John Townley's AstroCocktail News Archive 2019

Solar eclipse with Jupiter just into Capricorn is first step to 2020's long-awaited world-wide blowout changes.

December turns the corner from a chaotic pre-game show to the explosive kickoff of the long-anticipated 2020 world-changes. Leading the parade of stars will be Jupiter busting out of its own wild and wooly Sagittarius into Saturn’s shivering sign of Capricorn the second day of the month. With no planets in air, it’s time for talk to end and action to begin. That’s made doubly intense by Mars leading the new bowl skies, which shrink to a tighter bundle as the winter comes on.

The action may be all over the field, as it’s eclipse season again, and the solar eclipse is exactly conjunct Jupiter, which in Capricorn will mean contained explosions that shift the trajectory of events in sudden zig-zag fashion, so be ready for quick change. Don’t get too attached to your anticipated path, as it’s about to flip, twice.

In the middle of the action is the ever-tighter Saturn-Pluto conjunction, exact right after New Year, and with Jupiter now just barely ahead of it, when you see big, expansive moves heating up (despite wintry Capricorn), expect equally sudden shutdowns right after fueled by power plays that challenge earlier gains. All this as the pace continues to increase thanks to the roller-coaster still in play, with all planets speeding direct except for Uranus, and that turns, too, just after 2020 comes in, and a new balance of reality takes center stage everywhere...

Like a broad, rolling wave, uninterrupted planetary momentum is sweeping all toward looming rocks ahead.

November sees the last speeding remnants of normality before the snarling tie-ups of 2020 start to set in. Not that the world isn’t already in a crazed whorl, but that’s just prologue. Mercury is retrograde most of the month, during which it actually backs across the face of the Sun (the “transit of Mercury”), so plans are shifting, reordering. But Jupiter races through the last degrees of Sagittarius finally free of Neptune in the last week, when it’s time to take a big leap forward as Mars explosively opposes Uranus, reducing the hot locomotive skies into the less aggressive, shrinking bowl to come.

All of this is the final run of planets moving flat-out without much entanglement, as with last month, with their gathered momentum pushing all along like a swollen ocean wave. That wave is about to break on the rocks of Saturn and Pluto come December and January, so make use of all the ordinary avenues to get things done, as the extraordinary looms on the horizon, and with it a new set of strategems to get around the turmoil.

The coming year will rise to a change of pace beyond the already-heady ongoing roller coaster, as the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and their earlier tangle with Pluto is forging permanent changes in how the world does business, and that will filter down to everyone. Right now, it’s the last of the old order still in sway, so tie up your ends and make the best of it. Next comes a year of ducking and dodging, using the twists and turns into and through the Vortex we were talking about two years ago, when America fell into it…

Eating up the miles: locomotive skies press on uninterrupted, for now, so make the distance while you can.

October’s locomotive skies work their way like a coast-to-coast railway express with the hammer down. A month of forward motion and no special stops or hangups along the way, with hard-charging Mars leading the way. The planets move from sign to sign in regular order without even a major conjunction to interrupt the flow until the final creative flowering of Mercury and Venus together at Halloween. After a powerhouse month and a half of Venus-Mars-Sun running together bringing everything up to unusual speed, it’s as if sheer momentum takes over and what’s been started – one way or another – just won’t quit.

So, it’s the perfect time to wrap up underway-business as Jupiter speeds along in the last part of Sagittarius – just ahead of next month’s Mercury retro tangling its last steps before ploughing into Saturn’s sign of Capricorn come December. The long-promised crossed wires and colliding interests of 2020 are hard upon us and this may be the last half-way predictable period before the changing times make every mile a crooked and uncertain climb. Imagine yourself speeding across the open plains and prairies, eating up the miles beneath unclouded skies, as day turns to night and back again, making the most of the long and fertile stretch before the rising plateau runs hard up against the looming peaks of the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada.

Speed on, but pace yourself and conserve resources, as when this relatively-level leg of the journey is done, you’ll need all you’ve got to negotiate the stormy uphill canyons and precipices that will mark the geography of the year to come. October is going to be like that: work to be done, unfinished chores to put behind you while the Sun shines and the planets roll along. Make the most of the memory…

Steady as she goes: as headlong seas stabilize, take your best shots when the deck pauses between rolls.

September finishes an unusual August trend, where Venus, Mars, and Sun ran together with exceptionally high energy and splash skies exploded it in all direction. Now, it’s time to focus all that as Mars leads by month’s end and action is the name of the game. That’s accompanied by the end of an almost-airless summer where everything ran by the seat of the pants and a plan didn’t seem necessary, or available. Time to correct that and make a road map to funnel the pent-up power into a real direction that gets results.

Retrogrades back to normal means a pause in the summer-winter rollercoaster, so it’s a good time to fire your shots from a stable and level platform, between the rock and roll that’s typified the yearly extremities and will continue to for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, Jupiter continues its square to Neptune, so big picture visions are still a little foggy, making it easy to wander off course with the best of intentions, so concentrate on getting the small stuff into line until the grand scheme comes better into focus.

Hot and flashing: Venus/Mars running tight with Sun spark excitement and passion to heat up the dog days.

August is all about heat, whichever hemisphere you’re in. Venus and Mars run together with the Sun all month, driving passions to a peak and providing hot and spicy solar returns for those with birthdays this month. The point of passion is at the center of the sky, and late next spring may even see a birth bump as a result.

That’s particularly because it’s the second month of a virtually airless summer, as only the Moon is visiting air signs, a continuation of last month and going halfway into September. So planning is not on the front burner, while the heat is on full blast…consequences aren’t the first thing to come to mind, but they will occur, anyway.

