Weekly Astrology Forecast: Toddler on a Sugar High

Weekly Astrology ForecastWeekly Astrology Forecast for the Week of April 15 to 21

Five planets sit in the zodiac sign of Aries, casting a wide net in their spread over the sign. The planet of the unexpected, Uranus, sits at 1 degree of Aries while the primary motivator, the Sun sits at 22 degrees. Smooshed in between is Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. If not for Saturn in tension aspect to these planets, the freewheeling energy of the first fire sign of the zodiac would be like a runaway train. “Let’s do this! Let’s do that!” Aries will say, much like a toddler on a sugar high.

Instead, Saturn puts the brakes on, and Pluto in Capricorn says, “We need to do this way.” There is a lot of tension in our personal and business relationships. Pluto calls us to transform them in major ways. Capricorn always has a method to its madness and an agenda. With those hard aspects, it looks like someone is going to force somebody to do something they don’t like. Who will that be?

Aries—you are always prone to a certain degree of restless energy, Ram. This week however, you feel like you are going to jump out of your skin. Recognize this for what it is the need for more time at the gym. Get crackin!

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Sunday’s Cardinal Grand Cross: Cha, Cha, Cha, Changes

April 10. 2011 Grand CrossIn a Facebook group to which I belong someone asked this question of the group.

Rumor has it the Moon in Cancer becomes part of a Grand Cross in the cardinal signs as the Moon squares Mars in Aries (1:53AM PDT), opposes Pluto in Capricorn (4:02AM PDT), squares Saturn in Libra (2:46PM PDT), and also squares Jupiter in Aries (10:27PM PDT).

Makes me dizzy. How do retrogrades affect these things?

This is such an excellent question that I thought it would be good to pen a few observations.

Retrograde is a do over. “Look,” the planet says, “You didn’t pay attention to me the first time, you are going to pay attention to me now!” Like with Saturn, it will hit a sensitive point in your chart, move forward, and move back three times before it moves on. My astrology teacher said, first time is like a tap, the second time its like a smack, and the third is ‘Whap! Upside the head!”

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Weekly Astrology Forecast: Forced Adjustments Of Attitude

Weekly ForecastAstrology for the week of April 9 through April 15

This question arrived in my in-box this morning.

Is it true that 7 planets are lined up, in Aries, for April and half of May?

What does this mean to me?

Um, not quite. 5 at any one time. Right now we have Uranus, Mars, Jupiter, Sun and Mercury Rx. When the Sun moves out, Venus will join the lineup.

There is a lot of meaning to this, but the first thing is, get out your white towel (ala Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe) and don’t panic.

No seriously, because there is lot of tension here and those folks with tension (opposition) challenge (square) and stress (inconjunct) aspects to this stellium may be prone to all sorts of whining, nervous fits, panic attacks and forced adjustments of attitude.

Aries is known as a trailblazing sign, a real go-getter. But Aries, at the first zodiac sign, and a fire sign, is also, well, let says diplomatically “self-oriented”. Everything is done in context of how the self is affected.

This is more than a little annoying to the rest of us who operate from different orientations, not the least of which are the other fire signs, who think their needs should take top billing.

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Astrology Conferences 2011

In my email this morning were a list of these “smaller” conferences of which the sender said:

“Each conference has its own flavor. I find the smaller conferences a much nicer venue to really get to know other astrologers and meet speakers. There is much less formality.”

Midwest Astrology ConferenceMidwest Astrology Conference (MAC): June 2 – 5, 2011
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio Keynote Speaker: Rob Hand
Rob Hand’s Pre-conference Workshop: “Dealing with Difficult Chart combinations”
Faculty: Dianne Eppler Adams; Geri Bellino; Monica Domino; Pat Geisler; Rob Hand; Jacqueline Janes; Joan Kendig; Brad Kochunas;Rick Levine; Chris McRae; Eric Meyers; Julene Packer; Sandra-Leigh Serio; Richard Smoot; Donna VanToen; Richard Weber
Register at www.midwestastrology.com Call: 303-604-2777 or 303-828-5445

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Astrological Society of Connecticut: Exploring Medical Astrology

Diane Cramer, Medical Astrologer

Diane Cramer

“A physician without a knowledge of astrology had better call himself a fool rather than a physician.” This statement was made by Hippocrates (450-377 BC), the father of modern medicine and the source of the Hippocratic oath. Medical astrology for many centuries was used for diagnosis and treatment suggestions. Today knowledgeable holistic health practitioners use medical astrology to determine the body’s strengths and weaknesses as well as its proneness to various disease states and nutritional deficiencies.

Diane Cramer, author of several definitive medical astrology books, will give a lecture and workshop for the Astrological Society of Connecticut on this fascinating specialty. Diane will speak on “Nutrition and Your Health: Identifying Nutritional Imbalances in Natal Charts”, Thursday April 21, 2011 at 7:00 PM at the Keeney Memorial Center, 200 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT. In this lecture each planet is explained in relation to nutrition with extra information given on Mars and Saturn in the signs.

