Astrology of the Afghanistan landslide

Officials in Afghanistan have said that at least 2,000 people are feared dead after a mountainside collapsed in  the north-east Afghan province of Badakhshan causing a massive landslide in a remote region of the country. The landslide is believed to have been triggered by heavy rain which has swept the region for several days. Landslide and avalanches are common in the province but are rarely so deadly.

In mundane astrology the chart for the most recent cardinal ingress of the Sun is analysed for understanding the nature of events in the quarter that follows.  Shown here is the current sidereal Aries ingress of the Sun at Feyzabad, the city  closest to area where the landslide occurred. The planets align in a powerful configuration—an angular Cardinal Grand Cross—that contains the Uranus-Pluto square. Richard Tarnas associates Uranus-Pluto with “the unleashing of the elemental forces of nature in various senses (the tangible increase in signs of extreme climate change, volcanoes and earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes, tsunamis and floods, undersea oil eruptions, mining disasters).” On the descendant [29vi52]  of the chart is the star Benetnash [27vi09].

In an important position in a mundane map, Benetnash will claim human lives in calamities such as mine accidents, collapse of houses and bridges, mountain slides, earth tremors and catastrophes caused by weather. [Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1928, no.46, p.57, under the name Benetnash]

Progressing the ingress chart by the solar quotidian method aligns the Grand Cross with the merdian axis on Friday, May 2, the day of the event confirming the analysis.