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With Mars retro, gears shift and readjust until the picture becomes clearer... 

This winter continues to be about backing up and retreading paths that didn’t go quite where they intended, thanks to Mars gone retrograde last month. That won’t end until mid-April, so get used to it. Adding to the adjustment is the breakup of the back-and-forth Jupiter-Saturn opposition that’s had opinions at sixes and sevens for some time, as Saturn goes retro back through the end of Libra and Jupiter races ahead through Taurus. Except for when the Moon fills it out into a splash pattern, the sky is a locomotive which, with its leader Mars going backwards, makes rearrangement take on a nervous sense of urgency. If you can’t move ahead, at least move around. The most problematic part will be just after the Mars retro’s end, when wars so often break out – this time keep your eye on Israel and Iran for the most likely candidates. Israel has a track record favoring that prime planetary spot, following on earlier historical timing by the Third Reich, Japan, and lately the U.S. (first Gulf War). It’s a great window for spectacular initial success, but eventual loss.

On the grander scale, Neptune moves into its own sign of Pisces for good now, for a fourteen-year run, entering with a trine to Saturn, so spiritual matters and the creative imagination will be stepping onto easier and more natural ground for almost a generation. That’s the good news, long-range. The good news, medium-range, is that once the Mars retro period is done, however that turns out, skies open up for the summer, and by fall ambitious and hopefully-prosperous Jupiter is thoroughly in charge of the sky and will remain so seasonally for much of the coming teens.

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Noises from the Sun (Movie Viral) – Is the current rash of noise from the sky coming from auroras sparked by the Sun?...could be, there’s much discussion…



Bosnian Pyramid Update (Archaeological Park) – Ancient astrologers tapped the sky for energy? That, and more, as the new pyramid/hill releases its secrets…are other pyramids similarly acting up?...


Ring of Fire (NASA) – Mark it on your calendar if you live in the U.S.A., the first annular eclipse of the Sun in nearly 18 years, May 20…


Pub Stars (DNA) – This East Village starcaster whose clientele is drinkers has her office, well, in and out of a bar…


Dangerous Rings (Discovery) – Pluto’s rough neighborhood may be too perilous for rings, but we’ll soon find out…


Suicide Pact (Daily Bhaskar) – Man kills self, wife, and kids because of bad transits. No kidding, this gives astrology a bad name…


Being A Bucket (Boulder Jewish News) – The Torah weighs in on the Zodiac in a way that is “instructive but not determinative”…


Other Recent Stories:

Tiny Trojans (nanowerk) – The gravitational universality of the sextile and trine, or Lagrange points, have been discovered to apply at the subatomic scale…

Angry Sun (Space.com) – Recent solar storm sparks memories of the worst before, and yet to come, as sunspot cycle heats up…along with UFO sightings…!

Galileo On Broadway (NY Theater Guide) – Bertolt Brecht’s version of the intrepid stargazer makes it to the starry way…

Silver Panic (Business Insider) – Jupiter-Saturn opposition may bring echo of 1893 depression and karmic retribution to J.P. Morgan…

Dragon Babies (New Straits Times) – 70% of new couples want to give birth in the Year of the Dragon, as hospital wards fill up. Chinese astrologers say it’s just a general myth, like Sun signs, and that it’s the complete birth chart that tells the story…which leads others to Caeserians to get it right…

Dragon Predictions (World News Australia) – Chinese astrologers break out their forecasts for the year with the usual set of prognostications…

Tilt For Life (Space.com) – For life to develop, planets likely must have a tilt…that means they must have their own tropical Zodiac, as we do…and a sizeable moon helps, too…the essentials of astrology...

Is Astrology Real? (Oxford Student) – Well, this professor seems to think so, but it won’t get him a grant, as he sagely points out…

Astrologer’s Board (Live Science) – 2,000 year old wooden starcaster’s tool unearthed in Croatia

Astrolabe Slapped (BoingBoing) – Astrology software company that gummed up Internet timekeepers in trouble for frivolous lawsuit…details here…

Spaceship Moon ? (EpochTimes) – Mysteries of the Moon, from its anomalies to its possible alien manufacture…far-fetched but fun…

Quel est votre signe? (American Spectator)  “What’s your sign?” The French are star-crazy these days…

Star Cell is Astronomical (in price) (Geeksugar) – This Year of the Dragon smart phone will set you back $20,000...

