PART ONE: The Ebola Virus Outbreak & 2013’s Scorpio Hybrid Solar Eclipse By Theodore White, mundane Astrolog.Sci Global transits in the wake of the Grand Cardinal Cross of 2014 have seen a new phase beginning into the middle years of this decade. Most of us know that the news of the times is undeniably scary and with the world transits ahead perhaps Mundane Astrology can help to put these events into context by looking at how the big picture impacts the lives of people and individuals. Back in the spring of 2013 I scanned ahead taking a look at world transits that would affect the immediate year of 2014. While I had been warning of the Grand Cardinal Cross of spring 2014 for years, I noted a strange hybrid eclipse to take place in fall of 2013 in my June 2013 edition of Global Astrology ->> globalastrologyblog.blogspot/2013/06/the-cardinal-crisis-perigee-supermoons.html Along with the various comets that presaged dire events to come worldwide, the Total Solar Eclipse at 11-Scorpio on November 3, 2013 was a concern. To me it looked as if a serious disease would breakout in 2014 – and later, it did. It is called Ebola. The track of the November 2013 Scorpio hybrid solar eclipse matches the nations and regions affected in western Africa, as well as the impacts the Ebola outbreak is having on the eastern United States as well. Eclipses are presages - or warnings of things to come in Mundane Astrology. The hybrid eclipse of November 3, 2013 was not noticed by many as it fell on a Sunday, but the presages it yielded to me had me concerned about the events to come in 2014. Now, in August 2014, the worst Ebola outbreak in history has put a number of countries in West Africa in lockdown, led to the deaths of 900+ people since February and brought new reports of doctors, including Americans, contracting the virus they are attempting to contain. Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, an American doctor battling Ebola in Liberia was rushed by special medical flight to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on August 2, 2014. Nancy Writebol, the second American medical missionary who was also stricken with Ebola virus in Liberia, arrived Tuesday, August 5 at Emory in the same a small gulfstream jet outfitted with an isolation pod that transported Dr. Brantly. Writebol, 59, arrived at Dobbins Air Reserve Base and was transported to the hospital by ambulance in a small caravan. Brantly, a doctor with Samaritans Purse, and Writebol, a hygienist with Service in Mission, were infected while working with Ebola patients at a clinic operated by the American faith-based organizations in Liberia. Both have already received an experimental cocktail of antibodies that has been used successfully on monkeys infected with the Ebola virus. SIM USA said on Monday that Writebol remains in serious condition. Her husband told me Sunday her appetite has improved, and she requested one of her favorite dishes - Liberian potato soup - and coffee, Bruce Johnson, president of SIM USA, said in a statement. Writebols son, Jeremy, said his mother is still struggling but that there seems to be improvement. As news of the Ebola virus has spread since late July the fear and sometimes wild stories have filled the airwaves. Still, the documented spread of Ebola remains undeniably scary. TRANSMISSION BY AIR? Despite repeated assurances that the Ebola Virus cannot be transmitted via airborne particles, the CDC is concerned about that very outcome and has directed airline staff to take steps to prevent the spread of “infectious material through the air.” While Ebola is highly contagious, the risk of a full blown pandemic has been downplayed by health authorities because, according to our current understanding of the virus, Ebola, “is not airborne and is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids, including sweat and blood.” However, with concerns rising that the current strain of the virus, which is the worst in history and has killed 887 people, could in fact be airborne, the Control has implemented steps to prevent its spread via international air travel. A CDC advisory entitled Interim Guidance about Ebola Virus Infection for Airline Flight Crews, Cleaning Personnel, and Cargo Personnel reveals that the federal agency is concerned about airborne contamination. The advisory urges airline staff to provide surgical masks to potential Ebola victims in order “to reduce the number of droplets expelled into the air by talking, sneezing, or coughing.” The CDC is also directing airline cleaning personnel to, “not use compressed air, which might spread infectious material through the air.” The CDC’s concern about the Ebola virus being spread via the air is understandable in light of the 2012 experiment conducted by Canadian scientists which proved that, “the Ebola virus could be transmitted by air between species.” Researchers demonstrated that the Ebola virus could be transmitted from pigs to monkeys without any direct contact. They did that by placing the two animals in pens that was separated only by a wire barrier. After eight days, some of the monkeys were found to have symptoms of Ebola likely as a result of “inhaling large aerosol droplets produced from the respiratory tracts of the pigs.” The results of the study led scientists to conclude that, “limited airborne transmission might be contributing to the spread of the disease in some parts of Africa,” although they cautioned against making comparisons to the airborne nature of the influenza virus. In addition, the Public Health Agency of Canada’s official website states under a section entitled “mode of transmission,” that “airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated.” The potential for a new strain of the Ebola virus to have achieved airborne transmission only serves to cast further doubt on the logic of the United States choosing to import two Ebola sufferers into the country and potentially hundreds of American aid workers serving in Western and Central Africa. As we report Despite repeated assurances that the Ebola virus cannot be transmitted via airborne particles, the CDC is concerned about that very outcome and has directed airline staff to take steps to prevent the spread of “infectious material through the air.” While Ebola is highly contagious, the risk of a full blown pandemic has been downplayed by health authorities because, according to our current understanding of the virus, Ebola, “is not airborne and is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids, including sweat and blood.” However, with concerns rising that the current strain of the virus, which is the worst in history and has killed 887 people, could in fact be airborne, the Centers For Disease Control has implemented steps to prevent its spread via international air travel. A CDC advisory entitled Interim Guidance about Ebola Virus Infection for Airline Flight Crews, Cleaning Personnel, and Cargo Personnel, revealed that the federal agency is concerned about airborne contamination. The advisory urges airline staff to provide surgical masks to potential Ebola victims in order “to reduce the number of droplets expelled into the air by talking, sneezing, or coughing.” The CDC is also directing airline cleaning personnel to, “not use compressed air, which might spread infectious material through the air.” The CDC’s concern about the Ebola virus being spread via the air is understandable in light of a 2012 experiment conducted by Canadian scientists which proved that, “the Ebola virus could be transmitted by air between species.” Researchers demonstrated that the virus could be transmitted from pigs to monkeys without any direct contact by placing the two animals in pens separated only by a wire barrier. After eight days, some of the monkeys were found to have symptoms of Ebola likely as a result of “inhaling large aerosol droplets produced from the respiratory tracts of the pigs.” The results of the study led scientists to conclude that, “limited airborne transmission might be contributing to the spread of the disease in some parts of Africa,” although they cautioned against making comparisons to the airborne nature of the influenza virus. In addition, the Public Health Agency of Canada’s official website states under a section entitled “mode of transmission,” that “airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected, although it has not yet been conclusively demonstrated.” The potential for a new strain of the Ebola virus to have achieved airborne transmission only serves to cast further doubt on the logic of the United States choosing to import two Ebola victims into the country. Recently, President Barack Obama signed an amendment to executive order which allows health authorities to detain Americans who show signs of respiratory illness. The executive order, titled Revised List of Quarantinable Communicable Diseases, amends executive order 13295, passed by George W. Bush in April 2003, which allows for the, “apprehension, detention, or conditional release of individuals to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of suspected communicable diseases.” The amendment signed by Obama replaces subsection (b) of the original Bush executive order which referred only to SARS. Obama’s amendment allows for the detention of Americans who display: “Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled.” Although Ebola was listed on the original executive order signed by Bush, Obama’s amendment ensures that Americans who merely show signs of respiratory illness, with the exception of influenza, can be forcibly detained by medical authorities. Although the quarantining of people suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus seems like a perfectly logical move, the actual preconditions for this to happen aren’t restricted to just those suffering from the disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has measures in place for dealing with an outbreak of a communicable disease which allow for the quarantine of “well persons” who “do not show symptoms” of the disease. In addition, under the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, public health authorities and governors would be given expanded police powers to seize control of communications devices, public and private property, as well as a host of other draconian measures in the event of a public health emergency. When the legislation was introduced, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons warned that it “could turn governors into dictators.” When it was reported on August 1, 2014 that Emory University Hospital in Atlanta was set to receive a doctor infected with Ebola news later followed that a hospital in Germany also accepted an infected patient days later in early August. Some critics have raised concerns about the risk of deliberately importing infected individuals into the west. The CDC has also outlined measures for dealing with an outbreak of a communicable disease which allow for the quarantine of “well persons” who “do not show symptoms” of the disease. Since it claimed its first victims in Liberia and Guinea in February and March 2014, the Ebola virus epidemic has killed more than 900 people in three countries and infected more than 1,100 people – figures that are more lethal than any