Sir Alexander Fleming, the Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the antibiotic penicillin which was described as the “single greatest victory ever achieved over disease”, was born on 6 August 1881 at 2am Darvel, Scotland. He was knighted for his scientific achievements and was named in Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.
He had a Leo Sun square a 10th house Saturn Neptune conjunction in Taurus – Saturn Neptune being known for healing and health in one of its effects (around now until 2027 in Aries). Even more serendipitous he had Jupiter in Taurus conjunct Algol on one side and Chiron on the other (both within a degree) – a healing victory over death. His Jupiter was also in a confident conjunction to an unshakeably determined Pluto Mars conjunction. Plus he had an innovative Uranus trine Neptune Saturn.
His discovery came on 28 September 1928 when, with delightful astrological precision, Neptune had just moved into Virgo, sign of health.
At that point his Mars Pluto conjunction was by Solar Arc crossing his Ascendant as was tr Pluto for a momentous break and a life-changing moment. Tr Neptune was square his Mars. Tr Jupiter in Taurus was moving through his 10th/11th about to cross his four Taurus planets.
Saturn Neptune in the past: Medical advances are highlighted under Saturn–Neptune, with Louis Pasteur helping to discover the anthrax vaccine in 1881, the year of Fleming’s birth.
But it also has a dual face coinciding at times with major outbreaks of sickness. 1021 – an epidemic of St Vitus Dance (chorea) in Europe 1 when Saturn and Neptune were in Aquarius. The plague that devastated Europe and Asia during the 1340s also Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Aquarius of 1344, and the Uranus–Pluto conjunction at the same time. The outbreak of bubonic plague in London in 1665 and the Great Fire of London a year later both took place when Saturn and Neptune were together in Capricorn. In 1846 in Aquarius, widespread famine in Ireland followed the failure of the potato crop. During the 1917 and 1918 conjunction in Leo, there were massive casualties in the First World War, especially at Passchendaele, and the Spanish ‘flu epidemic of 1918 killed 20 million in Europe, the United States and India. By the conjunction of the late 1980s in Capricorn, the AIDS virus was running amok, causing countless deaths in Africa, Europe and the United States.
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