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.
How ironic, when Trump would need that research. I read his mother and sister had experiened dementia type behavior before their deaths. Fred Trump’s case was already documented. Trump’s latest released health news, with swollen extremities, possibly a vascular dementia. I wonder if there’s a medical astrology trigger(s) for dementia
And the discovery itself was pure serendipity. He was checking petri dishes that had been left on a window sill in front of an open window before throwing them away, when he noticed that the bacteria in one of them had receded. His analysis revealed that a spore of fungus blown in through the window had caused the bacteria in the petri dish to die. So it was his observation that made the discovery but it was ‘a clumsy accident’ which created the circumstances for that discovery. Had someone not opened the window while the experiment was in progress he would certainly not have discovered it at that point in time. Nowadays it would be very hard for something like that to occur. I am always fascinated by accidental discoveries.
Although Fleming received most of the credit, it was Howard Florey and Ernst Chain at Oxford who analysed the composition of penicillin and made it into a viable and effective drug. They shared the Nobel Prize with Flemming for their contribution.
One story of Fleming was that in his later years he opened a brand new laboratory. His comment was that the lab was neat and tidy yet penicillin would not be discovered in it, because of its tidiness.
Looking at the charts I suppose the Neptune Saturn conjunction opposite uranus helped to make the the discovery concrete though the technical ability of the chemists was needed to make it practical.
I read this morning about a discovery by a Harvard medical team that lithium could reverse the aging of the brain and therefore Alzheimer’s. This despite Trump’s war against universities and RFK Jr’s cuts to research funding. Civilization will hopefully survive them.
RFK is cutting the public’s funding of mRNA research to private pharmaceutical companies ,most of which are worth 60 billion dollars- and should be responsible for their own financing of studies.
And,important studies from Israel,Japan,Switzerland,and a Nordic study of 23 million people found the risk of hospitalisation post-vaccination in 16-24 year old males was up to 28 times higher than the risk post-Covid.And ,high risk of mRNA covid vaccination injuries of myocarditis and cardiovascular issues.
As well as recent study by researchers from Harvard, Oxford and Johns Hopkins University (among others) found that the mRNA vaccines are up to nearly 100 times more likely to cause a person of student age serious injury than prevent him or her from being hospitalised with COVID.
This is what RFK is referring to with this decision
Antonia, That is nonsense. If you are going to spout studies – go read a whole long list in
https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-rfk-jr-cancelling-500m-of-funding-for-mrna-vaccines/
Two experts below out of a long list:
“mRNA vaccines were first used on a large scale to combat the threat of the COVID virus infection, with great success. They were given to 50 million people in the UK and reduced infection rates by over 70%. Three doses reduced mortality in the elderly by 93% and in the UK 400,00 lives were saved. Mild side effects were found in about 10%, serious side effects in around 1 in 800; deaths around 1 per million. I personally have taken that risk 7 times.
“mRNA vaccines do not increase the virus mutation rate, that is impossible.
mRNA vaccines have the potential to be targeted at parts of a virus that do not mutate, and ceasing their development is throwing away a major advance in vaccinology for utterly spurious reasons.”