The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo is
being marked with an exhibition of records rarely seen by the public at
Cambridge University Library. The battle in present-day Belgium on 18 June 1815
saw the final defeat of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, by Allies including
the British, led by the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussians. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-32167860
The Battle of
Waterloo took place just three days before a total lunar eclipse on 21 June
1815, a chart for which is shown here drawn for Waterloo. Notice that the
eclipse is part of a Grand Cross with Jupiter-Mars-Pluto aligned with the
meridian. Mars-Jupiter-Pluto is a combination where people can become
obsessive, generally over estimate their abilities and take up endeavours in
which they overreach themselves resulting in a great fall.
The eclipse Moon
[29sa24] is conjunct Alnasl, gamma Sagittarius of the Archer about which Roman
astrologer Manilius writes:
"As for the
Archer, when the foremost portion of his cloak rises, he will give birth to
hearts renowned in war and will conduct the conqueror, celebrating great
triumphs in the sight of all, to his country's citadels.”[Manilius,
Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 4, p.267]
From this
quote it is clear that eclipse is referring to a great conqueror - an obvious reference here to Napolean. Also notice that Mars in the eclipse chart is conjunct the star Scheat, beta Pegasus which is associated with the legend of Bellerophon and his mighty fall. When
we combine this with the Mars-Jupiter tendency to overreach, we begin to see a
possible defeat for the Emperor. A further confirmation of Napolean’s tendency
for overreach can be seen from his natal chart [1]. A prominent Jupiter-Uranus
opposition on the horizon axis is another combination which is linked to pride
and overconfidence that can lead to an overreach [2]. For 18 June 1815, the
date of the Battle of Waterloo, Napolean’s
solar arc Jupiter [29sa] opposite Uranus [26ge] aligns with the eclipse
axis suggesting that this is when his hubris could cause a great downfall.
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