Collaborate With Fate

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE - Plus Bank of England and more

2009-11-29T17:28:00.003Z

Another round-up week here on CWF:

While many of you in the States were tucking into your Turkey, I had a reason to give thanks of my own here in the UK.

On Thursday night, at 11.25GMT to be precise, I was up out of bed and outside tending to my daughters rabbit because it was, highly unusually, hugely distressed about something. Just as I backed away from his hutch something caught my eye up in the crystal clear night sky. It was a red light, and at first, as we live on the flightpath I thought it must be a plane but it was way too large for that, plus it was glowing red and yellow and quickly getting larger.

I stood transfixed as this 'thing' headed from the SSW to the NNE right over my house. Without a shadow of a doubt it was a fireball. I could see it really clearly as it approached.

It had no tail, it made no noise, it wasn't a firework or Chinese lantern blowing around; this was on a definite path like a missile ( albeit a round one) on a trajectory. As we are in the midst of meteor season it must have been a fragment of spacerock which had entered the atmosphere.

It was a thrilling, if unnerving experience and I was thankful it passed over our house! The thing I keep wondering about ever since though, is how and why my rabbit was so upset? He calmed down as soon as it had passed over, yet he could not have seen it from where his cage is positioned. The only conclusion is he must have heard it at some level above, or below, human hearing range.

I recall when I was in a series of earthquakes in Los Angeles that the animals always went nuts - dogs barking wildly - just before a quake came. So, if we were to consider the possibility that all the doomsday theories hold weight and '2012' is about an impact event or some huge natural calamity, perhaps the lesson to take from this is to get a pet and take particular note when it starts acting strangely;-)

Anyway, after my 'sighting' I immediately scoured the Net for news but found none. (BTW It looked just like the photo at the top, about one quarter this size, without the tail and more of a yellow and red hue whereas that one is white and red) What I did find were reports on sightings of a huge meteor in Utah (17th) and South Africa on the 21st November.

If you haven't yet seen the footage of the South Africa one, here it is (and a link to the Utah event)

Utah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ZKm2Cru4E

As I say we are in meteor season but it's not expected to peak for another 14 days yet! God only knows what's set to rain down on us in days to come! Here's a report from the net. :

On the evening of Dec. 13 into the morning of the 14th, the Geminid meteor shower peaks. This shower is fairly reliable, producing up to 100 meteors an hour. The moon will not interfere with viewing this multi-colored display — more than half usually white, a quarter yellow, and the remaining meteors blue, red and green. Only about 25 years ago did NASA discover an object in the same orbit as the Geminid meteoroid stream, a rocky asteroid or extinct comet named 3200 Phaethon. This is most probably the parent body of the Geminid meteor shower.

DUBAI:

"There is no Bank of Morality that could provide a bailout for this sinister mirage in the desert".

Read this great article from The Huffington Post here (thanks to Christine Delorey for bringing it to my attention) and then hop over to my Tomorrow Today blog for an article, with chart data, which I wrote the day the news about Dubai broke. I must admit I had it in my head that 1 December was Monday, but turns out it's Tuesday, so as a quick revision to that article, look out for more problems at LSEG and Stocks in general re this Dubai issue tomorrow 30th Nov AND 1 Nov. Volatility always increases around Full Moons and the next is looming on the 2 Dec.

Christine also pointed out that Tiger Woods car crash and the Dubai crash came on the same day. Read more here

BANKS & ASTROLOGY:
Saturn and Pluto continue their square 'bleak, harsh, survival' aspect throughout the winter. On 16 December, all the way through to 9 February 2010, Saturn will station retrograde and remain at 4 Libra.

Saturn/Pluto cycles link into the metaphorical death and transformation (Pluto) of Institutions - like Banks (Saturn). Anyone with planets at 4 Libra, and therefore - due to the harmonic nature of the universe - also at 4 Aries, 4 Capricorn, 4 Cancer, 19 Scorpio, 19 Taurus, 19 Leo and 19 Aquarius, is going to feel an incredible tension in some area of their life related to the planets and position involved. Something may have to give in order to be renewed.

I have a number of colleagues who are available for personal astrological consultations if you would like to find out where this will impact you - please contact me for details at (cosmictrends at hotmail dot com).

Countries with planets at 4 Libra are:
New Zealand
Bhutan
Lebanon
Abkhazia
UK
Swaziland
Greece
Malaya
El Salvador
South Africa
Tonga
Portugal
Western Samoa
Kosovo
Eritrea
NATO has Uranus at 4 Cancer
OPEC has a close Mercury.

Most worryingly the Bank of England was founded by Royal Charter on 27 July 1694. If we use the time as 9am, then the forward motion of the planet Uranus (direct 1 Dec) is about to push over into angularity on 31st Dec - the night of a full Moon partial eclipse - and the Mars/Neptune opposition, at 24 Virgo/Pisces will also be conjoined by Uranus in Jan/Feb/Mar 2010 bringing the potential for sudden collapse. This at the same time as Pluto hits the node of the Banks chart, Saturn stations on the Moon and Mars retrogrades to impact the Sun/Pluto conjunction. Arghh. If anyone can put a positive spin on that I take my hat off to them!

Expect the fireworks to begin now (tomorrow) with the possibility of a Black Friday (or black week) around 18th Dec and mayhem in early 2010. Sorry to sound so pessimistic but, as I tweeted yesterday I think it is incumbent upon astrologers to warn people that we are in a bubble of hype about a recovery when the outlook actually calls for people to face the reality. We are not on the way out of the woods in 2010 but heading deeper in. If that stops just one person borrowing ro spending more than they can afford to lose in the erroneous belief of recovery around the corner, then we have helped.

Every single chart of banks, stock exchanges, currencies etc is being pulverized by difficult aspects. Whether this Dubai problem will start the domino effect, or if some other shock is looming we cannot tell but something is about to bring the banking system to its knees. Click to enlarge

MIDPOINTS:
This section is going to be too technical for most readers, but for the astrologers amongst you, I want to add another section here in the hope that careful study of these points will help uncover exactly where potential problems may emanate from in the turmoil we can see approaching in 2010.

These are transiting midpoints of outer planets. What this means is that when a planet in a country chart or a natal chart falls at any of these degrees it acts as a conductor of the two outer planets.:

DEC 2009/JAN 2010/FEB 2010

JU/SA 11 Sag/15 Sag/18 Sag ( this means it is moving thru 11 to 18 degrees inclusive)
JU/UR 6 Pisc/9 Pis/13Pis
JU/NE 22 Aqu/25 Aq /29 Aq
JU/PL 26 Cap/29 Cap/03 Aq
SA/UR 27 Sag (GC)/28 Sag/29 Sag (turns Rx)
SA/NE 13 Sag/14 Sag/14 Sag (turns Rx)
SA/PL 17 Scorpio 17 Sco/18 Sco/19 Sco (turns Rx)
UR/NE 8 Pisc/8 Pis/9 Pis (now direct from Dec 09)
UR/PL 12 Aqu/13 Aq/14 Aq
NE/PL 28 Cap/28 Cap/ 0 Aq

Thanks to Claire in North Dakota for providing the data.

So, for example, on a personal level I can expect to really feel evidence of the SA/PL cycle manifesting in my life this month even if to the casual observer, my chart shows no significant hits. This is because the midpoint of the two is on my Sun at 17 Scorpio. Midpoints are like an x-ray of the chart bringing hidden resonances to light.

Ones to watch are the movements of the JU/PL & NE/PL midpoints to Aquarius in Jan/Feb- and JU/NE to Pisces in March, all concerned with currency!

UR/PL CYCLE
If we want to know what 2012 is all about we need to carefully study this cycle. The last time we had evidence of this cycle at work was in 1986/87 and before that in 1965/1966. We must study these dates and see what may be coming up again for it's first real test at the square since 1965/1966.

Ura 0 Plu 9 Oct 1965
Ura 0 Plu 4 Apr 1966
Ura 0 Plu 30 Jun 1966
Ura 45 Plu 6 Mar 1986
Ura 45 Plu 1 Jul 1986
Ura 45 Plu 23 Jan 1987
Ura 45 Plu 1 Sep 1987
Ura 90 Plu 9 Dec 1987
Ura 90 Plu 24 Jun 2012
Ura 90 Plu 19 Sep 2012

BLUE MOON
31st December is a 'Blue Moon'. These occur when we have 2 Full Moon's in one calendar month. The first is 2 December and the other on the 31st, NY's Eve. This one is also a partial eclipse. Technically speaking, the places in timezones where the Full Moon will not occur until 1 Jan (i.e. Down under) will not have a Blue Moon in December but in January 2010 on 1 Jan and 30 Jan 2010.

That's all for now. Just be sure that if you are in the UK you don't have more than 50K in any one bank in 2010 and if you are in other countries, check how much of your money will be covered in the event of the collapse of your Bank or Building Society or the collapse of a currency. Sources tell me that Bloomberg.com is a good site to frequent for financial information. In the UK I also like This is Money

EXCEPTIONAL ECLIPSE 2010

2009-11-23T11:29:00.006Z

In January 2010 we are going to experience an exceptional eclipse. Eclipses often cast their influence before them. Although the amount of time that the influence of an eclipse can be felt, prior to the event, is a hotly disputed topic, I always say we should take note from the time of the preceding Full Moon (a partial lunar eclipse, 31st Dec 2009). On this occasion though I feel we may see a chain of events begin to unfold from as early as mid December '09.

This eclipse goes down in the records as special because out of 1,684 eclipses that have been documented to occur between 1700 and 2050 only 5 eclipses are of longer duration. These 5 occurred, in order of occultation, in 1955 (longest at 12 minutes 09) 1973, 1937, 1992 and 1919 ( 11 minutes 37)* Our January 15th, 2010 eclipse comes next in line and this will be the longest annular eclipse to occur this century (between the years 2000 - 2100) with a duration of 11mins 08 seconds.

Fact: The longest ever recorded annular eclipse was on Dec 07 0150AD with a duration of 12m24s

What's an Annular Eclipse?
An annular eclipse would be a total eclipse were it not for the fact that the Moon is too far from the Earth for the apex of its shadow to touch the Earth surface, therefore the Moon will not completely cover the Sun and a narrow ring of light ( annulus = ring) will surround the Moon. Here's a picture of an annular eclipse moving into and out of perfection. It is annular bottom left:

What does this one portend?
An exceptional year began in July 2009 with a total eclipse which lasted 6 mins and 39 seconds - the largest this century - and now we have this second record breaker 6 months later.

For those of us with an interest in celestial/terrestrial correspondences we will be watching current events closely as we know to expect noteworthy occurrences down here on Earth in the months either side of the eclipses. For example, in June the total eclipse fell close to the announcement that Swine Flu was now officially a global pandemic. The eclipse also preceded the death of Micheal Jackson. That said, eclipses are not all doom and gloom. Good things do happen but usually they portend notable entries and exits from the world stage and dramatic occurrences or changes of fortune - ones which capture global attention.

Although some births or inventions are newsworthy right from the get-go, others need more time to come to public awareness. What we find is that things begun or born in eclipse years (people, events, countries or companies) unfold with subsequent eclipses. In 1955 for example, the year of a lengthy total and annular eclipse, both Bill Gates and Tim Berners Lee arrived on the planet. At the next eclipse juncture in 1973 Gates enrolled at Harvard, whilst Tim Berners Lee moved to Queen's College, Oxford. The end of 1991 and early 1992 (the time of the eclipse) were landmark years in the development of the WWW. In fact the whole concept of computer technology appears to be caught up in this Saros cycle.

As the chart of the initial eclipse in 1613 contains a Mercury Uranus conjunction in Gemini (communications technology) in close aspect to Neptune in Virgo, the initial energy or impetus of this cycle could be said to lend itself, amongst many other things, to social change as a result of the proliferation of communication technology..

This eclipse cycle also seems to have a particular association with Kuwait; with the New River of London; with Java, Indonesia; with Virginia, USA; with Descendants of King James 1; with Hungary and with The Globe Theatre and with Sunspots.

If we are to make a thorough study of what these eclipses portend we take at least 5 things into consideration

1) We must look back to the other eclipses in this series, Saros cycle 141. These dates are:

May 19 1613
1631 May 31
1649 Jun 10
1667 Jun 21
1685 Jul 01
1703 Jul 14
1721 Jul 24
1739 Aug 04
1757 Aug 14
1775 Aug 26
1793 Sep 05
1811 Sep 17
1829 Sep 28
1847 Oct 09
1865 Oct 19
1883 Oct 30
1901 Nov 11
1919 Nov 22
1937 Dec 02
1955 Dec 14
1973 Dec 24
1992 Jan 04

2) We must look at the eclipse degree. This time it will be at 25 Capricorn. So we look at other eclipses at 25 Capricorn and note what happened then. This would be Jan 15 1991 and Jan 16 1972.
For example, on this date in 1991 Operation Desert Storm was sanctioned by the UN while the 1972 date is close to the day King Frederick of Denmark died.

3) We look at the chart of the eclipse and its aspects (plus we note planets arriving at the eclipse degree of 25 Capricorn)
This January eclipse is closely conjoined to Venus which all looks nice, as Venus is the planet of love, engagements, money, gifts, beauty until we note that Venus is in the sign of Capricorn (business) ruled by Saturn, ruler of the eclipse and in mutual reception but retrograde. It looks very much like financial matters are on the slide and takings in shops will be well down over the Christmas period. More redundancies and an unstable financial climate ( Uranus 2nd). Banks or people could be 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' feeling things have to be on the up and ignoring reality. The astrology says we are not over the worst yet.

4) We look at which people, countries or companies resonate to 25 Capricorn. Look at which house of your chart it will fall and if you have a planet at 24, 25 or 26 degrees of cardinal signs ( Aries, Libra, Capricorn, Cancer) the eclipse will end something and bring something new in that area. The planets tell us more. For example in the chart of the USA the eclipse will trigger the Mercury/Pluto opposition at the axis of 24-27 cancer/capricorn. Mercury rules trade and trading and travel and Pluto rules corruption and all types of underhand actions and endings.

Countries which resonate to 24/25 Capricorn are: France. Latvia, Yemen, Australia, New Zealand, Roman Empire

5) We look at the geodetic ACG map - click to enlarge -

What we see here is the eclipse through China again and a specific emphasis on Shanghai and down through Indonesia ( New Moon lines) . reciprocal lines travel down through South America. The eclipse rises through Libya, up off the coast of Italy, through Geneva, home of the LHC and up through the UK. It sets through Vancouver.

The actual eclipse path is through India, Nepal and China

I have begun a new blog called Tomorrow Today, where I will be posting thoughts on cycles and trends, without all the detailed astrological background. I will comment more on the manifestations of this eclipse over there in December

* All eclipse info courtesy of Fred Espenak at NASA except for the total number of eclipses which is taken from Neil Michelsen's Planetary Phenomena

THRU THE LENS OF HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS

2009-11-17T12:35:00.002Z

Two babies were 'in utero' - wombmates! One is called Ego, the other is called Spirit. They are having a conversation.
Spirit says to Ego:
"I know you are going to find this difficult to believe but I truly believe there is life after birth"
Ego shouts back;
" Don't be ridiculous. Why must you persist with this notion that there is something beyond reality? Why don't you just accept your lot in life and stop parroting all this 'life after birth' nonsense."
Spirit quietens down for a while but then just has to speak up again.
"Now, don't get mad Ego but I also believe there is a Mother"
" A WHAT??" shouted Ego
" A Mother" said Spirit calmly
" How can you be so absurd?? You've never seen a Mother, can't you just accept reality? THIS is it. trust me Spirit, there is no Mother"
Spirit stops her conversation for a while but her restlessness got the better of her.....
"Ego" she implores, " Please just listen. Somehow I feel that those movements we both feel; those ones that make us so uncomfortable, that continual closing in an repositioning we both feel. I sense that this is somehow getting us ready, moving us towards a growing light and we are going to experience it very soon."
"Spirit" said Ego angrily, " Now I know you are insane. You have never known that. How can you even contemplate such an idea. The movements. Those pressures you feel. These are your reality. You are a distinct, separate, being. This is your journey; darkness, pressure, a closed in feeling. This is all there is. This is what life is all about and you are just going to have to put up with it. Now grab your cord and stay still."
Spirit relaxed for a little while but soon she can no longer contain herself. "Ego" she says " I have only one more thing to say and I will never bother you again."
" Go ahead" Ego said with an exasperated tone.
" I believe that all these pressures and all this discomfort is not only going to bring us to a new celestial light but when we experience it we are going to meet Mother face to face and know an ecstasy beyond anything we have ever experienced.
"Spirit" said Ego. " You really are crazy. Now I am convinced of it".

