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Lunar eclipse, as seen from the Moon...one last month, one this month, plus solar.

April came in like a lamb and (as predicted) was roaring like a lion by mid-month, punctuated by the explosive super-Aries “Devil’s Week” stellium and Sun-Mars conjunction. Now, May brings the second and third eclipses of this extra-eclipse season, augmented by Jupiter racing through Gemini at breakneck speed. The combination of a heavy foot on the gas (Jupiter) and sudden, unexpected turns in the road (eclipses) can lead to all kinds of incidents and accidents, both fortuitous and fateful, so stay alert and be ready to suddenly alter direction. Broken-field running is the order of the day.

Although the discomfiting Saturn-Uranus-Pluto square/quincunx arrangement remains loosely in place, which has made for a late and edgy spring, Jupiter has at last broken out of that tangle, so despite resident perils around the margins, the imminence of a fatter period on its way is becoming palpable. Mercury and Venus conjunctions with Jupiter by the last week make positive plans manifest and put recipes for a jovial summer on the front burner.  If ever there were a time for dancing around the Maypole and making hay while the Sun shines, this is it, so get out there and participate. Stay on your toes, and this merry month will not disappoint…

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Windy Planets (Space Reporter) – The outer planets are stormy environments, and now investigators believe they know why…



Archetypes and Horoscopes (MarketWatch) – Archetype word site and promoter of the Five Factor Model, among other entities, ties up with astrology, not too much of a stretch, we would surmise…


Lunar Blast (NASA) – The Moon got smacked in the eye just recently, and lit up like a Christmas tree…were you looking up when it happened…?


Peruvian Pyramid (LiveScience) – Yet another ancient monument has been linked to astro-observation…


Martian Weather (MaxPlanck) – Finally, a decent forecast for the potentially snowbound Mars-goer…


Poll-Time Nexus (Bangalore Mirror) – Celeb starcaster in bed with politicos to fix elections…but it seems election time is pooja to pooja in the Subcontinent these days…


Bollywood Star-Suit (IndiaTV) – Astrologer who gained fame predicting his own death (but didn’t die) now suing film company for allegedly using his story…


Other Recent Stories:

Stonewall Moon (Texas State) – It turns out the untimely death of Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson can be blamed on the Moon…

Time on Saturn (Un. Of Iowa) – Changes in the magnetosphere are tagged to Saturn’s seasons, and may be similarly so here on Earth, which could explain a lot…

Time Crystals (Wired) – New theory has time fractured, and motion perpetual, with multiple implications…

Hurricane Saturn (NASA) – On this staid, conservative planet, all hell breaks loose on a regular basis at the North Pole. Fabulous photos…

Hot and Youthful (Exeter Univ.) – Actually, old Saturn has a lot more spring in its elastic step than it might have, and here’s why…

Poet’s Stars (The Hindu) – Famous poet’s astrological works to be published for the first time…the subject that fascinated him predicted he would die young, which he did, at 36…

A Winning Time (Sunday Leader) –  In picking election date, Tamil president declares, “My astrologer gives me a winning time and I will decide on the basis on what he says.” Surely, the intention sounds rigged, even if it’s wishful thinking…

Dead Astrologers’ Society (Four Moons) – New Internet discussion show on history of astrology out of Texas…

Dead Astrologers (Smithsonian) – “Human computer” astrologer on Subcontinent passes at 83, so does down-under starcaster Richard Sterling…

Name A Planet (IAU) – Schemes to take money for naming exoplanets are bogus, says the International Astronomical Union. But some will sell you not only names, but even real estate on the Moon and local planets…

Bad Predictions (Deccan Chronicle) – Standard yearly forecasts like abundant rains regularly fail to come true, but at least those involved don’t get killed for it (see below)…

Time Machine (The Telegraph) – Iranian has new way of predicting the future: go there. Patent is under wraps so Chinese won’t steal it…

Sea Henge (LiveScience) – A lost astrological monument turns up under the Sea of Galillee…

Pundit Pandit (Medianama) – Interesting interview with our friend Hemang Pandit, founder of India’s largest astrology site, Ganesha Speaks. It’s a fascinatingly different market, and culture…starting with cricket…

