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Astrology of the accident on the River Beas




On an excursion trip to Himachal Pradesh, 24 students from Hyderabad are feared to have been washed away by the Beas River on Sunday (June 8) after a hydropower plant allegedly discharged water into the river without any warning, triggering protests by local residents.The incident took place in Thalaut on Manali-Kiratpur Highway, 40km from district headquarters Mandi. A massive search operation was launched to track the students, but there was no success due to darkness.




Shown here is the current tropical  Cancer Ingress chart at Manali. Readers may like to refer to a previous post [1] where we had used the  chart to explain the Kedarnath disaster. Here too we find Neptune conjunct the Descendant.

Neptune especially in its home sign Pisces is linked to flooding conditions as this extract from the previous post explains.


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 [2].

So what activated the dormant tropical  ingress chart? Well at least two things.

Firstly, the incident took place on June 8 between two planetary stations: Mercury stationed retrograde at 3cn on June 7 just a day before the incident while Neptune [7pi] stations retro today June 9. Both these are in aspect to the Water Grand Trine in the ingress chart.




Secondly, let us also look at sidereal Cancer ingress which also carries the Water Grand Trine on the angles. Progressing this chart to June 8, 2014, the date of the incident aligns the Cancer leg of the trine with the meridian triggering the event. In a previous post  [3] we likened the Water Grand Trine to a moat of water surrounding a castle and the Pluto opposition (that turns the Trine into a Kite formation) to a forceful opener of this moat. Isn’t it strange that what was an analogy there turns out to be  literal here. Uranus in the Uranus-Pluto-Jupiter T-square is providing the element of suddenness to the release of the water (Jupiter in Cancer). Once again the TNPs Kronos and Hades on the MC provide more details. Kronos is authorities while Hades refers to mistakes. The authorities released the water without any information to people downstream.

But the surprises don’t stop there. TNP Kronos and the MC are conjunct stars of the Chinese asterism Sse-Tou, the Four Trenches; the rising of these stars marked the opening of water trenches for irrigation and carry away refuse. In later times the name “four trenches” came to stand for the four great rivers of China, the Hoang-Ho, Yang-Tsze, Hoat and Tsi, and irrigation works associated with them [4].


[4] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.703)

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