Oil Tanker crash – UK 8th house red alert

A collision between a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship carrying toxic chemicals and a US oil tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military in the North Sea off the coast of northern England could “devastate” wildlife. Leaking oil and fuel from the ships could endanger species including threatened seabird colonies, grey seals, harbour porpoises, fish, and minke whales. The area houses significant colonies of wintering waders and migrating birds. It is not yet clear how the collision occurred.

  What is significant on the UK chart is the Solar Arc Uranus conjunct the UK 8^th house Mars in Taurus, within 10 minutes (one sixth) of a degree exact. The 8^th house can cover financial/economic events but is also in action when it comes to major disasters, man-made and otherwise.  

 The ramifications of the 8^th house Mars were most obvious during tr Pluto in Scorpio in opposition to the UK Mars in late 1987 and 1988. In the run up through 1987 there are several disasters   the sinking of the ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise, the Hungerford massacre, the “Great Storm”, the Remembrance Day bombing and on the exact aspect the King’s Cross fire, as well as the Wall Street Crash and Black Monday on the London stock exchange and a bombing in Enniskillen.

In 1988 there was the Piper Alpha oil rig explosion and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which crashed in Lockerbie with 270 dead.

 Solar Arc Uranus conjunct Mars will have a marginally different effect but will still be explosive. Looking back the last time the Solar Arc Uranus was in hard aspect to the UK Mars in 1931 there was a run on the pound leading to a political and economic crisis, part of the European banking crisis of 1931; with the pound sterling comes off the gold standard. The Dogger Bank earthquake was the strongest earthquake recorded in the UK with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale. There were various mining underground explosions accidents with loss of life. A British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden overseas voyage, killing 48 of the 54 on board.

   In addition at the moment the UK chart there are other indicators of a time-at-the-crossroads with tr Uranus opposition the Solar Arc North Node finishing this week – and the Solar Arc North Node square the 11^th house Saturn which rules future hopes and parliament. The UK’s North Node in Aries in the 7^th house of relationships hints at an inherent disinclination to cooperate with an equal and opposing need to learn to live in partnership with others. So alliances and enmities will be in the forefront.

 The Solar Arc Pluto conjunct the UK South Node in 18 months may suggest force of circumstances leads to a degree of backsliding into what feels familiar rather than what is constructive.

  Last and probably least the Progressed Moon will conjunct the UK Uranus in April/May this year for an emotional jolt.

  Despite the glooms and dooms the UK is dragging itself out of what has been a high stress phase recently of forced and jangled changes since 2021 with tr Uranus moving in hard aspect to the Fixed Grand Cross on the UK chart – which now comes to an end this week. The Progressed Moon moves out of the 12th house of endings in six months. Plus the unsettled tr Uranus through the economic 8^th since 2020 will ease up as Uranus moves into the UK 9^th from 2026 onwards. And tr Pluto through the UK 4^th since the 2009 crash  will be gradually easing towards the latter stages of this decade for an image-rebuild after 2029.

  Getting there slowly.