Christchurch Quake and Pike River Mine -two tragedies linked

Why the 22 Feb 2011 quake in Christchurch, New Zealand has more in common with the Pike River coal mine tragedy, than the Sept 4 2010 quake in Darfield, Canterbury – all three being NZ environmental events.

On 19 November 2010 near Greymouth, South Island New Zealand  (longitude 171E12, latitude 42S28) the Pike River mine exploded. It is believed the initial blast was “unsurvivable”, killing 29 men working inside the site. Delays and difficulties plagued the initial rescue phase due to high gas readings followed by the outbreak of fire

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The mine was beset from 2007 by early delays in production, machine failures, unmet targets, financial deficits. Collectively a picture emerges of the hallmarks of saturnian influence hanging over this site/business. Certainly the whole process and outcome of the November tragedy had Saturn engraved from start to end.

So what links did Saturn show on November 19

Saturn was semi-square Sun, sesqui-quadrate Neptune-Chiron conjunction

Pluto exact on North Node and the Uranus-Jupiter conjunction on the ascendant also played major roles – big events show a collusion of influences.

Now jump almost 3 months to the day, to February 22 2011, Christchurch (172E38, 43S32) not hugely distanced by coordinates from Greymouth, and a major earthquake at 12.51 pm has laid waste to structures and people en masse across the city and surrounding south-east region.

Saturn at 16 Libra 36 has moved a few degrees from the Pike River position ( 13 Libra 26) as have the remaining outer planets, but the inner positions are obviously further away.

So what is Saturn linking to now? A five-member stellium( Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Chiron,Sun) from Neptune in Aquarius to the Sun in Pisces, with a midpoint of 0Pisces46. A hidden, so-called minor aspect, the sesquiquadrate. The exact angle to Saturn is 1Pisces36 and that point is shared by the Sun-Mercury midpoint & close to Sun-Chiron at 1Pisces56.

So noting here that Saturn interacts with Sun,Neptune,Chiron in both events by “minor aspect”

How was Saturn evident as the earthquake tragedies unfolded: many people were trapped, their circumstances deemed “unsurviveable”, rescue and recovery have been a slow, painstaking process, on account of collapsed structures. The smoking fire of the CTV building also recalls the Pike river Mine fire. Three days after the 2011 quake, of the over 100 missing, the majority appear to be the dead remaining entombed in the CTV and Pyne Gould Corporation buildings

As expected, other signatures surround this event: Pluto, ruler of 7^th is in the 8^th, in exact square to Jupiter, ruler of the 8^th. 

The considerable impact on relationships is identified here, adding to the capacity for loss heralded by Saturn being in the relationship sign Libra. There is much more that can be said of this chart, but the eerie link between Pike River in November 2010 and February 22 2011 in Christchurch is demonstrable.

Is there more to come?

In 2011, there are considerable environmental challenges facing our world, too much to address here, but in pursuing this particular focus, which happens to involve events in the South Island, New Zealand, the next time Saturn reaches semi-square and sesquiquadrate angles is worth noting and observing:  the Full Moon in mid May 2011, 26 Taurus-Scorpio links exactly to Saturn at 11 Libra. Jupiter at 26 Aries will act as an amplifier, by quincunx and semisextile to the solar-lunar force. Whether this is enough to manifest an event of similar signifiers, we will watch and learn.

            

Famously Dead - Pike River 29

Fame is a curious thing, attaching itself  apparently randomly to the rich, the poor, the highly educated, the unschooled, but also, to the dead. Death, under certain circumstances, can raise the profile of a previously unknown to a level of profound fame - thanks now to global networking.

But curiously it is not all deaths so bestowed and not even all collective or mass deaths - hundreds died in a Cambodian stampede in November, thousands die in natural events in the developing world on a regular basis, but it is almost with resignation we pass these events over and move onto the next news.
Trapped miners appear to have a far different destiny - in Australia, in Chile and in New Zealand in recent times saturation news coverage followed by apparent celebrity status accorded in the first two events to the survivors.

In New Zealand, at the Pike River Mine it has been a different story: no survivors from the 29 trapped miners, but the degree of "fame" accorded to these men appears equivalent to fallen soldiers, with words like honour, respect and brave used in their memory. To reinforce the military association a Roll Call of Honour was read at the Remembrance Service on December 2 and Prime Minister John Key made an analogy to past military engagements..

How is it that 29 ordinary working men, the youngest just aged 17 years, who have died during a working day, come to be accorded the virtual status of a soldier laying his life on the line for freedom or belief?  Is it the collective aspect, the sheer pain of so many fallen as one? Is it our British heritage? Death in battle is noble.
But in fact there are no accidents or chance events if you are able to view the continuum of existence. This consciousness integrates the repeated recycling of life - that each of us has lived many, many times before, in endless circumstances. This continual lesson in living can be seen as a gradual path towards ultimate realisation:  the nature of existence. Along the path are many stumbling blocks, regrets and resolutions - far too many to address and resolve within the span of one lifetime. Hence we live on, again and again.

To die en masse, as part of a group, says a lot about the history binding those who share that point of transition: that they share a common, collective past. Were these Pike River 29 once part of another group, sharing simultaneous activities? Were they once warriors or soldiers? They went happily to work on that fateful day, unusually jovial, according to their bus driver. Did they look forward to what that day would bring? Was this a beautiful redemption?