In fact, something will occur almost every day, as the sky now has a splash pattern with planets strewn all around the circle bringing frequent lunar conjunctions and a new turn of events on tap with every one. Much of that may be re-addressing old issues, however, as four planets are still retrograde all month, meaning old ground must be retread before new vistas can truly open up. But with the general lack of air available for good planning, that may be just as well…the pulse this month is more below the belt than above the neck…

July brings eclipse season, first a solar, then a lunar eclipse, always a time when the rug can get pulled out from under you unexpectedly, just when you assume things are nailed down. To add to the effect, this is the long-promised peak of retrogrades for the year. With Mercury going into reverse for most of the month, joining four others for a total of five planets retro, the general affect is enforced delays to reconstruct plans and preparations, aspirations and relations, where a second look and needed adjustments are in order.

There’s a certain amount of cognitive dissonance involved here, however, as the general sky pattern (a locomotive) is led by ambitious Jupiter whose general message is go-go-go, but it’s also ongoingly squared by misleading and foggy Neptune, so to go-go is to go-astray as often as not. Finally, the dark and demanding Saturn-Pluto conjunction continues to linger (and will until year’s end), last month opposing Mercury and Mars, this month opposite the Sun and on the lunar eclipse. If it’s hitting your planets (mid-to-late Capricorn), best to duck and cover, or step out of the way of obstinate blockages. Don’t fight the implacable, find a new way to get the same thing accomplished, on other terms.

Despite obstacles, there are always good times to choose for forward motion – you just need to select the skies and times to make things happen more carefully. Keep that Saturn-Pluto stuff off the Angles (see our animated graph for best times of day for that), take promise-all Jupiter with a grain of salt, and let the rest carry you on safely to new adventures…

It's a flippy month: after take off, where you land could turn out to be a total surprise, a different direction.

June is a flippy month of contradictions and crossed wires, so check your chargers before you plug in and go. It’s got four planets retrograde (working up to five next month) making for second thoughts about earlier decisions, but there still remains great pressure from a Jupiter locomotive sky to push forward, get things done, make it happen. Yet, that same ambitious Jupiter is exactly square foggy Neptune, so the most well-intentioned efforts can waste a lot of energy being led totally and repeatedly astray from imagined intentions.

The energy levels are particularly evident when plans and discussions commence, as Mercury (talk) and Mars (energy) hang together all month, so the usual slip of the lip is magnified and arguments and name-calling can abound, because that duo is opposite downers Saturn and Pluto, where restrictive power plays are the order of the day and can bring out the worst in that voluble conjunction. So, think before you speak, and also before you react to someone else’s tirade, or things could all go up in smoke.

Mid-month when these conflict risks are at their greatest, the opportunity of getting some really insightful grand water trines off your local Ascendant or Midheaven with the trine of Neptune to Mercury and Mars also increases. Out of possible conflict, much deeper feelings and understandings are available, if you hold back and let it happen.

All in all, it’s like sail-boarding along a riptide— when your board leaves the water, you may flip and come down going in an entirely unexpected direction. And, next month is eclipse season, so this is just prep for more craziness to come…

Let your own flower open and take in the sunshine while momentary balance returns to the air.

May opens like a flower as the sky starts to unravel from the winter bowl of speedy isolation and the overall balance of things starts to feel normal again. Well, as normal as normal is anymore – but when you wonder about that, turn and ask the nearest plant for something more stable to refer to. Or, maybe take a poll, as the plants are getting a bit uncertain these days, as well…

But basically, we’re at the balance point on the ongoing roller-coaster where you can relax enough to shift to a more comfortable and advantageous position before rebuckling in for the summer’s coming super-retrograde period. With Mars speeding past the opposition to Jupiter, that big boy now leads the edge of a locomotive sky for half the month, with the rest spread out for multiple action as the Moon fills in the empty spots. Overall, it’s a time you can feel more comfortable in proceeding the way you used to behave, without fearing an ambush.

Maybe not quite – Saturn and Pluto still lurk in tight conjunction together, so avoid spats over power and position when they are angular (four times a day, check our planets on angles page for approximately when). But outside of that, it’s a spring that feels like, well, spring…

April is about recovery from March’s Mercury retro-with-Neptune rolling confusion. Our predictive take on it turned out to be on the mark, as the month was a combination of must-get-it-right with just-can’t-do-it frustration. Ultimately, progress may have been made, but at the expense of much craziness and wasted time – well, maybe not wasted, if you consider it well-learned lessons. And, by the time you get used to the all-direct feeling again, Jupiter will go retro, followed by Pluto and Saturn, bringing the trending total to three by month’s end.

But, it’s another game now, as the multiple-retro planets peel back to a refreshingly-average state, getting back to a baseline of normality. It’s the mid-season pause in the ongoing roller-coaster ride, between up and down, when you try to briefly come back to your senses and make a plan to steady yourself and make a sure path between extremes.

Part of the trick for the moment is daily dodging the ever-tighter Saturn-Pluto conjunction, really bad when on the Angles – like rumbling bombers overhead, but also easily avoided by hunkering down an hour or so (four times a day) until it passes. Once that momentarily-dark sky clears, you can roll again as benefic planets push to the fore. See our planets on angles graph for daily timing, as it can make the difference between striding-forward motion and stumbling disaster.

Mercury retro in fast skies means sudden shifts, quick thinking required to beat Neptune-driven change.

