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A solar eclipse opens several weeks of  change, and expanded opportunity.

May is a month to celebrate after a long winter/spring of Mars retrograde, compounded with Mercury retro, which was a heavy slog for everyone, especially those with Virgo where that frustrated Mars made its angry mark. So celebrate a new sky pattern, a glorious splash with planets scattered everywhere and new directions and possibilities lined up accordingly.

But every coin has its flip side, as Venus goes retro in Gemini on May 15 for about six weeks, in this case meaning reevaluation of what you want to get from all that grief you went through during Mars retro. Love? Money? Possessions? Status? None of the above? Previous joys may cloy and you may have to rethink what’s worth putting out all that precious life energy for, what truly satisfies and what doesn’t. And, there’s a solar eclipse in early Taurus on May 20, the first of the usual brace of two, the next a lunar on June 4, making it topsy-turvy time again. Lots of surprises, a good time to keep your mobility and ability to respond quickly to both need and opportunity.

So, with Jupiter racing ahead with its eye on Gemini before long, it’s a crazy month, indeed, including the last opening of that Window for War we talked about before. A month before, there was no progress to be made, and now everything is up for grabs. Have an exciting spring!

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The BIG Mayan Calendar (io9) – It now appears the 2012 end-of-the-world Mayan calendar was just a single page of a much longer one…



Inside Antikythera (BBC) – New X-rays of the ancient sky computer reveal its inner workings on BBC-TV special…downloadable at BBC site…


The Transit Of Venus… (transitofvenus.org) -- … has it’s own site, so here’s everything you might want to know about history, details, even has an app…


Rogue Neighbor? (National Geographic) – Is there an undiscovered planet from another system hanging around in our own?...


Supermoon Shakes (Death By 1000 Papercuts) – Well, the approaching “Supermoon” might not be the end of the world, but will it at least rattle some cages?...


Cop Shot (Daily Pioneer) – Astrologer told police officer there would be another death in his family, so he shot himself dead…


Entry Time Slots (Daily Pioneer) – Our friend Hemang Pandit at GansheshaSpeaks.com weighs in on astrologically elective Caesarians…


Other Recent Stories:

Leap Of Death (Emirates247) – Well-known Kuwaiti astrologer jumps five stories to escape apartment building blaze, perishes. Press mocks that she “didn’t predict it”…

Venus Transit Approaches (TG Daily) – The rare “Transit of Venus” on June 5-6, at the apex of its retro period, will be increasingly in the news. More when there’s a really complete article…meanwhile read the book about it…

Planet Phoebe (Ars Technica) – Saturn’s Moon may be a captured planet and sister to Pluto…

Late Heavy Bombardment (NASA) – When the big boys decided to move out of our neighborhood, the asteroids came in and put the big hurt on brother Earth and sister Moon…

Arch-Conjurer (The Independent) – In this new biography, QEI’s primary astrologer and general higher-world consultant is depicted as battered by political infighting…

Snagged Planets (Harvard) – Seems those wandering interstellar planets get roped in to solar systems quite regularly. Is one of our regulars, in fact, from elsewhere? Or...is it us??!!..

Missing Matter… (ESO) -- …of the dark kind. It turns out there isn’t any around our neighborhood, which scotches everything…

Tycoon In Trouble (The Australian) – Media mogul turns to astrologer to help turn his fortunes around…

Test for Astrology (Science 2.0) – The ancient art deserves another look, especially as psychology tests, even when self-administered, don’t do much better…

Garage Door Eclipse (Naples News) – Modern seasonal alignments, like the now-famous Manhattanhenge, mimic the ancients in silly ways…this one’s a stitch…

Buried Alive (Jakarta Post) – On the advice of an astrologer, parents inter infant under their house in a clay pot to insure long life. The surprise…the kid lived, and they’re all busted…

Gaga Stars (The Sun) – Lady Gaga consults the stars over her coming tour dates…

Death By Fire (The Star) – Crooked astrologer burns drugged client alive to keep him from squealing to the cops…

Uranus Ablaze (R&D Daily) – The weird planet is hopping with auroras, showing off its electrical nature for the first time viewed from Earth…and, unexpectedly, Venus, too…

Inconvenient Astrologer of MI5 (The Awl) – Louis DeWohl mixed everybody up about WWII’s stars…it’s still not straight…

Disassembly (EnergyMatters) – We’ve often wondered if it would help to simply remove a malefic planet from the sky. Well, here’s the well-meaning plan, unfortunately not just for the bad guys…

Overtaken (DNA India) – Claim that India’s scientists don’t get their due because the people believe in astrology…give us a break…

We’re Normal (AlphaGalileoFdn) – Study of exoplanetary systems reveal they’re disclike, like ours. So who knows how many alien astrologers are casting horoscopes of their own systems, just like us…

Titanic Theories (NY Times) – A good Grey Lady wrap on winter Supermoons plus unusual local conditions that helped conspire to sink the famous ship…not to mention the novella that predicted it…

Auspicious Times (SLBC) – Sri Lanka’s official astrologers are try to set straight the rumors that this year’s auspicious times might not be, in fact, auspicious…!