This story was told by the motivational speaker Dr. Wayne Dyer when promoting the concept of higher consciousness, purpose and unity

Keep the faith. However confused, dark or all at sea you feel, there is a purpose.

I loved this story. I thought I would share it with you now as I know this week is proving to be particularly difficult for some, and this entire period, where many people have lost their jobs or are enduring financial hardship, is one in which it is difficult to keep faith in any higher purpose.

We just need to give in, to surrender, to the process and trust!

There are a number of planetary cycles stirring up our Selves and environment at this time. A cycle known for its particularly difficult birth pains is the Saturn/Pluto cycle. The square aspect of these two culminated in the sky on Sunday. Although the two planets reached exact alignment, with both at 1 degree 42 minutes of celestial longitude in the signs Capricorn and Libra, they remain very close (what we sky watchers refer to as 'within orb') in days and weeks to come. Additionally, you should know that this is a 3 pass transit due to retrogradation, so they will meet again on 31 Jan 2010 and 21 Aug 2010. 3 pass transits usually work out on the physical and mental planes in this fashion: as a notable Crisis, followed by Action, then Resolution.

Look at it like this; an event occurs or a realisation is arrived at. You may see this as a crisis. On the next pass you revisit it (or it revisits you) in someway and you either integrate the change and it becomes an accepted part of your life, or you back away, having reviewed it, and change tack i.e., you take action. Then on the final pass you look back and see how your life has changed forever as a result of a process, event or decision set in place at the first pass and you'll know, better, how to proceed from thereon in. At that point it is over - resolved as best you know how. All this will occur between now and Aug 2010.

For those of you who are going to be affected by this transit on a very overt level, you will already know what the 'issue' is. It may be around money, work, relationships, family but you will 'know it' by the fact that it is threatening your equilibrium and, like it or not, it is transforming some previously established part of your life.

It's not necessarily bad or negative - although it is often challenging. Remember too though, someone, somewhere in the world got engaged, secured a great job, fell in love or even won the lottery this weekend on this transit. All of these events transform the structure of one's life and each presents its own challenges, but overall they are joyous.

We all have a choice at each moment to look at our life from the perspective of Ego and our isolated, separated Self, or from the point of view of Spirit, who sees the connection to the whole picture. If you 'work with' what is happening - meaning; use conscious awareness, then even if it seems tough or challenging for a short while, the ultimate benefits will outweigh the negatives. Ultimately you are facilitating your own spiritual growth in line with nature's timetable. Your part in a greater plan is unfolding.

CYCLES
The way any cycle works out is different to the retrograde transit where the planets meet 3 times. When looking at cycles we have to look at their start point - when the 2 planets were in conjunction indicates the start point in this cycle of unfoldment. So zero degrees was in 1982 - 8th November 1982 to be precise. Next came the square ( 90 degrees, 1993/1994) then the opposition (180 degrees, 2001/2002) and the closing square is right now (270 degrees, 2009 and into 2010 as mentioned). This whole time period, and what has occurred within it, is now in the autumn phase and seeking closure.

Every Saturn/Pluto cycle, not just this 1982 one, has a close historical correlation to events in Pakistan and India, to the Commonwealth and to large scale transformation of countries and their borders.

Cycle watchers will look to these things and know that some growth stage will be occurring for:-

Anyone, or anything, born/established with a natal Saturn/Pluto aspect.

Anyone or anything who was 'born' on 8 Nov 1982 ( or close to) as they will resonate to this cycle.

Transiting planets arriving at 27 Libra - or 27 of cardinal signs- the position of Saturn and Pluto in 1982.

Anyone born on Nov 14/15 of any year (and a few days either side) could have a challenging year ahead as the cycle will be exact in their solar return chart.

Anyone born with Sun or Moon at 1-3 degrees of cardinal signs Aries, Libra, Capricorn, Cancer is in the throes of extreme change as the current alignment falls at 1 degree triggering their charts.

The Thames Barrier in London was publicly demonstrated on 7 Nov 1982. This makes it resonate very strongly to the Saturn/Pluto cycle. It may now need repairs or worst case, will fail in the next 10 months. Expect Canada to be in the news. Pakistan and India, as mentioned, are greatly affected by this ongoing SA/Pl transit.

Prince Charles has the exact square in his Solar Return, as it was his birthday on the 14th, so expect long overdue changes in the Royal family in 2009/2010.

9/11 occurred on the SA/Pl opposition in 2001. This square therefore tells us that another stage in this tragic 'event' is now due to occur. We should therefore be on high alert this week, and around the others two dates mentioned, with regards to terrorist activity emanating from Al Qaeda or events that bring survival (either of structures, boundaries, Governments, landmasses and leaders - all Saturn ruled) into question. It may just be the issue around the trial of the 9/11 suspects that the aspect is triggering. As Saturn is in Libra, the significator of fair trials and justice.

Watch the news headlines and then Google back to 2001 or 1993/4 or 1982 to see if you can spot a connecting thread to the story or person you are assessing.

With regards to financial situations, historically the SA/PL cycle has seen recessions come to an end. In this case however other cycles, and that fact that we still have 2 more SA/PL squares to go, make this distinctly, capital D, unlikely. In fact, I notice today's New Moon squares the Pluto of the NYSE and Mars is approaching Uranus (some shock - or a surprise?). Mid 2010 looks dire as far as the overall global financial situation is concerned and Christeen Skinner, an expert Financial astrologer, sees a currency crisis looming, possibly due to even more money being pumped into the Banks/system at the looming Jupiter/Neptune in December.

Christeen has this to say:

Way back in September 1873, a group of banks in the US came unstuck. Within days it was decided to CLOSE the New York Stock Exchange: the first time this had happened. It didn’t reopen until the last day of that month.

Can I see that happening again? Will it be a stock exchange or part of the banking industry that is compelled to close its doors whilst a mess is unravelled? Well yes, all that’s possible in February 2010.

Before then there has to be obvious chaotic activity and a marked downturn: the question, as always, is when?

This week? It could be argued that the markets have gone as high as they can since the March low. As of this Tuesday, the number of planets (inc. the Moon) in Fixed signs, reduces. With this, a slide could begin. If the markets do move up on Monday, I think some people will start to worry. If they withdraw funds, the slide could start

Okay, so this is not positive news. But, in the context of forcing things down a birthing canal so that the pain and pressure can give way to some light, understanding and growth, I strongly feel it is best to just accept what is occurring and not to resist.

Keep faith!

WHEN A THEORY BECOMES A FORCE

2009-11-04T17:46:00.001Z

Through the course of a normal week, I often stumble across interesting little snippets of symbolism and/or astrological information. Where I can, I put them into a Tweet but quite often, as space there is limited, they get filed away in the recesses of my mind or computer, never to be seen again.

Earlier today, a friend and I were discussing this propensity for me to be a mine of tit-bits of information. "A mine of useless information" I lamented. "Oh no" said my far more positive pal, " A mine of useful information. Someone will find it interesting, and anyway in this day and age of speed, many people prefer their information delivered in short, sharp bursts". "

I took her comment on board and although not as short as they could be, here are some bursts of the useful/less facts that have caught my attention and been stored away this week!

I made a tweet earlier this week that, as Neptune was stationing direct this week, there may be more earthquakes. Well, I don't know that there were more than usual, there are actually many each day, every day, but there were some larger ones. One shook up the Azores. This one caught my attention as the Azores belong to the Portuguese and this week the Lisbon Treaty is shaking up the face of the globe.

The treaty was signed by the Czech Republic, meaning it has now been ratified by all 27 member states. It will most likely come into force on 1 Dec 2009. Make no mistake, this Treaty is big news even if many of you in more distant locations have heard little of it. It means that we will soon have a President of Europe (President of the European Council) and although, at the moment, word is he's not likely to be chosen for the position, Tony Blair, the person who committed all our troops to the War effort, is a candidate.

The Lisbon Treaty is a classic Saturn in Libra agreement as it will lead to what are called legal co-decisions and it's also very much a Saturn in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn event - redefining the legal and authoritative landscape of a huge portion of our globe. (Incidentally, negotiations began around the SA/PL opposition in 2001).

The President won't have the powers of a Head of State but, just the terminology President of Europe carries an air of incredible authority, and that person will have a close alliance with many world leaders and countries bordering on the Middle East. If you want to see how big this European Union is go here and scroll down to the animation under sub-heading 'Ratification'.

I do hope they choose wisely. Tony Blair has Mars rising. There are lots of interpretations of this but a certain amount of impulsiveness across the axis of 'the way one deals with enemies ' is to be noted.

Moving on but still looking to unification; did you know that on the Washington National Monument there is an inscription on the steps that reads: Fy iaith, fy ngwlad, fy nghenedl Cymru — Cymry am byth. It's Welsh for 'My language, my land, my nation of Wales — Wales for ever'.

Why is it there? It is said that no-one knows, but it's widely believed (behind the scenes) it is due to the fact that over 50% of those who signed The Declaration of Independence were of Welsh origin, including Thomas Jefferson. If you want to know of the remarkable influence the Welsh have had on America (and I love this because my Mother is half Welsh) then read these speeches given to the House of Representatives and the Welsh Assembly (especially the latter one) and prepare to exclaim, Gosh Golly! Proud to be Welsh/American

If you wish to look more deeply into this subject go here and here's a nice page I found on Wales and Standing stones

Talking of my Mother, as I was, she just had her cataracts done. Fabulous timing and symbolism as it was done just as Neptune went direct, allowing the fog to lift and one to see more clearly!

Would you like to see clearly into the future? Then you may like to take heed of this quote I came across from the Prophecies of Paracelsus:

There is not the slightest doubt that if the Present is the result of the Past, the Future will be the result of the Present. The three being one, the Future should be as easily read as the Past. But this can only be done when the finite mind of the Seer becomes one with the infinite mind of the Seen, by a manifestation of the Soul, which is the Creator, and source of Truth.

Note: The three being one. There is no separation. All we have is Now!

This week I'm sure my skin is slowly turning yellow. The reason why? I am chucking copious quantities of Turmeric into almost everything I eat! This is as a result of reading recent newspaper reports of it's magical properties. It has been proved to keep cancer cells at bay and to be good for stiff joints and all types of other ills ! Here's a good page of information and another on this 'wonder shrub'. You may like to incorporate some into your daily diet too.

Back in 2006 I referenced a book I was reading by Lawrence E Joseph, entitled Apocalypse 2012 - An Optimist Investigates the End of Civilisation. The book was popular then (I recommend it) but now it is going stratospheric and in the build up to 2012 he's revamping his website to cope with the inundation of interest. I decided to give the book a quick reappraisal, this week and I wanted to share a quote from the book:
'Of all the the potential cataclysms Armageddon is the only one for which significant numbers of Muslims, Christians and Jews actually hope, pray and scheme. Karl Marx observed that when a theory grips the masses it becomes a material force...

The doctrine of Armageddon has gripped several small, but extremely motivated and influential groups.. and that doctrine is rapidly becoming a powerful, perhaps unstoppable force. Whilst most abhor and eschew the harness of fundamentalist thinking, history is not driven by most of us. It's the fanatic few, at whom we may laugh one day and cower before the next, who are history's engine'. 'Evangelical Christians are the group most eager to precipitate Armageddon, ( a great war said to precede the Apocalypse) looking forward to the Rapture, the exalted moment when...true and faithful Christians are literally lifted up into the air, into the heavens, to join God'.

Lawrence E. Joseph has a big point here. We really shouldn't be fearing natural cataclysms so much as we should hope our powers-that-be are keeping an eye on those with a vested interest in seeing a final clash between Good and Evil as confirmation of their interpretation of the Scriptures.

2012 is becoming so huge in the collective psyche now that it is likely to become a self fulfilling prophecy. He goes on to mention the extremely worrying fact that a few years ago the oldest Christian Church in the world was unearthed in Megiddo. He mentions that This discovery has been hailed (by fundamentalists) as another 'sign' that the end is near ( In Hebrew Megiddo becomes Megeddon).

Talking of End Times, Carl Calleman, who will be speaking at this conference next week, believes that the end date of the Mayan Calendar is not 21 Dec 2012 but even closer; 28 Oct 2011 He tells us why here

Finally, talking of shifts, look out for changes from 11 November when Heliocentric Jupiter changes signs for the first time since Dec 2008. It moves to Pisces. Heliocentric means looking out as if the Sun was the centre of our system and not the Earth. For reasons that we don't yet understand, heliocentric charts seem to provide an additional level of information and aspect patterns within the helio charts often have a bearing on events on Earth. Here's an explanation of Heliocentric Astrology

On Calleman's date of 28 Oct 2011 in 'normal' astrology there will be an exact opposition of the Sun to Jupiter and a precise trine from Jupiter to Pluto which means that the Earth will appears to be conjunct to Jupiter using Heliocentric terms and Mercury would be conjunct to Pluto. There's no incredibly unusual significance in that but the fact they both occur on that day is mildly interesting!

One potentially very interesting point re 2011/2012 that I noticed is that the planet Uranus will move from southern to northern declination ( declination is the distance above or below the Celestial Equator) between the two dates and it happens more than once. On April 9 2011 it will go to north declination and then back to South on Oct 16th 2011 then on Jan 28 2012 it will go North.

The last time Uranus changed declination was in 1968 and 1969. I guess this could potentially have some bearing on Earth. Uranus is known as The Awakener!

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PS. Here's a nice little PDF with some great diagrams on Celestial Navigation!

SATURN'S ON THE TURN

2009-10-28T08:53:00.006Z

It's a changing of the guard from 29th October 2009 as Saturn moves into a new sign - Libra.

Astrology is primarily the study of cycles and the cycle of Saturn would, quite obviously, have begun when the planet itself was birthed. From a symbolic point of view however a planet's cycle begins when it enters the first sign of the zodiac, Aries.

As there are 12 signs of the zodiac the fact that Saturn is about to enter Libra, 6 signs away from Aries, is significant. (Note: for those of you new to astrology, please know that the signs do not correspond to constellations, of which there are 88 known ones with 12 or 13* lying close to the ecliptic)

Now whenever we are talking about a cycle the word circle could also be used as a substitute. When we do this often the astrological symbolism becomes more clear. When dividing up circles we are using straightforward geometry. If we have agreed to divide our circle up into 12 zodiac signs and give each 30 degrees, then the circle must have 360 degrees and the half way point will be 180 degrees. In astrology we call the 180th degree 0 Libra. This angle from the start point of 0 Aries is then known as an opposition.

If you imagine tracing your finger around the outside circumference of any circle, starting at, and returning to, any point one movement will always be outgoing, and the other incoming. A circle is therefore analogous to the natural flow of life. Breath is drawn in, rests and then goes out (is expelled). All of nature follows this movement. Circles divided into 2 parts, therefore describe what we term the waxing and waning phases. It is most common to hear this term in relation to the Moon, but it applies to all cycles whether it is of a planet or even a plant.

A planet at 180 degrees is at a natural transition point. It's 'on the turn'; shifting from an outgoing cycle to an incoming one. This fulcrum point is where things change or change tack. In this case the planet we are tracking is Saturn which has a cycle of 28.5 years. We are at the opposition of a cycle which began at 0 Aries on 7 April 1996.

In celestial/terrestrial symbolism, Saturn has been noted over the eons to correspond to rules. We could therefore, have forecast ahead of time that the coming days and weeks would point to the rewriting, or change, of the rule books.

And so it is.