March comes in like a lion, with all planets direct, headed to score and then…Mercury goes retrograde and the king of beasts finds himself caught between bases in a rundown. Where helter-skelter, flat-out fury was the name of the game, suddenly it’s a game of last-minute mind and strategy change on which everything depends. It all becomes very confusing as the new Moon is conjunct that wavering Mercury and also conjunct fogged-out Neptune, so precision analysis is out of the question. It’s make a prayer and hope your next quick move lands you on firmer ground. For better or worse, once the three-week retro is past, it’s back to full-tilt boogie until mid-April when skies begin to slow down, headed for this summer’s repeat of last summer’s retro swamp.

This month’s intensifier is the third-in-a-row SuperMoon, a full moon at 0 degrees Aries, bringing in the astrological New Year with a bang, and the fifth and last of a series of 0-degree full Moons. Cognitive dissonance abounds, as the first degree of a sign means new beginnings, startups, while full Moons mean final development and harvest. So which is it, beginning or end, startup or sign-off? Hard to tell…

But at least one certainty will be Uranus finally settling into the more-muffling sign of Taurus for a seven-year stretch. Of course, that planet is all about surprises and the unexpected of the often-explosive kind, but in this new sign it won’t be quite so unfettered, more like underground shocks than airbursts. It’s all part of the ongoing rollercoaster…

All-direct planets compounded by Mars-Uranus conjunction supercharge helter-skelter speedy skies.

February arrives with all planets direct, speeding along heedlessly as Earth itself is isolated on the opposite side of the Sun from the bowl of all the middle and outer planets. It’s a repeat of last winter’s rollercoaster ride, which will continue for the next few years so get used to the heady feeling of being slightly out of control, along with everybody else.

The month sees Venus brave the Saturn and Pluto conjunction as its squeeze-play gets ever-closer, along with Mercury fogging out as it passes Neptune. But most unique is the biennial Mars-Uranus conjunction, bringer of unexpected blowups, sudden catastrophes, and generally shattering upsets, especially where it occurs at the Midheaven (over the open Atlantic) or rises (in the Far East) setting local trends until the next one in 2021. All in all, it’s just adding to the wild impulsiveness of the times, when looking both ways seems like forgotten advice. In hit-and-run season, you'd better keep an extra eye out.

The advantage: events are built for speed so things can get accomplished quickly before you lose the momentum when Mercury goes retro next month. The disadvantage: it takes too long to effectively apply the brakes, so if you hit a skid, steer into it, as there’s not much else to be done. The solution: double-check your trajectory before you put the pedal to the metal…

January: Jupiter calls the shots as over-the-top seems to be the norm, presaging the great conjunction.

January amps up the planetary race, and as solitary Uranus goes direct the first week, there will be no retrograde planets at all for two solid months, very close to last winter’s nine-week gangbuster stretch. But this time, Jupiter is in the driver’s seat in it’s own sign, at the leading edge of the bowl chart. In a balanced sky, that would be good news, but in this roller-coaster ride the overblown, off-the-rails, extreme side of Jupiter is likely to predominate, especially as it is running in square to Neptune. We’ve seen this before both historically and the last time it was in Sagittarius. In the really-bigger picture, it’s the lead-up to dark days as we have been reminding since 1998.

Individually, fortunes may depend on what’s hitting your chart, but for the general matrix the afflictions to the U.S.A. horoscope (fatefully enmeshed with Trump’s, hyping mutual madness) and the imminent Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto conjunction at large indicate a general spiral of chaos framing the lives of most who live an everyday life. (Eris fans note she’s on US Moon/Mars throughout.) It’s all of a piece – as above, so below – and it makes you want to get out from underneath, were that option available. But it’s not, so learning to live with unasked-for complications at many levels is the lesson for the day – and for the next few years – until it has all come to a head, then blown over, followed by pounds of recovery when an ounce of prevention might have made all the difference.

Not that the planets would have altered their course – difficulty and change were in the wind, regardless – but in 2016 when cooler heads across the world might have prevailed, but did not bother to, the current die was cast and now we must persevere until the other side is reached, as surely as London had to survive the Blitz. Far from the end, or the beginning of the end, we are only reaching the end of the beginning. So, the message for 2019 and 2020 as well, may appropriately be: keep calm and carry on…

Near Miss (Alphagalileo) – During Neanderthal times, an actual star brushed by us, moving comets and asteroids around...a bit closer and, well...

The Urge to Build (The Conversation) – Henges, everywhere...what were these prehistoric astronomer/astrologers up to?...

Unintentional Proof (ANS) – Of astrology...you never know where it’s coming from, despite debunkers...

Moon-Watching Magic (LACurbed) – Just ask folks to look at a full Moon, and they get thrilled, and friendly...the focus of a participatory film in LA...

Magnetic Mischief (IBTimes) – Look out, here comes another big solar storm, with concomitant disruptions...if you want to keep up with this division daily, check out www.spaceweather.com...

Millennial Madness (The Guardian) – The meme for the year, it appears, how much Millennials love astrology, this time from across the Pond...

Equinox Cracks (NASA) – Earth’s magnetic shield opens as the equinox approaches, a unique vulnerability, tropical zodiac followers take notice, this may be an important part of physical basis...

Tusker Timepieces (Ancient Origins) – Mammoth bone calendars reveal prehistorics had their eyes on the skies, counting the days...

Stormy Neptune (Business Insider) – The big storm on Neptune is finally dissipating...perhaps it’s happier in its own sign...

Lunar Eruptions (Brown Daily Herald) – Moon cycles and volcanoes are on the same page...

Apocalypse or Nail Clips (The Sun) – Black Moon could be ideal time for either one, cute...

Cops and Crazies (Boulder City Review) – Boulder City police step up their game when the Moon is full...

