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Last time, I discussed the ingress of Saturn into Aquarius in terms of the Saturn-Uranus square. I admit that may have been jumping the gun a little, since that aspect won’t be exact until 2021. However it will still be within range through much of this year, and I suspect that there’s going to be more than the usual amount of panic around it.
One way to get a sneak preview of how an important major aspect might manifest can be to look at the last time that it happened. Let’s do that now, specifically from the perspective that many people will put two plus two together and make some statement like this:
“Saturn rules difficulties and breakdowns. Uranus rules computers and the internet. OMG IT’S THE CYBER APOCALYPSE!”
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JULY 17TH, 1999. Saturn at 15 degrees Taurus square Uranus at 15 degrees Aquarius.
There was a building panic in the world about what was called the Y2K bug. For those of you who weren’t there, or who don’t recall it: this was a potential problem with how the vast majority of computer programs were written at the time. Most software coded the year in a date with two digits. 1978 was “78,” 1993 was “93,” and so on. Thus, without extensive intervention, most computer systems in the world would read “January 1st, 2000” as actually being “January 1st, 1900. ”
Predicted possible results of the Y2K bug included: a collapse of international finance, aircraft falling from the sky, nuclear reactors exploding, and the accidental launch of nuclear weapons.
It’s important to keep in mind that much of the fear was being fuelled by a so-called prediction by Nostradamus. In one of his quatrains he clearly stated in the year 1999, in the seventh month, “from the skies shall come an alarmingly powerful King.” If you know much about Nostradamus, you know it was rare for him to be that specific about a date. This “prediction” appeared to line up with the total Solar Eclipse of August 1999.
(A side note, one I know that will annoy a fair number of you. I’ve read a fair amount about Nostradamus, and the idea that he could see major events far in the future appears to be complete garbage. Interpreting Nostradamus requires fluency in both Medieval French and Latin, plus a familiarity with medieval history, and an understanding of both idiom and puns from that place and time. Even if you’re equipped with all that, the predictions of Nostradamus made were so maddeningly vague that (at best) they only halfway make sense after the events they have allegedly “predicted.” And really — can we call that a prediction at all? Besides, if Nostradamus — a physician credited with being great at treating the plague — was so great at seeing the future, why was he off touring Italy in 1534 when his wife and two children died of the plague? )
NOVEMBER 14TH, 1999. Saturn at 13 degrees Taurus square Uranus at 15 degrees Aquarius.
Billions have been spent worldwide attempting to fix the Y2K bug in time. Nonetheless, there were significant doubts. People began hoarding canned food and bottled water. With many, panic had begun to set in. Televangelists were doing a booming business collecting people’s soon to be worthless money in preparation for the return of the Messiah.
Meanwhile, the programmers kept working away on software patches, and Coast To Coast AM with Art Bell kept pushing the doomsday prophets. Take my word for it if you weren’t there: it was tense.
MAY 13TH, 2000. Saturn at 20 degrees Taurus square Uranus at 20 degrees Aquarius.
The biggest news event on May 13th, 2000? A fireworks factory in the Netherlands exploded, killing 22 people and injuring another 950. This event does, I admit, have a certain Saturn square Uranus sound to it.
Wait, what? What about all that end-of-the-world stuff from January 1st?
Major events from January 1st 2000 included: A radiation alarm sounding falsely at a nuclear power plant in Onagawa Japan, bus ticket validation machines failing to operate in Australia, and 150 Delaware Lottery slot machines stopped working.
(Yawn)
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So what does this all mean for the here and now? Does it mean we can safely dismiss any concerns about our technology or cyber-security? Probably not. But I do think that this is an excellent sign that sometimes the things we panic about simply don’t manifest. And sometimes, working hard to prevent those things from happening can actually prevent them.
Keep this in mind when you are either dismissing the risk of coronavirus or losing too much sleep over it. Treating it like the next great plague may very well prevent it from becoming a bigger problem than it will. Also, remember this lesson in 2021 when everyone is worried about the robot uprising. That isn’t very likely.
On the other hand, is it more likely that there will be increased problems with Internet privacy, hacking, electronic surveillance, interference with social media, and so on? Gosh, that’s sort of thing doesn’t happen now, does it…?
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