FIRE IN CALIFORNIA

why the fires in 2009 may be worse than in previous years and what
they have to do with the Mayan Prophecy and 2012

Susan Seymour Hedke 30 August 2009

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California has suffered in recent years from wildfires. The astrological founding chart for the
state, combined with progressionsi, explain why this is so and can also show why further fires and
other disasters may be expected as we approach the Mayan End Date in 2012.
The founding chart for September 9 1850ii shows three celestial bodies, Saturn, Uranus and
Pluto in the „wildfire“iii sign of Aries: These slow-moving bodies are also in this sign in the
progressed chart for California shown below. In 2009 they are involved in a grand cross.
 The lethal grand cross is marked in red and warning of further fires this year is given by three
„bows“ marked in blue that emphasise the areas of the chart to which they point. All the bows are
pointing at either fire signs, or at fire planets.
A grand cross traditionally signifies severe difficulties in a chart: a grand cross was present
when the Indian Ocean Tsunami occurred on December 26 2004. This cross for California strongly
involves the fire planet Mars, just as the the Indian Ocean Earthquake grand cross (chart p.4)
emphasized Saturn-Capricorn and the earth and water elements.
Mars is traditionally known as the Lesser Malefic, and in California's chart for 2009 Mars is,
moreover, conjunct the disastrous South Node Ketu!1 This is a clear indication that the worst
damages are likely through fire.
Additionally, the Greater Malefic Saturn is in the fire sign Aries, ruled also by Mars. Saturn is
loosely involved in this grand cross by his proximity to Uranus and Pluto and opposition to Jupiter
which could suggest also an earthquake involvement.
Where Jupiter and Saturn aspect each other there is the suggestion of greatness. California is a
„great“ state, a famous state, yet under bad aspects, such as those of this year, its disasters may
also be great.
Until the Tsunami 2004, I thought the worst thing that could happen to a chart was to have a
grand cross in it. Then I found what I termed a bow and arrow shooting at the Galactic Centre, Sun
and Pluto from the full Moon in Gemini, (chart p. 4), and after discovering such bows, and bows
and arrows in many disaster charts, I knew that these could be just as lethal as a grand cross, and
that both together were practically a sure bet of a catastrophe.
However, to put this in perspective, there are many lands, economies, and individuals bearing
heavy burdens at this time. I hope that understanding and being able to predict the kind of
difficulties and „bad weather“ coming to different areas, and the connection to the Great Year
cycle and its meaning, may be in some way useful.
The three bows2 in the progressed chart reinforce my diagnosis of a larger than usual fire
disaster in 2009 that must still be on the way. One bow points at Jupiter, a fire planet, another
points at the Sun, the strongest fire power of all, and the third bow points at the Galactic Centre in
a fire sign: Sagittarius, which can mean fire or water, Yin or Yang. iv
Mars and the South Node are conjunct Mercury. Mercury is an air planet ruling birds, planes
and all things of the air, as even the human lungs, it can cause aviation disasters but most often it is
the air or ill wind that is the problem. The Santa Ana wind is of course often involved in inflaming
the bushfires.
Mars and Ketu are also opposite the Moon at this time, which is a very inflammatory
situation. Such a Moon Mars aspect has caused many of the worst fiery disasters in Californian
history as well as the worst in history generally: the Moon conjunct Mars in Scorpio inflamed the
Great Fire in London back in 1666 and added to the powerful eruption of Krakatau on August 27
1883.

1You may want to read: The Galactic Centre and the Nodes of the Moon, cause of disaster or path to
enlightenment?

2 Bows are a name invented by me after my discovery of the Galactic centre's influence in the Tsunami 2004.
Bows focus and shoot energy in the chart, and the most disastrous ones tend to shoot at the Galactic Centre.
Bows are usually made of two sextiles ( c.60°) and one trine (c. 120°).
 Left: the Great Fire began with a bow and arrow pointing
at the Galactic Centre. Moon and Mars were quite far
apart in the first hours and the fire seemed nearly to have
given up when the Moon reached Mars in Scorpio and
gained the strength it needed to destroy 80 per cent of
London.

Below: The December 2005 explosion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hemel_Hempstead_fuel_explosion_map.jpg
The Hemel Mempstead fuel explosion, just outside London on 11th December 2005 also
occurred as the Moon was conjunct Mars.
Krakatau erupted on 26th to 27th August, here shown
on the 26th. but the explosion that destroyed the island
and set off the tsunami came on the 27th, as the Moon
had moved close to Mars in the water sign Cancer, still
opposite the Galactic Centre.

