Airplane Crash, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Looked briefly at the Charts for yesterday's Plane Crash in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The runway at the Sao Paolo Airport is known for being difficult to land on because it is too short. In wet weather is becomes slippery and even more difficult to land on. TAM Flight JJ3054 due to land right at the Rush Hour lost control at landing and slid past the runway, through rush hour traffic onto a busy street, into a gas station and then into a concrete building and exploded. This is now said to be the worst plane disaster in Brazil's history with more than 200 people dead.

According to Rex Bills:
Airplane: Uranus, Aquarius (Gemini).
Airport Uranus, Aquarius.
Airway travel and transport: 3, Mercury, 9 Sagittarius, Uranus (Neptune) --geez, with Uranus and Neptune in Mutual Reception I'd expect more Airplane disasters... Uranus rules the Crash chart and Neptune is conjunct the Ascendant at time of crash. Yesterday Moon and Mercury were also in Mutual Reception.
Arrivals: (Uranus)
Departures: (Uranus)
No mention of crashes but Mars and Uranus?
Disasters: Saturn, Uranus, Pluto

The Nodes seem to play a big part here. At the beginning of the flight they are at the last degree of the 2d/8th house axis. At the time of the crash they are exactly conjunct the beginning of the 2d, and especially the 8th house cusp as this is the House of Death. The Moon and Venus were conjunct the South Node/8th cusp from H7. Retrograde Jupiter in Sagittarius was conjunct the 11th house cusp. Jupiter and Uranus both rule Airline Flight. The fact that the runway was slippery played a big factor. Moon (Water) conjunct the South Node and 8th House cusp (Water). Neptune (Water) conjunct Asc (Air). Pluto (Water) in H11. Mars in H4 (Water) conjunct IC and squaring Neptune-Chiron-Aquarius ASC.

The Airport had been shut down for 10 weeks to make repairs so that it would be safer to land on in rainy weather. It had just been reopened on June 30. Saturn rules Safety and Precautions. Guess an opposition from Neptune is not the best time to make safety repairs, especially when Chiron is also involved. Wonder if this opposition hooks into Brazil's chart in a significant way. This is the 2d major Air catastrophe for them in a year.

Departure: July 17, 2007 5:16pm Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil

20 Capricorn ASC; Sun 25 Cancer; MC 9 Libra
Ruler Saturn 25 Leo in House 8.
Also in H8 is a conjunction of Venus, Moon, South Node in Virgo squaring Jupiter 11 Sagittarius in H11
Ruler H8 is Sun in H7 opposite ASC
Ruler H9 Mercury (Virgo on Cusp); Mercury 6 Cancer H6

Crash Landing: July 17, 2007 6:50 pm Sao Paolo, Brazil

12 Aquarius ASC c. Chiron 15 Aquarius and Neptune 22 Aquarius squaring Mars 20 Taurus (H4) opposite Saturn 25 Leo H7.
North Node 8 Pisces conjunct H2 cusp/ South Node conjunct South Node and Moon.
Nodes squaring Jupiter in H11/H11 cusp. Pluto has moved into H11.
Nodes trining Mercury in Cancer in H5.
Sun in H6.
H3 cusp 6 Aries with no planets in House.
H9 cusp 6 Libra with no planets in House.