So much love in the air with this dusted post!
I've come across this thread because it hits close to home. I had unprotected sex a month ago and I am due to take the test later today.
The answer to this thread (and to many other threads) boils down to how one views astrology: as deterministic or as a 1 month weather forecast.
Personally, I believe that a thing as HIV/AIDS could be picked up from a chart more often than chance by targeting either behavioral factors (impulsivity, recklessness) or planetary footprints.
It is true that there are various ways of contracting the disease and I wouldn't be surprised if there were different astrological patterns behind each of them. However, there are clear instances when individuals engage in unprotected sex and get infected, and I think it is these individuals' birth charts that can paint the clearest picture of the probability of contracting the infection.
Many ideas have been flaunted on this thread. Smilingsteph was perplexed why other STDs don't get the same amount of love and attention when talking about astrological footprints. HIV is still the only incurable infection out of the bunch and, if there is such thing as seeing an infectious disease in a birth chart, HIV/AIDS would surely fit that bill.
Shining Ray mentioned we should look at the history of HIV/AIDS in order to better understand its astrological footprints. As you all know, AIDS - the epidemic - took the world by surprise when Pluto was transiting Virgo. I believe it has been this "correlation" that HIV/AIDS gets its association with Pluto from! Furthermore, unprotected sexual contact remains the number one method of transmission. We should not exclude Pluto from our analysis because of ideological presumptions (i.e. Pluto equals rebirth, purification). The fact that Pluto pops out so often in the charts of people contracting the disease is no coincidence, perhaps even pointing out to the cause of transmission. It should also hold true that people contracting HIV via other ways will not present the same patterns of Pluto, just as not all people with poorly aspected Pluto will get infected.
Kaoiusei, it seems to me you've got no love for Neptune, putting it there with Saturn in the malefics gang
We all want to put faces to the good and bad in our lives but we also know not one planet is good or bad, be it Jupiter or Saturn or Neptune. Jupiter brings no more prosperity and abundance than it brings indulgence and negligence. Likewise, Saturn is not just the ugly bat that rains on our parade, bringing delays and sorrow; it's also our source of endurance and perseverance. Going straight to the topic, I agree with waybread's take on Neptune as the ruler of our immune systems. A basic biology book would say that when pathogens such as viruses as bacteria cross our physical barriers, it is up to the innate immune system to fight them in an immediate but non-specific manner. This blind, non-discriminative way of dealing with outsiders, meaning it does so in a generic way, is specific to Neptune's qualities. TV commercials may want to picture our immune system as little Mars soldiers going to war in a very organized fashion but that is just not the case.
The summary of my post would look as this:
In principle, HIV/AIDS could be picked up from a birth chart especially if there are behavioral patterns to spoil it. To this end, badly aspected Mars pointing to recklessness and/or badly aspected Pluto would be the most consistent markers. Other planets can participate and they would each paint a fuller scenario behind the infection as to the "how" and "why". I don't see how Neptune alone would be indicative of the infection as there are so many other immune system disorders out there (not to mention addiction-related problems) but it stands to reason it would be involved.
Fact is there is nothing you can find in someone's chart that points to the possibility of having hiv/aids, though you can find something where they may be deceived (how is mediated by sign) or have some sort of health concern or life span may be less, but you cannot find universal aspects pointing to hiv/aids...astrology is best for general things.
