Chatsworth Carnage

It is fundamental to the practice of astrology that all things have a beginning, and in that beginning are contained the seeds of destiny. A child begins its life at the moment of its first breath. A journey by air begins at the last contact between wheels and runway. A train journey begins as the vehicle departs the station. In this moment of beginning, the attributes of destiny are defined.

This destiny is NOT an immutable path written into the book of life that attracts vicissitudes and exigencies according to cast iron determinants.

Destiny is a dynamic interplay of free will and cosmic forces. If the fool strays into a death zone where the angel of death treads, then die he shall. The death of this fool is not predetermined. All that is predetermined is that this fool WILL DIE if he is foolish enough to enter Azrael's domain. The choice is his.

The only way to recognise a death zone is to study and understand this mechanism of destiny, which sets up the fatal resonance between a destiny profile and the ubiquitous forces of ending and death.

Unfortunately, in blissful ignorance, human beings have very little awareness of this process. And they pay the price accordingly.

Such was the case with the Chatsworth train disaster, in Los Angeles, on September 12th 2008. The train departed Union Station at a moment in time which attracted Azrael's attention. The celestial geometries surrounding birth of this journey cried out for disaster.

Less than an hour later, the train crossed a space-time coordinate which allowed Azrael to ply his craft. 26 dead and counting. 135 injured, many critically so. EMS firemen described the scene as "bloody". 40 victims had to be medevaced by air.

Los Angeles between September 8th and 22nd has been an active site of an enormously powerful death-bringing potential. The Chatsworth train hooked into this. The moment of departure from Union Station on the 12th resonated with this potential. There could have been no other result. Ten minutes either way - by advancing or retarding the departure time - and the journey would have been as uneventful as it had been every other day.