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Monthly Astrology Forecast for April: Tripping Over The Edges of the Universe

Nylon Bath Scrub

Superstring Model of the Universe

Superstring Model of the Universe

Prediction is a funny business. There are those astrologers who say that you can’t predict anything from astrology, there are some astrologers who say you can predict everything from astrology, and there are those that don’t even try. And sometimes, the chart does not reveal that which the querent seeks. Maybe the thing that would give me the answer just isn’t our astrologer’s lexicon—yet. With questions such as these any astrologer worth his or her salt would wonder if there was something he or she was missing.

When you look at a model of the Universe, as postulated by superstring theorists, it looks rather like a nylon bath scrub, with its edges curled on top of each other. This makes the Universe a rather edgy place, with lots of rabbit holes in which to fall, and plenty of sharp edges over which to trip. Things overlap, history does indeed repeat itself, maybe in more literal ways than we believe now.

The pace of astronomical and astrological discovery has quickened in an exponential fashion since the discovery of Uranus. Before Uranus for the vast majority of people, there was no such thing as self-determination. You played the hand that you were dealt at birth. For the majority of people the best you could do was not lose ground. Uranus shows up and pow! In less than a blink of an eye in cosmic terms shortly before its official discovery, “We the people” and “right to pursue happiness” become catch phrases for a new country. Well, that certainly was an edge of the Universe we didn’t see coming. Following in relatively short order Neptune, Pluto and Chiron, the discovery of these energies represented new edges of the Universe. It took two hundred years to understand the nature of Uranus, a hundred years to understand Neptune and barely fifty to grasp the meaning of Pluto. The meaning of Chiron was integrated into our astrological lexicon within 20 years of its discovery. Now we have a new slew of planetary aspects. Eris, Sedna, Haumea, Varuna, Makemake, which we are only beginning to parse. How many years it will take before they are in our bag of predictive tricks, I don’t know. But I have this feeling we are only beginning to trip over the edges of the Universe.

Aries—Trailblazer Rams have more than enough impetus with many planets in your sign, to take bold action. Trouble is your plans do not meet with approval from authority figures or partners. These folks only have your best interests at heart, (even your bosses) so it doesn’t hurt to rethink some of your plans. Assess your options, gather information, and wait until the end of the month to move ahead.

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Weekly Astrology Forecast: Redux of Last Winter’s Solstice

Weekly Astrology ForecastThis past weekend’s new moon mirrors many of the themes of last December’s winter solstice eclipse. In this eclipse we saw the energies of the home loving sign of Cancer in tension aspect to Mars and Pluto, war and death in their most concentrated of meanings. Mars also stands for action, and Pluto for transformation, and as we’ve seen since that event action and transformation are the keywords for the first quarter of our year. In the previous sojourn of Pluto through Capricorn, the United States form. France cut the head off its monarchy, and the process of divorcing European royalty from their governments began. This go round, starting with Egypt and spreading through the Middle East is the spirit of revolution, of turning the old order out and ushering a new one. From Mubarak to Quaddaffi, the call went out to hand power back to the people. At this new moon, transformative Pluto sits in challenge aspect to Saturn and Jupiter. The old order of Saturn, the established authority is in opposition to the fresh new players. There are five planets in Aries, the sign of the Ram, ruled by the planet of war, Aries. These are Mars, itself, Uranus, Sun, Moon and Jupiter. If it seems like the whole world is joining in you aren’t too far off.

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Astronomy and Astrology: Why Astrology Should Be Taught in the Schools

Sun and PlanetAn observation by a British astronomer points to the need to teach astrology in the schools if only as a check and balance for the pronouncements of some astronomers.

On April 1, 1976 British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on BBC Radio 2 that at 9:47 AM a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event was going to occur that listeners could experience in their very own homes. The planet Pluto would pass behind Jupiter, temporarily causing a gravitational alignment that would counteract and lessen the Earth’s own gravity. Moore told his listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment that this planetary alignment occurred, they would experience a strange floating sensation. When 9:47 AM arrived, BBC2 began to receive hundreds of phone calls from listeners claiming to have felt the sensation. One woman even reported that she and her eleven friends had risen from their chairs and floated around the room.

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Beth Talks Royal Wedding on Blogtalk Radio Show

Prince William and Kate MiddletonNumerologist Ed Peterson and and astrologer Verena Heinrich has invited me to talk about the upcoming Royal Wedding on their blogtalk radio show.

The show will be on from Sunday, April 3 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT.

You can access the show at this link:

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On Ed and Verena’s blog is the numerology and tarot perspective of Prince William’s and Kate’s Wedding.

Come on by for what promises to be a fun two hours!

Posts in the series The Astrology of Royal Weddings:

Part 1: Saturn in LIbra

Part 2: The Yod–Destiny Plays a Hand

Part 3: Charles and Diana—A Suitable Girl

Part 4: Ladies of the Rings

Part 5: Will and Kate—Happily Ever After?


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Wikipedia’s War Against Astrology: Jimmy Wales–Are You Listening?

JImmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

(Astrology Explored) Recently, a small group of “astrology friendly” people have been attempting to edit the section on astrology in Wikipedia where in the current version is slanted and full of inaccuracies. Time and again, this group has been batted back and their proposal for edits denied, the crux of the argument being, “We know astrology is a pseudoscience.”

Really?

In fact, the admins of Wiki-pedia are sure of their position because they had an arbitration that decided it was so.

(note and update: the original link to this section of Wikipedia disappeared. I researched and found the nearest correlation to original material in the link above.)

What’s bad about that?

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