Astrological Musings

Comet McNaught is the brightest comet visible from earth in a generation – at magnitude -5 it is the brightest comet since Ikeya-Seki in 1965 according to Universe Today. It is six times bigger than Hale-Bopp in 1997 and 100 times brighter than Halley’s comet as it last appeared in 1986 according to NASA scientists.…

From spaceweather.com: Comet McNaught is now visible in broad daylight. “It’s fantastic,” reports Wayne Winch of Bishop, California. “I put the sun behind a neighbor’s house to block the glare and the comet popped right into view. You can even see the tail.” This trick is best performed around local noon: Go outside and stand…

Image from Tim Boucher We like to think of the Age of Aquarius as the time of peace, love and understanding: Harmony and understandingSympathy and trust aboundingNo more falsehoods or derisionsGolden living dreams of visionsMystic crystal revelationAnd the mind’s true liberationAquarius!!* It’s a nice fantasy, and while Aquarius is indeed concerned with issues of fairness…

With Mars conjunct Pluto and the G.C. this week there are a lot of theories about the significance, if any, of the Galactic Center shift. The spirituality boards are fired up and here are some of the things I’ve found: Mars conjuncts Pluto near the Galactic Center on the 13th. Mars then enters Capricorn on…

Thanks to the Townleys for this tidbit from the Jerusalem Post: Hebrew University Prof. Moshe Idel opened the panel by relating how, several years ago, he was asked to attend a Knesset committee meeting on astrology. “At first I could not understand why I was there really, but soon I learned that hundreds of political…

My sister Jill, who has been a fan of Keith Olbermann long before it was fashionable, compares him to Max Headroom. For those of you who are too young to remember, Max Headroom was an early invention of the Cinemax network. Max was, quite literally, a computer- generated “talking head” talk show host. Like Keith,…

I love articles like this that claim to debunk astrology. When I find one of these articles I always email the writer. Let me do your chart for free, and then see if astrology is “bunk”! Yet no one ever takes the challenge. The basic points in this article: Multiple astrological systems can’t all be…

Graphic from Ursi’s site Thanks to Ursi’s Eso Garden for this link to Judith Orloff’s five steps to healing: Step 1: Notice Your BeliefsYour beliefs set the stage for healing. Positive attitudes stimulate growth. Negative attitudes impede it. It’s important to rid yourself of counterproductive attitudes that you may not even realize you have. If…

Dharma always has a unique take on astrological cycles that I just love. With the Galactic Center at 26 degrees Sagittarius (and moving VERY slowly), in a few hundred years it will move into Capricorn. Here’s what Dharma has to say about that transition: So what might characterise the Age we are moving into, the…

Mars is approaching a conjunction to Pluto which is still conjunct the Galactic Center. Any combination of Mars and Pluto can be explosive, since Mars is the god of action and war while Pluto is the god of death and the underworld. The galactic center is the center of our galaxy, a point the ancient…

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