Apocalypse Boom (Huffington Post) – Mayans prepare to cash in as their calendar ends -- and restarts -- restarting their economy along with it…

Pluto Problems (3News NZ) – Kiwi athletes face a bleak planetary outlook this year, says NZ sports starcaster…

Frisco Forecasters… (S.F. Examiner) – …have a mixed outlook, especially for their home town…

Presidential Potential (Patch)  -- A New Hampshire starcaster peeks at the candidates’ charts, and likes Ron Paul…really?...well, maybe Romney, too...

Pieces of Vesta (NASA) – Earth is littered with fragments of this major astrological body, who knew?…here’s why…

Arresting Aries (The Spec) – Sorted by Sun-sign, this Ontario town puts the cuffs on the most impulsive…

Blame Astrology (DNA India) – The ancient art takes it on the chin from former Indian tech chief, followed by a Nobel laureate…

Gloomy Debt Parley (Google archive) – Washington politicians were looking to the stars for economic negotiation help way back in 1925…

Big In China (Xiahuanet) – That would be astrology, and other things mysterious, among the youth these days…

Star of Bethlehem (Canada Free Press) – Yes, it’s that time of year again, to explain away the unexplainable, but this may be the best set of possibilities, with links and videos, we’ve seen…and here’s another, and yet another

It’s Only Entertainment (Guardian) – You can promise anything on the media, as long as you say it’s “entertainment”, under new regulations. Can you imagine the uproar if that were required for mainstream religion?...

Up In Smoke (Science Now) – Windbag Jupiter may be dissolving at its core…

Part-Time Moons (Gizmodo) – Earth has a couple of extra moons, from time to time, passing through, temporary transits…

World Won’t End (Times) – While one astrologer assures us the world won’t end in 2012, another won’t rule out our possible demise on 18-19 February…

Beheaded (Io9) – For witchcraft, in Saudi Arabia, happens all the time. They nearly got an astrologer recently, whom they lured across the border, but he escaped with his life. Not this woman…more here…

Mercury’s Strange Story (CBS) – The messenger planet may not be simply tide-locked, but have a much more peculiar history, including an asteroid collision…

Saturnalia! (Patheos) – If Christmas is a bit too tame for you, don’t forget its Saturnalia time of year, too…

Diamond Cycles (Dispatch) – Earth’s own Wilson cycle of the seas may be delineated by diamond formation…not to be confused with other planets made entirely of diamonds…

Mellow Mars (Economic Times) – The red planet is looking ever more life-friendly…

Smallest Terrestrial Planet? (NASA) – Asteroid Vesta looks more and more like home…

Economics and Star Signs (NY Press) – Not Wall Street, rock band belief babble…

Mercury Mystery (MSNBC) – A satellite came has spotted something invisible lurking near Mercury, and it’s huge…a dark twin, a spaceship, camera artifact, something else?...

What A Kiwi Believes (ODT) – In yet another survey of who believes in what, only 25% of New Zealanders think astrology predicts the future, while they’re gaga over psychics and UFOs…more, in the complete report here…

Vesta Revealed (JPL/NASA) – New close-ups of one of astrology’s favorite asteroids show it’s built more like a planet, and lots more…

Mystery Manuscript Decoded? (Daily Mail) – Finn prophet claims to have unraveled mysterious fifteenth-century astrological document…

Big Moon Eclipse (NASA) – This lunar eclipse is being supersized…here’s a video report on it…

All The Time (NASA) – Worried about the Earth’s poles flipping and disaster ensuing? Fuggetaboutit, happens all the time, explains NASA…

Don’t Fool with the Zodiac (Atlantic Wire) – Americans take their Sun-signs seriously – the bogus kerfuffle about the signs being all wrong turned out to be one of the most-read (and angrily debated) stories of the year…

Porn Starcaster Passes (Examiner) – Andrea True, who knew she was an astrologer?...mirabile dictu, and requiescat in pace…

2012, Again (Fox News) – Turns out Mexico forgot to mention yet another end-of-the-world calendar reference…

Baby Time (Times of India) – Subcontinental soothsayer claims coming months are tops for conception…

Astrologer Tell-All (Daily Mail) – Brit celeb starcaster claims dancing program transformed his life…

