Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade, has done considerable damage in Haiti, leaving at least 300 dead, and is heading now towards Florida as a Category Three storm (120 mph/190 km/h.)
Haiti is no stranger to tropical hurricanes but has still not recovered from the devastating 2010 earthquake. This September Lunar Eclipse located to Haiti had Pluto conjunct Ascendant square Uranus conjunct IC, so putting it in the centre of the disruptive Uranus Pluto effect.
The Haiti, 1 Jan 1804 independence chart, at the moment has the Solar Arc Saturn opposition the Haiti Jupiter with Solar Arc Mars square Jupiter – so battering at confidence and optimism. With tr Pluto moving this year backwards and forwards in square to the Haiti Uranus, so more jolts and upsets.
The country chart is tough to start with having a Capricorn Sun Mars square Saturn; and sextile Pluto. The January 2010 quake which killed anywhere between 50,000 and 300,000 people happened when the tr Pluto in Capricorn square tr Saturn in Libra was hitting on the Haiti Mars square Saturn, so a brutal outcome.
It isn’t clear who is running Haiti at the moment after the previous President resigned and an interim government was formed. With tr Pluto continuing to square the Haiti Uranus till late 2017 and picking up the conjunction to Mercury in 2017/18 it looks like endless wrangles and an unsettled period ahead.
Florida state, 3 March 1845, is now experiencing the effects of the hurricane with warnings about threat to life. The Solar Arc Mars is square the Florida Pisces Sun, which always accompanies a collision of sorts; with tr Saturn opposition the Solar Arc Mars now, before moving within days to square the Florida Sun. Tr Neptune follows in 2017/18 to conjunct the Sun as well. That may not all be hurricane damage, but it looks less than upbeat.