Horary Astrology Reading: Is the Vanished Air France Flight Okay?
June 1, 2009 by Nina Gryphon
I read about the Air France flight that disappeared over the Atlantic this morning, and my immediate thought was: “Are the Air France plane and its passengers okay?” I am sure that being an optimist is somewhat laughable in the situation, but I do think that good things can happen, and perhaps the passengers and crew escaped the worst. I cast a horary chart for my question, below, because I genuinely want to know what became of the Air France flight.
I used William Lilly’s horary criteria from Chapter 26 of Christian Astrology: “Of a Ship, and Whatever Are in Her, Her Safety or Destruction.” This should apply to more modern conveyances as well, and an airplane would certainly be very similar to a ship in this situation.
As I discussed elsewhere, for horary questions that don’t directly concern me, I like to doublecheck the radicality of the question, and make sure that it is appropriate. Here, we have a horary question about transportation by air, with Mercury ruling the hour, and Gemini rises, so because of the planet-sign agreement, we have a very radical horoscope.
- Because in this horary question, I identify with the flight and the people on it, and am concerned for their well-being, we must give the plane the Ascendant, its ruler, and the Moon.
- Mercury is in its second station in the 12th house in Taurus, on the malefic fixed star Algol.
- The Moon is just inside the fifth house in Virgo, within orb of a trine to Sun in Gemini. Its last aspect was a trine to Mercury.
- The Ascendant is with the fixed star Aldebaran, which is of the nature of Mars and therefore malefic. The Sun is just inside the first house, and therefore will be important to our judgment. It rules the fourth house.
Lilly says that if we find out the Lord of the Ascendant in the eighth house, in any “ill configuration” with Lord 8, 12, 4, 6, or the Moon combust or under the Earth, the ship is lost and the men drowned, unless there is mutual reception. If there is reception, the ship was wrecked, but some of the men escaped.
Here, Mercury is in the 12th house, which is bad, and it is square Jupiter, ruler of the seventh and 11th houses, and it is also trine Saturn. The connection to Jupiter might indicate that some hope still remains, but more likely it might indicate that the plane had encountered some winds, because Jupiter is in the 10th house in an air sign.. The trine to Saturn in the fourth house, which is particularly malevolent in these types of questions, is rather disconcerting. Mercury receives Saturn by domicile and exaltation, but what we really care about is whether Mercury is received by Saturn, and being at 22 Taurus, it is not. With no reception, Saturn will not spare Mercury, and therefore, the Air France plane is not in good shape. Mercury is essentially motionless in second station, and in a fixed sign, indicating that this plane is not going anywhere.
The Moon under the Earth is a bad sign, and the fact that it had been void of course shows that no news had been available from the plane. The Sun is kind of a secondary significator in this chart, because it is placed in the first house. It, too, aspects Saturn, but by a square. Neither of them receives the other, which makes the situation serious.
The fixed stars in this chart look pretty grim, with Mercury on Algol and Aldebaran rising.
Lilly has a handy chart of parts of the ship assigned to the different astrological signs, and since we see Saturn in aspect to the Ascendant, the Sun, and Mercury; essentially all of our main significators, we can see that it is the “belly” of the plane that will have been affected, as that is the part of the ship associated with Virgo. It could be that the plane smacked down on the ground or water and broke from the bottom.
The Moon will aspect the Sun in about 13°, indicating that some news will be heard of the Air France plane in 13 hours or days from this chart (which was cast 6 AM Pacific time on June 1).
This is one of the charts where I sincerely hope I am wrong, but the testimonies look pretty serious indeed.
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I was forwarded this blog from a friend of mine as eariler this year we were discussing that many things would be falling from the sky and being recovered from under the earth.
I too read Traditional Astrology and enjoyed reading your predictions. My prayers went out to this group the second I knew, but I also know without doubt that where it went down would be somewhere in the Triangle, in which has enlarged a great deal lately with the Earth’s Axis shifting so drastically.
Thank you for the blog.
I shall be bookmarking and adding this link to my site.
Many Blessings
Rev. Arinanna
Thanks, Rev. Arinanna! I’m glad you like the post/blog. Yes, this tragedy was so unnecessary, and my thoughts are with the victims’ families.
Best wishes,
Nina
Dear Nina:
I was just reading an article about the debris recovery efforts. People think we may never find the ‘black box’ flight data recorder, because it was lost in the ocean. Do you think it would be possible to determine its whereabouts from your chart? Mercury would probably be the best significator; it’s in the twelfth house, which doesn’t bode well for finding the data recorder. To me, it is interesting that Mercury is an earth sign, which suggests that the black box could be on dry land. However, Mercury is stationary, so maybe the symbolism is that the recorder is stuck deep inside the earth, under the ocean. What do you think?
The whole thing is so very sad.
Amethyst Wells-Mendelssohn
PS. I like your articles a lot–they are very well written and easy to understand.
Amethyst -
Thanks. I think that the Moon trine Sun in the chart showed the debris being found. I don’t know about the black box, and perhaps it is Mercury, but it could well be Saturn, as it is an object designed to capture (Saturn) data (Mercury sign). Saturn in Virgo in 4H shows the box is deep in the sea. With the Sun applying to Saturn, perhaps it will be found, but that’s a bit beyond the scope of the original question, so I’m not sure of its validity. As you say, it’s so sad and unnecessary.
Best wishes,
Nina
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Nina:
Haven’t had a chance to catch up on your blog for a while, so this post is probably a bit untimely–my apologies (hope you’ll still get a chance to see it). I found the Flight 447 article fascinating, but had one of those “Wow-isn’t astrology amazing/scary” moments at the end of the article.
You stated: “. . .we can see that it is the “belly” of the plane that will have been affected, as that is the part of the ship associated with Virgo. It could be that the plane smacked down on the ground or water and broke from the bottom. ”
You may recall that for weeks after you wrote this, all the aviation pundits were saying that the plane probably broke up in mid-air. Finally, near the beginning of July, the formal, initial French investigative report concluded (from the condition of debris and recovered bodies, etc.) that the plane most likely did not break up mid-air, but somehow hit the water nearly flat on its belly and disintegrated from the impact!
Your reading got it right weeks before the experts. Sends chills down my spine.
Best regards,
George Katz
George,
Glad you liked the article. William Lilly’s *Christian Astrology* has a lot of information about shipping events, including how to tell which part of the ship was destroyed in a shipwreck. Saturn in Virgo brings misfortune to the belly of the ship. I had followed the news reports with interest, and remember thinking “Good on you, Mr. Lilly!” when I saw the formal investigative report that concluded the plane broke from the impact on its belly. A most unfortunate incident, but let’s hope that this will make future planes and passengers safer, at least.
Best wishes,
Nina