Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to The Astrology Podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to be talking with Astrologer Gary Lawrence

and about The Astrology of the AIDS Epidemic.

So, hey, Gary, thanks for joining me today.

Oh, thank you for having me.

Yeah, so this is a topic we're

I wanted to approach from like a couple of different angles here, and on the one

side, sort of the broader parallels recently that many Astrologers have

noted between, for example, the Saturn Pluto conjunction in 2020

and how that really coincided with the explosion of the COVID epidemic,

the COVID-19 epidemic, and Astrologers have noted the parallels with

the emergence of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s

under a similar Saturn Pluto conjunction, which only occur

about every 40 years, and sort of approach it from the perspective of

mundane astrology in looking at that and some of the parallels.

But then also there was a more sort of personal dimension to it in terms of

the impact on the astrological community, and I know that's something that

you've written about back in 2013 and 2014.

You wrote the introduction of the forward to the first

published volume of papers from the first queer astrology conference,

and you mentioned the huge impact of just the AIDS kind of decimating

entire generation of astrologers that were lost in the 80s and 90s,

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