With 23 people dead so far in Texas flooding, and
more rain on the way, it is easy to overlook an important development: the deluge
has nearly brought the end of a historic four-year drought. Many reservoirs are
now at or near capacity. Underground aquifers are slowly being replenished. And
lakes are filling up. As of Tuesday, just five percent of Texas, encompassing
about 218,000 people in central and northern pockets of the state, was under
moderate drought conditions, according to government data. Much of the
turnaround has to do with the same rains that have caused so much destruction.
May has been the wettest month on record for Texas, culminating with violent
storms last weekend that triggered sudden floods that washed away cars and
pulled homes from their foundations. As of Thursday, 23 people were dead and
nine remained missing, including members of two families vacationing together
along the Blanco River. Swollen rivers are expected to keep rising, and more
rain is in the forecast for later this week. May 28 http://nbcnews.to/1FRqqdb
A chart drawn
for Mercury retrograde square Neptune on May 29 at Wimberley,Texas is shown
here. News reports indicate the ferocious Blanco River surged through
Wimberley. That the chart is significant for the place is indicated by Neptune
on the Ascendant as part of the Sun-Mercury-Mars-Neptune square.
On the
Ascendant [6pi] with Neptune [9pi] is the star Fomalhaut [4pi]. Alpha (α)
Piscis Austrinus, Fomalhaut, is a reddish star in the mouth of the Southern
Fish.
The Southern Fish
is a separate constellation to Pisces, lying much further to the South, though
in ancient legend it is often referred to as the parent of the zodiacal pair. The area in which it lies has an heavy
emphasis upon constellations with watery imagery, the goat-fish (Capricorn),
the whale (Cetus), the water-pourer (Aquarius), the fishes (Pisces), and the
dolphin (Delphinus) all located nearby, obviously earmarking this region as one
that related to the rainy season of the ancient year, by which many of its
stars are associated with floods or troubles at sea. The Southern Fish is
usually depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the
water poured from his urn [1].
The Sun is
conjunct the stars of the constellation Hyades.
The word “hyades” means “rainers” and the constellation is linked to
torrential rain and stormy weather.
Finally,
notice that Venus [22cn42] which is conjunct the star Pollux, beta Geminorum
[23cn23] is in a hard aspect to Neptune [9pi]. In ancient China, Pollux [
23cn23] was part of the asterism Pe-Ho,
the Northern River. Four tiny stars (1,6,11, +1 more: 21cn18, 22cn26,26cn41,?)
in Canis Minor were called Choui-Wei, the Situation of the Waters,
which governed the overflowing of rivers. The astrologers said that if this
asterism was clear and tranquil it was a good omen, but if it faded or seemed
to drift and combine with the Milky Way, the rivers of the Empire would
overflow and flood the lands [2].
[2]
Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg [v.1, p.703]
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