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Recent Stories:
Neptune’s
Black Eye
(MSNBC) – Looks like the mystic planet
got smacked by a comet a while back…
Cardinal
Climax (MarketWatch) –
Arch Crawford says “all
Hell will break loose” in the markets as the cardinal cross comes
together…of
course, there is
another
kind of climax…
Planet
X or Dark Star? (Fortean Times) – The recurrent question,
is something big lurking nearby? Yet another look…
Stonehenge
Twin (AOL) – It takes a lot of henges to keep
track of the stars…
Nemesis
No More (MSNBC) – The oft-proposed destroying
star may not exist at all…
Neptunial
Water
(Softpedia) – Coming to a lab near
you, a little drop of Neptune…
Sparrowmancy (FocusTaiwan)
– Why use a parrot to pick out cards, when a sparrow will
do?…a Chinese
variation on an Indian favorite…
Baby
Killer (Times
of India) – She tried to pin it on a mysterious astrologer,
but the truth
came out…
Superstition (My
Bangalore) – It’s not the way, but awfully
amusing…here’s some to mull
over: look out for Rahu and Ketu, but keep the baby out of the hot
oil…
Star
Cars (CarTradeIndia)
– Buying a car? Here’s a
wonderful rundown on how
astrology can help you pick your new wheels…
Dates
To Remember
(MensHealth) – A humorous, but
insightful, look at dates you’d better know if you want to
date…
The
Man Behind The Bird
(AsiaOne) – The astrologer behind the
parrot who was bested by the octopus. Well, we’re bird-lovers,
even if the
astrology is sometimes a stretch…more advising
animals here…
Hijacked
(YourTango) – Help! Astrology destroyed our
otherwise happy
relationship...
Planets
On Board (Gambit)
– The head of the World Chess
Federation is deeply into astrology, has a minor planet named after
him, among
other oddities…
Parrot Predictions
(InfoCuts) –
Paul the Octopus isn’t the only animal weighing in on the World
Cup, with a
finals prognostication favoring Spain. Mani the Parrot begs to differ,
choosing
the Netherlands…a
chimp, a hog, and another octopus agree…[to no
particular avail, as Spain wins]..
Mysterious
Moon
(Popular Mechanics) – We may have walked on her, but she
still hides her
biggest secrets…
Zombie
Comets (New
Scientist) – They explain Zodiacal Light…
Lasting
Caste
(Deccan Herald) – Is the upsurge in the likes of astrology
on the
Subcontinent a reflection of a backslide to nonrationalist precolonial
thinking?…
When
The Stars Go Crazy (Deccan
Chronicle) – Maybe here’s an example…
Fake
Astrologers
(ShutterVoice) – Malaysians are being
duped by rash of phony practitioners…
Tyranny
Unmasked (Radio
Australia) – New book explores
story of Burma’s dictators and their addiction to astrology,
among other things…
Dam
Busting (The National)
– An astrologer is lead role in new disaster film
about dams bursting and all hell breaking loose…
Khona
(Daily Star) – Female astrologer is the star in
this new, but
tradition-inspired play…
Sacred
Science (Chronogram) –
Egyptologist John Anthony
West opines on the planetary meanings as evolved by the early
Egyptians…
Plato
Code (Manchester
Univ.) – A researcher has discovered a key to early
science, music, and
the planets in Plato…
Ice
Age Shift (PlanetSave) – Our shifting poles do more
than mark the astrological ages, like the Age of Aquarius, they mark
the ice
ages. More research…
Moonlit
(Mediabistro) – Astrologer’s son and
partner use astro-algorithms to chart couple compatibility all the way
to the
bank…
“Astrology
Involved” (Deccan
Herald) – It would appear astrology-prone French coach
Domenech has not got
his team sufficiently in sync with the stars over this World Cup…a bad ending...
