Episode #64: The Bisbee Massacre & the 1883 Zodiac Back

Tombstone in Boothill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona

4/16/2025: On today’s episode, Valerie shares the calamitous story of the Bisbee Massacre and the Cochise County Cowboys, who galloped into the small Arizona mining town in search of a BIG payoff. The haphazard plan and murderous spree resulted in multiple dead, TWO mobs, a lynching, and a brand spankin’  new gallows, large enough to hang all the outlaws at once. In the Zodiac Back, Amy Jo covers the astrology and eclipses of 1883, we discuss the chart of Mussolini, and check in with the First Family of Astronomy (in our opinion) - The Herschels. Our sign of the week is the mutable water sign, Pisces, and we look at the astrology of the Southern Hemisphere and Maori Astronomy. We top that off with the Moon Moment and the astrology yet to come.

Bisbee and the Copper Queen Mine in the early 1880s. Courtesy of Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern

Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town; topographical map from 1902

Early water transport to the mines often involved hanging canvas bags with up to 25 gallons of water on burros. Courtesy of Freeport McMoRan

Grave Marker for John Heath at Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone. Credit: Grombo, Grumbo

Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park, Arizona, USA

Main Street in Bisbee (2019)

May 6, 1883 Total Eclipse Illustration

May 6, 1883 Total Solar Eclipse Saros 136

Mussolini Birth Chart, July 29, 1883

Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet

Coat of Arms of the Herschel Baronets

Fingerprints taken by William Herschel

Southern Hemisphere

Seven Stars Matariki

Sources/Photo Sources

Intro Sources:

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/uspresidents/chesteraarthur.php

The Bisbee Massacre Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee,_Arizona 

https://tucson.com/news/local/article_336e1a14-75eb-5357-b425-b40b9638b0bf.html 

https://medium.com/state-48-a2z-arizona-then-now/the-1883-bisbee-massacre-7b8e0415be76 

https://tombstonechamber.com/BootHillGraveyard/tour-the-graveyard/row-2/bisbee-massacre-hanging/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee_massacre

The Bisbee Massacre Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee,_Arizona 

https://tucson.com/news/local/article_336e1a14-75eb-5357-b425-b40b9638b0bf.html 

https://medium.com/state-48-a2z-arizona-then-now/the-1883-bisbee-massacre-7b8e0415be76 

https://tombstonechamber.com/BootHillGraveyard/tour-the-graveyard/row-2/bisbee-massacre-hanging/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee_massacre

1883 Zodiac Back Sources:

https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/retrograde-planets-astrology-calendar-1883 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_6,_1883 

https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/solar-and-lunar-eclipses-1883 https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/benito-mussolini-horoscope https://astrotalk.com/astrology-blog/astrology-in-different-cultures-a-comparative-analysis-insideastro-iabo7-26/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_and_tropical_astrology 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Herschel,_2nd_Baronet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_6,_1883 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Herschel,_2nd_Baronet https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/retrograde-planets-astrology-calendar-1883 https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Coco_Chanel#google_vignette https://www.rosicrucian.com/pdf_plaza/Astrological%20Keywords.pdf 

https://astronz.nz/pages/maori-astronomy?srsltid=AfmBOoqicDMnf6FAZyDHw4-YluZrXilGtOnEi_b63J3683R-3zpp1sWl https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1274-revitalising-maori-astronomy https://astrologyfoundation.co.nz/maori-cosmology http://www.aboriginalastronomy.com.au/content/topics/stars/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/21/aboriginal-astronomy-can-teach-us-about-the-link-between-sky-and-land

1883 Zodiac Back Photo Sources:

astro-seek.com

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Caroline-Island-1883-Eclipse.jpg/480px-Caroline-Island-1883-Eclipse.jpg 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/SE1883May06T.png/480px-SE1883May06T.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_symbols 

https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/solar-and-lunar-eclipses-1883 https://www.maoriastronomy.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Seven-Stars-Matariki.jpg 

https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/benito-mussolini-horoscope https://mysticmedusa.com/planets-in-astrology/southern-hemisphere-astrology/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Herschel,_2nd_Baronet