Star Guide

  A team of researchers from Indonesia and Singapore has found evidence of the continued existence of a bird long thought extinct. In their paper published in the journal Birding ASIA, the team describes the history of the bird, why it was thought to be extinct and how it was found in Borneo. Feb. 26 https://phys.org/news/2021-02-bird-believed-extinct-years-borneo.html   In this blogpost we will examine how the Full Moon of Feb.27   has “helped”   researchers to arrive at their conclusion. Notice that at Borneo, the chart for the Full Moon has the Uranus-[Saturn-Mercury] square aligned with the angles. In addition the luminaries i.e. Sun and Moon both make aspects to the Saturn-Uranus square.   The Sun is placed in the 8 th house of death   - here extinction of the species   - makes a hard aspect to the Uranus/Hades midpoint. Uranus-Hades: Changes, modernization or updates (Uranus) to mistakes or past understanding (Hades). We're not even through the first quarter of 2021,

  Upon the announcement this week that Qatar-based Al Jazeera plans to open a US conservative news platform it seemed the near universal reaction on social media was to say simply, weird. "Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news network that has previously sought to become a liberal media force in the US, is launching a platform to target conservatives, it was revealed on Tuesday," The Guardian reports.   Feb. 25 https://bit.ly/3aRALf0 In a previous post, Uranus stations direct , [1]   I wrote: Uranus is a celestial alarm clock, a rude awakening to the aspects within our nature which have been lying dormant and untried.   A direct station then   works   to dislodge hidden traits from which we have been consciously separated.   On some level everyone has a desire to create the perfect system and destroy existing systems. Uranus retrograde transits provoke an internal revolution against systems that no longer support evolutionary growth. We gradually replace old models with new mo

There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India – as horrible as it may have been – was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the empire was sustained for so long – the story goes – was a gesture of Britain’s benevolence. New research by the renowned economist Utsa Patnaik – just published   by Columbia University Press – deals a crushing blow to this narrative. Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938. https://bit.ly/3uAtTKI Utsa Patnaik’s work  detailing the  “great steal” was first published in March 2018. Here is the chart for the Aries ingress of the Sun in March 2018 drawn for the midpoint of Delhi and London. As always, planetary combinations aspecting the angles are the ones to focus on. Here a  very prominent oppo

  A tacit admission by the US Air Force that the F-35 has failed its main mission has triggered an outpouring of outrage from Americans who think the stealth fighter’s gargantuan budget could have been better spent on other things. Frustration with Lockheed Martin’s fifth-generation stealth jet flooded Twitter on Wednesday, after Forbes magazine published a story about how USAF commissioning a study into a new, cheaper and lighter fighter amounts to “a tacit admission that the F-35 has failed.” https://on.rt.com/b2jf   A   previous post entitled “The horoscope of the F-35 Stealth Fighter” [1] discusses the problems associated with the aircraft. The radix chart has a Sun-Pluto conjunction opposite the TNPs Kronos-Hades. The December 14, 2020   total solar eclipse fell exactly on the radix Sun activating the combination. Eclipses are associated with endings or death more so if they fall on Pluto as in this case. The Full Moon of Feb.27 is placed in the 9 th house linked to long dis

  California now fulfills Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s nightmare vision in his prophetic masterpiece “The Possessed” as to what unlimited liberalism must inevitably create – if not stopped in its tracks and rolled back…  California is in terminal collapse and crisis. Governor Gavin Newsom, farcically promoted by the national Mainstream Media (MSM) as a heroic White Knight in Shining Armor in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring has been exposed even in his own state as a catastrophic bungler and hypocrite who has never had a clue what he was – or more usually was not – doing. As I write, California’s sick and tired citizens are close to providing the 1.5 million signatures necessary to pull Newsom into what would certainly be a chaotic recall election. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/24/california-collapsing/ In mundane astrology, the cardinal ingresses of the Sun have a traditional reputation as important mundane events. Of these the Capricorn Sidereal Ingress ch

   Mercury depicted running! US golfer Tiger Woods was hospitalized Tuesday after a car crash in which his vehicle sustained "major damage," the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department said.According to police, Woods was traveling at "greater than normal" speed at the time of the crash, and he hit a curb and then a tree. Emergency personnel responded to the accident at 0712PT in Rancho Palos Verdes, Ca.   A well-timed horoscope contains warnings about our natural proclivities that might lead to disaster. The horoscope of Tiger Woods as provided by Astro-Databank [1] is reproduced here. Notice Mars in Gemini on the MC. Gemini is a sign ruled by Mercury. The planet Mercury rules transport in our immediate environment: bikes, scooters, cars, etc.. Astrologers therefore associate impulsive and rash Mars in Gemini with the possibility of road accidents. Here Mars is  semisquare Saturn which in turn is opposite Mercury. Saturn indicates restrictions as well as lessons

