At last, the promised analysis of the 7.2 Easter Baja Quake is ready. It's been quite a wait, I know, but I am putting it up now. One of the issues involving the analysis of this quake was choosing between the Mexico national chart or the California chart. I decided to use the California chart as Baja is known as Baja CALIFORNIA. If the quake had struck south of the border where it connects the main body of Mexico, it would be different. So, with this in mind, let's start with the California Chart. One of the first things I check in any chart for events are the eclipses that have touch on important placements in the last few years. This chart had an eclipse to Radical Lilith on January 26, 2009, Solar eclipse, associated Saros Series11N*. The Radical Node at 14 Leo was opposite the lunar eclipse of August 6, 2009. In 2005, Radical Saturn received a direct hit on Radical Saturn, from the solar eclipse of April 8th. Finally, the Radical Neptune was eclipsed on August 28, 2007, a direct hit. These are all going to be sensitive points to watch and the transits of these planets become important as well as they move around the chart making aspects to radical and progressed positions and even to other transiting planets. Eclipses make things happen when planets make contact with them. In this case, the transits of the Node, Lilith, and Saturn are to be watched carefully.
The 7.2 quake hit near Mexicali, just south of the border in Baja California on April 4, 2010. The quake took place during the time of a Moon Wobble, when the Sun and Node form a 90 degree, a.k.a. a square aspect to one another. A very good article to read about this phenomena is on Rob Tillet's website
http://www.astrologycom.com/moonwobble.html However, a moon wobble alone won't tell us why a quake happened in a particular region. For that information, we have to examine the charts of places. In examination of this chart, we can see Transit Saturn forming a conjunction with Radical Jupiter in a 0 Cardinal degree and making a hard adjustment to Transiting Chiron. The Transiting Moon is seen in this chart to be forming a trine with Radical Saturn but at the actual time of the quake it was at 28 Sagittarius thus forming a trine to Radical Pluto and Uranus but squaring the Radical Jupiter and Transiting Saturn. The Transiting Moon acts as the hour timer in event charts, especially quake charts! In this case, it was forming aspects to Radical and Progressed planets and squaring the Solar Eclipse of March 19, 2007, Saros Series 9NN*, the physically expressive series implicated a number of California quakes. Transiting Pluto is making easy aspects to the AC/DC axis, Radical Neptune, and transiting Venus, but not all easy aspects are necessarily good. Pluto's energy can be excessive, destructive as well as transforming. In this case, Pluto's destructive, yet transforming energy is feeding into the Radical trine between the AC at 5 Scorpio and the 4th house Radical Neptune at 5 Pisces (an eclipsed planet and degree) when the Transiting Venus and Mercury are activating the opposition between Radical Pluto, Radical Uranus on the DC and the Radical Moon and Venus on the AC increasing the stress dramatically. In addition to all of this, it didn't help that Transiting Venus was in opposition to the Lunar Eclipse of April 24, 2005!
The Transiting Node is forming a trine aspect to the Radical Sun at 16 Virgo and is conjunct with the eclipse degree of 15 Capricorn from the July 7, 2009 Lunar Eclipse, Saros Series 11S*. Bernadette Brady describes this 11S series as a need to make sudden changes, with any blockages violently or tragically removed. As stated above, the Moon Wobble was in effect during this time of this quake but even more interesting, is another recent finding when I began reviewing all the major quakes and eruptions of 2010--in the 7.2 Easter Baja quake chart, the Vertex of that event was at 16 Capricorn, conjunct with the Transiting Node and the eclipse degree and square to the Transiting Sun and trine to the Radical Sun of the California chart. Also the quake chart has the Part of Fortune at 16 Taurus trine to this configuration. A Grand Trine formed between the Radical Sun, the Quake Part of Fortune, the Transiting Node, and the Quake Vertex. May it also be noted that 16 Taurus is an eclipse degree from November 9, 2003, Saros Series 5S*, associated with a peak experience as described by B. Brady. It may have been a joyful experience for the earth to move and release some stress, but certainly not for the inhabitants living on her crust in that region.