Clock Error (Medill) – Could be Earth, and the rest of the planets, formed lots earlier than believed, by say, a mere 60 million years…

A Billion Fools (WSJ) – That’s what India is – because it believes in astrology – according to one high court judge…the Subcontinent is not amused…

Fantastic Art (Hemel Today) – That’s what this esthetic endeavor called “Astrology Circle”, soon to be exhibited in Vienna, is intended to be. Well, you be the judge…

Thalassaemia (Times Of India) – Match-making astrologers asked to make couples aware of this deadly genetic disease…

Astrology Theme Park (Times of India) – In Ahmedabad, home of GaneshaSpeaks. Actually a subject late in the game, considering all the others…

Kicking Up A Row (The Hindu) – Astrological consultation over construction project has bureaucrats up in arms…

New Age Hotbed (Chronicle) – Need a reading in County Durham, in NE UK? Stanley is the new place to go…

Lucky Taurus (Voxy) – They win at Lotto the most, in New Zealand, with Capricorn close after. But Aries and Cancer, fugettaboutit…

Elder View (The Hindu) – Ninety-four year old almanac publisher has a longer perspective on what passes for astrology these days…

Earth’s Other Moons (IFA) – We have long had more than one Moon, but the others vary, and are temporary captives…could these be short-lived “Liliths” of Earth, like the passing “Vulcans” of the Sun?...

Snowing Microbes? (NASA) – Dour Saturn’s Moon Enceladus is hot, erupting, and may be the best other place for life in the solar system. Who knew?...

Bigger Than Ever (IndianExpress) – Although this writer hates it, he has to admit that more people are looking to the stars…

Belly-Rubbin’ (Tallahassee.com) – Astrological “belly-rubbin’” song? Oh my, priceless…and, indeed, the Floaters did that…we must have missed it the first time around…

Moon Material (ABC) – It’s the same as Earth’s, which makes for a problem about that third-planet impact theory…maybe it’s just Adam’s rib…

The Iron Planet (Astrobiology) – That would be Mercury, perhaps a surprise for astrologers…

Mars Mystery Cloud (MSNBC) – Mars may be retro, but it’s kicking up a storm, for unknown reasons…

Asteroid…or Planet? (io9) – Which one is Vesta? It’s becoming more and more uncertain…more here…

Perilous Prediction (Mizzima) – Forecast of suppression of freedom of the press in Burma already comes true…

Sexist Starcasting (PostNoon) – Astrologers are getting brought up short for comments about auspicious (and mainly, inauspicious) times for young girls’ first menstruation…booked by police after complaints…

Unmarriageable (DNA India) – May is a dreadful month to get married, thanks to Jupiter position, so wedding caterers are consequently in mourning…

And Then They Came For…the Astrologers (Sunday Leader) – Starcaster predictions mean a lot more in Sri Lanka, sometimes a dangerous sport…

A Better Smile… (BoldSky) – …through astrology!…first it was dandruff (see below), now teeth…node in the second house makes for prominent choppers, and other morsels to chew on…

Sun Sign Selection (People’s Daily) – In China, job recruiting for a door and window company by astrological sign…Virgos wanted for design, no Pisces need apply for sales…

Temple of Treasures (Bellingham Herald) – Astrologers continue fight to prevent opening and counting of Kerala’s priceless trove of temple treasures…

Villain In Disguise (Space.com) – Jupiter keeps throwing things at us…one day, it may not just be a near miss…fascinating history, perhaps perilous future…

Murdered Mammoths (Cryptomundo) – More details on the newly-evidenced asteroid strike 13,000 years ago…

When The Shoe Really Fits (Deccan Chronicle) – Plunge your dogs into something designed specifically to match your individual birth chart…

Retro iPad (Huffington Post) – Huff starcaster disses iPad for debuting to close to Mercury retro, but hey, it was not that big a change, anyway…

Stars From Bethlehem (Ma’an News) – Bethlehem-based Paletinian news agency launches history of astrology show…

Why We’re Moonstruck (DNA) – From Hollywood to Bollywood, everyone loves a full Moon…

Buy A House, Anyone? (EIN News) – Astrologer claims reliable cycle says real estate bottom is behind us, with new high to come in 2020…not exactly thrilling to folks facing foreclosure in 2012…

Sleepless In Toronto (Toronto Star) – Reporter claims lack of sleep causes folks to waste their time on things like astrology…

