Astrology, COVID-19, And The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

Aug 11, 2020, in Astrology, Current Event

Normally the town of Sturgis South Dakota is a pretty quiet place of about 7000 people. However once a year, the town of Sturgis is host to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. That’s when literally hundreds of thousands of bikers descend on the place for ten days of fun, frivolity, and riding around without a helmet.

This year, attendance is higher than was anticipated. There’s hardly a helmet in sight. Another thing you don’t see very much of there? People wearing masks and practising social distancing.

Sturgis town council actually held a vote back in June as to whether or not the rally should be cancelled because of the risk of it becoming a COVID-19 “super-spreader event.” Since local politics can be kind of boring, let me give you a brief synopsis of how that went:

TOWN COUNCIL: Having the rally this year could be really dangerous. Let’s take a vote and see if it’s a good idea or not.

A COUPLE OF HUNDRED THOUSAND BIKERS: Cancel the Rally and we’ll just show up anyway, and we may not be particularly cheerful about it.

TOWN COUNCIL: (bangs gavel) Right then, a Rally it is!

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The town of Sturgis South Dakota was incorporated on June 16th, 1888 (special thanks to the South Dakota Historical Society for humoring my phone calls). On the face of it, the town itself doesn’t appear to be having too many terrible transits. Sure, transiting Neptune is in a close square to the town’s Venus, and the June 5th eclipse in Sagittarius was closely opposite that Venus, but that, in and of itself, isn’t too terrible a transit, is it? Bullet dodged, right?

Not so fast. The chart of Sturgis (and the transits to it) would really only apply to the people who live there on a regular basis. The festival officially ends on August 16th, when the transiting Moon in Cancer (opposite Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn) is closely conjunct the town’s Mercury. Mercury, for the record, rules “respiration.”

Now go and look up what the current estimates are as to the average incubation time for a COVID-19 infection — then we can come back here in about a month to see if I’m right, or if I’ve just been listening to too many of those silly “doctors” and “experts” and “things that keep happening every time COVID-19 breaks out in a new area.”

Matthew Currie

Matthew Currie is an astrologer, counselor and writer with over 25 years of experience and numerous appearances on television, radio, and podcasts. He is the author of "Conquer The Universe With Astrology," (available on Amazon) and is available for private consultations. Send him an e-mail (astrologyshow@gmail.com). Matthew likes hearing from you.

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