{"id":1692,"date":"2021-03-04T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T15:24:21","slug":"vacationing-in-cancun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2021\/03\/04\/vacationing-in-cancun\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacationing in Canc\u00fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can imagine there are quite a few Texans who wished they could have been on vacation in Canc\u00fan right about mid-February this year. Around that time of year weather in Canc\u00fan is 80\u00b0F. Texas was a bit colder, as in below freezing. But it reached balmy highs of 42\u00b0F in those days in Texas. So, why talk about the weather when there is so much else going on in the US and the world? The South of the US was in the midst of enduring the effects of a strong winter storm, soon followed by another. But it is a story that is much more than tales of a winter wonderland. This one involves politics, economics, sterling personalities and hypocrisy. People in Texas will remember the name \u2018Uri\u2019 come the next election. You can take that one to the bank. They will also remember the name of one \u2018Lyin\u2019 Ted\u2019. And no, Uri is not a Russian name and nor did they hack the US weather or the Texas power grid, just FYI.<\/span><\/p>\n

From February 13\u201317, the 2021 North American winter storm, also unofficially referred to as Winter Storm Uri<\/em>, swept across the Pacific Northwest and quickly down into the southern states on the US, riding on a jet stream dipping down from the artic, even producing snow in northern Mexico (not close to Canc\u00fan, though). It was followed by another winter storm, strong enough to be named, as in Viola<\/em>, which dumped snow across the eastern US, along the I-95 corridor, with the heaviest falls from Massachusetts down into northern Virginia. However, Uri<\/em> has done major damage and brought havoc to Texas, and that will be the focus of this post. The storm in Texas was detailed as follows<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

On February 14\u201315, the storm dropped prolific amounts of snow across Texas and Oklahoma. As a result of the winter storm and a concurrent cold wave, power grids\u2014unable to sustain the higher-than-normal energy and heating demand from residential and business customers\u2014failed across Texas; at the peak of the outages, at least 4.3 million Texas residents were left without electricity. Two of the electricity reliability commissions servicing the Southern U.S., the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), ordered rolling blackouts for 14 states amid the frigid temperatures, in an attempt to manage the strain on the power grid and prevent widespread, long-duration blackouts. The controlled outages were initiated after the Southwest Power Pool declared Level 3 Emergency Energy Alerts on both February 15 and 16; the SPP and ERCOT faced criticism by government officials and residents in the region for the limited advanced notice of the outages, and for not outlining the specific areas serviced by SPP partner utilities that would be affected.<\/span><\/p>\n

The last sentence in the quote outlines why some people face huge power bills, discussed here later. With this background in mind, we begin with the chart for Texas and then look at particulars. The chart is below (bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas became a state on 29 Dec 1845, as mandated by Congressional vote and signing by Tyler on 1 Mar 1845<\/a><\/span>. Texas had been officially annexed shortly after Polk took office in March of that year. Since there is no time for signing of the document for statehood by Polk, we use the noon chart in Austin as the time. Austin was the capitol of Texas by then. As it turns out, that time gives quite a good working chart.<\/span><\/p>\n

The items that immediately stand out about the statehood chart are the Mars\/Uranus conjunction in the 12th<\/sup> house just behind the Aries Ascendant, which immediately shows a strong streak of independence, a proclivity to accidents, self-sabotage (12th<\/sup> house), a militant attitude toward any interference in Texan affairs, obstinacy and extraordinary energy that can be immediately brought to bear in stressful circumstances. That conjunction is in turn square the Meridian axis and the Sun\/Mercury conjunction. The latter straddles the MC in the statehood chart, with the Sun partile the MC in the 10th<\/sup> house and Mercury in the 9th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sun\/Mer\/MC combination shows the focus Texans tend to have regarding their status, in that there, too, they have a drive for independence, the \u2018thinking person\u2019s government\u2019, and the tendency to want to develop their own individuality. With Capricorn on the MC it shows the drive to achieve superior status and great ambition. And given the square by Mars and Uranus, those ideas are pushed sometimes to extremes. All the preceding is reflected in Texas\u2019 flag and motto: the Lone Star State<\/a><\/span>, which \u201c\u2026reflects the pride and go-it-alone spirit that is still part of the Texas way of life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, though, Texas attained statehood on the new moon. This occurred in Capricorn, giving a very strong Capricornian influence over matters of state \u2013 conservative, ambitious, large-minded, solid, as well as a tendency to crystallization and breaking due to persistence in old habits and unwillingness to change. The Sun\/Moon conjunction also gives rise to a tendency to illness, which we just witnessed regarding its infrastructure and planning.<\/span><\/p>\n

The preceding planetary combinations also lend themselves to a sense of grandiosity, shown in the natal Mercury\/Jupiter trine, with Jupiter also trine the Sun and MC from the 1st<\/sup> house. Mercury is in the 9th<\/sup> house of this working chart, with the Mercury\/Jupiter trine giving Texans their tendency to \u2018big talk\u2019, even to the point of braggadocio. However, that bragging is often backed by fact, or at least has been in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas boasts three of the top ten largest cities in the US, the largest land mass in the \u2018lower 48\u2019, an economy larger than the whole of Canada, a lot of oil and gas and a very diverse industrial base. It also has the 2nd<\/sup>-largest population after California. But the focus in this post is on the infrastructure and the electricity grid, both of which are ruled by the 4th<\/sup> house and the Moon by rulership, with the electricity grid in particular being ruled by Uranus.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Mars\/Uranus conjunction in the 12th<\/sup> house and squaring the IC, we see hidden weaknesses sometimes suddenly manifesting and sometimes disastrous disruptions to infrastructure. That is enhanced by the Vertex being at the midpoint of the Mars\/Uranus conjunction, showing the inclination to acts of violence, upsetting events, accidents and physical injury. Texas has seen its share of disasters to its infrastructure, with great loss of life, all shown by directions and transits. The ten biggest were as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n