not to be alarmists, but the apocalypse seems near…

Posted by mason at 12:34 pm on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009.

Moonit doesn't want to be alarmists by any means, but we do have some reason to be concerned about the apocalypse being right around the corner, what with the financial — real estate — credit fiasco, diabolical ponzi schemes abound, earthquakes and now… plague!  This ominous swine flu is quickly taking hold of any and every media outlet around. The WHO claims a "pandemic is imminent" and has escalated the swine flu rating from a Phase 4 to Phase 5, with the potential to reach a Phase 6, the most alarming level (to put it into perspective, the Avian Flu would have been a Phase 3 and SARS would have been a Phase 4 if this system were in place when those took hold).

So what constitutes a pandemic? It's a virus or pathogen spreading around the world through sustained human contact.  Like the disastrous Spanish Flu of 1918, this version is, interestingly enough, also most detrimental to very healthy and active young people (who are apt to breathe in more contaminated air into their lungs than the sick and elderly).  Although we live in a truly global society where spring breakers can be in Central and South America one day and a NYC or European public school the next, we are better prepared today because we can leverage the R&D investment made to combat the two most recent scares.

The chart above showcases the new moon–full moon–new moon cycle over the next month. What it shows is that the approaching Jupiter/Neptune conjunction on May 27th is becoming more intense as it further aligns with Chiron, which rules medicine and the healing arts and squares Mercury (the God of trade, profit and commerce). The Jupiter/Neptune conjunction has the ability to make things much bigger and "inflated." Neptune rules the oceans and things fluid, such as air-born infection by sneezing.

Generally speaking, this astrological alignment supports the idea that, either the current swine flu outbreak has the potential to be a major world-wide pandemic with much greater impact and loss of life than anyone is considering at this point, or the media coverage of the outbreak will be blown to these momentous proportions.

Interestingly, the total solar eclipse of July 21/22, which will cross over such major population centers as Calcutta, Delhi, Shanghai and Wuhan in Southern China, suggests that the crisis may have its greatest impact on the peoples of the two most populous countires in the world with unimaginable loss of life and the consequent economic impact! We're going to look at the astrological signatures of the 1918, 1957 and 1968 pandemics to determine if there are any similarities to the current picture. Now that Pluto has entered Capricorn (which last occurred during the American Revolution) the transformations which are likely to impact society and the world economy are likely to be profound.