Poland commemorates 75 years since WW2 invasion

Poland has marked the 75th anniversary of the start of World War Two with a wreath-laying ceremony at Gdansk port. Prime Minister Donald Tusk commemorated the dead of the war's first battle.

The German invasion of Poland, which marks the beginning of World War 2  began on 1 September 1939 at  04:40, when the Luftwaffe attacked the Polish town of Wieluń, destroying 75% of the city and killing close to 1,200 people, most of them civilians.

In his essay on  Saturn-Pluto in The Mountain Astrologer, Robert Hand wrote[1]:

Saturn-Pluto combination represents crises that come about as the normal, lawful, and predictable manifestations of Saturn are challenged by the need for deep and fundamental changes in the system, which are indicated by Pluto.

Saturn Square Pluto (1 pass): March 26, 1940. This square occurred just after the beginning of World War II in Europe. However, right before September 1939, when the War actually began, Saturn came within a few minutes of arc to the square before turning retrograde, and Mars made a triple pass in opposition to Pluto and square to Saturn, during the same period.

However, major events are almost always indicated by eclipses and the start of World War 2 is no exception. The chart for the solar eclipse of  April 19, 1939 at Warsaw, Poland is shown here.  The eclipse [28ar] is square Pluto [29cn] on the MC while conjoining  Saturn [22ar]  on the descendant [18]. Mars [15cp] is square the descendant so that  Mars-Saturn-Pluto are all brought together by the eclipse and the angles of the chart for Warsaw.

But  whether or not an eclipse affects an event can be easily seen when we progress the chart to the date of the event. Shown here is the April 19, 1939 solar eclipse chart progressed to September 1, 1939 – the date of the start of the war. Notice that the progressed Ascendant conjoins the Sun and Saturn and squares Pluto, thereby triggering the event exactly as expected.

If the eclipse was the “hour hand” of the clock, the “minute” hand was the Disseminating Moon phase that took place on  September 3, 1939. The Moon [24ar] was conjunct Saturn [0ta] and together these were square Pluto [2le] and Mars [24cp] on the horizon axis – in other words the same configuration that was highlighted by the eclipse!

[1] A Crisis of Power: Saturn and Pluto Face Off http://bit.ly/1lcmR2i