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Horary Article:
Where did Amelia Earhart’s Plane Crash?
By Celeste Nash, PMAFA ©

Amelia Earhart has fascinated me since I was a little girl. The gravity of her disappearance was hard for me to grasp. On her behalf I felt frightened and worried about her because her story was sad and tragic. I used to imagine that she and Fred Noonan, her navigator, were living on a tropical island in their little huts, eating coconut cream pies, like on Gilligan’s Island; but that was just a child’s imagination wishing for the happy ending.

I recall hearing that a possible plane was spotted in the ocean. From time to time the story would pop up with speculation, but nothing has ever been discovered.

This article came about because I had fallen asleep on the couch and woke up thinking about Amelia Earhart. I have no idea why, and I don’t remember any dreams. As I was getting ready for bed, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I made a chart for the time that I noted. I put it away and forgot about it. Three days later I woke up with a burning de-sire to delineate the chart, and again, I don’t know why. I felt “on fire” to read the chart, and usually I just want coffee! Again, I don’t remember dreaming about Amelia Earhart.

I asked the question on April 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM: “Where did Amelia Earhart’s plane crash?”

The chart has a 29° Scorpio 54’ ASC. According to traditional horary rules, if the ASC falls within the first or last three degrees of a sign it is said to be not radical, as the situation is either just beginning or is pass-ing and is out of the anyone’s hands. Some modern horary astrologers are not using all of the traditional determinations, as we know more about why some rules were created; and the art of horary has evolved through use over time, through testing the charts. For a couple of rea-sons I find this ASC to be acceptable.

First, we’ve learned a lot about traditional astrology through the years and we know that early or late degrees do not actually prohibit a chart, information can still be learned. Second, since 88 years have passed it is well out of anyone’s hands. With this type of question I am the querent, and I should be found in the first house. My own ASC is in Scorpio, and I had a very strong compulsion to ask the question and cast the chart. Also, a burning desire to delineate and understand the chart. (Feels like a critical degree)

The degree 29° Scorpio is important here in my opinion. It’s a critical degree in a water sign and its two rulers are in positions that tell impor-tant parts of this story.

Scorpio’s modern ruler, Pluto is at 3° Aquarius 35’, and the sign Aquarius signifies aviation. Mars, Scorpio’s traditional ruler is at 24° Cancer 20’. Very significant, because:

Mars rules accidents
Water is indicated
Located in the 8th house — the house of death
Cancer/4th house can signify endings

These two planets are in a wide, out of sign opposition of 9° 35’. (Some astrologers don’t use out of sign aspects, but for me, if they’re within a fair aspect I allow them.) In this case I see this as very signifi-cant. Pluto shows us in this case:

Underworld
Disappearances
Elimination
Extremes
Hidden forces
Mistakes

Aquarius here signifies:

Airplanes, aviators and aviation
Aerial navigation

In this horary chart Amelia Earhart is the quesited, and is found in the 7th house, as she is named in the question. The Moon in the 7th is one of her significators. The 7th is ruled by the sign of Taurus on the cusp, (about to go into Gemini by a mere 6 minutes). Interestingly, Venus, the ruler of Taurus, is conjunct Mercury, Gemini’s ruler, which also rules the Moon here! In fact, Venus is part of a Pisces stellium in the 4th house in this grouping:

Saturn 24° Pisces
Venus 26° Pisces
N Node 27° Pisces
Mercury 27° Pisces

I want to point out that the name-asteroid Earhart is at 26° Pisces! For those who use asteroids this is important and kind of a big deal. The asteroid with her last name is literally conjunct the planet that represents her in this horary chart. This is one of those things that makes me say “You just can’t make this stuff up!” Just to satisfy curiosity, I discovered that Earhart was her maiden name, though she was married she pre-ferred to keep her name.

Of important note as well is that the two significators that represent Amelia Earhart, the Moon and Venus, are in a square to each other. This gives obstacles, tension and a difficult challenge.

At the tail end of this stellium, in an out of sign conjunction we find Neptune 0° Aries 08’. Neptune rules the stellium, and also signifies:

A vast ocean
Disappearances
Heights
Remoteness Aries signifies:
Adventurers
Pioneering
Fire/heat

With Mars as the ruler of Neptune here — remember that Mars rules accidents. Mars is aspecting the Pisces stellium through a trine, showing us serious, easy connection here.

