Here it is, on a 90-degree sort. In other words, every minor planet (that we list, from about 100) within a few degrees, in the cardinal signs, at the time of this incident, is listed here.
There is an Atlantis-Sphinx conjunction. Sphinx basically says “very old mystery” and in that way echos Atlantis. Then you have others like Karma, Nemesis…it pretty much tells the story. Arachne says “conspiratorial network” and “web of [whatever]” and also pertains to the idea of story.
Pluto-Ceres in Cap are about the exploitation of minerals, in my view. And they are in the config, as is Kronos (a hypothetical) which translates loosely to VIP.
I will go over the chart in Friday’s edition — let’s keep the conversation going, it helps a lot.
Hmmm, first paragraph: “lubricate the drilling purpose.” Should read “lubricate the drilling process.” Must be the flu I’ve had for two days…
Eric – I’ll leave the astrology about this to you and the others – it is beyond my experience, so I’ll just sit off to the side and learn. On the oil side, I do know something. Listening to the survivor’s interview, he gave a lot of info about the mud in the wellhead. “Mud” is a generic term for what is injected during drilling to lubricate the drilling purpose, keep water and other unneeded elements out, and is also used to more or less seal the tube before the oil flows.
Where things went wrong for me is when he talks about the gas coming up through the mud from the well itself, up the riser (piping from the sea floor to the surface) and erupting at the platform. If the mud was correctly formulated, this should not have happened. It sounds as if it were too thin: each well is different, and the mud is usually formulated for just that well. It’s an art, doing the mud, and if you don’t do it right, things go wrong. Wasn’t that Halliburton’s job?
After listening to that interview, I tend to think it was something on the platform that caused the explosion, given the gas eruption. I can’t discount the old munitions theory either, but I do consider it less likely. Anything that can make a spark is normally not allowed on a drilling rig. They’re smoke-free, most everything is aluminum, and even tools are made from such things as bronze, copper, et cetera. Steel is practically verboten, and used only as absolutely necessary. Anything ferrous is tightly controlled.
What I got out of this interview was that they were preparing to depart the drill site by setting the blow out prevention valves and so on. This would be normal prior to the installation of pumping equipment (perhaps another floating platform) for the production phase. It sounds like they were done.
I’m leaning towards the usual chain of unfortunate human events on this one.