In the 14th century, when the Black Death threatened the pope’s household in Avignon, his doctor informed him that the conjunction of three planets ​ — Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars — ​ in the sign of Aquarius was the principal cause of the plague.
चौदहवीं सदी में ब्लैक डेथ, अवीनयन शहर में पोप के घराने तक पहुँच गयी ।