Dow Jones Industrial Average Falls (May 5, 1893)

You learn something new every day. Because it’s at the end of the 19th Century, you can be forgiven for not knowing this information. Check out this video:

Isn’t that wonderful?

This is the start time of the run on the stock exchange that day. The inconjuncts with Neptune/Pluto (and oppositions with the Sun/Venus and Jupiter) are mostly focused on Uranus @ 8° Scorpio. There is also an inconjunct linking Jupiter and Saturn. It’s an astrological snapshot of what can go wrong (if you’re a banker) and right (if you’re a farmer). When compared with Black Tuesday of 1929, there may be a correlation.

Do you see it?

The L. Frank Baum book was published in 1900. That makes the idea of an allegory of the Panic of 1893 very feasible. The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s was still a long way off, but the film coming out in 1939 made it all very timely. And then, WWII started! Coincidence? I think not.