other outbreak in the virus’s nearly 38-year history. But developments during the cardinal spring into the summer of 2014 could transform this outbreak from an unusually nasty regional epidemic to something much bigger. THE SCORPIO HYBRID SOLAR ECLIPSE In the June 2013 edition of my forecast blog Global Astrology, I focused on the presages I saw in 2013 for solar year 2014 that I was concerned about. Ebola virus was one of them. The problem was complex, but the hybrid total solar eclipse that began off the east coast of the United States, and cast its shadow over the Atlantic Ocean to landfall over equatorial Africa was cause for alarm. The November 3, 2013 hybrid Total Solar Eclipse fell at 11-degrees tropical Scorpio was the fifth eclipse of that year overall. It was also the second solar eclipse of 2013. It also happened to be the only eclipse of 2013 that featured a glimpse of totality and that was over the coast of Liberia and that is where the Ebola Virus rages. When the eclipse began on that Sunday morning in November 2013, regions from northern South America, across the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, and through the Canadian Maritimes would have observed a brief partial solar eclipse completing itself about 30 minutes after sunrise. Then the eclipse raced eastward across the Atlantic Ocean where nearly all of Africa including the southern Mediterranean region of Spain witnessed a partial eclipse. But the greatest eclipse totality took place just off of the coast of Liberia and then made landfall on the African continent over Wonga Wongue Reserve in Gabon. The Scorpio Moon’s shadow crossed central Africa and then headed for a brief but brilliant sunset featuring a total eclipse over the African nations of Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The chart for the eclipse over Liberia was malefic. The Sun and Moon in conjunction at 11-Scorpio also had Mercury retrograde at 7-Scorpio and conjoined to the Dragon’s Head, also at 7-Scorpio. This region of the skies is known as the ‘Via Combusta’ and the Moon’s placement here is negative and destructive, as is also the Sun’s position and Saturn. Saturn, peregrine at 13-Scorpio is part of the Scorpio stellium of the Sun, Moon, Mercury and North Lunar Node – all square to the rising of Aquarius at the time of the hybrid eclipse. Chiron in the medical sign of Pisces trines the Scorpio positions, which shows healthcare workers being affected, but the semi-square from Saturn to Venus at 28-Gemini shows stress to the population. Uranus and Pluto are in exact square at this time with Ceres and Venus also mutable square to one another. The eclipse took place in the region of the skies that are notorious for their malefic influences. The Via Combusta, the ‘fiery’ or ‘burning path’ is a region of the sky between tropical Libra and Scorpio are not considered favorable, but very malefic. The mundane astrologer Al Biruni, wrote on transits through the Via Combusta: The combust way is the last part of Libra and the first of Scorpio. These two signs are not congenial to the Sun and the Moon on account of the obscurity and ill-luck connected with them and because each of them is the fall of one of the luminaries. They also contain the two malefics, the one by exaltation (Libra, Saturn) the other by house (Scorpio, Mars). The peculiarity was given the Arabic term, ‘muhtariq’ which translates to the exaltation of Saturn being near the fall of the Sun being on the one hand and that of the Moon in Scorpio on the other, while the adjacent parts of both signs are occupied by terms of Mars. In modern times, the span of skies in Libra and Scorpio’s ‘Via Combusta’ is from 15 degrees Libra to 15 degrees Scorpio – essentially, mid- tropical Libra and mid-tropical Scorpio. The most intense span is seen to be from about 25-Libra to 6-degrees of Scorpio. In mundane astrology, this span shows how the planet Mars has impact with an intensely violent and destructive influence. The problem in 2014 is that with a peregrine Saturn in Scorpio, the presence of the greater malefic can draw the worst out of it. In ancient mundane lore, the ‘fiery road’ or Via Combusta was seen as a dangerous section of the skies. Even today, those who practice horary astrology will defer judgment when the transiting Moon is in this burning zone. The 15th Century Italian astrologer, Marsilio Ficino, suggested that the fiery road lies between 28 degrees Libra and 3 degrees Scorpio. Others use the parameters from 26 degrees Libra to 6 degrees Scorpio, and still others apply the Via Combusta from 15-Libra to 15-Scorpio. Nonetheless, this area of the sky is considered to be a much debilitated region, and is located among the ‘claws’ of Scorpius - a place in the Zodiac which contains many baneful stars. The brightest star in Scorpius is brilliant Antares, from the Greek word Αντάρης, meaning like Mars - on account of its strong reddish-orange color, similar to that of the planet Mars. The name is also translated as rival of Mars. Mars is the aggressive ruler of the Ebola Virus and with Saturn peregrine in Scorpio, the deadly disease was presaged by the November 3, 2013 hybrid total eclipse that took place within the span of the Via Combusta. We have seen the results of the presage with the outbreak. By January 2014, when the Scorpio eclipse was squared by the transit of Mercury and then the Sun in Aquarius was when the first serious reports of Ebola began to spread. Meanwhile, transiting Mars entered Scorpio on July 26th and by August 15-16, 2014 will conjoin the Nov. 3, 2013 eclipse degree at 11-Scorpio. What we are seeing is the spread of the Ebola virus