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Definitions,
Planetary (Discovery) – Our definitions of
“planet”
may not even apply in other systems, where earth’s
twin may be
found this year…Horizon’s Pluto flyby
will rekindle
dispute…
Student
Counselors (Hindustan Times) – Astrologers are
helping young people explore career aptitudes…
Close
Encounter (NASA) – Mars will be as close and
bright as it gets, in opposition
Sun and Venus, right at the full Moon (especially large and close, at
perigee a "supermoon"), this month’s outgoing
kicker…look up and
wonder…
Pluto’s
Tiny Sister
(Discovery) – Smallest of Kuiper Belt objects is only a
third of a mile
in diameter…
Heir
By The Stars (The
Guardian) – Astrology is being used to prepare North
Korean
populace to accept and revere the replacement for ailing Kim
Jong-il…
Stargazers
Sway Elections (AFP)
– Not surprising, considering where they are being
held…business
as usual, actually…
Potter’s
World
(Birmingham Black and White) – The Alabama Museum of
Health Sciences new
exhibition features the astrological philosophies of Renaissance
medicine,
using Harry Potter as its theme…
Influencing
Asteroids
(Scientific American) – What influence asteroids have on
Earth may be in
question, but not the
other way around…
Haydn
at the Hayden (NY
Times) – Haydn comic opera featuring a wily astrologer
opens at New
York City’s high-tech planetarium…
Swamis
Talk Science (DNA
India) – A gathering of Hindu gurus are looking for
reconciliation,
starting with a shift to the tropical year…
Doomsday
Doubt
(Pravda) – Russian astrologers pour cold water on Mayan
calendar
apocalypse…maybe a gradual change of consciousness
instead…Indian starcaster agrees....
Off-The-Mark
Remarks (Desicritics)
– A scientist,
an astrologer, and a rationalist were put into the same room to discuss
Haiti
and the eclipse…the opening for a good joke…
Tribute
To Saturn
(Cornell) – Give this new DVD a listen…sound like
Saturn to you?…
Ribbon
At The Edge
(NASA) – The edge of our solar system, it twines around us
like a great
celestial snake. Its mystery, though not its effects, may have been
solved…
Software
Troubles
(DNA India) – UK MP under fire for buying astrological
software…755
pounds sterling of public money…
Astrologers
Knew
(Canada.com) – Cities have lifespans, and evolve
accordingly, something
astrologers already knew…
Pluto’s
Anniversary
(Cape Cod Online) – It’s been 80 years since Pluto
became part of our
consciousness…a peaceful planet minding its own
business?…ironic text here…
Farther
From The Sun
(Softpedia) – We’re drifting away from our star,
albeit slowly, and it
could be dark matter that’s forcing itself between us…
Connect
The Dots
(mi2g) – Earth, Moon, Mars and Sun together may account
for major
weather evolution…
More
From Apophis
(PR
Web) – Now UFO contactees are getting in on the threatening
asteroid story…
Trees
On Mars
(Daily
Mail) – Well, it looks a lot like trees, anyway…from
NASA…
Longest
Eclipse
(Mizzima)
– This week’s solar eclipse is the longest of the
century, and goes
right over Burma, land of star-driven junta that could use a little
change…
Tapestry
Of Faith And Science
(Financial Times) – Here’s a must-see exhibit next time
you’re in New York
City, at the Rubin Museum of Art…
Mystery
Asteroid Flyby
(Discovery) – Something is dogging
our path in the sky, asteroid, man-made,
or something else?...great
NASA java
animation
here…
Sweet
Spots (Time) – The reason we and other
Earth-like planets didn’t get gobbled up early is because they
found
Lagrange-like spots of equilibrium in the early chaos…
Decade
of Doom
(Frontier Post) – That’s what this political
columnist from Peshawar and
Quetta sees, linked to the planets…
Star
Study (Times
of India) – Doctors, lawyers, bankers, and other
professionals are crowding
to sign up for courses in astrology…
Constellation
Cufflinks (Jessica Cushman) – Just out: jewelled
constellations for your cuffs, a sparkling cut above the usual zodiac
trinkets,
very classy for $85…plus, from another accessory source, chains
of moons and stars…
Crossing
Over
(Brooklyn Eagle) – From school crossing guard to
astro-reincarnation
expert…a lateral career move?…
All-Star
Cast (Herald-Sun)
– Brit columnist muses on how starcasters cast their stars…
Star
Mitzvah (Jewish
News) – Uranus and Neptune finally get their Hebrew
names…
Chicken
Or Egg (Market
Oracle) – In
business cycles, like planetary cycles, a major question is what detail
of the
pattern specifically triggers the change…
On
The Wane (Middle
East Online) – Analyst repeats just what
we said long
ago about
superpower’s inevitable decline…
Astro
Bard (Mudgee
