This morning I woke to the news that the Francis Scott Key Bridge of Baltimore had collapsed after being hit by a cargo ship. The news was shocking but not surprising. Critics have been pointing out the problems with American infrastructure and warning of impending bridge collapses nationwide for decades, only to be repeatedly ignored by the members of Congress and the Executive branch. Not far from where I live, shortly after midnight on June 28, 1983, a section of the Mianus River Bridge on I-95 collapsed. That was 40 years ago and should have served as a warning to American politicians, but it did not.
In addition, yesterday was a lunar eclipse day, and many astrologers were expecting some major bad news to mark the period surrounding this eclipse. I assumed that the eclipse of March 25th would show up prominently in a chart cast for the Baltimore bridge collapse.
Here is the timeline of the Baltimore bridge collapse published by Matt Lavietes of NBC News:
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A timeline of the crash, collapse and initial response
1:24 a.m.: The ship’s lights turn off.
1:25 a.m.: The ship’s lights turn back on.
1:25 a.m.: Dark black smoke starts billowing from ship’s chimney.
1:26 a.m. The ship appears to turn.
1:26 a.m. The ship’s lights turn off again.
1:27 a.m. The ship’s lights turn back on.
1:28 a.m. The ship crashes into the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
1:28:43 a.m. The bridge collapses.
1:40 a.m.: The 911 center dispatches calls to the Baltimore City Fire Department (BCFD) for reports of water rescue in the Patapsco River, according to Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace. As units were responding, fire officials started receiving calls of multiple people in the water.
1:50 a.m.: The first fire unit arrives on the scene and reports a complete collapse of Key Bridge, Wallace said. The fire department was given information that there were “likely multiple people on the bridge,” who were now in the water, Wallace said.
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Here is the chart for 1:28:43 AM EDT, the time reported for the collapse of the bridge.
As expected, the 25 March 2024 Lunar Eclipse at 5 Libra 13′ lies in the 9th house (long distance travel) near the MC and opposes the Sun at 6 Aries 02′ at the time of the accident. In addition, the MC of this chart, 10 Libra 42′, is very close to the position of the Solar Eclipse of this eclipse cycle, which will occur on 2 October 2024 at 10 Libra 04′. Using the chart animate feature of Solar Fire, I calculated that the MC reached 10 Libra 04′ at about 1:26:27 AM, very close to the time that the ship crashed into the bridge.
Although NBC gives 1:28 AM as the time of the crash, CNN reports: “The US Coast Guard (USCG) is responding to the Francis Scott Key Bridge emergency after receiving a report that a container ship hit it at 1:27 a.m. ET “and it subsequently collapsed,” according to a public affairs officer Kimberly Reaves of the Coast Guard’s 5th District.” The CNN report is quite consistent with 1:26:27 AM EDT, as suggested by the chart.
Another striking feature of this chart is that the DSC at 20 Gemini 19′ is almost exactly the same value as the ASC of Evangeline Adam’s Gemini rising chart for the USA. This makes sense because the port of Baltimore has a major impact on the entire nation.
My own preference for a symbolic USA chart has Gemini rising, with Mercury as the ASC-ruler. In the bridge collapse chart, Mercury lies at 24 Aries 28′ in exact square to the position of Mercury in my preferred USA Gemini rising chart. Here are the two charts superimposed:
Note how the ASC of the bridge accident opposes the USA natal Mars and quincunxes the Bridge Collapse Uranus. The USA natal Mercury in the 3rd house of transportation exactly squares the bridge collapse Mercury at the cusp of the USA 12th house.
Addendum (27 March 2024): I’ve had a hard time finding when construction of the bridge began. An article from the the Baltimore Evening Sun, dated 10 June 1972, states that the Coast Guard issued a permit for the project on June 9, 1972, which permitted the construction to begin. Other sources indicate that the construction started in August of 1972. The date of another article suggests that construction probably began prior to August 24, 1972: “Substructure under Estimate for Baltimore Harbor Bridge.” Engineering News-Record, 24 Aug. 1972, p. 16. Here is the ephemeris for August 1972, so we can see where the planets were when the building of the bridge began:
Comparing these values to the “collapse” chart (26 March 2024), we see that the Aug 1972 nodal axis fell on the 2nd-8th cuspal axis of the accident. Uranus of 1972 lies directly on the nodal axis of the colapse chart. Saturn of 1972 stationed direct very close to the DSC of the accident chart. Neptune of 1972 stationed direct at 2 Sag 29′, almost exactly opposite Mars of the accident chart.
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