Moon-Struck Millennials (Atlantic) – Mainstream media are all agog (see more articles below) over young generation’s embrace of the stars...

Ice Age Impact (Science Examiner) – More on whatever struck us 12,000 years ago, setting Earth ablaze, leaving ingrained trauma memories actually on record...

Restless Moon (Independent) – Yes, you do lose sleep over the full Moon, it’s official...

Orion Starchild (Starchild) – We’re not usually fond of Sun-sign song cycles, but the beginning of this Brooklyn-cooperative’s Aquarius effort is fun and socially insightful...

Aging Planets (Science Trends) – Beautiful, they are. But who would have thought of Mercury, the planet of youth, that way?...

Full Moon Doesn’t Cause Quakes (CBC) – No, but the quarter Moon does, according to this study. But it’s more complicated than that, and there are other studies...

The Last Total Eclipse (Forbes) – Last one, ever, the day is coming, as the Moon drifts away, and curiously, again Forbes is on the story...

Dancing With The Stars (Academia) – How celestial relations inspire music and dance in Northern Australia...

Do You Believe? (NY Times) – Even the Grey Lady is allowing discussion about the millennial astrology boom...

Super Blue Blood Moon (Forbes) – Quite a phenomenon by itself, and just as much that Forbes should cover it...

Who is Baba Vanga? (The Sun) – Witchy blind prophetess who predicted every sort of disaster, with more to come for next year...for fun...

Eight Hours Sleep (History) – Our accustomed, diurnal-trine “solid eight” hours of necessary sleep wasn’t always so solid – it used to be two slightly-offset fours (sextiles) with an intermission for, well, whatever...

Holiday Sex (Time) – Study says heightened interest in sex is linked to holidays, which are in turn linked to solar or lunar cycles...

Give Thanks for Solstice (NY Times) – It’s one of the reasons you (not to mention astrological signs) exist at all...nice take on what planetary tilt does for you, here and elsewhere...

Motorcycle Moon (Washington Post) – When the Moon is full, motorcyclists die, new study finds. Full research details here...

Space Visitor Silent (Breakthrough) – So far, Oumuamua, the mysterious, cigar-shaped visitor from outside the solar system, is mum...

Hummm! (Washington Post) – The Earth rings like a bell, and hums mysteriously, too, perhaps even in resonance with other planets? Lots more being found out, as we read...

Weapons from the Sky (RT) – The first iron weapons were heaven-sent, while the Bronze Age was still under sway...

Shoreline Zodiac? (Mysterious Universe) – Mysterious horoscope fragment suggests Newton’s strange theory may have been right...it’s going to be tested...

Truth or Terror? (India Times) – Exact astrological predictions of attacks make authorities wonder if it’s the stars or just collusion...

Gold Train (Economic Times) – It appears gold arrived at Earth in a separate package from the skies, early on...

Henge Feast (Mysterious Universe) – While building that great astrological observatory, Stonehengers were gorging themselves with seasonal fare...

King Tide (SLO news) – The big lunar tide of Supermoons, and just how it works...

Cosmic Collisions (Mercury News) – Right here on earth, that deer in your headlights is there because of the Moon...

Why Astrology? (NY Times) – In a rare coverage of the subject, the Grey Lady talks to journalist/astrologer Eric Francis Coppolino about the modern appeal of the stars...

Lunar Compendium (ANS) – You can’t do astrological research until you know what’s already been done, how, and why. Finally, there’s a starting place for everything done so far on the Moon...

Black Thai Parties (The Sun) – Just what makes those full Moon parties so fetching? Perhaps the buckets of mystery booze...

Cosmic Orchestra (NY Post) – Making Earthly music out of particles from outer space...

Psych Test (ANS) – Psychology personality test parallels astrology analysis...revived from the past, but always interesting...

Nibiru Bombshell (Express) – We do love the Express, now first video images of the end of the world planet from outer space!

Millennial Madness (Marketwatch) – Those kids, those kids, into spooky stuff like astrology instead of proper religion...it’s a trend...

Wiped Out (Daily Star) – That could be us, by a solar storm...what’s notable is that they continue on apace, regardless of phase of sunspot cycle...

Weirdly Nine (Sci-News) – Homing in on the mysterious big planet nearby means looking at a whole different angle on things...crisscrossed and sometimes backwards...a new “Super-Earth”?

Moon River Waves (9news) – The Moon’s pull stacks up 13-foot tidal waves in Chinese river...

Party Beneath The Stars (Mysterious Universe) – Neolithic sky-trackers built Orkney megalithic stone circles for a good time...

It’s Gravity, Stupid! (ANS) – Meaning, that’s the physical basis for astrology, something we’ve been saying for decades. But it’s about wavelike tidal variation, not gravitational waves, which are something else entirely...

New Moon Puts Prey On Edge (Twin Cities) – And in the process may help lions protect plant life...

Big Things Hitting Us... (Europlanet)...fairly recently in history is one reason astrologers look fearfully to the skies. Here are a couple more strikes, in the Baltic, that would have given European culture pause for celestial thought...

Fake News, Astrology Edition (Wildhunt) – No subject is subjected to totally imaginary claims like astrology, here’s just a few of them...

Another End (Express) – With so much news to top lately, why not the end of the world, again? On September 23, so make your reservations now...and, this “Christian conspiracy theory” (love the phrase) includes Planet X... [update: it didn't pan out, but The Express has lots more like it, pick one you like]...

Astrologer Dies (Frontier Myanmar) – “ET”, nicknamed for her appearance, a major influence on Burma’s astrology-mad military, is no more...

Eclipse Plus... (Inforum) – Add the full Moon, and folks roll right off the shallow end...