Hard To Predict (Wall St. Journal) – In Thailand these days, knowing the future can get you in a lot of trouble…

Death Clock (Find Your Fate) – We love this astrology site – take a poll, including your birth data, and it will tell you when you’re going to die…our goose is cooked on July 10, 2030…for entertainment (!) only…

Bad News for Burma (Foreign Policy) – Myanmar’s reform-minded leader may be in for a bout of bad health, so say the top brass’s astrologers…

Uranus Square Pluto (OpEdNews) – Nice, long historical look at the social and economic effects of the current difficult outer planet aspect…

Did The Moon Sink The Titanic? (Texas State) – Could be, maybe, sort of…it followed upon a 1400-year winter Supermoon, setting extra bergs free…

Deep Impact (UCSB) – Confirmation of Neolithic collision in Mexico 12,900 years ago that changed climate, caused extinctions, maybe sank Atlantis…

Dandruff (BoldSky) – It’s the result of an astrological imbalance…of course…;-)

Transit Of Venus (Europlanet) – The last, extremely rare transit of Venus over the Sun this century will occur in June…

Cold Creation (Astrobiology) – A radically new version of how the planets forms has just sprung to life. Not hot coagulation of dust over time, but cooler, more rapid formation contemporary with the Sun’s…

Jupiter Birthdate (Science Daily) – Jupiter’s formation now has a date, and it doesn’t agree with conventional wisdom, either…

Mars Up Close (Earthsky) – The red planet is closest to Earth this weekend and next week, part of a spectacular sky show, and at the heart of its uncomfortable retrograde period…

Earthshine (Universe Today) – A moon’s light may tell a much longer tale of life on the planet it circles…

Leap of Faith (Times of India) – Indian astrologers don’t like Leap Day…well, it was a British imposition, so why would they?...

Another Apophis (Huffington Post) – Recently-discovered asteroid may also hit Earth, in 2040, if Apophis doesn’t get us a decade before…

Extinction Pulse (io9) – Earth may have its own lethal planetary periodicity, a deadly cycle, indeed…

Nomads (Stanford) – Planets were labeled “wanderers”, but this is ridiculous. Could be they’re all over the place, major lost souls…

Tidal Planets (Market Oracle) – Solar cycles driven by inner planets, connected to the markets…

Astrolabe Apologizes (Voxy) – After losing baseless suit…”We now recognize that historical facts are no one's property and, accordingly, are withdrawing our Complaint. We deeply regret the disruption that our lawsuit caused…”

Fireballs Of February (NASA) – It appears we’re being bombarded by something as yet unidentified…

Have You Been Watching Retrograde Mars? (Mathisen Corollary) – This guy has, and makes some interesting associations of how it might physically effect us…the previous post is interesting, too…

Is Jupiter Friend or Foe? (Centauri Dreams) – Astronomically, that is. That has been the current wisdom (and maybe the proto-reason for it being considered the benefic, astrologically), but maybe it’s not so…

Beyond Pluto (io9) – There could really be a giant planet lurking out there, follow internal link for even more speculative details…

Lucky Guess or Lucky Stars? (Forbes) – How astrologers beat the market, or this one has, anyway…

Can Planets Affect Your Portfolio? (Forbes) – Here’s how some other ones do it…Forbes is on a roll this week…

Not So Auspicious C-Sections (Asian Correspondent) – A different take on astrology and C-sections…

Auspicious C-Sections (The Economist) – The Economist weighs in on India’s most common astrologically-driven surgical operation…

Fat Sun (Astrobiology) – The Sun may have slimmed down a bit in recent eons, but it was the fatter version that kept us warm in colder days and got us here today…

Regis Philbin and the Stars (ANS) – The veteran talk show host and personality reveals his long-standing relationship with starcasters and the heavens…

Calendar Changes (ANS) – Here are some propositions for reorganizing our natural system of days from the ivory tower of academe (and also some from astrology) that make the worst of metric and English measurements look friendly…

Alien Matter (NASA) – The whole solar system is in a protective cocoon, spun by our life-giving Sun, in more ways than we thought, evidence by some outside stuff slipping through the barrier…with video…

Shifting Gear? (ESA) – Is Venus slowing down? Physical basis chasers should note the key phrase “exchanges of angular momentum between Venus and the Earth”…

Stock Tumble (Marketwatch) – Our friend Bill Sarubbi has cycles in hand and the market ahead, as usual…

Parallel Universes (Guardian) – That’s supposed to be where astrologers live, but not really…

Pay-per-Match (PRnews) – Astrological dating service has a new business model – you pay each time they find you a match…alas, no refunds…

Stargazing Ice-Agers (Frontiers of Anthropology) – Ancient Eurasian site of Arkaim and its implications could push back astrology beyond the last Ice Age…

“Sign” Language (Hindustan Times) – That’s what astrology is…and just because lunatics get loony on a Full Moon, doesn’t mean you have to…

Finland 2012 (The SOP) – If you were wondering how Finland will fare this year, from a Vedic point of view,wonder no more

Ice Age Cycles (Daily Mail) – Harvard scientist claims final proof that two cycles of Earth’s tilt combine to cause ice ages…

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”…

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…

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Can I Help You? -- An astrologer's quandry. Are we supposed to help, comfort, cheer, or just observe and advise? It depends...

