Mutant mosquito and the Musca eclipse

Huge, aggressive mosquito may be abundant in Florida this summer, UF/IFAS expert warns; Monday, March 4, 2013.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — If mosquitoes were motorcycles, the species known as Psorophora ciliata would be a Harley-Davidson — big, bold, American-made and likely to be abundant in Florida this summer. Just how abundant is a matter of speculation, but University of Florida entomologist Phil Kaufman says last year the state had a bumper crop of the huge, biting insects, which are sometimes called gallinippers. He said there may be a repeat on the way. “I wouldn’t be surprised, given the numbers we saw last year,” said Kaufman, an associate professor with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. “When we hit the rainy cycle we may see that again.”

Astrologers studying eclipses and their effects in mundane astrology are often amazed at the way in which constellations (in which eclipses occur)  seem to show up in events.

Shown here is the eclipse of Nov. 13, 2012 at Gainesville,Fl.. Notice that the eclipse is in Scorpio (21sc57) and significant for the place since it is just setting.  For eclipses in watery signs, H.S. Green writes:

Eclipses in watery sign are said to cause excess of rain, damage from floods; sickness and danger of an epidemic.

The eclipse (21sc57) was conjunct alpha(20sc34) and beta Musca (20sc21) while the descendant (15sc12) was conjunct zeta Musca (16sc43). Musca Australis is a constellation of the southern fly.

Musca domestica is the housefly, belonging to the family Muscoidea, the order Diptera (di-, two + ptera, wing). The word musca comes from the Indo-European root *mu- 'Gnat, fly, to buzz'. This constellation should also represent the mosquito, a Spanish word, diminutive of mosca, 'fly', from Latin musca. Mosquitos are of the family Culicidae, the Latin word for mosquito (also called gnats) was culex:

“The gnat (culex) is named from 'sting' (aculeus) because it sucks blood, for it has a tube in its mouth, like a needle, with which it pierces the flesh so that it may drink the blood" [The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 6th century A.D., p.270.] [2]

But  it is not enough to attribute the news item to the constellation in which the eclipse took place. What remains to be shown that on the date of the report the progressed angles had triggered it off. And sure enough when the look at the progressed chart for Mar. 4, 2013 we find the progressed IC conjunct the eclipse and more specifically gamma Musca (24sc12)!

Finally (a) the IC of the eclipse chart is conjunct alpha Monoceris – the constellation of the Unicorn – symbolically representing a rare or unique species (b)  the eclipse (21sc57) is square the Uranus-Pluto midpoint (21aq22) and therefore probably hinting at the possibility of having to deal with genetic mutant of the mosquito.

[1] http://news.ufl.edu/2013/03/04/big-skeeter/

[2] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Musca.htm