Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world

Microplastic contamination has been found in tap water in countries around the world, leading to calls from scientists for urgent research on the implications for health. Scores of tap water samples from more than a dozen nations were analysed by scientists for an investigation by Orb Media, who shared the findings with the Guardian. Overall, 83% of the samples were contaminated with plastic fibres.

“We have enough data from looking at wildlife, and the impacts that it’s having on wildlife, to be concerned,” said Dr Sherri Mason, a microplastic expert at the State University of New York in Fredonia, who supervised the analyses for Orb. “If it’s impacting [wildlife], then how do we think that it’s not going to somehow impact us?”  Sept.6 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-fibres-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals

The news comes to us at the September 6 Full Moon in Pisces that conjoins Neptune. Just a day before on September 5, the Sun and Neptune form an exact opposition which aligns with the meridian axis at Fredonia, NY where the study was carried out. A Full Moon brings to consciousness that which was hidden or just a see-idea.  In his essay Neptune in Pisces (2011-26) –Beyond Thoughts, Beyond Beliefs, Maurice Fernandez writes: 

Neptune entered its own sign of Pisces in 2011  for an extended period of approximately 14 years. With the world already shaken by natural disasters and socioeconomic unrest, our yearning to transcend illusive schemes and aim for a direct perception of the Truth now becomes not merely a quest for spiritual seekers, but a survival imperative for all. As Neptune moves through Pisces, humanity is possibly confronted with one of its most serious existential crises ever. With the stakes so high at a time of paralyzing insecurity, this transit renders us humble and disarmed as we stand in the glaring light of Truth. Facing the unknown means that we will confront the limits of our science. Established notions will lose their credibility when completely unexpected occurrences and consequences mystify our minds. The thought of this is simultaneously magnificent and terrifying.

With Uranus and Aquarius, humans have the upper hand over life; we decode life’s mechanisms and create civilization. With Neptune and Pisces, the balance of power changes, and it is life that gets to direct the play, subjecting us to higher and untamed forces, such as those of Nature. Neptune in Pisces represents Nature in its raw form, before human intervention, and includes the wild — the jungles and natural resources — as well as natural events. In other words, Neptune in Pisces captures all that we did not create but that was here upon our arrival; it includes all the forces of life and whatever existed before civilization. So, with this 14-year transit, we are being called to better harmonize with Nature. However, before such balance is restored, Neptune in Pisces is bound to shake Nature’s foundations considerably. Consequently, Neptune in Pisces will likely induce a stronger wave of chaotic natural phenomena — indeed, a bankruptcy of sorts. Water resources and oceans immediately come to mind.

We do not need to understand astrology to know that we will face a water crisis sometime in the near future.  and that our oceans have become depleted by careless fishing practices. I won’t go into the magnitude of problems that can arise from water crises on so many dimensions, but as it is with every predicament, whatever challenges we end up facing will stimulate creativity and growth. Likely, and hopefully, we will not wait for the Earth to become a desert of sand and ice before we learn how to more effectively manage water and other natural resources.  In a larger context, if ecological matters are not adequately addressed, the immunity of the entire planet is at risk under this transit. Up to now, the Earth has been able to absorb and deal with human experiments,” mistakes, and our ogreish consumption relatively well, but we must consider that this may not always be so. The darkest scenario of the Earth’s immune system collapse would obviously be far beyond anything we have ever encountered. http://www.mauricefernandez.com/TMAneptuneinpisces.pdf

Getting back to the chart, we notice that Neptune on the MC is trine the TNP Hades on the Ascendant with both in water signs. Since Hades is all  about dirt and decline, the combination is reminding us about the degradation of water quality.