Astrology: Weathering the Hurricane

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The Magister has been receiving quite a few hurricane-related requests for assistance over the last couple of days. Here is a redrawn chart from a worried Querent who asked whether her friend in Florida would be okay (i.e., safe) during the hurricane and its aftermath.

The Querent is represented by Venus at 29 Virgo and the Moon at 7 Scorpio. You can see how worried the Querent is. Venus is in fall, a terrible state of debility, and the Moon is fall, in the Via Combusta, and carries Venus into detriment. The Querent's emotions are doing a number on her mind. She cannot think clearly. She is in a spiraling state of alarm. She'll snap out of it, soon, though. Venus will enter Libra, her sign of domicile, and gain a huge amount of dignity. The overexcited emotional Moon will conjunct the Dragon's Tail and deflate into the proper perspective of reality. Those are good signs.

The Querent's friend is Lord 11, Mercury, Rx, at 25 Virgo. The friend is in her own sign and house, so that is a good sign. But Mercury is about to move into an opposition with Neptune, the Lord of the Seas, and the Earthshaker, as Homer calls him. Not good. But not unexpected, either. The friend, after all, is getting exposed to a HURRICANE. So, as always, the chart mirrors reality. An opposition: it will not be a pleasant experience, and the friend will probably have some regrets over it. And yes, it is a nasty Hurricane. A nasty Sun -- the Sun is in detriment in Libra -- is about to conjunct Neptune by antiscion, too.

But, will the friend be safe? She will. At least, she isn't going to die. We have two candidates for Death in this chart. One is the radical Lord 8. That's Venus. Venus is not going to aspect Mercury. Mercury's moving backward away from Death/Venus. The second candidate for Death is the lord of the friend's turned House 8, which is radical House 6, giving Jupiter as the Lord, i.e., the second possible mask for Death. Mercury Rx and Jupiter Rx were recently conjunct by antiscion, but they have been moving away from each other since then. Sure, Mercury will soon enter STATION and turn DIRECT, at which point it will probably catch up with Jupiter. But that's too far out in the future to concern us and, moreover, remember the rule: conjunction by antiscion cannot show a death. In answer to the question, "Will my friend die?" the Queen of Heaven is not saying, "No, child," but "HELL NO, child!"

So, the friend will go through a terrible and wet experience thanks to Neptune-Earthshaker-Lord-of-the-Seas, but she will live. So says the Queen of Heaven.