Would Evangeline Adams have predicted the current pandemic?

In the last post I discussed how Evangeline Adams predicted World War II almost a decade before it happened. In this post I’d like to speculate about how she might have analyzed the current pandemic of Corona Virus. Because Adams worked primarily with transits, I compared the current transits to the symbolic chart she used for the birth of the USA. What stood out was transiting Pluto in the USA 8th house of death opposing natal Mercury, which rules the USA Gemini-rising chart Ascendant (health, vitality) and 2nd house of the economy. Here is the chart which Adams used in her predictive work about the USA:

[image error]Evangeline Adams’ USA natal chart

Currently transiting Pluto is in the 25th degree of Capricorn in the 8th house of the USA chart and is approaching its Pluto return. Pluto has also been transiting opposite natal 1st-ruler Mercury since the Corona Virus epidemic began toward the end of 2019. Here is a list of significant transits since the fall of 2019:

03 Oct 2019: Tr. Pluto turns stationary direct at 20 Cap 38 in the USA natal 8th (loss of life) and opposite natal Mercury in the natal 2nd (the economy).

17 Nov 2019: According to news reports, the first case of a person in Wuhan, China, suffering from Covid-19 was traced back to 17 November 2019.

10 Jan 2020: Lunar Eclipse at 19 Cancer 59, activating the tr. Pluto opposite natal Mercury aspect

09 Mar 2020: Tr. Pluto opposes natal Mercury. This is the week that the “shit hit the fan” in the United States. Major universities sent students home. Broadway shut down in NYC. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were diagnosed with the virus. President Trump shook hands with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro who then tested positive for Covid-19. Many governors declared states of emergency, banning large gatherings. Disney closed its amusement parks. The stock market had one of its worst weeks in history (Mercury rules the 5th of gambling, entertainment, and speculative investments).

25 Apr 2020: Tr. Pluto turns stationary retrograde at 24 Cap 59

14 June 2020: Tr. Pluto opposes natal Mercury

04 Oct 2020: Tr. Pluto turns stationary direct at 24 Cap 29, almost exactly opposite natal Mercury.

08 Jan 2021: Tr. Pluto opposes natal Mercury

27 Apr 2021: Tr. Pluto turns stationary retrograde

11 Sep 2021: Tr. Pluto opposes natal Mercury

06 Oct 2021: Tr. Pluto turns stationary direct

30 Oct 2021: Tr. Pluto opposes natal Mercury

20 Feb 2022: Tr. Pluto conjoins natal Pluto (the Pluto return)

From the above list of transits it appears that the current lethal pandemic and problems with the American economy (natal Mercury in the 2nd, natal Pluto in the 8th) will be under major stress from transiting Pluto and will characterize the final period of its Pluto cycle through the time of the Pluto return in February of 2022. The fact the Mercury rules not only the Ascendant but also the 5th house of this USA chart correlates with the toll the virus is taking on the stock market as well as the entertainment, sports, restaurant and vacation sectors of the U.S. economy.

Unfortunately the USA response to the pandemic has been dismal. When China shut down cities in December of 2019, it was a clear warning the countries around the world needed to begin immediate testing for the virus. The USA delayed until late February to begin any testing in earnest and as of the date of this writing the testing is woefully inadequate. I read in the local news this week that in Connecticut where I live, with a population of 3 million people, fewer than 100 tests had been done statewide. It is not possible to mount an appropriate response if we don’t know where the virus is and who is already infected. Unfortunately, transiting Pluto opposing the Ascendant-ruler Mercury of the Adams’ USA chart does not bode well for how the virus will propagate and cause needless deaths throughout America in the months and perhaps years ahead.

The following chart shows Adams’ USA chart in the center surrounded by the chart for Pluto turning stationary retrograde on 25 April 2020, which should be a peak time in the pandemic crisis facing the United States in the coming months.

[image error]Transiting Pluto is opposing Asc-ruler Mercury from the 8th to the 2nd house as it approaches the end of its Pluto cycle and prepares to make a Pluto return in the year 2022. The current pandemic and economic downturn in the USA correlate with the transits of Pluto to Adams’ USA chart, especially the opposition of transiting Pluto to natal Mercury.

Other than noting that the Ascendant of the Pluto station chart of 25 April 2020 lies in the natal 4th house and closely squares the USA Uranus in the 12th, I leave it to the reader to ponder the other implications of this comparison chart.

Historical Note: Among the worst cases now in the USA are those in the Seattle area. Looking back to when Pluto was last transiting this same part of the USA chart during the 1770s, we find that, in this same region of the country, the disease smallpox (variola major) eradicated at least 30 percent of the native population on the Northwest coast of North America, including numerous members of Puget Sound tribes.