Fat Man Dancing (Belfast Telegraph) – Astrologer Russell Grant didn’t win the pop dance show, but he sure was the star…

Intelligent Investing (Forbes) – Cycle analyst Bill Sarubbi reveals what’s favored by the planets in their spheres…

A City on Pluto? (Time) – Who knows? We’ve never looked…

With Saturn On Your Side (Pakistan Today) – Shani will be shining on the northern Subcontinent this year, according to some…

Faith and Science (International Herald Tribune) – And astrology caught in the middle…

Government Asks Astrologer (Forteana) – Nice historical tale of astrologer William Lilly and the London fire…

11/11/11 (Times of India) – India (and no doubt elsewhere, too) braces for a surfeit of weddings and induced births to match allegedly auspicious dayif it really is one…

Giant Planet Sacrificed For Us (SWRI) – It appears a monster planet was flung out of our system to keep us  little folks intact…

No Killer Flares (NASA) – Worried about a deadly blast from the Sun? Many are, but NASA says it just can’t happen…

Predicting Your Portfolio (Benzinga) – Some market astrologers use general cycles, this one uses IPO natals…

Electric Saturn (Thunderbolts) – Was the dour planet once the center of ancient sky worship?...

Payoff to the Gods (Times of India) – Pujas for all occasions rake it in…if only Western astrologers could solicit this kind of income…!

Five Star Day (Crushable) – New Indie movie is about guy who loses all faith in astrology. To prove his ex-girlfriend wrong, he seeks out three people born in the same place as him and on the same day…review and trailer…

The Day We Reached Seven Billion (IOL) – That would be 11/1/11, and astrologers are mixed. “We could also see more youngsters grow up like Lady Gaga…” remarked one…

Astrological Contributions (ANS) – Tables created for and by astrologers have actually been contributing to mainstream technology…so of course one astrological company decided to start a lawsuit over it…

Uranus Erupting (MSNBC) – Unexpectedly (of course), the planet of weirdness is suddenly (of course) acting weird (of course)…but joking aside, big surface changes on Jupiter and Saturn in recent years were coincident with appropriate events, so keep your eyes open for unusual developments…

Snowmaggedon (Examiner) – National Weather Service predicts Supermoon-driven precipitation this winter, just as unusual October snowstorm sweeps the Northeast…

Rat Futures (IBN) – Street starcasters are now employing striped rats to make forecasts, filling in for traditional parrots, just in time for Diwali…

Celestial Cuisine (Times of India) – Proper Zodiacal foods seem more attractive when they come from India…

Pluto’s Twin (National Geographic) – Instead of being looked at as competing dwarves, now they’re related…

Bad Leaves (NY Magazine) – High-profile stock trader got convicted – after “leaf astrology” told him he’d get off…

Little Coffins (Shanland) – Bottles inside toy coffins…what kind of diplomatic gift is that? It’s yadaya, and very tricky, energy-shifting business indeed…only in Burma…

Perishing Parrots (Deccan Chronicle) – It seems the swan song of the parrot astrologer on the streets of the Subcontinent is nigh…not the first time we’ve seen this sad tale…

Which Is Bigger? (Universe Today) – Pluto, or Eris? For a moment, Pluto by a nose, perhaps. Does size matter, or is it distance?...

Astrology Lessons… (NY Times) -- …in the darker side of town, the subject of new off-Broadway play…

Confounded (H-online) – Astro-software outfit Astrolabe’s suit against public Unix time standard site (see below) has been outmaneuvered. C’mon, guys, what was the point…?

On The Record (Sydney Morning Herald) – Sometimes sex-mad Elizabethan astrologer Simon Forman turns out to have kept the best medical records on record…

Planetary Extinction (IBTimes) – It can happen, and has elsewhere, but can it happen here?...

