US 'at risk of mega-drought future'

The American south-west and central plains could be on course for super-droughts the like of which they have not witnessed in over a 1,000 years. Places like California are already facing very dry conditions, but these are quite gentle compared with some periods in the 12th and 13th Centuries. Scientists have now compared these earlier droughts with climate simulations for the coming decades. The study suggests events unprecedented in the last millennium may lie ahead. "These mega-droughts during the 1100s and 1200s persisted for 20, 30, 40, 50 years at a time, and they were droughts that no-one in the history of the United States has ever experienced," said Ben Cook from Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. There is already broad agreement that the American Southwest and the Central Plains (a broad swathe of land from North Texas to the Dakotas) will dry as a consequence of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31434030

Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies is located in New York from where Dr Cook's new study was published in the journal Science Advances on Feb.1, 2015.  Shown here is the chart for the solar eclipse of April 29, 2014 drawn for New York.

Solar eclipses offer opportunity to redefine concepts of self and the roles we play in the world, or how we articulate ourselves in life. They are about shifting octaves in the nature of our self-perception and self-expression, and addressing issues that keep us from doing so. They can invite a new beginning, way of life, or new way of participating in life [1].

We can immediately see that the April 29 solar eclipse carries a special message in New York since it squares the horizon axis. On the Ascendant are stars of the constellation Indus – the Indian[2]. About this constellation Nick Fiorenza writes:

Indus understands our connectedness to the land and impels a deep respect for the land and for life. It  articulates the steward of a special place or sacred land, or a keeper of sacred knowledge and sacred ways; and imparts the quality of a steward or a shamanistic way of life.

The eclipse [9ta] was conjunct the stars of the Chinese asterism T’ien-K’iun, the Celestial Circular Granary representing everything harvested and stored; if its stars were clear there would be plenty, if they were dim, a famine. [3]

If we now progress the eclipse chart to February 1, the day the study was published, we find that not only has the eclipse reached a conjunction to the IC but that the highly transformative and change producing cross containing the Uranus-Pluto square has arrived to a conjunction with the horizon axis. Among other things Uranus-Pluto is linked to enlightenment  when things lying hidden deep in the human unconscious are suddenly brought to the surface.

[1] http://lunarplanner.com/LunarMonths2013/lunarmonth.13.11.03.html

[2] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Indus.htm

[3] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.692)