Sleepless (MNN) – The full Moon can keep you awake and really mess with your slumber patterns...

Astrologers Aren’t Psychic (ANS) – No, they actually get if from the charts they read, says new study, clearing starcasters of one debunking prejudice...

Armenian Stonehenge (Smithsonian) – Henges, henges everywhere! During a certain period of history, it just was the pop culture thing to do, all around the globe, across unrelated cultures...here, the work of early Kardashians?...

Raining Diamonds, For Real (Washington Post) – As previously speculated, now experiments confirm how Uranus and Neptune may have hearts of diamond...

Death By Eclipse (Haunted Ohio) – Spooky associated horrors as the Sun winks out temporarily, others more permanently...

Tracking the Effects (Googlegroups) – An eclipse studies group is collecting and tracking the various effects of the eclipse, from personal stories to physical anomalies...

Astrologers Agree (The Stranger) – That the eclipse is bad for Trump. They just don’t agree exactly what it’s going to do to him, as opinions differ, and differ...

Long Pig in Albion (NY Times) – Turns out that before charting the skies, what those Somerset pre-Stonehengers may have been eating was each other...

Silver and War (Silverseek) – Precious metals and conflict are tied together in (sometimes astrological) cycles...

Eclipse Baby (Altered Dimensions) – This guy wants to impregnate you during the eclipse, advertising for partners...

What Astrologers Know (Medium) -- ...about eclipses, that you don’t...more speculation about the big American Eclipse...

Spooky Scene (Mashable) – Eclipse will display an array of four planets as Sun goes dark and night sky briefly appears...see pix...

Scientific... (Mother Jones) – Astrology “scientific”? Europeans have a different take than others...

Lunar Impact (Extreme Tech) – Maybe that two-planet collision that formed the Moon actually didn’t happen...and further, the Moon stayed magnetic, a different scene entirely...

Lunatic Behavior (NewsPressNow) – Missouri psychiatric museum exhibit features the full Moon research, lore, and goings-on...

Traditional Vs. Modern (ANS) – Astrology is caught between traditional and modern thought, and pleases neither...

Slickers Like Stars (Today) – Belief in astrology is greater among city mice than country mice...

A Twisted Top (UDA) – Just discovered: the Sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface. How does it do that, and what does it imply?...

Political Disaster (Newsweek) – Astrologers are beginning to weigh in on the Great American Eclipse...and Trump is the number one target...extensive complete text here...

Animal Signs (NY Times) – Young Chinese don’t buy the traditional “year of” signs from their culture...they’re increasingly turned on to the Western version...

Wet Moon (CNN) – Associated with water, ruling the cardinal water sign, the Moon has seemed too dry to fit the bill...now, deep in side, maybe it’s not..

Sky With No Limits (Smithsonian) – There was a time, briefly, when it was a woman’s job to scan the skies...

Eclipse Sonification (Exploratorium) – That means set to music, for regular folks. No less than the world-famous Kronos Quartet will be performing an interpretation of the coming Great American Eclipse as it happens, in real time, in San Francisco...

Moonlight Messages from the Past (Mysterious Universe) – Ancient petroglyphs on Cornwall monolith appear to have been visible only by moonlight, suggesting full Moon rituals...

Solar Secrets (NY Times) – The Sun’s magnetic cycles brewing inside make for the solar storms that blast your brain and critical electronic infrastructures...Times video shows how, when, why..

Lookin’ For A Home (Villager) – Bizarre NYC astrologer can’t afford her digs...

Retro Astrology (Atlas Obscura) – What the stars say about you, from the 1930s on British Pathe film...

Blow Up The Moon (Gizmodo) – What would happen if...this has become a meme...

Sound Reduction (NAM2017) – What if space-time and the whole cosmos can be reduced to sound and music, with “sonons” as the smallest particle? Used to be just philosophical, now the physicists are on to it...

Getting Physical (Astro) – Do the planets’ physical properties match their symbolic ones? Long a debate, still being updated as space probes unlock their secrets, here’s one interesting wrap...

The Origin of Frogs (BBC) – Though not generally considered celestial, these amphibians owe their abundance to the big asteroid strike...

Sun Song (RAS) – The resonating sound waves of the Sun, 100,000 times lower than middle C, reveal thinning magnetism, as solar minimum approaches...

New Planet Suspicions (Bloomberg) – Why didn’t we notice the perturbations that suggest major undiscovered big planets in our system? Maybe because they just arrived? A little paranoia from ordinarily-staid Bloomberg...

Boom Cycle Nearing End (CNBC) – Astrological or not (opinions are mixed), economic good times come in cycles, and this one is way past its expected end date...note the metaphor to old age, which astrologers might heed...

Lizard Parts (Daily Mail) – Why don’t American astrologers ever get busted for selling endangered reptile gonads as fake herbs? No imagination, we suppose...

Like a Light Switch (GATech) – Uranus’s magnetic field switches suddenly off and on, every day. “A geometric nightmare” according to astronomers, astrologers would say it fits like a T...

Born At 8 A.M. (Scientific American) – What many old-timers already knew: why so many people (Americans, at least) have Sun in the twelfth house, or the first...and the further details are fascinating...

Lunar Haircut (thehairshaman) – A best time to cut your hair? You bet...love this...

China Sun Altar (Euronews) – 3000-year-old concentric circles in 300-ft. henge-y formation found on northwest grasslands of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regions, w.video...

Planet Ten (New Scientist) – Monster planet #9 hasn’t been tracked down yet, and now there’s another one, the size of Mars, lurking...

Great American Eclipse (ANS) – The first total solar eclipse to cross the North American continent in a long time hits smack on the increasingly-beleagured U.S. president...

