
ALL SHOOK UP! The Solar Eclipse of August 12, 2026
From not that far from The Ring of Fire, from:
Dale O'Brien
August 7, 2026
"Now the Sun's gone to Hell
Now the Sun's gone to Hell
Every man has to die.
But it is written in the Star Light,
And in every line in your palm,
We're fools to make war on
We're fools to make war on"
--- Mark Knopfler
Born 8/12/49
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding
oneself
in the ranks of the insane. --- Marcus Aurelius
I try not to make exacting predictions with astrology, but do consider and share my astrological perspectives on plausibility and sometimes even probability. (See my Astrology's Minority Reports on Probable U.S. Civil War, Probable WW III, and probable severe famine: link to Holy Toledo!.) However, looking at the astrology chart of, and the Geodetic Astro*Carto*Graphy map of, the coming Solar Eclipse of August 12 of this summer, gives me reasons for concern. Psycho-spiritual preparation can deter panic were the otherwise unexpected to occur. You might also "Be prepared" otherwise, like this former Order of the Arrow Boy Scout minimalist partial "preper."

"... And it burns, burns, burns, the Ring of Fire, The Ring of Fire…"

Click image to listen to "Ring of Fire"
Many people living on or near the Left Coast of the USA know that we are statistically due or overdue for major earthquake activity. Here and worldwide, many people also know that the increased odds of a Pole Shift happening sooner rather than later are being seriously considered by those in the know. Particularly in this Chinese Astrology year of The Fire Horse, we should expect, more than usual, big changes in a single year. (The last such year was 1966.)
ACT I
FIRST SOLAR ECLIPSE of 2026:
Fire Horse Charges In; "Earth Shaker Neptune Comes Ashore (Oh, My!)
On February 17 of this year, The Fire Horse year began, with mythological "Earth Shaker" Neptune (Poseidon) on the first Sabian Symbol degree of not only of the sign of Aries, but also the first degree of the Zodiac! The Sabian Symbol for this degree has a human (humanlike) figure coming ashore out of the ocean. Neptune here embodies that archetypal character role. Neptune had been in Pisces for years, in the Watery abode that He rules. He's on land now, in Aries, the Sign ruled by the God of War. (Uh oh.)
Do you remember Psycho Killers ("qu' est ce que?!") Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth almost amphibiously landing marines on Iranian soil? (Maybe later this year?) Meanwhile, Fire Horse lights up the Middle Eastern sky, near incessantly.
("... Nowhere to run to, Baby, Nowhere to hide....")
The first degrees of each Cardinal sign introduce a new season. First and foremost, the 1st degree Aries starts Spring, and most significantly of all, new life in Nature. So slow-moving collective planet on this degree is a really BIG deal! This is particularly so because there will be no hesitation, no return of Neptune to Pisces, no return to what was, not just no return to recent years, but no return to what was "life" for about the last 165 years. As the late , great Jerry Lee Lewis said: "Think about it!"
"... I know something is different now, I know something's about to change..."
(as Rockin' Robin Trower, age 81, wrote, sang and still sings, still plays, still tours)
2026: Act One: 2/17 - 8/11; Act Two: COMING SOON! (8/12/2026)
But First, A WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON: 6/24/2026
Just a little more than 3 degrees (3 days) after Summer Solstice, a 5.6 earthquake in Northern California (the largest for that region since 1940), a 6.9 earthquake off the northern coast of Japan, and two devastating ones in Venezuela --- all occurred within about 24 hours. Venezuela's quakes 7.2 and 7.5 occurred within less than a minute of each other, with Mars conjunct Algol within less than one degree and also conjunct Uranus (albeit out-of-Sign). The devastation there caused the deaths of at least 5,200 people, with hundred more seriously injured/buried under rubble. Nearby, the quakes caused THE COASTLINE of TRINIDAD to RISE 20 FEET! (That is approximately equivalent to the height of a two-story building.) The site of HUGE stones having risen from the ocean there is remarkable to see!
Sun just past Solstice degree was tightly square "Earth Shaker" Neptune in Aries.
Link to Trinidad Coastline video.