Mad Men Astrology (Papermag) – Susan Miller, in a rare moment of originality, deduces the horoscopes of the characters in the hit TV series…

Election Consultations (DNA India) – It’s election time again, and astrologers are raising their fees as politician jostle for auspicious moves…

The New Comet (Thunderbolts) – The arrival of the new comet this fall could be the most spectacular ever, or another “comet of the century” dud like Kohoutek, depending on the electric charges involved…it’s already inside the orbit of Jupiter…

Clubbed To Death (Hindu Business Line) – Starcaster allegedly duped victim with phony predictions, paid with it for his life…

Spider King’s Astrologer (Pakistan Today) – Editorial comparison between Louis XI’s astrologer and modern Pakistan’s army…

Keyboard Zodiac (Beethovenfest) – Classical pianist explains hidden symbolism of Beethoven and Wagner at Beethovenfest…

Fake Astrologer (DaijiWorld) – The Subcontinent has it right, bust the penny-ante charlatans. The West should do as well, they have to take you for millions before the cops notice…

Water Waste (Religion.info) – Astrologer and social activist gets award for scheme to conserve and recycle millions of gallons of temple sacrificial milk and water…

The Astrologer of Karabagh (Armenian Weekly) – The 1834 Zubov novel for the first time in English translation…

Short Stories (WTNH) – As good an entry into astrology as any, for the short of attention, we suppose…

Collision Course (NASA) – As earlier noted, a comet might hit Mars in the fall…well how about all our expensive stuff up there, roving about on the surface? NASA still might benefit…

Scholarly Lament (ANS) – Bruce Scofield decries the position modern astrology has found/put itself in, for lack of taking itself seriously as a science, and all that requires…long our position as well, as we repeat in various ways…

Astrological Twins (Examiner) – Their lives come out similar, but not the same, though not (as this article contends) because of the “free will principle”…!

Universe Older Than Thought… (NASA) – …by 100 million years, with more regular and dark matter, but less dark energy…who knew?...

Rogue Planet Flyby (Livescience) – That’s one disturbing way things could get seriously or terminally worse, in new Weather Channel series…more here…

Rational Russians (Interfax-religion) – As Americans become less skeptical of astrology, the former Soviets are becoming more so…

What Ptolemy Knew (Technology Review) – The great Classical astrologer’s star catalogue had atmospheric brightness corrections not “discovered” until 1500 years later…

Hollow Phobos? (WhoForted) – Is one of the Moons of Mars not only hollow, but perhaps artificial, or a mined asteroid? Rife for speculation…

Ten More Moons (Space.com) – For distant Pluto…the God of Death may be a dwarf planet, but it’s got a formidable brood…will we name them all?...

Sun Stone for Real (Independent) – We’ve known the Viking Sun stone was for real for some time. Hey, we’re selling them!  But now one has been found aboard a Tudor ship…

Evidence… (ANS) – … for astrological claims. Turns out those other planets really do affect us, after all, despite an earlier scientific coverup…

Lilly Remembered (This Is Leicestershire) – The great astrologer’s hometown newspaper looks back at his life, and his cottage…

Mars Smackdown? (Space.com) – It appears the planet of war is on collision course with a seriously-large comet…

Jupiter vs. The Sun (The National) – It appears that Jupiter may drive the magnetic portion of the solar cycle, and climate on Earth. An argument for astrology? Well, a start…

Copernicus Brew (The News) – A Polish outfit has concocted a special beer for the great astrologer’s birthday…with lavender…

Astrological Phenom (Huffington Post) – That would be astrologer/businesswoman Susan Miller, just covered in New York Magazine (follow link), performing at the level of the Kardassians, in popularity, money, and substance…

Name Pluto’s Moons! (Sky and Telescope) – Pluto was named by solicited public suggestions, now it’s time to do the same for its newly-discovered moons…here’s the link to cast your vote…

Sneaky Snake (Digital Journal) – Chinese astrologers say coming Year of the Snake will be dodgy, indeed, with dark predecessors…

Early Augur (NASA) – It appears there’s another, new naked-eye comet coming well ahead of next fall’s all-time spectacle…

Beetles Follow The Stars (ANS) – Lowly dung beetles have their sights set high, according to new research, using the Milky Way to navigate…

Change the Name! (Times of India) – Starcasters lobby to change provincial capital’s name – back to its original…

Eris Wreaks Havoc (New Scientist) – The recently-discovered outer planet beyond Pluto may destroy theories of dark matter and energy…appropriately, it rules chaos...

