Star Guide

The birthchart may be looked upon as a symbolic picture of our frozen karma. Most of us are so conditioned by society and culture that our lives are only a superficially modified repetition of the sociocultural past. We must choose between allegiance to repeating that past – no matter how glorious it may have been – or choosing to transform that past in a creative way. Karma simply refers to the fact that any new cycle of existence is always in some manner related to some unfinished business of  the old cycle. Dharma is nothing but the opportunity in the new cycle to work creatively with the old karma. If we refuse to create when the time comes we must take responsibility for the death and decay that must follow. Thus is new “karma” born.  Karma is not produced so much by a wrong kind of action ("sin") as by the type of action which derives from a refusal to perform creative acts , when the need for them has come. Karma is caused by a denial – conscious or unconsci

This Sunday, at midnight, the notorious Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to expire. Section 215 has been the basis for the bulk collection of communications of all Americans, indeed of all the world. It was born under Bush in the wake of 9/11, and Obama kept it alive in beginning in 2010 – until now. But on Sunday a stake can be driven through its heart – if WE act NOW. This is not simply a possibility but a likelihood! Obama and his co-conspirators, both Republican and Democratic Senate “leadership” are hell-bent on keeping this Frankenstein alive. If they cannot, then they have other monsters in line to take its place. In addition to the original Patriot Act, there are on the table three other bills, all phony reforms of the U.S. Patriot Act. May 30 http://bit.ly/1SIAPgG The USA PATRIOT Act is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. Its title is a ten-letter backronym (USA PATRIOT) that stands for "Uniting an

Andromeda rescued by Pegasus A lung cancer therapy can more than double life expectancy in some patients, a "milestone" trial shows. Nivolumab stops cancerous cells hiding from the body's own defences, leaving the cancer vulnerable to attack. The results from 582 people, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, were described as "giving real hope to patients". Lung cancer is the most deadly type of cancer, killing nearly 1.6 million people every year. It is hard to treat as it is often diagnosed late and many people with smoking-related diseases are unsuitable for surgery. May 30 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32936877 The American Society of Clinical Oncology is holding its annual meeting at Chicago, Illinois from May 29 – June 2.  Shown here is the chart for the last lunar eclipse of April 4 at Chicago. Notice that the Moon is placed in the 6 th house connected illness and public health issues and conjunct the as

With 23 people dead so far in Texas flooding, and more rain on the way, it is easy to overlook an important development: the deluge has nearly brought the end of a historic four-year drought. Many reservoirs are now at or near capacity. Underground aquifers are slowly being replenished. And lakes are filling up. As of Tuesday, just five percent of Texas, encompassing about 218,000 people in central and northern pockets of the state, was under moderate drought conditions, according to government data. Much of the turnaround has to do with the same rains that have caused so much destruction. May has been the wettest month on record for Texas, culminating with violent storms last weekend that triggered sudden floods that washed away cars and pulled homes from their foundations. As of Thursday, 23 people were dead and nine remained missing, including members of two families vacationing together along the Blanco River. Swollen rivers are expected to keep rising, and more rain is

                                                                         A woman has met the man wearing her dead brother’s face after one of the world’s most advanced face transplants. Rebekah Aversano and her family agreed to donate 21-year-old Joshua’s face after he was run over by a van while crossing the road three years ago in the US. She met the person who received it for the first time for 60 Minutes, an Australian television show. Richard Norris, 39, was left suicidal by his facial deformities after accidentally shooting himself in the face and the transplant in 2012 changed his life. Mr Norris had worn a mask and lived as a recluse in Hillsville, Virginia, because of his injuries for 15 years before the operation. May 29   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-meets-man-wearing-her-dead-brothers-face-after-groundbreaking-transplant-10283545.html The cardinal ingresses of the Sun have a traditional reputation as  important mundane e

Australia faces a dent to its reputation and a potentially devastating blow to its tourism industry should one of the country's most iconic natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef, be listed as "in danger" by the United Nations. The waters are now milkier and the coral quality poorer. Increasing attacks by crown-of-thorns starfish have left swathes of reef brown and lifeless. The reef is one of more than 1,000 sites on Unesco's World Heritage List considered to be of such outstanding value that the world has an obligation to look after them. May 29 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-32911084 Today May 29, the Moon begins its Gibbous Phase. A chart for the phase drawn for the co-ordinates of the Great Barrier Reef is shown here. The Sun is conjunct the Ascendant with the Moon forming a waxing sesquisquare aspect and both the luminaries are in hard aspect to Neptune in Pisces on the MC which is square Saturn on the descendant. If we have been i

Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and test them in brain scans. What she found surprised her — that meditating can literally change your brain. May 26 http://wapo.st/1Fav2X8 If a chart drawn for the time of an exact planetary aspect brings major planetary combinations to the angles, it can be saying something extremely significant.  Shown here is a chart for the Mars-Neptune square of May 25 drawn for Boston,MA.  Notice that it places an important Grand Cross involving Saturn-Neptune on the angles. The power of Neptune can be seen working in our lives on so many levels that it absolutely boggles the mind! Most of us, however, are largely unaware of the all-pervasive influence this mysterious and fascinating planet has on us. In his   The Rulership Book , Rex E. Bills lists meditation as

( CNN)In recent years, FIFA has made news not just for enforcing rules on the soccer field, but also for allegedly breaking them off it. The body that governs soccer, the most popular sport in the world, is a multibillion-dollar behemoth. Great power, yes. Great responsibility? Not so much, critics say. FIFA has been regularly accused of bribery and kickbacks, allegations that reached a fever pitch after it awarded Russia and Qatar the World Cup in 2018 and 2022, respectively. May 27 http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/27/us/fifa-corruption-investigation-why/index.html A chart for the First Quarter Moon of May 25 at Washington DC is shown here. The Sun-Mars-Saturn-Neptune combination straddling the meridian is indicating a conflict (Mars-Saturn)  with hidden dimensions (Neptune). The Sun [4ge] is part of the Chinese Tíen Tsan , The Celestial Slanderer indicating that some scandals are coming to light and reputations are being tarnished. Venus is opposite Pluto.

Caelum – The Chisel A recently unearthed stone tool kit consisting of hammer stones, anvils, worked cobblestones and other items dates to 3.3 million years ago, predating our genus Homo by over half a million years, according to a new study. The items, described in the latest issue of the journal Nature , are now the oldest stone tools ever found. They "show that early humans (essentially proto-humans) used and made stone tools 3.3 million years ago, which is about 700,000 years earlier than the previously earliest known date for early stone tools," Erella Hovers, who authored an accompanying "News & Views" article, told Discovery News. Hovers, who is a senior member of the Institute of Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, added that the other more recent tools were attributed to Homo habilis, aka "Handy Man," whose culture is called the Oldowan. Now it looks like there was a much earlier culture--as of yet unnamed--and that st

Wounds discovered on a 430,000-year-old human skull discovered in Spain could indicate that the individual was one of the first-ever murder victims, according to a new study published in the May 27 edition of the open-access journal PLOS One. In the study, Dr. Nohemi Sala from Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Spain, and her colleagues explain that the skull was discovered at Sima de los Huesos, a site located deep within a series of underground caves located in northern Spain. The skull, known as Cranium 17, was found with the skeletal remains of at least 28 individuals dating back to the Middle Pleistocene period. The specimen is comprised of 52 cranial fragments recovered during a series of excavations at the site over the past two decades, and contains a pair of penetrating lesions on the frontal bone, just above the left eye, Dr. Sala's team said. By analyzing the skull using modern forensic techniques, such as contour and trajectory anal

Some 20,000 people in the German city of Cologne have been forced to leave their homes as authorities defuse a one-tonne bomb from World War Two. Schools and kindergartens - as well as the zoo - remained closed during the city's largest post-war evacuation. About 1,100 residents of a retirement and disability centre in the Riehl area were among those taken to safety. It is not unusual for unexploded bombs to be discovered in Germany. Allied bombers targeted Cologne in WW2. The deactivation of the one-tonne device, which was found near Muelheim bridge crossing the Rhine river, was planned for Wednesday afternoon. May 27 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32897388 This news comes just as Mars and Neptune form an exact square aspect. A chart for the square at Cologne  carries the Mars-Saturn-Neptune combination aligned with the meridian. Mars, the god of war is square Neptune, the god of hidden things so is it surprising that a old bomb is being uncovered.

