I was listening last night to a podcast on the subject of making money in a bad economy, and one of the recommendations was to turn off the news so as not to create fear in one’s consciousness. “What we don’t know won’t hurt us” appeared to be the general theme. I would strongly disagree. If we are to be fully empowered, consciously creative beings on a planet in which we create our own reality, we must be aware of... Read more
On March 10, 2009, Michael McLendon (4/11/1982, time unknown) went on a rampage in his home town of Kinston, Alabama, resulting in the death of eleven people including his grandmother, aunts and uncles. He killed his mother and her three dogs and then set the sofa on fire, an act of extreme rage. Although he left a “grudge list” of people that he felt had harmed him, none of those individuals were killed. As in so many cases like this, people that... Read more
If you missed Jon Stewart’s crackdown last week of CNBC that resulted in a week-long mock battle between two mock journalists, head right over to Comedy Central and catch up on everything that ran last week. I admit that I get much of my news from the Daily Show, and I am probably not alone. Consequently, Jon Stewart’s influence is widening and many in the conventional news media are taking notice. He delivered a blistering attack on the business television network CNBC for... Read more
The ides of each month were days in the approximate middle of the month – in March, May, July and October the ides fell on the 15th, and in other months the ides were the 13th. Until the solar calendar was adopted by Julius Caesar the roman calendar was lunar based and the ides of the month corresponded to the full moons. The Full Moon and the Ides of the month were dedicated to Jupiter in his role as Lucetius, the... Read more
No matter how much wisdom we attempt to muster when we are approaching a difficult transit, there is no way to make it easy. Sometimes, though, reframing the way we approach the challenge can turn the entire experience around for us. In a flash of blogchronicity, Beth Owl’s Daughter has a post from yesterday on just this subject. Beth is guiding her readers through The Artist’s Way, Beth writes: In today’s installment, we are encouraged to select one of our monster stories,... Read more
In the Daily Skywatch for March 9 I wrote of the spike in violence that was occurring all over the world, and since then there have been even more shocking mass murders in Germany and Alabama. This dramatic rise of violence occurred as Mars (aggression) passed over the approaching conjunction of Chiron (wounding) and Neptune (blurring reality). In the conjunction the energy of the two (or more) planets is fused so that they work together as one. This can be harmonious, as... Read more
I love this… Coach Phil Jackson of the LA Lakers has used the retrograde turn of Venus last week to explain Lamar Odom’s poor performance: At a loss for a conventional explanation for the inconsistencies that have defined Lamar Odom’s career, Coach Phil Jackson turned to astrology Monday to account for his mercurial forward’s mini-slump. “More than anything else, Lamar is affected by the astrological sequences, and I know that Venus went into retrograde the other day,” Jackson deadpanned. “All of a sudden he started... Read more
The Full Moon occurs tonight at 10:38 pm EDT. This is likely to be a fairly powerful event because the opposition of the Sun to the Moon that creates the Full Moon is aligned with the opposition of Saturn to Uranus, illuminating the conflict between the old ways (Saturn) and the new (Uranus). The harder Saturn tries to hold onto the status quo, the more impulsive and reckless the Uranian influence becomes, and vice versa. Read more
For years, researchers have been studying optimists and pessimists, and they have found that an optimistic outlook carries certain advantages. Optimistic people are better achievers, are more resilient in the face of difficulties and cope with stress more easily than their more negative counterparts. And now, there appears to be one more reason for wearing those “rose-colored glasses”–a longer, healthier life! In a new study, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh reviewed questionnaires that surveyed the personality traits of more than... Read more
No doll has been as well-loved or as despised as the Barbie doll. Created by Ruth Handler in the 1950s, she was first introduced to the world at the International Toy Fair in New York on March 9, 1959 which is considered Barbie’s official birthday. I was unable to find the time of day that Barbie was first introduced, but assuming that she was introduced sometime between 10 am and 3 pm her birthchart shows a tight conjunction between the... Read more
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