In the news today members of the British Parliament are literally re-writing their code of conduct rule book over claims for expenses. They realise a change is needed if they are to stand any chance of maintaining authority over, and respect from, the voting public. Expect to see lots of other changes with things which correlate to 'Saturn' in days and weeks ahead. To work out ahead of time what these may be. Here are just a few ideas and key words for Saturn:

Boundaries of countries
Leaders and leadership (Saturn's turn would favour the Conservative Party, or another party, in Britain from now on but other countries could see leadership changes).
One's relationship to the physical body and material life as opposed to the spiritual
Laws
Business
Older People
'Establishments' and Institutions, including Banks
Construction
Those whose authority has been unassailable since the 0 Aries start point, 7 April 1996, will now start to slowly wane in line with natural law.
Lead (Saturn's opposition could affect the price of lead. I'm not a financial astrologer but if it has been high since 1996 it will possibly drop - or vice versa - only a change of direction is noted at 180 degree junctures)
Anything begun in April 1996 could be on the turn or be being rewritten

Interestingly gravity and time correspond to Saturn. In the next 14-15 years will our viewpoint on the nature of gravity and time change? I think the answer is; undoubtedly yes, but maybe some news will come out when Saturn is around the 0 degree mark. It returns to zero degree Libra, due to retrograde motion, in 2010 too: 22 July 2010. So watch this date for all of the above.

If you wish to look back in time you can track Saturn cycles, as whatever unfolds now will always have its roots in what was begun in previous cycles. Again, each cycle is 28.5 years so each turning point is roughly half that. (It is never exact due to the phenomenon known as retrogradation). Looking back 3 Mar 1967 was the start of the previous Saturn cycle and that one came to the 180 degree transition on 21 Sep 1980 (0 Libra).

Let's remember that what we call Time is really just the term we have adopted to describe the way we track a succession of cycles related to our viewpoint from Earth of the Sun and Moon. In the bigger picture, all of the bodies in the heavens are moving and have cycles ( even the apparently fixed stars) and it is Saturn's cycles which astrologers believe most clearly define and shape our civilisation.

This current Saturn cycle will end on 25 May 2025. Just as our world changed beyond recognition between 1967 and 1996, so too between 1996 and 2025 will Saturn mark a new era.

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To read my new post on 2012 - please go to Cosmic Cipher

Notes:

Image at top shows the Seal of Saturn

* Another point of debate is whether there are 12 or 13 constellations. Different cultures use different numbers

Update on my last post on Jan Moir. Jan Moir posted this apology. Unfortunately some very vindictive people started a Facebook page petition calling for her to be sacked. Really, it beggars belief.

LAY OFF JAN MOIR

2009-10-17T12:04:00.005+01:00

I have no comment to make either way about the content of Jan Moir's column (about Stephen Gately) but I will get quite vociferous about the internet campaign launched against her.

Whether you are in the UK or not, and know of this story or not, the principle is the same......

When a furore ensues like the one raging around Ms. Moir all those people joining in the 'war of words' against her must be EQUALLY as intolerant as she is, otherwise they would just say 'I don't agree with what she said' and leave it at that. They wouldn't vehemently react against it and actively seek to incite others to agree with them, or work to see her punished.

Jan Moir accepted a job. That job, like that of Amanda Platell and the late Lynda Lee Potter, and all columnists of this ilk, involves being caustic tongued and critical about those in the public eye. If someone wants to get paid for that kind of work, then they have to live with their decision - and believe me they do suffer for that choice. Making critical, negative comments day in day out is eventually poisonous to one's soul. A really happy, sorted person would just never contemplate taking on that kind of job in the first place, probably because deep down they know that nature's laws always kick in.... Law 1: thoughts and words are things, they have energy and if you constantly put of negative energy then Law 2: you will attract it back in some form.

Astrologically, Mars is moving to Jan's Uranus, and Tr Uranus is conjunct her Mars (She was born August 1956) I doubt she'll keep her job, she'll probably walk even if they don't push her. These aspects denote that internally she's needing to be free of something and that's manifested in a way that she probably, subconsciously, knew would cause a stir and shake up her life.

Ultimately though this whole episode shows the truth of the Universal Law of Attraction (aka resonance) - she's just attracting back anger that must lie deep within her Self so she can consciously deal with it. Which leads me to Law Number 3 ; only hurt people hurt.

Until we can find compassion and tolerance for every individuals point of view and see their views, not as an attack on us (or the person they are talking about) but as a reflection of themselves - i.e. their being critical says more about them then it does about who they are writing about - the world's problems will never heal.

Wars start because two countries have two opposing and irreconcilable views. How does it further humanity's wish for peace on earth if we wage war against another individual for their viewpoint?

If I were Darren Brown, Stephen Fry or M&S I would be ashamed of what I had done at this juncture, for all the reason's stated above, and because I firmly believe in Law 4 : Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Still I won't let it bother me after writing this because this I know for sure: these two men, the companies that are distancing themselves from Jan Moir, and all the people speaking out against her, will realise the error of their ways when they too are one day (and it will come) are verbally attacked and persecuted for saying something controversial. That's the natural law.

Leave this poor woman alone.

LIVING WITH JOY

2009-10-12T11:01:00.004+01:00

The signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn are taking the brunt of the current planetary alignments. With Saturn and Pluto squaring off across the solar angles of their chart, the energy is very intense. One might deduce that this aspect is already manifesting in a way that makes many people (and countries) of those signs feel as though they are just surviving their life at this time, rather than living it with joy.

The part of the cardinal cross affected is known esoterically as a Crisis of Equilibrium. The square to Capricorn is all about our innate need to find out who we are and what our purpose is, without losing balance and perspective.

This square continues on and off (within orb) now until early 2011 but peaks 15th November, 31st Jan 2010 and and 21st August 2010. so this is a long term process of a change in consciousness for all of us and not just a quick fix issue.

With Saturn, the sign of structure, about to enter a new sign, Libra*, relationships, marriages, professional agreements, public perception of us and how we relate to our enemies (our capacity for diplomacy) are all coming up for review, change and ultimately, transformation (Pluto). So too is everyone's relationship with money and the economy (again!).

Libra is ruled by Venus, the planet of beauty, harmony and joy. Sadly for many that joy is found seeking physical money and material goods, rather than harmony between ones outer abundance and inner wealth! So for those who ignore their inner Self and insist on making what they own or possess who they are, I have to warn you, Saturn/Pluto aspects are known for being brutal. People who derive their identity from their partner, their job or what they (the person) are against rather than what they are for, will be severely tested too.

Mars is also on the move, transiting into Leo for a 9 month stay and this denotes that conspicuous cuts (Mars) in ostentatious (Leo) expenditure are needed this Christmas season. For those who 'get' that money is like the total amount of water on earth - always pretty constant; if a tap is broken in one place you just have to find another one that works - then things will work out okay.

Having an abundance mentality means that you don't need to possess or covet anything, anyone, or even any job. It doesn't however, mean your tap will permanently be on either! It simply means that you have an inner trust, that will carry you through 'dry' periods, knowing you'll always be OK. That's abundance. Those who hang on, or resist, adapting to change (which will come thick and fast with Saturn and Pluto in cardinal signs) could take a pounding.

Relationships will be tested, (Saturn Libra) especially for those who are Aries, Librans, Cancers or Caps but remember this old axiom and loosen your grip: What is for you will not pass you by (or leave you).

Families with inherited wealth, Saturn (old) Libra (money/agreements around wealth), those who have invested in traditional, established companies (Pluto in Capricorn) or those who lord their authority over others in an unfair way, could be in for a bit of a ride. ( Am I picking up on something to do with the House of Lords or Parliament in writing that?) Anyway, here Mars in Leo also comes in again as Mars denotes cutting away at expectations of entitlement, as well as pruning flamboyance or super inflated ego's back down to size!

The forces of change are truly upon us and Saturn/Pluto aspects are great levellers - in every sense of the word (look out too for an increase in disasters or disputes ( wars?) which break down boundaries and level buildings and ground). Those who judge others (Libra) may now find themselves facing a judgement day! (X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing judges just popped into mind then, as well as the legal profession and ambassadors)

So, I think I have made it clear as a bell that whatever you may read, with regards to the financial meltdown, astrological cycles inform us we are not out of the woods by any means. More chickens could be coming home to roost this autumn/winter and by the time next spring comes, and the credit cards are full to the brink from Christmas expenditure, for many the game could truly be up. The 29th degree of Taurus is associated with Bankruptcy but so in many ways is Saturn in Libra. Libra is the 6th house from the 2nd so this house denotes the way in which our money works for us.

So take my advice, spend (Venus) wisely (Saturn). Structure your daily expenditure and finances, look at relationships and agreements, realistically, and fairly (Saturn in Libra). If you are in trouble now, consider consolidating your debts or agree to pay them off slowly but surely.

I'm sounding like doom monger. We do have difficult times ahead but it doesn't follow that you have to be unhappy. Ultimately it's all happening to bring those who are too firmly rooted in materiality to a realisation about what is really important in life, and to illuminate those areas of our lives which are not serving our spiritual growth. If you can do that consciously then this period is all about supportive relationships ( Saturn Libra) that will endure anything thrown at you (Pluto). It's about overcoming patterns which have held you back and perhaps also about grand passions, creative or romantically
(Mars Leo) which forever change you (Pluto) and the way others perceive you forever.

By 2011 we'll be out of Saturn/Pluto's current survival and restructuring mode* and the Saturn/Uranus one which I have spoken about many times before will also be behind us.

The new cycle of Jupiter conjunct Uranus in June 2010 and again in 2011 will definitely get things moving and (along with Jupiter's move into Pisces in January) is possibly the most exciting and positive shift on the horizon. There are whole host of other planetary cycles coming along to continue this 'consciousness raising exercise' up to 2012 but don't just listen to my take on it all. Other astrologers devote their entire time to these larger cycles of change as they relate to the life and the economy. If you are close to London, why not book a place on this:

TRADING IN 2010
with Christeen Skinner
author, The Financial Universe

10.30 – 16.30

Friday October 23rd 2009

Regus, Stock Exchange, London

Where financial matters are concerned, astrological knowledge gives a competitive edge. This seminar is suitable for those who are familiar with the glyphs for the planets and signs. You do not have to be a full-time astrologer or trader to gain from the material presented. 2010 promises to be a thrilling year: planet formations in the coming months are quite different to any that we have experienced in our lifetime. With Jupiter making swift passage through Pisces and forming rare alignments with Saturn, Uranus and Pluto especially, investment challenge will be as never before.

In this seminar we will study the key dates of 2010 and identify the sectors most likely to flourish.

One session will be devoted to currencies: the US dollar, Euro and Sterling

Jonathan Jones, a trader who uses astro and technical expertise will show how he has successfully used this combination of techniques. The cost for the day is £135 including refreshments and lunch.

To book a place, please email christeenskinnerATgmail.com
Say Kathryn sent you!

Finally this 56th verse of the Tao Te Ching is something I feel it would be good to share at this time:

Those who know do not talk.

Those who talk do not know.

Keep your mouth closed.
Guard your senses.
Temper your sharpness.
Simplify your problems.
Soften your glare.
Be at one with the dust of the earth.
This is primal union or the secret embrace.

One who knows this secret is not moved by attachment or aversion,
swayed by profit or loss,
not touched by honour or disgrace.
He is far beyond the cares of men,
yet comes to hold the dearest place in their hearts.

This, therefore, is the highest state of man.

In other words, Look within. This is the way that one comes back into equilibrium and begins living (Saturn) with harmony and joy! (Libra)

* Saturn retrogrades out, back into Virgo, for 3 months in 2010 but still in aspect to Pluto. This cycle is also very much about displacement of people - as a result of war, disaster or in the context of the economic slump- and could see many people losing their homes. Our home is analogous to our body that houses our soul. The body is just a temporary shelter, like a house. Both can pass away but the soul lives on. The quest for immortality does not refer to finding everlasting physical life but knowing that one's life - soul - is eternal. This brings illumination and joy!

A DIFFICULT TIME FOR OBAMA - and the Moon!

2009-10-07T08:51:00.001+01:00

My wonderfully warm and talented colleague, Martin Davis taught me all I know about Locational astrology. This is the branch of astrology which looks at the planetary correspondences 'up above' to precise locations on the Earth's surface 'below'.

In recent weeks I have been busy with other pursuits but Martin never took his eye off the ball. He warned of a window of time around the Libra/Aries Full Moon, in which geophysical upheavals were likely. Sure enough, the build up to this Lunation brought several catastrophic earthquakes, typhoons - and a tsunami.

Martin was basing his predictions upon a specific cycle: the applying conjunction of Mars to the South Node. This aspect, as he reminds us, is not rare. It occurs approximately every two years but, when it occurs in tandem with other intense outer planetary aspects it has been noted to coincide with major disasters or political events.

The South Node and Mars were applying on 9/11 when the planets Saturn and Pluto were in opposition. This time around we have the conjunction of Mars and South Node and a Saturn/Uranus opposition. In addition to this, the recent lunation on Sunday 4th Oct, occurred across the cardinal signs. Cardinal signs are often associated with very visible events in the life of an individual, or those that occur on a global scale, as opposed to internalised events.

You can read the article Martin's posted on all this here. In it he warns of the potential for more problems that will last until the Mars/Node aspect has perfected and parted. The aspect is exact on 9 October and finally separates by mid month.

Combine this with the unsettling observation of Vedic astrologer, Komilla Sutton (a must read too) regarding the same conjunction and the debilitation of Mars, and it all adds up to a tense October - and indeed, beyond into 2010.

What I find most interesting about this Mars/Lunar Node aspect, besides the geophysical activity it has already triggered, is that on the date that it becomes exact, 9 October, NASA will be bombing the Moon.

Obviously this will be an event to which the entire world turns its attention, corresponding as I say, to the fact that Sunday's lunation was in a Cardinal sign. Furthermore the LCROSS centaur bombing will occur near THE MOON'S SOUTH POLE . I put this in capitals as here we have an extraordinary bit of correspondence; Mars, the planet of things which impact or penetrate is currently in the sign which rules the Moon, Cancer, and is exactly conjoined to the Lunar South node.

Impact is scheduled for 4:31 a.m. PDT or 7:31 a.m. EDT (11:31 UTC) You can read about observing this event here

So, can we expect more than just a short, sharp plume of lunar debris? Well maybe. I don't think you can mess with Mother nature and not see some effect from the cause - energy never disappears, it just changes form.

What concerns me most however, is the deeper symbolism. Remember, astrology is a language and often their are subtle nuances that only those well versed in the language pick up on. Bombing the Moon (Mars in Cancer) may be one simple translation but here's another observation....

America has it's 'birthday' on July 4th. It is therefore a Cancerian country, ruled by the Moon. In symbolic language, the planet ruling the USA is about to be 'attacked' or 'penetrated' (one could take this further and say it's a bit of an inside job as it is an American mission).

As the Moon is the natural significator of water and emotions and they are looking for water, it leaves me with this unsettling feeling around deluges or a sudden overload of public emotion.

Furthermore, I recently came across a book written in 1916 which states that America was 'born' very close to 2pm. Now I could write several posts on the debate around the timing of the signing of The Declaration, I know there is no definitive time and I don't want to get into that here, but let's use 2pm. This gives Scorpio rising (very apt, for reasons I'll go into another time).

So Mars rules the chart and not only is transiting Mars conjunct the South Node in the heavens on 9th October but Tr Mars is exactly conjunct the progressed Nodal axis of the 1776 chart on the 9th Oct and opposite natal Pluto! (Note: This would be so whatever time chart you use but Mars gets added significance if we use a 2pm chart).

In astrology, aspects to the Nodes point to fated events often of a karmic nature. We reap what we sow. They also point to our journey - where we have been, compared to what awaits us; our destiny.

Even more interesting than this, from the point of view of cycles and correspondence, is that just 2 days before the Moon bombing, on the 7th October, President Obama's Progressed Moon changes sign*. This is the culmination of a 2 year cycle where his Moon has been moving through the sign of Aquarius and now moves into the water sign of Pisces - his solar 8th house of money, banking, taxes and transformation ( deaths/birth, endings/beginnings). His Moon will not have been in Pisces for around 27 years. Now I'm not making some dire prediction here**. I am just noting that we have confluence of factors. This week there is a significant shift for the President and when the President's chart moves, so usually does something in his life or the country he presides over.

