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Lunar Eclipse and the Mexico Quake


Neptune – the Earth Shaker


The most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in 100 years struck off the nation’s Pacific Coast late Thursday night, rattling millions of residents in Mexico City with its violent tremors, claiming at least five lives and leveling some areas in the southern part of the country closest to where the quake occurred. Sept. 8 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/world/americas/mexico-earthquake.html





H.S. Green’s book on Mundane Astrology written around WWI is still considered a bible of sorts amongst astrologers. In the chapter on “Earthquakes”, he writes:

Earthquakes are found to be associated with eclipses and important planetary conjunctions and oppositions. An eclipse is always liable to cause seismic disturbances where it is visible, especially if it falls very close to the line of horizon i.e. the cusps of the first and seventh houses, or of the meridian i.e. the cusps of the tenth and fourth houses. Of these two lines, that of the meridian is more important; and that of the lower meridian i.e. the cusp of the fourth house is the most important of all. H.S.Green, Mundane or National Astrology

The epicenter of the quake was southwest of the town of Pijijiapan, not far from the Guatemalan border. A chart for the lunar eclipse of August 7 at Pijijiapan, shows the eclipse Moon placed on the IC (fourth house cusp).  The eclipse axis makes an inconjunct-semisextile aspect with Neptune. Astrologers have discovered that the minor aspects like the inconjunct or semisextile can have a major impact especially in mundane astrology. If we now progress the eclipse chart by the solar quotidian method to September 8, the progressed meridian reaches a conjunction to Neptune triggering the eclipse.



Neptune [13pi] is conjunct iota Pegasi [14pi] in the  constellation of Pegasus.

Poseidon (Roman name Neptune) was the great Olympian god of the sea, rivers, flood and drought, earthquakes, and horses. In the historical period, Poseidon was often referred to by the epithets Enosichthon, Seischthon and Ennosigaios, all meaning "earth-shaker" and referring to his role in causing earthquakes.  Legend has it that when his creation Pegasus, the Flying Horse,  stomped its feet there were earthquakes. For stars in this area, Diana Rosenberg mentions “unusually powerful earthquakes” and gives the following examples [1]:

The gigantic eruption of Thera, Greece in the summer of 1628 BCE was preceded by Saturn transit  in this area at the Capricorn Ingress; these stars were featured as well when a severe quake “from the heart of Vesuvius” hit Pompeii in Feb 63 CE, 16 years  before  a great eruption buried the city; at the Jan 75 CE SolEcl (path over Vesuvius, 4 years 7 months before the great eruption; at the massive Lisbon earthquake of 1755, estimated at 9 on the Ritcher scale; in 1783 when Mt. Lataki, S Iceland  split open 8-mile stretch – fountains of lava erupted at a rate surpassing Niagara Falls; at the Great New Madrid, MO quake of 1811, the first (and the 2nd strongest) in a 54-day series of massive earthquakes that hit the Mississippi Valley in 1811-12; at the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelee that killed 29,000 – the entire population of Martinique; at the terrible Tokyo-Yokohama 8.3 earthquake of 1923 (143,000 dead, 200,000 injured) and in 1993 when scientists studying the Galeras Volcano in Colombia were caught in a sudden eruption: 9 were killed. Mars was here at the calamitous 9.0 Japanese quake-Tsunami of 2011 that wiped out entire cities, killing tens of thousands and severely damaging Tukushima Saiichi nuclear plant.


[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2,p.729)

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