{"id":44489,"date":"2011-08-24T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T04:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=44489"},"modified":"2011-08-25T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T19:07:56","slug":"astrology-virginia-earthquake-nuclear-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/astrology-virginia-earthquake-nuclear-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Sign, and the Earth Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s 5.8 (or so) quake that rattled Virginia, DC and New England, and shut down a nuclear power plant, happened just hours after the Sun ingressed Virgo. While this event, in my reading, did not have any of the usual signatures associated with quakes (big pileups of planets, New Moon or Full Moon very nearby), Venus and the Sun were making oppositions to Neptune and Chiron. You might expect that to have more psychological effects, but this was definitely a real earthquake. And it happened in classical Mercury retrograde style, with one thing going wrong after the next. <\/p>\n

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The Sun is in the first degree of Virgo for the Virginla earthquake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Notably, the Washington Monument was damaged by the earthquake, and Politico has just reported that it will be closed indefinitely as engineers figure out how to deal with a crack near the top of the obelisk.<\/p>\n

In a less-than-symbolic angle on the story, the quake’s epicenter was less than 15 miles from the North Anna nuclear plant, which lost off-site power and had to rely on its diesel backup power to cool the reactor and the spent fuel ponds. One of the plant’s backup generators then went out, however, and another one had to be used. Also, a number of other nuclear plants in the area declared unusual events<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Moon was in Gemini for the Virginia quake — just as it was for the Fukushima quake on March 11<\/a>, and just like it was when the first reactor blew up. The Gemini Moon is a factor that can set off the Nuclear Axis<\/a><\/strong>, the chart of the first self-sustaining atomic reaction. That chart is getting a lot of transit activity at the moment — by which I mean that planets in the sky now are making angles to planets in the Nuclear Axis chart. Most astrologers cannot see these transits, which include minor planets — the centaur Pholus (small cause, big effect) and Pluto-like Ixion (anyone is capable of anything).<\/p>\n

While the chart for the Virginia event is somewhat less intense than for the Fukushima plant, there are enough similarities to be concerned, particularly planets grouped in the 8th house (death, transformation). One of those planets is the Moon, which is in an exact aspect to centaur planet Nessus. And both Venus and the Sun are opposite centaur Chiron. So we have the first three discovered centaurs all showing up for this event, in grand style.<\/p>\n

The Venus-Chiron opposition is interesting. For those of you who are fans of Barbara Hand Clow’s take on Chiron, you may recall that she lists Venus opposite Chiron as being associated with the memory of big disasters in the collective memory of humanity. I don’t recall how she got to that conclusion — she may have channeled it — but the aspect certainly has the sensation of an emotional trauma and a state of high alert. The truth is, we should be worried; as someone once said, a nuclear power plant is a very sophisticated device for finding fault lines.<\/p>\n

I’ll be following this story as it develops, and as I get additional insights into the chart, and the event; one angle I’m tracking is how high-pressure gas drilling may be loosening up fault lines that don’t usually see a lot of action.<\/p>\n

Note to Planet Waves FM listeners: I have a podcast for you, but I’m traveling and have not had a chance to do post-production, so it will go up Wednesday night. For the same reason there will not be a regular edition of Daily Astrology — but we’ll resume that Wednesday night.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s 5.8 (or so) quake that rattled Virginia, DC and New England, and shut down a nuclear power plant, happened just hours after the Sun ingressed Virgo. While this event, in my reading, did not have any of the usual signatures associated with quakes (big pileups of planets, New Moon or Full Moon very nearby), … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}