Moon and Mars aspecting each other is a fiery-

explosive-violent aspect, suggesting that the present
progression in California's chart of the Moon to oppose
Mars and the South Node and square the bodies in Aries is
is likely to still cause some fireworks in 2009. The Moon is
is also squaring Jupiter which opposes Saturn, Uranus
and Pluto. The involvement of Jupiter suggests possible
storms and lightning and the opposition to Saturn means
earthquakes too are not out of the question.
However, fires are particurly encouraged at present (August 2009) by Mars' transit over the
hot, dry summer solstice area of the chart; from Gemini to Cancer. Though usually as Mars moves
over into this water sign, ruled by the Moon, clouds build and there are often storms or even
floods3. However, fires could be awoken to more furious life maybe in October when transiting
Mars moves over the transiting and then the progressed Node of the Moon. At that time Mars also
opposes his own progressed position in early Aquarius. Most obviously dangerous is the T square
transiting Mars and the Sun form in October involving the Nodes (page 6).
Progressed Mars and the Moon are square not only the bodies in Aries but also square Jupiter
ruling the fire sign Sagittarius who I recently discovered he shares with his wife Hera, the Galactic
Centre is placed. In recent years the transit of Pluto over the Galactic Centre, has made those fires
more destructive than ever and the general nearing of the Galactic centre to the sign Capricorn
(27° Sagittarius in 2010) means the Great Year is nearing its likely catastrophic end and increasing
involvement of cardinal Capricorn suggest increasing earthquakes and earth changes to create a
new Earth.
Another indication of fire in the chart, is the presence of the North Node of the Moon - Rahu -
in Leo. Leo is a fire sign and the Node in Leo is also rising over a Leo ascendant, with the
progressed Moon moving ever closer to this sign as well.
So all these things together create an extremely strong indication of fire disasters this year,
with a subliminal worry about an earthquake.
The Sun is afflicted by Lilith, the dark moon symbol, and they are close to the detrimental
Descendant position that I associate with the Sun going down over the horizon, a kind of Sun
setting on the Sunshine State?
Together the two bows, one to Jupiter and one to the Sun, form together the third bow
pointing at the Galactic Centre, which has the greatest disaster potential in the chart and is
comparable to the South Node. The South Node in Vedic astrology is traditionally exalted in the
same degree usually given to the Galactic centre; 3° of the constellation Sagittarius.
The Galactic Centre is becoming ever-more ill tempered right now. One might compare her to
the black goddess Kali who sprang from Durga's forehead4 in the middle of a battlefield and fought
the fiery demons, but didnt know where to stop. In fact this goddess that has made people and
animals quake in fear is rather like another fiery goddess in Egypt called Sekhmet who might also
have gone on to destroy the world unless a way had been found to stop her. In the case of Kali we
are told in one version of the story that Shiva threw himself before her as a little baby and she
stopped fighting and killing in order to nurse the newborn. In Sekhmet's case they got her drunk so
she fell asleep.
Such myths tell of natural disasters in our past and I believe they are associated both to the
Galactic Centre as also to the Galactic Centre's earthly representative, the volcano, whose
activities punctuate to the Great Year cycle. The volcano is perhaps the worst source of fire that we
must fear, the way of destroying past ages and even past Great Years and beginning new ones: fire
renews; INRI.
As California was quaking away last December 2008 on 26th December Yellowstone began to
shake too, yet I think this is not the volcano that will erupt... 5.
The Galactic Centre, with the help of those bodies on the other end of the galactic axis is
bringing the Great Year to an end, so that a new one can begin. Some cultures like the Hopi, Aztec
3 This was also the pattern in the Great Year cycle, as the Summer Solstice position 12,500 years ago moved over the
Galactic Centre a great Conflagration came to the Earth, burning up everything. This is told of in the Chronicles of
Akakor and the myth of Phaethon. However it ended when Jupiter-Zeus struck Phaethon out of the heavens with a
lightning bolt setting off the Great Flood (or at least the First Great Flood) as the Galactic Centre „moved“ into the
tropical sign of Cancer.
4 This myth tells of the last great disaster which was the volcanic eruption and loss of the world mountain.
5 The volcano told of in Revelation 17 is a volcano in Indonesia and when the ancient prophets new their Great Year
cycle etc., correctly then it is an eruption out of the sea near where the Tsunami occurred that is the greatest
apocalyptic event.
or Vedic Indian might prefer to call this phase a great purification period through fire.
Recently the transit of Mars over the hottest place in the astrological chart, the summer
solstice, has been causing draught in many other places too: purifying fires have broken out also in
Greece, Spain, Portugal etc and the child of Krakatau became loud on August 11th.
Mars transited the same area of the zodiac that it is now on, also around August 2007 and
caused similar wildfires. The 2007 transit brought particularly nasty fires for Greece v as Saturn
moved at the same time over its founding Mars in Leo (fire). In the last five years or so, when
Mars moved over the summer solstice, it opposed not just the Galactic Centre nearing the end of
its Great Year cycle, but also Pluto that has been close to the Galactic Centre since about the time
of the World Trade Centre disaster in 2001.

The 9/11 disaster was also a fiery disaster and showed a bow and arrow and T square
involving the Galactic Centre conjunct Pluto, Chiron, Mars and the South Node.
The conjunction of the Galactic Centre to Pluto close to the winter solstice, continues to 2013,
and is what is causing the generally destructive period. The fires tend to worsen when fiery bodies,
Mars or Sun, aspect this winter solstice area. As a general background to this the Sun spot activity,
it is thought, will also be increasing in the coming years as we approach 2012. 2012 itself is
expected to bring the highest ever sunspot peak since records began.Sunspot activity affects not
only wild fires but also earthquake and volcanic activity.
The whole year this beautiful state has also been on the verge of experiencing a most terrible
earthquake, which I have suggested in other articlesvi. I think that those people who have
followed the seismic activity must have had quite a tense year so far. I hope the danger is lessening
now as the Moon is no longer so strongly squaring Saturn in the progressed chart of California and
transiting Saturn has moved over direct conjunction with founding L.As Sun in Virgo which is
there also square Saturn, yet the Big One might still occur, and most likely close to, or affecting
Los Angeles. Such indications have also been apparently found in the Bible Codevii that a large
earthquake may come near L.A. between this September and the next in 2010.
An earthquake might occur when the transiting Sun catches up with transiting Saturn in Virgo
in September, 12th, and 18th to 20th would be possible dates. Both California6 and Los Angeles have
Virgo Suns. Nevertheless the progressed chart increasingly suggests to me that disaster is more
likely in October. This might be more in line with the Bible Code prediction telling of one coming
in the Hebrew year 5770viii.