Youthful Oldster (Science News) – Jupiter, planet of new stuff, growth, ambition, turns out to be the oldest planet of all...

Australia’s Stonehenge (ForgottenOrigin) – They came from the Pleiades, and still have it in their sights, apparently...

Bonehenge (Mysterious Universe) – Stonehenge writ smaller, with corpses...

Spider Moon (Atlantic) – Jumping spiders can not only see the Moon, but what’s on it...

Astrologer Nightmare (Times of India) – This astrologer woke up to a deadly elephant attack...

Be Ahead When You Quit (ANS) – The aspects on the date you quit drinking is highly significant, a real rebirth chart, according to new astrological research...

Wreaking Havoc (Huffington Post) – Sometimes an astrologer’s advice is just what the doctor didn’t order, at least as far as family is concerned...

Magnificent Mercury (Atlantic) – There’s a lot more to the tiny planet than you thought. No wonder it’s so significant...

Full Moon Flash (Guardian) – This publisher releases books on the full Moon, then destroys them...

The A-Device, Decoded (Daily Grail) – There’s a new documentary all about the oft-mentioned ancient celestial Antikythera Mechanism, which has been under intense scrutiny lately...lots to see and read...

Astrology Tech (Gadgets) – Analytic apps are changing the way astrology is done, from selective one on one to data selection for anyone...

Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude (NPR) – Astrological houses change radically between equator and the Arctic Circle. Not surprisingly, critical animal behavior does, too, in an unexpected way...

World War III (Business Standard) – To prevent the end at hand, astrologers palaver in a plenipotentiary planetary pow-wow...

Ancestry Horoscopes (Fortune) – Genetic tracing service is wearing an astrological overcoat in the Subcontinent...

Mars Origins (Science News) – The Red Planet may actually be from the asteroid belt...

Getting Heady (ANS)—That’s what’s needed if we are to understand astrology with a twenty-first century mind...

Eclipse Stamp! (USPS) – U.S. Post Office will issue a stamp in honor of the coming solar eclipse, which will be visible across America. A first: its thermochromic ink is heat sensitive, so when you touch it, the Sun image turns to a full Moon!...

Cometary Genesis (Mysterious Universe) – Did comet strike give rise to early civilizations?...new evidence...

Consulting the Skies (Euractiv) – Bulgaria’s PM consults astrologer to time cabinet announcement, while at astrologer's behest Indian villagers appease rain god by murdering an ancient tree...

Do You Believe? (PhysOrg) – In astrology? Sure – or maybe, no – because it’s not a belief, just a thing...

Dark Eyes (Daily Star) – Ochi Chernye, Melania Trump is not a happy camper say her stars, which tends to show in every camera shot...Saturn explains it, says one astrologer, but Trump might be quite sufficient reason...

Cycles Converging (Open Democracy) – Three historical cycles ending as we speak, another view of the coming vortex we’ve been talking about.

The Seven Sisters (Curious Fortean) – The Pleiades have similar tales across cultures that presumably never met...perhaps a window into yet-untraced prehistoric unity?...

Round and Robust (DailyGalaxy) – That’s what the Sun’s giant magnetosphere, extending past Neptune, looks like, not the previously-thought blown-about, dragging comet shape with a tail. This could alter thinking about how it moves through space and time, and how it structures our own versions of same within it...

Seasonal Personality (Time) – If you don’t like Sun-signs, here’s the same sort of thing with more official “scientific” involvement...

Cold Spot (Mysterious Universe) – On Jupiter, making waves...until it disappears, again...

Stonehenge App (Yahoo Finance) – Not for what you see, but what you hear...!

Peer-Reviewed Astrology (Skeptiko) – This is the way it ought to be done...or at least the way official science proceeds with it, instead of off-hand dismissal...

Why the Patriarchy Hates the Moon (Atlantic) – Both the Soviet Union and America planned nuclear strikes against the Moon, just for show. It’s a guy thing, and it just starts there..

Shellcracker Fever (The Ledger) – At full Moon, of course...them shellcrackers are a-jumpin’, right into the boat...

Witness the Moon (BIN) – It’s not a new Moon if no one tells the Sanhedrin about it. That’s why the calendar is all wrong...for centuries, who knew?...

Go Find It, Yourself (ANU) – Be the first one to finger the new planet! Down-under university is organizing citizen team to scan the skies for the mysterious, giant Planet Nine...

Songs of the Planets (Space.com) – Well, more like squeaks, crunches, and groans, but our neighbors are not silent, that’s for sure...

The Deadly Dryas (Daily Grail) – Platinum layer suggests the sky came down, big time, about 10,000 BC, destroying early civilizations. But where did it hit? Carolina bays suggest the Great Lakes...

Chronotherapy (BigThink) – The diurnal cycle of the earth’s rotation is the most compelling one of all, and the most researched. You can really mess with it, for good or ill..

Cycle Committee (Livemint) – You’d think everyone would already be tracking critical business cycles, with or without planets, but strangely, not India...

Rings Around Mars? (NASA) – Could have been some, and may yet be, as shattered moon pieces rain down from a crushed satellite at the Roche limit...could it happen to us?...

Raining Meteors (SETI) – A single meteor show is many, we’re colliding with endless swarms, remains of cosmic history, from all over...wonderful animated projections as seen from Earth, outer space, and more...

Redheads and Mars (ANS) – Is natal Mars position tied to red hair? And if so, is it entirely in the DNA or partly developmental? Or something else?...replicating research, creating issues for both astrology and genetics...