Many Rainbows -- Mulitiple scaled spectra -- from rhythm to sound to light to the planets, all share the same meanings in the same relative positions...

Composite Charts: They Grow On You -- They might seem to be mere mathematical artifacts, albeit highly insightful, but they may grow exactly like natals... 

Sun Sign Sins -- From the venial vice to the mortal sin, take your pick...it's a humorous take...or is it?... 

Arc Transform Charts -- The how, why, and whether of the subtlest kind of harmonic chart there is...  

The Breathing Tide -- Retrograde periods are the breath points that allow us to adapt to harsh outer planet changes... 

Circles And Stones -- Henges and sacred places -- they're everywhere, across history, and they may still be forming by association and accumulaltion... 

Windowpanes: Through A Glass, Darkly -- Are our windows on reality simply refelections of ourselves, or is that just getting in the way of the larger, deeper landscape?

The Gathering Sky: Aspect Dynamics -- When big aspects are in the offing, actual events are determined by the pressure that builds up before them...

Lagrange Points: A Mystery Solved -- The basis of all planetary aspects may be as simple as gravity itself...

Deconstruction: A Pluto Primer -- When everything seems to be falling apart, the grass is already growing under your feet...

The Planetary Order I: Rising Ahead Of The Sun -- The planet ahead of your Sun is your opening act and calls your tune...first of three...

The Planetary Order II: Your Ducks In A Row -- Which planets come first, next, and last is the key to your whole life schedule...second of three...

Planetary Order III: Islands In The Sky -- The common chart patterns reveal scattered islands whose dynamics come from time...third of three...

The Celebrity Astrology -- Is our fascination with celebrity charts just entertainment, or is there a greater meaning in it all?...

and visit our huge celebrity archive at Matrix Astrology Software...

The Moon On Deck -- More on the physical reasons astrology works -- and why it precedes its usual explanations...

Cedar Skies -- Beirut astrologer Carmen Chammas's predictions have come a little too close in powderkeg Middle East...

The Sunshine Astrologer -- Interview with Vanity Fair astrologer Michael Lutin...

The AstroBlogosphere -- There's a fresh, new world of astrological opinion exploding on the scene, check it out now!...NEW and constantly updated!

The (Not So) Void-Of-Course Moon -- When the Moon goes void, it's not just a blank slate...there's a whole lot happening to hang on to...

Aspects And Orbs -- The Taming Power Of The Small.  Include the "smaller" aspects, which aren't so small! 

Mar-Uranus, Redux -- Snapshots in the sky: the Mars-Uranus conjunction tells where the next world crisis will be...

Darning Your Threads -- Rectification by association: find the most common degrees around you, from the people you know and daily events, and establish your correct Ascendant and Midheaven...

The Personal Void-Of-Course Moon -- There's another Void-Of-Course Moon that's your very own...

Threads Of Destiny -- Your relationships, your world, are painted by overlapping planetary threads...

Adolescent Nation  -- why America is only 19 years old, complete with a year-by-year growth chart...

It's Not On The Map! -- The nature of composite charts means you can’t map them – because they’re not real charts at all, they’re artifacts. Here's how and why...

Seize The Day -- astrology is all about startups, from moment to moment, so switch on your engine...

Of Time And Tides -- "There is a tide in the affairs of men"...really, there is, and it floats your boat...

Paul Kammerer's Seriality (2 meg .pdf) -- the inventor of synchronicity (no, not Jung) uncovered how everything weird in this world actually, naturally, works...

Professor Seward's Foray From The Beyond -- do you speak to the dead? Yes, I don't...or maybe, I...well, anyway, it's a true story, honest...

Toward a Physical Basis for Astrology -- There is a physical link between the planets and you. It's simple physics, no metaphysics required...just gravity, inertia, and time...

Heavenly Vacations -- where does your Sun-sign find most pleasure in the sun? Here's a traveller's guide...

Your Birthday Headlines -- what was happening around the world on the day you were born? Does it tell you as much  as your horoscope?...ripped from the pages of the Times...

America, Quo Vadis? -- Americans will believe anything these days, with progressed Moon just into Pisces...it wasn't always that way -- how we got here, what's next...




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Five Star Day
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When Jupiter Meets Uranus
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Soul-Sick Nation
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Biological Time
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