Solar eclipse at Eastern Aleutians, Alaska, March 536 AD

Given the severe consequences on life on earth and human affairs, one would expect the relevant solar ingresses to show stressful patterns as well. This was in fact the case. The preceding Capricorn ingress took place on December 24, 535. It had the Sun conjunct Pluto and square the Lunar Nodes. Pluto was also at the midpoint of Jupiter/Neptune. The Moon was quintile Saturn and biquintile Mars. The T-square was beginning to form and, in Rome, it was angular in the 1st, 7th and 10th houses. It was also angular in Byzantium, with Uranus at the MC and Jupiter at the Ascendant. In 536 Emperor Justinian launched an invasion of Italy, an attempt to expel the Goths and regain control of the Western Roman empire. The battles that followed were utterly ruinous for Italy.