One of the interesting blogs you’ll find in my blogroll is Todd Chapman’s “Through the Looking Glass.” Todd is an avid watcher of meaningful connections, and he has over time made an fascinating study of connections involving Ceres. Todd writes, Anyone familiar with my entire body of work will surely know that some of my earliest posts centered around the ancient mid-April festival of Cerealia, held in the honor of the Roman Goddess CERES. One of the “highlights” of the... Read more
Arlen Specter, a moderate Republican senator from Pennsylvania, has served five terms in the US Senate since he was elected in 1980 but today announced that he is switching to the Democratic party: I have been a Republican since 1966. I have been working extremely hard for the Party, for its candidates and for the ideals of a Republican Party whose tent is big enough to welcome diverse points of view. While I have been comfortable being a Republican, my... Read more
I’ve written before in these pages about the intensification of the struggle between the more liberal mindset (signified by Uranus) and a more conservative approach (represented by Saturn) as Saturn and Uranus face off in the sky, beginning in 2008 and continuing throughout 2010. Sign of the Times has an article about social psychologist Jon Haidt who has quantified the differing moral universes of Democrats and Republicans in an effort to foster greater understanding between the two. Haidt identified five... Read more
Spaceweather offers this beautiful photo by Richard Fleet of yesterday’s conjunction of the Moon and Mercury with the Seven Sisters of the Pleaides: Read more
Dharmaruci at Astrotabletalk has a great article today. Mars is gearing up to square Pluto on the 27th, and a stressful aspect between those two can be quite intense. Mars deals with the more personal issues of anger and boundaries, and Pluto, as the higher octave of Mars, addresses the larger scale issues of rage and nuclear war. DR writes: There is a particularly pokey aspect in the sky at the moment: Mars conjunct Venus, square to Pluto. Mars has just... Read more
When you combine the Wounded Healer (Chiron) with the planet that inspires devotion and illusion (Neptune), you often get mysterious illnesses among other things. Chiron and Neptune are sitting on Jay Leno’s ascendant and induced a mysterious illness yesterday, and now there is news of a mysterious new strain of the swine flu, a never-before seen mixture of swine, bird and human flu viruses. A conspiracy theorist by nature, I am always a bit suspicious of new flu viruses since we all know... Read more
Photo from Tony Howell. From an article on Livescience.com: In our increasingly urbanized world, it turns out that a little green can go a long way toward improving our health, not just that of the planet. That could mean something as simple as a walk in the park or just a tree viewed through a window. It’s not necessarily the exercise that is the key. It’s the refreshing contact with nature and its uncomplicated demands on us. Here is how it... Read more
The timing of the fervor over Susan Boyle has struck me, coinciding as it does with the conjunction of Chiron and Neptune which are now less than a degree apart. An interesting blog by Dr. Robert Canfield who is an anthropologist at the University of St. Louis sums this up quite nicely: Buried within the human psyche are feelings, yearnings, anxieties too deep for words, usually. Only sometimes do we see it in ourselves. Always it is something outside ourselves... Read more
Updated with new birth date and time. The You Tube video of Susan Boyle’s audition for “Britain’s Got Talent” has become a sensation all over the world. When an average person shoots from obscurity to international acclaim literally overnight, there is usually a very interesting astrological background. Date of birth saga. A birth date (June 15, 1961, time unknown, Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland) was posted in a profile in the Sunday Times in the UK, but this was later disputed by the... Read more
Thanks to Rich for this link to an article that confirms what has only been hinted before: that many people with autism possess skills not found in the general population: Savant-like skills, such as astounding memory, perfect pitch or the ability to multiply very high numbers together, may be much more common among people with autism than previously thought. A new study of about 100 adults with autism shows that one third have skills that stand out, both in comparison with their... Read more
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