If astrology was not real, these charts (see below) would be two incredibly amazing coincidences.

The first one is an event chart. At 11h18am on the 1st of September 1859, from his domicile in Redhill, England, amateur astronomer Richard Carrington observed solar flares bursting out of sunspots.

What is remembered as ‘The Carrington event’ was the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded on earth.

What could best symbolise solar flares than Mars in Leo?

It dominates the chart: it is tightly conjunct with the MC, and it is chart ruler as Scorpio is rising.

Over one week, all over the world, the skies lit up glowing red. Some people believed the end of the world had arrived. It was possible to read a newspaper at midnight. Northern lights were seen as far South as Columbia…

There weren’t electrical devices all over the world in 1859. There were the cables of the telegraph. Pylons threw sparks. Operators received electric shocks. Many lines got fried out of service. It would take weeks to get the network back to normal.

You’ve noticed Uranus squaring the Sun, and you know the Sun rules Mars when Mars is in Leo.

Carrington left his name to the event because he was the first one to theorise the link between solar activity and auroras in our skies.

As usual, when I come across a very meaningful moment, I check the previous eclipse… which happened just a few days before, on the 28th of August.

Reports mention that extraordinary solar activity had started… on the 28th of August. That’s why Carrington had had his eye on the telescope, watching and drawing sunspots.

If astrology is not real, coincidences are amazing. If you take the chart of the eclipse from Redhill - the place in Great Britain from which Richard Carrington was observing… The eclipse, when exact, is conjunct with the Ascendant to the degree. It was important all over the world, but especially there.

Mercury in Virgo is conjunct with the eclipse and Uranus squares it. Eye on the telescope, scrutinising.

Later, telegraph operators get electric shocks…

There is more to observe in these charts, and in other charts as well, in particular the other eclipses of this same eclipse season, and Carrington’s natal one. Feel free to comment.

A geomagnetic storm of this amplitude could happen again at any time.

However, not to worry too much, there is a delay between the occurrence of solar flares and the complete disruption or destruction of anything electrical on earth. We should have time to shut down the grid before it’s all fried. After a few days of blackout, power could be restored.

Still, imagine. Water stops flowing from the tap because the pumps are off. You can’t recharge your phone. The Internet is down. You can’t flush your toilets. The government is useless.

Even for a few days, could you cope?

I became aware of the Carrington event watching a video by a survivalist marketing his skills.

I wish the current Pluto-Neptune-Uranus famous current configuration, amplified by Jupiter very soon, brings what is most needed for our survival: a psychic revolution.

To know more about what happened in September 1859, I recommend watching. The Carrington Event: Earth's Electronic Apocalypse. The channel is called Geographics. The storyteller is good, has a great sense of humour and is well documented.