The theme of the last year has been Neptune and this post will be also about Neptune but in a more “traditional” sense. Some of the keywords for Neptune are disease, illness, gas, and earthquakes. That last keyword may need some explanation but it comes from the mythology concerning Neptune (the Roman god) or Poseidon (the Greek name for the same god). It seems that earthquakes were considered to originate when Neptune stamped his trident in the earth.

I once had a student who was a Pisces and she would get upset whenever I mentioned difficult manifestations of Neptune. But I did not mean to defame Neptune. I have a strong Neptune myself and in fact the planet makes a close minor aspect to my Ascendant.

In all of these charts to be discussed below Uranus is prominent. One chart has only an approximate time, one time I got from news accounts, while the other has a time to the nearest second. The charts for two of the events have a strong Neptune aspecting either the Ascendant or Midheaven.

The first (two) charts are for the multiple explosions on the Nordstream underseas pipelines that were designed to carry gas from Russia to Germany and thus to the rest of Europe. These explosion are considered the greatest act of industrial terrorism in history, caused the largest release of methane in a single event, and an act of war against Germany and Russia. Certainly a very big deal but it does not get talked about much.

This second chart is for the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It is considered by many to be the worst environmental disaster in recent American history. There have have been other disasters such as the BP oil well explosion but that was in the Gulf of Mexico and not the continental United States. There have been other train derailments but this one was carrying several toxic chemicals and so was worse. As I understand it, the vinyl chloride — used to make PVC — that the train was carrying was burned so that the track would be quickly available. It is normal for spillage from trains to be cleaned up and taken away; it is very unusual for this mess to be burned. Because it was burned more toxic substances were produced, including dioxin which is a known carcinogen.

The third event is the first of several earthquakes to hit Turkey (or Turkiya) and Syria with the epicenter in Turkey. While Turkey is a original member of NATO Syria is one-third occupied by the United States and it is under sanctions which makes helping that country much more difficult.

Nordstream explosions happened in four different locations (see map) but three were close together and the first explosion happened somewhat distant so the location is the center of the three explosions closest together and the fourth has its own location.

First Nordstream Explosion

From the chart we can see that this was a New Moon (about two hours after the exact conjunction of the Sun and Moon) which was below the earth so it was very dark at the time. The second chart was 17 hours later so that the New moon was almost a day old. Jupiter was opposite the Moon closely (see the fourth harmonic chart later for a graphic illustration of how close).

Second Nordstream Explosions

In a pattern we will see repeated, the Sun was in hard aspect — a sesquiquadrate in this case — to Uranus at about half a degree in the first chart but in the second chart this aspect was almost exact. One quick interpretation of Sun-Uranus hard aspects is that something unexpected happened this day.

Notice the shape formed by Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Sun. It looks like a kite with the tail pointing to the Sun. In astrology there is a planetary formation called a kite which looks much the same except the aspects holding the kite together are trines and sextiles. So I will call this formation a Hard Kite.

First Nordstream Explosion Harmonic 4

Finally note that Mercury is opposed to Neptune, and indeed this whole incident has Neptune writ large. No one will take responsibility for this huge terrorist act and most governments say they have no idea who did it. The mass media seems uninterested who finding out what happened. Perhaps relevant to this lack of interest is the fact that there are six planets retrograde: the five outers and of course Mercury. This incident is a huge mystery that no one is interested in. Of course, remember the old statement: Don’t ask a question if you don’t want the answer.

Second Nordstream Explosions Harmonic 4

This case was discussed previously (Midterms and Minor Aspects) and the fourth harmonic chart is interesting to look at since it reveals that Pluto is tightly configured with Moon/Jupiter and Uranus/Saturn.

Neptune is involved: though most consider this an act of sabotage and not a natural phenomenon there is much uncertainty about the perpetrator. A few weeks ago noted journalist Seymour Hearst posted an article telling how the United States, along with Norway, blew up the pipeline. He indicated that this was an act requiring a major player or a state to perform. There was absolutely no mention of this in the major media. Then more recently the New York Times and a prominent German newspaper published separately details from intelligence sources that the explosions were from explosives planted by a pro-Ukraine group of six from the fifty foot yacht Andromeda. This seems similar to the plot of a episode of the Sixties sitcom Gilligan’s Island where the Professor makes a coconut bomb which is planted underwater by Ginger and Mary Ann. Then there are claims that Russian ships were seen in the vicinity of the explosion a few days before it happened. Thus there is uncertainty of the perpetrators and at least two very conflicting stories, thus a Neptunian haze surrounds this event.

The next case to look at is a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a small town near the Pennsylvania border. The train was carrying several toxic chemicals including vinyl chloride which is used to make the very common PVC. But the derailment would not have been nearly as bad except that a controlled burn of the spilled contents took place later, thus exposing the toxic chemicals to a much wider group of people and also hiding the local effects since they were spread over a larger population. This chart is based on the time given by the sources I checked. Neptune is exactly on the Descendant and also square the Midheaven. There is an exact Sun square Uranus at the time, saying again that something unexpected would happen on that day. Not only does Neptune rule the toxic chemical spilled, but there is also uncertainty about what caused the accident and why it was made worse by the “controlled’ burn. Another problem was caused by lack of safety equipment; for example the train had the same type of brakes as used during the Civil War instead of newer brakes that could have prevented the derailment but cost more money. Also, more engineers on the train could have noticed the forming problems before the accident.

Train Derailment

Making this incident even more interesting is that Don Delillo wrote a novel in 1985 called White Noise that had been floating around Hollywood for many years until it was finally made into a movie with the same title released in 2022. The novel/movie concerns an airborne toxic cloud from a train derailment and the movie was filmed in East Palestine. The movie seemed to capture the disaster that happened in that town and some of the residents of the city were even extras in the movie. Certainly a case of life imitating art.

Earthquake in Turkey

The third incident to look at is the Earthquake in Turkiye/Syria. The time and location are exact (which is usually the case with earthquakes and seismographs). This earthquake took place about six hours after the Full Moon. Neptune is exactly square is Ascendant and there is a wide square of Sun and Uranus, not surprising since this earthquake took place three days after the derailment.

Number of Earthquakes in Turkey per Year

As shown in the graph Turkey has had a huge number of earthquakes in the Twenty-First Century compared to the time before. As of this writing there are about 53,000 casualties and 26 million displaced persons. While certainly not the deadliest earthquake in a century the death toll is high because it was early in the morning when most were asleep.

There is some contention that this was an artificial earthquake: a Romanian legislator brought this out in a speech before her Parliament. She maintains that since there was no true epicenter and many earthquakes occurred along the same line it was caused by something like HAAAP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Program) which of course was immediately denied by fact-checkers. Thus Neptune shows the doubts over the true origins.

I did not pick these three events expecting anything in common; they were large scale events that seemed to be important and with long term consequences. But there are some things in common. Two of the charts have tight aspects between Neptune and one of the angles, either the Ascendant or the Midheaven. All three have hard aspects between the Sun and Uranus. And all three are Neptunian in the more traditional sense.