Emergencies
Accident involving water (8th house)
Death by accident or violence (8th house)

I want to also point out the very obvious grand trine in the element of water that includes the ASC, Mars, and the entire Pisces stellium. All of them are connected through strong aspects in this chart.

Another very important placement is Uranus in Taurus, ruled by Ve-nus, and located in the 6th house in opposition to the ASC. This shows us suddenness, the unexpected. (I found an asteroid named Fred, as-teroid #23882 which happens to be conjunct within one degree with Uranus, highly significant. Also note asteroid Amelia conjunct the 10th house cusp! Wow!) Uranus is the co-ruler (along with Saturn), of Pluto in Aquarius. Importantly Saturn and Uranus are exactly sextile to each other. Sextiles are usually said to be benefic aspects because they denote opportunities and easy flow of energy. In this case the easy flow of energy denoted areas of heightened risk and vulnerability.

Also of serious note is that Mars, the ruler of accidents has strong as-pects to these planets and points:

ASC 29° Scorpio — trine Mars Saturn 24° Pisces — trine Mars Uranus 24° Taurus — sextile Mars

S Node 27° Virgo — sextile Mars

Mars happens to be conjunct with Vertex, indicating a fated point, a significant turning point. Both of these are in the 8th, the house of death. I find it significant also that the 8th is a water house, Scorpio’s house.

As far as location is concerned, the Pisces stellium tells us that the plane went into in the ocean, which we already know. The indicators in this chart can give us some information. Amelea Earhart is signified by Venus and the Moon in this chart. Venus is located in a Pisces stellium in the 4th house; the Moon is conjunct Jupiter in Gemini, in the 7th house.

The angular 4th house gives us North
The angular 7th house gives us West.
The sign Pisces gives us North by West
Water signs denote lowland

Doing the math with the significators Venus and the Moon: 26° – 19° = 7. Multiply that by 1 mile as indicated in Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson’s Simplified Horary Astrology book (a N-latitude planet in an angular house is indicated by 1 mile) and we get a sum of 7 miles. If I did this correctly Earhart’s plane could be within 7 miles NW of Howland Is-land.

Interestingly, in my research for this article I read that there was a search north-west of Howland Island, which turned up nothing. They must have had a reason for searching in that area. They know that Ear-hart had to lower her altitude twice due to thick clouds and she reported that the weather was cloudy and overcast. Earhart and Noonan were un-sure of their direction, as the methods for navigating to the island were not working the way they were supposed to work. Something gave the search teams the idea to look north-west of the island, and my horary chart indicates that is the right direction, but how far? How deep?

Since Pisces rules the 4th house and this house represents the literal and symbolic darkest phase of night, I’m seeing this as a clue that the plane is in a deep, dark part of the ocean, somehow situated in a position prohibiting it from being discovered with any means that has been used so far. Its hidden from sight.

Both Pluto and Neptune have keywords that pertain to this line of inquiry:

Neptune:

Hidden places
Undersea areas
Obscurity
Disappear, Disappearance

Pluto:

The unknown
Underworld
Secrets
Hidden
Elimination

The 4th, 8th and 12th houses are also places of hidden things. We’ve seen how important houses 4 and 8 have been to this study, but look also to the 12th house, the cusp of which is 7° Scorpio. There are no planets in the 12th, but we do find the asteroid Vesta, a symbol of a feminine energy that is very committed to carrying out its passionate task. Vesta happens to be quincunx to Jupiter at 16° Gemini in the 7th, which is conjunct with the Moon, one of Amelia Earhart’s significators. Obvi-ously there were hidden factors that contributed to the disappearance of both Amelia and Fred, but we don’t even need anything to be in the 12th for this to be significant. The 12th is a hidden place and its in the sign of Scorpio, deep, dark water. Pluto is square to the 12th house cusp as well.

Of importance also is that Saturn can denote hidden things, and its the very first planet in the Pisces stellium in the 4th house of hidden things and endings! Saturn also brings death in a chart by way of

Finality
Limitations
The process of letting go
Contraction.

