Astrology has been disproven yet again, this time at approximately 11:15 a.m. on the 7th of December on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the one that runs between Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York. A person of my acquaintance was driving over the bridge and definitely minding his own business when he saw what appeared to be a small circular object spinning up from the road near a car that was ahead and to the right of him. A moment later, something hit his windshield, with a resulting pandemonium that you can well imagine.
After he pulled off the highway on the Brooklyn side to call 911, he noticed that right in the center of the windshield damage was a vertical break about 6 inches long and an inch wide, and then he noticed a large hunk of metal below the dashboard and lying right in front of the gearshift. The hunk of metal, which clearly was bolted to something (perhaps on the bridge itself) before it decided to go traveling was about the size, shape, and heft, of an axe blade, though with a hole in it where the bolt would have been. It was clear from the lower-right origin and the hole in the windshield that its vector had been straight at the driver’s head. Had there not been good, solid safety glass on the car, said caput were else kaput. Putting it in archaic terms somehow seems to make the whole thought less icky.
So what does this have to do with disproving astrology? It’s very simple, as the three most elevated bodies at the time were Mars, Sun, and Mercury, in that order, all squaring Saturn, a singleton in the Western half of the chart. The longitudes, using first Sidereal and then Tropical coordinates, were:
Ma 20.34 Scorpio
Su 21.04 Scorpio
Me 27.41 Scorpio
Sa 26.22 Leo
1. 21.30 Scorpio<<<
2. 20.09 Scorpio<<<
Ma 15.26 Sagittarius
Su 15.56 Sagittarius
Me 22.33 Sagittarius
Sa 21.14 Virgo
1. 15.30 Sagittarius<<<
2. 14.09 Sagittarius<<<
So what are those entries labeled 1 and 2 with the <<< beside them? The subject’s Ascendant and Jupiter, respectively. Quod erat demonstratum.
