'Ecological Armageddon' looms after dramatic plunge in insect numbers

The abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years, according to a new study that has shocked scientists. Insects are an integral part of life on Earth as both pollinators and prey for other wildlife and it was known that some species such as butterflies were declining. But the newly revealed scale of the losses to all insects has prompted warnings that the world is “on course for ecological Armageddon”, with profound impacts on human society.  Oct.18 https://goo.gl/t5CnVf

The station of outer planets are among the important mundane events that astrologers keep a track of. A chart for the recent Pluto station on September 28 drawn for Krefeld Germany, where the study was carried out is shown here. It highlights the Uranus-Neptune semi-square, part of a larger configuration that forms a T-square with the horizon axis.

Technology can (and already has) dramatically changed the way we live as human beings in modern civilization and the changes have been accelerating at a pace that is nothing short of breathtaking.

As a species, this is what we’re good at — inventing and building, essentially extracting resources from the earthly environment and recombining them in ingenious ways to manipulate our external world. We’ve always been good at this, we do a lot of it (literally, as much as we can), and the scale of such

operations has now reached gargantuan proportions.

In his essay Neptune in Pisces (2011–26): Beyond Thought, Beyond Beliefs, Maurice Fernandez

wrote:

As Neptune moves into Pisces, humanity is possibly confronted with one of its most serious existential crises ever. Pisces represents everything in life that is beyond egocentric control — that which is not yet known. Through Pisces, what we discover is that we don’t know very much. Such an acknowledgmentis significant progress, evolutionarily speaking, because most of us possess little knowledge but think of it as complete. Accepting our limitations renders us humble and receptive. The passage of Neptune into Pisces will naturally affect our existential experience on our home planet; facing the unknown means that we will confront the limits of our science. Established notions will lose their credibility when completely unexpected occurrences and consequences mystify our mind. with Neptune, the unexpected means that life confronts us with new paradigms just when we thought we had it all figured out. The imbalance in Nature and our lifestyle is clearly a weakening factor, so restoring our immunity requires that we realign ourselves with a healthier lifestyle and environment [1].

There are several  examples of apparently stunning success leading to potentially catastrophic failure. Our recent ascendancy as a prolific and dominant species has provoked numerous very serious unintended consequences, including toxic pollution of the ground, atmosphere, and oceans, and losses of huge amounts of viable habitat for other earthly plant and animal life forms.

With Uranus-Neptune beginning their first semi-square aspect after their conjunction in 1993 a disillusionment (Neptune) with technology (Uranus) is setting in. What seemed to be  good and useful technology at one time has turned out later to produce unintended consequences and negative repercussions. The apparent solution to one problem has ended up creating other, much worse problems.

Uranus-Neptune cycle tends to correspond to developments that are subtle, surreptitious, and invisibly subversive to the status quo. On their surface, those developments seem to reinforce the existing narrative and support (or improve) continuity, but all the while they are actually undermining it, gradually dissolving the underpinnings of old structures, weakening the foundations.

[1] http://www.mauricefernandez.com/TMAneptuneinpisces.pdf

PS: The current Libra Ingress chart at Krefeld, Germany also highlights the Uranus-Neptune semi-square.