Medical Astrology and the Flu Epidemic -- Part 20 -- Winter 2009/Spring 2010 Forecast

Medical Astrology of Flu Epidemics

by Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK),
Medical Astrologer

PART 20 -- FORECAST FOR THE MEXICAN SWINE FLU WINTER 2009 and SPRING 2010


The underpinning for the Mexican Swine Flu to take off in the November 2009 time frame is due to Saturn square Pluto. And again, we see the 0 (zero) degree being important here. The zero degree means ‘new’ or ‘seed’ from a symbolic standpoint. It could be at this time the virus mutates--that would signal something ‘new’ insofar as the pandemic is concerned.


Here is the chart for February 2010 when the pandemic will be at its optimum strength



And so, in the closing days of October, Saturn goes into 0 Libra while Pluto is at 1 Capricorn. Both are primary epidemic indicators. And now, they are both in cardinal signs, which promises assertiveness and more activity of the virus. It helps punch up the virus in November, when it really takes off in the Northern hemisphere. Saturn gives the virus ‘legs’ to continue in the Fall even during the holding pattern of Jupiter retrograde through the summer and into the early Fall. Saturn has played a quiet but powerful part along with Vulcanus (also another type of endurance) so that the virus can remain stable and circulating in both hemispheres. And this is what makes this virus different. It has had the ability to infect in warm/humid areas as well as colder climes. Other reported pandemics did not have this feature to the degree that the Mexican Swine Flu has. This particular aspect is most powerful in October and November of 2009, right when the other planets and aspects are pushing the virus out there into our world and particularly in the northern hemisphere.


What is worrisome is that Pluto, the planet of genetic mutation is square Saturn. While this means that Saturn is ‘holding’ the mutation possibility to a minimum there are other planetary players that are out there supporting the exact opposite. Whether the virus mutates or not is not known. However, this ‘staying power’ of Saturn along with Pluto is what gives this virus its power to remain alive and active in our world and blow it into a raging pandemic beginning in November 2009.


The virus will be at its optimum in January, February, March and April 2010 with little let up. In February 15, 2010, Chiron and Neptune are exactly conjunct and this is when the worst of the epidemic is going to be felt.


Jupiter is now in the sign of Pisces and while no longer conjunct its epidemic partners of Chiron and Neptune, being in this sign would normally mean protection. Pisces rules the lymph gland system--our main defense against attacks by bacteria and viruses. Normally, Jupiter here would be a good thing, but unfortunately, stressful Uranus is in this sign as well at 24 Pisces. This means stresses of all kinds (life, for example) is putting more pressure than normal on everyone’s immune systems. Too much stress lowers the immune system’s ability to fight off invasion by a bacteria or virus. Having Jupiter there is still better than nothing, but Uranus really takes away from this protection that Pisces could have had during this pandemic.

In March, Neptune is at 27 Aquarius and Chiron at 28 Aquarius. Jupiter continues to be in Pisces and so does Uranus. On March 11, 2010, Mars goes direct at 0 Leo. This is when we’ll see the virus kick in and get more aggressive than we’ve seen when Mars was retrograde.

April is going to be another kind of grueling trial. Chiron is at 29 Aquarius for the entire month. The 29th degree is a high emotional drama time. The 29th degree is about ‘clean up’ of anything in our life that hasn’t been taken care of -- it will be taken care of now. Those who tend to suppress their emotions will find themselves under what I term a ‘discharge’ period. From a medical astrology perspective this means that if you don’t release the backlog of built up emotional issues, then acute or chronic ailments come to land on your doorstep. In doing that, it does effectively discharge the captured energy so you can get on with your life.


There could be a lot of deaths in April because of this 29th degree phenomena. The old adage, “Better OUT than IN,” should be our battle cry. If one is discharging, then one is not going to get sick. Until Chiron moves into 0 Pisces on May 1, 2010, will we see this epidemic ebb at this time. The virus will go underground in this month. And like other epidemic virus, there’s no guarantee it’s going to stay there. There are usually three ‘waves’ to an epidemic. The second wave kicks in the Fall of 2009 and lasts through May 2010. Will the virus go underground and stay there? Or come up for a third time? Right now, it looks like the virus will incubate once more. Summer of 2010,however, has other storm clouds on the horizon that are going to catch our attention.

ANOTHER FORECAST: STORM CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON JULY-AUGUST 2010

My friend Joseph Buuttimer sent me a missive by Arch Crawford, the financial astrologer. In his missive, Crawford pin pointed July and August of 2010. I decided to check it out. Arch, like me, utilizes Uranian astrology and sure enough, everything he’d written was exact.

In July 2010, Saturn squares Hades on the 17th. Then, on the 26th, Saturn is opposite Uranus. On the 29th, Mars squares Hades. Mars then goes to 0 Libra to oppose Uranus.


We have a once-in-a-lifetime group of planets in August 2010 at the 0 degree of a cardinal sign. Many see this as a new chapter, a new cycle, new seeds being sewn and a “new” beginning on many levels for all of us. Certainly, the power of many planets at 0 degrees of a cardinal planet show something ‘big’ is going to occur to the world. Here’s the players:


August 2, 2010
Hades 0 Cancer
Sun 10 Cancer
Mars 1 Libra
Jupiter 3 Aries
Saturn 0 Libra
Uranus 0 Aries R
Pluto 3 Capricorn R


August 7, 2010
Venus 0 Libra

We have Mars, the trigger planet opposite Jupiter, the great epidemic warlord. Mars is conjunct Saturn. Mars is opposite Uranus. Mars is inconjunct Pluto. We can see that Mars, once more, is the ‘trigger man’ that is going to set a lot of things in motion. Mars rules over military might is right. Mars IS WAR, raw male testosterone being strutted around, aggression, bullies, battlefields and brainless/thoughtless machismo in action. Mars is the guy who sees who can piss the farthest in the male world of macho skills and abilities.