Nabbed for Murder (Bangalore Mirror) – Politically-connected starcaster is rounded up as part of abduction, killing plot…the Subcontinent seethes with astro-skullduggery of late…

Comet of the Century (NASA) – Coming soon to a sky near you, and everyone…so big and bright it will be visible in the daytime, stretch halfway across the night sky...

Syrian Hopes (France24) – Astrologer forecasts fall of Assad, boosting weary rebel expectations…

No More Fakes! (Herald Tribune) – Astrologers unite to stamp out fraudulent fortunetellers (love the forecasting machine depicted!)…

Death By Parrot (Asian Age) – He didn’t get the romance the parrot astrologer promised, so he offed himself…

Our Second Moon (Earthsky) – Really? It’s 3753 Cruithne and it’s, well, co-orbital…and rather small…

Shot Dead (Times of India) – Ringleader of gang that assassinated leading astrologer killed in shootout with cops…

A Watchful Eye (Times of India) – While Western laws against astrology slacken, in the Subcontinent, regulations keeping witchcraft, voodoo, and fraud out of starcasting are about to tighten…

Mayan Eclipse Prediction (LiveScience) – Here’s one they got right…

Astrology For Sale (Virtual Strategy) – Not even that, actually, just the domain name ZodiacSigns.com, for only $325,000. You could use it for anything that might make the money back, even call it astrology…

Blame The Sun (NASA) – Small variations in solar output hit us bigger than we thought…

Astrological Classes (China Daily) – Not classes in astrology, but classes divided into astrological signs, and other quirks of recent Far East education…

Prophet of Doom (Washington Post) – How an obscure Renaissance court astrologer (Nostradamus) became a modern touchstone of prophecy…

Myanmar Miracle? (Mizzima) – Astrologer in Burma (where they take it very seriously) says Suu Kyi could become new leader by 2014…

View From Lebanon (Gulf News) – Predictions, astrological and otherwise, carry special weight in this Mideast nation…

Jewish Astrolabes (the JC) – Medieval and early Renaissance Jewish astrologers, not unlike contemporary navigators, used finely-crafted instruments to pursue their art, new study reveals…

No Double Dip (ANS) – Even after “fiscal cliff”, future looks bright ahead, according to nodal economic cycles, claims econocaster…

Conceiving by the Stars (ANS) – Research claims to tie fertility to Venus and Jupiter positions…

A Missing Planet? (Scientific American) – We may have lost a big one along the way…which brings to our mind, is the stack-up of planets and their symbolism innate, like it would naturally turn out nearly the same anywhere?...

As We Know It… (China Daily) – The end of the world, that is…as viewed from Buddhist China, with six existential questions posed by journalists…

Undead Weigh In (CantonRep) – Astrologer rep for zombie community (didn’t know there was one, did you?) says undead won’t take over on December 21, but maybe later…

Just A Jest… (Indian Express) – That’s how Subcontinent astrologers (and astronomers) are viewing the end of the Mayan calendar…

Do Your Christmas Shopping (Cape Town Post) – South African starcasters aren’t pausing for the mock apocalypse, too busy at the mall…

Yesterday, The World Didn’t End (NASA) – NASA is so sure the world won’t end on Dec. 21 that there’s a press release for the next day already prepared. Also a nice explanation of the Maya calendar-counting system some great links to more…

Doomsday Haven (The Telegraph) – 2012 doom-fleers crowd into Turkish village, believing its good vibes will save them from Mayan astrological apocalypse…

AstroTube (Times of India) – Not every astrologer eschewed 12-12-12…new multilingual YouTube channel AstroSageIndia debuted at 12:12 PM that day…multilingual perhaps, but hardly international, so far…