Obstacle Maker (The Register) – In a bid to protect what it claims to be its proprietary time changes datalist, astro-software maker Astrolabe has shut down an important Internet resource with a lawsuit…

MidLife (Huffington Post) – HP starcaster looks at the midlife crisis as Chiron return…

Neptune Day Revealed (Space.com) – If you were having trouble telling day from night on Neptune, your worries are over…

Knocked Sideways (Europlanet) – Uranus got smacked repeatedly, not in a single blow, which explains backwards moons…

Slim Pickings (QueensChronicle) – Transplanted Indian astrologer isn’t getting the business he’d like in New York City. Perhaps it’s just a matter of marketing…

Doin’ The Cha-Cha (MetroUK) – Celebrity Brit starcaster is finally on the floor after much ado about dancing, and is kicking up his heels…

Stars and Rays (WTSP) – The Tampa Bay Rays have the stars on their side, agree practitioners…

Astrology Show (Edinburgh TV) – Rock guitarist brings the stars to the air this fall…

Femme Forecasters (Deccan Chronicle) -- Women are just entering the astrology world in India, far different from the West…

Face and Sky (DNA India) -- This guy can read both…

How Big Is Jupiter? (CBS News) -- Watch this video. It’s really, REALLY big…

Birth Order, Siblings, and Astrology (Moneywatch) – Another study, in brief…

Full Moon Fishing (Florida Sportsman) – Is it the light, the dolphins that come out, or…?

Exiled Giant (Spaceref) – Study of early planetary resonance suggests Jupiter tossed a sibling gas behemoth into outer space…

Really Far Away (Discover) – That’s what Neptune is, by several reckonings…

Pluto Ocean (New Scientist) – Could there be an iced-over ocean on Pluto, with conditions for life beneath?...

Two Moon Mystery (Stuff.co.nz) – Might it be that the dark side of the Moon was, in fact, a second moon?..

Vesta In Motion (NASA) – Breathtaking video of the belted asteroid in action…

Megan Fox Loves Astrology! (Show Biz Spy) – Lord preserve us…

Full Moons and Reunions (People’s Daily) – This full Moon is the time for getting back together, the harvest festival…

rediction Contest (Jakarta Globe) – Winner of prediction competition gets $6,600 and tons of accolade…

Smelloscope (Business Standard) – Twelve fragrances to match the signs, and on it goes…

Polar Wandering (Thunderbolts) – Babylon as a northern city, aurora borealis over the Middle East…

Probing Pluto (Astrobiology) – New flight to planet of death might even reveal primordial pre-life...

Birth Month and Career (Irish Independent) – Month and season of birth can profoundly affect your outcome, from career, to health to more…sounds like astrology…and here’s the analysis of the whole study…

Good Medicine (The Hindu) – Tibetan healing traditions that involve balancing the elements do the trick…

Saturn and Pluto (Huffington Post) – That’s who to blame for this mess America is in, notes  New York starcaster noteworthy Michael Lutin…

Solar Powered Solar System (Inventer Spot) – Take home this cool solar-powered interplanetary toy…!

Radio Waves (Yellow Advertiser) – London station has phones ringing off the hook for astrology advice show…

Astronomy vs Astrology (Greenbelt Patch) – Astronomers trash astrology under the guise of education in Greenbelt, MD. Back to your telescopes, guys…

Marriageable Mangliks (India News One) – Astrology still plays a major part in selecting partners on the Subcontinent. In fact, claims marriage portal, “horoscope matching is gaining ground across communities in India.”…

Predicts Gold Prices (EIN News) – A simple astrological algorithm can successfully forecast short-term gold prices…

Diamond Planet (IBT) – Nearby star has carbon planet so dense it’s a diamond…

Bilked (UPI) – Turns out one of the victims of the Ft. Lauderdale astro-psychic scam was a big-time romance novelist…taken for $20 million… can’t we find an honest way to make this kind of money?...

Dirty Laundry (Leagle) – Here’s the dirt itself, from Latin superstar Walter Mercado’s messy lawsuit…

Snow White Is Red (Digital Trends) – Dwarf planet, half the size of Pluto, may have been given the wrong moniker…

Pluto A Planet, After All? (National Geographic) – The debate may be swinging back the other way…but planet-killer stands firm

Windy (SWRI) – If you ever wondered if what’s out there affects what’s down here, take a look at these films…

Family of Souls (Times of India) – Is leaf-based nadi “astrology” really astrology? Or sound vibrations? Or more like “parrot astrology”?...