6 Founding date 9th September 1850.

 The grand cross in the progressed chart of California does actually suggest there could be
some earthquake involvement. Venus and Mercury are in the earth sign Capricorn, the sign of
Saturn, and Mercury is part of the grand cross occurring now. Saturn and his sign Capricorn are
the most important factors to consider by earthquakes. In the founding and progressed chart,
Saturn was and is always close enough to Uranus and Pluto in Aries to get involved in their
aspects. The founding chart also expresses exactly the danger of living so close to such massive
faulting in the earth and the possibility that another kind of fire might arise if the earthquakes get
stronger....in fact all the disasters – storms, earthquakes, wildfires and volcanoes etc., can all be
attributed to one root – the overheating, which I connect to the needed trigger to bring the big shift
at the end of the Great Year.
Recently I tend to think that October 2009 is the more likely date for an earthquake and
possible tsunami affecting California, even though fires may be a result. The Moon progressed in
Cancer (water) is one reason for this thought that an earthquake might be the cause. Back in 1906,
as the San Fransisco Earthquake occurred, the April Sun was transited over the three heavenly
bodies in Aries, and the earthquake set off fires that caused the most damage.
In October this year a bow forms to the Galactic Centre involving transiting Jupiter and
Neptune in Aquarius and the transiting Sun in Libra pointing at the Galactic Centre. This bow
reflects a bow that exists in California's progressed chart possibly triggering it, the transiting Sun
will conjunct California's progressed Jupiter in Libra trining the progressed Sun and Lilith in
Aquarius that is conjunct transiting Neptune Chiron and Jupiter. The transit of the Sun and or other
bodies through Libra in October has already triggered a number of disasters in California. For
instance the 1987 earthquake in San Fransisco occurred on October 17, and a number of the worst
bushfires also broke out in October.
Writing of this danger in October reminds me strongly of the Tsunami 2004 and the chart of
Indonesia. By transit, Jupiter and Neptune were involved then in a similar way. The Tsunami 2004
has left deep furrows in my brain, for it was through it that I discovered the powerful nature of
solar asects to the Galactic Centre and the connection to the Mayan Prophecy and 2012.
As the Tsunami 2004 occurred, the Sun was conjunct the Galactic Centre in the earth sign
Capricorn, but by March the next year I knew what was going on and expected another quake
when the Sun squared the GC. It came, a bit late, on March 28th 2005 in Indonesia. It was the
largest of the year and then I waited to see if another would occur in June when the Sun would
oppose the Galactic Centre. A whole lot of earthquakes occurred around mid June and one
earthquake caused a Tsunami scare in California...
Then the Jupiter Neptune trine strengthened again in August to hit New Orleans with
hurricane Katrina. This trine disappeared again in 2005 and the world quietened down, but at that
time Neptune was just beginning to sextile the Galactic Centre, forming one arm of a bow. In
October 2009 the Sun or other body may complete that bow, as occurred on October 8 2005 with
the Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan and the most intense hurricane ever in the Atlantic basin as the
Sun still Jupiter trined Neptune as the red alert sounded over Hurricane Wilma on October 19th.
From 2011 to 2012 Saturn will form that other arm of the bow where Jupiter had been in
2005, as he moves through Libra to Scorpio. Most tsunamis or in fact all water disasters involve
an aspect between Jupiter and Neptune and the Moon, or at least the water signs are strongly
involved. Jupiter and Neptune are conjunct in 2009 so it could be another tsunami year, but a
major earthquake requires also Saturn and the Nodes to be involved. This is more the case in 2010
and onward.
Below, the founding chart of Indonesia with its grand cross and bow is compared to the
Tsunami 2004 with its bow, because a similar bow exists in the progressed chart of California.
It is quite difficult to keep all the necessary information stored in one head, but I hope to show
that astrology, with its rediscovered crown jewel of the Galactic Centre could be an excellent
predictive tool, as it was in past.

Transits on the day of the Tsunami 2004 compared to Indonesia's founding chart for
1949 in which a grand cross was present and a bow to Sagittarius involving Jupiter and Neptune.
Jupiter transited over Neptune in Libra in the founding chart of Indonesia, and transiting Neptune
was conjunct Venus close to Indonesia's founding Jupiter in Aquarius. Chiron in the founding chart
of Indonesia is conjunct the transiting Venus Mercury in the Tsunami chart on December 26 2004.

The grand cross for California with the Moon progressed in Cancer ( a water sign squaring the
fire sign Aries) could possibly bring a tsunami. Another reason is California's progressed Sun
conjunct transiting Jupiter and Neptune and
approaching its founding Neptune in Pisces
too.
As you may see in the chart on the left the
transiting bodies, aspecting progressed
Jupiter in Libra, and Sun in Aquarius, form
a bow (blue) to the Galactic Centre. A long
term bow to the Galactic Centre in
Sagittarius involving also Lilith in Aquarius
has been involved in all the bad luck of this
American state in recent years.
OCTOBER 25 2009
October could put California in the news
again most likely with fires, ( Mars T
square) though an earthquake or
tsunami is not impossible as you see that
in October Saturn is in a T square too
and Neptune in a bow all pointing at the
Galactic centre and Pluto.

