Portugal has declared a day of mourning after at least 17 people were killed when a funicular cable railway derailed and hit a building in Lisbon. More than 20 others were injured, many tourists. Local media reports suggest a cable came loose along the railway’s route, causing it to lose control.
It happened just after 6pm last night with Pluto exactly on the Ascendant ; and a 12th house Moon opposition Jupiter square Mars in Libra in the international 9th – perhaps a hint of the foreigners involved.
The Portugal country chart, 25 April 1974 5.15pm Lisbon has an accident-prone Mars Saturn conjunction in Cancer square Pluto which is catching the uncertain, undermining tr Neptune Saturn hard aspects now and right through the next three years. So it may be symbolic of more challenges to come.
The Portugal chart also has the upcoming 21 September Solar Eclipse conjunct the Ascendant and across the winter tr Neptune Saturn opposition the Ascendant – which suggests (start time being accurate) that Portugal will be seen in a new and perhaps not altogether flattering light as its image takes significant denting. Plus the Portugal Sun at 5 degrees Taurus is catching the tr Pluto square through 2026 and 2027 which suggests a great deal of pressure for change.
The previous Lunar Eclipse of March 2025 set for Lisbon has the Virgo Eclipsed Full Moon opposition Neptune hovering across the Descendant/Ascendant axis so pointing to a significant event ahead.
The crash although minor in the grand scheme of things globally may be a forerunner to existential changes ongoing for Portugal over the next three years.
Marjorie, thank you for posting this.
Its horrendous and maybe a prediction of times to come if the far right wins the next elections?
I dare to think they will and I dare to think Portugal hasn’t learn anything with its history and neither with the lessons coming from the US with Trump and the UK with the far right & Nigel Farage.
I’m Portuguese, living in the UK ans not olaning to return, but overall I believe the far right in Portugal will have a greater damage than they think it will.
What a mess and huge sadness for all victims…
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Portuguese investigators have begun releasing details of 16 people killed in the funicular train crash in Lisbon and say they believe there are victims from Canada, Korea, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States, in addition to five victims from Portugal. – AFP
Thanks a lot for this article. We are all in shock! Just hope this tragedy is not just the beginning… on same day on early morning, a house building falled in Lisbon too but no victims. Just some loose house. I sense the big quake is near… I sense big political quake is near too, just hope not a win of extreme right but the fall of this terrible gov!
In the event chart, Uranus, accident, r Asc, trines Pluto-Asc and Uranus squares
Mercury, train, r 8th, death.
Fixed Star, Zosma, the victimization star, exacly conjunct Sun, in 7th of public progection.
Portugal’s MC conjunnt Saturn and mercury will also be squared by the Saturnn-Neptune conjunction in February. Not good. There will be a dissolution of its international image.
The only good thing, and I don’t like that wording, that will come out of it is much stricter, stringent, and thorough security checks on everything from cables to car and so on, so that this never happens again.
I feel sorry for Portugal and its upcoming troubles – the recent decade or a bit more, from 2008 financial crisis onwards, wasn’t really peachy – but I hope it gets out of it on the other end stronger and a better place.