and desperate attempts to contain it when opportunities to isolate it back during the winter of 2014 were squandered. On July 24, 2014 Nigerian authorities then confirmed that a Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer, had collapsed in Lagos after flying there from the Liberian capital, Monrovia, and tested positive for Ebola; Sawyer died on the night of July 24-25. This is alarming. So far, Ebola has been confined to Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia - war-torn and largely rural west African countries. But Lagos, Nigeria is different; not only is it Africa’s biggest city, with 21 million people. It’s also one of the world’s most densely populated. And perhaps scariest of all, it’s a center for international travel: meaning that if it’s not contained, the virus could easily go global. Sawyer’s was the first-ever recorded case of Ebola in Nigeria, according to the Nigerian Tribune. So far, the Nigerian government’s efforts to contain it inspire little confidence. The World Health Organization says that Sawyer, who worked for the Liberian finance ministry, turned himself in to Nigerian health authorities after he began vomiting and having diarrhea in the middle of the three-hour flight from Monrovia to Lagos. Nigeria’s health minister says authorities are currently trying to track down an unspecified number of the 100 or so other passengers on the flight. This might be tricky. The 35 Nigerian co-passengers took flight once word got out that the health ministry was supposed to have quarantined them, prompting the federal government to launch a manhunt to track them down, reports Sunday Newswatch, a Nigerian newspaper, citing a federal security agent. The government has only now begun screening passengers arriving from foreign countries for the virus, according to the Tribune. One of the problems for airport screeners is that the first signs of Ebola, which is thought to be spread by bats, are a jumble of flu-like symptoms (e.g. headache, fever and stomach pain). “Unfortunately the initial signs of Ebola imitate other diseases, like malaria or typhoid,” Dr. Lance Plyler of the aid organization Samaritan’s Purse told the Associated Press. Those symptoms soon become more noticeable, giving way to vomiting and diarrhea. Within a week, the sickened often begin bleeding from mucous membranes, particularly from the intestines. Victims die when internal organs begin shutting down. Ebola typically kills nine-tenths of those infected. Causing its victims to spew mucus and blood helps Ebola enter the mucus membranes or cuts of its next host. It’s devastatingly good at this. Though medical workers are usually swaddled in biohazard gear, it’s still infected some 100 health workers. So far, 60 have died, including a prominent doctor. Given that deadly efficiency, the fact that at least 35 people who might have been exposed are at large in Lagos - to say nothing of the other passengers arriving from infected areas of West Africa - is disquieting as well. A virologist who wanted to stay anonymous said this in early August about the Ebola outbreak: “The reason the media keeps repeating that mission medicine groups are pulling out is because they’ve never seen an outbreak in this scale before. Why they aren’t flying this patient to Fort Detrick containment facility first before Emory is unknown to me other than Emory and CDC have sequencing capabilities and Fort Detrick does not. I received a tweet from a colleague virologist in the field in Africa: His comment, “Much, much worse than media is saying…. coming home.” I ask…..why wouldn’t they set up shop inside the massive BSL 4 facility at CDC? Emory? This virus has a 65% mortality rate not 80% which means it has traded off pathogenesis for the ability to ‘jump,’ that is, move from patient to patient. Currently all that is known about this virus is that blood or body fluid to mucus membrane direct contact. However, I now question that guideline recommendation for safe handling because the DOCTOR and NURSES who went straight away to the HOT ZONE are now infected and 2 nurses dead already that were trained to handle this virus infection in patients with “barrier protection” as recommended by CDC. Bottom line: I believe this virus is traveling on micro droplets of lung water vapor thus the virus is airborne and bio-safety training for airborne virus means RESPIRATORS of which none of the personal on site are wearing and people are coming home from service in Africa who won’t know they are infected. This virus has a 21 day affectivity period. All viruses in this class are limited for spreading and jumping because Ebola, Marburg, Lasa. etc., etc all KILL their host too fast, i.e., 7-10 days and that includes primary infection to crash and bleed out. This virus is 21-30 days? Huge difference in number of people an infected person can get close to with an incubation of 21-30 days versus 7-10. I believe this virus is a mutant thus the reason why they are taking the patient to Emory so the CDC and Emory labs can sequence it. Fort Detrick does not have that capability. Call me crazy but I’m not leaving it to chance even with a minute chance of it happening. Be prepared my friend!” In August 2014, as Mars transits in Scorpio, the house of its own domain, and with Saturn already in Scorpio in its peregrine transit there, and, with mars about to contact the Nov. 3, 2013 hybrid solar eclipse degree by mid-August - the news and fear of the potential spread of Ebola to other regions of the world has been upped several notches. In Part Two we Look at the Origins of Ebola.
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