Astrological Musings

Last week I commented, “Judging from the chart for the war in Iraq, events are about to make a surprising turn. After two years of a challenging transit (square) from Pluto to the Sun/Mercury conjunction in the chart, which seems to have had the effect of relentless and unending death and destruction (Pluto), Uranus (radical…

I apologize in advance to my dear readers who are Clinton supporters. A bit of snark may leak into this post. Most of you are probably aware by now of Senator Clinton’s need to backpedal on some of the statements that she made about landing in the midst of sniper fire during her trip to…

The Kalachakra, or Wheel of Time. In light of the current riots in Tibet I was looking online for a chart of Tibet since my Book of World Horoscopes does not contain one, and came across a wealth of material on Tibetan astrology. I confess I never realized that Tibet had its own branch of…

Dharmaruci found this interesting correlation to the Grand Cross at last week’s Full Moon: Health officials in the Philippines have issued a warning to people taking part in Easter crucifixion rituals. (Note the Moon and Saturn will be in Virgo.) They have urged them to get tetanus vaccinations [they probably won’t – Neptune is unaspected]…

(reprinted from last year) Many people now know that Christian holidays such as Christmas and Easter are tied to pagan celebrations of cosmological events such as the solstices and equinoxes. Easter, a holiday that commemorates the time that Jesus supposedly rose from the tomb, was originally connected to both the Equinox and the full moon…

Judging from the chart for the war in Iraq, events are about to make a surprising turn. After two years of a challenging transit (square) from Pluto to the Sun/Mercury conjunction in the chart, which seems to have had the effect of relentless and unending death and destruction (Pluto), Uranus (radical change) is about to…

The United States has a history of valuing money over people. Pluto in the US (Sibley) chart is in the second house of financial wealth and resources, and the compulsive (Pluto) need to acquire could be its undoing. Transiting Pluto is square the Midheaven of the US chart, and this event will reverberate in Pluto’s…

The Vernal Equinox occurs tomorrow, March 20, at 2 am EST as the Sun enters Aries, marking the re-entry of the fire element into our planetary cycles. The opposition of Mars in Cancer to Pluto in Capricorn has certainly been fiery, but the fire element has been notably missing. The chart for the Vernal Equinox…

The rising sign, or ascendant, is the sign that was on the horizon at the East at the time that we were born. No matter what house system you use, the ascendant and midheaven (noon point) are always the same, it’s the intermediary house division that changes. Being the cusp of the first house which…

This has nothing to do with astrology, but it’s wonderful nonetheless and shows the interconnectedness of all life: THEY famously attempted to warn mankind of the Earth’s impending destruction in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, only for their behaviour to be dismissed as playful acrobatics. But now, solid evidence has emerged of the dolphin’s…

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