On December 14th a 20 year old man went on a killing spree, murdering his mother and perhaps as many as 28 others, including 20 children at the elementary school where his mother taught. Adam Lanza, the shooter, was described as intelligent but socially awkward, a kid who didn’t fit in. John Townley has posted the charts of Adam Lanza along with a brief analysis of the event. One thing I noticed right away about Lanza’s chart was the exact... Read more
Better late than never! The complete article can be found here and here is the introduction with thoughts on the Solstice and 2012: INTRODUCTION: WINTER SOLSTICE 2012 AND THE MAYAN CALENDAR For quite a few years now there has been a great deal of discussion of December 21, 2012 as the end of the Mayan calendar. There is some debate about whether this is the actual date of the calendar as you will see in these articles. I personally believe, however, that... Read more
While there is relatively little planetary action in the sky I thought I would take a moment to share some thoughts on this topic which is of great interest to me. For several thousand years, astrologers of all nations and cultures used only the visible planets and luminaries to cast horoscopes and predict the future. Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – these were the basic elements of the horoscope (remember, a horoscope is the actual map of... Read more
It was Thanksgiving of 2005 when this blog began. My sister, already a prolific blogger, helped me get Astrological Musings set up on Blogger, and the rest is history. At the time there were just a handful of astrology blogs: Elsa, of course, and Robert, and Jeff’s blog at the time was “Astrology at the Movies.” Things have changed – currently there are 187 members of our Astrology Bloggers Facebook group. My second Saturn Return began last fall with... Read more
Today’s Scorpio New Moon is a total eclipse, amping up the power and volume of the Scorpio energy to sweep away the debris of the old and decaying aspects of our lives. Scorpio is intense and passionate, but also courageous and powerful – let go of any desire for the superficial today. Scorpio is closely connected with death and the occult, and the idea that the veil between this world and others is thinner than we’d like to think. In... Read more
One of these days I will write a post on my own personal astrology. It’s been quite something: the end of my Saturn return this summer and fall, the square of Uranus and Pluto falling right on my Chiron, and now Saturn sitting on my Mercury making it very difficult to come up with anything creative to say which explains why you have heard less of me recently. But in the meantime… we had an election, and Obama was elected.... Read more
My monthly report has been posted here in its entirety. You can also sign up for my Skywatch newsletter in the sidebar and receive the article with a translation into English which is easier to understand. Also, for daily planetary cycles visit my Facebook and Twitter pages. In the meantime, here is the introduction with an overview of the main planetary cycles in November. Enjoy! Three planets change direction in November: Mercury turns retrograde on November 6th for three weeks,... Read more
Until the rise of the neo-Pagan phenomenon of the mid to late twentieth century, I think it’s safe to say that most Americans had never heard of Samhain (pronounced Sow’-en), the ancient Celtic autumn festival. It is likely that our modern celebration of Hallowe’en developed to take the place of the ancient festival. The Christian All Hallows festival to honor the souls of the saints that had passed on was originally celebrated in May but was moved to November... Read more
Taylor Swift is loaded with charm and talent as well as the kind of exceptional beauty that is very helpful in today’s visual age, and she has made millions of dollars writing songs about her love life. Still, she was recently quoted as saying “I don’t really know that much about love as it turns out.” We could argue that this is not that uncommon for a young person just shy of 23 years old, but her astrological chart does... Read more
First let me say that after living in North Carolina for many years I always take the hysteria over hurricane predictions with a grain of salt. Predictive models have improved over the years, but like human behavior, nature has a way of being unpredictable. That said, it appears fairly certain that the big storm heading towards the Atlantic coast over the next couple of days will bring widespread power outages and communication breakdowns. As I wrote this summer: In addition,... Read more
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