The T square of the Sun to the Nodes and Mars in October, along with the bow to the GC at
the same time, as well as a T square of Uranus and Saturn to the GC, might bring a dangerous
period.
Earlier fires and earthquakes have already occurred
in California in the month of October. This bow has been
in the progressed chart of the Golden State for many
years now but it is getting stronger and the Sun is more
strongly involved as we approach the Mayan End Date.
www.analyticalsci.com/Astronomy/Scobee/Orion.jpg
We will look at some past
disasters and then forward at
2011 to 2012. Many volcanoes
will have awoken by 2012 as this
is all part of the Return told of in
a great many prophecies, like the
Chilam Balam of Chumayel
prophecy of Kukulkan returning
with „blood-vomit“! Or the
Biblical God tipping out his fiery
„cup of wrath“ in Revelation 17.
The volcanic return is
associated with mountain
man Orion who is opposite
the Galactic Centre.7 Orion
represents the place of
maximum Yang, and his
raised arm is the same as the
fire symbol of the more decently raised finger of fire shown in
Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, and also the raised leg of Shiva Nataraja
(eastern version of Orion) dancing in his
volcanic ring of fire. The present fires are
being awoken in many parts of the world
by Mars moving over the club of Orion that is close to the summer
solstice and opposite the Galactic centre close to the winter solstice.
The influence of transits over the Galactic Anti-Centre and Orion's
club should not be underestimated. As the Moon ruling water hit the
bat of Orion the tsunami occurr8.
Orion's club reaching up between Gemini Taurus, and the
Galactic Centre between Scorpio and Sagittarius constellations, now
aligning with our summer and winter solstices respectively, are the
male fire god and female water goddess, poles of the chart. However,
as the Yin Yang symbol suggests each pole contains and births the
other in a never-ending cycle.

7 The Galactic Centre represents the place of maximum Yin, and the place where Yin births Yang.
8See Goro Adachi.http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/ringoffire.htm for a picture of Orion and the position
of the Moon at the tsunami time attached to an interesting article.
 However, the alignment of the Galactic Centre with the winter solstice reawakens the fire of
Orion, sows its first seeds lights the fire of the future, one could see Orion's club as a torch. A film
called Volcano, tells of a volcanic eruption in Los Angeles. This I find really not such an
improbable idea? I am not equipped to answer this question from a volcanologists perspective, but
coming earthquakes and the rising Yang energy in the Earth, which occurs from the time just after
the winter solstice as told in the I Ching ( Fu return – Thunder in the Earth) may awaken many
fires in the Earth that have been long
dormant.
Let us go through a few past earthquakes
and fires that affected California.
LEFT: THE GREAT CALIFORNIA
EARTHQUAKE or the FORT TEJON
EARTHQUAKE ix came on JANUARY 9
1857
( Progressed chart for this date)
The first disaster was the 1857 Fort
Tejon earthquake seven years after the
founding date, on January 9 1857. It had a
magnitude between c. 7.9 and 8.2 and has
been called the largest earthquake to hit
California. It ruptured the San Andreas Fault

for a length of about 225 miles. There were only two

recorded fatalities.
The progressed chart shows the Moon was in
Capricorn, the sign of Saturn, pointed at by a bow
and a T square. Saturn also aspected the Nodes of
The Moon, squared his own sign and opposed Mars
and Mercury, in fact shooting a bow and arrow at
them. The Galactic Centre is close to the midheaven
and the Moon aspected by Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, the
Sun, Jupiter and Mercury (though I have not marked
all the aspects).
RIGHT: FORT TEJON EARTHQUAKE
Transits on 9th January 1857
The T square is an aspect that can have an affect
like TNT, creating a lot of tension that seeks release. It is found in the progressed and transiting
aspects. The transiting chart shows Saturn conjunct the Moon instead of square it and T square the
Nodes. The Tejon earthquake involved a T square to Saturn as well as the Sun and ascendant in
Capricorn.This T square of Saturn to the Nodes is repeated in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake
transits (shown p. 13). It is a common sign for the worst earthquakes (some related details in the
endnotesx).. The worst or greatest fires might be associated rather with a T square of Mars to the
Nodes as is in fact the case with my next major disaster in California, the California Great Fire of
1889.
 The California Great Fire of 1889 also
called the Santiago Canyon Fire of
1889 shows a similar T square involving
Saturn, that includes the fiery Sun, but this
time the Mars/ Aries influence outweighed the
Saturnine earthquake tendency. Here Mars not
Saturn T squares the Nodes. Of course Uranus
and Pluto in Aries-fire are also rising over the
ascendant in the chart, a powerful position.xi
( endnotes more on 1889).xii
A bow to Venus Chiron close to the
Galactic Centre in the fire sign Sagittarius and
a T square involving the Sun, to Saturn Uranus
Pluto in Aries which could cause either fire or
earthquake is decided in favour of fire by the
Mars T square to the Nodes, with South Node
c. Lilith.

The 1906 earthquake in San Fransisco

has a progressed chart that looks more
like a fire disaster, with the Sun and
Mars in a T square to Nodes and Lilith,
and no body in Capricorn.
Left:1906 San Francisco Earthquake
and Fire progressed chart
Yet the opposition of the two great
planets Jupiter and Saturn, combined
with the opposition of Moon Mercury
to Uranus Pluto and aspecting the Galactic

Centre is tougher than it may seem and with

Saturn in Aries fire and earthquake may
often be combined.
Right: San Francisco Earthquake
1906 Transits
In the chart of the transits for the most
famous earthquake on 18th April 1906,
progressed Saturn was conjunct the Aries
ascendant at the time it occurred, and the
Sun transited over the progressed and
founding Pluto Uranus conjunction in
Aries. The transiting Nodes were loosely
conjunct the progressed Nodes in Leo and
Aquarius. In the transiting chart Uranus placed in early Capricorn conjunct the Galactic Centre
near the Midheaven, this is really almost the same as the transiting chart on the day of the next
worst San Francisco Earthquake on October 17th 1989. Here Uranus and the GC were opposite
Neptune and Pluto. The next time Uranus and Neptune are conjunct. ( see p. 12 ) Pluto has a bow
pointing at him as sign of a disaster and the Sun is transiting over the founding and progressed
Uranus and Pluto in Aries.
Aries is a sign that is also prominent when volcanoes erupt.
As earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have been minimal in areas of scientific progress
science has not been too bothered to investigate their connection yet it was noticed that the spate of
large earthquakes around 1906 as also in 1960xiii produced a number of volcanic eruptions in the
following year. This was also true of the Indian Ocean Earthquake 2004. Five volcanoes erupted
simultaneously in January 2005. Up to eight volcanoes erupted from 1906 to 7 including Vesuvius
in 1906. The entry of Uranus into Aries in
2010 in its frst long term square to Pluto
and the GC will certainly awaken the Beast.
For if you think about it and read wakefully
the Revelation story of the Whore of
Babylon that is told directly after a great
earthquake and hail, it is quite obviously
about a volcano. This is the climax of the
End Time story and the creating omega-
alpha force of a new Earth. Seperating
religion from science has endangered our
intelligence.
Rattlesnake Fire California