Mother of Meteorites (Morningstar Pub) – It appears that solitary asteroid Vesta has spawned a lot of what rains down on us from the sky…

Earth Rocks (dvice) – It turns out, we may have flung some of our own shards into space, and life along with it…

Comet Won’t End World (MNN) -- After end-days tag put on wimpy comet Elenin, NASA is forced to calm Internet storm with soothing reassurances…

Wine and Astrology (News Tonight) -- Brit shrink used stars and spirits to get his way with client…

Horse Horoscopes (AVMA) -- Exhibition shows how 18th century farriers used astrology for equine care and welfare…

$40 Million Fraud (ABC News) -- Fake astrologer/psychic/tarot ring bites the dust in Florida, including the likes of Ft. Lauderdale’s Astrology By Nancy

Apocalypse Anthropology (BoingBoing) – It’s more than just Mayan astrology, it’s a whole host of factors…

Death Star Vanishes (Space.com) – Nemesis, it would appear, has met its nemesis…

Freaky Liquid (Lake County News) – Liquid metallic hydrogen inside Jupiter makes it put out lethal rays…

Astrologer Minister (Reuters) – Published astrologer/banker takes the financial reins in Thailand…

Temple Gold (Deccan Chronicle) – Astrologers confer to say leave newly-discovered treasure in ancient shrine…

Bend It… (Now Magazine) – …like Victoria Beckham! Former Spice Girl Posh joins Jennifer Aniston in using astrological yoga to get her size 8 body back…

A Moonless Earth… (Space.com) – …could still support life, as other planets would keep it in line…

Rugby Anthem (Voxy) – The Rugby World Cup folks have recorded their representative song, to the tune of Jupiter’s theme from Holst’s Planets Suite, sung by Kiwi singing star Hayley Westenra…

Mad Market? (MarketWatch) – Could be some really bad cycles underway…

Put A Ring On It (GeeksAreSexy) – After new-found moon, does Pluto have a ring as well?...

Three’s Company, or a Crowd? (io9) – Could be that Pluto has additional orbiting pals in its neighborhood…

On the Cusp of War (Business Insider) – That’s what this trader sees in the coming Mars-Uranus-Pluto T-square…

Stars In His Eyes (Edinburgh Festival) – Astologer, comic, performer has festival audiences in thrall…

Deadly Impact Cycle (MPIA) – It appears there may be a regular rhythm to destructive collisions of comets and asteroids with Earth…

Mullah Moon (PakObserver) – Local Islamic honchos could use a little help from astrologers to get Ramadan right…

Dangerous Shower (Space.com) – Meteor traces may indicate deadly comet lurking in the wings…

An Asteroid of Our Own (CFHT) – Other planets have Trojan asteroids locked into their orbits, now it appears we have one, too…

A Treacherous Age (thefrisky) – Amy Winehouse was headed for her Saturn return…this author misses that the 27 club is about the progressed lunar return…but a nice shot, anyway…

Parental Planets (Chicago Parent) – Journalist marvels that people might use this on their kids…

Dancing With The Stars (The Mirror) – Chubby Brit celeb starcaster gets set to trip the light fantastic on the tube…

Pluto Perplex (Voice of Russia) – Could be that our planet of death was born someplace else entirely…

Planet X On Video? (UFO Sightings Daily, Fox) – Well, based on this enigmatic clip, maybe so, maybe no, but worth cogitating upon…regardless, believers await collision with Niburu…

Moon Phase Affects Lion Attacks (RedOrbit) – Keep your eye on the sky if you want to avoid getting eaten…




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Articles
--  exclusives to this site, plus lots more on the Net

Lectures/Workshops -- live at your venue

Poetry -- stray thoughts and sonnets...

John’s music -- CDs, videos, instruments, links

Songs -- free .mp3s of unreleased original songs
 
Sailor! -- free .mp3 version of the maritime album, with new additions from Warsaw

Zawisza Czarny! -- free .mp3 album of the ship's performing crew recorded in Liverpool

Liaison Officer's Journal -- Complete journal of 40 days across the Atlantic on Zawisa Czarny, with over 60 photos

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...

Apostolic Studios -- the tale of the pioneering multitrack studio where Frank Zappa recorded Lumpy Gravy and Uncle Meat...

The Family of Apostolic -- free .mp3 verson of the complete 22-cut groundbreaking eclectic folk/pop album!

The Top Hits of 1776 -- the complete album for the Bicentennial.

Stare Dzwony At Liverpool -- the complete album recorded at The Albert Dock.

Maritime Matters International -- all things maritime (papers, museum programs, Confederate Navy, and more)


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