I’m not a mundane astrologer, but those folks should be looking to see which countries are going to move into martial aggression at this timeframe. Countries like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and North Korea come to mind off the top of my non-mundane head. Terrorism is likely. And a nuclear attack whether I like it or not, may be looming. Certainly, at the very least, there is going to be a military attack with or without nuclear culpability. Whether it carries through or not, is left up in the air at this point.


Saturn is opposite Jupiter/Uranus. Jupiter is conjunct Uranus. Jupiter is inconjunct Pluto. No matter which way you cut the cards, August 2010 is going to be a month of high drama, turmoil, control and power issues. The only question is the epidemic a part of this massive time of change? Or not. And, financially, our Depression is going to get a kick in the pants at this time and the economy may sag under the weight of the home foreclosures once more. I’ll leave financial astrology to Arch Crawford, who calls the ball on it with much greater accuracy than I do.


There is a disturbing occurrence of the 26th degree among the Uranian planets for

August 2, 2010:

Cupido 16 Sagittarius
Hades 0 Cancer
Zeus 12 Libra
Kronos 5 Cancer
Apollon 26 Libra
Ademtos 26 Taurus
Vulcanus 26 Cancer
Poseidon 8 Scorpio

Vulcanus, Admetos and Apollon area all hanging around 26 degrees of the sign they are in. The good news is that Vulcanus and Admetos are sextile to one another. However, Apollon is square Vulcanus and inconjunct Admetos. Apollon is about multitasking, having a lot of balls up in the air symbolically. The only question here is: can all of us, in particular governments of countries, keep them all up in the air or will they drop some of them? I see his train wreck as going on for sometime since the Uranian planets move so slowly. And frequently, they are swinging back and forth from retrograde to direct, ect. In other words, this trio has been at this for awhile up in our sky. This isn’t the first gig these planets have been dancing with one another. It’s the same old thing. We can get a look at this earlier in 2010, around January timeframe.

If we want to use Numerology, 26 when broken down is 2 + 6 = 8. The number 8 is about the use and abuse of POWER. If you turn an 8 on its side, it is the circle of Infinity. The 8 is the most galvanizing of all the numbers energetically speaking. It asks us if we want to be bullies or supporters of EMpowering others, instead. Countries do really stupid, immature and hostile acts of DISempowerment under an 8 energy. And with these three planets at 26, something could occur in this area as outlined above.

People may well feel they are at their wit’s ends because they are so pushed to perform so many different and divergent tasks in their life--be it professional or personal. Both areas will be involved. And Apollon may make all of us feel like we can’t possibly have one more ball in the air than we do presently--or the whole system of checks and balances, is going to disintegrate around us. High stress indeed. This goes for the person on the street straight up to the heads of states of any country in the world. This balancing and multitasking is going to be felt by everyone. And the 8 energy asks us to define what is really important to us versus the lemming mindless activity we all get caught up in as a Society. It is once more about balance.


When will we have had enough? Where is our personal limit at? What is worth balancing and juggling and what is not? These are questions that will be answered in 2010. Perhaps, at its most positive, it means people are going to start evaluating what is important and what really isn’t. They are going to start removing some of their balls in the air. But it won’t be without pain and consternation. Changing a lifestyle is all of that. We’re like lemmings mindlessly running over a cliff to death just because everyone else around them is doing the same thing. I believe many people are going to get a ‘wake up call’ that is going to help them reset their personal gauge of what life is really all about in 2010.


Some will ‘get a life’ and look up to see the sky and smell the roses instead of being on the tread mill of Life that they put themselves on before this. Others will hunker down in the harness and keep doing the same things. In 2010, it catches up to all of us. I hope the zero degree means that the cosmos sprinkles fairy dust across the globe and we get a new lease on life instead of being augured into the ground by our old lifestyle. That would be refreshing and free a lot of people up. It would also free them of the brutal stress that they are constantly carrying around with them as a result of the ‘blind’ choices they’ve made. Stress makes us sick either acutely or chronically.

One way or another, everyone is going to get their rose colored glasses removed from them in 2010. And what will be see? Apollon rules over scientific achievements, the nuts and bolts of Men and their machines, their science and all the left brain logic that still runs our world. Will machines of destruction be the world player in 2010? Or not? Perhaps health care in the USA really takes root despite opposition.


Apollon, the planet of “two or more” of something happening simultaneously is square Ademtos at 26 Taurus. Admetos is the planet of the virus in the incubating underground stage.

Add to this mix, Vulcanus is square Apollon and sextile Admetos. This could be a worrisome recipe for the virus to kick up and come up for a third ‘wave’ of our Mexican Swine Flu pandemic.


Given the known nine planets and the massive squares, oppositions and inconjuncts, this could , indeed be a time when we see the epidemic raise its head a third time. I believe that what is going on in August is more about conflict in the world, attacks and aggression among power player countries, the epidemic could be tied into this as well--but as a secondary player.


END OF 1-20 PART BLOG


To read Eileen’s other blogs on the Medical Astrology of Flu Epidemics they are here on this blog at http://talesfromechocanyon.blogspot.com. There are 20 posts (parts) to this 86 page article that should have probably been put into book form.


To help out those not familiar with Uranian planets (also called Transneptune planets) I'm putting down the glyphs (8 of them) with their name so you can look into this and other natal charts to be presented so you can tag along and see how important they really are in fleshing out an epidemic (those details to come in later blogs on aspects/analysis portion of this research work).

URANIAN PLANET GLYPHS

Admetos

Apollon

Cupido

Hades

Kronos

Poseidon

Vulcanus

Zeus






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