In 1953, the so-called Rattlesnake Fire

killed 15 firefighters, and became a well
known case used to train new fire fighters.
Again we see in 1953 a T square
involving Saturn in Aries and the Moon in
Cancer and a bundle of bodies including
Sun and Mars are conjunct the Galactic
Centre.
In 1964 one of the largest recorded
earthquakes ever, a M. 9.2, occurred in
Alaska. It was known as the Good Friday
Earthquake as it occurred on 27th March, a
Good Friday. It created a Tsunami. California
was affected too in a minor way and there
were 13 deaths in California.
1964 Alaska earthquake

This was one of the few cases where the Nodes

of the Moon are only minimally involved. But then
this was not one of the worst disasters for California.
As a substitute for the Nodes, however, the Galactic
Centre is well aspected, and as the Moon is conjunct it and Cancer (ruled by the Moon) is rising, it was the
tsunami that did the damage. Nevertheless the bow of Jupiter and Lilith to Chiron and the Galactic Centre should
not be underestimated. In 2009, especially in October, this bow will be accentuated by the transiting Sun in Libra
and Jupiter Neptune in Aquarius. The progressed Moon is in Cancer in 2009 in a grand cross, so that the Moon
transiting Sagittarius would be one possibility to set off another earthquake and tsunami disaster similar to the one
in Indonesia.

In 1987 fires occurred. 650,000 acres were

destroyed in the Siege of 1987 California-Oregon
These fires were started by a large lightning storm in
late August. The storm started about 1600 new fires
through lightning. Firefighting efforts continued into
October, before the majority of the fires were
controlled.

Here we see a wackly would-be Grand Cross

involving the Nodes, angles of the chart, Uranus/ Pluto
Saturn, Jupiter the Moon, Mars, Sun and Mercury. The
most important factor as I see it is the conjunction of
the Moon with Jupiter, for the Moon in that position
awakens Jupiter, who in turn aspects the Nodes; Mars,
Saturn, Galactic Centre, Chiron and Venus. Jupiter
plays the major role in setting off the fires. Jupiter Zeus
was the god in mythology who carried a thunderbolt (lightning). In all mythological versions of himself, Jupiter
carries lightning as his weapon.

In 1989 as Mars was still in a T square

from Capricorn to Saturn and Uranus in Aries
and Jupiter in Libra the San Francisco
Earthquake occurred.

RIGHT: 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

Transits October 17 2009

compare this earthquake, with Uranus up

at the midheaven in Capricorn conjunct the GC,
with the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. (see
p. 10)
 In 1994, as the Moon joined the T-square of Mars and also Mercury in Capricorn to Saturn, Uranus, Pluto
and Jupiter, another major earthquake occurred,
the 1994 Northridge earthquake

The two charts on the right show (above)

the progressed chart for 1994 and (below), the
transits on the actual day. Both show an
emphasis on the sign Capricorn., and both
involve the ruler of Capricorn, Saturn..

In the upper chart, showing the

progressions, the Moon has moved to conjunct
Mars and Mercury but is still early enough to T-
square both Jupiter and Saturn, just perfect for
an earthquake. The two bows, to Lilith in
Aquarius, and to Venus, Chiron and the Galactic
Centre, create the perfect ambient for a disaster.
The afflicted Sun conjunct the South Node can
be of no help.

Looking back, we may remember that the

last fire disaster was set off by the Moon's
transit to Jupiter on the grand cross, and that the
1953 fire disasters were set off by the Moon's
transit through Cancer, also triggering the grand
cross, or at least a T square, and in 2009 the
Moon in Cancer also triggers the grand cross.

Although I began writing this before the

fires started this year, I think the evidence is
now there that such a grand cross involving the
fire signs and Mars aspecting the South Node is
a good forewarning of what will come.,

though whether that is of any help is another question. Ancient societies believed in astrologers. Astrologers
were the first weatherforecasters, before they lost the ancient keys of wisdom used in the Vedic and Maya
cultures, which have the same root in a lost covilization I think of as Meru-Atlantis, the main key lost was the
knowledge of the galactic axis. TThe whole galactic picture is essential, the galactic axis is the root of
knowlededge of the workings of the cosmos and of the I Ching Yin and Yang formula. For our whole galaxy
works according to heavenly law,in which Sun and Moon subordinate their will to greater cycles. Through an
understanding of the Galactic Centre in astrology and the I Ching, perfect predictions and prophecies might again
be possible. Taking into account enough factors one might predict thousands of years in advance, which it seems
the Maya did and perhaps the original Bible writers did too. Such scientific knowledge must immediately
reconnect us with the cosmos in a way that can only be described as religious.

So where would one expect the next

worst disasters to occur? By the
Northridge Earthquake of 1994 the Moon
was in Capricorn, as it was by the Fort
Tejon earthquake. The next certain disaster
date would be when the progressed Moon
hits the planets in the sign Aries: Saturn,
Uranus and Pluto, now part of a grand
cross. They are struck in the years 2002 to
2003. What kind of disasters might one
expect as the Moon transits that fire sign?