We could take Pluto in Aquarius to represent the elimination or loss of the airplane and/or the aviators in the plane. Its interesting to me that Pluto in the horary chart is conjunct the 3rd house cusp, the house of short, day trips. The flight from Lae to Howland Island was not what you would call short, but it was a day trip.

Ms Earhart’s natal chart placements are also important here. We find the horary Pluto 3° Aquarius is in opposition by one degree to Amelia Earhart’s natal Sun at 2° Leo! This is really telling, a very important as-pect. The fact that it’s conjunct the 9th house cusp, the house of long distance travel also makes this very significant.

Inner wheel: Horary 4/2/2025, 10:28 PM; Phoenix, AZ

Outer wheel: Amelia Earhart: 7/24/1897, 11:30 PM CST; Atchison, KS

Also in this chart heat is hinted at with Neptune, the ruler of the Pisces stellium being found at 0° Aries. In this chart Neptune, the Sun and Chiron are all in Aries, ruled by Mars in the 8th house. Heat kept coming up in the delineation, so I researched Howland Island and its surrounding areas for volcanoes and thermal vents. There are no active thermal vents or volcanoes near Howland Island, but I discovered that Howland Island literally IS an ancient, extinct volcano! This causes me to wonder if the heat indicated here points to the fact that Howland used to be an active volcano. Pluto signifies volcanoes and in this chart its a significant player, being in the sign of Aquarius, the aviators sign. Pluto and Neptune are also sextile each other — disappearance near a volcano?

I want to say that Aries doesn’t have to mean heat, it can also be refer-ring to the adventurers who disappeared under the waters. The fact that Howland Island is an extinct volcano makes this even more fascinating. Who knows what rock formations or cravasses lie deep in that area of ocean? The plane was in the vicinity of its destination and could have been wedged into an area that no one will ever notice.

I noticed that it didn’t matter which chart was the root chart for a biwheel, both are significant. The biwheel with the horary chart as the root shows Earhart’s Gemini stellium is in the 7th conjunct with her sig-nificators, which is fascinating. If I made her chart as the root then that Pisces stellium ends up in the 12th house — the house of hidden things and a great deal of water.

My conclusion for this horary reading is that the chart is giving a great deal of usable information that aligns with the mysterious disappearance

Inner wheel: Amelia Earhart: 7/24/1897, 11:30 PM CST; Atchison, KS Outer wheel: Horary 4/2/2025, 10:28 PM; Phoenix, AZ

some 88 years ago, with the search direction, and with the facts that I discovered while researching. Do I think I found her plane? I can’t make a statement like that, obviously. I’m not in a position to initiate another search for it, but I hope in my lifetime they find something. We may never know!

Article 2:

Saturday Night Live! The Astrology Behind the Scenes
By Celeste Nash ©

The film Saturday Night was an interesting and enjoyable look into the making of an American comedy icon. In this first article

I will cover the night of the first episode, which is where the film begins. I made four charts for this article:

Chart #1: for 10/11/1975, New York, NY, 10:00 PM, ninety minutes prior to air time where the film begins;
Chart #2: same date, 11:30 PM actual air time;
Chart #3: a biwheel of the 10:00 PM time with Lorne Michaels natal, chart; 11/17/1944, Toronto, CA (no birth time available);
Chart #4: a biwheel of the 11:30 PM air time with Lorne Mi-chaels’ natal chart.

The film portrays the anxiety and busyness of preparing for this new, pioneering comedy show, which was a big risk for Lorne Michaels, the creator. The show already had detractors. The first episode almost did not air, and the NBC executives had an old episode of the Tonight Show waiting to go on just in case.

In Chart #1 the ASC is 28° Gemini 05’ with an exact conjunction of Mars. Mars here shows fire and boldness, and Gemini indicates commu-nications, and broadcasting. This is busyness, restlessness, many ideas. The ASC and Mars ruler, Mercury, was conjunct with Pluto showing anxiety and crisis, but also energy and passion.

Chart #1

The ASC and Mars are square the Part of Fortune showing us a chal-lenge to manifest luck and success; and the film demonstrates the final ninety minutes of anxiety and hard work going on behind the scenes, the energy of a square.

