Foot and Mouth in Britain

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One potentially devastating affect of the Mars-Algol conjunction in Britain is the announcement that a new case of foot and mouth disease has been discovered in a farm in Surrey. The farm has been undergoing tests and restrictions since late on Thursday 2nd August, as the square between Mars and Saturn was partile.

The news this morning said the disease is likely to be restricted to bovine cattle rather than sheep. The link between outbreaks of this disease and malefic contacts to Algol in Taurus is now quite striking. The following is extracted from Nick Kollerstrom?s article on Algol at http://www.skyscript.co.uk/algol.html , where he spoke about its relevance in the last outbreak.

(It?s hard to determine a commencement for this event, but the chart below shows the 9:00 am meeting of Cobra (the Government's emergency committee) which met this morning to draw up a plan of action. Source for timing: telegraph.co.uk)


Britain's Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic

In the year 2001, the worst-ever Foot-and-Mouth epidemic struck. The burning of British cows began at the end of February 2001, as Saturn in Taurus came within a degree of Algol. Jupiter and Saturn, conjunct the year before, were ten degrees apart and both in the Bull constellation. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF) decision to go for mass extermination as remedy for a mild, temporary disease causing no harm to humans seemed like the reasoning of a head that had become disconnected from the body of British farming. Only a tiny, tiny proportion of the cows slaughtered were ever shown to have been infected. Saturn, always traditionally viewed as the planet of agriculture, remained within a degree of Algol through most of March.

It was a holocaust, with nearly four million farm animals slaughtered. Computer boffins in London (at Imperial College and the Royal Society) advised the government, overruling the advice of the recognised experts on foot-and-mouth who were advocating a very different course. As corpses were shovelled into mass landfills and funeral pyres burned across England, the madly-deranged official logic justifying all this seemed to resemble the writhing of Medusa's serpents. One is haunted by the memories of MAFF officials in Cumbria hunting out pet goats owned by children to kill them. Then MAFF itself dissolved in May, from guilt too terrible to bear, morphing into a more forgettable acronym.

MAFF had no shred of legal right to enter farms full of healthy cows, to exterminate them. There were a very few such farms which had the moral backbone to challenge the legality of this, and in each such case MAFF backed away. The terror they wielded was like Medusa's gaze, which paralysed the will of farmers, permitting the officials to enter. Vets up and down the country betrayed the sacred Hippocratic oath of their profession, to protect life and not take it, as they wrote the 'official' notes permitting the army to enter and kill. There were two phials of Medusa's blood that Athena gave to the physician Asclepius, one from her left side and the other from her right: one would kill, and the other would cure. The first of these was here used.
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Meant to post some comments on this at the time, as while I totally buy the algol connection as the traditional signifier, I also noticed that, on a modern basis that mars was activating the saturn pluto trine - given that in the major 2001 outbreak saturn was square pluto

But in both cases, it was also interesting to note that when the second case was announced a few days later (6th Aug) the moon, by then in Taurus, was itself reactivating the contacts - a potential case of translation of light? Yet once mars moved into Gemini the situation was more or less over and saturn into Virgo seemed to confirm it.

However I wondered at the time about the influence of retrograde venus cojoining saturn and squaring mars so close to the sign boundaries and then going back into Leo. Nothing seems to have occurred until Venus went direct again on 8th Sept (the day the zones were finally lifted). The moon in Leo that day then activated everything again when it squared Mars 9 even though in a different sign that unusual venus conjunction at the sign boundary seems to be linking them.

Thing is I can't work out whether Venus is capable of reactivating again when it reaches Saturn or if once it leaves Leo it is all finally over. Any ideas?