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Lord of Destruction

Astrologers cast charts for people, places and even corporations, but charts of events can also be quite revealing. By looking at the relationships of certain planets, and their placement in the chart (houses), we can get an idea of the influences present at the time of any event. Earthquakes and volcanic activity have long been associated with the planets Uranus (shocking, sudden) and Mars (explosions, violence), and so one might expect to find these two planets prominent—perhaps in the earth signs of Taurus, Virgo  or Capricorn—in a chart cast for the time and place of the Mt. St. Helens eruption. What we actually find there is much more revealing of the true nature of the event, and quite eerie. 
Mars in Virgo and Uranus in Scorpio are indeed heavily involved in the action, each in a stressful angle to the Sun in Taurus on that day, suggesting sudden violence involving transformational (Scorpio) matters relating to the earth (Taurus, Virgo). Even more interesting, we find the planet Pluto, lord of destruction and transformation and linked to atomic explosions and massive violence, in the Fourth House of the chart, signifying finality and an end to the matter. The First House of a chart, or Ascendant, is one of the most telling and important areas in a horoscope, describing the physical and material aspects of the person or event, and here we find the Moon, often acting as a timer for events because of its swift motion, in sharp conflict with Pluto. 
 

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