Saturn Neptune conjunctions come round three times every century and have a past association with epidemics, some more damaging than others. Anxiety about hantavirus on board a cruise ship and now ebola in the Congo spreading to Uganda is causing unease with the Saturn Neptune conjunction having moved from Pisces into Aries, still in orb.
Not all Saturn Neptune conjunctions coincide with outbreaks of illness and the recent covid epidemic occurred with Saturn conjunct Pluto not Neptune. But on odd occasions through the ages it has been devastating.
Spanish flu after World War 1 killed off, on rough estimates, anywhere between 1 and 6 per cent of the global population – perhaps 25 to 50 million people. It was exacerbated and spread by troop movements at the end of the war and killed more in 24 weeks than HIV/AIDS did in 24 years.
In contrast the early 1950s Saturn Neptune conjunction coincided with one minor flu outbreak and was more notable for the setting up of The Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) by WHO to monitor the evolution of influenza viruses.
Below from my Astrological History of the World.
Saturn Neptune: Health and medicine
The dual face of Saturn–Neptune in providing practical care for the suffering and in the insidious undermining of the body’s health both find a place in world history. An epidemic of St Vitus Dance (chorea) broke out in Europe in 1021 when Saturn and Neptune were together in Aquarius; the disease causes involuntary jerky movements and leads to brain deterioration, and was so called because victims prayed to St Vitus, the patron saint of dance.
The plague that devastated Europe and Asia during the 1340s was marked by the 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.
By the Saturn Neptune conjunction of the late 1980s in Capricorn, the AIDS virus was running amok, causing countless deaths in Africa, Europe and the United States.
Medical advances are also highlighted under Saturn–Neptune, with the physicians’ meeting place in Rome, the Schola Medicorum, being set up in ad 17 in Sagittarius; in 1739 in Cancer, the London Foundling Hospital was established; and by 1881 in Taurus, Louis Pasteur had discovered the anthrax vaccine.
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