Probe Jupiter Mystery
(Hubble) – Missing belt and sudden
blast on Jupiter is being investigated…last time (when the two
spots collided)
much happened down here, so could be important…
Ancient Oceans
(U of Colorado) – On Mars. The
original study…plus ice
spirals explained…
Shadowmancy
(Indian Express) – Here’s a new form (to
us)
of divination which, and
astrology spinoff that, not surprisingly, has been around for
centuries…
Fear…(Mumbai
Mirror) – …that’s what’s driving devotees
to this deity on a rare astrological
opportunity…
A
Visa…(Hindustan Times)
-- …is, on the other hand, what
devotees to
Hanuman the Monkey King will get, says noted astrologer…
An
Earthquake…(Bangkok
Post)
– Current planetary
alignment is spreading angst over another possible quake and
tsunami…
Stocks
Rock Celestial (Gulf News) – Financial
astrology, and
astrology in general, is big business in India like nowhere else…
Begs
For Release (AP)
– Man who
barely missed beheading in
Saudi Arabia for Lebanese TV prediction show may eventually make it
home…
More
Mangliks (Market
PR) – A
badly-placed Mars makes you unfit for marriage, and
45% of the populace has it. Just about matches the divorce
statistics…
Headed
for Hollywood (DNA
India) –
American astrologer-musician
collaborates on a musical rewrite of the classic Hindu epic the
Mahabharata,
and it’s destined for the silver screen…
Outlanders
(Nova) – Comets may be visitors from other
worlds, as astrologers
originally thought, not from our own Oort Cloud as recent astronomy
theorized…
Jupiter’s
Black Eye
(Hubble) – Not only did the daddy planet
lose a belt on the way to meet Uranus, it got smacked by an asteroid,
with a
hit as big as the Pacific Ocean…
Stormy
Weather (NASA) – As
the Sun gets back into high
dudgeon after deceptive quiet, space experts are keeping a wary eye out
for the
damage that may ensue…
Can’t
Find Uranus?
(Christian Science Monitor) – It doesn’t
take much to see Uranus…a sharp naked eye or a pair of binocs.
Galileo could
have spotted it easily, if he’d known where to look…
Here’s how you can see it
with Jupiter’s help…
Gateway
Gig (NDTV) – Astrology as stepping stone
to greater
things – like
narcotics and car theft? When the fortunetelling business got slack,
this
former chicken farmer moved on to
the hard stuff…
Star
Togs (Real Bollywood) –
Astrological designer clothing
does not come
cheap…
Agora Debuts
(NY Times) – The Gray Lady reviews the lady
astrologer from ancient
Alexandria, played by Rachel Weisz in film’s New York
opening…”sad, but also
chilling…” Washington Post
likes it, too...
Crazy
Astrologer (Washington Post) – Also
in the arts,
also in the Big Apple, an opera with an astrologer debuts at Avery
Fisher Hall…
AstroCamp
(The Hindu) – Not a summer retreat for
astrologers,
but an affiliate
scheme to pull cash from the astroblogging community…
Moon-Mars
Crash (MidDay) – Not the stock market
crash, a
lethal aerial disaster, blamed on the stars…
Ruined
Marriages (Telegraph India) – Good
marriage aspects
and good weather aspects apparently aren’t the same…a
cyclone has washed out the best of the marriage season, at
great cost
to all…
Mix and
Match (San Francisco Station) –
The local press notices
another
practitioner…slow news day...
Planetary
Dissonance
(The SunBreak) – In this neo-Zoroastrian
composer’s model, the planets harmonize (sort of) in
tritones…
Doomsayer
On Trial
(Novinite) – Bulgarian astrologer who
caused panic is on trial in Sofia…
Police
Protection (Deccan
Chronicle) – This starcaster is officially guarded, maybe
because of the
officials he serves…
When
Astrology Lost To Archery
(KuenseOnline) – Maybe it’s the arrow of
time…
No
One Expects… (Catholic
Review) -- …the
Spanish
Inquisition, to quote Monty Python…astrologers most among them,
once they got
the gist of it…
Wedding Rush (BBC) – As good
aspects end, couples crowd the
altar…
Losing
A Stripe (MSNBC) – Jupiter appears to be
stripping
down for its historic encounter with Uranus, a mystery to NASA…maybe
it’s tidal…
Unnatural
Conjunction
(NASA) – When the Moon conjoins Venus
this weekend, there will be two other bright objects involved…
