Jupiter-Neptune Alignment in Capricorn in December 1331 and the Bubonic Plague

During the Jupiter-Neptune alignment in Capricorn in December 1331, a Bubonic Plague outbreak erupted in the Chinese Yuan Empire and hastened the end of Mongol rule over China. Three years later, the disease killed over 90 percent of the Hebei Province’s population, with deaths totaling over 5 million people. As of 1200, China had a total population of more than 120 million, but a 1393 census found only 65 million Chinese surviving. Some of that missing population was killed by famine and upheaval in the revolutionary transition from Yuan Empire to the Ming Empire. But scientists and many historians believe that millions died of bubonic plague during that period. 

From its origin at the eastern end of the Silk Road (Peking), the Black Death rode trade routes west stopping at Central Asian caravansaries and Middle Eastern trade centers and subsequently infected people all across Asia. 

Ibn al-Wardi, a Syrian writer who would later die of the plague himself in 1348, recorded that the Black Death came out of “The Land of Darkness,” or Central Asia. From there, it spread to China, India, the Caspian Sea, and “land of the Uzbeks,” and thence to Persia (Iran) and the Mediterranean (Sicily).