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.For if the Sun has any degree of tidalinfluence equal or superior to that of the Moon we shouldhave the phenomenon of a tide every day at noon.But such isnot the case.And in regard to the action of an eclipse uponthe earth, it is to be observed that the rapid obscuration of theSun, and the cutting off of its rays locally, cannot but resultin a very rapid fall of temperature.This would becompensated by an uprush of heat from the Earth s interior torestore equilibrium, and if that part of the Earth s crust isalready64 weakened by volcanic action or other cause of attrition, thestrain could not be sustained, and an earthquake is exactlywhat we should expect.But it is probable that we need notlook always to find the eclipsed luminary in a fixed sign ofthe zodiac.What appears more reasonable is that we shouldlook to the coincidence of an eclipse with some area of theEarth s surface which is included in what are recognised as earthquake or volcanic areas .These are easily recognisedby either the existence of an active or slumbering volcano, orthe existence of a group of detached islands or a sporad suchas the archipelagos.These may be found in the line runningfrom Kamchatka southward to the Corea and enclosing theSea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan; in the islands of thePacific terminating in New Zealand; in the MalayArchipelago and The Philippines; in the GrecianArchipelago; in the West Indies, enclosing the Gulf ofMexico and the Caribbean Sea; and in the northerly islandsknown as Franz Josef Land; Spitzbergen, and the ParryIslands.These may be regarded as constitutional weak points in theEarth, and subject to seismic disturbance upon the leaststrain.But there may be others, and any area in which there istemporary strain may be thus affected.Thus in the year 1693the eclipses were falling in the Signs Sagittarius and Gemini,and happened to coincide with the opposition of the majorplanets Uranus and Saturn, which were then in Gemini andSagittarius, and therefore acting in the same line as the Sunand Moon at their ecliptic conjunction and opposition inthose signs.Among the more remarkable results of thisconcatenation of celestial influences we65 may note the great earthquake which took place in Sicily, atCatania, when no less than 100,000 people perished.But we must not regard eclipses as solely connected withearthquakes.They may be reasonably connected with allsorts of other mundane events if we come to regard them assymbolical portents and not merely as physical causes.Andthis seems the more satisfactory line of procedure, for wecontinually find that predictions have been made in regard toeclipses which could not be argued out upon merely physicalpremises.There remains the fact that earthquakes have beenpredicted with considerable accuracy, both as to time andplace of their occurrence.I may here cite an instance of aprediction by Commander Morrison, R.N., who wroteconcerning the eclipse of the Sun on 6th June, 1853, asfollows: As Mars and Saturn are in the sign Taurus in theprecedent angle of the eclipse at Panama, I have no doubtthere will be a fearful amount of earthquakes there, and allabout the isthmus of Darien, the shocks extending toCarthagena, along the northern coast of South America toHonduras, California, Florida, and the West Indies.Theseevents may be looked for, among other periods, in July,1853, about the 16th day.On July 15th, at 2.15 p.m., at Cumana, which is on thenorthern coast of South America, a terrible earthquakeoccurred, in which thousands of lives were lost, and not afamily escaped without some loss of its members.Thisprediction was written and published a full year before itsfulfilment.It deserves to be kept on record as a luminouscase of scientific prediction.The reader will observe thatconsiderable importance attaches to the conjunction of theplanets Saturn and Mars in Taurus coinciding with the66 eclipse, but the seismic effect is most clearly pinned down tothe locality in which the eclipse was visible, and almostoverhead at the time of centrality.The same writer declared that the sign Gemini was theascendant of the City of London, and that the 18th degreemore particularly was connected with the affairs of theMetropolis.In such case the 13th degree of Aquarius wouldbe on the midheaven, and in this connection the followingexcerpt from the almanac by Saunders, published in the year1664, will be of interest.Referring to the recent conjunctionof Jupiter and Saturn in opposition to the ascendant ofLondon and the eclipse which fell on the meridian of thesame horoscope in Aquarius 14, the writer says:- Eclipse ofthe Moon, July, 1664.This eclipse falls in the 14th degree ofthe sign Aquarius, and is very formidable, and threatensmuch sorrow to the western world.This is the very radicalposition of the Moon in the Radix of London and in the tenthangle [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.For if the Sun has any degree of tidalinfluence equal or superior to that of the Moon we shouldhave the phenomenon of a tide every day at noon.But such isnot the case.And in regard to the action of an eclipse uponthe earth, it is to be observed that the rapid obscuration of theSun, and the cutting off of its rays locally, cannot but resultin a very rapid fall of temperature.This would becompensated by an uprush of heat from the Earth s interior torestore equilibrium, and if that part of the Earth s crust isalready64 weakened by volcanic action or other cause of attrition, thestrain could not be sustained, and an earthquake is exactlywhat we should expect.But it is probable that we need notlook always to find the eclipsed luminary in a fixed sign ofthe zodiac.What appears more reasonable is that we shouldlook to the coincidence of an eclipse with some area of theEarth s surface which is included in what are recognised as earthquake or volcanic areas .These are easily recognisedby either the existence of an active or slumbering volcano, orthe existence of a group of detached islands or a sporad suchas the archipelagos.These may be found in the line runningfrom Kamchatka southward to the Corea and enclosing theSea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan; in the islands of thePacific terminating in New Zealand; in the MalayArchipelago and The Philippines; in the GrecianArchipelago; in the West Indies, enclosing the Gulf ofMexico and the Caribbean Sea; and in the northerly islandsknown as Franz Josef Land; Spitzbergen, and the ParryIslands.These may be regarded as constitutional weak points in theEarth, and subject to seismic disturbance upon the leaststrain.But there may be others, and any area in which there istemporary strain may be thus affected.Thus in the year 1693the eclipses were falling in the Signs Sagittarius and Gemini,and happened to coincide with the opposition of the majorplanets Uranus and Saturn, which were then in Gemini andSagittarius, and therefore acting in the same line as the Sunand Moon at their ecliptic conjunction and opposition inthose signs.Among the more remarkable results of thisconcatenation of celestial influences we65 may note the great earthquake which took place in Sicily, atCatania, when no less than 100,000 people perished.But we must not regard eclipses as solely connected withearthquakes.They may be reasonably connected with allsorts of other mundane events if we come to regard them assymbolical portents and not merely as physical causes.Andthis seems the more satisfactory line of procedure, for wecontinually find that predictions have been made in regard toeclipses which could not be argued out upon merely physicalpremises.There remains the fact that earthquakes have beenpredicted with considerable accuracy, both as to time andplace of their occurrence.I may here cite an instance of aprediction by Commander Morrison, R.N., who wroteconcerning the eclipse of the Sun on 6th June, 1853, asfollows: As Mars and Saturn are in the sign Taurus in theprecedent angle of the eclipse at Panama, I have no doubtthere will be a fearful amount of earthquakes there, and allabout the isthmus of Darien, the shocks extending toCarthagena, along the northern coast of South America toHonduras, California, Florida, and the West Indies.Theseevents may be looked for, among other periods, in July,1853, about the 16th day.On July 15th, at 2.15 p.m., at Cumana, which is on thenorthern coast of South America, a terrible earthquakeoccurred, in which thousands of lives were lost, and not afamily escaped without some loss of its members.Thisprediction was written and published a full year before itsfulfilment.It deserves to be kept on record as a luminouscase of scientific prediction.The reader will observe thatconsiderable importance attaches to the conjunction of theplanets Saturn and Mars in Taurus coinciding with the66 eclipse, but the seismic effect is most clearly pinned down tothe locality in which the eclipse was visible, and almostoverhead at the time of centrality.The same writer declared that the sign Gemini was theascendant of the City of London, and that the 18th degreemore particularly was connected with the affairs of theMetropolis.In such case the 13th degree of Aquarius wouldbe on the midheaven, and in this connection the followingexcerpt from the almanac by Saunders, published in the year1664, will be of interest.Referring to the recent conjunctionof Jupiter and Saturn in opposition to the ascendant ofLondon and the eclipse which fell on the meridian of thesame horoscope in Aquarius 14, the writer says:- Eclipse ofthe Moon, July, 1664.This eclipse falls in the 14th degree ofthe sign Aquarius, and is very formidable, and threatensmuch sorrow to the western world.This is the very radicalposition of the Moon in the Radix of London and in the tenthangle [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]