From the Kuwaiti Times: Powerful clerics in Saudi Arabia have warned Arab media against publishing “forbidden” horoscopes, which are hugely popular despite a clerical ban. “This is astrology, which is forbidden and is considered as a form of magic,” a committee of senior Saudi clerics said in a statement published on state news agency SPA…

This is part II of the Ceres Series, part I is here. Ceres is the Roman name for Demeter, the Goddess of the Grain. Demeter means “the mother” (de meter) and Ceres is said to be from the root ker meaning “to grow.” Although some researchers believe Ceres and Demeter were two separate goddesses, most…

I’d like to interrupt my Ceres series for a brief note on the presence of Eris in the activities surrounding the nuclear test yesterday. In looking at the chart for the test, Eris, goddess of strife and discord, is at 20 degrees Aries and Mars, god of war, is exactly opposite her at 20 degrees…

North Korea conducted a successful nuclear weapons test this morning, resulting in a 3.58 tremor on the Richter scale as measured in South Korea. Although Kim Jong Il has been warning for some time that this was coming, few in the US government have taken him seriously. (It does seem ironic to me that of…

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