I was recently asked about the Air France Flight 447 plane crash, which happened en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. In particular, I was asked whether there was any chance of finding any survivors. Logically there was next to no chance of finding anyone alive, so there didn’t seem to be any point in exploring the matter further.
Indeed, what was there to say, of any use? Astrologers are a morbid group, and love looking at the horoscopes of recent disasters, and they’ll always find something. Hindsight is a great thing! And as I didn’t predict it, shouldn’t I shut up about it?
Well, the place crash does raise a few issues. For example the fate of the individual and the fate of the group. There is also the issue of whether I should have predicted it, and whether or not, as an astrologer, I would have been crazy to board the plane.
I believe that it’s possible to predict someone’s death. Though I must stress that I never make death predictions for my own clients. So is it possible, looking at the horoscopes of everyone on board Flight 447, that one could predict their individual deaths?The answer is no. The accident happened for some reason that went beyond the individual horoscopes of the passengers. And this underlines the point that astrology can never have a perfect relationship to reality, however skilled the practitioner.
Nonetheless, there was something disturbing about the flight, and it isn’t just about hindsight.
If one looks at the horoscope for Flight 447’s take-off – according to most sources it was on May 31 2009 at 7.03 pm, in Rio de Janeiro – there are some dangerous signs.
A few hours after take-off, there was an 135-degree aspect between Mars and Saturn. Mars and Saturn, as a pair, are connected with death. Indeed in astrology it’s THE signature of death. The angular separation of 135 degrees is particularly stressful, being three-eighths of the circle.
However stressful aspects between Mars and Saturn are not unusual, and they’ll happen every few months. There’ll be hundreds of take-offs under their influence, and there’ll be few if any mishaps.
Yet Flight 447 was hit particularly badly by the Mars-Saturn aspect, and this is connected with the Ascendant, which moves on average a degree every four minutes. At the time of take-off, the Ascendant was 6 degress and 51 Capricorn, while the Mars-Saturn midpoint was 7 34 Cancer.
In other words, the Ascendant was exactly opposite the Mars-Saturn midpoint. So Flight 447 picked up the negative energy of the Mars-Saturn 135-degree aspect, in a very direct way.
Reinhold Ebertin said of Ascendant on the Mars-Saturn midpoint, in his The Combination of Stellar Influences:
The necessity to economize, illness, separation, mourning and bereavement.
Mercury was also on the Mars-Saturn midpoint, making a 45-degree aspect to it. I suspect this is the trigger, that made the Mars-Saturn aspect so deadly. At the beginning of April there was an 180-degree aspect between Mars-Saturn, which loosely coincided with the Italian earthquake. However there wasn’t the instant punch, that we got this time round. The reason being, I believe, that there wasn’t another planet, providing the trigger.
Ebertin’s description of Mercury on the Mars-Saturn midpoint is spot on, except perhaps the last word:
Thoughtlessness, hopelessness. – Thoughts on separation, illness, death or the next world beyond. – News of mourning and bereavement (murderers).
Of course there is speculation as to whether or not there was terrorist involvement. At the time of take-off Uranus, the planet of accidents and explosions, was almost exactly on the lower meridian.
The lower meridian – the ‘Imum Coeli’, in the jargon – is the point of the chart that’s most hidden, and we can think of a mishap that might have come from the very bowels of the aeroplane. An accident from within rather than without. To me this isn’t the symbol of weather damage. An explosion of some kind seems more likely, though that doesn’t necessarily mean that it was a bomb.
I’m sorry if the astrological events I describe sound obscure, but to an astrologer these are clear, unambiguous signatures of death and destruction. They’re not open to interpretation, and they’re quite obvious from even a cursory look at the chart. So if I was about to board that flight, knowing that take-off was at 7.03 am, would I have walked away? In theory yes, but in practice… I don’t know.
Copyright © 2009 Archie Dunlop
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Great article! The Ascendant being opposite to the Mars-Saturn midpoint and Merc also squaring the midpoint as trigger and Uranus conjuncting IC to suggest internal/hidden cause all make sense! As you say, in theory nobody would voluntarily sign up to their death but in practice life (and death) happens when we don’t really pay attention… I just hope these people satisfied some type of karmic debt by meeting all together at the particular event. It would be incredibly satisfying (for the rest of us) to find what that was and somehow justify the tragedy. I suspect that would also be the only real consolation for the relatives of the deceased.