San Francisco Fire & Quake

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I've created a folder called " San Francisco 1906 " in the file area.

It contains several .jpgs of

ingresses for the San Francisco quake and fire of 1906. The

longitudes are all in terms of the F-B

ayanamsa, even though the calculations of the Krishnamurti ingresses

were done with the K

ayanamsa. Solar Fire doesn't allow charts with two different

ayanamsas to be pulled up in the

same run; so all these are in F-B to allow the side-by-side

comparisons.

 

The 1906 CapSolar, AriSolar, and CapLunar ingresses are shown on two

wheels side by side for

easy comparison. The mean Q1 quotidians of the CapSolar are shown on

bi-wheels with the

quake chart, cusps are from the inner wheel, the quotidian.

 

For some good first-hand accounts of the period, check out

www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html.

 

The Quake/Fire chart is dramatic in itself, with the T-square Uranus-

Neptune-Mercury in the

foreground. Saturn trine-sextiles into the opposition; Venus the

same, a little more widely; Venus

sextiles Saturn by less than two degrees. Even Jupiter gets involved

in the T-square by quincunx

and semi-sextile.

 

So where's the Fire? Well, Mars semi-squares all three planets of the

T-square with less than one

degree orb. The fire burned for four days, so it is not a small part

of the event.

 

Both the F-B and the K CapSolar ingress charts point to an event in

different ways. The F-B

ingress shows an applying Moon-Mars opposition in the foreground,

certainly appropriate

planetary symbolism. Jupiter is bodily about five degrees below the

DESC, square Saturn, which

in turn squares the ASC under two degrees. Jupiter-Saturn aspects

often point to financial

stresses, definitely the case after the quake/fire. Venus semi-

squares both Saturn and the ASC;

SA/ASC = 22 Sag 49. Mercury sextiles Saturn. The Uranus-Neptune

opposition is background;

ME/NE = 11 Vir 57 squared by Uranus.

 

The K CapSolar shows Pluto nine degrees above the DESC in longitude,

but nearly thirteen

degrees above in body. Mars closely squares the ASC. Moon applies to

oppose Saturn. Mercury

squares the MC.

 

Both AriSolar ingresses have similar angles with Mercury at the IC in

T-square with Uranus-

Neptune. Venus trines-sextiles the opposition. Pluto is

longitudinally on the DESC, though it had

already bodily set. Venus applies to sextile Saturn; in the F-B

ingress VE/SA = 16 Pis 06; in the

K ingress VE/SA = 15 Pis 26 = Mercury exactly. In the F-B ingress,

Moon applies a little widely

to conjoin Uranus and oppose Neptune. In the K ingress, Moon closely

opposes the angular

Pluto. (I like the Moon-Pluto.)

 

Going on to the CapLunar ingresses, where the angles will *not* have

the similarity of solar

ingresses, we see the F-B emphasizes the T-square with the Uranus-

Neptune opposition right on

the horizon; Saturn trine-sextile. The K CapLunar has the Moon's

Nodes at either end of the

Meridian; Saturn squares the ASC. The K JU/PL = 20 Tau 16 = ASC.

 

Finally we can look at the mean quotidian Q1 progressions of the

CapSolar to the event.

 

In the K CapSolar Q1, Moon has progressed to oppose ingress Saturn;

transit Moon conjoins

ingress Saturn, opposes Q1 Moon. Q1 ASC squares ingress Uranus

closely. Q1 Mercury,

sextiling ingress Saturn, is close to the MC, though bodily three

degrees off. So we have the Q1

Moon-Saturn opposition trine-sextile a foreground Mercury.

 

The F-B CapSolar Q1 shows angular Moon opposing Mars, Pluto at IC.

Bodily Moon is 2

degrees 6 minutes above the DESC; Q1 Mars is 1 degree 15 minutes

below the ASC; Pluto is 2

degrees 29 minutes west of the IC, as measured in Prime Vertical

longitudes.

LST/RAMC of the Mean Q1 is 17:17:29;

Q1 Mars rises with 17:23:51;

Q1 Moon sets with 17:28:09;

Q1 Pluto crosses IC with 17:23:43.

So we have a close paran Mars-Pluto in body.

Transit Saturn rises with 17:21:25 (equates to longitude of 20 Aqu

52);

transit Pluto to IC with 17:23:14.

Thus the F-B mean Q1 shows Moon, Mars, Pluto, and transit Saturn-

Pluto. Since the increase in

mean Q1 Local Sidereal Time (LST/RAMC) is approximately 3 min 56.6

seconds per day, the

timing of these angular hits *in body* would be within 2-3 days. Not

bad for an event of this

magnitude.

 

BTW, hand calculation of the Apparent Q1 gives an LST/RAMC of

17:07:57, ASC 15 Aq 32,

MC 24 Sco 36.

 

In summary, I think we can debate the appropriateness of ingress

charts calculated with either

ayanamsa, especially the solar ingresses. Both ayanamsas score

points. But I think we need to

remember that Bradley refined the F-B ayanamsa using quotidians and

lunar ingresses. Lunar

ingresses will show about a two hour difference in LST and thus on

the angles.

 

Sidereally yours,

Matthew

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Hi Matthew,

 

Your long S.F. post just came into my mailbox, and I want to thank you for

the comparison. It's too late tonight for me to study the charts, but I'll

be looking at them tomorrow. The one point I'd like to make for myself is

that I have only used the ingress directly before each quake--that is one

chart out of 12 monthly charts. I'm not sure (and this is only my own

opinion) that I'd give any special emphasis to the Capsolar or any other

cardinal ingress unless it was the ingress directly before the quake.

 

In other words, as I've been studying quakes, I'd only use the preceding

ingress since I can't track all the significant events for any locale for a

12 month period. In this way I don't agree with the notion of giving

supreme importance to the Capsolar. So I've never looked at K cardinal

ingresses unless they were the ingresses in the month preceding the quake.

So I'll be especially interested in your F-B and K comparison.

 

What I did note in using these monthly ingress charts is an automatic

tie-in between the K ingress and the quake charts. This is why I've posted

the quake and ingress charts. Sorry they're not very clear. We're still

trying to work out the scanning technique. I will probably have to use

computer printed charts since hand drawn charts don't seem to transfer very

clearly.

 

It's O.K. that you use only F-B longitudes. I have the same problem with my

software and set all the charts up in K longitudes. I ran the F-B monthly

ingress charts for a number of quakes.

 

Sincerely,

Therese

 

At 03:54 AM 1/23/04 -0000, Matthew wrote:

>I've created a folder called " San Francisco 1906 " in the file area.

>It contains several .jpgs of

>ingresses for the San Francisco quake and fire of 1906. The

>longitudes are all in terms of the F-B

>ayanamsa, even though the calculations of the Krishnamurti ingresses

>were done with the K

>ayanamsa. Solar Fire doesn't allow charts with two different

>ayanamsas to be pulled up in the

>same run; so all these are in F-B to allow the side-by-side

>comparisons...