The fires intensified in 2002. The

McNally Fire California, was the largest

Sequoia fire in history, 150,700 acres (610

km2)were burnt.

In 2002 progressed Mars and

Mercury in Capricorn T square Uranus,
Pluto, Saturn in Aries and Jupiter in Libra.

I have placed green arrows to the

centres of the two T squares in Aries and
to Mars, which as I see as the major
significators.

The fire began July 21 2002 as

transiting Jupiter, Mars and Sun were all
conjunct. These are the three rulers of the
three fire signs. They were at the
Cancer/Leo boundary, square
Uranus/Pluto in the fire sign Aries in the progressed chart.

In 2003, as the Moon imoved into Taurus, still conjunct Pluto it also squared the Nodes, two fires began
raging simultaneously, the Old Fire in California destroyed 993 homes destroyed, and caused 6 deaths.

An even larger fire, the worst in California's recorded history began, that was called the Cedar Fire. Only
the 1889 Santiago Canyon fire might have been larger. This name Cedar Fire rings very sacred significant
chimes for me, for the Cedar tree was the symbol of the Sun, a holy tree, and it was also used as a symbol of the
Sun's holy mountain at the centre of the Earth before it fell: the cedar was a very tall tree. It has the most heavenly
smell on warm days that transports me to paradise, and indeed it represented just that: paradise; Meru, the central
mountain-tree-axis of the world, the tree of paradise on earth, which as it fell, or was felled (Gilgamesh myth),
caused a terrible volcanic disaster that in turn caused the Earth to fall. Yet enough of that for now, further papers
have been or will be written on this theme.

The Cedar Fire in California in 2003 destroyed 280,278 acres (1,134 km2) . It was the largest recorded fire in
California history , which showed in the chart earlier in this article, the Sun opposite Uranus and Pluto un Aries
and Mars in a T-square to the Nodes). The fire burned 2,232 homes and killed 15 in San Diego County. It occurre
simultaneously not just with the Old Fire, but with 15 other fires in Southern California covering 721,791 acres
(2,920 km²). It killed 24 people, displaced 120,000 people and destroyed 3,640 homes. Damage from the
combined fires was estimated at 2 billion USD. This fiery period was called the "2003 Firestorm" and the "Fire
Siege of 2003. Both the Old Fire and the Cedar Fire began on 25 October 2003.

Another important thing that was happening in the progressed chart lay in the Leo ascendant moving close
enough to aspect the bodies in the other two fire signs, Aries and Sagittarius, and create a bow or kind of arrow
form pointing towards the Galactic Centre. This is happening now, not just in California but in many charts all
over the world, a sign of the clocks of the world, states and individuals, aligning to one heavenly heart of purpose
that will be fulfilled in 2012.

Fires continued in 2005, in September and a large blaze began on October 26th 2005 scorching over 60
square miles (160 km²) in four days.

Another fire occurred in October 2006, a man was accused of it and of starting the other fires, he was
sentenced to death in June 2009.

In 2007 the fires continued as Mars was near the summer solstice as now, they began on Independence Day
4th July and again in October, aggravated by the Santa Ana winds that reached up to 85 mph (140 km/h).
 Nasa picture of fires in California October 2007

In Summer 2008 California wildfires California In Northern California, the fires were mostly started by
lightning. In Santa Barbara (Southern California), the Gap fire endangered many, causing also unhealthy air
quality in large parts of California for several weeks. Near Yosemite the Telegraph Fire was started by target
shooters. During all fires many homes were lost.

The continued fires of the last years were all caused by the Mars, Mercury, South Node conjunction, which
caused also the bad air. However, 2009 may be much more dangerous than these past years. This year may cause
more danger through the square of the Moon, as well as the arrow created to the Galactic Centre through the
ascendant being in the last degrees of Leo. Have another look at the progressed chart of 2009 which I have added
again on the next page (p. 17).

Looking back one can say that fire and earthquake disatsers have tended to occur particularly when the Moon
or other body aspected Saturn, Uranus, Pluto in Aries, either through a conjunction or through a square from
Cancer, or through an opposition from Libra/ Scorpio or a square from Capricorn/ Aquarius.

Other factors significant for fire and earthquake disasters in California were associated with the Nodes of the
Moon, with Mars aspects for fires and Saturn aspects tending more to cause earthquakes.

However, the generally disastrous tendency is accentuated by the bow to the Galactic Centre, which has now
turned into a sort of arrow involving ever more parts of the chart.
 Looking to the future I have added the charts of 2011 and 2012. The year 2011 suggests probably even
worse fires than 2009 as the Moon in the fire sign Leo hits the Leo ascendant opposite the Sun and Lilith on the
descendant. This opposition forms a number of significant aspects in the chart to the Galactic Centre and to
Jupiter, and also a T square to the midheaven.

Bad winds, possibly even hurricane like, or forming tornadoes, may occur as Mercury moves into the air sign
Aquarius around 2011 with Mars conjunct the South Node, the air quality will be affected by the fires. This gives
perhaps one reason why in 2012 the Moon moves into Virgo, suggesting concern with health.
 However, I would say the main danger is some disaster between the beginning of 2011 and before the end of
2012, as the Moon is close to the progressed ascenadant trining Uranus, Pluto and the Galactic Centre, and
creating a bow or arrow form involving also Jupiter and the Sun and creating a huge arrow involving Sun Moon
and most of the heavenly bodies of the chart. It is as if all the energy of the chart is grabbed and thrown at the
gaping mouth of the Galactic Centre,
a pattern I have seen by a great
number of disasters and a pattern that
increases in the transiting aspects
between 2011 and 2013.

