With the Sun now in Scorpio, there is a cooling down of the heat of action, and a deepening of our awareness into the realm of emotion and raw experience. The days are getting shorter, and the dark is in ascension. Scorpio often gets a bad rap for being manipulative and full of secrets, but we can all learn from the Scorpionic fearless embrace of the sheer reality that underlies all of life. Death, sex, jealousy – all have a... Read more
Image from Alter Now I don’t blame Obama – he inherited a disaster from the Bush administration and is in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. If he stood by and let the economy collapse so that it can be rebuilt, which is what I believe must happen, he would be tarred and feathered by just about everybody. And without a solid understanding of the astrological cycles and the fact that Pluto’s entry into Capricorn began... Read more
The formal launch of the new Windows 7 software by Microsoft took place yesterday, October 21, at 11:08 am in New York City according to Cnet’s live blog. The chart for this event has the Sun in Libra and Venus in the 10th house of the public, which bodes well for its acceptance by consumers and it has already generated some favorable reviews.. Sagittarius is rising in the chart, echoing the general optimism and favorable reviews that surrounds the launch... Read more
Jeff Jawer has a great new article on Saturn’s last days through the sign of Virgo. My favorite part: Saturn is the planet that says “no” but means “yes”. It exposes problems and places of dissatisfaction. Yet the clarity that it brings can reveal the steps necessary to improve the situation. Traditional astrology focused on the “no” side, calling Saturn “the Greater Malefic,” or biggest bad guy of all the planets. This extremely negative perspective has shifted a bit with... Read more
Thanks to David Crook for the link to this article: Two scientists have determined that Jesus Christ was crucified at 3PM on Friday, April 3 in 33 A.D. The exact date of the crucifixion has been debated for centuries, but British scholars Colin Humphreys and W.G. Waddington believe they have solved the mystery after an exhaustive study of the Bible, ancient calendars and astronomical conditions. The scientists said that previously the only certainty about the date of the crucifixion was... Read more
It looks like we’re heading in that direction: “The Justice Department this week announced that it will no longer seek to prosecute people using, prescribing, or distributing pot for medical purposes, as long as they’re in compliance with local law. However, regulations in some medical marijuana states remain murky.” Murky sounds like Neptune, whose penchant for transcendent experiences encompasses both the sublime and spiritual and the confused and deluded. An argument can be made the marijuana straddes both of these... Read more
Saturn will be entering the sign of Libra on October 29, leaving the sign of Virgo where it has spent the last two years and some months challenging all of our conventional ideas about health and healing and ensuring that we embrace the Virgoan virtues of modesty, thrift and caution. Libra is the sign of relationships and balance between two polarities. In Libra we understand the yin and the yang, the plus and the minus, the inner and the outer,... Read more
An article in USA Today highlights the difficult choices that must made as we face the spiraling costs of health care. This is the lesson of Saturn (tests and challenges) traveling through Virgo (the care and maintenance of the body): Within a year of starting dialysis, more than half of older nursing home residents die, and nearly another third experience a significant decline in their ability to perform simple tasks, such as feeding themselves, researchers report today. The fastest-growing group... Read more
As the world knows by now, 6-year old Falcon Heene’s parents called 911 emergency services on October 15, 2009 to report that young Falcoln had been abducted by an errant helium balloon. The 911 call reported that Falcon had taken off in a homemade flying saucer, and the operator was skeptical from the beginning. New details (it’s TMZ, but still…) report that Falcon’s father, Richard Heene, called the FAA first and then called a local TV station BEFORE calling 911.... Read more
This is written for Eastern time zone, please adjust for your own location. This week is relatively quiet from a planetary point of view. Here are the most important events in the sky this week: 1. Mercury will trine Jupiter on the 20th, and with the Moon in Sagittarius there will be an abundance of optimism and encouragement. 2. Venus forms a trine to Chiron on the 23rd, helping us to feel good about all of the healing work that... Read more
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