Astro-Meteorology of the China floods

Much of China has been hit by heavy rainfall in recent days, including most of Sichuan, where homes have been destroyed and three bridges have collapsed since Monday. The worst flooding witnessed by western China in five decades has triggered a landslide in Zhongxing on Wednesday  triggered by days of rain, burying up to 40 people and destroying a high-profile memorial to a devastating 2008 earthquake. A Zhongxing official said that "so far we only know 11 families were buried and more than 200 residents have been evacuated", but that workers were still searching for others. 

The  rules for judging the weather using Ingress charts  are outlined in  ‘A Basic Guide to Astro-Meteorology’  by Kim Farnell [1] . One of the rules requires paying close attention to planets in aspect to angles. As in the previous posts [2][3] here again we see Neptune in hard aspect to the angles for (a) the sidereal Cancer Ingress (b) tropical Capricorn Ingress charts. In fact progressing the Capricorn Ingress chart to July 10 brings the progressed Ascendant conjunct Neptune.

Neptune - cool, wet, fog, mist, erosion in an earth sign, peculiar, freakish weather events, flooding. Neptune's power lies in its ability to lower the barometer and provoke torrential downpours and flooding conditions.

Neptune [5pi19] is conjunct the star Fomalhaut [4pi03] in the constellation of the Southern Fish. This is an important, first magnitude star, the 17th brightest star in the sky and the most southerly star visible at 50°N. Fomalhaut, (from the Arabic Fum al Hut, 'the Fish's mouth'). The area in which it lies has an heavy emphasis upon constellations with watery imagery, the goat-fish (Capricorn), the whale (Cetus), the water-pourer (Aquarius), the fishes (Pisces), and the dolphin (Delphinus) all located nearby, obviously earmarking this region as one that related to the rainy season of the ancient year, by which many of its stars are associated with floods or troubles at sea. The Southern Fish is usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water poured from his urn [4].

[1]  http://www.skyscript.co.uk/meteorology1.html

[2] Astro-Meteorology of the Kedarnath disaster. http://bit.ly/16ivO4Y

[3] Astro-Meteorology of the Canada floods. http://bit.ly/10GAKlX          

[4] http://www.skyscript.co.uk/pis_aus.html#formalhaut