ON THE SHORES OF LAKE POWELL, Utah/Arizona border,
Sept 17 (Reuters) - Where the Colorado River falls from the snow-capped Rocky
Mountains into the arid U.S. Southwest, lies Lake Powell. More than 500 feet
(150 meters) deep in places and with narrow side canyons, the shoreline of the
lake is longer than the entire West Coast of the United States. It extends upstream
into Utah from Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam and provides water for Nevada, Arizona
and California. But a severe drought in recent years, combined with the tapping
of the lake's water at what many consider to be an unsustainable level, has
reduced its levels to only about 42 percent of its capacity, according to the
U.S. space agency NASA. http://goo.gl/LzaQt9
The news
comes on the Crescent Moon of Sept.17, a chart for which is shown here. The Sun
[24vi] is conjunct the star Alkes [24vi]. Alpha (α) Crater, Alkes, is a 4th
magnitude orange star in the base of the Cup. As a container or vessel of
liquids that provides nourishment, it was linked by the Roman astrologer
Manilius to lakes and rivers [1].
The Crescent
Moon [9sc] on the IC is conjunct the star Rijl
al Awwa, mu Virginis [10sc] in the constellation of the Virgin.
Depicted as
carrying the ear of wheat, the Virgin is connected with food and/or its lack. Diana Rosenberg links this area with “drought, blighted
crops and famine” and gives the following examples:
There was a solar eclipse here in 1845 at
the start of the Irish potato blight famine of 1846-51: over 1 million people
died of starvation and disease, or emigrated; there were chart elements here in
1066 when William the Conqueror, just before the Battle of Hastings, had his
men burn English farm crops to cause starvation throughout the countryside; at the 1815 eruption of
Tambora in Indonesia: ash in the atmosphere blocked the sun, causing the 1816
famine in many parts of the world and many others.
So we can see
that the Crescent Moon is hinting at how a drought is affecting a lake and vice-versa !
[1] "Whoever derives hence his birth and character
[from the constellation Crater] will be attracted by the well-watered meadows
of the countryside, the rivers, and the lakes. ….. Such are the men to be
fashioned by the Bowl, lover of all that is wet. [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st
century AD, book 5, p.318-321].
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