Monica at Astrology Mundo is living down in the Palm Springs area which is close to the Salton Sea where there has been an "Earthquake Swarm" of more than 250 small earthquakes in about the last week. I'm not one to withhold panic so I gotta say this is farkin frightening. I'm a few months shy of 50 and have lived in California my whole life and have never really heard of these Swarms until the last couple of years. Yet, the media says they are common for the Salton Sea. Last year there were a bunch off the Coast of Oregon and in Reno and Yellowstone always struggles with Old Faithful. I tell you the land is trying to pass some serious gas. I think it might even be Colitis. (that's a sick joke, apologies to sufferers, but, hey, you're bent over in pain anyway).
So Earthquakes are definitely connected with Uranus as I've shown before. Uranus or Aquarius generally seems to be angular when they hit. Tough part about that is that both Uranus and Aquarius are angular 4 times a day every day. Interesting that we sort of got a break from Earthquakes while Uranus was transiting its own sign. Saying this then doesn't make sense when one realizes that in California at any rate there were no huge Earthquakes while Uranus was in its own sign of Aquarius.
According to the following link there were a lot of swarms back in the 1970s and 80s. People living in California were mostly either drunk or high at that time so I suppose that explains the lack of coverage in the media. Recently, there was a significant set of swarms called the "Obsidian Butte Swarm" in 2005 which began on Aug. 28, 2005 around 3:45 pm and last through September. The largest earthquake in that swarm was on Sept. 1, 2005 at 6:27 pm which rated at a 5.1 on the Richter Scale. Here's the link: http://www.scsn.org/2005obsidianbutte.html.
In addition to Uranus, Saturn is going to be involved. Saturn is Earth. Saturn likes to keep a lid on things, just the perfect scenario for a volatile eruption down the road. Mars will be there. And Jupiter will be there. And Pluto will be there just cause Pluto needs a crisis. And all the rest will be there. From what I'm looking at right now Neptune could be involved very significantly.
California's last biggees happened when Uranus and Neptune were in Capricorn, which is ruled by Saturn and Earth. I keep seeing how Pluto's move into Capricorn seems to be dredging up old news stories and tv personalities from the 70s and 80s, Valerie Bertinelli's 48 year old bikini body is clad on the cover of some magazine this week.
Oh, where was I? Earthquakes. Sorry, Monica. Got a little distracted. Really I don't think that Palm Springs is the epicenter for anything but Botox these days. Karl Rove's Step-Father was a Geologist and he lived out his days there. That's how you know you're safe....
Right now, Saturn and Uranus have had two exact passes out of 5 of their opposition transit. There's some things that Astrologers say about multiple passes of aspect transits but I've only heard it for when there are 3 passes. The first one you don't feel, maybe sets the stage, the middle one does something and the last pass completely wipes you off the face of the earth. Oh well, good thing I don't remember how that goes. 5 passes is unusual and shows a lot of repeated stress. What also is stressful is that the USGS has been telling us that we're due. April and October are Earthquake months in Northern California, don't know what Months Southern California zones favor. It looks maybe like the mid-Winter months are Earthquake Season down there.
Something that might be disturbing is that I found an article saying that the Los Angeles area had a major, I mean huge 7.7 earthquake back in 1690.
http://www.sfchroniclemarketplace.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2006/06/22/BAG4BJI4VH1.DTL
Don't know how exact the Scientists are about stating that year specifically but when looking at Astrodienst's Ephemeris one notices that Saturn and Uranus were opposing each other the whole year pretty much. The Pope may have been piddling with the Calendar at that point so don't know if this is 1690 California Time or 1690 Vatican Time.
If there really was a huge earthquake that year then the Saturn-Uranus opposition could be a significant influence for Southern California Earthquakes. But these oppositions happen every 40 something-something years and don't force an earthquake to happen every time. Back in the 1690's Saturn and Uranus were in the signs of Scorpio (Saturn) and Taurus (Uranus). Jupiter and Neptune were in Pisces with Jupiter moving on to the Aries Point (0 Aries) at the end of the year. Pluto was in Cancer.
I blogged about a huge earthquake in Oregon that happened 10 years later up in Oregon in a previous blog somewhere. That was in 1700. The Japanese recorded that one because it set off a tsunami which hit their coastline (that's a big un). This could be why California was so sparsely uninhabited by the time the White Guys showed up, don't know. There wasn't any water here until some guy came out and dug a damn that dried up the Fresno area and sent all the water down to L.A in the early 20th Century. The land here is choking, you can see it, the Sequoia's are pissed, so it would make sense that we're gonna have a big one. Plus the guys at the USGS are sending out smoke signals and when they panic, Comet listens.
Here's another pisser. The Northridge Earthquake hit on Jan. 17, 1994 4:31 am Epicenter: Reseda, CA. 6.7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northridge_earthquake. This was big. 65 people died. Hollywood was pulled to a standstill. Rich people had to hire hearses to move their horses around the ranches. I looked at that chart briefly and will come back to it later.
This chart had 30 Sagittarius Rising. That's a significant point because it's an Aries Point. 19 Libra was on the Midheaven. Uranus 14 Libra and Pluto 30 Virgo (an Aries Point) had just passed over the MC and were in the 9th House. Two things are very disturbing about this chart because similar transits will occur this Summer. First, the Earthquake happened right before a Total Lunar Eclipse. That means that there was a Full Moon on the Nodal Axis. The Sun was at 22 Aquarius conjunct the NN at 24 Aquarius in the 2d House and opposing Moon 23 Leo in the 8th House. Jupiter rules the chart and is at 5 Sagittarius conjunct Neptune at 3 Sagittarius and Mars at 12 Sagittarius. That means that there was a Jupiter-Neptune conjunction during a Total Lunar Eclipse.
This Summer we will have a Total Solar Eclipse with a Jupiter-Neptune Conjunction. This will be a New Moon instead of a Full Moon so Sun will be conjunct Moon at 30 Cancer. The Jupiter-Neptune conjunction will be conjunct Chiron rather than Mars in Aquarius. It will be in the 12th House as it was during the San Fernando Earthquake (was conjunct the H12 cusp). Jupiter and Neptune are strong in this chart because they rule the angles. 24 Pisces Rising with 26 Sagittarius MC. And then we got the Saturn-Uranus opposition which will be layered over the Asc-Desc Axis. Uranus wil be squaring Pluto up in H10 at 2 Capricorn (Aries Point and Angular). Mars is in Gemini in the 3d House, unaspected. Eek. The great thing about earthquakes is that the electricity goes out and everyone has to empty the beer out of their refrigerators. They usually do this with their neighbors (3d House). And that neighbor below you who blasts his TV? People on the first floor tend to get squashed.
This is pretty trippy. I'm out of time and going to publish before editing, so apologize and will come back if I don't have a nervous break down first. Anyway, I don't think we get Earthquakes in California in July so this will have to mean something else.
There was the San Fernando Earthquake which hit on Feb. 9, 1971 at around 6:01 am. Epicenter: Sylmar. 6.6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_San_Fernando_earthquake
Labels: Earthquakes, Eclipse, Environment, Jupiter-Neptune, Saturn-Uranus
