Derailment of the Bangalore Kamakhya express train in India: Bad start time, bad result

On March 30, 2025, eleven coaches of the 12551 SMVT Bengaluru-Kamakhya AC Express derailed near Nergundi in Odisha (India) at 11:54 am local time. One person is reported to have died and several were injured.

I will not create a chart for March 30 at 11:54: that will be useful to some extent, but the time at which the train started must have been an unsuitable time. That is far more interesting to analyse.

Before proceeding with that, let me say that back in February 2025, I had predicted that the period from March 27 to 30 could bring a "serious transportation accident" in India. Unfortunately, this indeed has happened now. One wishes such predictions not to come true!

Let us now see how, when the train started, it did so at a time when accident was written all over it. This would be useful, I hope, especially for any travellers, who can take heed and plan their travels more wisely. I myself offer such a service, combining many more elements than just the start of travel, but people can also do some of this themselves even if they do not have a lot of astrological knowledge, as long as they know how to cast charts, so I hope this post will be useful.

So to begin with, this "express" train was in its second day of journey. The accident happened on March 30, but the train had started its journey on March 29 from the Yeshwanthpur railway station in Bengaluru. I looked at the train's running history on a website, and I saw that, while the train is scheduled for 8:50, it started at 8:55 on March 29 from Yeshwanthpur.

We need not look at anything more than just the chart for the time the train started:

The first thing you notice is that the ruler of the Ascendant is a retrograde planet, and the malefic Uranus is sitting almost on top of the Ascendant.

Then, one notices that the Moon is soon going to conjunct the Sun: that is, the train started on New Moon day, less than 12 hours from the New Moon. This itself puts things on a tacky note, given that this New Moon was not some ordinary New Moon but also came with a solar eclipse (eclipse of the Sun in its sign of exaltation, Aries).

Both the 3rd and 9th houses, with the 3rd house signifying travel in general and 9th house indicating long-distance travel, are occupied by malefics, Mars and Pluto. Though this train covers a long distance, given that it does not cross seas or oceans or goes to foreign countries, let us limit our analysis to the default house associated with travel, the 3rd.

The 3rd house is occupied by the malefic Mars in the sign of Cancer, a sign where Mars is in fall. Not only that, but it is in exact square with Chiron, the co-ruler of the 8th house (death) in this chart, from the 12th house (misfortune). This Mars is in a mutual reception with Moon (the signifier for how things could go), which is peregrine and whose final contact will be a square with this same Mars.

Thus, Moon is also badly afflicted in a double way: first, it is in mutual reception with a debilitated malefic, and second, it applies to this same malefic, and not just applies, but it is the final contact of the Moon before exiting the sign it is in, and final contact with malefics such as Mars or Saturn can only mean the journey would end in a bad result.

But if you look carefully, the Moon is actually afflicted triply. The Moon is also in contra-antiscion with Saturn!

A final clincher is that at the time the train started, at 8:55 am local time in Bengaluru on March 29, the planetary hour of Mars was going on! Interestingly, and not coincidentally, when the accident happened, at 11:54 am local time in Nirgundi on March 30, the planetary hour of Mars had just started!

Finally, because the 3rd house is the sign of Cancer, which is where Mars is also there, I was wondering if the accident happened to the train near some big water body. I do not know where Nirgundi is in Odisha, where the accident has been reported to occur, so I put it in Google Maps. And, indeed, Nirgundi is very close to the great river of Mahanadi (in fact, the name of the river itself means "great river")! The train must have just crossed the river, as the last stop it had halted before the accident was the Kendrapara Road Station.

Now some may think that there might have been a few trains and other means of transport that would have started around this time, so why accident with only this one? This is a moot question, because unless you have all the relevant data, you cannot answer it, and rarely do we have all the relevant data. (In an ideal world, where astrology is very well respected, there would be databases with everything recorded.) The one key data that is missing here is this particular train's "birth" chart. This would be the time and day when the locomotive of this particular train was first commissioned into service. (I do not mean Kamakhya Express service in general, for there must be several locomotives plying on this line, but I mean the one that was drawing the train on the fateful date of March 30, 2025.)

To end this post, I must remind readers that travelling so close to eclipses is always fraught with danger. Yesterday, I showed how the March 29 solar eclipse was so strongly and directly correlated to the magnitude 7.7 earthquake of Myanmar, the sad tragedy having killed more than 1,600 people already. Today, the eclipse is again involved in this train derailment, but the casualties could have been more had not the benefic Jupiter been in the first house (and given that this Jupiter is in the sign of its detriment, it is not that "kind" a Jupiter as it is supposed to be, plus Saturn is overcoming it, so this Jupiter could not prevent completely the casualties).

Do note that I have predicted that this year, 2025-26, may see quite a few serious transportation accidents in India. (In fact, globally, overall, we may see an uptick in these events.) So, while no one can control destiny, one can still try to take more informed decisions, and I hope you do so.

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