Editor’s Note: the following has been adapted slightly from the Cosmic Confidential Diary. There’s also an earlier article from the time as well — Katrina the Awakener. — Amanda
With all the interesting news this past weekend and a bit of travel thrown into the mix, I neglected to make note of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina — the costliest natural disaster in United States history according to Wikipedia. Given what a huge event it was, I knew Eric must have some astrological insights about it tucked away in the archives. So off I went to search Astrology Secrets Revealed, Eric’s column that ran for years on Jonathan Cainer’s page.
The site did not disappoint, as this article from September 9, 2005 shows. Eric notes a couple of important factors in the astrology of that event, both earlier in the summer: Saturn entering Leo and a Capricorn Full Moon exactly on the solstice — that date when the Sun enters Cancer. In other words, it was an Aries Point event with exponential potency.
Eric writes: