Castor-Pollux bring severe UK storm

Commuters are being warned of travel disruption on Monday as a storm bringing severe gale-force winds starts moving across England and Wales. Train companies have cancelled early-morning services, and flights into London have been reduced. Gusts of up to 80mph (130km/h) are predicted as the weather hits the South West then moves north and eastwards and there are fears of flooding and damage. Meanwhile the search for a missing 14-year-old boy who was swept away by the sea in East Sussex has been stood down.

Eclipses and lunar phases affect the weather especially if the meridian axis is affected by alignment with the eclipse or planets. In the chart of the lunar eclipse for London, notice that the Full Moon occurs on the meridian axis and is square Jupiter [19cn]. Jupiter is conjunct the star Castor [20cn] of the Gemini Twins long associated with hurricanes and storms.

An ancient  myth tells how Castor and Pollux sailed on the Argo and by their strength and ingenuity saved the lives of their fellow mariners during a terrifying storm. Classical sailors were particularly taken by these stars and prayed to them for protection at sea during storms.

Diana Rosenberg lists the following weather events linked to the Twins [1]:

July 1281 New Moon here at Kublai Khan’s second attempt to invade Japan: a vast armada  of 4,400 ships and 142,000 Mongol warriors set out in July were struck by a typhoon in August that destroyed about 4000 ships and more than 100,000 troops. This was the North Node at a July 1591 Solar Eclipse, the year four hurricanes sank more than 400 ships in the Western Hemisphere most of them part of the Grand Fleet of Spanish treasure ships; this was the 1886 Winter Solstice Saturn: 1886-87 vicious winter caused that caused the death of thousands of cattle buried by in  blizzards; Mars at the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the city was inundated and 8000 killed;  other events include with placements here include the 1935 Category 5 Labor Day Hurricane that hit Florida Keys; the 1946 Hilo Bay tsunami that killed 165; the massive cyclone winds that hit Bangladesh in 1991 killing 139,000 people and half a million cattle and many others.

Finally, the Last Quarter Moon phase of 26 October highlights the Moon Wobble [2] phenomena and places the Sun-Moon in aspect to the meridian axis connected with weather.

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg [v.1, p.430-31]

[2] http://www.signe-astrology.com/moon_wobbles.htm