California’s Thomas fire is now the largest blaze in the state’s history, wreaking havoc on an area greater than New York City, Brussels and Paris combined; and is still only 65% contained. Governor Jerry Brown says devastating wildfires are now the ‘new normal’. This recent outbreak follows a series of deadly fires in the CA wine country in October that burned more than 10,000 homes and killed more than 40 people.
California is facing one of its most tumultuous periods since the 1930s – the last time it underwent a Uranus Return on the state chart, 9 September 1850, which has an exact Uranus Pluto conjunction in last degree Aries. Although California was not the worst hit by the Great Depression, what altered its politics, religion and culture in the mid 1930s was the Dust Bowl migration of poor farmers, who moved in desperation from the prairies to work in agriculture, oil production and film making. Immortalised in John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.
Through 2017/2018 tr Pluto is square the CA Saturn in Aries for bleak times and hardship; into 2018 tr Uranus will conjunct the CA Uranus Pluto from late April, on and off into early 2019, which will be a tremendous upheaval. There’s a downbeat Solar Arc Venus conjunct Saturn, around now as well as a disappointing and undermining Solar Arc Sun conjunct Neptune. Tr Neptune will oppose the CA Virgo Sun from May 2018 to late 2019 which will also be morale-sapping. And by 2020/21 the Solar Arc Saturn will conjunct the CA Mars for what could be another disaster. By 2023/24 tr Pluto will have caught up to square the CA Uranus Pluto for another series of radical changes.
The 1930s wasn’t a disaster for California since the film and other businesses were flourishing, but it certainly underwent a major transformation.
With the fires denuding California, I wonder on the ecological impact: insects, birds, wildlife all necessary to ensure “green things” sprout again. What about rodents, mice, rabbits, even cats, snakes, fish? Large portions of the living eco-cycle are gone.
Thank you.I wondered if the Uranus return would lead to disasters.With the overdue “big one” the first thing
that came to mind was earthquakes.