ACT II
Just after "the Lion's Gate" of 8/8, when Sun aligned with Sirius (seriously), comes the year's second Solar Eclipse.
 DARKNESS, DARKNESS (including about 93% over Gibraltar)
REASONS FOR CONCERN
"God is playing marbles with His planets and His stars,
Creating havoc in my life through His influence on Mars.
That's why I'm stumbling down the highway on my boots of steel,
I should be rolling down the skyway on my Cosmic Wheels...."
--- Donovan
Concern # 1: MARS and CERES CONJUNCT on the 1st degree of CANCER Sabian Symbol: "On a ship sailors lower an old flag and raise a new one"
Mars, God of War here fits the flag changes on oil cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Possibly this could relate to increased sending oil to a different country than assumed --- to the highest bidder. Another possibility is piracy of a commercial ship, but on a warship, mutiny! Of course, this astrology is not limited to those waters bordering Iran. Consider, for instance Geodetically, 90 East longitude, in the Bay of Bengal below Bangladesh. And/or, since Neptune at Eclipse Time is at a 4 and a little bit Aries, the strait of Dover between the UK and France (Immigrants crossing area).
SPEAKING OF DIRE STRAITS
On July 30th, a fortnight before the Solar Eclipse, an estimated 60,000 fighting age Moroccan men (Mars) invaded Spanish territory on the African side of Strait of Gibraltar. Their numbers were approximately equal to 70% of the terrorized locals. The first Mars conjunct Ceres in Cancer FOOD FIGHT (expect millions more, worldwide) began with Mars' looting, followed by locals denying food to the invaders. 67 died in human stampede or from drowning.
NOTE: A similar invasion across these 7.7 nautical miles occurred in 710, 711,712 A.D. Click here for link to HOLY TOLEDO!.

Ceres here involves the shipping of food: the supply chain. Presumably see the Mars paragraph above regarding the same possibilities.
An important astrological event having not just one planet on such a degree is significant enough in itself, but more so when two are on an all-important first degree of a Cardinal Sign. Not only that, but both Square sometimes-Earth-Shaker Neptune in early Aries.
Another Geodetic longitudinal other Initiating Cardinal Sign degree locale begins Aries: Greenwich/London/a World Finance Hub "City of London."
Concern # 2: Pluto and Uranus aspecting each other, their midpoint exactly on
"Earth Shaker" Neptune!
It is perhaps also worth noting that the three big shocks of the New Madrid Missouri "boot heel" area earthquakes with thirty foot ground shifts up and down, 12/16/1811 and 1/23/1812, occurred between 89.5 W and 90.5 W longitudes.
To approximate objectivity, I will quote another astrologer (rather than my own words).Rheinhold Ebertin writes of Pluto to Neptune: ".... danger through forces of nature...." Uranus to Neptune: ".... deplorable conditions .... harm... due to lack of resistance .... Losses, illness including danger of poisoning"
Concern # 3: No Planets "grounded" except little Chiron (in T-cross with Pluto and Juno opposite BG Jupiter with Mercury), and Jupiter and Uranus aspecting one another.
Concern # 4: PROBABLE GREENLAND WAR
Trump and the Technocracy planners have their "sights" set on Greenland, in the path of the Solar Eclipse, which begins in the Arctic Sea near where "The Pole" has shifted into Russian waters. The Eclipse Shadow Path goes right over the fault line in the North Atlantic near the southern coast of Greenland. Western Europe (The EU) wants war with Russia. Stay atuned.
Concern # 5: Astro*Carto*Graphy: Earthquake's Geodetic Chart Parans (along USA's Ring of Fire Pacific Coastline)
There are different ways that an astrologer can see, usually after the fact, the correspondence between a particular Solar Eclipse and a specific location. One way is to relate the astrology of a particular eclipse to the chart of that country, city, etc. Another is to study the A*C*G and such of the Geodetic map of that eclipse. Trying to anticipate specifics from such data is a humbling experience --- no foolin'--- a Fool's Errand. Significant events run a wide gambit of possibilities, and time frames can vary from around eclipse day to up to less than six months later. But anyway...
