Ship of Fools

Here we go again.

Ship of Fools

The cruise ship MV Hondius set sail from Terra del Fuego on April 1, 2026. Sickness broke out on April 6, just in time for World Health Day, April 7. By the time the Hondius reached the port of Praia, Cape Verde, the first death from Hantavirus was reported.

• First Hantavirus Death (HANTA): 11 April, 2026, noon, Praia, CV

• WHO Founded (WHO): 7 April, 1948, noon, New York, NY

We will use these Name Minor Planets:

• MP Hondius (for MV Hondius, you never know what you will find in the MP database)

• MP United Nations

For the Virus theme:

• MP Hantang (var. for hanta)

• MP GatesWest (a proven MP for Bill Gates)

• MP Medea (goddess of Pharmakia)

• MP Meta (Hebrew word for death)

• MP Koronis

• MP Poseidon (anagram for “poisoned”, aka Neptune, ruler of poisons)

And these two untested Minor Planets

• MP MeSick

• MP TheChills (as in fever)

Readers who are new to Minor Planet Astrology may find this introduction helpful: Minor Planet Basics

Here is the synastry:

Right away we see WHO Moon Mercury MP Hanta on HANTA Mercury MP Medea, the goddess of Pharmakia.

The Hondius voyage took place during the WHO solar return: see WHO SUN on HANTA MP Gates. Given the mutual conjunctions of their Mercury’s and Sun’s, I’d say that the Hondius Event is a congruent expression of the WHO’s mission.

HANTA MP Hanta conjoins the rather ominous WHO Stellium of Pluto, MP Gates, Saturn, MP TheChills, and Mars.

The root word of Venus is venenum, which is Latin for “potion” or “poison”. See how HANTA Venus is perfectly conjunct WHO MP MeSick NN MP Koronis. This is doubly reflected in HANTA Uranus MP Koronis MP Hondius conjunct WHO Venus.

And lastly, WHO MP Hondius is in perfect alignment by opposition with FS Alphard,(death by water or by poisoning).

Venus Virus

After seeing the significance of Venus (as poisoner) and MP Koronis in this synastry, let’s take a look at the comparison of the First Hanta Death to the first report of the COVID outbreak:

• COVID Outbreak (CV): 19 December, 2019, 5:43 p.m., Wuhan, China

Notice the astounding recurrence of the Venus-Poison theme: HANTA Venus in perfect T-square to CV Venus MP Koronis opposite HANTA MP Hanta.

Just as we saw in the 1948 WHO chart, COVID also has a tight Saturn-Pluto conjunction, this time on HANTA MP Poseidon (poison).

See also CV MC Chiron (healing crisis) MP TheChills on HANTA Mars Neptune (poison attack at sea).

Note as well, that the CV 8th cusp (death, other people’s money) conjoins the close HANTA Pluto Moon conjunction. See, too, that FS Unukalhai (death by poison) is perfectly opposite the CV POF, with CV MP Meta (death) on the CV 12th cusp: death was surely a “money maker”.

And in the COVID natal chart itself, see Moon MP Gates in alignment to FS Alphard (death by water or by poisoning). This echoes the same theme in the WHO synastry above, where its MP Hondius is in perfect alignment to Alphard.

This is an excellent example of how the Minor Planets can lend themselves to even the most poisonous of events.