So, all eyes will be on NASA, America and outer space this week, let's just hold our breath and hope that the addition of a Venus/Uranus opposition to the aforementioned already tense line up, doesn't bring a shock or surprise closer to home.

*Saturn also moves close to conjoining the President's progressed Sun
** That said if I was looking for a threat to his health, and/or some serious difficulty to him or his family ( females), I'd advise him to be cautious this week in particular
Pisces is the sign associated with religion, health reform, charitable concerns,fraud, viruses, collapse, bankruptcy, chaos and a multitude of other things. It's a feminine sign and will possibly see the President becoming more intuitive and emotional.

WHO'S FOOLING WHO?

2009-10-01T17:49:00.000+01:00

Except for a quick reference, I'm ignoring the 'metaphysical' for this post. 'Normal service' will be resumed soon but, today I am unashamedly stepping up onto my soap-box.........

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

This was the quote that sprang to mind when I read about the sad demise of Natalie Morton. Natalie was, unbeknown to her or her family, walking around with a huge malignant tumour in her chest. We are being asked to believe that this tumour just happened to kill the 14 year old shortly after she received the HPV Vaccine.

While I'm not attempting to dispute that Natalie was a rarity in having a totally undetected, life threatening mass, are we really meant to swallow this statement that her receiving the HPV jab was not a contributing factor in her death?

"The pathologist has confirmed today at the opening of the inquest into the death of Natalie Morton that she died from a large malignant tumour of unknown origin in the heart and lungs," she said.

"There is no indication that the HPV vaccine, which she had received shortly before her death, was a contributing factor to the death, which could have arisen at any point."- Dr. Caron Grainger, joint director of public health for the Coventry area

(Forget all the Government obfuscation you may be reading in the numerous media articles about this, those words above are a direct quote and direct quotes, in quote marks, printed in numerous papers are rarely inaccurate due to the possibility of libel).

What beats me is just what indication they need when before she had the jab Natalie was alive and shortly after she had it, she's dead.

The truth is that if you choose to be vaccinated, or to allow your child to be vaccinated, against anything (and it is always a choice) if you have a severely compromised immune system (even just a temporary compromise) then most jabs could trigger all sorts of side effects; some that lead to a worse outcome than getting the disease you are vaccinating to prevent. It is this that people are not fully informed about.

Maybe Karen really didn't have long left (and here we are back to the fate and freewill debate that I touched on in my last post) but, my concern is how are you to know if you, or your child, has an underlying health issue unless you are first given a battery of expensive health checks? Are Governments offering those for free? No. As it stands at the moment you offer yourself, or your babies, up to the needle and take your chances - mainly for diseases that one stands a remote chance of contracting anyway.

I am fully aware that in most cases disastrous side effects will not occur but we should at least be offered the unbiased facts so that we can take an informed decision. Otherwise one runs the risk of becoming a hastily swept-over statistic.

At this point Natalie Morton will undoubtedly go down in the record books as a mere anomaly in an otherwise safe vaccination programme, but how would you feel if it were your child? Unless enough people demand more transparency about the risks, and not just in this programme but in the Swine Flu one, the HPV and all others, nothing will change. I'm moved enough to write about it (again) and I hope others will be too, Ultimately those who speak out cause a trickle of dissent to become a river and the river to become a flood. No one ignores a flood.

With the planet Uranus due to move into Aries in 2010, I predict a revolution (Uranus) against jabs (Aries) but sadly I fear this astrological aspect could also warn us that any real change may have to be preceded by a spate of more unexpected (Uranus) deaths from vaccinations (Aries) before people really sit up and say "Enough is enough, I refuse to be a puppet of the drug companies and Government" ( Saturn opp Uranus and Pluto into Capricorn).

I'll leave you with this comment from The Daily Mail on the same topic:

The findings come as the cervical cancer vaccination programme was branded a 'public health experiment' by a senior researcher who helped develop the drug. Dr Diane Harper - one of the world's leading cervical cancer experts - said health officials and drug firm bosses were exaggerating the jab's benefits.

Now that's not in quotes, so let's not rush to hail Dr Harper as a 'Whistle Blower' but it gives cause for thought and very serious concern.

AN ACCIDENT OF FATE

2009-09-27T16:30:00.001+01:00

All of us are moved by an energy. Moreover, it's an energy with intelligence. Some may term this energy Mind, others prefer to call it Source or the Collective Unconscious - even Guardian Angel.

Whatever name we bestow upon this invisible form of energy, it connects us all and, I believe, if we become open to its presence we can use it to 'collaborate with fate', gaining the best possible outcome, even from the most difficult trials and tribulations.

Quantum physics tells us that this energy to which I am referring, appears to have a wave like motion. Just as all forms of waves peak and trough, so if we look hard enough we can discern a time of increase and decrease; an in-flow and an out-flow; an active and passive phase in everything we encounter.

Our language is replete with phrases which denote that, at some subconscious level, we are cognisant of these natural peaks and troughs. For example, a very common way in which we refer to the 'peak' phase is as a run; ' I had a run of good luck' or 'I had a run of overhearing the same conversation/seeing the same pictures/seeing the same name' ( we like to term these as coincidence).

Sometimes it's a run of feelings, in which case we may hear people remarking; 'My mind was suddenly flooded with ideas' or 'My mind was suddenly filled with the urge to contact'....

Whether we act upon, or ignore, these periods could, arguably, alter our level of participation in our fate. Personally I believe one can collaborate with fate by becoming more aware of these peaks and troughs and then trusting and cooperating with them. This can be encapsulated in the advice: 'When you know- go. When in doubt - do nowt*.

In the story below, taken from a weekend newspaper article by journalist Bel Mooney, the M.P, Chris Patten acted upon one of these invisible prompts. If we could ask him what was going through his mind at the time, I'm sure he would say that he was just filled with the urge to call his Mother .........

Bel was invited to be on a TV Programme. Chris Patten, a then unknown Member of Parliament, was a fellow panellist. She takes up the story here.....................

We were to become friends - but that's not the story. Some years later I interviewed him for a Radio 4 series on bereavement and he described how he realised that night that he hadn't talked to his mother in a while and, of course, she should know that 'her son was about to appear on this glamorous television programme'.

Which she would never see. For that night, Lord Patten's mother died in her sleep, at the age of 60. It was entirely unexpected. He knew that, had it not been for the accident of the programme, he would not have phoned her as he did. Our lives become so busy, don't they? So the lesson of the tale is: always make time to make contact - because you never know what's going to happen.

Bel's advice is obviously sound. The story is undoubtedly true but, is the premise? Was it an 'accident of fate' that were it not for the programme might never have occurred? I'm not sure. How is anyone to know what may have happened if Chris Patten had not been invited to appear on that show? My belief - my hope - is that something else would have caused him to call his Mother but who's to say? The real magic is that he acted on a prompt, and he'll never regret doing so. Fate conspired and he collaborated.

Whatever your thoughts on this matter of fate and freewill, I think an underlying truth is apparent; The secret to a life of few regrets is to get into alignment with - to become totally aware of - this force in life that moves us to times of action and times of rest. For where awareness and harmony reside, joy and acceptance can surely flourish.

As the Sun is now in Libra, there is no better time than the next 28 days to weigh up just how actively you harmonise with the forces that shape your life!

* Nowt is an English word (often used in the North of the country) meaning, nothing.

A PLAN IS UNFOLDING

2009-09-20T13:20:00.003+01:00

It's Sunday morning and I just sat down to listen to a replay of a radio show, kindly sent to me by a reader, featuring an interview with Wayne Dyer. As many of you know, Wayne has been, via his books and tapes, one of the guiding forces in my life. He has undoubtedly helped to shape me and my consciousness into the form it takes today. If ever I am asked the question, 'What book has most changed your life?' the answer has always been the same: Wayne's book 'You'll See it When You Believe It' which I read back in the early 80's.

This book changed the lens through which I viewed my life. It spoke to me. If he could overcome struggle and find magic in his life then so, potentially, could I.

And so, although some of you may have heard the news already, I was caught totally off guard when Wayne revealed in this interview that he is dealing with cancer. Wayne has Leukemia, an incurable but not life threatening form of it known as CLL.

All over the Net you will see (or for those like me who came to the news a little late, I'm sure you will soon see) people talking about Wayne's battle with cancer or his struggle with this illness. One thing you can be sure of though, is that you will never hear Wayne use those words himself. If he taught his legions of aspirants anything it is that one does not 'battle' or 'struggle' with illness, for how and why would one fight with their Self. Instead one finds the cause of the dis-ease and deals with it as symptomatic of an imbalance at work somewhere in the life being reflected in the physical body. When one receives a diagnosis, you change the outer and the inner will follow suit; you change the inner thoughts and the outer shell, that your Self is temporarily inhabiting in this lifetime, will surely respond.

Earlier this year, I decided to take a break from blogging. At the foot of my last post in March I wrote:

Oh and finally before I go..... Here's a link to the latest audio from Wayne Dyer. It's a couple of hours long but if you have resonated with me over the years, you'll definitely like this. What I noticed in listening to it is that Wayne sounds a little tired. I've been following his work for 29 years now (saturn return!) and this is the first time ever that I have noticed a drop in his energy levels. As a Taurus, Pluto rules Wayne's 7th and is in his 9th - so, maybe he needs to review his extensive travel and his teaching/lecturing commitments at this time?

Wayne revealed his condition some weeks after that post.

At some level I must have been tuning into Wayne, no doubt because I have been so closely aligned with him, on an energetic level. Much can be discerned through the voice. I also recall looking at his chart at that time and thinking that if his new film was labelled 'The Shift - from Ambition to Meaning' it could herald some big change in his own life - again, the As above, so below, as within, so without - as without , so within principle at work.

So what does the illness of one of the 'Fathers of self-help and personal empowerment' have to teach us? Well we could go down the route of asking if Wayne, like the title of his film, needs to move from ambition to more meaning. After all, we teach what we most need to learn and he is constantly on tour or promoting a new book and appears to spend little time at home.

We could hazard a guess that he has contracted this (made a contract with God to have it!) as it reminds us all that no one is immune to the tests and trials of life (and that phrase 'No one is immune' is key when we are talking about cancer, a disorder of the immune system).

We could even ask if he was 'walking his talk' but no, this is, for what it's worth my take on it.....

I personally think that, the best way to teach is always by example. I believe that Wayne has such an important mission here on the terrestrial plane that he has made himself open (subconciously of course) to show people first hand that there is a different way to view and approach illness and it is this Shift - a paradigm shift - in the world of health that he has come here to lead, and next has to focus our awareness on.

The work was begun by his close friend and mentor Louise Hay ( who overcame her own bout of cancer) and is being perpetually promulgated by a whole stable of Hay House authors. His friend and colleague, Deepak Chopra has also made incredible breakthroughs in the field of 'quantum medicine' and the way we all think of and deal with dis-ease, but my guess - and maybe my hope - is that now Wayne has to really show us how it's done. No pressure Wayne!

Just because a person has proved themselves to have a gift shouldn't single them out for any extra help or concern than any other less prominent person but I do hope you will say a silent prayer for Wayne as he navigates this part of his journey.

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I've now read The Lost Symbol. I don't want to hear or read the critiques about Dan Brown's writing style or people bashing the fact that the characters and storylines are becoming formulaic. As with Wayne, I believe Dan Brown is fulfilling 'a mission' - he's being of service. He's bringing the subject of the ageless wisdom (and how it is veiled in symbolism, metaphor and allegory) to a whole swathe of the population who would never normally be exposed to it. For this we - especially we as astrologers and metaphysicians - should be grateful.

Foster and Alice Bailey wrote this very prescient remark over 50 years ago:

"Masonry has still, Masonically and spiritually to 'prove itself'. When this takes place and the spiritual purpose underlying all Masonic work is better grasped, then the Law of the Builders can make its influence felt. The group work for the race can be done. Then the conscious cooperation of the Lodge at labour on High will be seen. Then Masonry will be established as the custodian of the Mysteries of the spiritual life upon Earth, and will prove itself to be the force of life which lies at the heart of all true religion"

I have come a long way in my decades of treading 'the path' but I can honestly say that it was only through the study of Freemasonry (which I mentioned how this arose in my last post, visible beneath this one) that I have finally understood and realised how all the cogs fit the wheels and what is unfolding.

Please read Dan Brown's book - no, devour Dan's book. Not only is it a page turner of a yarn, it is packed full of factual information for any student of The Mysteries. I give it 11/10

Let Light, Love and Power, restore the Plan on Earth

BROWN'S LOST SYMBOL - An esoteric revelation

2009-09-14T17:09:00.012+01:00

The secret is how to die................

What a great opening line to a book! It certainly seems like Dan Brown is not going to disappoint us when his latest blockbuster novel, The Lost Symbol, is published tomorrow.

Apropos of this event I would like to share with you a most intriguing story of how I recently uncovered a few secrets of my own:

Earlier on in the year I was tasked with the project of researching a book about synchronicity. To be more specific the book was to focus upon the significance of the number 11 and the increasing recurrence of the number in the sequence 11.11. Those of you with an interest in metaphysics may already know that this number sequence has been dubbed 'the time prompt phenomenon', due in the main part to vast numbers of people noting its repeated appearance, above all other sequences, in digital form i.e. as the time 11:11 on their clocks, watches and computer screens.

Initially I looked into the numerological significance of 11 and 1111. Then readers were invited to write in with their own stories and I spent many days enthralled by some the incredible tales which arrived in my in-box. Mindful of the need for balance, I also looked at academic and scientific explanations for the 11:11 phenomenon such as confirmation bias, subjective validation etc. It was interesting research but something wasn't right. At the back of my mind something else was percolating. Eventually it bubbled to the surface. Whenever I looked at, or doodled the numbers 11 or 11:11, I didn't see numbers, I kept seeing pillars and towers.

Once I acknowledged this my quest subtly changed direction. Before too long, I realised I was no longer researching about synchronicity, instead I was living my own daily ongoing synchronicity, for I was repeatedly noticing articles and pages on the Internet which referenced things like the Tower of Babel, the tarot card The Tower or the pillars outside buildings and in particular the Temple of Solomon and pages about Freemasonry.

Soon after this, I noted that two sets of 11 i.e. two times 11 equated to the number 22 - the number of letters in the Hebrew Alphabet and the number of pathways between the Sephiroth in Kabbalah (the Jewish version of the mystery religion). Again articles kept popping up with judicious timing and before long I was immersed in deepening my understanding of Kabbalism and Freemasonry. Next the two pillars of the Tree of Life with its central supporting pillar - often referred to as the neutral pillar between 2 opposing forces or male and female - grabbed my attention. Everywhere I looked I no longer even saw the number 11 or 11:11 as mathematical objects,or even towers, I was now seeing them as symbols of a portal or gateway. I wondered what else I would uncover for the book if I kept following this mystical trail and just 'went with the flow'.

The resulting days and weeks turned out to be less of a gentle flow and more like a swirling vortex of energy. I got pulled even deeper down into the world of occulted wisdom ( occult by the way simply means hidden or veiled - nothing sinister) I found myself up to my ears with information about Mystery Schools, Secret Societies and Invisible College's. It was coming in faster than I could cope and I was wondering how on earth to piece it all together. It was at this juncture that I had one of those truly jaw dropping synchronicities - as probably only someone who set out to research them in the first place can!

My Mother who obviously knows I'm interested in anything 'esoteric' called and asked if I had heard of someone called Peter Dawkins because not only was he a friend of her friend but he was speaking about Freemasonry that weekend. What she didn't know was a) that I was even researching Freemasonry or that b) only the previous day I had watched Peter being interviewed and decided I simply had to find this man and speak to him as he was a world expert on Sir Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon being, amongst many other roles, the founder - The first Grand Master of Freemasonry - in its present form.

I couldn't make his talk that weekend but as a result of her call I did indeed find myself sitting in Peter's home a few weeks later. He was the answer to my prayers, and quickly pieced together for me the missing jigsaw puzzle pieces around what 11 and 11:11 really means, why we are seeing it and what it means for 2012 and how it links in with Freemasonry and the Ancient Mystery schools.