With any A*C*G map, each "planet" appears simultaneously to be visibly from on Earth to be somewhere rising, somewhere setting, somewhere directly overhead, and somewhere, unseen, directly under that location. These four are called planetary lines and tell the most important features of "the story" of any particular location. However, also important are the locations' latitudes where two planetary lines of any sort cross paths. The most significant of these are in close proximity longitudinally to such a latitude. Amazingly, years of validation indicate that ANYWHERE on such a latitude carries, as it were, an "echo" of the convergence of two such "planets."
Along the continental U.S.' Pacific "Ring of Fire" there are a few such crossings' latitudes that merit my concern. Again, to approximate objectivity, I will quote another astrological source: the interpretations given in the SOLAR MAPS computer program.
Minimal expected orb of significance = plus or minus one degree North/South
Maximum expected orb of significance = plus or minus two degrees North/South
48 N 52' (The U.S. - Canadian border over Washington state is 49 N 0'):
48 N 52' = Pluto and Uranus simultaneously "Rising":
"... dramatic and disturbing events ..."
45 N 27' (Oregon, Northwest of Portland, near the Columbia River, near Wash. State):
45 N 27' = Pluto Rising and Uranus Below: " ... dramatic and disturbing events ..."
43 N 23' (Coos Bay Oregon area) = Uranus Rising and Jupiter Below
(F.Y.I.: Probably no cause for concern with this one, but, two BIG planets are involved...
(Nothing relevant earthquake-wise from Solar Maps, but otherwise these
two combined is associated with exceptional Good Luck...)
Deserving Greatest Attention:
Southwest Oregon Coast: @ 40 to 41 degrees latitude
No exact crossings here, but Pluto Rising and Jupiter setting run very close to one another in this area; same lines continue approximately Northeast... "... power struggle ..."
ALSO:
38 N 03' = Pluto Rising and Jupiter Setting "... power struggle ..." (of "The God Bros.")
38 N 06' = Vallejo California
37 N 48' = San Francisco
37 N 46' = Oakland
38 N 54' 32' = Ibiza, Spain = approximate end of Solar Eclipse Shadow 8/12/2026
A CHIRONIC PERSPECTIVE ON EARTHQUAKES
Most modern people fear and blame God or Mother Nature for the devastation of modern earthquakes. Indigenous people living in one-story high structures without modern technology and such experienced far less suffering and death because of earthquakes than do modern people. They did not need to worry about tons of concrete falling on them, downed power lines, sewer contaminated drinking water, natural gas explosions, toxic chemicals in the air, etc.
Further, many of them and the animals near them would sense earthquakes coming and act accordingly. As Carl Jung said, the greatest threat to modern people lies in the mindset of and inventions of modern people, not so much from Nature. Modern conveniences come with dangerous risks. "F.A.A.F.O." or live in the Now, be that in city or in Nature.
SUGGESTED READING:
Regarding San Francisco Earthquake of 1906:
Rebecca Solnit's book: A PARADISE Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Community That Arise In Disaster
Regarding California Major Earthquakes, past and possible:
Mark Reisner's book: A DANGEROUS PLACE
California's Unsettling Fate
Regarding the U.S. Southwest's Water Crisis (now worse than ever with Pluto, "The Lord of Death" as the Aquarian Water bearer):
Mark Reisner: CADILLAC DESERT
The American West and Its Disappearing Water
F.Y.I.: Chiron in Scorpio environmental writer Mark Reiser died just after his Chiron return and before the release of A DANGEROUS PLACE, his Soul's purpose accomplished. It's up to us now.
EDGAR CAYCE on "The Pole Shift"
That which has prevented and does prevent the whole of civilization becoming a turmoil is the attempt of those who have the ideals of The Prince of Peace at HEART! And as of old,
THE PRAYERS OF TEN MAY SAVE A CITY;
THE PRAYERS OF TWENTY-FIVE MAY SAVE A NATION
---AS THE PRAYERS AND ACTIVITES OF ONE MAY!
But in union there is strength. Then if that purpose be kept, then it must ever be kept in mind that we ARE our brother's keeper!" --- reading 1598-2
Link to Full A.R.E. Article about Cayce on "The Pole Shift":
"Thank you for your attention to this matter"
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Chironically,
Dale (Outsider) O'Brien
chironguy@proton.me
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