Here is more information on the solar eclipse of 15 Januar 2010.
Calculated for the earthquakes epicenter, 18N27 72W27 :
Asc 25SC50 MC 28LE08 Sun/Moon 25CP02 Jupiter 29AQ23

This eclipse belongs to Saros Series 12N that started on 19 May 1613.
Calculated for the same epicenter:
Asc 15VI45 MC 16GE112 Sun/Moon 28TA38 Jupiter 16VI39

Details that immediately appear is Jupiter angular in both charts, and the Midheaven in the 15 January 2010 chart is square the degree of the initiating eclipse of 1613 that occured at 28TA38. The solar eclipse of 19 May 1619 occurs on the Mars/Saturn-midpoint. Venus, is ruler of the eclipse and in the degree of Nodes.

In the eventchart cast for 12 Januar 2010, Venus has just been released from the cazimi that occured in the degree of the nodes. She is 22CP51 and located on the descendant at 23CP59. At the time of the solar eclipse 15 Janaury 2010 Venus was 25CP51 and in exact sextile the local ascendant at 25SC50.

Just to add another important fixed star:

The recent lunar eclipse has Algol on ASC, and Mars on IC
The recent solar eclipse has Algol on DSC and Jup/Neptun on IC

Algol is called "piled up corpses" in Chinese, if I remember correctly....

socrates

Interestingly enough, the Saros 12N series has it's founding eclipse in 1613, which is the time of Lilly. Maybe someone familiar with all his texts would know whether he ever commented it, although he would only have been about 11 years old at the time.

Algol is about 22 Taurus at the time of Lilly.

Oh dear! Here is something I either don't understand or didn't expect to find. There is almost 400 years from the initiating eclipse and and up to our day in 2010. 397 years to be exact - but if you do a Solar Arc direction, the eclipse is directed forward to 28GE39 in January 2010, which is exactly one revolution and one sign from the point of the eclipse in 1613!!

Hi Andrew and friends
My sorrows for the terrible loss of human lives in Haiti.
I've been doing research o earthquakes and an interesting pattern that we can isolate for the prediction of eathquakes may be the Jupitern/Saturn conjunctions;in fact i use to read medieval astrologuers,like Albumasar and Masha'allah and they put high importance to jupiter/Saturn as they are the slowest planets,analogous maybe with the slow moviments of the earth.

We can see the ingress solar charts and look for aspects between the last conjunction and angles,specially I.C.(4 house related to the earth)
I've noted also the lunations and lunar perigee/apogee as triggers( as noted by some distinguished researchers like Richard Nolle ).I wil elaborate on this subject...
All the best
Gerson Pelafsky

I had a look in Richard Hinckley Allen's book 'Star names: their lore and meaning'. Although I can find the Chinese one of the "piled up corpses" stars like Algol here in the book( and they had more of these), I don't manage to find any star on earthquakes with the search function.

In China there are earthquakes regularly so perhaps it could be find in their astrology. I found a short remark:

5. The Earth element (representing the earth) is very weak as it is under attack from the strong Wood element and weakened by the strong Water element. It has no support from its elemental foundation of Fire. In this situation, the Earth is weak, active and unstable. Unstable earth is frequently seen on days of earthquakes and is particularly prevalent on this day

source: http://www.aces.edu.au/chinese_astrology.html , where the 2004 tsunami is mentioned nearly at the bottom of the page. I don't know Chinese astrology but perhaps there is somebody here who has done some research on this.

Andrew Bevan wrote:Here is more information on the solar eclipse of 15 Januar 2010.
Calculated for the earthquakes epicenter, 18N27 72W27 :
Asc 25SC50 MC 28LE08 Sun/Moon 25CP02 Jupiter 29AQ23

Is it possible that an event precedes a configuration like the eclipse? By the way there was a partial lunar eclipse (only 8%) on Sylvester eve.

hello,

The Aries solar ingress chart,calculated for Port-Au-Prince:
data:March,20,2009 6:44 a.m.(local time).Asc:14 Aries 59;M.C.10 Capricorn
52;Moon 18 Capricorn 55. (Sorry for the lack of precision,as i am out of
home,using astrodienst for the calculations)
Here, previous Jupiter/Saturn conjunction of may 2000,falls not exactly
aspecting I.C, but in near aspect with the Moon at house 10(angular),the lord of
house 4.

Since the ascendant is not in a fixed sign,we have to look the others ingress
charts.
The previous ingress solar chart(Solstice chart-Capricorn),repeats the same
ascendant of the first ingress of the year,an important feature to pay
attention.
Data:December,21,2009 12:47 Port-Au-Prince(72W20/18N32)
Asc:18Ar 47;M.C. 13 Capricorn 40

Jupiter/Saturn conjunction(At 22 Taurus)falls in aspect with both I.C and lord
of I.C(the Moon)
Solar eclipse,near Lunar apogee(january,17),aspects jupiter/Saturn point.
All the best
Gerson

hi you might wish to consider mundane charts for Haiti. Campion gives 1 JAN 1804 when Haiti gained full de jure independance. However his chart doesn't have an accurate time,(so he uses noon) so can't really comment on the angles without some kind of rectification. Its very noticeable though that this chart has Saturn at 3 degrees Libra, and 4 planets in Capricorn, SUn, Mars, Mercury and Venus. So entirely locked into the recent aspect picture!
mike c