Doomsday Fortunes (Times of India) – The imminent end of the world on December 21 has astrologers doing a brisk business…

Early Disaster (UPI) – Why wait two weeks? Chaos is about to reign Y2K-style on 12-12-12 because of Mercury-Neptune problems, says at least one astrologer…even ordinary starcasters are giving it a miss…

Symbols of an Alien Sky (Thunderbolts) – Did Ancients witness huge discharges from planets that shaped our mythical view of them? Here’s the whole electric sky proposal, now on DVD…

Written In The Stars (Oxford University Press) – Planets as both science and symbolism in literature across the centuries…

Global Art (MetroWest) – Astrologer’s artwork picked by U.S. government to be displayed in embassies around the world…

Astrology Orchestra (SBWire) – An instrument constructed for every planet according to its properties, and so on…three performances scheduled so far…

Russian Apocalypse (RT) – Doomsday fever is sweeping Russia as Mayan astrological calendar winds down to its end…including travel tickets to heaven and hell…

MoonIt (Business Insider) – Astrology-based flirting app tops a million users…

Emu Farm Scam (Times of India) – OK, we can’t resist astrologers on the police blotter, it’s just so real…;-)…and here’s another, linked to the recent murder (below), it seems India is having an astrological crime wave…

Astro-Tattoo (Examiner) – Ink your birth chart on your arm…some celebrities will try anything…with slideshow…

Storm Over Saturn (Huffington Post) – Superstorm Sandy isn’t the only hurricane raising dust in the solar system lately…actually, trouble on both Jupiter and Saturn have in the past correlated with shifts on Earth, so worth consideration…

Murder Suspects Nabbed (Times of India) – Pricey plot for drive-by shooting of astrologer was known by neighbors for days…

Makemake Airless (Space Reporter) – The recently-discovered dwarf outer planet has no atmosphere, unlike Pluto, it has been discovered…

Kidnap Astrologer (KuenselOnline) – Starcaster abducted three days ago in Bhutan is still missing, no motives, suspects, or clues have turned up…

Tilted By Rogue Star (ScienceNow) – That would be us…our axis, and hence the existence of our tropical Zodiac, are thanks to a past encounter, long gone…

Astrologer Murdered (Indian Express) – Two gunmen on motorcycles, dressed as cops, mowed him down…

Orphaned Planet (CSMonitor) – Giant Jupiter-like planet found wandering in space, looking for a home…

Win For Astrology? (ANS) – More on successful election predictions, how, where, why…

Worship Wealth (Daily Bhaskar) – You have to do it at the right astrological time, for it to work…!

Astrology Election Results (Examiner) – By and large, starcasters predicted this one correctly…well, mostly…

Election Turmoil (ABC News) – Everybody with an eye on the sky is predicting it…

Ganesha Says Obama (Sys-con) – Our friends at GaneshaSpeaks are calling it for the Prez, by a hair…

Reply, Hazy (Dallas Morning News) – Mixed historical trends on the election, including astrology and magic 8-ball…

Retro Commerce (Practical e-Commerce) – Astrologer and retailer looks at effect of late fall Mercury retro on holiday season sales…

Shifty Ohio (Huffington Post) – Journalist/starcaster Eric Francis outlines why critical swing-state Ohio is ripe for all the election day problems Mercury making its station will bring…

Preponderance of Premonitions (Govexec) – Astrologers and psychics are picking Obama by a nose…

Huge Burp (NASA) – On Saturn, after giant storm. Keep an eye out, storms on the big planets have been synched with upsets here before…

Looming Cliff (Crawford Perspectives) – Our old friend and market starcaster Arch Crawford forsees “something that no on can Stop[sic]” just over the horizon…

Prediction Punishment (Fox) – Astrologers, beware of what you don’t predict. An Italian court has convicted top seismologists of not correctly forecasting a killer earthquake…six years in jail for manslaughter…

Big Planet, Big Change (NASA) – As Jupiter moves to dominate the sky from our point of view, large-scale transformations are afoot on the planet itself. Like the Great Red Spot collision a few years back, this could reflect here, too…

Red Astrology (People’s Daily) – Western style astrology, like other things Western, is showing growing appeal in China…

Tiwanaku (Thunderbolts) – Astronomical alignments, along with piers and watermarks, suggest this ancient high mountain Bolivian site may have been next to the sea!...