Starting Point
(DNA India)
– How
Subcontinent superstarcaster Bejan Daruwalla got his first gig…
Sun
Same Size (IFA) – Despite humongous
storms, flairs, spots, and
eruptions, the reliable
ruler of Leo hasn’t changed size a bit… for the
moment
Old-Time
Horoscope
(Star Tribune) – A sample of a starcaster
column from May 10, 1916, great stuff…got the warlike part
right, the gigantic
naval Battle of Jutland was just around the corner…
Explaining
Astrology
(SoFeminine) – A long, thoughtful pop
journalistic essay
from the UK doing just that…
Fancy
Names (Telegraph India) –
Astrologers accusing other
astrologers of
nominative deception…of course, if you’re not local, the
point may be lost…
Jobs,
Jobs, Jobs (Rediff)
– It’s not just employers’ HR
departments who are eying the stars, so are the applicants…
Vedic
Live (Financial Express) – Indian
astro-leader
Ganeshaspeaks has a new
competitor in the phone consulting business, mPandit.com. Strangely, it
bears
the name of Ganesha’s own CEO, Hemang Pandit, who may or may not
be amused…
Cricket
Capers (DNA India) – Cricket champion
team’s
owner team will win, but only if he doesn’t watch the game, says
his astrologer…
He’s
Back, Almost… (Nation MultiMedia) – That would
be
Thailand’s former PM Thaksin, whom astrologers predicted would
return…
Who
Will Win? (The Telegraph) – In
UK’s highly-Americanized,
tight election,
journalists are consulting the stars, and everything else, to get ahead
of the
news…
Legalizing
It (The Sun) – While Chicago
considers banning astrology, Macon has OK’d it…
The
Secrets of the Universe…
(DNA India) -- …will be revealed soon, with a
little help from the Hadron Collider, among other things, says
superstarcaster
Bejan Daruwalla…
Mustn’t
Be Banned
(DNA India) – Move to stifle astrology
in, of all places, India heats up…
Hired By The
Stars (Indian
Express) – Human resources departments may be asking your
birth data to
decide if you’re fit for the job…
Chicago
To Ban Astrology?
(Chicago Current) – Another well-meaning
proposal throws everybody, legit or not, into the same pot…
Snakes
(One India) – We’ve heard of parrot
astrologers, but snakes?...kissing
King Cobras, even…
It’s Written In
The Stars (WND) – The
Second Coming, that is…except it’s somehow astronomical,
not astrological…a
matter of judgment (day), we reckon…
Starry-Eyed
Stocks (Wall St.
Journal) – What, Indians use astrology in the stock market?
This journalist
must be a newbie…
Soothsayers
Denied
(3news New Zealand)
– The war against the
wackos in Kiwiland has legit astrologers caught in the middle…
Twitter
Trend (Mashable) – Astrology is
number three on
Twitter’s most popular
subject list…
One
Piece Of Advice
(Sunday Times) – For the skilled
astrologer, choice of words is everything…as this lovely tale
demonstrates…
Mystery
Molasses (NASA)
– As
Pluto enters its northern
summer, murky markings have appeared. Could the planet of Death harbor
proto-life?...
Zodiacal
Light (SETI) – The
mystery glow of the Zodiac
has been finally accounted for…more w/pix
here…
Astrologer On
Trial… (Novinite) -- … for
misleading
predictions that caused panic evacuation in Bulgaria…beats
beheading (see Saudi
story below)…
Saturn Mystery
Explained (PhysOrg) – The strange,
massive hexagon
encircling
Saturn’s north pole turns out to be an artifact of fluid
dynamics…with video
example…
Retrograde Everything
(ESO) – What if all the planets
were permanently
retrograde?…turns out, this could be the case elsewhere, setting
planetary
formation theory on its ear…
Russell Gets
Richer (Transworld
News) – British boffin inks big deal to make stardcaster more
profitable…he’s even doing cooking shows…
Planetary Music
(NPR) – Listen to the proportional relative
tones of the planets, the music of the spheres, as they circle in this
marvelous musical animation…
Stamp
Signs (India
Post Office) – India is issuing a
set of astrological stamps…pictures to come on release…
File
In June (Flash News) –
Astrologer Shelley Ackerman
thinks you should delay filing your taxes, because of April 15th’s
dire sky, until June…when there will be, actually, an even worse
grand cross
overhead...
