Astrological Musings

Market Watch, a website in the Wall Street Journal network, reports that astrologer Arch Crawford’s investment letter was the top performer for 2008: Over the year to date through October, Crawford Perspectives is up a breathtaking 36% by Hulbert Financial Digest count, vs. negative 32.94% for the dividend-reinvested Dow Jones Wilshire 5000. Over the past…

art by Melanie Weidner As many of you know, one of the paradigms by which I live is that we are the co-creators of our reality.  A healthy capitalist economic system is based on this premise:  When consumers feel prosperous, they buy stuff.  When they buy stuff, the people who manufacture the goods make more…

The scientific world as we know it continues to be turned on its ear with new (Uranian) discoveries, fulfilling my prophecy in the November Skywatch article where I wrote “A sextile from Jupiter (abundance and optimism) to Uranus (innovation and insight) is beginning to form at this time which will start to excite us with new…

I was honored to be chosen as the astrology blogger to select the Top Ten astrology blogs for Blogs.com and you can imagine what a difficult job it was to pick just ten out of the many many great astrology blogs that are around today.  I tried to select a good cross-section of the various…

This incredible video is about 8-1/2 minutes, but well worth watching.  The makers of the video have created a beautifully accessible learning tool for education about the energy grid and the bioelectrical changes that are occurring within human beings.  Astrologically, this process is connected to the planet Uranus which rules electromagnetic energy and the transmission…

photo by Jo Lidbetter Barack Obama will be our first president born with Pluto in Virgo.  The past two presidents, Bill Clinton and George W Bush, were both from the Pluto in Leo generation, embodying the best and the worst of my generation’s noble ideals and self-centered execution.  Previously we had George Bush I, from…

Tonight, November 4, at 11:00 pm Barack Obama reached the number of electoral votes required to be declared President of the United States. Leo is rising in New York right now where the announcement was made by the major news media outlets, at about 12 degrees, conjunct Obama’s Sun. Eugene Robinson is saying: “The world…

We’ve had quite a busy few days in the comments section here at Astrological Musings.  Normally I love to get comments – it’s so cool to see who’s here and what they think of everything.  And the political posts generate the most comments and the most passionate comments. This election has really brought out everyone’s…

Barack Obama’s grandmother Madelyn Dunham, the woman who raised him for most of his formative years, has died in Hawaii.  I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the transit of the South Node over Obama’s Sun as an event that was significant here, but another transit coinciding with this event is the exact conjunction…

Many writers, including me, have expressed concern over the presence of major and challenging planetary cycles occurring on Election Day.  However, we have primarily looked at the astrology of the day with a broad brush approach.  If we zoom in a little closer we see a very nice combination of aspects.    Today, leading up…

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