Conversations on the home front about midterm election results have centered on summary at Bleeding Heartland: “Lessons of 2022: Iowa’s a red state—for now.”
Three and a half years before Iowa attained statehood, one event for land rush began by signal guns precisely at midnight:
“Between midnight and daybreak a large portion of the eastern part of the New Purchase was settled,” Chapter 19, The Making of Iowa, by Henry Sabin and Edwin L. Sabin, copyright 1900, via Iowa History Project.
Another midnight event occurred two and half years later (year prior to statehood) when “the Indians’ rights to the remainder of the New Purchase expired.”
Wapello County, Monday, May 1, 1843, Agency City, 00:00 LMT:
Pluto 21° 52′ Aries (4th house) sextile Neptune 21° 21′ Aquarius (2nd)
Mars 21° 32′ Sagittarius (12th) sextile Neptune trine Pluto
Ceres 3° 47′ Leo (8th) trine Uranus 0° 33′ Aries
Capricorn 16° 04′ rising
Statehood, Monday, December 28, 1846, Iowa City, 12:00 LMT:
Pluto 23° 58′ Rx (1st house) conjunct South Node 25° 32′ Aries
Ceres 20° 43′ Rx conjunct Moon 20° 36′ Taurus
Mars 29° 34′ Scorpio (8th)
Aries 12° 03′ rising
Iowa City incorporation, Monday, January 24, 1853, Iowa City, 12:00 LMT:
North Node 28° 24′ Gemini (2nd house) sextile Pluto 29° 50′ Aries (12th)
Moon 28° 54′ Cancer (3rd) square Pluto
Ceres 8° 21′ Scorpio (7th) sextile Chiron 8° 30′ Capricorn (9th)
Sun 4° 45′ conjunct Mars 5° 13′ Aquarius (10th)
Taurus 23° 58′ rising
Lunar eclipse, Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Des Moines, 5:02 CST:
Midheaven 27° 26′ Cancer (10th house) opposite Pluto 26° 21′ Capricorn (4th)
Moon 16° 01′ Taurus (8th) opposite Sun 16° 01′ Scorpio (2nd)
Ceres 16° 28′ Virgo (12th)
Libra 23° 09′ rising
Whole Signs
Image above: “Lunar eclipse 2022 from Munith, Michigan near totality. I suspect that the visible body closest to the moon is Uranus,” by Aaron Headly from Munith, MI, United States via Wikimedia.
Image below: “Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10 years credit by the Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co. at 6 per ct interest and low prices ... Buffalo. N. Y. Commercial advertiser printing house [1872],” from Library of Congress Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 134, Folder 13, public domain via Wikimedia.