The bigger picture soon became clear as I sat listening in rapt attention. Peter is one of the most erudite men I have ever had the pleasure to meet. With his assistance I have now learned all about the central tenet of the all the mystical teachings. I understand the true foundations of America and its greater purpose, 'the secret of how to die' and also was thrilled - in fact spellbound to hear the story of the most likely whereabouts of some incredible Masonic 'treasure'; documents, artifacts, records etc which may well be to what Dan Brown is referring when he wrote in his pre launch copy: 'It's buried out there somewhere'.

Now, at this very apt juncture in the cycle of the planets Saturn and Uranus (the opposition occurs on The Lost Symbol launch day and speaks of startling revelations about things considered to be rock-solid) I'd like to share this life changing wisdom with you.

This information is freely available to those with the time and desire to read lots of books and delve deeply into the world of symbolism, allegory, myth, history and much, much more but you don't have to bother with such things for I have collated all the pertinent information together. I'll be continuing to shape and polish this vast amount of information into a finished publishable form in coming weeks, but as the topic is about to become 'hot' I've decided to share some of it with you right now.

What I would just like to say though is that I now believe Freemasonry deserves our highest respect. It is an accumulation of eons of practical observation into nature and her harmony. It is not something to be either feared, ridiculed or suppressed. Rather 'The Craft' as Freemasonry is known, is a modern day manifestation of the mystery religions and forms the foundation for an esoteric empire which has America at it's head and Egypt at its heart and the path to unity and the creation of a 'heaven on earth' at its core.

So without further ado here's some basic facts and revelations. I freely admit I have incorporated some unanswered questions and teasers just to whet your appetite for my book.

I have marked certain entries below with a star for they need need more careful contemplation than may immediately be apparent. Please skip read to the end if you simply wish to find a brief synopsis about 'the secret of how to die', remember there is an obvious role of the practicing Freemason, and a hidden, spiritual inner role. Read everything on many levels.........

Ok here goes then in Q&A format.......

Q Why are there 33 degrees in Freemasonry? To what does the 33 allude?

A There are really only 3 degrees in Masonry. The third degree, the Master Mason, is the top rank - the others are all more like sideways steps and are levels of further instruction. The 33rd level is the highest level of instruction. Regarding the number 33, I have seen some people point to the fact that the temperature at which the solid form of water, ice, melts back into water is 32-33 F. This can be seen as metaphorical of finally being freed from constriction. Some will say it is connected to the 3X3 Grand Omnific Royal Arch word and the 'signs' made with feet and hands intrinsic to that initiation level. Some may say it references the significance of the 33rd degree of latitude, or to the fact that if you use a letter for a number A=1 B=2 as your cipher then the word BACON = 33. (Francis Bacon)

It could allude to 'the thrice great' Hermes especially as 1 divided by 3 = 0.33 recurring. It could indeed be all these things including the number of the trinity or 3 as the number of a triangle. Multiples of 3 are certainly used prolifically throughout all masonic chapters, lodges and initiations but the esoteric (occulted) reason is that there are 22 pathways between the 10 Sephiroth in the Tree of Life 22+10 =32, (33 therefore being the ultimate) and there are 33 bones in the human backbone in 3 different sections and they lead to a place some refer to as Golgotha where something special occurs (that's all I'll tease you with at this point) Sleuths go figure!

Q What does the phrase Ordo Ab Chao mean?

A Order out of Chaos. It is a phrase that is used widely in Masonic symbols and emblems. It alludes to the creation of the Universe.

Q What, then, is Freemasonry?

A Freemasonry is basically a science of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. " As the most vital parts of Man are contained between the two breasts, so the most valuable tenets of Masonry are contained between 2 extreme points of the compass- which are virtue, morality and brotherly love." (3rd degree Master Mason initiation ritual). Masonry teaches Faith, Hope, Charity and strength, beauty and wisdom but is also the vehicle through which accumulated wisdom can be safely delivered to those who can use it to do some good and to help a greater plan unfold.

Q Francis Bacon was known by many titles such as 'The Herald of The New Age' what was his name for America?

A The New Atlantis.

Q Were Washington DC and other key cities in America originally laid out according to star maps and according to Geometric patterns?

A Yes. As above, So below. As below , So above. There will always be the 'spiritually blind' Mason who will dispute this but then they may have joined for other reasons than to 'Know Thyself' - if you get my drift!

Q Were many of the Founding Fathers Freemasons?
A. Yes or involved in some form of esoteric practices

Q What is the capital of the American State which contains anonymously funded Guidestones?
A. Atlanta (Atlanta/Atlantis....) Just coincidence?

Q Who or what were the 'Builders from the East' or the Builders of Baghdad?

A They were Masons.

The word Freemasonry at one time, and more correctly, Free Mason or Free and Accepted Mason, is not a very ancient title. It means men free to practice Masonry. The longer name however is also said to be a corruption of Freres Macons i.e Brother Masons in French.

Q How are Freemasonry lodges situated

A Due East to West

Q Why?

A Because the light (Sun) rises in the East but also because the gospel was first preached in the East and moved to the West.

Q What else is aligned this way - due East to West

A Churches and Chapels (with the altar in the East). Check it out. Most are.

Q What is the pass-word of the Master Mason

A Tubal-Cain

Q What is the ultimate goal of a Master Mason

A Hopefully to find equilibrium and illumination. Not all Master Masons reach that goal!

Q What were the pyramids built of?

A. They were fashioned out of Stone.

Q Who built them then?

*A Stonemasons! Let that one percolate. How old is Masonry!

Q What does Pyramid mean

A Pyr = Fire or light and Mid = measure. Light measurers!

Q What do builders use to make cement?

A Sand and water.

*Q What is the collection of salts; calcium, magnesium and silicon in the Pineal Gland known as?

A Pineal Sand - again Sleuths, delve deeper or wait for the book!

I'll just add here as a teaser:

Virgin = Pure

Mar-y or mare = water

Q Where else is there a pyramid?

A In the Medulla Oblongata in the skull.

Q. What does the masonic tool, the Trowel, signify?

A It symbolises the tool to spread the cement which unites a building as one common mass and for spreading the cement of brotherly love and affection.

Q What is 'the lost word'?

A. There are many secret words and passwords but the lost word is ultimately Love!

Q What do the Letters GAOTU stand for?

A. Grand Architect ( sometimes Artificer) of the Universe.

Q To what do the letters A.U.T.O.S.A.G refer?

A The Latin translates to the To The Glory of The Grand Architect of The Universe

Q To what do the letters G.O.D stand for?

A They are the initials of the three Hebrew words. Gomer = Beauty, Oz = Strength and Dabar = Wisdom. Three of the founding principles of Freemasonry

Q What are the three degrees of Freemasonry called

A 1.The Entered Apprentices

2. The Fellow Crafts

3. The Master Masons

Q What does the Hebrew letter Mem-M signify?

A Woman, Mother, womb, water, Mary and is the 13th letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. It is one of the three 'Mother' letters

Q Why is the number 13 significant to the founding of the USA?

A The Sun occupied the 13th degree of Cancer on 4th July 1776 and this date was chosen by design. Cancer is a feminine sign and represents the mother, her breast and nurturing. The US plays the part of Mother to the people. It began as a nation of 13 states. Furthermore in 1782 the obverse side of the United States seal contained 13 stars and stripes, an olive branch with 13 leaves, an eagle with 13 arrowheads in the quiver held in the tallon and a motto' E Pluribus unum' which had 13 letters. When a new seal was adopted in 1921 the digits of the year add to 13 and a pyramid was shown and the Great pyramid's base in Egypt covers 13 acres. There are 13 steps or terraces in the image and the motto Annuit Coeptis contains 13 letters and translates to 'Prosper us in our understanding' Again no synchronicity but by design.

On this date in 1776 the planets representing Beauty (Venus) Wisdom ( Jupiter) (see G.O.D. above) were also in the sign of Cancer and the planet representing Strength (Saturn) was in Libra - ruled by Venus. The Moon was in the sign of Brotherhood and Freedom - Aquarius.

Q What does the letter G stand for in Masonic Symbolism?
A G.O.D , God, Geometry, Gnostic Gospels - and some could say Goodness and Glory

Q What is the temple made 'without sound of saw or hammer?

A The temple of the human body

*Q Why was Marie Bauer Hall, mistaken and what is her connection to the national tree of England?

Q What did John Dee reputedly pass on to Francis Bacon?
A His knowledge and his connections at the Invisible College

Q Why was John Dee the original James Bond?

A He was Agent 007 in the Court of Queen Elizabeth 1st

Q What number was Freemason, Benjamin Franklin?

A Agent 72

Q What did the word Los stand for?

A Sol - the word for Sun reversed. It was used as a Masonic password.

Q What are the 3 jewels of The Master Mason?

A Humanity, friendship and Brotherly love

Q What does the plant Acacia contain?
A DMT

Q Why is this plant significant to Freemasons?
That one I'll answer in my book

Q What does Boaz stand for?
A (pillar of) Strength

Q What does Jachin denote?
A Establishment

Q Which town, again in Georgia, takes its name from one of these pillars?
A Jakin

Q What do the 2 pillars in the Lodge signify?

A Positive and negative, male and female - polarity. In the middel you are in equilibrium " In strength shall this house be established"

*Q How do Isis and Horus link to Demeter and Perspehone and Dionysus?

A Once harmony is achieved, beauty can follow and beauty gives rise to joy.

Q What are the 'secret' words of Masons?

Q The word Rosicrucian comes from Rose Dew. What links Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry and what is the dew to which they refer?

*Q Why are the signs performed with the feet and hands in freemasonry called the Due-guards?

Q What is the annointed one annointed with?

A Oil.

Q Why is oil significant? What oil?

Q To what does The Royal Arch truly refer?

*Q Where can one find an eternal lamp?

Q What is the real symbolism of the all seeing eye?

All unanswered will be covered in my book. I'm just trying to get your mind asking questions and making connections!

Q. What does the name Hiram Abiff signify?

A. Hiram Abiff is a corruption of the word CHIram. CHI is the Greek Kristos or Christos - the anglicized word is Christ or 'the annointed one'.

Q*. How does this link with the Chi Rho symbol and the planetoid Chiron?

*Q Chiram Abiff is another name for Hermes Trismegistus " Chiram telat Mechasot" - the Chaldean version of the Emerald Tablet Chiram is the universal agent, one in essence but three in aspect.

How does this link into the hebrew letters Cheth, Resh, Mem and the three single consonants of the Hebraic alphabet- Jod, Heh and Vau?

Q Why does this link into the word for Chiropractor

A One who tends to the musculoskeletal system namely the spine

Q What shape is the Sacrum

A It is a triangular bone

*Q To what does Solomon's Temple really refer?

A The human body

Q What is the 8th Chakra?

A The Alta Major

*Q How does this link to the word Altar and why?

Q What is the alphabet at the top of this page

A It is the key (cipher) found on four pieces of paper inside the Ark of the Covenant. It is used to discover the Grand Omnific Royal Arch characters written on the four sides of the Ark. The ark was found in the secret, curiously arched, vault below the trap door (8-10 feet down and only reached by coiling a rope 7 times around the body leaving two long ends) along with the Keystone of the arch of a Mark Master Mason - Hiram Abiff

and finally

Q. What would happen to Christianity as a religion if the resurrection, like the above tale, was purely metaphorical and allegorical?

Hmm, much to ponder here and so much more to explain and share.

So, what is the secret of how to die? The 'secret' of Freemasonry (which is not actually secret, just veiled wisdom) is that one can learn to free the spirit from the physical building (masonry) that houses the spirit to achieve immortality via the creation of the immortal light body. One can learn how to die whilst alive and bring heaven down to earth - to create your heaven whilst on Earth. This process will be further revealed in my book. How does all this link into the 11:11 phenomenon and 2012? All I can say now is that it does and I'll be sharing what I know about that too!

Enjoy Dan Brown's book!

APRIL THRU SEPTEMBER 09, PLUTO RX

2009-03-29T19:21:00.001+01:00

Hi everyone,

I'm taking a break from posting here for a while. I'm a Scorpio and Pluto, the ruling planet of this sign, is currently stationing. It will turn retrograde on April 4th 2009 until September 11th, 2009. This is a perfect opportunity for all Scorpio's to review matters relating to their Self and their commitments; particularly those which involve the way they communicate, interact, express themselves or share their knowledge (Pluto in Scorpio's solar 3rd). Personally I know this is the ideal time for me to devote myself to writing my book and regenerating other projects.

Wherever you have Scorpio on the house cusp, the people, things, places etc which that house corresponds to, combined with the house which Pluto is currently transiting (Capricorn) will give you a clue as to what themes you need to merge together. Retrogrades indicate what you may need to review, return to, or 'finish off' at this time. Once done, you can then expect to re-emerge - somewhat like a butterfly from a cocoon - invigorated and transformed when the planet returns to forward motion in September and particularly when it re-crosses the 3 Capricorn location, right at the end of the year.

Remember too, we always have to leave something behind for something new to come into being.

Under any Pluto transit, we feel pressured to eliminate and release the old, outworn, outdated and obsolete in our lives. When Pluto is transiting retrograde, we are urged to let go of attitudes, thinking or communication patterns, security drives, rigid emotions; a time to undergo an internal form of house cleaning....

For more on Pluto Rx read Lynne Koiner

I'm not abandoning CWF, just taking some time out, but please don't go! There are well over 350 articles on my blogs and website for you peruse and I also invite you to view my latest quarterly newsletter/e-zine, which contains a number of interesting articles by myself and other authors, plus numerous links to some fascinating sites. You can find Spring 2009 here

The archive for all previous ones can be accessed here.

Until next time then, thanks for your support and feedback - particularly to those of you who have been faithfully following CWF since 2006. I started writing for my own amusement, knowing that if what I wrote was meant to be shared with someone, they would find their way to these pages - I'm astonished just how many found their way and that's what has kept me writing for so long. Thank you.

Kathryn x

Oh and finally before I go..... Here's a link to the latest audio from Wayne Dyer. It's a couple of hours long but if you have resonated with me over the years, you'll definitely like this. What I noticed in listening to it is that Wayne sounds a little tired. I've been following his work for 29 years now (saturn return!) and this is the first time ever that I have noticed a drop in his energy levels. As a Taurus, Pluto rules Wayne's 7th and is in his 9th - so, maybe he needs to review his extensive travel and his teaching/lecturing commitments at this time? Anyway here it is, Enjoy

A MYSTICAL UNIVERSE

2009-03-22T11:00:00.003Z

The late, great, Theosophist and Astrologer Alan Leo repeatedly used the phrase, Character is destiny i.e., As you think and act inwardly, so you attract and become.

When an actor or actress plays a part, the way we distinguish a good performance from a bad one is if it is utterly believable. This happens when the thespian merges their Self so utterly and completely into the role that they become the character they are portraying.

What I note is that in some, as yet, unexplained part of our reality, sometimes character reveals our destiny even when the character is an assumed one. This is extremely interesting to students of metaphysics because the whole premise of the efficacy of manifesting rests on a person's ability to assume the feeling of being, or having, something so completely, that it shows up in their life.

Incidentally, the words Self-efficacy is defined as a person’s perception of their ability to produce an effect or reach a goal.

So, what are we to make of the fact that Liam Neeson portrayed a bereaved husband in the film, Love Actually?* Or that he has already shot performances in the upcoming films "After Life" and "Five Minutes of Heaven," (neither of which are in distribution at this time).

We all know the phrase 'Art imitating life' but what is this phenomena? No one would ever want to be deemed responsible for attracting tragic events into their life and it's obviously not as simple as saying that if one plays a part then that precise destiny will befall you. That is patently wrong. You only have to think of some of the bizarre roles assumed in Sci-Fi films or thrillers - Anthony Hopkins won't suddenly be found eating human livers with fava beans and a nice Chianti like Hannibal Lechter.

That said, the roles one is drawn to, or invited to play as an actor/actress, may show some correlation to a repressed or unconscious side of the psyche. Maybe it is a case that we are all drawn to play out their greatest fears (or in some cases fantasies) at some level. Or perhaps to work through a role to prepare us for a later, real life event which, at some unconscious level, we know lies ahead. I am reminded here of the Professor who specialised in a very rare form of brain cancer and then died from this same disease herself.

