and their opposition”

Then, I compared the Ingress chart with the previous Great Conjunction (I use the true conjunction, the moment Saturn and Jupiter actually meet in longitude):

‘The Mercury-Venus/Saturn-Parts thing happens on the sixth-twelfth houses axis of the Great Conjunction.

Jupiter is on the Conjunction’s Ascendant and, by antiscion, on the IC. This double emphasis joins the Sun and Neptune in highlighting the fourth house, and it is in itself highlighted by the conjunction Moon being on the ingress fourth house cusp.

The Ingress Ascendant falls on the Conjunction’s Sun-Mercury conjunction (not a typo — there is, as you can see, a Sun-Mercury conjunction on the Great Conjunction chart).

Ingress Moon opposes (and, therefore, Pluto conjuncts) the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction itself.

Ok. The Ascendant, a lot of emphasis on the fourth house, the Moon, and the Venus/Saturn-Mercury thing.

(Jesus, this part creeped me out: there indeed were small earthquakes, in a place — in a country — in which they don’t usually happen)

Well, the obvious connection makes little sense — much emphasis on the fourth house, in Mercury, with Neptune in the fourth house of the ingress could mean earthquakes. But I still think this might be an unusually moist year, of the bad kind.”

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A Failed Investigation.

I don’t say these things to toot my own horn (ok, it’s that too, a little), but because I wanted to test the Lunar Mansions.

You will probably remember I wrote about them here. If you don’t, the Lunar Mansions are also related to the weather — and I wanted to see whether the Moon (or, who knows, anything else) is on one of them that means rain, or bad weather.

What goes below is a quick — and, thus far, unsuccessful — attempt to make sense of them in mundane investigations.

I have not arrived at any conclusion whatsoever, I must warn you: if you don’t feel like reading it, I totally understand, and I’ll see you soon.

But, if you’re curious, here we go.

I’m using Oscar Hofman’s “The Lunar Mansion Guide” to determine where the mansions are, and referring to D. Manoel (see the post I linked above) for the corresponding weather.

In the ingress, the Moon is right inside “Al Natrah”, the Gap/tbe Raptor. It’s a strong mansion, related to the beginning of Cancer and to the dangerous Praesepe.

D. Manoel says of this mansion: “cloudy/temperate — Heal thyself; move by water”. Apart from Praesepe, it’s not that bad.

D. João also says good things about it (“The 8th mansion of the Moon was called Anatrachi, that is, Manger, or the Asses, in 20 degrees and 57 minutes of Cancer. It is moist and temperate of nature. Its significator is Venus. Good for cutting dresses, wear new clothes for the first time, take medicines, and make voyages by the sea”.).

But the “water” and “cloudy” part of their assessment checks out.

And I wasn’t expecting to find the mansions promising disaster by themselves, just… water (the Moon was at the same spot for the whole world, and the entire planet didn’t simply got flooded).

Just to investigate these things (I have no idea if this is relevant), let’s note down which are the mansions in which Saturn, opposed the Moon and lord of the Ascendant (the 22nd, Dabih, associated with the horns of Capricorn, the “Lucky of the Slaughterers”, considered “moist” by D. Manoel), the Ascendant itself (the 19th, Al Shaulah, on the Scorpion’s sting, considered “moist” by D. Manoel), the Midheaven (the 12th, “Al Sarfah”, The Changer, “moist” according to D. Manoel), the Descendant (the 5th, “Al Haqah”, the White Spot; surprisingly, “dry”); and the IC (the 26th, “Al Fargh al Awwal”, the Horse’s Wing, also “dry”).

As the Great Conjunction Moon activates the Ingress fourth house, it would be interesting to note down if it was at a different mansion, but it wasn’t; it was, obviously, in the 26th.

The great conjunction itself, and the Sun-Mercury conjunction of the CG chart, both obviously important, fall in the 21th house (Al Baldah, the City, “temperate”), and in the 19th (the moist Al Shaulah, mentioned above), respectively.

It doesn’t say much, to be honest, at least for now. Yes, the Moon is in a “moist” mansion in the ingress, but does it mean the problems would be of any other nature if it wasn’t? Is being on a Lunar mansion of any relevance for anything other than the Moon? I don’t know.

Last (but maybe least) the last (solar) eclipse to happen before the floods fell onto the 27th mansion, “Al Fargh al Thani”, the Second Horse. D. Manoel says “moist; purge, don’t sail”.

This may not be totally useless; I’ll check Fr. João — who describes, if memory doesn’t betray me, them in a bit more detail — and try to dig a bit more into these mansions. But don’t hold your breath.

That’s it on Lunar Mansions for now.

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To the Death!

I’ll be participating on a show called “Astrology Deathmatch” this Saturday (here’s the Twitter profile of the show). Me and Michel (Astrospection) will be trying to guess things from birthcharts without knowing who the owners are. It will be fun, I think.

No astrologers will actually die… I hope.

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