Many astrologers are unaware that Andre Barbault's work on outer planetary cycles built on the work of medieval and renaissance astrologers who also looked at outer planetary cycles. But in that time the 'outers' or superior planets were on the 3 naked planers Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Most of you have probably heard about the important 'great conjunctions between Jupiter-Saturn every 20 years and the corresponding 'great mutation' charts when the conjunction cycle changes element approximately every 200 years. We are of course witnessing such an epic changeover with the great conjunction in Aquarius marking a decisive shift to the air triplicity.

However, the medieval renaissance tradition there was also a tradition of examining the minor conjunctions of Mars-Jupiter and Mars-Saturn. The latter was given more weight and a chart was erected for this conjunction just like the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction.

I have provided a link to a fascinating series of posts from Lee Lehman's blog which analyses the spread of the Coronavirus across the world in terms of the Mars-Saturn conjunction event. Scrolldown are there are several pieces on Lee blog.

https://leephd.blogspot.com/

Mark

Very informative!
Thank you Mark for your most recent posts!
Ouranos

As Retrograde Mercury in Cancer sextiles Uranus, an interesting news item has come to light. Scientists in Spain have found Coronavirus DNA in stored wastewater samples from March 2019, Telegraph 26 June 2020.
If true this becomes a whole new ballgame & may go some way to explain the erratic behavior of COVID i.e some countries without lockdown have lower death rates than those with lockdown,& Ernst Wilhelm may be right in advising that this is a problem of immunity as a healthy body could deal with COVID as the waste sample from over a year ago demonstrates the virus was under control naturally as there was no epidemic until over a year later. So what could have weakened human immunity, I am not qualified to say, but it is curious that Wuhan is a known for 10000 5 G rollouts by the end of 2019,& Starlink was tested in October 2019 how many thousands of satellites? 12000 with a possibility of 42000. Using 5 G, Surely if Pluto Eris, etc can have an influence on human destiny from vast distances then 42000 5G satellites in low orbit definitely will.
Could it be that the introduction of novel electromagnetic waves has an effect on the human body, this we do not know for sure as virtually no research has been allowed on this topic Spanish Flu coincided with the introduction of radio waves. Maybe the human body has problems as new frequencies are released but which eventually the body evolves to counteract,& could it be that we are being experimented on & any mention of 5G is rapidly shut down.

Following up on the fascinating blog of Lee Lehman, one element we tend to overlook is the chart of the Prime Minister or King of a country. The Ancients used it as much as the birth chart of the country itself.

Below is a link to a translation by Vivian Goldstein of Book XXV Astrologia Gallica from Jean-Baptiste Morin de Villefranche on Mundane Astrology.
http://74.220.204.163/foa/book25resume.html

12. No man is naturally subjugated to another man, but he can be politically, that is to say, accidentally. It is in this manner that the genitures and revolutions of Kings are universal causes for their subjects.
14. But a place may be subjugated to another accidentally, that is, politically.
15. The accidents and the destinies of a place are of two kinds; one is natural (State of the atmosphere, illnesses, famines, etc.), and the other is political (laws, tributes, edicts, etc.).

Looking at the Mars-Saturn conjunction of 2020 in the USA chart, we find this conjunction set for Washington falling in the 6th House as well as in President Trump's natal chart. So we have both natural and accidental effects confirmed.

Kind regards,
Ouranos

mark,

thanks for sharing lee lehmans article from april 2020.. i just finished reading it...

so much of it looks like astro backfill, as opposed to making any kind of prediction on much of anything here... yes, she mentions more economic hardship into 2021 for the usa...

i am sorry - i have to descent in looking at this article as not all that impressive or of much value..

disease and pestilence.. mars-saturn conjunction.. makes sense... it is fascinating to watch how different countries have responded to all of this and with different degrees of success or failure.. focusing on italy, wuhan and usa is interesting... back in april when she wrote the article, one could say the focus was largely on italy and wuhan... not so much anymore here in late june... and as far as how well countries have processed this, here is a good site for getting a broad overview on it.. - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

i find the article very unconvincing, but thank you for sharing it!