In honor of Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 8-14, we at
FireRescue would like to present our readers with a historical account of the
Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the incident that inspired the creation of Fire
Prevention Week. As we do so, we remember those who suffered and died as a
result the fire's mass destruction, as well as the city's struggle to rise from
its ashes. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 is truly one of our country's
greatest tragedies. By the time the last remaining flames flickered out, the
fire had claimed 300 lives and decimated four square miles-more than 2,000
acres-of heavily populated land. Nearly 100,000 people were left homeless; the
city's business district was in ruins; and more than 28 miles of streets, 120
miles of sidewalks, 18,000 buildings and 2,000 lampposts, along with countless
trees, shrubs and plants, were completely wiped out.The Great Chicago Fire
began near a barn at approximately 9 p.m. on Oct. 8, 1871. It is unclear
exactly how the fire started (some believe a cow knocked over an oil lamp
inside the barn, setting straw ablaze), but the city's unseasonably dry, windy
weather and minimal rainfall, coupled with its wooden structures and
woodworking industries, made it a prime location for an inferno. http://www.firefighternation.com/article/firefighter-safety-health/look-back
A
devastating event like the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 is most often the working
of an eclipse. Here we shall trace this
event to the solar eclipse of June 17, 1871. A chart for the eclipse shows it
conjunct the TNP Zeus (associated with fires) and square Mars which itself is
also of a fiery nature. But that is not all. The stars on the IC, descendant
and conjunct Zeus are all linked to fires.
On the IC are stars of Cepheus. Cepheus was called
“inflammatus” – there are devastating fires here – among them the Great
Fire of Rome, 64 CE, the Charleston SC fire of 1838 that destroyed more than
half the city, the 1865 boiler explosion fire that wrecked the Sultana, an old,
overloaded steamer carrying Union
soldiers (about 1238 killed outright), the October 1993 fires fanned by Santa Ana
winds that devastated Southern California, the huge 1842 Hamburg, Germany fire,
the Lake View School fire in Collingwood, Ohio, 1908; the infamous Ring Theatre fire in Vienna,
1881, the Halloween disco fire in Sweden in 1998 and many others.[1]
The TNP Zeus is conjunct stars in degrees
that the Liber Hermetis called “the Violence of Fire”. These are represented on
the charts of the fiery 1915 Quintinshill, Scotland 3-train explosion called
the worst train wreck in British history; at the 1904 General Slocum excursion
steamer fire in NY that killed 1,021; at the 2003 Station nightclub fire,
Warwick,RI; at the 1946 Winecoff Hotel fire that killed 119; the 1903 Iroquois
Theatre fire in Chicago that killed 602; the great fire that destroyed the
Palace of Wstminster in 1834 and many others.[1]
The star
Sirius occupies the descendant and was also conjunct the Quarter Moon on 6
October 1871 just two days before the fire. About this star the ancient Roman astrologer Manilius wrote:
"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]." [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 5,
p.316-319].
So we have
data in the eclipse chart to suggest a great fire but how about the timing? If
we progress the eclipse chart to October 8, 1871, we find that the progressed
Ascendant conjoins the TNP Zeus setting off the eclipse and leading to the
massive fire.
And
finally, if we make the chart for 9 pm on October 8, 1871 when the fire is
reported to have started we have the TNP Zeus exactly on the Ascendant.
[1]
Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg
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