I'll give you something else here you can play with. This is the Total Solar Eclipse for August 30, 1905:
People, places, things, countries, even animals (as you'll see) are only affected by Eclipses that are Above Horizon (the Moon in a Lunar Eclipse).
The interpretation is taken from the Eclipse Point and the Eclipse Ruler.
To find the Eclipse Ruler, find the Planet that has the greatest dignity in the Eclipse Point and in the Angle nearest to the Eclipse. Sometimes that will be one Planet, sometimes two or More. In that Chart, Mercury rules the Eclipse Point because he is the Sign Ruler, the Exaltation Ruler and the Term Ruler. No other Planet has that much dignity in the Eclipse Point. The nearest Angle is the Ascendant. Saturn rules the Ascendant because he is the Exaltation Ruler, this is a Day Chart and he is the Sect Triplicity Ruler for Air, and he is the Term Ruler.
So Saturn and Mercury are the candidates for Eclipse Ruler. Between the two, Mercury is conjunct the Eclipse and is the Night Triplicity Ruler for Air Signs (the Ascendant). Saturn makes no aspects to the Ascendant or Eclipse Point, so Mercury is in the best position, and he is the Eclipse Ruler, but we should still look at Saturn because of his strong dignity in the Ascendant.
Now we look at the Signs. Mercury happens to be in the same Sign of the Eclipse so this will be easy. The Sign is Virgo. What do you know about the Sign?
Well, it is a Human Sign, it is a Terrestrial Sign (ie an Earth Sign) and it is a NOT a Mutable Sign, rather it is a Common Sign.
Saturn is in Aquarius. That is a Human Sign, a Violent Sign and a Fixed Sign.
Now we string those together to get a picture of what will happen.
Whatever this event signifies, it will affect Human Beings almost exclusively. We know that from the Human Signs, but which Human Beings? Virgo is a
Common Sign (not a Mutable Sign), so it will affect all Human Beings equally, the rich and the poor and everyone in between, the young and the old and all those in between, the strong and the weak and all those in between, the Black and the White and Red and Brown and Yellow. Everyone in vulnerable here.
It is a Terrestrial Sign, so it will be something that comes from the Earth. That's very important when looking at Plagues and Pandemics. In Earth Sign means it comes from the Earth, meaning the Plague comes from the Earth as in Typhoid,
E Coli or
Salmonella and such bacteria and viruses. If it would be a Water Sign, we could think of things like Dysentery, Cholera, also again Typhoid, and other such diseases. An Animal Sign, like Taurus or Aries would indicate something from animals, like Swine Flu or Bubonic Plague, while an Air Sign might indicate airborne disease, and since all Air Signs are Human Signs, it implies person to person contact.
Some time ago, areas of the US and Canada experienced out of control cases of Feline Distemper that required domestic cats to be vaccinated and other precautions taken. I'd be looking for an Eclipse and Eclipse Rulers in Taurus or Aries (Domesticated Animals) and Leo (Wild Animals) as well as the last 20° of Sagittarius (Wild Animals), plus a Terrestrial/Earth Sign.
There are occasional blooms of "Red Algae" and for that you'd be looking at Pisces, which is a Common Sign and also represents Aquatic Life. For something more limited, perhaps Cancer.
For the demise of Bees/Bumble Bees, I'd be looking at a Solar Eclipse in Scorpio (a Water Sign and also represents Insects).
Capricorn is the Goat-Fish: Animals and Fish (Aquatic Life).
However, most events mixed with Terrestrial Signs and Violent Signs indicate earthquakes, tornadoes and the like. It would be interesting to look at the Fires in Chicago and London. I'd be looking at the first 10° of Sagittarius, which is a Human Sign (the last 20° are Wild Animal since Sagittarius is 1/3, uh, man-thing, I guess, and 2/3 bull or whatever he is), and also a Fire Sign and a Violent Sign, perhaps mixed with a Terrestrial Sign like Virgo.
Terrestrial Signs, Human Signs and Water Signs would indicate Cyclones, Monsoons and Hurricanes.
You just have to let your imagination run with it a bit. So here we have Terrestrial, Common, Human and Violent Signs (Virgo and Aquarius) mixed together) and Earthquake fits the bill.
When do the effects start to appear? It's 6 months from the Ascendant to the Midheaven, and then 6 months from the Midheaven to the Descendant. Begin more or less about halfway between the Ascendant and Midheaven, I'd say about 90 days after the Eclipse. The Eclipse was August 30, so about 90 days would be about November 30. I'm not some Seismologist or something, but I would suppose at that time earthquake swarms or maybe some small tremors began occurring leading up the main event, which would be the Great Quake of 1906 in San Francisco.
