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See-Saw





Last month’s Mars-Saturn conjunction in Virgo turned out as projected to be lots of detailed, filtered-down strife and hostilities even in the war-torn Middle East, and not a big, single event like the previous one in Leo. So what about August?

The main story is that it’s silly season again, with a solar eclipse at 9 Leo on the opening day followed by a lunar eclipse at 24 Leo-Aquarius on August 16. If you’ve got planets near any of those degrees, you’re in for some change and surprises. And, the effect is highlighted this month by the fact that the whole sky is a see-saw of planets in summer signs opposite planets in winter signs, with only the Moon as a go-between as it migrates from summer (8/1, new Moon, eclipse) to winter (8/16, full Moon, eclipse) and back again (8/30 new Moon). As if eclipses weren’t intense enough, the quarters will bring a fixed T-square on Aug 8-9 and a mutable grand cross on Aug 25 (at the opening of the Democratic Convention). So, it’s going to be a month of tension/release, and more tension/release with a lot of turnarounds and shifting of sides going on in the process.

Developing underneath, however, is a positively charming gathering of Mercury, Venus, and Mars, finally free of Saturn by mid-month and heading together into a sparkling brew of sex, talent, and celebrity by the first week of September. So, once all the grappling and posturing is over with, it will be time for a show of internal charisma and ability set free from the narrow bonds of responsibility in Virgo and ready to partner and make the most of it in Libra. Like the playground seesaw, it will be up and down, up and down, and then rush off to play in a new game where all get a proper and well-earned share of the fun, at least until the later fall showdown of Saturn and Uranus overtakes us all...

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Living With A Star (NASA) – The planets don’t just circle around each other in a void – we’re all connected together inside the Sun’s atmosphere, and it’s crackling outside…


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Pisces for the Pool, Taurus for the Pole (Reuters) – Your mathematically conclusive astrological key to Olympic winners…oh, why not?…

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Off The Cusp (Boston Globe) – There’s more to cuspiness than one might imagine…

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Picking Your Litter (Sindh Today) – When electional astrology means a C-section…

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The Forer Effect (Business Line) – Are we just fooling ourselves when we indulge in astrology or other kinds of personality analysis?…

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Star Tech (Times of India) – The number of techies studying astrology has rocketed…

Presidential Prognostications (ABC News) – Astrologer Susan Miller throws her hat into the political prediction arena…


Other Recent Stories:

Madonna’s Next Fifty Years (Hollywood News) – A whole new cycle is headed her way…

Perception Of Pluto (Astrobiology Magazine) – More debate on just what constitutes a planet. Under the right circumstances, Earth wouldn’t qualify

There’s Life On Mars (NDTV) – Not in ancient history, but right now, says noted scientist…

Eclipse Mix (Beliefnet) – Lynn Hayes, now on Beliefnet, notes that it’s the planetary combo that makes or breaks an eclipse…

Astrology Mall (Times of India) – A veritable soothsayer’s supermarket, ten of them in fact, soon to open in Bangalore…

Because It’s Round (MSNBC) – That’s what should be what determines what’s a planet, no?…

The Eights Have It (New Straits Times) – 8/8/2008 has astrologers and numerologists jumping, not to mention the carefully-chosen Olympic opening

Getting Down With The Candidates (Huffington Post) – Astrologer Philip Sedgwick has some advice for McCain and Obama, and the rest of us: get down with Pluto…

Haywire Stars (Merinews) – The Gujarat bomb blast, viewed from a Vedic chart set…

The Tale of Brother Twelve (North Island Midweek) – Unlikely history: legendary fleshpot guru of the Northwest was finally done in by a wronged astrologer…

Lucky Sultan (Adnkronos) – Astrologer risks reputation to declare one of the wealthiest men in the world has a prosperous future…

Drunken Astrologer Beheaded (Newindpress) – By his wife, yet, with his own sickle…it’s the same the whole world over…

Trouble, Trouble (American Chronicle) – Guy who uses Gemini Rising USA chart thinks we should abandon hope, and the minimum wage…unless, maybe that’s not the chart to use…

Eclipse Shuts Down City (Times of India) – Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in an eclipse day’s sun…

Tatters In Timbuktu (Der Spiegel) – The rush to save ancient astrological manuscripts crumbling in the desert…

Gasps And Nervousness (AFP) – That’s what greeted the solar eclipse along its path in Asia…

Bucky Fullerscope (Chronogram) – Buckminster Fuller was born on the day of the first prediscovery photo of Chiron, and other interesting astrological notes…

Solar Cheers (International Herald Tribune) – China has its special take on eclipse, including recent earthquake…

Fact And Superstitions (The Peninsula) – Various eclipse lore from a newspaper in Qatar…

Olympic Starcaster (USA Today) – The still-mysterious Antikythera mechanism plotted the stars for the earliest Olympics in ancient Greece…

Medieval Starcaster (The Herald) – A somewhat newer star calculator from Chaucer’s time has sold for half a million dollars…

The Real Saturn (Thunderbolts) – Maybe the reality of the time tells us more about the myth…

Off With Their Heads! (National Geographic) – Astrologers who failed to forecast Chinese eclipse paid with their lives…

Doomsday Warnings, Again (NY Sun) – New York astrologer claims that Saturn-Uranus opposition will bring back the turmoil of the 1960s…ah, the good old days…

Black Dog Syndrome (Binnall of America) – In the West, nobody wants them, but as we have reported before (though this article doesn’t), they’re a sellout in the East because of Saturn rulership…

Not A Good Time To Do Anything (The Star) – That describes July 16-August 15, the month of Adi, according to Vedic thinking. And we’re not even to the dog days…

Thanking Her Stars (Reuters) – India’s PM should credit the heavens for her close political call…

Victimized by Astrology and...Veganism? (ABC News)-- Web site warns of the dangers associated with odd, and not so odd, beliefs…

Stars And Czars (Economic Times) – “Life without astrology can be compared to a journey without a road map…”

Heavenly Footwear (Express India) – This shoe designer has seven consulting astrologers working on her line…

Divine Impulses (Newsweek/Washington Post) – Sally Quinn talks to astrologer Caroline Casey…

Football Faith (Newindpress) – France again puts its faith in coach Domenech, who puts his faith in astrology, to some specific players’ disadvantage, including Libra, Scorpio, and Leo…

The World on a String (Thunderbolts) – Did ancient humans actually see the influence of the Sun and the planets, as filaments in the sky?…

Ceres An Impersonator? (Science News) – Is the largest asteroid really an undocumented outer planet that moved in?…

New Dwarf In Town (New Scientist) – Trans-Neptunian planet (formerly “Easterbunny”) becomes the third named “Plutoid” after Pluto and Eris…now called Makemake, after an Easter Island god… the next one, unofficially “Santa,” will be harder…

Guru Moon (SFGate) – This special summer full Moon will transform the human race, says “YouTube Guru”…vedically speaking, it’s really a big deal…

What The Stars Don’t Tell (Business Standard) – It’s not about fate, it’s about control, as this columnist discovers…

Haircut Moon (Phase) – Cut your hair at the full of the Moon, plus other good times for coolest coiffing…