Forty Days and Forty Nights (Bustle) – That’s how long Venus is retrograde, every time. Any connections with all the other “forties” in religion and myth? Maybe...

Redefining Planets (Smithsonian) – So maybe Pluto’s a planet after all, maybe even the Moon, and a hundred more locals...does just saying it really make it so?...

New Moon Ritual (WellAndGood) – Well, it’s all the rage, try it yourself, focus for the coming month...

If the Moon Were Destroyed (Forbes) – Unlikely, but it wouldn’t be good...this seems to be a meme, for some reason...

Planet Moon (Phys.org) – Is our Moon really another planet? Astrologers used to be the only ones to treat it that way, as scientists laughed, but now...

Chaotic Solar System (UW) – Proof of resonance transition with Mars, when dinosaurs walked the Earth...watch the video, avoid collisions...

Astrotel (Coastal Living) – A new Downunder hotel is dedicated to your personal stars...

Spooky Meteor Noise (Sandia) – How can approaching meteor noise go faster than actual sound itself? Maybe this is how, or...

Secrets of the Coach (ANS) – What does it take to coach an NFL team to victory? Earth signs, to start with, says new astrological research...

Deplorable Astrology (Raw Story) – “Science Guy” Bill Nye compares Trumpery to astrology, a seriously ignorant cheap shot...but then, how would he know?...

Lunar Libations (TimeOut) – Full Moon festivities are becoming a real happening thing, all over...

Stonehenge In Sicily (MNN) – Who’d have thought it? Complete with aligned menhir and focal tunnel for the Sun...

Everything Direct (Business Insider) – No retrograde planets for a whole 28 days and it’s already started! What does it all mean? Rather not as positive-foot-forward as this is speculating, we think, just watch the news...

Rogue Nine (Space.com) – Could the mystery planet lurking nearby be a cosmic wanderer, roped in?...

Online Comeback (Daily Dot) – That would be astrology, on Twitter, Facebook, you name it, with a new twist and attitude...

Many Moons (Space.com) – Instead of being born of one big collision, now maybe Luna came from lots of little ones, all mushed together...

Lost Sounds of Stonehenge (BBC) – The megamonument was more than an astro-observatory, it had a unique, resonant “voice” of its own...

Busy Night Skies (Scunthorpe Telegraph) – All kinds of things happening upstairs, on the way. Downstairs, too...

A Star is Coming (Calvin) – A “red nova”, a stellar event the likes of the Star of Bethlehem may be on its way, between 2018 and 2020, for the first time predicted ahead of time, see graphics...and, video here...

Clearing the Logjam (ANS) – More on research parameters and disillusioned devotees-turned-debunkers like Geoffrey Dean (and Susan Blackmore, in another context), where previous focus has on testing (often clueless) practitioners instead of potential underpinnings of astrology itself...

Anxious About the Future (Hindustan Times) – The Subcontinent is equally at dis-ease about what’s up this year, flocking to fortunetellers of all kinds...

Astrological Research (ANS) – What’s next? Now that pioneering Gauquelin work is getting more, credence, maybe more statistics...

A Virtuous Cycle (Business Insider) – We love cycles, but is this really one?...

Amazon Henge (NY Times) – Yet another huge, granite astronomical observatory, where only total primitives were ever thought to have been...and speaking of Amazons, at the original Stonehenge, the women outnumbered the men...

Storm Surge (WRAL) – Weather kicks up reproduction a notch, whether full Moons do or not...

Shorter Days (Economist) – Historical eclipse records from ancient astrologers disclose our slowing spin...

Super Debt Cycle (Goldseek) – Another economic cycle set peering down into the 2020 vortex...

Food for Thought (American Thinker) – Are historical cycles a thing, really? Especially those rounded anniversaries?...

Cycle Bust (Goldseek) – Here’s an economic view of the coming spin we’ve been talking about...

Weird Moon (Slate) – Nice long Slate article on how the Moon got its tilt, among other interactions...

Star of Bethlehem (UPI) – Here’s an old chestnut, rephrased, it was a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction...

Older Than Stonehenge (Mysterious Universe) – And it’s right next door, who know what it was used for...circular concentric trenches, for Sun worship?...

Full Moon Sex Festival (ScienceAlert) – On the Great Barrier Reef, the largest surge of mating juices in the world, all driven once a year by the full Moon...

Hun Henge (Mysterious Universe) – Newly-unearthed Stonehenge-size stones in Kazakhstan may have been erected by flocking Huns...

Missed the Boat (ANS) – Seems astrologers also got blindsided by Trump...except, of course, for the fish...

Comet Defender (MIT) – This kid has figured a way to keep yet another part of the sky from falling on us...

Mad Moon Down Under (The Age) – In Brisbane, at full Moon they foam at the mouth and run, and the cops believe, yes they do...

Superest Moon (Sky and Telescope) – Supermoons happen all the time, but this one’s the fattest in 69 years.

Diurnal Genetics (Daily Mail) – If a gene can make you more sensitive to solar cycle, might this apply to planetary sensitivity in general?

Emergency Exercise (JPL) – What if the real sky is actually going to really fall? The government has a real plan, sort of, and they’re practicing how to do it...

Gobbled Up (Space.com) – The rings of Saturn, true to form, may be from dwarves it chewed up, keeping the mangled remains...

Super Tilt (SETI) – Early Earth may have had a totally horizontal tilt, which would have made signs and seasons a very extreme thing, indeed...

Hurled Into Space (Astronomy) – That’s what may have happened to our earlier brothers and sisters, Earth’s young siblings cast into the void...