When will the events peak? To figure that out, we need to know the length of the Eclipse. I'm not some mathematician or something and calculating that is very tedious and requires a lot of math. Fortunately, you can know the length of a Lunar Eclipse because they publish that on any number of websites, and there's even a few that will tell you that. Unfortunately, the do not publish the length of Solar Eclipses, rather they give the length of time of the exact conjunction, which is usually only a few minutes. We need to know when the Moon first touches the Sun and when the Moon last touches the Sun.
Generally speaking, Lunar Eclipses last 90 minutes to 4 1/2 hours, and as a rule of thumb, partial Lunars are 90 minutes but Total Lunars are 4 1/2 hours. Solar Eclipses can last 90 minutes to 7 hours, and unfortunately, you can't base it on the type of Solar Eclipse, because it depends on how close the Moon is to Earth, or how far away the Moon is to Earth. When the Moon is close to Earth, a Solar Eclipse will last longer, than if the Moon is at its perigee and farther away from the Earth.
It's important to understand that Eclipses do not have the same duration for all people. A great is example is the upcoming Solar Eclipse. That is an Hybrid Eclipse. Why? Because some people on Earth will see it as an Annular Eclipse and to other people on Earth it will only appear as a Partial Solar Eclipse, and so the length of time of the Eclipse will vary greatly depending on where you are on Earth (and that is also true for Total Solar Eclipses).
But then that is logical, no? Did the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1919 affect every country on Earth?
Um, no, it did not. Why? Because if the Eclipse Sign has no affinity with your Ascendant, or the city, region or country you live in, or you cannot "see" the Eclipse because it is Below Horizon in your chart, then it has no affect on you or your city, or region or country (but some people can't get that through their thick skulls).
For the countries that were affected, did it start at the same time? No, did not, but then that is logical because the Eclipse would have appeared anywhere up in the 12th, 11th, 10th, 9th, 8th or 7th Houses in their specific charts.
Did it last the same amount of time for all countries affected? No, and again that is logical, since in one part of the world the Eclipse might have been 2 hours, but it was 2 1/2 hours in another part of the world and 4 hours in another part.
This Eclipse lasted a little over 90 minutes if you were in San Francisco (or along the West Coast of the US), so its effects would have lasted a little over 1 1/2 years.
To determine when the effects would peak, we look at the how long the effects will last in relation to when the event first starts to appear, and since the Eclipse Points is midway between the Ascendant and Midheaven and it will begin about 90 says or in the first 1/4 of the year (as measured from the Eclipse Date not the Calendar Year), we'd guess about 1/4 of the total length of time, or about 5 months or so. If it first manifests itself in late November, then it would peak 5 months later around late April the following year.
Now, all of this is based on San Francisco having affinity with Virgo, meaning that San Francisco was founded while the Sun was in Virgo (sometime in September) or that the mayor of San Francisco had a Virgo Midheaven (since he was the ruling authority of San Francisco).
However, there's something else you can also look at, and that is the Ingress for San Francisco:
Uh, oh. See the Virgo Descendant?
Now to get the timing for this Event, simply follow the Moon in an Ephemeris from the time of the Aries Ingress. Look at where the Moon is on April 6, 1906 on the day of the Great San Francisco Earthquake:
The Moon is in perfect conjunction with its own Eclipse Point.
Anyway, you do the same routine for Lunar Eclipses, the only difference is that the effects of a Lunar Eclipse are in months, not years. I should mention you are looking at the location of the Moon in an Lunar Eclipse, not the Sun, since it is the Moon that is actually being eclipsed (by the Earth's shadow).
For Planetary Stations, you go through the exact same drill, except that the effects are measured in days, not months or years. The time on Station is what you count as days, so if Jupiter or Saturn would be stationary for 56 hours, then that equates to 56 days for the effects.
Everything else is the same. If Saturn when stationary at 6° Virgo (using the Solar Eclipse Chart), then you would say the event will first start to manifest itself about 90 days after the station, it would last 56 days and it would peak about the 13th day or so.
Planetary Stations are often related to prominent news stories, like the death of a notable person, or an even like a school shooting, where you know it's in the news for a few days or weeks then disappears, and perhaps people still talk about for a few more days or weeks after it disappears from the news.