Moving on, Transiting Lilith was at 20 Aquarius, within orb of opposition to the Lunar Eclipse of February 9, 2009 and trine to the Radical Vertex. Transiting Neptune wasn't making any special aspect to the Radical CA chart but that changes when looking at the Progressed California chart as it forms an opposition to the Progressed Sun. Transiting Jupiter made an opposition to the Radical Sun at 16 Virgo and was opposite the eclipse degree of 18 Virgo, Saros Series 9NS* and square to the Radical Vertex of the California chart. I am finding the Vertex to be very useful in terms of when events happen. The Vertex represents a point of fatedness or destiny which we have no control over and it's always active in quake charts, either by transit stimulation, progression, or solar arc. In this case, it's stimulated by transit to the Radical position in the California chart and square to an eclipse degree, by progression to the Radical Node then activated by transit stimulation, and in the actual quake chart.
Transiting Uranus, is within less than a 1 degree orb of the Solar Eclipse at 28 Pisces, Saros Series 9NN*. This particular eclipse is implicated very strongly in the Oil Rig disaster in Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana in April 2010. Celeste Teal gave an excellent description of this eclipse in her book on Eclipses. She has associated this eclipse with wasted resources, fires and/or explosions, and with earthquakes which has proven to be the case! With Uranus, the planet of shock and sudden events, on this degree, it couldn't be any more accurate.
The Transiting Sun was forming a Moon Wobble in conjunction with squaring the eclipse degree of 15 Capricorn on the date of the quake along with a conjunction to the Radical Saturn at 19 Aries and in opposition to the Progressed Vertex at 14 Libra.
Lastly, we have the Transiting Mars coming into opposition with the Radical Lilith ( the dark moon point associated with the shadow in natal astrology) previously eclipsed on January 26, 2009. Transiting Mars is also square to Transiting Venus and Mercury, trine to Radical Chiron, but most importantly, in conjunction with the Progressed Node sitting in the Progressed 4th house. I haven't found too much information on Lilith's effects in Mundane Astrology, but it seems to be pointing at behind the scenes, shadow issues and when stimulated by eclipse or progression, those shadow issues are brought into focus. Some might say, it's a point of bad luck, but I think it's bad only if you choose to ignore it, then the issues associated Lilith's placing fester and erupt to the point where it cannot be ignored any longer. Unfortunately, in terms of Lilith's mundane application in quake charts, it's not too good. It's too easy to forget we live on a fragile crust.
Here is the Progressed Chart of California on the date of the Easter Baja Quake. I've already mentioned above some of the aspects that formed to set things off, but here's where you can actually see Transiting Mars making a conjunction with the Progressed Node in opposition to the Lunar Eclipse of January 26, 2009 from the 4th house dealing with weather/earth related events and squaring the Progressed Part of Fortune. The AC/DC axis is receiving stimulation. Progressed Venus has moved into opposition with the Lunar Eclipse degree of 10 Cancer. Progressed Mars is in the eclipse degree of 6 Aquarius. The Transiting Sun is opposing the Progressed Vertex, forming a t-square with it and the Node stimulating the Lunar Eclipse degree of 15 Capricorn. Transiting Saturn is trine to progressed Mercury activating the progressed adverse t-square. The Transiting Moon in this chart shows the Moon's position at midnight universal time squaring Transiting Jupiter and trine to progressed Saturn but the timing of the quake happened when the Transiting Moon made a trine to Progressed Pluto and the Progressed Moon forming a grand trine. However, since the Transiting Moon was square to Transiting Uranus in the 28 Pisces Solar Eclipse, the result was Boom! Quake!
Finally, there is the Easter Baja Quake chart below.
And so there it is..Why here? Because the charts tell us so. The eclipses, transits, and positions in the California chart all combined together to set off the charges in the form of progressed aspects. The Transiting Moon is the hand that presses down on the lever to set off the charges that were building up for years.
* refers to Bernadette Brady's book: Predictive Astrology, The Eagle and the Lark
Possible times for a quake to hit are when the Transiting Moon conjuncts Progressed Uranus at 29 Gemini ,but more likely when the Transiting Moon plugs into the Moon Wobble effect at 7** Cancer. Also likely times are when the Moon transits Radical Uranus at 2 Cancer, opposes the eclipse degree of 4 Capricorn and the Progressed Ascendant * quite likely, conjuncts eclipse degree of 10 Cancer, 15-17 Cancer in opposition to the Radical Mars or later when the Transiting Moon hits upon the eclipse degrees of 25-29 Cancer affecting the Radical IC/MC axis.
