1340's Hull, UK, syphilis epidemic.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 06243.html

There is a Channel 4 documentary about this too, which is on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVhjT83nSEs

I tried to calculate the horoscope for the coronation of William the Conqueror on 25th December 1066, Westminster, 12.00, using Astrodienst, but I was falling foul of the Gregorian/Julian calendar change as it came up with the Sun at 3 degrees Capricorn instead of 10 degrees Capricorn. I wanted to do transits for 1340, but presumably this would make the Gregorian/Julian calendar situation even messier?

This is the chart that is given as the 1066 England chart.
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The outer planet transits for 1/1/1340 (probably very slightly out due to Gregorain/Julian calendar) IsisTranspluto 25 degrees Leo 10 minutes, Pluto 5 degrees Aries 29 minutes, Neptune 22 degrees Capricorn 37 minutes, Uranus 22 degrees Pisces 31 minutes, and Chiron 4 degrees Aries 09 minutes.

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Things happening at the same time were the Black Death, 1346 to 1353, and the climate change called the Little Ice Age (from about 1300, when warm summers stopped being dependable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age ) which is believed to have been part of the cause of the Black Death, and also the dying out of the Viking settlement in Greenland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... se_failure

Also the Hundred Years' War 1337 to 1453.

Interesting that the article in the Independent about the syphilis epidemic around 1340 in England mentioned Norwegian sailors returning from the Americas as the source of this outbreak. This would have been the time that the Little Ice Age was wiping out the Greenland Vikings.
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This could take years of study to begin to understand....but on first glance, Venus in the 1066 UK chart is right at the end of Capricorn, 29 degrees Capricorn 51 minutes, and transiting Neptune was 22 degrees Capricorn 37 minutes on 1st January 1340, so would have made a direct hit in the early 1340's.

Neptune conjunct the country's Venus does seem to symbolise the syphilis epidemic?