The Astrology of an Accident

Looking over the past notes in my daily astrology planner, I noticed a comment on Monday, August 2nd. I wrote “accidents”. Honestly, with my daughter having called me a couple other times, and as I answered the phone I had heard her greet me, “I’ve had an accident”. Believe it or not, I started thinking about this over the weekend. I was going through the drive thru at Burger King, talking to my aunt, when my daughter’s call interrupted me paying for my Impossible Whopper. “Hold on”, I told my daughter, just after I hung up on my aunt, and as I told the man handing me my dinner “thank you”.

“I’ve been in an accident.”

The rain was just passing through, but had been happening all day long. The dampening of my daily enthusiasm had continued throughout the day with the rain. This was the physical manifestation of that mood. Amazingly, I drove the 10 minutes to the accident site, the traffic was uncharacteristically light. Apparently, as my daughter traveled north on the main thoroughfare back to college, in the middle lane a couple of cars were traveling together. One turned abruptly down a right side road, their companion braking almost to a halt to follow the turn. From the middle lane. My daughter braked, having just enough space to not hit them, as the offender drove off, likely unaware of the accident about to occur. As my daughter braked, the car behind her braked, followed by the Kia Soul with an older driver, wife and passenger, followed by a Jeep a college student was driving. The young woman behind my daughter, all in all 3 college students, braked, while the Kia didn’t react, but plowed into her, barely pushing the second car into my daughter, but effectively removing the second car’s bumper. The Kia had tremendous damage in front from the hit, while the Jeep in back plowed into the Kia, smashing its rear bumper, and hurting the front of the Jeep, including flattening the front passenger tire and damaging the front undercarriage. My daughter’s car has a 2 inch scratch on the rear bumper. Two. Inch. Scratch. She was a little sore yesterday, but overall, extremely fortunate. A witness had seen the car who turned, and tracked it down to a local apartment complex, photographed the license plate, and sent it to my daughter.

The accident happened at 5:51 pm, Orlando, Florida. Transiting Gemini Moon was one degree off of Jupiter in Gemini, and 2° off the North Node on the Gemini/Sagittarius axis. The transiting Moon in Gemini was in direct square to her natal Mercury at 5°58’ Pisces. Literally within 30 minutes of Earth time to an exact square. For those of you following along at home, Gemini rules vehicles, and local transportation, while Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, rules long distance transportation and activity (being a fire sign ruler). Moon is an indicator of activity, a portender of outcomes. In Gemini, transportation actions can be influenced, while negative aspects, or conflicting planetary positions influence stronger accident potential. Why is this? Mercury is the ruler of Gemini, and with the conflict of transiting Mercury in Leo at opposition (180°) to Saturn in Aquarius, his influence is strong for trouble or accidents. Saturn is structures and restriction, in Aquarius -- the unexpected, in opposition to a combust Mercury (within a couple degrees of conjunction to the Sun). This is basically a battle of power over the unexpected. The Moon effectively created an approaching T-Square to the ruling planet of the sign it is in. To accent the Moon even more, it sat on top of my daughter’s Jupiter in Gemini at 5°55’.

The Midheaven degree at the time of the accident was 4° into my daughter’s 3rd house of transportation. Current Mars and Venus in Virgo, Mars being 4° off an exact square to the Moon in Gemini, in a sign sharing Gemini’s Mercury ruler - Virgo.

Ironically, the fact that the Moon was on my daughter’s “most fortunate planet” - Jupiter, I believe was what gave her the positive outcome she received. Jupiter in the sky, transiting, was also 4° off my daughter’s natal Moon in Aquarius.

How can these accidents be avoided? I knew it was a questionable time for safety, but activity doesn’t always stop because of detrimental transits. Sadly, it may come down to “forewarned is forearmed”, and go down the safest path for the conditions. My daughter wanted to go the “back way” back to her dorm, down more residential streets, but the crossing light was unusually (Aquarius) backed up by 12 cars. She chose to go the more direct, and traffic-laden way. Given the many college students using this road, it is more dangerous. It is amazing to me that out of the 4 cars involved, 3 were college students and likely the incident was provoked by another.

The older gentleman was fine, but his wife was shaken up. She didn’t exit the vehicle until fire rescue arrived with a gurney. She, ultimately, decided to accept a ride home from a family friend. The Jeep owner’s father showed up, in another Jeep, and the one behind my daughter had her boyfriend take her home. The only car to drive away was my daughter’s.

I am eternally grateful for the positive outcome of the whole unfortunate incident. No one was badly hurt, only the vehicles. But a four car accident is significant. It took the state trooper THREE HOURS to arrive, just before nine p.m. There were many other accidents, including one a mile away, in the median, awaiting the trooper, with three cars. The weather was inclement, which was another indicator of Aquarian influences. I usually see accidents under adverse aspects and transits of Mercury, Uranus, Jupiter/Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo and Aquarius. That seems like a lot of influencers, but the more noticeable transits don’t happen as often as you think. I find about 6-10 times a year I see cautious days. Definitely the Mercury retrogrades, at the retrograde, and direct motions (depending upon the signs, too), and same for the other planets. With 365 days per year, that isn’t that many.

Knowing your own chart can be extremely helpful to keeping an eye on concerning dates. (Or asking for a writeup from your astrologer).

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