The first ever oil strike – 28 August 1859 4pm Titusville, PA, USA.
It has an 8th house Sun Moon Mercury in practical, earthy Virgo and a Saturn Mars Venus in money-oriented Leo also in the 8th. So six planets in the deeply buried 8th house which has connections with business finance.
Neptune (the traditional ruler of oil) is in Pisces (ruled by Neptune) in the 3rd house of everyday travel which fits though Neptune isn’t especially strong in the chart. On the midpoints Neptune = Sun/Jupiter and Jupiter/Uranus both of which are lucky and successful. Pluto is on the IC which does suggest very Plutonic energies (wealth and power) coming from deep down. Pluto is semi sextile Uranus with Neptune aiming to semi-sextile Pluto in the years following.
The 1980 oil high has Neptune sextile Pluto with Uranus on their midpoint. 2008 has Neptune sextile Uranus with Pluto just past the square to Uranus. All three oil high charts have that odd challenging Mars Saturn in the 8th in Virgo so a pressure to make money in tight circumstances? Two of them have Jupiter in the 8th and the other has Jupiter in the 1st.
Above from an old post of 2011. No time for further research but anyone who is interested feel free to look over highs and lows since.
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