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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…
For
previous monthly overviews, predictions, and newslinks from earlier
this year and previous years, see our
colorful news
archives here...
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