Intense Geomagnetic Storms happen.

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.

A terrible night in the life of Marylin

In 1934, Norma Jeane Mortenson was not called Marylin yet. She was seven years old. In January, she witnessed her mother having a nervous breakdown.

She saw her flailing and screaming until the police arrived.

It was an extreme moment and a turning point. Her mother would be diagnosed with schizophrenia. From then on, after being taken care of for a while by a friend of her mother, Norma Jeane would live in orphanages or with various foster families.

I couldn’t find a more precise date than January 1934 in biographies.

Almost every time I study a biography and there is one of these moments that change everything, I find eclipses winking in very meaningful ways.

Astrologically, in the night of the 30th to 31st of January there was a partial lunar eclipse which was opening the eclipse season.

NB: The position of the Moon on this chart is that of the 31st of January 12am. (Night of the 30th to the 31st) On average, the Moon moves at the speed of one degree every two hours.

A few observations:

First thing: The Sun-Moon opposition was happening just a few degrees from Marylin’s natal Ascendant-Descendant axis. (A lunar eclipse is happening when the moon is full)

Second thing: Transiting Saturn was conjunct with the transiting Sun, and less than two degrees from perfecting a conjunction with her natal Moon.

Second thing and a half: transits are moments of manifestation of what’s present in the natal chart: Marylin’s natal Moon is opposed by Neptune and squared by Saturn, that’s highly challenging.

Second thing and three quarters: a transiting planet brings the energy of its natal placement. Natal Saturn is in the 4th house, in Scorpio, part of the T-square that involves the Moon, and, last but not least, ruler of her South Node in Capricorn.

Third thing: transiting Venus and Mercury were also conjunct with this transiting Saturn on her natal Moon. The quick planets in transits are triggers, the slow planets mean the strong impact. That’s a lot on Saturn.

Fourth thing transiting Mars was on her natal Jupiter.


Since Norma Jeane was two weeks old and until 1933 (5 years old) she had been in the care of a strict and religious foster family: Ida and Wayne Bolender. Her mother was visiting her.

Beyond the time of this crisis, it’s safe to interpret Saturn as meaning restrictions, deprivations and abuse rather than a structuring environment.

(Beware, when looking at the chart, that the symbols of the planets are not placed exactly in alignment with the mark on the exact degree of their position, as it would result in a confusing superimposition. Check the degrees, that’s quite a meeting.)

This eclipse definitely played its role of meaning the end of a chapter and the beginning of what comes next.

And it was only the beginning of the eclipse season…