No one knows what's really going on, but again metaphysicians/quantum physicists would say that the answer lies somewhere in the fact that every moment in time, has the quality of everything that will happen, has happened or will ever happen within it and that our Time/Space perceptions are illusory. So the fact that someone chooses some course of action at any given time can hold the outcome, just as astrology looks at the birth moment as describing the course of life.

There is a case to be made for this line of thinking for the 'synchronicity of life' is apparent all around us. Vanessa Redgrave ( Natasha's mother) was, in a few weeks time, due to reprise her role in the play 'The Year of Magical Thinking'. This is a story of bereavement and personal grief set around the real life personal loss of the play's writer, Joan Didion. who lost her daughter and husband. The daughter was in a coma in hospital and later died.

Reviews for the Broadway show which originally ran from 2007, told us that Didion found solace in "magical thinking," and was stunned by the realisation that "life changes in the instant".

The Redgrave family has been beset by drama both on and off the stage. Here is a brilliant article on Natasha and the family One that will be particularly interesting to astrologers wishing to know how the 'chart fitted the life'**.

There are many other cases of life imitating art; just a couple of very well known examples that spring to mind are the fact that Christopher Reeve had played a paralysed Police officer in the film Above Suspicion prior to becoming paralysed himself. Grace Kelly filmed The Swan in which she played a Princess. She then went on to marry Prince Rainier and become Princess Grace of Monaco.

The parallels are, therefore, not always negative. However, when a play or film come out where the actor or actress has an affair, becomes a parent, plays an alcoholic, is beareaved or faces some particularly emotionally charged event, it has been noticed that, in many cases, there is some issue around these themes playing out in their personal lives - or of those close to them. The 'law' of attraction, where like meets like, appears to be at work.

I'd be interested to hear of any examples you may have noted in this area over the years. I believe that discussing these subjects will help us to move closer to understanding more about how we may consciously, or unconsciously, collaborate with our fate.

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* The film Love Actually was produced by Tim Bevan who was married to Natasha Richardson's sister, Joely so the extended family were probably also immersed in this role to a greater extent than normal.

**For more on the astrology of Natasha and Liam Neeson please see my latest newsletter here

JEN/JOHN OFF/ON + Jade and Jack

2009-03-16T13:47:00.003Z

So apparently Jen and John are off again. What's going on? Is it really the end?

I could give you one of those lengthy posts about the nature of the relationship between Aquarians (Jen) and Librans (John) and talk about how we astrologers look for signs of compatibility in personal charts (synastry) - and indeed it would all be very interesting. However, if we wish to zoom straight in and look solely at timing and the crux of the matter, I know of no better chart technique to do this than using the little known Coalescent system.

If you aren't sure what Coalescent charts are then here's a primer but suffice to say it is based on the system that I have the utmost respect for - harmonics.

Here is the chart for Jen and John with the transits on the outside wheel. The transits are set for last week when the latest break-up was announced. As you can see, Uranus, the planet of unpredictability, sudden breaks, surprises, shocks, perverse behaviour is conjoined to Mars in Pisces ( ignore house cusps as we don't have birth times). Mars in Pisces is the placement of will, action, activity and energy put into music, acting, imagery, photography, rumour, romance but also, if misdirected, into escapism - often through drink and drugs or just a sheer unwillingness to be defined in a role.

The transiting Sun was joined with Uranus conjunct C. Mars on the day of their latest break up, and the Full Moon also fell on this Mars 2 days before and Venus recently went retrograde. Click to enlarge.

There is undoubtedly an electrifying, exciting, nature to their relationship at this time but Mars/Uranus combinations are also the most volatile going. Unfortunately for these two lovebirds, due to retrograde motion of a few planets, and the ongoing Saturn/Uranus opposition, these transits guarantee it will remain incredibly unstable and unfathomable into 2010.

Without doubt though, even if we don't hear of it in the media, neither has totally walked away from the other - this is on/off, hot/cold and overall very exhausting for both if them.

You may be one of those asking, Why does 'poor Jen' have to suffer so much? Well we have to remember it is only the media who have labelled her as suffering. At some level she may enjoy the drama. The relationships we end up in are always characteristic of us, and our true nature. Jennifer Aniston is an actress, a dramatist; she plays roles. Does John Mayer see her for who she really is (his natal Moon/Neptune conjunction). Indeed can she separate herself from the characters she plays?

She filmed 'He's Just Not That Into You' (fun film, far better than Marley and Me) then went public with Mayer. Is Jen subconsciously setting herself up to re-enact the role she played in the film? She played the girlfriend of a guy who wouldn't marry her, so she reluctantly walked away. He saw the error of his ways and eventually proposed in true, storybook romantic fashion. Does she secretly hope that's what John Mayer will do?

Who's playing who?

Furthermore we must remember that Aquarians present a cool, collected friendly persona but they just don't do cool, uneventful relationships. With Leo on the solar 7th, it is extremely typical of Aquarians to get caught up in melodramatic love affairs and/or to seek a father figure. They can repeatedly attract partners who are 'showy' in some way or partners who draw attention to themselves and want to dominate the direction of the relationship. If she's used to being the star of every show, this can cause problems.

Mayer, meanwhile has his marriage partner shown by a Mars/Sun square. He 'get's off' on emotionally combative, feisty, passionate relationships. Is she playing too cool for him and his ideal?

I think Jennifer Aniston knows that John Mayer is' Just not that into her' at the moment. Certainly his body language always looks very revealing to me - she leans into him and he leans away - but we always attract what we most need to learn from. The fact that they got together, and then back together at all, plus this Uranus to Mars transit suggests to me that both have something left to work out. Although the tendency is to abruptly call a physical halt, cutting off from your feelings until you have learned what the lesson they are bringing you is, this is easier said than done.

Beyond all that, figures in the public eye and under great scrutiny by the masses, often play out roles from which the general population can learn. From Prince Charles and Brad Pitt we learned that it doesn't matter how lovely and 'nice' a woman may be - or be perceived to be - it is love that wins the mind and body over, every time. In the case of Jennifer's latest romantic problems we are again being shown that beauty, wealth and success matter not a jot. They are not an automatic passport to love, happiness and fulfillment.

JADE GOODY and JACK TWEED

I'm not in the business of predicting death. Here for the purposes of tracking transits, and seeing how exact these coalescent charts can be, is the coalescent astrology wheel of Jade Goody and Jack Tweed. Again, ignore the house cusps as no exact times are known for both. In these case studies I set the horoscope for symbolic 12 noon times. Astrological transits by conjunction, opposition and square to these charts will show the precise day of significant events in the life of the couples involved. Click to enlarge.

As above, So below.

FULL MOON MARCH 2009 & The Recession

2009-03-10T14:54:00.002Z

The Full Moon occurs tonight at 02.38 GMT, 11th March 2009 at 20 Virgo/Pisces. This is a mutable axis. Mutable means flexible; not static; fluctuating; rhythmic; changing form, so the position of this lunation informs us that matters which correlate to the two signs are still in transition

Virgo is closely related to jobs and service industries including the armed forces, health care (servicing the needs of our body) shops ( serving the public) and trade unions (serving the rights of employees). Virgo and the 6th house describe what we do on a day to day basis - how we service the daily routine of our life on an individual basis.

Whilst Virgo is allied to serving in all its various forms, Pisces, its opposite sign, correlates to sacrifice, surrender and rescuing. It is more concerned with the overall picture than the detail. Pisces asks,'What can I give to others to make it better for us all?' Hence it is the sign of charitable concerns and the 'Sea of Oneness' where we let go ( surrender to the force) merge and recognise there is no separation - we are all like individual waves, differentiated parts of one source.

As both Virgo and Pisces relate to cadent houses in the astrological chart we are, for the most part, still looking at situations which are taking place in seclusion, behind closed doors or those that are in the final planning stage but will affect the collective. Even if we see no evidence of it yet, plans for assisting those who find themselves 'all at sea' or 'imprisoned' without a job, and missing the usual routine 'beat' to their daily life, will be well under way. It is in the subsequent signs of Aries/Libra, where these plans, decisions and ramifications of what occurs around this lunation will become apparent.

Sometimes companies have to sacrifice some employees in order to keep a company afloat. This would be a particularly Virgo/Pisces decision-making process, as attending to the detail may save the health (Virgo) of the organisation overall (Pisces). Whether employees, or those whom job losses affect, feel this has been done with any care, concern and compassion for their welfare will be a particular issue for many at this time.

The proximity of the lunation to the SA/UR opposition means that internal and external tensions are being ratcheted up, ever closer to breaking point and things ( good and bad) can happen suddenly, but it's also a time of imminent breakthroughs. Think of it like new shoots struggling to make their way through the ground. Before winter turns to spring, we still can't see any visible effects - the ground may even appear dead and barren - but there's a tremendous amount of energy and effort taking place, out of view. One day, where there was nothing, a sign of growth will suddenly appear, or an idea will emerge, as if from nowhere.

This whole Virgo/Pisces theme is currently analogous to unemployment and the tensions around Governmental plans to shore up the economy and rescue failing banks and organisations. Many of us feel we are still very much in the dark about the bigger picture and we are desperate to see signs that all the behind the scenes efforts are working; we are looking for those 'green shoots'.

To continue with the analogy, the reality is that the original seeds were sown in soil that had become very unfertile. They had also been badly tended, therefore although there will still be slow growth, we do have to expect the loss of more jobs. Ultimately though, what is being birthed will also lead to a widespread (Pisces) redistribution (Virgo) of wealth, accountability and skills that will form a new global economic landscape ( Aries/Libra= Cardinal Cross and World Points).

In the personal sense, you may have an idea or a plan of action which you want to implement. You may be trying to organise your life along better lines. If so you need to harness the natural cycles of life and wait just a couple more weeks before taking any overt action. Gather information and listen to your instinct at this time. Seek out, or offer help to, others wherever you can because many will be feeling like they are on the edge of a breakdown. It's likely that some people can be saved from experiencing depression if they are taught to see the current downturn as just part of a greater cycle that is ultimately assisting them in their personal growth. This instantly eradicates feelings of powerlessness and futility, as hope is restored.

Quite simply put, if you are waiting for news or unsure of your direction at this time, the advice is to 'don't push it or force it, relax and let it be!' for just a little while longer. Trust! You don't doubt when the Sun goes down that it will rise again, why doubt that your life is governed by the same forces.

In the more ego driven personalities, where desire (or anger) rides roughshod over awareness of the need for rhythm and process, sadly the 'breakthrough' will be forced, the energies will become quite uncontainable and may suddenly be expressed quite violently or in 'revolutionary' ways. However, you don't have to become embroiled in the negative manifestations.

As mutable signs equate to the mental realms, it would be far better to think outside of the box and plan to do something quite different or unusual, than to allow the energy to become misdirected and 'sink' you.

If you are one of those who have been made redundant or are experiencing acute anxiety over the economic problems, spend the next two weeks working out ways to 'revolutionise' old ways of thinking and embrace a vision of how you want your life to shape up in coming months. Replace negativity with positivity at every juncture. What resources will you need to nurture the tender young shoots ( the idea) that you have in mind? Who do you need to connect with? What transferable skills do you possess which can be utilised to increase your income? Virgo lunations demand that you take practical action and formulate plans, so talk to someone. Seek out counselling, coaching or visit the multitude of self-help websites online that can assist you in finding a way forward - here's a great one.

If I can offer just one tip to restoring your financial wealth it is this: Do what you love and the money will follow. Make the act of service - the job - the priority and don't focus on the financial reward.

This Full Moon is aiding and abetting the current 'Shift' in consciousness. Losing a job is not a tragedy but an opportunity to take responsibility for your life direction and fulfillment and to get 'on purpose'. After the Equinox of 20th March and the New Moon of 26 March renewed hope will surface. With Venus Rx during this whole period, it may be prudent to revisit people, skills and/or financial plans that you had shelved or had previously considered but dismissed - they may prove to be a hidden goldmine. Many people will feel compelled to give up (Rx) on luxuries (Venus) but that exacerbates the overall (Pisces) problem inherent in a recession as it can lead to deflation

Far better then to use this Full Moon to refuse to feel like a victim of a recession and review (Rx) ways to increase income rather than decrease spending!

At the top of the page is the ACG Map for the lunation. Remember with these maps the lines show where planets come to angularity. Angularity is associated with the 4th harmonic (divisions of the circle by 4) and concrete manifestation. Physical events and news will most likely emanate from these areas in the days preceeding the lunation and the two weeks afterwards. The lunations also mark areas that become sensitised to subsequent transits of planets to 20 mutables ( i.e., 20 +/- 2 degrees Virgo Pisces, Gemini, Sag) setting up an harmonic resonance.

If you look at the map you will see the blue arrow pointing to the Pluto line, correctly pinpointing the breakdown in law and order with regards to the drug war (Pisces) escalating in Tijuana Mexico.

Also highlighted is Pakistan and the Afghanistan border and there's a particularly difficult confluence of activity over Japan with Pluto setting while the lunation straddles the MC and IC. Planets on the IC often relate to earth related events, so it may be something to do with the Kyoto Protocol but earth tremors are an obvious possibility. When the Sun is in Pisces, under-sea quakes which produce tsunami's are more likely along that entire longitude. Speaking of under-sea activity these lines also straddle the area where dozens of whales beached themselves in Tasmania last week.

Also highlighted is Rio in Brazil, the UAE and Iran and the Middle East and once again we have Pluto ascending through Lisbon.

Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and the US states of TX, KS, IA, MO and MN take a hit in the geodetic maps, not shown here.

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THE MESSAGE IS GETTING LOUDER

2009-03-01T18:13:00.003Z

I've written before about the rise in the number of Futurists - people who try and predict upcoming social and economic trends. Dmitry Orlov is not a fully fledged futurist, in fact he's a software engineer, but if someone becomes an engineer astrologers know they are naturally attuned to being prescient. This is due to the correlations of this type of work to the planet Uranus, which was discovered at the time of the Industrial Revolution and whose cycles coincide with the technological revolution that birthed the Internet. Uranus always seems to connect one to be able to receive 'information from the future'.

Anyway Dmitry is garnering the attention of futurists the world over due to his 'insight' over the parallels between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the now full blown economic crisis in the USA which, arguably, triggered the global meltdown. He has been 'shouting' out for over a decade now about the possibility of the social and economic collapse of the USA. You can read the transcript of a speech he gave in February here and/or you can read his presentation (with visuals) from 2006 here.

The message is certainly getting louder but we also have to ask, is it true?

The person who alerted me to Dmitry did so in the context of enquiring if the astrology supported such a dire view of a collapse of the USA.

The answer is yes and no.

Firstly cycles do repeat but never in exactly the same way. One has to see cycles as being like a spiral. We may come back to revisit a situation, but we will always do so one level higher than before. It's almost as if we say, 'Okay I recognise this, I've been here before' but what you learned the previous time ensures that the outcome this time is different as you are looking at it from a slightly higher perspective. In global terms, a cycle repeats but the actions of the people participating in it, and the level from which they perceive the problem will have a great impact on the outcome. So the more enlightened people are about a positive, possible future the more they can raise themselves up to look at it from a 'higher' perspective and avoid the previous problems. Forewarned is forearmed.

Astrologically the Jupiter/Neptune/ Chiron conjunction of this year could point to massive collapse of the economy, currencies and maybe even countries ( Astrologer Christeen Skinner is another prescient 'Uranian' who discussed all this years ago and wrote about it in her book The Financial Universe). The same Jupiter/Neptune associated with collapse can however, also give rise to hugely inflated fears travelling throughout the collective, fuelled by misinformed networks and groups (AQ) and even astrologers, (Christeen excluded!). So it's important that we don't all get swept off in a wave of fear and unwittingly bring about that which we are trying to avoid.

What I personally note is the transit of Saturn into Libra later in the year. This can bring about a reform of the structure of society via collaborative efforts. We can all get serious (SA) about co-operating with each other (Libra) in order for the good of the whole. This will involve huge restructuring of the Legal/Judicial system (Libra) too, but right action ( SA) allied with right thought (air sign) can bring about change.

