Keeping in mind the Pluto affinity with bringing the deeply hidden, buried, to the surface (often explosively so), and with tranformative influences/effects, and also with atavistic recrudescence, here are 11 examples of significant Pluto connections in mundane disaster charts (the following is only a small number of such mundane charts illustrating important Pluto connections-many more such charts could be cited: significant Pluto connections in the first man-made atomic chain reaction chart, and in the "natal chart" of the nuclear weapons era, ie the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack, will be the subject of future postings)
RAPE OF NANKING (mentioned in my earlier posting)
December 13, 1937, Nanking, China: 5 PM (time of the officially ordered start of the systematic murders and rapes)
-Pluto atmakaraka (mentioned earlier)
-Pluto parallel the ascending degree
-Pluto/8th house Jupiter partile opposition
1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH AND WORLD ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
October 29, 1929, 10 AM (opening bell), New York City
-8th house Pluto partile square with Mercury (Mercury significator of money and commerce, buying and selling)
-Pluto partile quincunx ascending degree
-Pluto parallel Jupiter (Jupiter significator of wealth, established business entities, etc)
-Pluto opposed by 2nd house Lilith (2nd house = $$ house; house of substance and wealth; Lilith conjunct 2nd whole sign house cusp of the chart)
-Pluto in parallel of latitude with Mars, with Jupiter and with Uranus
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (AUSTIN) MASSACRE
August 1, 1966, 1:48 PM (first shot from the tower), Austin, Texas
-12th house Pluto partile conjunct Uranus
-Pluto parallel Sun, parallel North Node
-Pluto/Lilith opposition
START OF THE KOREAN WAR
June 25, 1950, 5:12 AM, Kaesong, Korea
-Pluto parallel ascending degree
-Pluto parallel Sun, parallel Uranus
-Pluto/Lilith square
BATH MICHIGAN SCHOOL BOMBING (largest loss of life in a school attack in US history)
May 18, 1927, 8:45 AM, Bath, Michigan
-First house Pluto conjunct ascending degree
-Pluto conjunct Mars (in first house)
-Pluto/Moon quincunx
START OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (a rather transformational event!)
(Bombardment of Fort Sumter) April 12, 1861, 4:30 AM, Charleston harbor, South Carolina
-Pluto parallel ascending degree
-Neptune was atmakaraka of the event chart: Pluto parallels Neptune
CHALLENGER SPACE SHUTTLE (NASA) DISASTER
January 28, 1986, 11:38 AM, Cape Canaveral, Florida
-7th house Pluto partile opposition to the ascending degree
-Pluto/Mercury partile square
-Pluto/Sun partile square
-Pluto/Venus square
ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FERDINAND HAPSBURG (trigger to World War 1)
June 28, 1914, 10:50 AM, Sarajevo
-Pluto/Sun conjunction
SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSACRE
December 14, 2012, 9:35 AM, Newtown, Mass.
-First house Pluto/Moon conjunction (Pluto conjunct fixed star Facies)
-Pluto/Uranus square
-Pluto/Jupiter partile quincunx
UTOYA ISLAND MASSACRE
July 22, 2011, 5:22 PM, Utoya Island, Norway
-Pluto parallel ascending degree
-Pluto square MC
-Pluto in parallel of latitude with Moon
COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
April 20, 1999, 11:19 AM, Littleton, Colorado
-Pluto parallel Mars
-12th house Venus partile opposition to Pluto