It’s Never Too Late… (The Citizen) – …to change your career. Like, become an astrologer, as this Dar es Salaam writer did…

Stomped (Times of India) – 33-year-old astrologer pulls temple elephant’s tail, pays with his life…

Election Conundrum (Huffington Post) – Astrologer Eric Francis notices what we’ve been saying all along, it’s not the Mercury retro, it’s the Mercury station…which does help clarify things…

Losing Its Spots (New Scientist) – The expected rising sunspot cycle may have fizzled out, and may stay that way. Will what once caused the Little Ice Age now help slow global warming?...

Earthsong (NASA) – Music of the Spheres? Here are some of the notes we’re playing, from our section of the orchestra…

Congress Blames Astrology (Economic Times) – Congress? Oh, that Congress…if America’s did this, they might get higher ratings, couldn’t do worse…

Astrological Implications (DesMoines Register) – That’s what the failure of Peregrine Financial Group displays, as they had an astrologer who should have steered them clear. Unless, of course, they ignored the advice…fuller story here…

Transit Triangulation (RedOrbit) – Videos of recent, rare transit of Venus over the Sun have implications for the future as well as the past…

Full Moon-Uranus (Slooh) – Lively conjunction (no doubt, see here) of Harvest Moon (astrologically, Hunter’s Moon, in Aries) with Uranus will be broadcast live…gives Paul Ryan a big smack, BTW, keep your eyes peeled…

A Little Planet (Space Daily) – Asteroid Vesta, it would appear, is an almost-planet…

Solar Shock (Space.com) – Shockwaves from the Sun may have formed the planets in steps, one class at a time…

Raped… (Deccan Herald) – By an astrologer, says pregnant woman, plus more on starcaster now being sued by celebrity for predictions that came true…trouble with the law…

Military Star-Mongers (NY Times) – More about the use of astrology as deceit and propaganda on both sides in the Second World War…

Sues Astrologer (Daily Bhaskar) -- …for predicting her marriage would break up, which it did…!

What If It’s Real? (ANS) – Astrology, that is. Former psychologist turned starcaster addressed the issues that changed his life…

Pagan Lament (Patheos) – Here’s a New Age blogger that believes in Bigfoot but not in the stars…

Boom! (io9) – Protective Jupiter just scooped up another wandering asteroid that might have otherwise come our way…

Chaotic Destiny (Wall St. Journal) – Astrology follower and astro-calendar illustrator (and, of course, heiress) Gloria Vanderbilt has led a fated existence…

Suicide (IBN Live) – Educator and personal motivator jumps into lake after warnings from astrologer…

The “Real” Venus (Full Comment) – Occult astrology has had this planet pegged as lush and full of greenery, instead of the boiling hell it physically is…

Huff Picks Obama (Huffington Post) – Or their astrologer does, in this second part of astro-election coverage…

Star Power Lure (Times of India) – New backwater boat tour will feature a visit to an astrologer for visitors to Kerala…

Glacial Object? (LifesLittleMysteries) – Or Ice Age Stonehenge? More on the mysterious Baltic undersea find…

Mars Hoax Day (Space.com) – This whopper floods the Net every year about this time…here’s a nice history and some other fun Mars (and hoax) related links…

Romney’s Stars (Huffington Post) – After UAC’s herd of starcasters totally went for Obama this summer, now the rest start to weigh in…part 2, to come, will look at Obama…

Another Dating Site (Marketwatch) – This one uses Western and Chinese astrology, plus Myers-Briggs personality test…happy hunting…

Facebook Fiasco (ANS) – The Facebook IPO was a classic of bungled timing, according to prominent business astrologers…

Peruvian Stonehenge (Technology Review) – Thirteen towers aligned to solar positions suggest yet another culture into early star stuff…