To this end my eye was drawn to the 'manifesto' of a network of futurists called The Foresight Network. It says:

The network's goals are to help members listen and learn from each other, anticipate change, explore next practice, find new opportunities to collaborate and to co-create the future.

They also have a great URL - Shaping Tomorrow

It always amuses me that futurists have no idea how closely allied their work is to that of astrologers. One of the posts I see up on this site at the moment is Looking 7 years forward, looking 7 years back. Seven years is of course one sub-cycle of the 28 year Saturn cycle and Uranus has an 84 year cycle which is 12 periods of 7 years. Shaping Tomorrow would be a Saturn (shaping/structuring) theme while Tomorrow is a Uranian theme (Uranus = future) so they are bang on 'trend' in choosing this name when we are in a continuing Saturn/Uranus opposition cycle during 2008-2010.

What's the upshot then? Well. if the message 'is getting louder' we will all eventually hear someone's take on it. However, in my mind it should not be heard as a clarion call for us all to bunker down or head for the hills . That will energise a wave of panic. Rather it is that as a co-operative - a 'global family' of people and businesses, formed along the premise of: benefits that can be passed along for the good of everyone, we can and should 'collaborate with this fate' and actively begin to co-create ( Saturn in Libra) a better future.

Don't look to the Governments to 'fix' your future. You may feel that you are a victim and resent having to clean up someone else's mess but, to paraphrase Goethe if we 'all sweep in front of our own front door, soon the whole world will be clean'. Do what you can to bring change to your world and don't wait for it to come to you. Check out the Co-ops. and alternative power sources (Uranus also moves to the sign of Aries in 2010).

This is the way forward and my bet for the single biggest trend for 2010.

Update: This just in. Best newsletter for Trendwatching

JUST STIRRING UP A LITTLE CONTROVERSY/DEBATE!

2009-02-26T19:48:00.002Z

The Sun is still in the sign associated with the oceans and mysteries, Pisces, so perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised that the recent 'Atlantis Discovery' story refuses to go away. It has, of course, been totally refuted. However, such was the interest of Joe Public in this story that, after the initial denial from a representative, Google asked two of the scientists who collect the undersea data to put their side of the story. It appears here under the title Atlantis? No it Atlant-isn't .

Meanwhile I've received a few messages from the couple who made the initial discovery - Cynthia and Larkin Jones. There was a dispute over who had first noticed the apparent seafloor anomalies - the Joneses or Bernie Bamford - and this is what Larkin Jones had to say on the matter. It's a touching letter and I'm sharing this dialogue because I feel compassion for them, if they have been wronged by Mr Bamford, and for all the wasted effort. How would you feel if you thought you had made the discovery of a lifetime only to have your hopes cruelly dashed and ridiculed!?

Dear Kathryn.. We have the documentation that gives a chronological dateline from the point of discovery, to the establishment of our website live on the Internet. This all predates Mr. Bamford's claim to finding this anomaly and clearly establishes our claim.

I'm 54, retired from the U.S. Air Force and served as an Air Traffic Control Radar Technician. During my time in the military, I observed many strange radar and meteorological phenomenon. It was this life's experience, that sparked my interest in researching those things which most people never seem to notice. I guess you could say that this, was the first step towards making this Google Earth find... but Cynthia is by far the best discovery of my life. ( AHHHH, isn't that lovely- it moved me. K)

Kathryn, we don't have a problem with you using any of our correspondence, just please correct our typing errors. (lol) After the many hours spent learning how to build a web-page so that we could invite the world to explore our find, it's rather disappointing to see someone else get the credit for it's discovery. Though it is possible that many people may have run across this image on Google Earth, our research showed that nobody at our time of discovery were aware of this anomaly.

Seems like Larkin, out of everyone should know what Sonar can and can't pick up then - eh?. Here's the next letter:

Kathryn. You had it right when you wrote this statement "Anyway, Google is saying that what can be seen on their maps is nothing more than a remnant of the map making process itself, whilst those who love a good conspiracy are insisting that Google's denial is a little fishy!" And now the the U.S. Navy has set-in on this downplay of this sea floor anomaly... WHY? The Navy story is that this strange anomaly is nothing more than sonar echo-sounding integrated with computer data to produce the graphic image seen on Google. If they were just testing their sonar's abilities, why would the U.S. Navy travel all the way to this spot to test their equipment... sounds a whole lot fishy!

The truth is out there. Why is there so much downplay of this site and it's discovery... Could it possibly be that this site lay within an area that might be used for HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL? This ancient grid discovery is real and not the results of inherent sonar imagery problems.

Kathryn, I thought that you might interested in seeing just how fishy things might really be.

Have a Great Day!

Sincerely,
Larkin

Now, either the plot thickens or we have a wonderful Neptunian bit of delusion fever afoot. I know which side I am veering towards but what do you think? Answers/questions to the lovely Mr Larkin please.

Update latest:
Hi Kathryn,

Thank you for your continued interest as this story unfolds.

I have found some interesting information on the radioactive waste issue. Here is the link to that info.

On the second page (pg.#48) of the article posted on this site, it shows a map. If you look at the west coast of Africa, the second dot west of the coast sits almost directly over the ancient grid site. I think this may explain the U.S. Navy's interest in this whole thing.

Just thought I'd share this info.

Sincerely,
Larkin

VIEW COMET LULIN TONIGHT - updated

2009-02-24T11:08:00.000Z

Please scroll down for 24th Feb update and viewing directions and Video

CATCH LULIN HERE TONIGHT 11PM EST and thru the night.

or go anyway, now, to see a cached video of Lulin streaking through the sky last night. Scroll down the landing page to bottom right.*

The comet should now be visible, wherever you are located on Earth, thru the night. It is in the astrological sign of Virgo, (on the edge of the constellations Leo and Virgo) Closest planet is Saturn on the 24th and it then streaks on to oppose the Sun (remember it is travelling in the opposite direction to the planets) and will align with Fixed star Regulus on the 28th Feb. See the map and dates here.

For my latest post on Atlantis and wavelength, please scroll down or see my sidebar for a link. Since writing that post, the word 'wave' is coming up everywhere. Is Lulin ushering in a New Age - a new 'wave' of consciousness or should we continue looking to events at sea or with water in coming days, weeks and months?

NASA say the comet "is shedding nearly 800 gallons of water each second." Comets are also said to shed dust and gases in their wake. One earthbound correlation is the freak dust storms that have occurred in Kuwait and Doha this month, plus the appearance of many separate meteors. I wrote about the Texan one. Here's another from this month, around the time of the dust storm, in Hawaii and still more have been reported across the globe.

Look out for more sky rocks plus sudden flashes of inspiration/intuition or telepathy arriving 'out of nowhere' this week!

Enjoy the sky show.

*Update: The Coca Cola Webcast managed to get some more shots of Lulin last night (23/24) before cloud rolled in. They are putting them together now but the original cached video I mentioned, and another shot of Lulin are now on the site.

Most interestingly, re the dust comment above, I have also come across these 2 stories:

Mystery dust baffles residents
and
Suspicious 'Magic Dust' Closes Disneyland for Short Time

SATURN'S MOONS
Another big sky event today ( 24th) is the quadruple transit of Saturn's Moons. Watch the animation here Transits like these are rare. "They only happen every 14 to 15 years when the orbits of Saturn's moons are nearly edge-on to Earth," say Nasa experts.

The event starts at 10:54 UT (2:54 a.m. PST) when Titan's circular shadow falls across Saturn's cloudtops. About forty minutes later, the ruddy disk of Titan itself moves over the clouds.

To find Saturn ( and Lulin) see this map or watch this video

ARE YOU ON THE ATLANTIS WAVELENGTH?

2009-02-22T16:48:00.001Z

So the synchronicities continue: I 'happened' across the Donnelly book about Comets and mentioned it in my last post, and then, within days, Donnelly's name and another of his books was suddenly becoming a web-wide talking point. Why? Which book? Well he also penned: (read it here) Atlantis, the Antediluvian World and unless you have been off the planet for the last week, you can't fail to have heard the story about the 'apparent' discovery of Atlantis. (Catch up here if this story has eluded you)

Anyway, Google are saying that what can be seen on their maps is nothing more than a remnant of the map making process itself, whilst those who love a good conspiracy are insisting that Google's denial is a little fishy!

What does the great mirror in the sky tell us? Well the Sun has moved into the sign ruled by the God of the sea, Neptune, which is associated with mysteries, whilst the planet Uranus is also in the same sign - Pisces. This points to an overall focus around extraordinary discoveries associated with the Ocean and indeed anything water related, so I'm not surprised this story is picking up speed now.

Uranus in Pisces, however, also relates to waves of the water or light(wave) variety.

News of the find may only have broken worldwide in recent days but according to this site, Larkin and Cynthia Jones first spotted 'Atlantis' one month ago on 22 January 2009. Meanwhile a Mr Bernie Bamford from Chester, UK got his 15 minutes of fame from this by calling The Sun newspaper and claiming he was the one who spotted it on Google. I'll let them slog out who should take the credit for the discovery, although in this astrological climate it is entirely possible they both happened across it separately as the speed of information exchange in the collective unconscious is increasing in line with the information and networking explosion that we are consciously aware of.

If I've lost you there, it's really a difficult subject to broach (as is Jade Goody's plight but I'll try and give an alternative viewpoint on that too, soon) but, suffice to say, if you believe that your thoughts emanate from your brain; inside your skull, and are not broadcast to anyone else, you need to think again. Your brain is just the hardware, your thoughts are the software you choose to use and the information is coming to you ( and going out from you) wirelessly! As a general rule of thumb, although this requires further explanation, what you focus on is what you'll pull in and vice versa. That's the Law of Attraction at work.

Therefore any number of people can pull in the same information from the Mind out there and one person happening upon something on Google can transmit their discovery to someone else on the same vibrational wavelength, either instantly or when they come into alignment with them - making it appear that a coincidence, synchronicity or even a bit of plagiarism has taken place.

Where astrology comes in for helping one to 'collaborate with fate' is it can help us to make sense of the different energetic exchanges at work. For example someone with their Moon in Taurus is more likely to connect more easily to someone who was born when their Sun was in Taurus or perhaps with someone who's Venus was in Cancer at birth, than they are to resonate to someone who has Venus in Leo.

Likewise when transiting planets are congregating in the sign of Aquarius, as they are now, those receptive to Aquarian related events, places, people etc will receive and transmit them more easily and therefore also find themselves more readily mixed up in events of a nature that corresponds to their birthchart placings.

In essence then, Astrology is just like a version of The Radio Times - a magazine that lists the frequencies and timings one needs to be informed about in order to tune into the programmes of their choice.

So, what's with the sudden appearance of Donnelly in my life twice in one week? Is it a synchronicity? Well, synchronicity is just another word for alignment of frequency/wavelength.

I have now gone and located his birthdata and unsurprisingly ( to me) Donnelly and I have multiple natal planets in common and we both have progressions in our birthcharts (his is valid even after death) bringing us into an alignment at this precise time. Over and beyond my personal involvement with his work these last weeks, we note that the transiting planets of this time (for all of us) are aligning with his birthchart, bringing his name to public attention once again.

He is effectively just starting, as we all are, a new Mars/Jupiter cycle at this time, as Mars is exactly conjoined to his birth Jupiter as I write. Also, in this case the transiting planet is Jupiter - the planet of publishing - and it is transiting his natal Uranus, the planet of unusual or generally left field, heretical( and, it must be said, sometimes just downright weird and loopy) information.

Was Ignatius Donnelly correctly interpreting the works of Plato and did he really believe in the existence of Atlantis? In his own reality, yes. And here again we go off into the realms of the weird and wonderful.......

In the perfection and order of the Universe, it may yet transpire that we are all, as a collective, meant to be questioning the existence of lost worlds and we are being alerted to previous times of cataclysms in nature as part of our unfolding purpose and evolution. Or, it may, one day, become apparent that we have cranked up the 'end of the world is nigh, there must be something beyond this' vibration to such a level that we are all attracting stories of this ilk and being brought back into resonance with the works of those who at one time emitted this vibration (and therefore, at some level and plane of existence still are).

If anyone knew what was really going on we'd have the secret of existence in our palm. All I know is that, via astrology, we can perceive the unity in all things.

I'll leave you to ponder the charts. This one shows today on the outside against Donnelly's birthchart in the middle wheel. The picture at the top shows where Donnelly thought Atlantis would be found - near the Azores and Canary Islands!
Click to enlarge.

FIREBALL OVER TEXAS & Lulin

2009-02-17T19:57:00.000Z

Here's the Astro map for the sighting of the fireball which was seen streaking over Texas on Sunday morning ( 15 Feb 2009, 11am, Austin) and is thought to have plummeted to the ground somewhere in Northern Texas. I guess if anyone out there in Texas is interested in locating a possible impact point, the best place to start hunting would be under the ACG lines +/- 50 miles either side. Especially where the white arrows are pointing to the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines.

There are various confusing reports across the web as to whether this was remnants of the recent satellite collision but 'experts' appear to be confirming it was a meteor. In which case this can be chalked up as another 'spooky' coincidence for me because, whilst searching for something completely unrelated, last week ( 11/02), I came across this:

In the year 1871, on Sunday, the 8th of October, at half past nine o'clock in the evening, events occurred which attracted the attention of the whole world, which caused the death of hundreds of human beings, and the destruction of millions of property, and which involved three different States of the Union in the wildest alarm and terror.
The summer of 1871 had been excessively dry; the moisture seemed to be evaporated out of the air; and on the Sunday above named the atmospheric conditions all through the Northwest were of the most peculiar character. The writer was living at the time in Minnesota, hundreds of miles from the scene of the disasters, and he can never forget the condition of things. There was a parched, combustible, inflammable, furnace-like feeling in the air, that was really alarming. It felt as if there were needed but a match, a spark, to cause a world-wide explosion. It was weird and unnatural. I have never seen nor felt anything like it before or since. Those who experienced it will bear me out in these statements.

At that hour, half past nine o'clock in the evening, at apparently the same moment, at points hundreds of miles apart, in three different States, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois, fires of the most peculiar and devastating kind broke out, so far as we know, by spontaneous combustion.

Now the weather in these 3 U.S. states or Texas at present is far from unusually dry and combustible, and no one has been killed, but the reason that I sat up and took notice of what I was reading was due to the remarkable coincidence of the writers description of the fires to those stories that were coming out of Victoria, Australia regarding their bushfires. Many in Victoria were astounded by the speed of the fires and reported them as travelling like tornadoes of fire and here's what I was reading in what I had stumbled across:

It was no ordinary fire. I quote:

"At sundown there was a lull in the wind and comparative stillness. For two hours there were no signs of danger; but at a few minutes after nine o'clock, and by a singular coincidence, precisely the time at which the Chicago fire commenced, the people of the village heard a terrible roar. It was that of a tornado, crushing through the forests. Instantly the heavens were illuminated with a terrible glare. The sky, which had been so dark a moment before, burst into clouds of flame.

Some of you may recognise this text. It turns out I had landed on a page, mid-book, and I was reading Ragnarok - the Age of Fire & Gravel. A controversial tome written in 1883 by Ignatius Donnelly. The page I had happened upon was about Biela's Comet but the whole book is about comet/meteor impacts on Earth throughout history.

Ok, so you are thinking, what's this got to do with a meteor over Texas? Well, it seems that it was pure coincidence about the awful accounts coming from Oz, as many are suspected of being caused by arson. However the appearance of this Texan meteor has 'rekindled' my interest in what I was reading because the book goes on to recount how the author believes that Earth was passing through debris associated with Beila's Comet and that the unusual atmospheric, tinderbox, conditions in 1871 were related to the comet. Indeed he seems to propose that the great conflagration was caused by fragments of rock, in the wake of the comet's tail, falling to Earth.

This made my mind leap to the fact that up in the sky at this time we have Comet Lulin, just days away from making it's closest pass to Earth. My train of thought now therefore, is - is this latest meteor sighting related to Comet Lulin? Additionally, it has to be asked, are the unusual atmospheric conditions down-under in Australia related to the fact that we have a Comet or maybe vice versa; do we have a Comet ( and recently more bright and unexpected ones than normal) due to peculiar changes in the electromagnetic fields in the atmosphere, (which are coincident with a new Sunspot cycle which peaks in 2011/12)?

