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In Part Two of my series about the COVID-19 coronavirus (click here for part one as well, if you missed it) I discussed the role of the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in the appearance of this disease. Long story short? It was probably a trigger, but certainly not the whole story. Astrology is as complicated as life, and one can never really point out one single factor as the one single cause for one major event.
You’ve probably heard lately the people are hoarding toilet paper. That’s unusual, because… how do I put this delicately? An increased need for toilet paper is not a coronavirus symptom. But I have discovered one interesting connection between hoarding toilet paper and Saturn Pluto aspects. That, and in astrology, “waste” and “elimination” are ruled by Saturn and Pluto — so why not?
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If you ask someone to name the worst years out of the last 50 years off the top of their head, not many people are going to automatically say “1973.” But it was a rough year for much of the world, and for America in particular. There was a stock market crash, there was an oil embargo, and rumours of shortages of gasoline and electricity in the air.
There was also a big run on toilet paper.
In November of 1973, when Saturn at 4 degrees Cancer was square Pluto at 5 degrees Libra, in the aftermath of some substantial earthquakes in Japan, the Japanese market experienced a temporary shortage of toilet paper. People were hoarding the stuff. This, despite the fact that there is no proven connection between earthquakes and diarrhea.
This would have all blown over pretty quickly if it weren’t for congressman Harold V. Froehlich. He was the representative for a district in Wisconsin that relies heavily on the lumber industry. He picked up on this Japanese news story and released a press statement to the effect that the government printing office was potentially facing a shortage of paper. This didn’t really cause any ripples.
Shortly after that though, Froehlich noticed that the government’s National Buying Center was behind on securing bids to provide toilet paper for troops and government offices. On December 11th, 1973, he sent out another press release. Essentially, it said that there’s going to be a serious shortage of TP, and that hopefully “we don’t have to ration toilet tissue.”
This never happened of course, but this isn’t where the story ends. Americans, already scared in the wake of economic duress, ate this story up. Toilet paper started flying off the shelves, but the situation was under control.
But then Johnny Carson made a joke about it on The Tonight Show, and people went nuts. This one joke, combined with fears pumped by a politician looking to increase local business, all happening within the environment of generalized fear, led to a month-long shortage of toilet paper across America.
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Please remember this next time you get yourself into big a panic over the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Caution, not panic. Then again, I bought a big pack of toilet paper last week before this all started. Despite that: could you all please calm down before I run out?
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