. Another danger is also

accentuated in 2011 and 2012,
possibly more in 2011, and that is the
danger of Tsunami. For bows point at
Jupiter the Sun and the Galactic
Centre and the Sun is close to
Neptune in the water sign Pisces and
transiting Neptune is also on the
progressed Sun.

Major danger times will

continue to be in October, but also in
December when the bow to the
Galactic Centre is strengthened,
floods, landslides storms, many kinds
of disasters are possible. This may
well be the tsunami bow of the first
lunar horseman of the Apocalypse
told of in Revelation.

I say this not lightly but after

five years research into the ancient
connections to the Galactic Centre
and reading many sacred texts and
myths.

Jesus warned that the End Time

would be like Noah's Flood, that
people would be surprised while eating and drinking as they were at the time of the Flood.

Of course anybody who the world might seriously listen to, when telling of coming disasters and the End
Time, would be in danger of his life, as the last Pope himself was. He might try to hint, if he knew. This is in fact
was what Pope John Paul II did when questioned, perhaps to relieve his conscience, when he told a small German
audience why the third part of the Fatima Prohecy had not been released:

„It should be sufficient for all Christians to know this much: if there is a message in which it is said that the
oceans will flood entire sections of the earth; that, from one moment to another, millions of people will perish...
there is no longer any point in really wanting to publish this secret message.“

Nevertheless this knowledge has certainly not left those who received it idle. Those who don't know will
certainly not have a chance - fated by unconsciousness, but for those who do know, especially if one knows when
and where, there might be a chance, and that goads me on, despite exhaustion.

If there were any power on Earth in the last 2000 years that would have had the means to store prophecies
and would know the secrets of the End Time, then it would be the Vatican in Rome. Why are the leaders in
America talking of a New World Order? This idea is connected to both the Biblical idea and the Masons and the
old idea of the coming of the Golden Age in many parts of the world, which is known to be fathered by Saturn.
Why did both the American President and the English Prime Minister convert to Catholicism recently? What
about the Pope's quietening response 500 years ago that people need not worry, as the „End of the World“ was not
now (then), but 500 years hence: ie now:

In the year 1514 Pope Leo IX wrote "I will not see the end of the world, nor will you my brethren, for its time
is long in the future, 500 years hence."

Mayan, Aztec, Biblical and other prophecies often talk of this catastrophe as if it will be the End of the
World. Some of the prophets really did not know whether it would bring the real end, but usually there is the idea,
in the Bible, and in the Maya and Aztec etc notions, that a good period with lands for all, a new earth, a Golden
Age will come.

Yet the common people are not supposed to know about the coming disaster that I fear must really be close.
The book first published in German called in English The Chronicles of Akakor in which the chief of the Ugha
Mongulala tribe of the Amazon area warned people that his tribe were going underground to avoid the next worst
catastrophe, a catastrophe that occurred about every 6000 years, get removed form the market and why were
copies hunted down, its author shot and why has it reappeared without certain maps and with changed scriptural
content?

For this chief told of the First Catastrophe having occurred 12,477 years ago ( as of 2009)

Since this book was first published we have come a long way, yet all discoveries support what this book told.
The Great Pyramid points to a date 12,500 years ago. It is aligned to Orion which is connected to the retur of
Osiris, or rather his son Horus, yet both are part of the same volcano.

Orion reached one end of his direction of motion 12,500 years ago at which point he reversed and yet now,
he has reached the other end of his direction of motion, some call this his „highest“ position, but from the
perspective of our ancestors in the southern hemisphere, it is his lowest, but it is the point where he as the
epitomy of the Yang force he in the earth, begins to rise again from the Underworld as a volcanic mountain.

As the time 12,500 years ago was the First Time of Osiris, this will be the Last Time of Osiris.The massive
temple estate in Cambodia, Angkor Wat, aligns also to the Draco constellation as it was approximately 12,500
years ago. A great many of our major ancient temple monuments and even mountains, point to stars and
alignments associated either with a period about 12,500 years ago when the constellation Leo (or the Sphinx) was
rising over the spring equinox, or they align to this period, between about 2000 and 2080 AD, or both.

In ancient times it was believed there were two gates in the zodiac. These gates were connected to the Great
Year cycle. The first gate was the Silver Gate in Cancer (the moon rules silver and Cancer). Cancer begins at the
summer solstice, but this was the gate we went through half a great year ago as the descending half of the cycle
began and the waters rose. The gate we are approaching now is the Golden Gate (reminds rather of California's
bridge), associated with Capricorn (Capricorn begins the return of the Yang energy of the Sun - Sol Invictus- the
Sun rules gold), which begins at the winter solstice, this is the gate that will begin the ascending period back
towards heaven.

It was known to the Greeks and other cultures that there were two major catastrophes in the Great Year cycle,
Berossus told that they occurred when planets lined up in Cancer or Capricorn.These were called the catastrophes
of the Great Summer bringing a fiery conflagration and the Great Winter bringing a deluge. Berossus did not
know about the Galactic Centre, but the alignment of the Galactic Centre to the Summer solstice and moving into
Cancer brought the Conflagration that ended in a deluge brought by Zeus-Jupiter, as told in the story of Phaethon.
and this one may also bring some conflagration yet the worst seems to be a deluge. It seems that whatever the
variation each catastrophe involves both, because they involve volcanoes and overheating leading to eruption
folloed by rains and possible ice age.

Scientists are increasingly discovering also that major disasters that set off the Younger Dryas really did
occur about 12,500 years ago, yet this would not have been known to a German Journalist Karl Brugger who
supposedly created a wonderful fantasy book going back through 15,000 years of human history „The Chronicles
of Akakor“ that is quite obviously proved by recent finds as true.

