More
than 700,000 Americans died from drug overdoses from 1999 to 2017, about 10% of
them in 2017 alone, according to a new report published by the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In total, there were a staggering 70,237
drug overdose deaths last year, which is more deaths than all US military fatal
casualties of the Vietnam War. Opioids were involved in 67.8%, or 47,600 of
those deaths. Of those opioid-related overdose deaths, 59.8% of them, or
28,466, were due to synthetic opioids.
Mundane astrology is used to show how events from the past,
present and future affect nations, states, cities, towns, etc. A chart for a
country can be created for the moment a nation was created or gained its
independence; with the capital city as the location for the chart. Transits and
progressions can be used to create a forecast using the same method that is
used to create a forecast for a person. The most popular chart for the United
States is the US Sibly. Currently transit Neptune [14pi] is square (a 90
degrees angular separation considered an important trigger) the Ascendant
(12sa) i.e. the cusp of the First House and quincunx (a 150 or 210 degree
separation) to the radix Sun in the 8th house. At her website Skyscript, Deborah Houlding
explains the meaning of the houses.
First House In
Mundane Astrology:
The common people
or general state of the nation. The country and its inhabitants as a whole; its
general condition of prosperity and health or the reverse.
Eighth House In
Mundane Astrology:
Public mortality,
the death rate.
So all that the Neptune transit is essentially doing is
triggering or stirring up the 1st to 8th house radix
contact. About the current Neptune transit through Pisces, astrologer Frank Don
in his article Neptune Pisces — Illumination or Delusion, writes:
The use of drugs
and drug use can be a major influence during this Neptune Pisces transit. With
anaesthesia having come into known practice when Neptune was first re-discovered
in the mid 1800’s, new discoveries in medicine and pain management can come
forward and alleviate pain. Medical advances can be extraordinary. If we change
our consciousness away from the profit motive and focus on wellness rather than
sickness, we might find various cures for so-called incurable diseases and
elongate life extension if we choose it. On the flip side, the recreational use
of drugs can increase as people seek ways of escapism from hard, cold reality.
As they did in the 1960’s, people can turn on and tune out. But while the
1960’s drug use had a semblance of consciousness expansion, love and
brotherhood, this time around drugs may be used merely to escape the pain of
everyday reality. http://frankdon.com/2012/02/neptune-pisces-illumination-or-delusion/
Neptune represents how you transcend yourself and merge with
the oneness of life.The realm of Neptune is the realm of ecstasy and mystic
revelation but also the realm of glamor and deceiving phantasms, the realm of
hallucination and intoxication. The essential keywords for Neptune are: Transcendent,
Merging, and Oneness. And the desire represented by Neptune is the urge to
escape from limitations. With transit Jupiter now reaching an opposition to the Sibly Ascendant and square transit Neptune, the magnitude of the opioid problem is being brought to light.
The need for individuals to “escape” from their emotions,
pain and life circumstances is what addictions fulfill. The Neptunian energies
elude us into thinking that we can continue to escape and see things with rose
colored glasses on, but in the end we have to see things clearly for ourselves.
This can be a painful process, but hopefully we are learning to embrace a power
outside ourselves, our own spirituality.
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