I'm loathe to continue this line of reasoning because patently the last thing I am is an Astrophysicist or meteorologist BUT, in my experience, when I am led to these things entirely by accident they are usually something to take note of. So, if you feel so inclined, drop me a line if you have knowledge of whether Lulin and the meteor ( and/or dry conditions in Oz) could be related and I'll report back here on this site.

Meanwhile, you may like to hop over to Donnelly's fascinating book. This page, if you scroll down gives you chapter titles and the ones on comets are, to say the least, thought provoking.

I'll leave you with this quote from the book

...the meteor-shower experienced in Europe on November 27th was unquestionably due to the passage near the earth of a meteoric trail traveling in the track of the comet.

and the chart for the 1871 event. Tr Saturn trine Pluto. Tr Pluto conjunct Saturn. This makes the Saturn/Pluto paran on Sunday's ACG map look more than interesting!

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

2009-02-13T19:09:00.001Z

It won't bring back those who perished in the Victoria bush fires, or indeed any tragedy, but while you still have life, it's true to say that all you need is love. It is love and compassion for the people ( and animals) who are suffering which will translate into the spiritual sustenance and material things that will rebuild shattered nerves, lives and dreams.

I just received a very moving message from a reader in Australia, a part of which reads:

The morale here is unbelievable with donations exceeding anyone's expectation's with major food retailers donating 3 - 5million and people in droves providing housing to families devastated. Over 100 million has been raised and the community feeling is heartfelt. I have never felt closer to the earth we live on and the generosity of Australians at this moment makes your eyes swell and if people don't have money to donate they are giving blood.

The brushfires are still intense and temperatures are set to soar on the weekend.. We pray for rain but should we not get any the spirit to put them out is strong. - Kelly

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Whilst we are on the subject of love; over on my Cosmic Cipher blog I recently posted a piece about The Seven Senses. It touches on something in there which I have long known as truth but, sadly, sometimes gets buried under the weight of everyday life. So, this is a timely reminder, not only to myself, but to all those reading.

Referring to the feeling of love, this is........

It is said that it isn’t most important how great a guy looks or what he says, (or has - my words) but how he makes her feel.

The same is obviously true in reverse between a woman and man.

So, are you worried that you haven't got someone the perfect Valentine's present? Have you put on a few excess pounds? Worried that you don't own the perfect dress or suit for a romantic night out? Low on funds for celebration? None of this really matters a jot compared to how you connect to the heart of the person you desire this weekend - and every single day of your life together.

Feelings are all. Moreover if you don't feel good about yourself, you'll only attract someone of the same vibrational match. Therefore, the time you invest in understanding your own feelings will always pay off handsomely.

My friend Annie's book is now zooming up the Amazon bestsellers list and I can't recommend it highly enough. Brilliant Relationships: Your Ultimate Guide to Attracting and Keeping the Perfect Partner.

Finally, for those of you interested in the great ' Is this the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?' debate, hop over to this site belonging to Eric Francis and subscribe to his brilliant Planet Waves Astrology News and he'll explain this - click to enlarge:

THE CHIRON ECLIPSE & Victoria fires

2009-02-09T02:56:00.001Z

Could astrology have predicted the devastating bush fires in Australia and in some way have helped to avert the terrible death toll? I really don't believe that - at present - it is possible. Both of the AstroCartoGraphy charts ( Celestial and Geodetic) for today's Lunar penumbral eclipse do show that the focus of what is being dubbed ' The Chiron Eclipse' fall right in the vicinity of the fires. However, to pinpoint this location, on these longitudinal lines (which also run around the globe through many other countries) as being the location of fires per se, would be like finding a needle in a haystack and indeed knowing it was a needle you were looking for in the first place.

That said, other charts have already pinpointed the fact that Australia was becoming a location to watch for concrete manifestations of celestial activity in '09 ( see my previous posts on Australia) and this area in the state of Victoria has been particularly 'active' in all recent maps. So if someone could devise some sort of computer programme that would pinpoint locations that are getting repeated astrological activity ( from charts of leaders, towns etc, as well as maps) it may be possible in the future to pin down certain areas of specific countries and note windows of time when particular astrological correspondences are more likely to manifest. In that way it may not be a precise prediction but some warning of 'heightened activity' could be given.

For example, the map at the top of the page is of the precise GMT time of the SA/UR opposition. On these maps we look for where Saturn and Uranus come to angularity as angularity is associated with the 4th harmonic and concrete (physical) manifestation. In this map you see that they came to angularity in the precise area of the fires.

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Here is the relocated chart, so that you can see Saturn and Uranus angular i.e on the ASC/DESC angles at this location, Bendigo. Angularity in cycle charts means that something of the nature of SA/UR was likely to occur in this general area of the world in the days immediately before, after or on, the opposition of 5th Feb.

This map below shows today's eclipse, see Blue Sun/Chiron and Yellow Moon lines showing the Full Moon down through Australia. This pinpoints this location as being 'emotionally charged' and coming to public attention:

Additionally, there is much planetary activity affecting Kevin Rudd's chart. Today's eclipse is with his natal Moon and the tr Nodes are with his natal Uranus, so the fact that he would be entering a phase, or in the immediate aftermath, of unexpected and sudden, highly emotional events, that may have an effect on his own personal destiny, could be studied in more detail. Cross referencing his transits with many other charts and maps, in advance, could have given us clues as to locations where his transits would find expression on Earth. As he is the 'representative' of Australia what affects him affects the country and vice versa. This is such an unexplored area of astrology that is just crying out for more data input and collation.

I can't add too many maps or the post won't load but in many recent ones, we now see in retrospect, the maps did home in on this location. Also the inclusion of Chiron in this eclipse - it is exactly conjoined to the Sun, points to a major wounding of the global psyche at the locations where the eclipse is angular - and that was in this area.

Chiron transits are well documented as being associated with events that wound (or by polarity heal us, in some way). Chiron transits also relate to the following* Major moves or relocation, spouse leaving or leaving a spouse. Death of someone close, traumatic experiences ( I'll add further delineations, which won't apply to this event, at the bottom of the page).

It would take pages of space to tell non astrologers what all the lines on the maps correspond to, but astrologers will, for sure, take one look at these planetary lines and go 'Oh gosh!'. The 'manifestation' could have taken many different forms, on many different planes - that is they are not always physical - but, as I say, when you pile them up, i.e., you also look at other charts and cross reference them all we can guess something is afoot.

Again, if you are not an astrologer you won't realise the incredible nature of these maps so please take it from me that the chances of these particular planetary lines being in the location of where the fires occurred is slim. The fact that a few lines are an inch or so away from precise locations, in some of the maps, is of no consequence when we are looking at such vast distances.

Finally here are the maps for the Solar eclipses of Jan 2009. This first one is celestial ACG. Where there is a line means that the planet in question, or the midpoint of 2 planets, will be on the angle of the chart for that locationThis one is Geodetic (mundane) . In these maps the lines don't move very fast, so the influence noted is more long term depending on the relative speed of the planet being studied. For example, the Sun will move approx one degree every day, apparently moving around the globe in one year, but outer planets will move far more slowly.The chances of the SA/UR cycle plus the eclipses falling through the same country, yet alone within a small radius of a certain place on the globe where a major event occurs is beyond coincidence. We really need people with the scientific and mathematical skills to take the 'As above, So below' correlations of the planets more seriously and produce statistical data and 'astrological weather' forecasts that will make the general populace sit up and take notice.

What also needs further study is the fact that eclipses that are still some way into the future seem to cast their influence back into the past. Take a look at the central total Solar Eclipse chart for 22 July 2009. Yet again it seems to highlight this precise area and why this should be needs further, thorough investigation.

One other place where, I have mentioned before, I have been noticing a build up of planetary activity is Portugal - especially around Lisbon and that longitude. Corresponding lines for that location would fall 180 degrees away in New Zealand and up to the Pacific Rim. The event, if one occurs, in both locations is likely to be of the nature of Jupiter/Neptune/Chiron - the trick is to determine in advance what, out of all the possible manifestations of these 3 planets that 'event' is likely to be - it could also be several and certainly doesn't have to be negative.

This aspect is associated with wounding or healing around communism which links into negotiations over the Lisbon Treaty. It's also associated with the Religious fervour, The Great Depression, floods, cyclones, tsunami's, snow, national health and many other things which is why we need some kind of focused study of these likely manifestations.

Finally then, please note that none of these maps are of the time of the fires. They are maps that point to an event, in this location, triggered by the eclipses.

* from Zane B Steins study of Chiron transits. The Chiron transits equate to what was written above and meeting someone who is later to become the spouse. Mother or Father remarrying. Birth of child, Birth of sibling, Start attending school. Chiron with Sun the focus on health and vitality of heart, of both self and others; Events which bring alienation; Major change in social life. An event which ' puts one in one's place'. Chiron opposite Moon. becoming aware of body and physicalit,y either through health crisis or some other change. Entering a graduate degree programme.

TITBITS OF ASTRO INFO - you won't want to miss

2009-02-04T14:36:00.009Z

I've got a round-up of info for you with this post - which is perhaps an easier format for both of us. It saves you having to wade through a lengthy, one topic, article and allows me to convey all the titbits I have come across in recent days.

First off then; Valentines day is looming. I was interested to read that on February 14th, a few minutes after sunrise GMT, the Moon is in the seventh house (and in the sign of relationships, Libra) as Jupiter aligns with Mars (and the North Node). Could this be the 'Dawning of the age of Aquarius'?

Okay, I know Jupiter and Mars meet every few years and have met in Aquarius before, with Moon in Libra and/or the 7th house BUT Moon in Libra (7th) with Mars and Jupiter in AQ has happened only a couple of times since the 60's (18 Jan '98) and never with this heavy Aquarian line up and s0 close after Leo/Aquarius eclipses (next one 9th Feb) and a Saturn/Uranus line up (5th Feb).

Remember too Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, is the sign of 'Awakening' and the realisation of possession of an individuated consciousness (UR) in an earthbound vehicle - the body (SA).

Plus, Comet Lulin is brightening overhead. Add in the fact that we are being catapulted towards the start of two new cycles - the JU/NE and JU/UR and that seems like quite a few hallmarks of a new 'Aquarian' era to me. Many thanks to Dr Jude Currivan PhD for pointing out the alignment of the 14th Feb. She says (with relation to the nodes being reversed but close to JU and MA in AQ in 1962):

In 1962 we essentially took a collective in-breath of possibility and now with the cosmic support of the Aquarian alignment of 14th February 2009 we are able to take the out-breath and make it happen.

and I just love the strap line on her site:

In the commonality of our humanity, we are all ordinary,
In the commonality of our divinity, we are all extraordinary

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For those of you interested in finding if your 'amour' is your Soul Mate, I found a nice little article here, in which the author suggests using the asteroids Valentine, Eros. Amor, Union and Juno to determine 'Soulmate synastry' in astrological charts. Read the article through and then bring up the charts using this site or Astrodienst and input the following numbers for the asteroids (the numbers will be the same)
Eros ( 433)
Valentine (447)
Juno (3)
Amor (1221)
Union ( 1585)

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I'm noticing a lot of ACG lines accumulating around Lisbon and up and down that line of longitude, so up into Western Ireland and down to Morocco and Western Africa. This may be related to ongoing negotiations pertaining to The Lisbon Treaty but it may not. Eyes and ears peeled over the next few weeks for any events in these areas, possibly related to SA/UR - breakdowns, breakthroughs, rebellion, unexpected etc

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In my last post I mentioned that I thought things would start appearing relating to magnetism. I must be tuned in at the moment because within a day of writing that Hay House sent me advice of a new book and in the review for the book it says:

The powers of magnetism are not as mystical as you might think. You can learn to switch your energy like flipping a switch on an electrical current, changing the very direction of your life. Every single day you can establish a new, consistently positive life force—one that will propel your intentions with focus, optimism, and personal power.

The world exists in a constant state of flow, and your consciousness can shift in the blink of an eye.

Hot on the heels of that popping into my inbox I was 'coincidentally' led to i.e., I wasn't consciously seeking them out, numerous articles on Magnetism including a fascinating treatise from the 'New Thought' era on how to use personal magnetism to bend people to your will*. Hmmm, I'm not sure about this but I'll give you the details in my next newsletter, where I'll also let you know how I get on putting the principles into practice over the next few weeks. I'm a pretty competent manifester but can I bend people to my will? We'll see ;-)

Here's a video on Magnetism so we can all understand how we are surrounded by magnetic fields. Fabulous! Roll on 2012.

What this latest series of syncronicities suggests to me is that, yet again we can see that astrology may not be brilliant at straightforward prediction per se but it's excellent for pinpointing an idea, or theme, whose time has come - or is arriving.

* Update: I've had a few letters about this as to 'bend one to your will' is patently a transgression of 'right thought and action'. I totally agree, which is why I wrote it in a tongue in cheek manner, but the possibility remains that if we can alter our personal magnetism it may affect who we are able to more readily attract or repel. There's something to be investigated here.

EYE ON THE SKY

2009-01-29T14:28:00.002Z

As we approach the 2nd of five Saturn/Uranus oppositions on Feb 5th 2009, we can expect more manifestations of the polarity issues, inherent in any opposition aspect (180 degree separation), to emerge in our personal lives and out in the world.

Here's a few examples: opposing viewpoints that actually have more in common than one realises; push and pull of opinions; opportunities to see our Self reflected in others or whatever opposes us, or we are vehemently opposed to: 'should I stay or should I go' ( or act) conflict and indecision scenarios; extreme fluctuations and swings between two poles. etc

Add in the influence of Saturn and Uranus and the themes are usually related to the old (SA) versus the new (UR), traditional (SA) versus quirky ( UR), new information which contradicts old etc. New rules, guidelines, jobs, service standards and contracts, pay deals, bosses...these are also themes of the moment. It also correlates to the known versus the unknown, the individual versus the establishment; containment and control versus freedom and space (or Space); land (SA) versus sky( UR) and 'us down here' looking at (opposition) 'that up there; normal (baseline) versus abnormal/unprecedented, 'extremes of' versus 'lack of' etc.

The lesson is to learn to roll with the natural cycles of life (all cycles have an in-drawing outgoing, up/down, rise/fall phase) and trust that, this too, ( the economic situation, your personal dilemma, indecision or whatever way this opposition is manifesting for you personally) has a higher purpose, even if from your current perspective this is presently difficult to see. Remember too if many companies are falling, then somewhere in the world many will soon be rising.

I believe this current SA/UR 'era', which goes on until 2010, is going to usher in a paradigm shift about some aspect of our physical world and our perspective on reality. We can expect sudden breakthroughs in our ability to understand the true nature of time and space and our laws of energy. These new discoveries could perhaps come about as a result of things that happen up in the sky (UR). Comet Lulin, or things up there we have yet to see, may well have some secrets to reveal. ( See end of post, news just in).

Undoubtedly as Governments, economies and businesses start to lose 'power' we'll see a corresponding loss of power in other areas. For instance GE (General Electric) just returned really bad profits and electrical retailers such as Curry's, Comet and other names associated with power in the form of engines ( cars, planes) are likely to struggle. Power outages are likely to increase BUT the polarity points to the strong likelihood that we will discover new power sources (UR) emanating from the natural world (SA). Plus inventors and scientists (UR) will be spurred on to uncover new information about old, established (SA) mediums, such as Electricity and Magnetism (see my post on Tesla).

I also expect to see a dramatic upsurge in the sale of books about the power of thought, the power of personal magnetism, Clairaudience, Remote Viewing and other psychic phenomena and things of this ilk, so if you're a budding author looking for a subject, that's your topic and now's your time!

If you are an investor my money would be on bottled water, wind up radios and wind up torches, solar power panels and companies who make batteries, plus with all the comets and sky activity we have had lately, home telescopes for kids (and adults) is probably one business that will continue to thrive!

If you are 'down under' investing in companies which make sunscreen products sounds like a no brainer, I hear they are enduring extreme temperatures - another manifestation of the opposition, freezing temps in the northern hemisphere and sweltering in the south AND see this - a planet exhibiting extreme temperatures. As above, so below!