  Since the mummy of pharaoh Seqenenre Taa II, who ruled over southern Egypt in the 16th century BCE, was found in the 1880s, researchers have debated the circumstances of his obvious murder. Visible to the naked eye, the king's crushed facial bones, punctured skull, and contorted hands tell a grisly but incomplete story. Was he the victim of a palace conspiracy? Did he die as a prisoner of enemy invaders? The researchers suggest that Seqenenre was most likely captured in battle against the Hyksos, an Asian dynasty that occupied Egypt at the time, then bludgeoned to death while his hands were bound behind his back. They published their study today (February 17) in Frontiers in Medicine. https://bit.ly/2NVrWba   Eclipses have a reputation for “causing” major events especially if they align with the angles at any place. The Nov. 30 lunar eclipse at Cairo fell on the meridian. The eclipse Moon [8ge] was conjunct the lower meridian (4 th house cusp). Among other things the 4 th h

  Critical thinking is dangerous, according to a Times editorial urging readers to vet sources with Wikipedia lest they fall into traps set by evil conspiracy theorists and be tricked into questioning the paper's iron-clad truths. Charlie Warzel, a Times columnist who styles himself an expert in "online radicalization," has implored his readers not to "go down the rabbit hole," in a Thursday op-ed luridly depicting the dangers of evaluating new information, questing out into the internet armed with nothing but one's own mind. It's logical that the Times should warn its readers against engaging too deeply with "wrongthink," of course - Times readers often lack a solid grasp of the views they consider to be their deeply-held beliefs, having picked them up absent-mindedly from one 'approved' source or another without thinking too deeply about their implications or how they might possibly conflict with their existing values. https://bit.ly/

    One of the most famous European volcanoes has been demonstrating high activity this month, causing concerns among Sicilians. At the same time, the eruption created picturesque images of pillars of fire reaching the sky and turning midnight into day. Mount Etna erupted on Saturday evening and overnight, with lava fountains rising around 1 kilometre above the volcano from the southeast crater and pouring over the Valle del Bove. Multiple users have since shared footage of the eruption on social media, depicting the fiery illumination. https://sptnkne.ws/Fx95   In his book Mundane or National Astrology , H.S. Green in the chapter on “Earthquakes” writes: Earthquakes   are found to be associated with eclipses and important planetary conjunctions and oppositions. An eclipse is always liable to cause seismic disturbances where it is visible, especially if it falls very close to the line of horizon i.e. the cusps of the first and seventh houses, or of the meridian i.e. the cusps of th

  Charts are true. Utterly. With a precision that can stun. The task, then, is to learn and understand the factors and techniques that reveal the truth and to honor serve and embrace the knowledge of Self and the profound gift of life events – Martha Wescott   A United Airlines flight was forced to return to Denver International Airport Saturday after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff, sending aircraft debris raining down on soccer fields, homes and yards in a Denver suburb. United Flight 328 returned to the airport around 1:30 p.m. after suffering an engine issue, an airport spokesperson told CNN. The flight had been bound for Honolulu. Feb 21 https://cnn.it/3aBGt4A   Astrologers routinely draw charts for New Moons and Full Moons to assess the nature of events that are likely to take place. Here is the chart for the upcoming   Full Moon   drawn for Denver.   The Full Moon [8vi] is placed in the 9 th house which, among other things,   is linked to airlines and

Google has terminated the head researcher on its AI ethics team over what the tech giant deemed a violation of its “code of conduct,” as the company faces an internal revolt over a previous firing of a black data scientist. Feb. 18  https://on.rt.com/b28h So well ­entrenched was this ethic of welcoming dissent that the company seemed to abide by it even after the uprising began, taking pains to show it was heeding activists’ concerns. Over the past year, however, Google has appeared to clamp down. It has gradually scaled back opportunities for employees to grill their bosses and imposed a set of workplace guidelines that forbid “a raging debate over politics or the latest news story.” It has tried to prevent workers from discussing their labor rights with outsiders at a Google facility and even hired a consulting firm that specializes in blocking unions. Then, in November, came the firing of the four activists. Feb. 18  https://nyti.ms/3azQwam   As in San Francisco (see previous

  Over the past year we have seen a mass exodus from major cities along the west coast, but what is happening to San Francisco is particularly sad.   Once upon a time, San Francisco was one of the most beautiful cities on the entire planet.   There is so much culture there, and the rolling hills make it a place like no other.   And thanks to the tech boom in Silicon Valley, it has become one of the most prosperous cities in the whole country.   So why have hordes of San Francisco residents decided to leave and never look back? Feb. 15   https://bit.ly/3pAnbk6     The square aspect   between Saturn and Uranus in 2021 will be the defining astrological theme of the year forcing us to   experience   the disruption of our security.   The first of the three exact squares between Saturn and Uranus took place on Feb. 17. While the effect of the square   is worldwide, those places where the aspect appears on the angles in mundane charts are likely to feel it much more strongly. Presented

