In Part One we ventured through some early charts for nuclear power, in hopes of getting at the reasoning behind the astrological chart for the IAEA.

In Part Two, we will look at actual, practical energy generation using nuclear reactors, which is the major goal of the IAEA.

First Nuclear Reactor Power

The first prototype nuclear reactor to actually power a light bulb with electricity was the EBR-I, located in the middle of nowhere, Idaho, at what is now called the INL. I’m using the nearby town of Arco, Idaho, as the location for this event, which will be explained in a bit.

The chart:

The first thing we might notice is the Mars/Saturn conjunction, in a wide square to Uranus at the IC. The more critical sinister square happens between Moon and Mercury, tied into the sextile from Moon to Black Moon:

There’s nothing too exciting about all of that, but there it is, a milestone chart for the industry. Perhaps more important for ritual purposes is Venus in conjunction with Zubenelgenubi – the fixed star marker for Saturn’s exaltation. Here is the chart with all exaltation stars on the outer ring:

Keep that in mind for the next section, because things get interesting.

First Nuclear Power On The Grid

The very small town of Arco, Idaho, holds the distinction of being the very first civilian location to be powered by electricity from a nuclear reactor.

The BORAX reactor, which was designed specifically to generate electricity by boiling water, is the prototype of modern nuclear plants. It is at the same site of the EBR-I that powered the first electricity light bulbs in 1951. A YouTube vid about the event that briefly explains what happened is worth a viewing.

The time of day for the switch-flipping is given as 11:28 pm, and here is that chart:

Notice that the angles are at nearly the same places between Figure 8 and Figure 9. Notice also that the Moon is exactly on the IC, but now in a conjunction with Mercury.

Four things line up at ~25° — A Sun/Neptune square and a Pluto/Node trine, all of which draws in Uranus that is ~2° out of orb:

The interesting thing for our ritual astrology study is that Saturn has now moved into conjunction with Zubenelgenubi. Not only has it supplanted Venus from the first electricity chart, this is the “station-direct” of Saturn, right on its own exaltation star!

Notice also that Jupiter is in conjunction with the Praesepe, in the area of its own exaltation!

When we do the Synastry overlay of Figure 8 and Figure 9, we can see not only the inter-chart Venus/Saturn conjunction, but a Uranus/Venus conjunction as well near the IC.

When we put the three charts together, many inter-chart aspects become apparent:

There are more than I highlighted, but you can get the drift.

The Total Eclipse of 2017

An interesting sidebar to this: The shadow of the total eclipse of August 21, 2017, which was conjunct Regulus, passed directly over the INL. Eclipse @ Arco was 28°50′ Leo, and Regulus was at 00°03′ Virgo.

The INL has an enormous tract of land, approximately 569,135 acres, or 890 square miles. In comparison, the city of Los Angeles comprises 321,000 acres, or 503 square miles.

Most of the INL land is vacant. A few local highways pass through the site, and notably state routes 22 and 33 meet there, thus my pic from Part One. (I drove through there regularly when I was working in Idaho a few years ago.)

I found the 22/33 connection interesting because my mind is full of useless information, including number symbolism.

The “magic square” for The Sun, in which the numbers from 1 to 36 are arranged in a 6×6 matrix so that any row, column, or diagonal will add up to 111. There is only one way to arrange the numbers in this array, and one of the rows (or columns if turned 90°) will have to have both a 22 and a 33.

The sum of 1 through 36 is 666, and this is probably the impetus for that infamous “Number of the Beast” fear-porn in the old religious mythology.

Every human since the beginning of time has understood that the Sun puts out serious heat, though only recently in history have we figured out why: nuclear “fusion” power. So, to me, having routes 22 and 33 collide in the nuclear laboratory zone seems almost sublime.

A basic map of the territory is here:

Here is a mapping shot that I marked up with the locations for the above charts:

Argonne National Laboratory

Another location in this saga lies outside of Chicago in what used to be “the boonies” but is now an island in suburbia. The ANL (established 1946) worked with the INL (formerly the NRTS, established 1949) to develop nuclear power.

The ANL switched on its first electricity-generating nuclear reactor – the EBWR – on February 9, 1957.

I have a time of 3:01 pm in my records, but I have lost the magazine article source. It’s not a particularly exciting chart, but we can see that the usual suspects, Venus and Uranus, are once again in aspect, while Jupiter and Saturn an exact quintile:

In fact, Mars in the upper hemisphere competes another “Schnoz of God” triangle with that Jupiter/Saturn quintile, only 40′ of arc apart from perfection:

That Mars posit of 7°31′ Taurus squares the IAEA signing Uranus of 7°13′ Leo and the Arco Jupiter of 7°21′ of Leo.

The EBWR Jupiter in the first degree of Libra, which is on the World Axis – that cardinal axis that is currently being activated by a Saturn/Neptune conjunction – will segue us into Part Three of this series, which I know will bring criticality to this series.

►Ed