Shark Attack - Solana Beach
A rare event, a Great White Shark killed a male swimmer off the coast of Northern San Diego County on Friday. I had just been reading about how in comparison with other tragics forms of death, there are very few Shark killings. The victim was a retired veterinarian, Dr. David Martin. I send my condolences to Dr. Martin's family and friends.
April 25, 2008 7:00 am, slightly after, Solana Beach, CA
In this chart, Taurus was rising. The Sun is in Taurus in the 12th House. Rex Bills says that Veterinarians are ruled by Mercury, Virgo (H12). Venus is the ruler of this chart and it is placed in the 12th House along with Mercury and the Sun so I suppose the Ascendant in this chart could indicate the Victim.
Scorpio is on the Descendant. Rex doesn't give a rulership for Sharks but I suspect that Scorpio and Pluto might be considered a ruler. While looking at this chart, though, I'm really struck by how the Aquarius Glyph looks like a Shark's mouth.
Pluto is at 2 Capricorn and is conjunct the Moon by a degree. It is placed in the 8th house. This, of course, is the house of Death and Murder but is also (imo) the House of intense interactions with Nature. This is certainly an appropriate aspect for something that attacks you from underneath while you are swimming out in the Ocean. Great White Sharks attack by sneaking up under their victims.
The crazy stuff comes because the Moon is out of bounds at 27 degrees, 25 minutes. Moon-Pluto is in an Earth Grand Trine aspect with Planets in the other 2 water houses. It's a literal description of being circled by a shark out in the waters. Saturn is at Virgo in the 4th house and the Sun is at 6 Taurus in the 12th house of hidden enemies/victims/veterinarians (weird combination, huh? 12th house is a complicated location in the chart).
Neptune at 24 Aquarius conjunct the North Node 25 Aquarius might somehow be contributing. The experts say that they think that this was a case of mistaken identity, that the shark figured the swimmer was a seal.
Something kind of interesting is that the only other confirmed Shark Attack Fatality off of San Diego waters happened on June 14, 1959 in La Jolla. At this point Saturn and Pluto were at the same points that they are now but in reverse order, i.e. Pluto in Virgo and Saturn in Capricorn trining at first degrees. A 33 year old man, Robert Pamperin, was fishing for abalone and the Shark lunged at his feet and swallowed him whole.
A woman kayaker was also found mauled by what apparently was a Shark on June 24, 1995. This isn't a confirmed death because it isn't known if she drowned first or if she was attacked.
Labels: Environment, Grand Trine, Water
posted by Out The Comet's Ass @ 11:49 PM
2 Comments:
The obit says David Roger Martin was born JAN 29, 1942. It didn't say when or where but I believe he may have been born in Riverside, CA. I say that because his parents had/have a ranch there. I don't know Vedic Astrology, but looking at Western---David's Mars, Saturn & Uranus in Tauras squared his Neptune in Aquarius at the time of the attack. Does this point out anything? I'm fascinated with sharks and astrology, but not intertwined.
Hi Anonymous.
Thank you for this information!
Yes, it looks like the Saturn-Uranus conjunction would have been strongly involved. That square to Neptune which was exactly conjunct the Moon's North Node is stressful. Neptune rules the Ocean. David Martin's n.Saturn is rising to the degree at 7:00 am when he went into the Ocean. He's an Aquarius so the conjunction of Uranus to Saturn and the Ascendant is also interesting.
Martin also had a really ominous looking t-square (Sun-Venus opposite Pluto square Mars) that was lining up on the MC-IC angle of the transit chart. That aspect is related to extreme behaviors, including athletics, so it makes sense that he would be out training to be a triathlete at Age 66!
As I said, I don't know what exactly rules Sharks according to other Astrologers. Teeth and Jaws are ruled by Aries and Taurus, though. Taurus here is Rising. Mars would be involved in and kind of Bite or Attack.
That natal t-square is really nasty. Apex Mars squares an opposition of Sun-Venus to Pluto-Chiron. I've found before an association between fatal, or near fatal, bites from other charts with Sun-Pluto oppositions alone. I wrote about the first person who survived rabies (w/o a treatment) from a Bat Bite. I seem to remember that t.Pluto was opposing her natal Sun. Someone left a message saying that she literally died for a few minutes but recovered. That's so Plutonian.
Thanks for your comment. If you're very interested in Sharks I think you'd have a better sense of what rules them than I would. Interesting combination of interests you have.
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