Salmonella Scare From Tomatoes or ... Outer Space?

I've written a couple of blogs already about Salmonella outbreaks. There is now a major outbreak of Salmonella that was thought to be related to raw tomatoes. After 2 months the guilty tomatoes have all been pulled from the shelves and people are still getting sick.

Rex Bills' rulerships for tomatoes: (Jupiter, Neptune, Mars). I'd give rulership of tomatoes to Moon and Mars because they are a fruit, they are disgusting to eat raw, and they are acidic. They are also really great for food (Moon) fights (Mars), there's a town in Spain that holds an all day food fight, for example, using Tomatoes for ammo. But this is neither here nor there. Right now Mars and Neptune have opposed each other over the Nodal Axis in the signs of Leo and Aquarius. Neptune rules large bodies of water and poisonings and Aquarius rules circulatory systems so perhaps pipes that transport water are to blame.

Earlier I noticed a connection to the signs of Gemini and Virgo (communicable health diseases) and the Salmonella Epidemics. This is sort of odd because Salmonella wants to rip your bowels out, plain and simple, seems more Plutonian. But it is very contagious. Saturn, a planet which will depress anything it touches in order to test its stability, is in Virgo. Saturn doesn't want to kill you, it just wants to make you stronger. Saturn could also indicate a problem with a building or structure. It might also indicate that all the Virgos at the CDC are not feeling up to par right now and just aren't in the mood to fight an epidemic. And no Public Health Department can succeed without its Virgos. So say a blessing for the Virgos who will eventually come around and protect us from our tomatoes. So, it seems that the Saturn-Pluto trine might be connected to an extra large spread of Salmonella when connected to the sign of Virgo.

On April 10, 2008 when the Salmonella was first detected, the Moon was in Gemini opposing Pluto. So, it was a good day for a Salmonella outbreak. I think that Gemini is involved in epidemics just because of its ability to rapidly spread stuff around, especially through the hands. The Gemini Moon on April 10 was also squaring Uranus (circulatory systems) in Pisces. The tomatoes were cleared from the shelves just as the Sun moved into Gemini though which perhaps is bad timing. There has also been an extra strong opposition to Pluto from the Gemini Sun and out-of-bounds Venus in Gemini. The spread is more difficult to contain during a Gemini influence?

Pluto, ruler of germs and bacteria, sewers and waste products and bad bowels movements, is involved in more intense than ordinary oppositions to bot Venus and Mars this year. On April 10, Pluto was squaring Venus in Aries. It had just moved out of an opposition from Mars in Cancer which had lasted for months due to Mars' Retrograde in that sign. So this is a great set-up for Salmonella, in my limited opinion from what I've observed in my shallow research of the past Salmonella outbreaks.

So, I tried to pull up a Horary and I don't know how to do a Horary so let's call it an event chart. First I asked "What's causing the Salmonella Outbreak? then right after that I asked "Where is source of Salmonella?" I asked about 20 minutes apart so the chart didn't change a whole lot. Told you I don't know Horary.

For What's causing the Outbreaks?

Scorpio Rising with ruler Pluto in the 2d House in Sagittarius. Pluto rules germs, bacteria, sewers. The 2d house rules storage units. I read in the news that the warehouses for the tomatoes might be a source. I also read that the tomatoes may have been housed in Mexico. Pluto in Sagittarius could indicate contamination in a warehouse that is far away or in a foreign land. Trucks and cars aren't involved, that would be Gemini/3d house.

Pluto in the chart was in a Grand Trine with Mars in Leo in the 10th House and Moon in Aries in the 6th House. 6th House is Health and Moon is the Public. Mars in Leo seems to add some sort of Corporate/Government/Boss involvement. The Grand Trine could show a number of different things, most notably success of the disease to spread. Perhaps there's a cover-up to avoid being caught.

At the base of the chart is the North Node-Neptune-Chiron conjunction opposing Mars-SN. As the Ic is Aquarius circulating water could be poisoning something. I assume that the IC would show the root cause for the Salmonella and the Neptune-Chiron-NN in Aquarius indicates Water in Circulatory Systems is poisoning. Perhaps a sewer is leaking into a warehouse.

With the Scorpio Rising of this chart one would be able to find the source through the sense of smell more easily than through any other method as Scorpio tends to be hidden.

This isn't helping. I'm just repeating ideas that were offered by the CDC in the article. Time to move onto a conspiracy theory. More fun.

This Horary chart has some striking similarities to a blog I wrote (really badly written I must say) about a Space Shuttle mission in which research was done to see what happens to Salmonella in space. It has the same Scorpio Rising, Same Sagg Pluto in H2, Same Moon in Aries in H6, same Neptune on IC. (Nodal Axis was Pisces.) The Shuttle Mission showed that Salmonella mutates in space. Wouldn't that be creepy if...I'm not saying that...but the outbreak began in Texas and that's one of NASA's places... oooo, conspiracy theory. Horary makes me so paranoid.

Moral of the Story: Eat chili peppers with your guacamole and salsa, they'll burn the bacteria right out.