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Triple Shot!



The usual, biannual double-shot of eclipses is a triple this time, starting a trend.

If events hard upon 22 June’s new-Moon-opposition-Pluto confirmed our suggestion to finish your act and temporarily or permanently leave town (Iranian hopefuls, Michael Jackson, and lots more did, or should have), July will probably turn out quite different. First, Saturn ends its dominance over half the sky, giving way to splash and see-saw patterns that enable more multiple, cooperative efforts and changing possibilities. Second, Uranus turning retro helps take the pressure off ongoing new vs. old confrontations.

But third, it’s silly season again, eclipse time, and this one’s a triple whammy, with an extra lunar eclipse thrown in at the end, thanks to and featuring a prolonged solar eclipse precisely on the nodes. Instead of the usual set of two turnaround super-lunations, we get three – on July 7 (Lunar, 15 Capricorn-Cancer), July 21 (Solar, 29 Cancer), and August 5 (Lunar, 13 Aquarius-Leo). Moreover, the average chance of a triple set rockets up from only every eight or nine seasons to one in three until 2020. So, instead of mostly double shots, we get a swarm of triples, eight in the next decade. There’s even a just-released book about it,, should you want to know more, from the Indian perspective.

Is it dire? Is it meaningless? Or something else, entirely? Literally, it indicates the middle eclipse is extra close to the lunar nodes, making it fuller, more exact, and longer, perhaps exaggerating its usual influence, gravitational and otherwise. However, the two on either side tend to be shorter, almost grazing near-misses, much farther from the nodes and thus probably weaker. As for the track record of such multiples, calendar year 1973 saw not just a triple but two doubles as well, seven eclipses in total, and most folks got through intact. But it was a mighty freaky year of unexpected, critical changes, indeed: Watergate, the pullout from Vietnam, the Yom Kippur war, doubling oil prices, Roe vs. Wade, the Allende assassination, a recession, the opening of China, and lots more. Any parallels coming up? Very possibly…so, this season, best hedge your bets until you see not just two reversals of course, but three… 

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Risky Resonance (Sky and Telescope) – The planets’ orbits and gravity affect each other more than you might think, to the extent that just the right gathering resonance could throw it all out of whack…


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Astrologer Arrested (Independent) – For making predictions contrary to oppressive new Sri Lankan government, as it consolidates supreme power…and UN may be next…

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Astrology Reporter Abducted (BBC) – Tamils start to suffer already from government “agents”…

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Astrology Lessons, Porno, and… (AP) – …horse manure, that’s what Brit politicos were spending public money on…priorities, priorities…

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Rocking with the Stars (Response Source) – Brit celeb astrologer will headline Glastonbury rock festival…

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A Rose By Any Other Name… (Huffington Post) – …might make more money from the same set of suckers…astrology plus, called “Human Design”…

Astrology Hospitals (News Track) – Banaras university uses astrology to cure heart ailments…


Other Recent Stories:

Upward Eye (Times of India) – Brick-and-mortar builder passed through astrology to astronomy, now forecasts weather…

Triple Eclipses (Mid-Day) – Instead of the usual pair, we get three together this year, and six more triplets in the next decade. Does this mean a triple-whammy?…

The Pagoda Peril (Taipei Times) – Astrologers continue to construe ominous future for junta after pagoda collapse…

Celestial Engineer (Manorama) – Astrology site giant Ganesha Speaks was actually the inspiration of an engineer…

New Despots (Asian Tribune) – In the wake of the demise of the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, true despotism is about to take over Sri Lanka, as per astrologer’s predictions…

Lunar Assault (SFGate) – Dire results will come within a year of NASA’s attack on the Moon, say Moon Club…

Huge Henge (National Geographic) – The remains of a giant circular temple complex 1,000 years older than Stonehenge has just turned up in crop-circle-like aerial photos…

Solar Cycles and Climate (Examiner) – Part 1 of a series on how the Sun and planets interact to form historical climate variations…

Laplace Resonance (New Scientist) – Jupiter’s moons are adjusting orbits through resonance, slowing volcanism, perhaps similar to our own  planetary evolution…

Sunspot Mystery Solved (NASA) – The Sun has been spotless for disturbingly long, but now there appears to be an explanation, deep inside its fiery furnace…

Dog Stars (EIN) – Planetary positions are linked with puppy breeding and development in new experiments…

Viet Vice (Vietnam Net) – Digital  prognosticators are flaunting strict laws against divination…

Star-Struck Temple (Asia Times) – Celestial skullduggery and desperate moves to ward off fate as temple collapses in astrology-wrapped Burma…

Court Matters (Express Buzz) – Legal battle continues in ongoing astrology temple scandal we began covering years ago…

Confidence Is Key (Newspost) – You do trust your astrologer, don’t you? It’s important…

Astro Media Buy (Medianama) – Indian Astrolife.com picked up by media mogul, forges ties with Astrology.com in U.S. – look out, Ganesha Speaks…

Revealing Eclipses (Astrobiology) – Lunar eclipses help spot exoplanets favorable to life…