Vesta’s Sister (Thunderbolts) – That would be Ceres, and some predictions of surprises about what it will actually look like, when space probe gets there…

Sipping Whiskey (MTU) – What intergalactic space-time now appears more like, rather than more bubbly beer…

The First Life Crisis (Sidney Morning Herald) – That would be the Saturn return, of course, covered with some new twists (like divorce statistics) by down-under journalist…

Still At It (Carefair) – That describes indomitable Hollywood astrologer Jackie Stallone, Sylvester’s mom. And the current Martha Stewart of astrology is no longer a spring chicken herself…

Upskirts (Market Oracle) – Sure-fire market indicators include astrological cycles and, yes, social behavior indicators like the length of skirts…

Birth Certificate Times (Indian Express) – India will now require exact time to be on birth certificates, to help with natal horoscopes. Would that the likes of the UK would do the same…

Planets Align Over Giza (Bad Astronomy) – Or, well, maybe they really don’t…unless in the eye of the beholder…!

The Sun Is Round (IFA) – Almost perfectly round, which it shouldn’t be, which baffles scientists. Something else must be going on inside our star to make this happen…

Cliodynamics (Nature) – That’s the new word for studying repeating historical cycles, a key element in mundane astrology, so astrologers take note…

The Curse of Nostradamus (Examiner) – Lots homophonic prophesying here…fun but weird…

The Mars Effect (Deccan Chronicle) – Not a good one, if you’re a manglik looking for marriage…

Suzuki Vastu (Car Trade) – Japanese automaker hires astrologer to redesign its troubled plant where riots sparked recently…

Superstitious Trader (Business Insider) – New robotic trading algorithm incorporates astrology and full Moons, even fears the number 13…

Electric Explanations (Thunderbolts) – Electricity theory of cosmology explains planetary myths, with a whole different viewpoint…

Cuts Off Astrologer’s Ears (The Hindu) – The Indian police blotter is hot with starcasters this week, including arrest of paralytic soothsayer for arms infraction…

Astrologer Finds Jesus (Continental News) – We wonder if she saw it coming, in her horoscope…

Dr. Doom Predicts (Examiner) – Guy who predicted crash of 2008 now says 2013 will be the next disaster, in line with astrological aspects…

Olympics Outlook (the SOP) – Vedic astrologer looks at coming games, first of many, no doubt…

Astrologizing The Weather (Rappler) – In the Philippines, a useful tool, claims this Manila journalist…

Astrology and World Religions (Huff Post) – They mix, inevitably, since the beginning, as Nicholas Campion points out is his new book…

Murder Case: Seek Astrologer (Deccan Chronicle) – Cops hunt for starcaster who may have advised suspected killer…

Astrology Computer (IEEE) – Computer museum includes Nancy Reagan’s astrologer’s dedicated chart-casting machine...

Cops Tap Astrologers (Times of India) – A little help from the stars goes a long way to collar a crook…

Ban Banned (Newsday) – Louisiana town’s anti-astrology law bites the dust…

The Zodiac Mystery (China Daily) – First astrology-themed film for mainland China opens, parents urged not to bring kids…

Fifth Moon for Pluto (Hubble) – The officially-neglected planet of Death is turning out to be the powerhouse we knew it was…

Fire Horse Plague (Japan Times) – New Scientist editor bemoans the Japanese birth drop due to 60-year-cycle Chinese astrology tenet…

Alive and Well (Rappler) – That’s astrology in the Philippines, where the real thing is supplanting the newspaper Sun-sign variety…

New Career Option (Indian Express) – Astrology as a career is enjoying growing appeal among the younger generation…

How To Pick The President (ANS) – That’s what this astrologer’s research study claims to have found the key to…

Hidden Portals (NASA) – Like diaphanous, twisting umbilical cords, these magnetic conduits keep us connected to our mother star…

Baltic Mystery Deepens (Fox) – It’s made of rock, totally anomalistic, maybe a Stonehenge sort of thing, maybe natural, but totally weird…

Astro-Ponzi (Wall St. Journal) – Busted for a pyramid swindle by SEC, stock broker claimed he was investing based on lunar gravitation cycles. Fake astrology, just didn’t work out that way…

Stonehenge Mysteries (Natural Plane) – The ancient astrology/astronomy megalithic monument is the vortex of ley lines, which could make you vanish?...