Hello,if we stick to the medieval way of calculation,setting ingress charts for the moment when the Sun reaches 0 degrees and one minut,not zero degrees and zero minuts,the I.C. of the previous Solar ingress chart reachs 19 degrees,an important feature to look,because is nearest the point of the Jupiter/ Saturn conjunction...
All the best
Gerson

Relative to Eddy's last post:
+Only 2 specifically "earthquake stars" have been identified in a search of the fixed star literature so far (by Tham and myself):
-Sheratan (primary source Robson)
-Alkaid (primary source Ebertin)

+There are several important indications* from classical Chinese astrology relating to the time of the Haiti quake (while not a follower of Chinese astrology in practice, I have been very influenced by several classical Chinese astrology concepts in a number of areas, especially regarding the importance of correctly understanding-and paying much attention to- the QUALITY of time) In the quote cited by Eddy, Chinese 5 Element theory is applied to the underlying elemental quality of earthquakes: translating the meaning of this quote into our (Western astrology) terminology, it is the elemental quality we call "mutable earth" which is being described. In the Haiti quake chart, Saturn (significator of the Part of Destruction in that chart) is posited in the starry constellation of Virgo which-like the sign of Virgo-is of mutable earth quality (using Whole Sign, Saturn and this constellation are posited in the 4th House {by the way, the only house system which places Saturn in the highly appropriate 4th House is Whole Sign-all others systems posit Saturn in the 3rd House}; so we see an interesting connection here between the Chinese 5 Element explanation of the nature of earthquakes, and what actually occured in Haiti at the time of the quake involving "mutable earth"...)

+Still referring to the Chinese 5 Element quote-relating it to the time and macrocosmic circumstances of the Haiti quake-we find... "a strong Water element"...concommitant with the "weakened Earth" situation due to the Asc degree being in watery Cancer (square "by sign" to the 4th House) ; we find the malefic "Wood" element (Wood=Air element)-mentioned in Eddy's 5 Element quote-as the air sign Libra occupying the 4th House (by Whole Sign)-with Saturn posited therein-in the Haiti quake chart.

+If we look exclusively at the starry constellations (excluding the signs) in the quake chart, we shall still find the "Chinese 5 Element earthquake formula" fulfilled:
-constellation of Virgo (mutable earth) in 4th House (by Whole Sign) with Saturn posited therein;
-constellation of Gemini (Air="Wood") in 1st House, "attacking" Virgo (Earth) by square to Virgo;
-constellation of Pisces (Water) in 10th House (by Whole Sign) providing "...strong Water element", "undermining" "Earth" (Virgo) by oppposition.
(Interesting that each of the 3 involved starry constellations is mutable in expression of modality)


*One of these indications relates to the time of the Haiti quake: according to the Chinese zodiacal clock, 3 to 5 PM (standard time) is under the influence of the "Monkey", the (correct) Western zodiacal equivalent being the sign of Virgo (mutable earth): the Haiti quake hit at 4:53 PM.

MikeCoop wrote:hi you might wish to consider mundane charts for Haiti. Campion gives 1 JAN 1804 when Haiti gained full de jure independance. However his chart doesn't have an accurate time,(so he uses noon) so can't really comment on the angles without some kind of rectification. Its very noticeable though that this chart has Saturn at 3 degrees Libra, and 4 planets in Capricorn, SUn, Mars, Mercury and Venus. So entirely locked into the recent aspect picture!
mike c

I saw that too.

Seems very significant that Haiti is experiencing an exact Saturn return, squared by Pluto.

In fact, Haiti has an exact Mars/Saturn square in its mundane chart (Mars squaring from 3 degrees Capricorn). Pluto is of course transiting over 3 degrees Capricorn.

Saturn/Pluto configurations are linked to hardship and suffering. And a transiting Saturn/Pluto square triggering a natal Mars/Saturn square isn't going to be much fun for anyone.

More information on the founding eclipse of Saros 12N series that occured on 19 May 1613:
The reason that the eclipse is directed exactly 400 degrees by solar arc in 396,75 years to 28GE39 in 2010 is, as far as I can work out, due to the precession of the equinoxes. In comparison, as refered to, the position of Algol was 22 Taurus in 1613 in comparison with 26 Taurus today.

From this point several steps of research make sense: One is to monitor the solar arc direction of the eclipse in historical retrospect and examine whether similar earthquakes occured at similar points of time, ie intervals of 31 years (~average 30?:0?58'=31). Another is to backtrack on the Saros 12N eclipses, the being one on 4 January 1992, 24 December 1973, 14 December 1955, 2 December 1937 etc. but there may be several conditions to be fulfilled at the same time, and one of these could be related to Venus and the Moon's nodes. Why Venus? Well, remember that the initiating eclipse of 1613 occured in 28TA38. This makes Venus the eclipse ruler - so whatever she is doing gets interesting.

There is no major earthquakes on record for 1613. Actually, there did occur a significant earthquake in Greece this year, but apart from that many were killed - the details are scarce. Because every year includes a number of earthquake of the size 6,0 Richter or larger, it would be necessary to plough through these records for matching criteria.

dr. farr wrote:I have been very influenced by several classical Chinese astrology concepts in a number of areas, especially regarding the importance of correctly understanding-and paying much attention to- the QUALITY of time)

The element of Chinese astrology/astronomy which I find very interesting is the use of the equator as reference frame (rather than the ecliptic of western astrology), and the use of the meridian clock related to the flows of the meridians of acupunture.

Western astronomy of today also uses the celestial equator as reference frame. On www.ephemeris.com both ecliptical and equatorial positions are shown.