WHO Ebola virus alert

26 JUNE 2014 | GENEVA - The emergence of an Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa in 2014 has become a challenge to the 3 countries involved, as the Governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone work intensively with WHO and other partners to ramp up a series of measures to control the outbreak.

Since March 2014, more than 600 cases of Ebola and over 390 deaths have been reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The disease is first acquired by a population when a person comes into contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected animal such as a monkey or fruit bat. Fruit bats are believed to carry and spread the disease without being affected by it. Once infected the disease may be spread from one person to another.

The Ebola virus causes a nasty infection that triggers an inflammatory reaction so intense, patients essentially drown in their own fluids as they bleed internally and externally — victims’ bodies are overtaken with a well-intentioned defensive system run amok.

Here we will look at the chart for the last solar eclipse at Geneva, where the center for WHO’s, Global Alert and Response Network is based. The eclipse was placed in the 12^th house opposite Saturn in the 6^th house – a house associated with disease and public health.  The opposition axis is further brought into prominence by its square to the MC.  Saturn [20sc52] is conjunct the stars of the Centaur (man-animal), Serpentis (poison) and Lupus (the Beast of Death). This position of Saturn is conjunct the sidereal Cancer Ingress Ascendant  at Conakry,the capital of Guinea – the country worst affected.  Diana Rosenberg [1] links this area to “environmental contamination, epidemics, mass deaths of people but also actions for the establishment of health” among other issues . She gives the following examples of transits to stars here to illustrate her point.

Roman troops returning from Mesopotamia brought disease back with them: the Plague of Antonious (aka the Plague of Galen) spread through the dominion causing heavy mortality, contributing to the gradual downfall of the Roman Empire; this was the London MC at the Aries Ingress of 1665: the Great Plague of London (bubonic) started in late spring: by the end of December it had killed 69,000; at the October 1845 SolEcl at the start of the devastating Irish Potato blight: in the ensuing famine of 1846-51 over 1 million (one third of the population) died of starvation and disease or emigrated; the 1858 Summer Solstice Mars at London’s unbearable “Great Stink”: heat, filth, excrement and the unbelievably polluted Thames (the cause of cholera epidemic) afflicted the city; Jupiter when the International Red Cross was established in Geneva in 1864; Venus in 1928 when an “Iron Lung” was used for the first time, at Boston’s Children Hospital, to help polio victims breathe and many others.

Progressing the eclipse chart to June 26, the date of the WHO global alert, brings the Grand Cross precisely to the meridian axis. If Uranus-Pluto is linked to major upheavals then its combination with Jupiter makes it out of control. Mars [11li49] is conjunct stars that Diana Rosenberg links to “public health issues” so that it is not difficult to see why the WHO alert is about a possible “raging” epidemic.

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p. 215-22)