Solar Return Demise (The Telegraph) – Your next solar return could be your last, according to this study…

African Horoscopes (PR Web) – Here’s a new collection of African national charts, lots more, for your reference shelf…

Reggae Stars (Space.com) – Lab converts star data into music for reggae band…we love this stuff…

Christening Elephants (Business Standard) – Fifteen orphaned baby elephants named by attending astrologer according to their birth charts in mass public celebration…

Greed, Power, Money, and Astrology (WorldScreen) – That’s the focus of new TV series Signs, produced by XII Tribes Entertainment…more w/video here…

The Lost Planet (Discover) – Once upon a time there was another, Jupiter-like giant planet in our midst. Until, like an ancient gods myth, the rest got together and cast it away into the outer darkness…

A Venus Hypothesis (Robert Brown) – Did the ancient Venusians’ goose get cooked when they ignored runaway global warning? Are we headed the same way?...

Demon Star (Yahoo) – Egyptian calendar reveals earliest record of variable ill-portuning Algol…

But What Does It Mean, Astrologically? (IBTimes) – Astrologers understandably don’t have much to say about an aspect that spans only a few hours every 120 years. Not much to go on…a big nothing says one…

Baltic Anomaly (Fox) – Is huge mystery object under the Baltic another Stonehenge, submerged? …or something more alien? Swedish divers will explore the possibility, right on the eclipse and Transit of Venus…which U.S. and Russia are now blocking... and suspiciously, a publicity flaw...

Wisconsin Transit (Madison.com) – Though this newscaster doesn’t pursue it, the Venus retro transit is appropriately a big political deal, with pivotal recall (Venus retro = changing desires) election that could swing the whole year’s trends…


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When the Sky Is Falling! --  A checklist of dangers, and opportunities...

Birthday Stars -- Where you go on your birthday can affect your whole year...and you get to choose... 

Show Me The Money! -- The real money in astrology is not is selling astrology, it's in using astrology to sell...

An Astrologer's Tale -- A multimedia bio-triptych...three new articles in one about how this astrologer got here, from visions to reincarnation, and throughout all, music... 

Can I Help You? -- An astrologer's quandry. Are we supposed to help, comfort, cheer, or just observe and advise? It depends...

Many Rainbows -- Mulitiple scaled spectra -- from rhythm to sound to light to the planets, all share the same meanings in the same relative positions...

Composite Charts: They Grow On You -- They might seem to be mere mathematical artifacts, albeit highly insightful, but they may grow exactly like natals... 

Sun Sign Sins -- From the venial vice to the mortal sin, take your pick...it's a humorous take...or is it?... 

Arc Transform Charts -- The how, why, and whether of the subtlest kind of harmonic chart there is...  

The Breathing Tide -- Retrograde periods are the breath points that allow us to adapt to harsh outer planet changes... 

Circles And Stones -- Henges and sacred places -- they're everywhere, across history, and they may still be forming by association and accumulaltion... 

Windowpanes: Through A Glass, Darkly -- Are our windows on reality simply refelections of ourselves, or is that just getting in the way of the larger, deeper landscape?

The Gathering Sky: Aspect Dynamics -- When big aspects are in the offing, actual events are determined by the pressure that builds up before them...

Lagrange Points: A Mystery Solved -- The basis of all planetary aspects may be as simple as gravity itself...

Deconstruction: A Pluto Primer -- When everything seems to be falling apart, the grass is already growing under your feet...

The Planetary Order I: Rising Ahead Of The Sun -- The planet ahead of your Sun is your opening act and calls your tune...first of three...

The Planetary Order II: Your Ducks In A Row -- Which planets come first, next, and last is the key to your whole life schedule...second of three...

Planetary Order III: Islands In The Sky -- The common chart patterns reveal scattered islands whose dynamics come from time...third of three...

The Celebrity Astrology -- Is our fascination with celebrity charts just entertainment, or is there a greater meaning in it all?...

and visit our huge celebrity archive at Matrix Astrology Software...

