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Was the most recent cyberattack on the US healthcare sector another another preview of the upcoming Mars-Uranus-North Node conjunction in Taurus? The Hoover Dam transformer blowing? The Henan banking crisis? Or, planned boycotts of major grocery stores who are allegedly price-gouging customers? As above, so below as the alchemists used to say.

Astrologers are often wrong. The astro-skeptics remind us of this daily, aiming to “debunk” astrology and its lack of empirical foundation with great zeal. Personally, I don’t believe that it’s a “science” in our modern understanding of of the word, nor do I believe that there is a recipe to precise, repeated prognostications, though I vehemently believe in common patterns and archetypal signatures that reliably manifest the same characteristics. Mars will never offer lollipops, nor Saturn marshmallows, so, while there could be five different ways that a Mars-Saturn square could play out, it will never end in a happy dance.

It’s tough interpreting symbols and their myriad combinations and it’s often easier to identify the effects of a transit retrospectively, especially in the realm of mundane astrology — that is, the astrology that predicts the broader trends that impact societies, politics and economies.