India’s second wave of covid-19 began in February 2021 and by mid April a combination of government incompetence (house 10), reckless human behavior (Mars) and aggressive virus variants had ignited a major catastrophe (Mars). It only took a few weeks for complacency (Jupiter) to turn into overwhelming loss and despair (Saturn).
In mid April Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious festival (Jupiter) attracted millions of pilgrims whose misplaced faith (Jupiter) believed that Maa (mother) Ganga would save them from the pandemic (Saturn).
India’s second wave of covid-19 was far more aggressive (Mars) and deadly (house 8) than the first.
In the last week of April, 2021 over one million new covid cases were being reported every 3 days and the (under-estimated) death count was over 2500 per day. Oxygen (Mercury) and hospital beds (house 12) were in short supply (Saturn) and the hospital system (house 12) was overwhelmed.
India’s chart progressed to May 14, 2021
Chart data is January 26, 1950 at 10.18am IST: 77E13; 28N40 (New Delhi)
Progressed Sun (political leadership) at 17 Aries 05 and 6N43 – cusp ruler of house 6 (sickness/covid 19) in house 1 (the health and welfare of the people) – was parallel birth chart Saturn (loss and despair) at 6N22 – the cusp ruler of house 10 (Modi’s administration) in house 6; opposition birth chart Neptune at 17 Libra 20R in house 7; and trine birth chart Pluto at 17 Leo 16R – the cusp ruler of house 8 (death) in house 5.
Progressed Mercury (oxygen) at 28 Aries 05 – the ruler of house 10 (Modi’s administration) and the intercepted ruler of house 6 (sickness) in house 1 – was sextile progressed Jupiter (complacency, faith and religious festivals) at 28 Aquarius 30 in house 12 (hospitals) and sesquisquare progressed Saturn at 13 Virgo 46R in house 6.
Progressed Mars (reckless behavior and the virus) at 26 Virgo 24R and 4N08 – the cusp ruler of house 8 (death) in house 6 (covid-19)– was sesquisquare birth chart Jupiter at 12 Aquarius 22 in house 11 and parallel progressed Neptune at 4S44 in house 7.
And progressed Venus (social activity) at 00 Pisces 49 in house 12 (hospitals) was trine birth chart Uranus at 1 Cancer 42R in house 3 and sesquisquare progressed Neptune at 15 Libra 57R in house 7.
India’s 2021 covid-catastrophe involved human actors responding and behaving badly to various high-discord aspects in its progressed chart.
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