Terrible Tiger
(Phnom Pen Post) – The Year of the
Tiger looks just awful, at least as seen from Cambodia…
Venus
Is Alive (Space.com) – The planet of
love may be
hot inside as well as on the surface, with active volcanoes still
spewing lava,
more Earth-like than ever…
Dwarfed
Again (Science
Alert)
– New definition of “dwarf
planet” may let dozens
more into the solar systems pen, crowding Pluto even more…
Why Vulcan
Vanished
(Post-Gazette) – The mysterious
intra-Mercurial planet, long-sought by astronomers and astrologers
alike, was
probably an artifact of relativity…
Rubbish,
Again (Facebook) –
Astrologers defend their art
against another dismissive “rubbish” attack on a BBC
program, as
skeptics
blog back…the usual, unresolved
arguments, not really
addressing each
other…
Manhandled
(Sahil Online) – Crooked astrologer slapped silly
by
a group of
women after attempted scam…sounds like he deserved it…
Lucky
Planet (DNA India) – Our man Bejan
(Subcontinental
superstargazer) likes Jupiter in Pisces…
Hard
To Get (AP) – California biodynamic
wines, grown and
produced according to
lunar phases, among other things, are especially delicious, but
there’s just
not enough to go around…
The
Red Sun (Thunderbolts)
–
Were the ancient Egyptians seeing a very different
Sun than we are seeing today?...
Orbital
Weather Cycle
(Examiner) – If there’s a change in the weather,
it’s because there’s
ever a change in us…
Was
Quaoar an Asteroid?
(New Scientist) – Among the newer “planets” in
the Kuiper Belt, this
piece of rock may have wandered from a bit closer by…
Bend
It Like Beckham
(Daily Mail) – Victoria “Posh” Beckham, that
is…and bending means an
astrology-yoga combo that promises, promises…Jennifer
Aniston does it,
too…
Comet
Catastrophe
(RedOrbit) – Finally, hard evidence of a
massive comet strike a little less than 13,000 years ago. Claims of
this one and its traumatic
historical effect (extinctions, legends of fire from the sky) have been
bubbling under literally for decades…complete paper here...
Behead
Fortuneteller
(Pattya Daily News) – Saudi Arabia will
behead popular Lebanese TV forecaster for over-the-air
“sorcery,” after luring
him in on pilgrimage. This nation is supposedly our ally…
Lost
Bird (ExpressBuzz) – Local
violence leaves an aging
“parrot astrologer”
searching for his life companion…
Feelie
App (New Zealand Herald) – A new
biometric phone
application uses your
natal chart, among other things, to tell your daily fortune…
Dodgy
Doings (3News)
– A suspicious set of starcasters have set
up shop in
Auckland…
Political
Challenge (This Is Leicestershire) –
Anti-astrology
candidate will run for MP election in Britain, after expenses
scandal…
Planetary
Oddities (AOL)
– Strange doings in our celestial neighborhood this year…
Nab
Rapist (Deccan
Herald) – Astrologers can be criminals, just
like anybody
else – and more often in a culture with more astrologers…
Hungry
Planet
(New Scientist) –
Neptune may have eaten an earth-size planet and stolen its moon,
Triton…or, it
might have been Uranus…
Bangalore
Bonanza
(Mid-Day) –
Astrologers make hay while the stars shine as politicos flock for
election-time
readings…
Mystery
Manuscript
(Fortean Times) –
Zodiac helps date ancient document discovered by bookseller in
1912…
Dark
Asteroids
(NASA) – What you
don’t see definitely can hurt you…
Star
Wars Behind The Scenes
(Pattaya Daily News) – Political forces
in Thailand have astrologers working for both sides, like the
mysterious “E.T.”, similar
to the English Civil War…
Burning
Socks (Christian Science Monitor)
– We’ve heard of
some strange rituals
associated with the spring equinox, but this one is a foot ahead…
Hurricane
Neptune
(Technology Review) – Like Saturn,
Neptune is a windy place indeed…see pix and videos...
Moonwater (NASA) – The
Moon is always associated with water,
ruling the
cardinal water sign Cancer. Hardly the dry, barren place the astronauts
walked
on. Shouldn’t it be chock full of
water?
Well, maybe it is…
Software
Test (Trak.in) – It takes an
Indian news
source to report on an American astrologer’s program to validate
astrological
concepts – it’s about harmonics, and by our old friend
David Cochrane…
Death
Star Collision (Scientific
American) – A rogue star has been spotted headed our way
on direct collision
course. It won’t hit soon, but it radically shortens our time
left here in this
solar system…
Blood
Protest (The Guardian)
–
Bizarre blood-spilling event is sympathetic magic, say Thai
astrologers…
For
previous monthly overviews, predictions, and newslinks from earlier
this year and previous years, see our
colorful news
archives here...
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