The Big Solar Flare of 1859 and William Stanley Jevons

The other night on the news there was chitchat with experts about the Sunspot cycle that we are in right now. If we're in any cycle at all. As I said before people are beginning to think that the Sun has gone to sleep because he/she is not having any SunSpot activity.

I sort of got carried away clicking on to links on Wikipedia of Great Solar Scientists of the Past to see if they are all Leos or what. I mean, everyone knows if you sit around staring at the Sun all day you see spots.

Anyway, the Expert (sorry I have no name, it was CNN, they said he would be back, stay tuned) said that there was a great Solar Flare back in 1859 which stopped the telegraphs and knocked out some other electrical instruments and said that this could happen again, say in May 2013 when Predictions have been made that the current Solar Cycle (#24) is expected to peak. I though O My God that's when the Big Un will hit! My interest in this is trying to see if I can see a link between the Solar Cycle and Earthquakes. If I keep getting waylayed by Wikipedia links I may never know, though.

What I did find was the old 19th Century Economics guy who linked Solar Cycles with Economic Crises. So, Economics Crises - Earthquakes - same difference. Funny thing about this guy whose work would be awesome to get hold of was that the big Solar Flare of 1859 happened on his Birthday, Sept. 1. I so totally expect that this is what sparked his interest (pun intended). That's one big candle to have to blow out for sure.

William Stanley Jevons
b. Sept. 1, 1835 Liverpool, England

Sun 10 Virgo; Moon Scorpio or Sagittarius; NN 4 Gemini

Big Solar Flare that knocked out the Electricity, in England at any rate
Sept. 1, 1859

Sun 10 Virgo; Moon Libra or Scorpio; NN 20 Aquarius

So it turns out that these two charts have a whole lot in common. Not only do they share a Solar Return with each other, which is so fitting for the subject matter, but they share a Mercury Return conjunct the Sun, a Venus Return widely conjunct Mercury and the Sun, and a Jupiter Return in Cancer. Mercury is Retrograde in the Solar Flare chart. The Solar Flare chart represents Jevons' 24th Birthday which is, as I've said, closest to the Jupiter Return year. It is also related to the first square of Uranus to itself. Flash of insight, awakening, Age 24, ah those were the days, wouldn't want to go through it again for a hundred million dollars.

Moving on with more similarities:

Both charts also have conjunctions of the Nodal Axis to Chiron. It's in Gemini for Jevons and in Aquarius for the Flare. ( They are both in conjunction with Lilith as well). Both Nodes are in Air Signs and both are wadded up with an asteroid

This NN-Chiron conjunction in both charts is also in aspect to a Mars-Saturn conjunction in both charts. Jevons' Mars-Saturn trines his NN-Chiron. The Solar Flare's Mars-Saturn is conjunct the South Node on that day.

There's my Mars-Saturn aspect again. Mars-Saturn conjunctions are often described as "Driving with the brakes on." Interesting that they coincide with a major Power (Mars) Outage (Saturn). I'm not sure if the outage was felt worldwide. In 1859 there probably wasn't a whole lot of electrical things to knock out. Sorry, I didn't even read that much about this.

Last but not least, we can't forget to look at Uranus in the event of any weird and unexpected events that knock out electricity. God forbid we should not find Uranus prominent. I've mentioned before that I think that Uranus is strongly linked with History and Historical events and Return cycles. With his weirdness and quirkiness he seems to understand that 1) you never set foot into the same river twice but also that 2) there's nothing new under the Sun. Two ideas that are both very true but describe opposite viewpoints of reality. I think they're both from the Greeks. (The Greeks worshipped their Sun God, Apollo, most of all, and, of course, the Greeks worshipped themselves more than anything.)

In Jevons' chart Uranus is squaring his NN-Chiron and was just finishing up his first Uranus square at the time of the flare.

Uranus is at 29 Aquarius in Jevons' chart and he's at 8 Gemini on the Solar Flare Day. Basically, Uranus is placed at, or close to, to spot where the North Node is for each chart. I have no idea how to interpret Chiron in these charts but his presence certainly seems important.

Uranus' aspect to the North Node is going to show bolts of lightening for Jevons at certain times in his life in whatever format. It's interesting that his chart is so sympathetic with this one event which seems to have affected his ability to Intuit (Uranus).

Sunspots have been followed since the 1750s (so says Wikipedia). A Scorpio named Heinrich Schwabe announced discovery that they seem to follow about an 11 year cycle. An English Gemini named Richard Carrington's name is used to describe the Cycles. If the Sun ever wakes up we will be in Carrington Cycle #24. And in between all that an Irish Libra named Edward Sabine showed that sunspot numbers correlates with geomagnetic fields.