Transiting Uranus conjuncts Sullenberger's North Node in Pisces

Here is the natal birth chart for Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, born Jan 23, 1951, 5:06am in Denison, Texas.

Transiting Uranus was and is conjuncting Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger's North Node in Pisces (at 19 degrees 50 minutes) and he miraculously saves a planeload of people in a water landing. And becomes instantly famous for it.


Uranus was actually at 19'44" at the time of the landing, and crossed over his nodes as word of his deed spread. Also, he's a 3 degree Aquarius Sun, and Jupiter is conjuncting his Sun now, and was at exactly 2'23" at the time of the landing. Boy, is he ever experiencing a period of Jupiterian good luck!

Also interesting to note is this was pulled off during a Mercury retrograde when things often don't go right and are fraught with mistakes. But the fact that his own Natal Mercury is Retrograde allows him to overcome those odds.

Below is the chart for the unusual plane landing:

The miraculous plane landing in the Hudson is easily described astrologically: Jupiter (good fortune, travel) in Aquarius (group of people in the Air) landing in water (Neptune) and are all miraculously rescued (Jupiter). 

 The chart for the event (1/15/09 3:32PM EST NY,NY) gives Uranus in Pisces on the Midheaven. Certainly this event is very famous for being something unusual in the water! What else can I say? It's all right there. 

 Hopefully all air travel will be blessed with such luck this year. Oddly, Mercury was retrograde, yet I haven't heard of any retrograde mistakes made in the crash itself or the rescue - except of course, for the birds themselves.