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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…
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