Bahamas – paradise reduced to rubble

The Bahamas is reeling after being hit by Dorian, a category five hurricane with winds reaching 185mph (297km/h) which matched the highest ever recorded at landfall, and stayed over affected areas for two days. Parts of the Bahamas received up to 35in (89cm) of rain, leaving vast areas of it flooded. The official death toll stands at 30, but is expected to rise considerably further. Officials say hundreds, possibly thousands, are still missing. 45% of homes on Grand Bahama and the Abacos – some 13,000 properties – were severely damaged or destroyed. The only international airport in Grand Bahama was devastated and could not be used for evacuations or aid deliveries. Flooding also rendered Grand Bahama’s main hospital unusable.

The Bahamas became independent on 10 July 1973 which makes it Sun Cancer square a Mars in Aries opposition Uranus – home-loving but also excitable and volatile. There’s a flamboyant Venus in Leo in a frivolous and indulgent opposition to Jupiter in a dreamy sextile/trine to Neptune.

At the moment the Solar Arc Saturn is conjunct the Bahamas Venus for a sense of loss and mourning, as well as dampening its usual social exuberance. Plus the Solar Arc Neptune is exactly in a highly-strung, paralysed square to the emphasised Uranus, tugging on the Sun Mars T Square. Neptune is often involved in natural disasters because of the confusion and devastation around.

If the start time for independence was London time then the Solar Arc Pluto is also probably hovering around a conjunction to the Bahamas Scorpio Moon for a destructive emotional event.

The early July Cancer Solar Eclipse which was in a downbeat opposition to Saturn in Capricorn, located to the Bahamas puts a disruptive Uranus on the Descendant. And tr Saturn then was exactly opposition the Bahamas Sun. The July Lunar Eclipse with the Capricorn Full Moon colliding with the tr Saturn Pluto conjunction, located to the Bahamas had Jupiter on the Ascendant. Jupiter often appears at disastersbecause of the expansive, amplification effect.

It’ll be a long long recovery. And there’ll no doubt be more hurricanes along the way.