I do hope (in a way) that I am wrong, but only five years ago as I made the discovery that the Mayan
Prophecy was based on knowledge of the Galactic Centre and if you look at the change in awareness that has
occurred since 2004, the awareness of Climate Changes, and the increasing speed of certain events on Earth and
in the whole solar system it certainly seems to suggest we are nearing a plughole, or as some believe a greater
Light.

The Hopi Prophecies have been nearly all fulfilled, eight have been fulfilled and the last is the appearance of
the Blue Star Kachina. Speaking Wind, a Pueblo Indian who comes from New Mexico says the Purification will
last from June 1998 to December 22 2012.

Inherited prophecies from the traditional Seneca Medicine Man Moses Shongo who died around 1925 also
stated there would be a 25 year purification lasting till around 2012.

Far away in Africa the same prophecy and also a similar idea to the Chronicles of Akakor have been made by
a Zulu shaman called Credo Muttwa who says that a star with a long tail will return and turn the Earth upside
down as it did thousands of years ago, causing a rain of fiery tar and a deluge of waters. Again he states the same
year: 2012.

The Maoris living even further away in New Zealand tell how the Earth and Sky were once pushed apart by
war, wind and sea gods, but that they will crash back together again also in 2012 xiv I have grabbed this info.
Quickly from Geoff Stray's little book on 2012 which I can thoroughly recommen as a summary of collected
wisdom on this date, for weak memories like mine.

On the positive side, this time has also been seen as the time of Redemption, of Ascension etc etc... it has
certainly been long awaited and hoped for, it will be the fulfillment of the Covenant of God as told and dated in
the scriptures of Enoch, a fulfillment for those who believe in him, and by that I do not mean particularly the
Christian God, the Moslem God, Wakan Tanka or any other individual version, but the pure essence of light and
good, the Creator God whose first form is the primordial mound- the volcano, and whose names have been Ptah,
Brahma, first Father.. As to this Centre of Light and Good, our loss of it and return to it, I hope to be writing
another paper soon called „The Lost Centre“.

© Susan Seymour Hedke August 2009

 i Progressions are a strange astrological idea that however really work. They take a day for a year in
their calculation. So that ten years on is ten days. Its a rather Biblical idea and makes one wonder if that was how
they predicted thousands of years in advance. Whenever I am uncertain about an aspect I look at the progressions
of the land and or people involved.
ii17:41 GMT, San Jose (source Jupiter 55)
iii Nearly thirty years ago I went to an excellent astrological lecture that described the fire signs and Aries was
described in character as a wild fire or bush fire. This idea is not new but was known in Shakespeare's time. Aries
characters were always thought of as hot headed and impulsive, wild and fiery.
iv This needs explaining. Elsewhere I have shown that in mythology the Galactic Centre sits in the fire sign
Sagittarius, which is the fire of the Underworld. Sagittarius and the Galactic Centre is the place where Yin and Yang
come together; the Galactic Centre is both head and tail, fire and water, of the Milky Way Ouroboros.- the galactic
serpent-dragon. Aleister Crowley recognizes the dual character of this sign in his tarot card Art. Sagittarius is the sign
of royalty because he /she is a meeting place between two powers, like heaven and earth, Sagittarius is the only sign of
the zodiac actually ruled by a married couple: Jupiter and the Galactic Centre, Hera and Zeus, here fire and water
unite.
v Greece became a Democracy July 24 1974.

viDANGER IN PARADISE: Recent earthquakes in Los Angeles and predicting with

the Galactic Centre

vii Info. on the Bible Code prediction of an earthquake in the coming Hebrew year may be found through a comment
to the above paper.
viiiThe Bible Codes predicted a BIG ONE of magnitude 8 for LA near San Bernardino for the Hebrew Year 5770 which
starts Sep 19 2009 and end Sep 8 2010 posted by my paper DANGER IN PARADISE by TheLaffingBuddha

ix http://www.rms.com/publications/1857_FortTejon_EQ.pdf

x There is also a T square to Venus in Scorpio made by the Nodes and Lilith. The transits on that day showed the
Moon conjunct Saturn in Cancer, the sign of Saturn's detriment,where Saturn was by the tsunami 2004, likewise
squaring the Nodes, and the Sun (as also by the tsunami 2004 ) was in Saturn's sign of Capricorn. In both
progressed and transiting charts Saturn aspects the Nodes and by the Indian Ocean Earthquake Saturn also
squared the Nodes. There are a lot of examples in history, including the supposed earthquake at the crucifixion of
Christ. According to long research and the help of Bernd Metz „Folgt dem Stern“, it occurred as Saturn was also
in Cancer and T square the Sun and Moon, with the Sun close to the North Node and the Moon close to the
South Node – there was an eclipse.
See also other articles about the worst or recent earthquakes placed on scribd.
http://www.scribd.com/skseymourhedke8143

xi I would additionally add that the three bodies in Aries rising are in the First House of Mars, but any traditional
astrologer would disagree. I could then only refer them to the research of Michel and Francois Gauquelin and the
findings in the Truth About Astrology, until such time as I have published a lengthy paper. The idea is also
represented in greater detail in my book The Galactic Centre 2012 and the Great Waves Coming in December.
xii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires#Greece
xiiihttp://
1889 0,800,000 300,000 acres (1,200 km2) Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 California

The Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 (previously called the Great Fire of 1889) was a wildfire in California which burned large parts of Orange
County and San Diego County during the last week of September, 1889. The Sun was in 23° Libra opposite Uranus and Pluto in Aries and
 Mars was in Scorpio square the nodes.
www.eas.slu.edu/People/LZhu/teaching/eas691/2009/safwat.pdf

xiv Geoff Stray 2012 In Your Pocket