The Fall of Icarus by Baglione Singapore Airlines is investigating a recent incident when one of its planes lost power in both engines mid-flight. Flight SQ836 was flying from Singapore to Shanghai on Saturday (May 23) night when the plane hit bad weather. The engines of the Airbus A330-300 cut out, but pilots managed to restore the engines' operations, and landed the aeroplane safely at its destination. It was carrying 194 people at that time. A subsequent inspection found no engine anomalies, the airline said. Engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce and Airbus are now working with Singapore Airlines in its investigation. Power loss in both engines is considered rare in the aviation industry, but pilots are trained to respond to it. May 27 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32894964 A chart drawn for transiting Sun opposite Saturn on May 23 at Singapore is shown here.  Two planetary combinations come to our attention. The first is the loose Grand Cross on the an

All over the planet, large banks are massively overexposed to derivatives contracts.  Interest rate derivatives account for the biggest chunk of these derivatives contracts.  According to the Bank for International Settlements, the notional value of all interest rate derivatives contracts outstanding around the globe is a staggering 505 trillion dollars.  Considering the fact that the U.S. national debt is only 18 trillion dollars, that is an amount of money that is almost incomprehensible.  When this derivatives bubble finally bursts, there won’t be enough money in the entire world to bail everyone out.  The key to making sure that all of these interest rate bets do not start going bad is for interest rates to remain stable.  That is why what is going on in Greece right now is so important.  The Greek government has announced that it will default on a loan payment that it owes to the IMF on June 5th .  If that default does indeed happen, Greek bond yields will soar into the strato

May 26, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Voltaire Network" -  On the 9th of May, 2015, the Macedonian police launched a dawn operation to arrest an armed group which had infiltrated the country and which was suspected of preparing a number of attacks. The police evacuated the civilian population before launching the assault. The suspects opened fire, which led to a bitter firefight, leaving 14 terrorists and 8 members of the police forces dead. 30 people were taken prisoner. There were a large number of wounded. Not a terrorist act, but an attempted coup d’État. The Macedonian police were clearly well-informed before they launched their operation. According to the Minister for the Interior, Ivo Kotevski, the group was preparing a very important operation for the 17th May (the date of the demonstration organised by the Albanophone opposition in Skopje). The principal leaders of this operation, including Fadil Fejzullahu (killed during the assault), are clo

Russia plans to build its own Mistral-class helicopter carriers to replace the ones not delivered by France, a deputy chairman of the Russian Military Industrial Complex said Tuesday. A special representative from France will soon arrive in Russia to negotiate a solution to the non-delivery of Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Russia, Bochkaryov added. “[Louis] Gautier will arrive in Russia today or tomorrow to hold more difficult negotiations on the Mistral,” Oleg Bochkaryov told journalists. May 26; http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150526/1022566753.html The news of the French representative’s arrival in Moscow for negotiations over the failed contract comes at the First Quarter Moon. A chart drawn for the Moon phase at Moscow is shown here. The Quarter Moon forms a Grand Cross with Mars-Saturn-Mercury-Neptune which straddles the horizon axis.  This is a combination that can be related to the termination of a contract (Mercury-Saturn) owing to the lies, evasiv

Coma Berenices Berenice's Hair (LONDON)—Music lovers have the chance to own a strand of history. Auctioneer Sotheby’s is selling a lock of hair from the head of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, resting in a gilt locket. Taking composers’ hair as keepsakes was common in the 18th and 19th centuries. The hair is up for auction Thursday (May 28) with an estimated price of 10,000 pounds to 12,000 pounds ($15,400 to $18,450). http://time.com/3896154/mozart-hair-auction-sotheybys/ The Sotheby’s auction will take place on the eve of the Gibbous Moon a chart for which is shown here. A planet or a configuration is important for a place when it  aspects  the angles. Here the luminaries aspect Neptune which squares the horizon axis and is in quincunx aspect to the MC. Neptune’s connection to classical music is well documented in astrological literature [1]. By association it would refer to a classical music composer like Mozart. And now here is where things become reall

A volcanic eruption on the Galapagos Islands has raised fears the ecosystem that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution may be under threat. On Monday, the Wolf volcano on Isabela Island erupted for the first time in 33 years, spewing fire, smoke and lava. Experts say the eruption poses no risk to people living on the island. The island holds the world's only population of pink iguanas but authorities say that they are not in immediate danger. May 26  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-32882500 Nick Fiorenza in his post Critical Alignments May 2015 [1] explains why  are seeing accentuated seismicity and volcanic activity right now. The planetary alignments occurring between May 22 through the June 2 Full Moon can produce intense geophysical and biological resonances on Earth. This may heighten the possibility of accentuated seismicity and volcanism as well as psychophysiological unrest . The Sun, Earth and retrograde Saturn align on May 22 (23