Swine Flu Gone Wild

Boy, they weren't kidding when they passed out travel advisories to stay away from Mexico during Spring Break.

Timelines are starting to come out concerning the Swine Flu which is about to be considered a Pandemic. It looks like the 1st victim is thought to be a 5 year old boy living in the town of La Gloria, Veracruz, Mexico named Edgar Hernandez. Hernandez became ill sometime around April 2, 2009. By April 6 about 60 percent of the town of La Gloria, population 3,000, was ill. The first death was 39 year old Maria Adela Gutierrez who was admitted to the hospital on Apr 8 and who passed away five days later. Gutierrez was working as a Census Worker and it is thought that she may have passed the illness by going from door to door. Boy, when I worked for the census all we had to worry about were German Shepherds and Mountain Men with guns.

The virus was officially identified 3 weeks later.

I guess in hindsight I can see how the Sun-Mercury-Venus Rx conjunction at the beginning of April can spread a communicable disease like wildfire. It wouldn't have been my first choice for interpretation of that aspect alone but in this case Venus has been in a long term Inconjunct or Quincunx aspect with Saturn in Virgo. Inconjuncts are related with weakened health systems as is Saturn in Virgo. Virgo rules all things involving Public Health and Sanitation and Saturn likes to teach lessons in whatever sign it happens to roll into.

Venus went Retrograde on Mar. 7, 2009 at 16 Aries. It was not quite within tight orb of inconjunct with Saturn in Virgo which was at 19 Virgo Rx (but that's close enough for my Gemini Rising). Thing is, both planets have been moving Retrograde together at the same time so extending this Inconjunct Aspect over the space of about 2 months.

Saturn in Virgo is already related to a weakening of Health Systems and is under tension from the long term opposition to Uranus. Nobody likes a parade with a whole crowdful of people the way that Uranus does. This is the flipside of community involvement.

An inconjunct from fire sign Aries would indicate the speed with which this illness is traveling. Venus turned Direct on Apr. 18 at 30 Pisces and is now travelling forward through Aries. The Last pass of an inconjunct aspect between the two planets will be on May 20, 2009 at 15 Aries-Virgo.


Problems may be enhanced as Mars will be traveling through Aries through May, conjunct Venus, and will be inconjunct to Saturn during much of this time. I'd expect Mars in Aries to be even faster than Venus in Aries. Saturn stations Direct on May 17 at 15 Virgo.

Mercury will turn Retrograde on the 1st degree of Gemini and pass back into Taurus during the 2d week of May which could either slow the spread of the disease or create chaos for the Doctors who are trying to treat it.

So, this is my simpleton interpretation of things so far. I've already linked to others who have a bigger picture like Noel Tyl and Terry Lamb. Also, Monica at Astrology Mundo has a great post. An epidemic was part of her list of 10 predictions for 2009.

Here's one timeline: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_34123.aspx

Here's an article about Ms. Gutierrez' illness and death: (article called "Swine Flu: Was first victim a modern Typoid Mary?" by Guy Adams, www.independent.co.uk/life-style ....