Interestingly the Sun and Moon are also square. The Moon is in the 8th, the house of legacies, and conjunct with the 8th house cusp. The Sun is in the 5th of creative self-expression, enjoyments, enterprises and the places of entertainers. The Sun is in a stellium of planets in Libra: Pluto 9°, Mercury 12°, Sun 18°. Pluto brings the passion, and the completely new, also the unknown; Mercury, brings communications, cleverness, satire, broadcasts, writers; The Sun brings creative self-expression, popu-larity, ego, will, publicity, and one’s reputation. Libra brings the audi-ence. This is the relationship between the audience and the players in the SNL universe. In this first chart this stellium occurs in the 5th house, and ninety minutes later moves into the 4th — foundation and home, beautifully symbolic of the show having found its home.

Chart #2

Saturn at 1° Leo 56’ in the 2nd is in a wide trine to Neptune 9° Sagit-tarius in the 6th. In Chart #1 Saturn is in the 2nd house of self-worth, financial prospects, security and stability. In Chart #2, ninety minutes later, this trine has moved to a new house position: Saturn in the 1st, an angular house, and the physical self of the actual show, giving serious-ness and structure, as well as pride and pleasure. Neptune in the 5th, Leo’s house shows us actors, filming and production, also luck in the area of enterprises, enjoyment, something in which one can take pride. Importantly, Neptune in Sagittarius shows the risk in the area of this production; and in the worst-case scenario it could have indicated dis-solution of the entire thing on its first night. Since this was a trine the aspect of ease worked well here.

Neptune rules the MC at 4° Pisces, which also can indicate entertain-ers and entertainment. Venus is exactly conjunct the IC at 4° Virgo, another important angular placement! Venus shows us comedy and co-medians, caricatures and attraction. Virgo brings details and organiza-tion, also satire, interestingly enough! Note also that Venus and Neptune are square to each other, this means a T-square to Neptune from the Venus-MC opposition! The T-square is referred to as an achievement triangle by Bruno and Louise Huber (Aspect Pattern Astrology). The op-position builds the energy up. The energy releases through the squaring planet. The tension of this aspect discharges from both ends of the op-position and onto the squaring planet. Neptune is the power point for this T-square, and is in the sign of Sagittarius. Jupiter, it’s ruler is in the 11th house of appreciation for one’s work and achievements in their 10th house endeavors, their outer world pursuits.

Saturn in Leo is in exact square to Uranus in Scorpio. This appears to highlight the tension around the creation of SNL and the first epi-sode. There were last minute re-directs right up until airtime. Uranus is in Scorpio, suggesting the unforeseen but very necessary changes, air waves, as well as the anxiety of the whole production. According to the film Saturday Night, the fact that the show aired at all was an accomplishment.

By the time the 11:30 PM airtime arrived the ASC had changed from 28° Gemini to 17° Cancer with its ruler, the Moon in opposition to the ASC and in the 7th – the house of its audience.

The Moon is in the outer-world sign of Capricorn showing ambi-tion, good business sense, reputation in the world, industriousness and self-sacrifice. There is also a T-square to the Moon: Sun 18° Libra op-position Jupiter 19° Aries, squared by the Moon at 19° Capricorn – all angular signs! Crises, tests, and challenges are indicated by this T-square. This makes the Moon in this particular aspect a power point in which achievement is produced, and discharges the tension. The fact that this occurred in the 7th house is just a perfect indicator of this event.

The N Node at 22° Scorpio occurs in Chart #1 in the 6th house of work and service is co-present with Neptune: behind the scenes efforts, moving in the right direction. By airtime on that night these had moved into the 5th house – pleasure, entertaining, entertainers, and something in which to take pride.

Also, in Chart #2 Venus is now placed in the 3rd house, so we see com-edy, comedians and satire in the house of communications, broadcasts, and content-creating. The other benefic, Jupiter, has moved into the 10th house now, and this is really telling. Jupiter in Aries in the 10th has estab-lished prominence and high standing and is in a very favorable position. It has pioneered its way into the spotlight with the ardent and powerful sign of Aries and brings an abundance of worldly fame. Jupiter is the co-ruler of Pisces, (as its original ruler), and so co-rules the house it’s located in, as well as the Midheaven itself. Really beautiful!

