Unusual number of UK flowers bloom

Roman goddess Abundantia with a cornucopia, by Rubens

Botanists have been stunned by the results of their annual hunt for plants in flower on New Year’s Day. They say according to textbooks there should be between 20 and 30 species in flower. This year there were 368 in bloom. It raises further questions about the effects of climate change during the UK’s warmest year on record. “This is extraordinary,” said Tim Rich, who started the New Year’s plant hunt for the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. BBC; http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30754443

Ploutos with the horn of abundance

Humanity appears to have lost touch with larger cycles in nature than just those of the seasons. So our botanists attribute this unusual flowering to the effects of climate change during the warmest year. While this may be a secondary cause, it is not necessarily a primary cause. What if a primary cause was contained in the cosmos cycles of the planets? In this post we will see if we can detect one such cause.

On New Year’s Day, the Moon was in its Waxing Gibbous Phase. A chart for this phase drawn for London is shown here. We find the Moon placed in the fourth house in aspect to Sun and Pluto.  Extracts from  two references [1][2]  below tell us what the fourth house and the planet Pluto rule.

Fourth House

Land and all crops and  produce on it. [1]

Pluto

Pluto (Greek:Ploutōn) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology. The earlier name for the god was Hades. Plouton was one of several euphemistic names for Hades, described in the Iliad as the god most hateful to mortals. Plato says that people prefer the name Plouton, "giver of wealth," because the name of Hades is fear-provoking. The name was understood as referring to "the boundless riches of the earth, both the crops on its surface—he was originally a god of the land—and the mines hidden within it." As a lord of abundance or riches, Pluto expresses the aspect of the underworld god that was positive, symbolized in art by the "horn of plenty" (cornucopia), by means of which Plouton is distinguished from the gloomier Hades. The cornucopia (from Latin cornu copiae) or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers or nuts. [2]

Also we notice that on the Ascendant is Venus in square aspect to the TNP Apollon.

Venus : Flowers. [3]

Apollon : The multiplier: expansion and spreading; growth and increase [4].

[1] http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h4.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_%28mythology%29

[3] http://astrobix.com/content/23-venus-according-to-the-kp-astrology.aspx

[4] http://arlenekramer.net/uranian_eightplanets.asp