Astrologers Nix Trump (ANS) – Now, when the writing seems clearly on the wall...could have been done months ago...[and they all got it wrong, anyway]

As Above, So Below (CBS) – Weatherwise, in this case, as NASA connects space weather with local weather...

Kidnap Astrologer (Indian Express) – It’s a dangerous life for starcasters on the Subcontinent...

Clever Columbus (Accuweather) – How the explorer fooled the natives with a blood Moon eclipse...”that navigatin’, calculatin’, Christopher Columbo”...

Hillary’s Time (ANS) – Her birth time, that is. Nobody has it, except that maybe it was 8 AM (Scorpio rising), or 8 PM (Gemini). No word from her staff...

Planets Pulling on the Sun (Science Daily) – Do planetary tugs help drive the sunspot cycle? An old astrological speculation creeps into science...

Polski Stonehenge (Mysterious Universe) – New archaeo-sky observatory discovery suggests Poles may not come from Slavic roots, but from Celtic...maybe that explains all those Irish pubs in Warsaw...

Dem Bones, Dem Bones (JSTOR) – Ancient Chinese had a bone divination system that makes astrology look simple...

A Solar Storm Near You (UM) – Coming soon, a local forecast that will tell you if your neighborhood is under bombardment, making folks crazy, popping electronics...

The Heart of Pluto (Brown) – More astonishing possibilities, an undercover ocean with the makeup of the Dead Sea...

No Dark Matter? (Case) – Could be imaginary, just another set of fundamental natural laws...

Asteroid Watch (CFA Harvard) – Wondering if that Earth-killing asteroid is waxing nigh, or simply flying by? Now there’s a public place to keep tabs on all of them...

More Moon Quakes (Atlantic) – Yet another study linking earthquakes to phase of the Moon...

The Moon Is Our Mantle (WUSTL) – We are covered in Moon-stuff, from the beginning...

Electro-Magnetic Astrology (ANS) – Well, here’s another mariner with a physical basis theory wrapped around solar EM interaction. We favor the gravitational approach, but it could be a little of both, as Johndro surmised...

Waiting for the Spots (Huff Post) – As this sunspot cycle declines, speculation about a general disturbance in the rhythm. Do we know what comes next, or not?...

Dangerous Usage (Indian Express) – In a child-unfriendly world, listening to an astrologer can bring on lethal consequences...

Personality by the Numbers (Marie Claire) – Here’s a whole company that uses astrology and Briggs-Meyers personality subsets to relate the staff to each other...

Stars for Youth (Economic Times) – Startups are adopting astrology services, surprisingly driven by the youth market, not traditional older Subcontinentals as expected...

Another One Bites The Dust (Latino Fox) – The perils of the profession: famous Columbian-born astrologer found dead in apparent Cancun murder, while Brit starcaster Jonathan Cainer’s death seems to be tied to another kind of dust...

Family of Nine (ExtremeTech) – A cluster of new-found outer planetoids point closer toward massive, unknown Number Nine...

Eclipses Change Weather (Daily Mail) – Well, a little bit, anyway, where it gets shady...but if you like the butterfly effect, maybe that means everything...

Contradictory Cycles (Business Review) – Business cycles aren’t financial cycles and they’re all different across the ocean...astrological cycles may be simpler...

Maya Tracking the Skies (LiveScience) – They were better at doing that than we were, a long time ago...

Cloud Threatened? (DataCenter) – Can a Sunburst kill the “Cloud” in which our increasing collective memory resides?...

It Ain’t Easy (ANS) – Being an astrologer, but not as hard as it used to be...it’s all about expectations...

Balmy Venus (Time) – The planet of love may once have been much more like we choose to imagine her symbolically: lush, green, and inviting...

Swallows Diamonds (Newsminute) – Astrologer accused of murder gobbles gems in alleged suicide attempt...

Near-Armageddon Sun Storm (AGU) – But for some hipper-than-usual scientists, 1967 solar storm would have triggered WWIII...

Flower Power (LA Times) – Sunflowers naturally track the sky, even at night...for those of us who have forgotten how, there’s always a cyberpillow...

Hard to Stamp Out (FirstPost) – That would be astrology and other related “superstitions” on the Subcontinent. Atheist legislator is having a hard time because there are just too many to accurately enumerate and define...

Old and Cold (New Scientist) – Or, too hot...our planet has a limited lifespan during which life is supportable...

Red Hot (Space.com) – That’s Jupiter’s Red Spot, it’s cooking. And if astrology is about wave forms, here are two of them, in action...

Sky Above, Stream Below (Daily Mail) – Turns out Mayan temples didn’t just orient themselves to the stars, they also were connected underneath...

It’s Alive! (JPL) – Largest dwarf planet Ceres (look it up in your charts) may be surreptitiously covering up its scars, a planet on the move...

Total Destruction (Miami Herald) – Of the world, if Donald Trump is elected, says veteran Latino astrologer Walter Mercado. The man doesn’t mince words...

Magic Twelve (Medscape) – The attraction of astrology-like concept of twelvefold completion even leaks into chemotherapy...and maybe not always for the better...

Weird Orbits (Popular Mechanics) – Why don’t the inclinations of the main planets line up with the Sun’s equator? Could be the elusive #9...

Royal Nod (ANS) – The Prince of Wales lends his imprimatur to the ancient study of the stars...

PhaseQuakes (SFCBS) – The phase of the Moon could shake you up, according to new research...

Russian Stonehenge (Ancient Code) – Not new news, but one we missed...from the days when everybody did henges beneath the sky...

Lunar Wound (Brown) – The “Man in the Moon” has a black eye, from a big hit...

Jewish Moon (Forward) – Five lunar connections to Jewish beliefs, from the calendar on...

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