Although March 10 1957 is commonly given as the date of birth for Osama bin Laden, This has not been certain enough for astrologers to rely on. While several sources, including an interview with bin Laden himself, have used the date of March 10, 1957 the US State Department records for some reason used July 30, 1957. For this reason, astrologers have not had a date of birth, much less a time, that was reliable enough to create a chart... Read more
Tune in later for a post about the death of Osama bin Laden, but for now Skywatch for May has been posted just in time for the Taurus New Moon. You can read the whole article here, or if you’re not on my mailing list you can see what you’re missing here and read the abridged version. Here’s the important information for the first week of May and the New Moon which occurs on May 3rd (today!): During the month... Read more
Today is the first of May, widely celebrated by neo-pagans as Beltane, the fire festival which honors Bel, the god of fire. Because Beltane is a “cross-quarter” festival, meaning it occurs at the halfway point between the equinox and solstice, it will not actually occur until May 5th when the Sun reaches 15 degrees Taurus. In any event, with so many planets still in Aries, including Mars and Jupiter which reach their peak conjunction today, a fire festival is an... Read more
I confess I’m not that interested in the Royal Wedding that occurs today. I wasn’t that interested in Charles and Diana’s wedding either, even though that wedding had much more of the pomp and circumstance that we associate with royalty than the more modern wedding of William and Kate. But then I read my friend Kathryn’s analysis and the whole situation became much more interesting. Some of the interesting facts about the royal wedding according to Kathryn: The wedding date... Read more
Astrologers are always hunting for birth information, so we were the first ones on the trail of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Not that we believed he might be from Kenya, but we wanted to be able to construct an accurate birthchart. You can read the thread of my articles on the subject here along with my astrological profiles of the President. At the moment Mars and Jupiter are moving into a conjunction that will culminate just after midnight (EDT) on... Read more
As I wrote a few weeks ago, we are in the middle of the second phase of the Saturn Return in the US chart. The Saturn return occurs every 28-30 years in a chart – whether of an individual, a marriage, or a nation – and requires that we learn the hard lessons of life in a material world. Saturn insists that we keep our eyes open and nose to the grindstone, and develop positive habits that will help us... Read more
Today the Sun is in a harmonious sextile to Chiron, the planet of wounding and healing. Chiron in the natal chart shows where each of us have been wounded, and where the key to our reclaiming the soul lie. When the Sun shines its brilliant light of self-realization into the wounds of the soul we have the opportunity to release our bondage to the past and gain greater wisdom. “A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an... Read more
Every page is a new beginning. Venus conjoins Uranus today, and since both are in Aries it’s gonna be a hot time in the old town tonight, if you heed the siren song of Venus, the planet of love and connection, hooking up with the iconoclast and rebellious Uranus. And with both in Aries, the potential for fireworks is high! Jeff and Michelle are having a fascinating discussion over at the Sasstrology site. Uranus can bring sudden changes of fortune,... Read more
Easter Week continues at Astrological Musings! Here is an interesting video detailing the pagan sources of the roots of the Christian Easter celebration. This will be a controversial video for Christians, so please proceed at your own risk. There is a factual inaccuracy in the video in that its author, Acharya S, states that Easter means Pessach in Hebrew but I believe that this is incorrect. Pessach is the Hebrew name for the ancient Hebrew celebration of freedom after a... Read more
Most of the so-called Christian holidays have deep roots in astrotheology, and Easter is no different. The very dating of Easter, the great holiday of resurrection, is based on the timing of the first Full Moon after the vernal equinox. This week I’ll be posting articles correlating astrology, or astrotheology, and Easter. Today’s post comes from Beth Turnage and focuses on one of my favorite stories: the descent of Inanna. Often I tell this story to clients who are undergoing... Read more
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