Guardian) – Shakespeare was an astrologer, soldier, sailor,
lawyer, spy…and
a doctor…
Last
Year’s Future
(The Nation) – How did prominent predictors’
prognostications from 2009 turn
out?…some, not too
badly…others, well…
Younger
Than We Think (Wired)
– The planets are not as old as presumed, but by a million or so
years, who’s counting?…
Russia
Steps In
(Wall St. Journal) – Russia is now actively interested in
saving the
earth from threatening asteroid Apophis, headed for Earth all too
soon…
Earth-sized
Planet (Space.com)
– One could be right here in our own solar system, and NASA
is on its trail…
On A Blue Moon
(NASA) – The
“decade from hell” ends, appropriately, on a blue
Moon…
Earthquake
Tides
(Wired) – Tidal forces roll out quakes, new research
reveals…
A
More Stable Oath
(Express Buzz) – Politician changes swearing-in time at
astrologer’s
advice, to enhance future government stability…
Matters
Of The Heart (DNA)
– They’re more important than money these
days, say Subcontinent
starcasters…economy must be getting better over there…
Struggle
For Existence
(The Hindu) – Some astrologers there, however, are barely
scratching out
a living…
Racing
Toward Russia (Times
Of India) – Now on Ellesmere Island, only forty years ago the
magnetic
poles were on Prince of Wales Island and Commonwealth Bay, and at forty
miles a
year, soon Russia will capture the honor…to be sure if where you
are, stick
with the North Star…
Beliefs
Down Under (Sydney
Morning Herald) – In new survey, Australians buy into
astrology more than
much-ballyhooed American poll…more
details here…
Pregnant
Island
(Fiji Times)
– Mother earth and Moon
goddess lies astride South Sea newly-noticed island contours…you
haven’t
read this one…
Sealed
Envelopes (DNA
India) – The latest pop news “test” of astrology
ploughs on…
Star
In The East (Radio
Iowa) – Explanations for the Star of Bethlehem have been
refreshingly
scarce this season, this being the only one about…except for this
one…And
of course, this
one…
The
Gemini Astrolabe (Londonist)
– On display now at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich...
Astronomers
Celebrate At Stonehenge
(Gazette and Herald) -- …along with
archaeologists, and probably a few astrological gate-crashers as well,
this
winter solstice…
Time Capsule (BeliefNet) – Astrologer Lynn Hayes unearths a Time magazine article that digs into our personal past,
literally…the complete March 1969 original is here…
Democrats Favor
Astrology (WND) – More
from the recent Pew study…the right wing may favor
religion, but it’s the lefties who are more hands-on with the
mysterious, two
to one…
Planetary
Music
(Faster Times) – Planetary motion converts to musical
intervals in
translation of Kepler’s Harmonices Mundi…we’re
big on that
ourselves…
Voice of
the Earth
(Countercurrents) – What the Earth feels, we feel, and
that may be the
middle step that connects us to the planets…well, that’s
our take…
Spiral
Over Norway
(YouTube) – A mysterious
spiral in the sky appeared in the dark Norway skies…an omen
above the climate
change conference?...speculation
is rife…
Broiled,
Not Burned
(New Scientist) – Asteroid strike was
hot, but not flaming, new evidence reveals…
Saturn’s
Hexagon
(Popular Science) – More on the
mysterious giant hexagon on Saturn’s north pole, with great
moving pix…
Mix
and Match Metaphysics
(Washington Post) – Nearly a quarter of
avowed Christians believe in reincarnation and astrology, according to
new American
survey...
Astrological Profiling
(Spartan Daily) – Girl feels misjudged by
Sun-sign prejudice, the “dark side of
astrology”…perhaps she’ll sue…
Simple Numbers
(NY Times) -- Numerologists
are
horning in on astrologers' territory in traditional India, because it's
less complicated...
Massive
Expansion (DNA
India) – Ganesha Speaks plans to take over the astrological
world…boss
starcaster Bejan
Daruwalla
has his eyes on the
prize, as burgeoning tele-astros
rake in the cash from hungry fortune-consumers…
Wedding
Halls Packed
(Times
Of India) – The stars are smiling, the rupees rolling
in…’tis the season to
get married…
Solar
Tsunamis (NASA)
– Monster waves have got the Sun all riled up…
Red
Planet Once Blue (Daily
Mail) – Mars was once covered with oceans, a blue pearl like
Earth, long
before the god of war...
The
Handcuffed Statue (The
Irrawaddy) – Statue of goddess is shackled every evening,
perhaps on orders
from Burmese junta leader and his astrologers to thwart the
resistance…
Electric
Comets (Thunderbolts)
– Among other wonders, new comet data allegedly proves that
“Climate change…is
doubtless an aspect of the electrical connection between Earth, the
Sun, and
the galaxy.”
