Australia rains begin to fill massive desert lake

Heavy rains have started to fill Australia's vast Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre and are bringing the desert to life. Pictures captured by pilot Trevor Wright show water filling dry salt plains that lie 700km (435 miles) north of Adelaide. The area around the lake has been inundated with rain over the last week, with falls of over 150mm reported. Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre fills only a few times in a century. When this happens it is Australia's largest lake.  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35203730

Lake Eyre, officially known as Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, contains the lowest natural point in Australia, at approximately 15 m below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, is the largest lake in Australia.

A chart drawn for the exact  Sun-Uranus  square at Lake Eyre is shown here. In mundane astrology, it is important to pay attention to exact planetary aspects. Over the last couple of days, the Sun conjoined Pluto and squared Uranus. One of the manifestations of this trigger is a sudden release of elemental energy as in storms, earthquakes etc. Notice that the square sharply aspects the horizon axis while the Saturn-Neptune square straddles the meridian.

Of all the contradictory and clashing symbols of astrology, the pairing of Saturn and Neptune suggests a paradox. At times the paradox symbolized by the planets can be seen quite literally in events. Neptune rules ‘water’ while Saturn rules  barrenness that one can associate with a ‘desert’ so that the sudden appearance of water that brings a desert to life can be linked to Saturn-Neptune. Reinforcing this is Neptune conjunct the stars in the Water Pourer’s urn – a perfect symbol for an abundance of water in the form of heavy rain and flood.

However, at any point in time there are several mundane events. Some of these events pull in the same direction, so to speak, resulting in terrestrial phenomenon  that is defined by  more than one mundane event. The news comes on the eve of Jupiter [23vi] stationing retrograde while conjunct the star Alkes [24vi]. Alpha (α) Crater, Alkes, is a 4th magnitude orange star in the base of the Cup. A crater is essentially  a circular depression in the land. In time a crater can collect water and become a lake.