   The Dutch government has been told by the court to reverse its coronavirus pandemic curfew after The Hague ruled there was no legal basis for it and called it an infringement on people’s rights. In a statement, The Hague declared that the government's use of the Extraordinary Powers of Civil Authority Act – an emergency act which allows the state to bypass the legislative process to impose a curfew in “very urgent and exceptional circumstance” – was not justified in this case during the Covid-19 crisis. Feb 16 https://on.rt.com/b1wz Maps drawn for lunations (New and Full Moons) are among some of the tools used in mundane astrology. When  these charts carry important planetary configurations on the angles they are especially significant for the place. Shown here is the chart for the current  New Moon  drawn for The Hague.  The New Moon is placed in the 6 th house of public heath  square Mars in the 9 th house of law courts. So it is not surprising that the court took a stan

  “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” ― Gospel of Thomas Russia has said it is ready to cut ties with the European Union, according to a fragment of an interview published on Russia’s foreign ministry website Friday morning. The comments mark yet another escalation in tensions between the two sides. When asked if Russia was heading for a break with the European Union, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov said: “We proceed from the fact that we are ready (for that). In the event that we again see sanctions imposed in some sectors that create risks for our economy, including in the most sensitive spheres,” according to a translation of the comments by Reuters. Feb. 12 CNBC   The   horoscope of the EU is shown here. Notice that the current New Moon [23aq] has fallen exactly on the radix Saturn [23aq] in the 7 th house of the EU chart. This hous

  Sakurajima volcano in southern Kyushu is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and one of the few that are at present in constant (persistent) activity. A spectacular volcanic explosion occurred from Minamidake crater on December 17 just   two days after the powerful total solar eclipse of December 15. More recently the first earthquake hinting at a possible eruption took place on   9 Feb 2021 1:29 am (GMT +9) [1]. On February 10, the Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Tokyo warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to an estimated 7000 ft (2100 m) altitude or flight level 070 and is moving at 10 kts in E direction. In his book Mundane or National Astrology , H.S. Green in the chapter on “Earthquakes” writes: Earthquakes   are found to be associated with eclipses and important planetary conjunctions and oppositions. An eclipse is always liable to cause seismic disturbances where it is visible, especially if it falls very close to the line of horizon i.e. the cusp

  Astrocartography Map  for the New Moon The Weather Channel reports "an active week" is forecasted with "multiple rounds of snow, ice in the Midwest and East as bitterly cold temperatures grip parts of the nation." https://bit.ly/2OeXOr8 Parts of North India, particularly the states and territories within the Western Himalayan region, are set to experience a fresh spell of rainfall and snowfall over the next 48 hours. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), a feeble western disturbance—low-pressure systems that originate over the Mediterranean Sea and move eastwards while gathering moisture along the way—is set to affect the weather across North India over the next two days. https://bit.ly/2Z4kwEx   The Twenty-Eight Mansions   are part of the Chinese constellations system. They can be considered as the equivalent to the zodiacal constellations in Western astronomy, though the Twenty-eight Mansions reflect the movement of the Moon through a sider

  The party line with regard to the 2020 presidential election, aggressively promoted by America’s corporate media and Big Tech, is this: There was no election fraud because the courts have said so. Both claims are false. Not just questionable, but dead wrong. By now, most people know that America’s corporate media and Big Tech have aggressively and punitively suppressed an open discussion of possible election irregularities. But have you noticed that – to prop up their version of reality – they’ve simply stopped reporting on the dozens of ongoing lawsuits that are slowly wending their way through the court system? At most, they will simply make a blanket statement along the lines of “Trump has lost all the lawsuits that have come before the courts.” … Nothing could be further from the truth, as Physicist John Droz has discovered. Droz assembled a team of his fellow scientists and engineers – all volunteers – to take a close look at the lawsuits that have been filed, all of which are a

  Hades(Pluto) and Persephone holding the signs of life and renewal The Atacama Desert is well-known as the driest and most ancient desert in the world. Nevertheless, it has been inhabited for millennia. Different populations managed to transform the valleys of this arid landscape into fertile agricultural fields. But how was this possible? How did ancient groups practice successful agriculture in such an arid environment? We suspected that fertilisers had something to do with this. Jan. 25 https://go.nature.com/3rd5zfr Maps drawn for lunations (New and Full Moons) are among some of the tools used in mundane astrology. When these charts carry important planetary configurations on the angles they are especially significant for the place. Shown here is the chart for the current   New Moon   (conjunct Pluto) drawn for Santiago, Chile from where, the paper quoted above was published in Nature. The New Moon of Jan.13-14  being conjunct Pluto  and the 4 th house cusp is  expected to bring