Mercury – god of roads
A rapidly growing 3,500-acre brush fire near San
Bernardino, California has blocked a freeway and set multiple cars on fire.
Five homes have been burned and 50 are in danger, fire officials said. The San Bernardino County Fire Department has
declared a "mass casualty incident" and hundreds of firefighters have
been dispatched to battle the blaze. July 17 http://www.rt.com/usa/310144-500-acre-california-brush-fire/
The brush
fire near San Bernardino has taken place just two days after a New Moon. A
chart for the New Moon has a powerful Grand Cross on the meridian axis with
Zeus, the TNP associated with fires on the MC.
One of the legs of the cross is a Mercury-Mars [14cn] conjunction in
hard aspect to TNP Admetus [29ta]. This explains the blocking (Admetus) of a
freeway (Mercury) because of a fire (Mars-Zeus) [1].
While the
causes of wildfires vary and the outcomes are always unique, one of the factors
contributing the severity of a wildfire is hot weather. Here we finds
Mercury-Mars [14cn] conjunct the star Sirius [15cn]. The following extract from
the ancient Roman astrologer Manilius [2] explains the connection of Sirius to “dog
days”.
"The brilliant constellation of the
Dog: it barks forth flame, raves with its fire, and doubles the burning heat of
the Sun. When it put its torch to the earth and discharges its rays, the earth
foresees its conflagration and tastes its ultimate fate [translator's note: the
ecpyrosis of the Stoics, who held that the Universe would ultimately be
engulfed in conflagration and all things would return to the condition of
primeval fire]…. All living things seek alien climes and the world looks for
another world to repair to; beset by temperatures too great to bear, nature is
afflicted with a sickness of its own making, alive, but on a funeral-pyre: such
is the heat diffused among the constellations, and everything is brought to a
halt by a single star". [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 5,
p.316-319].
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