I find it interesting that the 2nd house cusp from Chart #1 chart is conjunct with the ASC for Chart #2 with a mere 29 minutes of differ-ence. The cusp of the house of self-worth, financial prospects, security and stability moves into place, tightly conjunct the new ASC, and the Moon opposing it is enriching the ASC and activating the show with worldly success.

Chart #3 shows some interesting activity. Lorne Michaels’ Sun at 25° Scorpio is in a tight conjunction with Mars at 24° Scorpio, and in this biwheel that occurs in the 6th house — work and service! This is also conjunct with the Chart #1 N Node at 22 Scorpio. He was definitely working in the right direction for what he wanted to accomplish. He was digging deep and pouring his passion into this new t.v. Show. Mi-chaels’ Mercury and Moon were conjunct the
Chart #1 Neptune in Sagitittarius. This is an exchange of ideas that is brought into practical form and communicated into the reigning need of the day — to make this t.v. Show work and to be successful.

Chart 3:

Inner wheel: SNL 90 minutes to air time chart
Outer wheel: Lorne Michaels natal- 11/17/1944, Toronto, Canada

Lorne Michaels’ Jupiter, the ruler of the Neptune-Mercury-Moon as-pect is in Virgo in the 4th house. Notice that Jupiter and Mercury are square and in mutual reception! They work together through the chal-lenges and obstacles to create and organize the work, expand upon it and bring it to broadcast successfully. Of note as well is that Jupiter and Chiron, which are conjunct, are square the ASC at 28° Gemini. They are also conjunct the Part of Fortune in Chart #1. I see these aspects as hav-ing brought good fortune to the risk he was taking at the time. I want to also point out that Michaels’ Jupiter is sextile his Sun and Mars. Clearly, he had an opportunity right here, and he definitely mastered it.

Ninety minutes later, at the air time of the very first show the pieces had fallen into place and the show was given the green light. (See Chart #4) With the ASC change, the houses shifted and now Michaels’ Sun and Mars are located in the 5th house: pleasures, fun, entertainment and creativity. His N Node is now conjunct the ASC, nurturing the show into life for decades to come. Michaels’ Jupiter is now in the 3rd, show-ing growth, hope, and humor in the place of communications, writing, broadcasting.

Lorne Michaels’ Venus at 1° Capricorn is located in the 7th house in Chart #3, in a three degree out-of-sign opposition, and interestingly, Michaels’ Venus is trine the Venus of Chart #1, as well as sextile the MC; they worked together beautifully bringing attraction, comedy, sat-ire, and ambitious pursuits in the outer world that would bolster his reputation for decades to come.

In Chart #3 we see that Michaels’ Uranus in the 12th at 11° Gemini and is trine the 10 PM chart’s Mercury at 12° Libra. This shows the influence of his innovative, out-of-the-box thinking working with com-munications, broadcasting, and the audience, and all in an area of enter-tainment and entertainers.

Of note also is Lorne Michael’s S Node in Capricorn conjunct by one degree to the 19° Capricorn Moon as shown in Chart #3. This shows that Michaels had usable experience in directing his ambitions to put his nose to the grindstone and organize, carefully creating something that would become a legacy.

Chart #4

Inner wheel: SNL 1st episode air time chart
Outer wheel: Lorne Michaels natal- 11/17/1944, Toronto, Canada

In the biwheel of Chart #4 Michaels’ Sun-Mars conjunction has moved into the 5th house. His hard work has paid off, the energies ofcreative self-expression are now in the home of entertainment and enter-tainers. His N Node is now conjunct the ASC, in Cardinal Cancer. Ura-nus in Gemini is now in the 11th house of aspirations and appreciation for one’s outer world endeavors. Uranus is the natural ruler of the 11th house, an air house of associations. It is opposed the Chart #1 Neptune, as well as Michael’s natal Mercury. Mercury is the lower octave of Ura-nus, so I see this opposition as an enriching one, bringing intelligence, idealism, refinement, and actually making the SNL dream come true.

It’s apparent that fate or destiny was involved in the creating of Satur-day Night Live. Yes, they worked very hard to see it through, they went through crises, and fears that it wouldn’t manifest, and even a fire in the studio on that fated night! In the following articles I will cover the charts for the players and also the chart for the film Saturday Night.

See you then!

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