Record-shattering torrential rains brought Chennai
to its knees on Wednesday as widespread flooding shut down the airport and
factories of top automobile companies, while trains packed with passengers were
rendered immobile on submerged tracks. More than 200,000 people were driven
from their homes as the rain, pouring since Monday evening, inundated most
areas in the city and virtually broke a 100-year-old record with one day’s
rainfall covering a month’s average. Meteorologists warned late November that
the remnants of Typhoon Marilyn, or In-Fa, and which had formed near the
Philippines, could turn into a tropical depression and bring heavy rains to
India’s east coast. Nov. 2 http://goo.gl/F2UTrb
In mundane
astrology, apart from eclipses and ingresses, charts drawn for planetary
aspects also provide insight into the nature of events. As reports come in
about the record rainfall in Madras, India, the transiting Sun triggers the
Saturn-Neptune square that was exact on Nov. 26 and placed sharply straddling
the horizon axis at Madras.
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].
That this star is connected with flooding has been
amply demonstrated in previous blogposts [2][3][4][5].
On the
Ascendant is gamma (γ) Taurus, Prima Hyadum, the chief star of the Hyades; six stars
situated on the face of the Bull.
The
Greeks knew them as Uades, which became "Hyades" with the cultured
Latins, supposed by some to be from uein, "to rain," referring to
the, wet period attending their morning and evening setting in the latter parts
of May and November; and this is their universal character in the literature of
all ages. Thus we have Hyades Graiis ab imbre vocat of Ovid's Fasti; pluviasque
Hyadas of the Aeneid and of Ovid again; and pluviae generally, which Manilius
expressed in his
Sad Companions of the turning Year.
While far back of all these, in the
She King:
The Moon wades through Hyads bright,
Foretelling heavier rain.
Pliny
wrote of them as being "a violent and troublesome star causing stormes and
tempests raging both on land and sea"; in later times Edmund Spenser
called them the Moist Daughters; Tennyson, in his Ulysses, said:
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
vext the dim sea. [6]
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