Minderwiz
Manchester United and the Munich air crash
On Thursday, 6th February 1958 the Manchester United football team were returning from a European Cup match in Belgrade. This was a young but brilliant team, seen as having a future as one of the best, if not the best football team in Europe. Their plane made a refuelling stop in Munich and in really bad weather conditions, the plane attempted to take off on its final leg to England. The plane never made it, it failed to get lift, hit a fuel truck and in the ensuing crash the rear of the plane exploded. Seven key players were killed, another, the great Duncan Edwards, survived for 14 days before succumbing to his injuries. Others were severely injured and never player again.
In memory of that dreadful day, I have cast a chart for the event. For those who want to reproduce the chart it is cast for 15:04 on 6th February 1958 at Munich, Germany. This is the time which is universally recognised as the time of the crash.
You can see the chart at:
http://www.minderwiz.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Astrology/munich_plane_crash.htm
The chart has a Cancer Ascendant at 22 degrees 59 minutes. The Ascendant is exactly on the Arabian part of Danger and Peril. The Ascendant ruler, the Moon, is in the third House of short journeys – the team were on the last leg of their round trip to Belgrade. The Moon squares Saturn, Lord of the eighth House of Death. Such an aspect between Lords 1 and 8 bodes badly for the flight.
Manchester United are signified by Mars, ruler of the 5th House of sports and sporting activities. The nickname of the club is the Red Devils – which makes Mars an incredibly apt significator. We find Mars in Capricorn in the sixth House. Mars has good essential dignity, representing the strength of the club but the sixth is the house of ill health and threats to health. Worse still Saturn, Lord of the eighth House of Death, lies on the cusp of the sixth being 51 minutes away from the cusp but just outside the house. Traditionally this gives Saturn control over the house and the planets in it.
The sixth House is ruled by Jupiter. A first sight this might appear benefic but the role of Jupiter here is to signify the type of ‘ailment’ that befell the team. Jupiter is the planet of expansion and growth. I have seen it signifying cancer in the charts of cancer sufferers and here the expansion is a rapid expansion – an explosion. For the modern Astrologer, Mars is trine Pluto to the degree. Trines might conventionally be taken as ‘good’ but in fact the simply show an easy flow of energy – in this case the ease with which the plane exploded (Pluto is often seen as having an ‘explosive’ effect).
Jupiter not only rules the sixth but also rules the Arabian part of Death. it is applying to a conjunction with Neptune and will then go on to conjunct the North Node. This crash will destroy the hopes and dreams of the team and fans and also set back the future development of the club. Any planet, even Jupiter, can play the role of a malefic in certain circumstances.
Saturn rules Fortuna, given its role as Lord 8 this is yet another testimony of the danger that the underlies the chart.
Perhaps we could use this thread as a memorial of that day, so please express your feelings, even if they are not entirely related to the Astrology of the event.
On Thursday, 6th February 1958 the Manchester United football team were returning from a European Cup match in Belgrade. This was a young but brilliant team, seen as having a future as one of the best, if not the best football team in Europe. Their plane made a refuelling stop in Munich and in really bad weather conditions, the plane attempted to take off on its final leg to England. The plane never made it, it failed to get lift, hit a fuel truck and in the ensuing crash the rear of the plane exploded. Seven key players were killed, another, the great Duncan Edwards, survived for 14 days before succumbing to his injuries. Others were severely injured and never player again.
In memory of that dreadful day, I have cast a chart for the event. For those who want to reproduce the chart it is cast for 15:04 on 6th February 1958 at Munich, Germany. This is the time which is universally recognised as the time of the crash.
You can see the chart at:
http://www.minderwiz.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Astrology/munich_plane_crash.htm
The chart has a Cancer Ascendant at 22 degrees 59 minutes. The Ascendant is exactly on the Arabian part of Danger and Peril. The Ascendant ruler, the Moon, is in the third House of short journeys – the team were on the last leg of their round trip to Belgrade. The Moon squares Saturn, Lord of the eighth House of Death. Such an aspect between Lords 1 and 8 bodes badly for the flight.
Manchester United are signified by Mars, ruler of the 5th House of sports and sporting activities. The nickname of the club is the Red Devils – which makes Mars an incredibly apt significator. We find Mars in Capricorn in the sixth House. Mars has good essential dignity, representing the strength of the club but the sixth is the house of ill health and threats to health. Worse still Saturn, Lord of the eighth House of Death, lies on the cusp of the sixth being 51 minutes away from the cusp but just outside the house. Traditionally this gives Saturn control over the house and the planets in it.
The sixth House is ruled by Jupiter. A first sight this might appear benefic but the role of Jupiter here is to signify the type of ‘ailment’ that befell the team. Jupiter is the planet of expansion and growth. I have seen it signifying cancer in the charts of cancer sufferers and here the expansion is a rapid expansion – an explosion. For the modern Astrologer, Mars is trine Pluto to the degree. Trines might conventionally be taken as ‘good’ but in fact the simply show an easy flow of energy – in this case the ease with which the plane exploded (Pluto is often seen as having an ‘explosive’ effect).
Jupiter not only rules the sixth but also rules the Arabian part of Death. it is applying to a conjunction with Neptune and will then go on to conjunct the North Node. This crash will destroy the hopes and dreams of the team and fans and also set back the future development of the club. Any planet, even Jupiter, can play the role of a malefic in certain circumstances.
Saturn rules Fortuna, given its role as Lord 8 this is yet another testimony of the danger that the underlies the chart.
Perhaps we could use this thread as a memorial of that day, so please express your feelings, even if they are not entirely related to the Astrology of the event.