Cult
Monuments In Moscow (Pravda)
– More from Pravda on the celestial origins of Stalinist
structures…
Liquor
Stocks (Money
Control) – Buy some shares in booze in dips this week, or
just dip in and
share some, always our advice in shaky times…
Full
Moon Highway (DNA)
– A particular stretch of road goes dangerously mad when the full
Moon hovers…
2012
Panned (New Scientist)
– Well, New Scientist really hates
this movie, unsurprisingly, except some of the effects are cool…
I’m
A Planet, Damn It! (New
Scientist) – Outer planet complains righteously to New
Scientist
blogger…
2012 (Vedic) (Sify) –
Everybody else is putting down doomsday, why not a shot from Vedic
astrology?…
The
Fertility Show (The
Guardian) – Anything and everything to get you pregnant,
including astrological
services…
At
It Again (The
Independent)
– French soccer coach Raymond Domenich adds tarot to his regular
astrological
requirements for his team, annoying many including this columnist, but
he
continues to dominate the game…
2012
Debunked (National
Geographic) – That ageless coffee-table magazine puts its two
cents in on
the imminent end of the world, with a TV special to match…plus another
take by NASA…
Cell
Phone Swami
(Newswire Today)
– Now you can get those
individual birth chart reports as an app on your iPhone…
Soccer
Signs (Bleacher Report)
– Our favorite team Liverpool’s main players – clever, albeit it just Sun signs…
Where
Is Planet X
(Discovery)
– Planet-finder and Pluto-demoter Mike Brown is questioned about
where the next
one might be…
On-Time
Delivery (Global
Post) – Another, nice long piece on the ins and outs of
custom C-sections for picking a child’s
horoscope, a rising trend on the Subcontinent and the East…
Historical
Laughs (Variety)
– Popular German filmmaker spins comedy yarn based on someone
being mistaken
for Hitler’s astrologer, by Stalin…got to see this
one…
Purloined
Bones (York
Press) – Someone stole Brit star astrologer Jonathan
Cainer’s skeleton…
Stalin’s
Secrets (Pravda)
– Did the ruthless dictator build Moscow on an astrological plan?
Could be, if
you believe Pravda…
From
The Middle East (Tayyar)
– Michel Hayek resurfaces with some space-oriented predictions,
as well as
political…
Sagittarians
Reach For Stars (Tonight)
– Yet another mini-poll, claims Sagittarius is more fame-hungry
than the rest,
by 2-1...
Gaia’s
Final Warning
(NY Review of Books)
– Forget the outer
planets and 2012, it’s our own planet that’s out to get us,
in revenge. After
all, it’s
not always been so friendly…
Sneaky
Sun (NASA) –
We
live next to a variable star, at whose whim we remain and flourish, or
don’t…NASA will be taking a closer look…
The
Laptop Astrologer (AFP)
– All it takes is a gimmick to get you on the air…
Wedding
Season (Times
of India) – It’s that auspicious time of year again, as
wedding businesses
thank their lucky stars…
Asteroid
Hit (Telegraph)
–
We didn’t see it coming on October 8, when it rocked the
atmosphere with a 50
kiloton blast. If it had been only a bit bigger, well…
Did
Galileo Discover Neptune? (The
Nation) – His notebooks may reveal that secret, of an unknown
star next to
Jupiter…
Ring
Around
Saturn (NBC) –
The biggest
ever, 200 times its diameter – how did we miss it?…
Another
Ribbon (Thunderbolts)
– The Sun, also has a mysterious electric ribbon like the one
just discovered
around Earth…
What’s
Your Tree, Baby? (What’s-Your-Sign)
– We missed this oldie, but it’s fun, though likely based
on an elaborate Celtic
Astrology fabrication
by none
other than poet Robert Graves…
Ribbon
Of Mystery (NASA)
– It seems our solar system is encircled by a previously unknown
celestial
ribbon of force, at right angles to our galaxy…
Cosmophobia (AstroSociety)
– Is the planet Nibiru really going to whack us in
2012, and other paranoid delusions dealt with…more, and there
will be lots more
as this all approaches…
What Do
We Know? (Scientific
American) – About all those Kuiper Belt planetary type
thingies, not to
mention a lot of other mysteries…part of a good series…
Too
Close To The Sun (Russia-ic)
– Venus lost its water because it got a little too
intimate with the Sun…
Right
Predictions?
(Sunday
Sun) – Did the starcasters really call the shots right this
time? Seems
like it, but then this is the Sun…
For
previous monthly overviews, predictions, and newslinks from earlier
this year and previous years, see our
colorful news
archives here...
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