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The tragic story of the Ox-Boy and Weaving Girl





Many months after a man from Mozambique fell to his death from the undercarriage of an aeroplane flying over London, his family has been traced. Jose Matada's body was found in Portman Avenue, Mortlake, in September 2012, soon after a flight from Luanda, Angola, flew over the residential area. He had no identity papers on him and no-one had reported him missing. Police were unable to trace his next of kin, but his family recently came forward and identified themselves to the authorities in Mozambique. We know now that Jose Matada was born on 8 September 1985. He died in London on 9 September 2012, the morning after his 27th birthday.

His brother Paulino is still not sure why Jose stowed away on the flight from Angola. He wonders if Jose was trying to re-join his former employer, who had moved from South Africa to Switzerland. "When I heard he had died, I found a Sim card of his here that had messages, with declarations of love on it."




The chart for the Solar Eclipse [2sa37] of 25 Nov 2011 at London is prominently placed square Mars-Neptune on the meridian axis.  It is conjunct the star Yed Posterior [3sa31] which was part of the ancient Euphratean Mulu-bat, “Man of Death”. In tropical Sagittarius (and Anuradha, a mansion of wanderers), Diana Rosenberg notes that these extraordinary people yearn to visit exotic places and strange lands and would like to be anywhere but their home countries [1]. Under possible manifestation of these stars she lists “air and transportation events including accidents”. On the IC of the chart is Neptune [28aq12] conjunct Gienah of Cygnus [27aq55], the Swan. Here again the high flying Swan is associated with “great journeys and treks”. But more interesting is the association of this star with the  Chinese asterism T’ien-Tsin, the Celestial Ford, spanning the Milky Way (Celestial River) and the bridge separating the lovers Ox-Boy (Altair) and Weaving Girl (Vega) [2] [3]. Progressing the eclipse chart by the PSSR method to 9 September 2012 brings the IC back to a conjunction with Neptune confirming the tragic Chinese story.




[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p. 288)
[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p. 645)

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