When
the Titanic left Queenstown, County Cork, at 13:30 on 11th April
1912, it left behind the safe haven of land and entered the realm of
Neptune, Lord of the Sea. If the chart is turned to put Neptune on
the cusp of the first house, a very powerful picture emerges. The Sun
and North Node are closely conjunct the Midheaven, suggesting a
fateful voyage, with Mercury the Psychopomp and Saturn the Grim
Reaper also nearby. Saturn is widely squaring the Moon. Pluto
and Mars are in a wide, out-of-sign conjunction in the twelfth house
of hidden matters. As we know, the ship never made
landfall.
Looking
back at Margaret Rice's charts for the period leading up to the
Titanic sinking, I can see many things that suggest a rocky road
ahead for her. This is not just with the benefit of hindsight, it has a lot to do with Pluto – which of course was unknown in
1911-12. So in the unlikely event that she had consulted an
astrologer in late 1911, perhaps wanting to know whether she should
stay in Ireland, the land of her birth, or return to America, where
she could most likely give her sons a much better future, the
astrologer would probably have seen a year of mixed fortunes, but
nothing out of the ordinary. After all, who in the autumn of 1911
would have foreseen the tragedy of epic proportions that was soon to
unfold?
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I
looked at three charts for the period. In Margaret's 1911 Solar
Return, Pluto and Mars are riding high at the top of her chart. Mars
in the ninth might signify accidents on a journey, perhaps caused by
recklessness. But Pluto in the tenth suggests something much deeper
and more ruthless that is played out in public; something perhaps
that sears itself into the collective consciousness. With Gemini on
the Midheaven, communication is emphasised … and indeed the story
of the Titanic has been replayed over and over again ever since in a
constant stream of books, films and articles. I'm sure Margaret would
never have imagined that she would be caught up in such an event, nor
that a century later her story would be available for all to see via
the internet.
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I
haven't got a birth time for Margaret Rice so I'm reluctant to put
too much emphasis on her Moon as it might not be correct, but I found
that, in the progressed chart for the date of her death, her
progressed South Node had reached her natal Moon. As if to emphasis
this, in the Solar Arc chart for the same moment, her South Node and
Moon are conjunct in Capricorn, both applying to her natal Saturn.
And her Solar Arc Sun-Mercury conjunction is opposite her natal
Pluto.
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I
can't help feeling that Margaret Rice was destined to be on
the Titanic when it left Queenstown. Whether you use the Neptune
chart or the standard one, there are three powerful contacts:
- the
Queenstown Sun conjunct Margaret's Neptune;
- the Queenstown Saturn conjunct her Pluto;
- and the Queenstown Ascendant conjunct her
Jupiter
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I
said earlier that Eugene Rice was the only child for whom I had a
reliable birth date. I also found one for George Rice, but I'm not
sure it's accurate because his age is given as eight elsewhere. The
next one up and oldest boy, Albert, is described as being ten
years old. This date is inbetween. But if it does belong to one of
these boys, it shows two interesting areas of contact between mother
and sons. One of these is in the early degrees of Sagittarius
(Margaret's Moon-South Node, George's Sun-Venus and Mercury and
Eugene's North Node and Venus) and the other in Aries (Margaret's
Neptune, George's South Node and – a bit wide – Eugene's Saturn).
George's Saturn is also on one of the Titanic degrees.
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Eugene himself
has an interesting chart, dominated by the oppositions between
Sun-Saturn and Uranus-Neptune which form a Grand Cross close to the
Titanic degrees of 21-25 of cardinal signs. (Bear in mind that the
Uranus-Neptune opposition was around for some time so wasn't personal
to him. In fact, it's almost a signature for the Titanic disaster:
the last word in technological design being overcome by the forces of
nature and ending up at the bottom of the ocean). Because his life
was so short, there's not much movement in any of the charts I drew
for him. The only point of interest I could see in his 1911 Solar
Return was Solar Return Mars hovering around his natal North Node.
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By
progressions, the only bodies that have moved are the Sun and Moon,
and we can't be sure of the accuracy of his natal Moon. The most
striking chart is the Solar Arc, because at his date of death Sun,
Saturn and Neptune had all moved into the Titanic degree zone (Uranus
remaining just outside). His progressed Sun had, of course, also
moved into the same area.
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Margaret
Rice's body was recovered from the icy waters of the Atlantic by the
ship Mackay Bennett. Her body was taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia,
where she was buried in the Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery – as
were many victims of the Titanic. Sadly, none of her sons' bodies
were ever found.
One
more piece to follow, bringing things up to the present.
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