Bill Clinton underwent an angioplasty yesterday to open a clogged heart artery after experiencing chest pains. Doctors say he is recovering normally and should be able to renew his normal activities soon. However, I have some concerns about the health of the former president. Bill Clinton has the Sun in Leo, the sign of development and expression of the Self, and he has Libra rising which is often called the Peacemaker. Clinton can be quite charming with four planets in... Read more
Many many years ago, back in the mists of antiquity, ancient astronomers thought that Venus was actually two separate bodies, one called Phosphoros, “The bringer of light” also known as Lucifer or the Morning Star; the other they called Hesperos, the Evening Star. From our perspective on earth, the orbit of Venus is always fairly close to the Sun. When Venus is at her brightest she becomes visible just after the Sun goes down, and is then called the Evening Star.... Read more
A reader writes: I was born under the sign of LEO. I think I have two other planets in LEO. I can tell you that I am far from a LEO. In areas that I should be strong because of my LEO traits, I am often handicapped by fear/anxiety. At times I think I strongly identify more with Virgo than LEO. I was wondering if you could tell what else in my chart that would account for this and if... Read more
This came as no surprise to me, but it’s interesting to see an article like this in the Wall Street Journal: Dorothy Lee and her husband of 40 years were driving home from a Bible study group one wintry night when their car suddenly hit the curb. Mrs. Lee looked at her husband, who was driving, and saw his head bob a couple of times and fall on his chest. In the ensuing minutes, Mrs. Lee recalls, she managed to avoid... Read more
Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, who was one of the more outspoken critics of the Iraq War, died yesterday from complications of gallbladder surgery. I profiled him back in 2005 in this article. Murtha had a nearly exact conjunction of Mars (aggression and war) to Chiron (wounding and healing), and transiting Chiron was activating that conjunction nearly exactly at the time of his illness and surgery. Although he voted in 2002 to approve the war, in 2005 he said “The war in... Read more
photo manipulation by Vandelay Design. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that popular mythology says that the Mayan long count calendar will end on December 21, 2012 and therefore the world will probably end too. Many cultures break the aeons of time into smaller and more manageable cycles. The ancient Hindus described these cycles as Yugas, of which there are four, each with its own qualities. We are currently in the Kali Yuga which began somewhere around... Read more
Fans of the planet Pluto will find this pretty interesting: Pluto is not simply a ball of ice and rock but a dynamic world that undergoes dramatic atmospheric changes. While they believe the changes are driven by the seasons, it may mostly come from how quickly things can change on Pluto. The seasons are propelled as much by the planet’s 248-year elliptical orbit as its axial tilt — unlike Earth where the tilt alone drives seasons. On Pluto spring transitions to... Read more
A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile. Tech experts say it doesn’t mean blogging is going away. Rather, it’s gone the way of the telephone and e-mail — still useful, just not sexy. read more here… Not sexy! That’s just cruel. 🙂 The sample used was of kids aged 12 to 17 years old, many of whom are in the group that was... Read more
The new CIA warnings that Al Qaeda will attempt an attack on the United States in the next 3-6 months is not a surprise to those of us monitoring the stars. The square of Saturn to Pluto that occurred on January 31st, just two days before the announcement, is an aspect of fear and challenge. After all, the opposition of Saturn to Pluto, the last major cycle of these two planets, coincided with the attacks of September 11. The final phase... Read more
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