Clockwork Moon (NewsBlaze) – Was the Moon placed there deliberately to keep time?…

Broken Dwarf (New Scientist) – Moon apparently took a bashing from pieces of smashed-up wanderer…

Eclipses Forever (Science Daily) – Earthbound study of solar eclipses still leads to discovery, especially from upcoming, extra-long one…

Worlds In Collision (Space.com) – The clockwork of the planets is more askew than we think, with chaotic potential down the road apiece…

Charlatan Crackdown (Times Of India) – Counterfeit starcasters are getting culled by the cops…

Fingerprints (St. Petersburg Times) – Astrologers are presumed guilty until proven innocent under blue law renewal…

Apollo Meets Astrology (New Scientist) – Astronaut Buzz Aldrin intros Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”…

The Mars Hoax Returns (NASA) – Don’t know how many time this hoary delusion has surfaced across the Net, or how many times we’ve mentioned it…

Life On Earth… (Red Orbit) – … could last a lot longer, thanks to Gaia-like effect…

Lunar Eclipse Tales (Softpedia) – What we see during a lunar eclipse could be clue to exoplanets and life in other solar systems…

Lingering Snow (SFGate) – That interference on your now-useless analog TV wasn’t just noise, it was the universe whispering…

Disastrous Date (ekantipur) – Astrologers picked a bad day to convene, indeed…

Hot Coals (This Is Somerset) – Brit astrologer Jonathan Cainer can do more than interpret a horoscope, as amazed festival-goers attest…

Cosmic Music (Philadelphia Inquirer) – Right here on earth, at the Franklin Institute’s Galileo exhibit…

Weak Prediction (NASA) – The unusually silent Sun will return a year late, in 2013, and not with a bang but a whimper…

Zoned Out (Chicago Tribune) – Fortunetellers are rezoned, astrologers object…

Saturn’s Fault (Moscow Times) – Russian astrologers agree that unsettled times won’t end until Saturn-Uranus opposition is over in 2011…

Got To Move (Daily Mail) – Wealthy Brit starcaster Russell Grant’s got to move out of his mansion, because his partner wears the pants…

Canadian Casters Booming (Canada.com) – Insecurity north of the border has astrology in a growth spurt…

Failed The Test (Times of India) – Astrologers didn’t collect a dime in election test…

Rice Spin (NY Times) – After oxen give a bad crop forecast, local astrologer feels compelled to spin it to the press…

Lethal Lunar (AJC.com) – A new book chronicles dozens of musicians who died at age 27, right on their progressed lunar return…

And The Winner Will Be… (Samaylive, more) – In big Indian election, some starcasters say BJP will triumph, except for those who say the opposite…but the right forecast will win a prize…

Placebo Effect? (Stuff.NZ) – California biologist turned starcaster tries to make it in more skeptical Kiwiland…hasn’t a clue why it works, but predicts more popularity as times worsen…

Seeing Saucers (The Recorder) – Astrologer encounters UFOs down under, snaps photo…

More Than One Moon (The Nation) – Our leftover satellite(s) may have been hiding at Lagrangian points, a hot topic these days…

Name That Planet (Mail On Sunday) – If you can’t tell whether that’s Venus or Mars (or both right now) hanging like a harbinger overhead, point your cell phone at it, then ask Google…

Stereo Moon (Universe Today) – This one works, even when you cross your eyes…

Cosmic Cooling? (Cleveland Plain Dealer) – Sun losing its luster? Could be…

Pluto Girl Passes (Fox) – Venetia Phair, the 11-year-old girl who named Pluto, has died at age 90, just two weeks after her documentary aired…

Voting For Marriage (Times of India) – You get to vote again, you only get married once. The elections have been in conflict with the stars all over the Subcontinent…

Apocalypse Soon!? (Newsreview) – Or is it just those lyin’ Mayans? More on 2012, etc.…

Sun Revives (Wired) – Solar storms are rounding the bend, picking up after a long hiatus. Are we ready for the next round, or will it be a solar Katrina?…

New Age Dead? (Llewellyn Journal) – Not according to its major publisher, but the term is getting a wee musty…neo-post-new-age, maybe?…

It’s Franken! (Minnesota Independent) – This can’t drag on any longer, or the eclipses will cut in…oh-oh…!

Sales Critique (Practical Commerce) – If you’re selling things like printed astrological reports, do a good job…tips purely from a presentation and sales point of view…

Hungry for Predictions (Time) – The British Astrological and Psychic Society reports demand for readings rising faster than the country's national debt…

Horoscope Bingo! (Webwire) – Starcaster to lead Brit bingo show, make player predictions…hungry, indeed…

Planetary Apothecary (Examiner) – Medicine by the stars, leading with Hippocrates, is apparently OK if you call it “wellness”…and something about oats…

The Finger (Times of India) – On astrologer’s advice, he gave the wrong finger, got in voting trouble…

American Stonehenge (Wired) – Monumental slabs contain planetary-aligned instructions for civilization’s survivors in eight languages, its true origin a mystery already, though only built in 1980…