The Moon On Deck -- More on the physical reasons astrology works -- and why it precedes its usual explanations...

Cedar Skies -- Beirut astrologer Carmen Chammas's predictions have come a little too close in powderkeg Middle East...

The Sunshine Astrologer -- Interview with Vanity Fair astrologer Michael Lutin...

The AstroBlogosphere -- There's a fresh, new world of astrological opinion exploding on the scene, check it out now!...NEW and constantly updated!

The (Not So) Void-Of-Course Moon -- When the Moon goes void, it's not just a blank slate...there's a whole lot happening to hang on to...

Aspects And Orbs -- The Taming Power Of The Small.  Include the "smaller" aspects, which aren't so small! 

Mar-Uranus, Redux -- Snapshots in the sky: the Mars-Uranus conjunction tells where the next world crisis will be...

Darning Your Threads -- Rectification by association: find the most common degrees around you, from the people you know and daily events, and establish your correct Ascendant and Midheaven...

The Personal Void-Of-Course Moon -- There's another Void-Of-Course Moon that's your very own...

Threads Of Destiny -- Your relationships, your world, are painted by overlapping planetary threads...

Adolescent Nation  -- why America is only 19 years old, complete with a year-by-year growth chart...

It's Not On The Map! -- The nature of composite charts means you can’t map them – because they’re not real charts at all, they’re artifacts. Here's how and why...

Seize The Day -- astrology is all about startups, from moment to moment, so switch on your engine...

Of Time And Tides -- "There is a tide in the affairs of men"...really, there is, and it floats your boat...

Paul Kammerer's Seriality (2 meg .pdf) -- the inventor of synchronicity (no, not Jung) uncovered how everything weird in this world actually, naturally, works...

Professor Seward's Foray From The Beyond -- do you speak to the dead? Yes, I don't...or maybe, I...well, anyway, it's a true story, honest...

Toward a Physical Basis for Astrology -- There is a physical link between the planets and you. It's simple physics, no metaphysics required...just gravity, inertia, and time...

Heavenly Vacations -- where does your Sun-sign find most pleasure in the sun? Here's a traveller's guide...

Your Birthday Headlines -- what was happening around the world on the day you were born? Does it tell you as much  as your horoscope?...ripped from the pages of the Times...

America, Quo Vadis? -- Americans will believe anything these days, with progressed Moon just into Pisces...it wasn't always that way -- how we got here, what's next...




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All Kinds Of Trouble -- The Israeli-Arab Wars have all been characterized by afflicted Mars...until now...

Dark Days: The End Of The Beginning -- the first part of fate reining in America is about done...now comes the rest...Mars, Saturn, and Pluto all put in their contributions...

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Celestial Configurations of Africa and the Caribbean
-- The definitive mundane collection of the nation-states of Africa, with historical notes and background...

Touch
-- Threads of destiny are spun through the hands of a gifted, mute boy...new TV series on Fox...

Five Star Day
-- Here's an indie film with an astrological premise that actually is worth seeing, finally!...

When Jupiter Meets Uranus
by Anne Whitaker -- A uniquely-researched look at this important cycle currently underway...

Soul-Sick Nation
by Jessica Murray -- An astrological view of America, and how we got into all this trouble...you haven't read anything like it...

Cosmos and Psyche

by Richard Tarnas -- Astrological foundations reinvestigated by academe's leading humanistic philosopher...heavy duty!
by Wendy Leigh -- With Princess Grace's horoscope by John Townley

Sunshines

by Michael Lutin -- The Vanity Fair Astrologer adds the South Node to the usual Sun Signs for a new pop take...


The Fated Sky
by Benson Bobrick -- An eye-opening history of astrology as never before attempted...
 
Home Astrology
by Paul Wade -- Give your house a makeover from start to finish...a new astrological trend...

Biological Time
by Bernie Taylor -- A watershed in scientific thinking that astrologers should be thankful for...



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To Anacreon In Heaven -- The drinking song that became the "Star Spangled Banner."

Saigon Girls -- A scythe song of the sixties sounds like deja vu all over again...

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