Update on Titan

Today's Coast Guard press conference revealed the regrettable (and avoidable) fate of those aboard the submersible craft Titan.

This chart is set for the start of the press conference, and instead of using the press conference location, I have set it for the mid-Atlantic coordinates where the Titan launched.

I was struck by the activity on angles. The Moon is angular on the cusp of the 10th, separating from a conjunction to Mars and square to Uranus.

The US Navy picked up on sonic activity underwater that matched the date and time communication ended with the watercraft. As the source hadn't been confirmed, the search continued – but hours before the conference, debris from the Titan had been found on the water's surface.

In their press conference, the Coast Guard shared that the vessel imploded within the first two hours of its descent to the ocean floor. From USA Today:

"The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel," Rear Adm. John Mauger, commander of the First Coast Guard District, said in a news conference.

Note that in the press conference chart, the Moon reflects themes of destruction being brought to light: she sits upon the midheaven, carrying the light of a 10th house Mars (wreckage, break, combustion), 8th house Mercury, and setting Uranus.

Jupiter, which conjoined the midheaven at the vessel's launch, had now sunk below the horizon, still in exact sextile with a stationary Saturn ruling and placed within the watery, submerged 4th house. The Sun, ruler of the 10th house and dispositor of the Moon and Mars, was placed in the 8th, and applied to that same Saturn by trine – mirroring the unsettling trine of the Moon to Mars which sank the Titanic back in 1912.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, also the vessel's captain, was clear that he broke well-established engineering rules by mixing carbon fiber and titanium, which produces galvanic corrosion and may have been the very defects which caused the vessel to fail in its expedition:

CEOs are shown by the 10th, and by the Sun. The Sun rules the 10th, so we have less on our plate in terms of interpretation. Its placement in the 8th in trine to 4th house Saturn, and the Moon connected to 8th-ruler Mercury, both point to a faulty sense of confidence related to technical innovation.

OceanGate was warned of major safety issues by one of its own employees. That employee was promptly fired:

OceanGate Employee Warned Of Major Safety Issues With Titan Sub In 2018—And Was Soon Fired

In 2018, David Lochridge found that the submersible had been severely undertested and its porthole was only certified to withstand a fraction of the pressure it would experience on a Titanic dive.

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It seems there is a great deal of hubris to be reckoned with, as regards the failure of the Titan trip. I'm reminded of Jupiter's placement upon the midheaven at the Titan's launch, and the same hubris which brought the original Titanic – monikered 'the unsinkable ship' – to a watery grave:

In slightly awkward news, Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On has received a bump on the music charts due to this catastrophic incident:

Dion's natal Jupiter is in her ascendant at 26° Leo, conjunct the Titan's launch ascendant; and, she has a natal Mercury/Venus conjunction in the 8th house at 18° Pisces.

Many have noted the rise of ocean- and water-related incidents in recent weeks. Orcas are attacking yachts and sailing boats. Multiple capsized vessels. Dams broken in Ukraine. We'll have more to see as the Sun journeys through Cancer, applying to Saturn in Pisces (now stationing retrograde, to station direct at 0° Pisces), with Neptune conjunct Scheat in Pisces (associated with drownings and shipwrecks) and Pluto in the airy water sign of Aquarius (which tends to points to civil infrastructure related to the transportation of water).

Perhaps it's time we once again take water and ocean activity a bit more seriously.