Super Typhoon Hagupit nears Philippines

Typhoon Hagupit has strengthened into a super storm over the Pacific as it approaches the Philippines. Hagupit, or "Ruby" in the Philippines, has gusts of up to 250km/h (155mph) and is forecast to reach land on Saturday. It is on course for the Eastern Samar province and the city of Tacloban, where thousands were killed by Typhoon Haiyan a year ago. Tens of thousands of people, many of whom still live in temporary shelters, are moving away from coastal areas. BBC; Dec 5. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30324209

Before we begin our analysis let us remind ourselves about how lunations (or for that matter any other planetary configuration) become important for a place. The simple rule is that if the lunation falls on the angles or even aspects them, it is to be considered important for that place.

Shown here is the chart for the Dec. 6 Full Moon at Tacloban. Notice that the luminaries aspect both the horizon and meridian axis. The Sun [14sa] is conjunct the stars of the Indian lunar mansion Mula ruled by Nirrti, Goddess of Destruction. In Arabia this was Shaula, the sting of the Scorpion. About these stars, Diana Rosenberg notes:

Al Shaula can have the effect of driving people out of their homes: this was Venus at a great 1631 eruption of Vesuvius that killed 18,000; Neptune during a series of massive earthquakes near New Madrid, MO, Dec 1811 – Feb 1812, the strongest about 8.7 Ritcher; Moon and Mercury at the 1985 eruption of Nevada Del Ruiz that melted its icecaps, the mudflow buried Armero, Colombia killing more than 23,000; Uranus in 1985 when a 7.8 Mexico City quake destroyed hundreds of buildings killing about 7000; the Node in the horoscope of Charles Ritcher, the creator of the Ritcher scale; Pluto was here at the 9/11 terror attack on New York and Washington and many others.

The cardinal ingresses of the Sun have a traditional reputation as  important mundane events. Shown here is the chart for Sun’s entry into Cancer at Tacloban, Philippines . Notice a powerful and energetic Grand Cross placed on the angles. On the MC are Zeus and Mars conjunct stars of Corvus – the Storm Bird. For this area Diana Rosenberg writes:

Storm bird presides, for this is one of the highest scoring storm areas of the zodiac. These stars were transited in 1274 when a Kamikaze (“Divine Wind”) destroyed Kublai Khan’s invasion fleet; in 1815 at the Autumn Equinox, the day the “Great September Gale” devastated New England; at the Great Blizzard of 1888, a 4-day storm that dumped more than 4 ft of snow over New England; in 1934 at one of the highest surface winds recorded up to that time: 231 mph on Mt. Washington, NH; in 1955 at Blackwell,OK when a monstrous twister killed 19; in 1979 when three twisters combined into one giant tornado and hit Wichita Falls,TX, lifting debris ½ mile into the sky, killing 100 and injuring 900, and at the Irish Sea Fastnet yacht race disaster: a violent gale struck without warning: 5 yachts were lost, 19 abandoned; in 1996, at a severe weather outbreak: Illinois alone was hit by 30 twisters; and climbers descending from Mt. Everest’s summit were caught in a storm and 70 degrees below zero temperatures; in 1998 when a F-5 tornado hit towns near Birmingham, AL destroying whole communities and at the 2005 perigee Full Moon before Hurricane Katrina wrecked New Orleans.

Progressing the Cancer Ingress chart to Saturday, Dec. 6 aligns the Grand Cross once again with the angles indicating the possibility of some kind of disaster in the days that follow. 

PS:

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).”

The upcoming Uranus-Pluto square will take place on December 15 at 5:13:43 UT. A chart drawn for this time at Tacloban has the square straddling the meridian axis confirming that the various mundane events resonate with the same theme.