Great White Pyramid (Histories & Mysteries) – Rediscovered in China…it’s twice as big as the Pyramid of Giza, and like it, celestially aligned…

Starry Screening (Dive) – Astrologer-epic Agora will debut at Cannes Film Festival…

Charmed Enforcer (Stuff.co) – Pro boxer turned private “enforcer” was sent to twist astrologer’s arm, wound up getting a reading…

We Are All Related (Examiner) – Book review of a work that in part integrates astrology into, well, everything…

Technical Aspect Oscillator (EIN Presswire) – That mouthful depicts another new proof of how astrological aspects may affect the markets…

The Girl Who Named Pluto (BBC) – She was only 11 at the time. Her story in a new documentary…

Trading By The Stars (Forexhound) – Harnessing the power of Gann mathematics, planetary cycles plus…

Moon Wine (Toronto Life) – Canadian Niagara biodynamic wine, grown by astrological timing, debuts…meanwhile they're sipping it in Pittsburgh...

Political Profits (Irish Times) – Astrologers are pulling in an estimated 93 million euro in Subcontinent’s frantic spring election competition…

Flippy Future (American Chronicle) – Converging cycles have much in store, from flipping poles to flipping weather…

Our Dimming Star (Daily Mail) – The Sun is not only unusually spotless, its whole output has weakened…could be historical key to recession?…

DoomTube (2012thetruth) – According to “new” Nostradamus verses, 2012 videos claim we might not even make it that far…

Prediction Panic (Novinite) – Astrologer’s earthquake warnings fill southern Bulgarians with terror and dread…starcaster may get sued...

More Peril (Assam Times) – Assam has even worse to look forward to, say starcasters…

Venus Disappears (NASA) – Between a meteor shower and an occultation, the planet of love will momentarily vanish in a very sweet lunar occultation, the morning of April 22…

French Pastries (NASA) – When the Sun chooses to blast us, it sends out croissants…

Thai Chaos (Wall St. Journal) – Leading astrologer says current state of emergency will dissolve government, while former strong man Thaksin lurks…

Believers (Daily Mail) – Astrology belief up to 22%, as pollster admits “Enlightenment optimism in the ability of science and reason to explain everything ended decades ago….”

Other Believers (DNA India) – Of course, others are turning to astrology instead of religion and spirituality…

Predictor Palaver (ExpressBuzz) – In the country with the most astrologers, starcasters huddle to peer ahead, including possible partition of Pakistan coalition in India…

Remains In The Night (NASA) – Twin satellite probes are searching the skies for the remains of an ancient planet near Earth, perhaps the source of the Moon…

All Agog (Thai Indian) – The Subcontinent is a-buzz with celestial predictions on coming election cycle…

Math Whiz Flees Fury (Indian Newslink) – Renowned mathematician and astrologer slips up in New Zealand, takes it on the lam…

The Silent Sun (NASA) – Like the economy, the sunspots still aren’t coming back…

Midnight Magnetism (New Scientist) – Fluctuating geomagnetism directly effects your dreams, according to new research…

Banned In Britain (The Hindu) – Pundit’s promo is pulled for promising personal predictions…

Incest, Rape, and Dysfunction (Huffington Post) – The HP picks up on Indian astrologer sex scandal and wraps it up with the rest of the month’s similar depravities…must be percolating down from above…

Astro-Opera Is Back (Times Online) – Brit revival of Le Grand Macabre includes “the S&M scene between the crossdressing astrologer Astradamors and his dominatrix wife, Mescalina, who spanks him with a spatula and threatens him with a cooking spit and a huge pet spider…” Times review here...

Body Parts (DNA India) – Stories of Subcontinental astro-mischief are always a bit more colorful…

Epochalypse Soon (The Phoenix) – More fun with the Mayans, as The End gets ever more play on the Web…

Fighting For His Name (Money Times) – Famed Latin starcaster Walter Mercado is in legal battle for the rights to his own name…

Banned Down Under (Beliefnet) – One of Lynn Hayes’s “Astrology Musings” put on Aussie computer nanny-list…way to go, Lynn!

Vedic Watch (Walletpop) – Like, the watch on your wrist. This one, by premium Swiss watchmaker Borgeaud, will warn of “Rahu Kaal” and start at $2000…see it here…

Spring In August (Top News) – Spring on Saturn comes on August 11, as first the moons cast shadows on the rings, which then go dark…

Prosperity Rape (Hindustan Times) – The seamier side of Subcontinent starcasters and their clients…more details here… and yet elsewhere, a murder…

Stars Destroyed Marriage (UPI) – Wife let astrology ruin their relationship, says estranged hubby…

Presley Horoscope Auction (Gottahaverockandroll) – The King’s horoscope hand-drawn by Dane Rudhyar, plus 23 pp of interpretation, on the block for $4,000-$6,000…

2012 Bonanza (2012thetruth) – A bonanza, a veritable plethora of how many ways Mayan astrological prophecies could doom us all…

Baby Planning (mysinchew) – Burmese astrologers to launch site for expectant moms to pick auspicious birth times, for arranging Caesarians…

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