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Brazilian researchers in Rio de Janeiro have released thousands of mosquitoes infected with bacteria that suppress dengue fever. The hope is they will multiply, breed and become the majority of mosquitoes, thus reducing cases of the disease. BBC; Sep. 24; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29356232 This news comes to us at the New Moon of September 24. A chart for the New Moon at Rio de Janerio is shown here. Notice Jupiter on the Ascendant trine Uranus. In her article entitled Jupiter/Uranus: Bright Ideas and Breakthroughs , Kelly Surtees wtites [1]: Jupiter brings an expansive, open energy which complements Uranus’ inventive tone. As a pair, they have, throughout history, been linked to creative and scientific breakthroughs. But here we find Jupiter [14le] is conjunct the medical asteroid Aesculapia [14le]. AESCULAPIA : Contact with physicians and belief-systems about the health, symptoms and medical conditions. JUPITER : Good news...

“Our task must be to free ourselves . . .by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” -- Albert Einstein BOULDER , Colo. — In the largest settlement obtained by an American Indian tribe from the federal government, the Navajo Nation will receive $554 million to end a lawsuit alleging that the government mismanaged the community’s assets for more than 50 years. The settlement, which the Justice Department outlined on Wednesday, is the latest agreement made between the Obama administration and Indian tribes that say the government did not act in their best interests when managing their natural resources. The sum the Navajos will receive exceeds agreements with other tribes by more than $170 million; the arrangement will be formally announced Friday at the Navajo Nation headquarters in Window Rock, Ariz. NY Times; Sept 24. http://nyti.ms/1rcl3z8 This news comes to us  at the Sept 24 New...

India 's Supreme Court has cancelled almost all the coal mining licences awarded by the government since 1993 in a corruption scandal which has cost the country tens of billions of dollars. The court scrapped 214 of 218 licences awarded from 1993-2010 after finding they had been awarded illegally. BBC; Sept 24 Among other things, the 9 th house in mundane astrology rules the law courts as well as long distance travel . In yesterday’s post on India ’s Mars mission we saw how the activation of the last lunar eclipse of April 15 resulted in a successful space mission. Here the very same activation will be studied to see its working in our present case. Let us first look at the Jupiter [14le] transit over the Ascendant [13le] trine Uranus [13ar] which is part of the Grand Cross containing the Uranus-Pluto square. The Uranus-Pluto square is about the process of transformation in which an old corrupt order is collapsing (Pluto in Capricorn). Here the Jupiter transit...

India has successfully put a satellite into orbit around Mars, becoming the fourth nation or geo-bloc to do so. The Mangalyaan robotic probe, one of the cheapest interplanetary missions ever, will soon begin work studying the Red Planet's atmosphere. Only the US , Russia and Europe have previously sent missions to Mars, and India has succeeded on its first attempt - an achievement that eluded even the Americans and the Soviets. BBC; Sept 24 To understand this news we will look at the chart for the April 15,2014 Lunar Eclipse at Delhi . The Sun is placed in the 9 th house of long distance travel. The Ascendant [13le] is trine Mercury [13ar] and Uranus [13ar] also in the 9 th house.  Eclipses  can be triggered by transits and progressions. Here we have at least three such events (a) Mercury transiting over the eclipse Moon on September 22 (b) Jupiter transiting over the Ascendant and trine Uranus and Mercury in the 9 th (c) the eclipse chart progr...

Lined up for a family photograph, Victorians often looked grim and staid - people from another era. But curator Chris Wild offers a fascinating snapshot of family life that reveals the Victorians and Edwardians were often more modern than we think. Chris Wild - otherwise known as the Retronaut - has spent the past year mining the photographic collection of the Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archives. This fascinating treasure trove - which will be exhibited from 27 September - is designed to change our perception of the past. BBC; Sept 24. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29246071 This news comes to us at the New Moon of September 23. The chart for the New Moon drawn for Ashington, Northumberland has a slightly skewed Grand Cross on the angles. The New Moon highlights the following asteroids [2] and TNP [1] on the Ascendant and MC. Memoria 5 Libra Photographica 8 Cancer Hades 2 Cancer MEMORIA...

Back in the 1860s Angkor Wat was virtually unheard of beyond local monks and villagers. The notion that this great temple was once surrounded by a city of nearly a million people was entirely unknown. It took over a century of gruelling archaeological fieldwork to fill in the map. The lost city of Angkor slowly began to reappear, street by street. But even then significant blanks remained. Then, last year, archaeologists announced a series of new discoveries - about Angkor , and an even older city hidden deep in the jungle beyond. An international team, led by the University of Sydney 's Dr Damian Evans, had mapped 370 sq km around Angkor in unprecedented detail - no mean feat given the density of the jungle and the prevalence of landmines from Cambodia 's civil war. Yet the entire survey took less than two weeks. Their secret? Lidar - a sophisticated remote sensing technology that is revolutionising archaeology, especially in the tropics. Mounted on a helicopter criss-c...

The US and five Arab allies have launched the first strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria . The Pentagon said warplanes, drones and Tomahawk missiles were used in the attacks, which targeted several areas including IS stronghold Raqqa. Syria 's foreign ministry said its UN envoy was informed about the strikes against IS, which controls large swathes of Syria and Iraq . The US has already launched about 190 air strikes in Iraq since August. However, Monday's action expands the campaign against the militant group across the border into Syria . 03:03 BST; Sept.23: The Pentagon has announced that the US military "and partner nation forces" are undertaking military action in Syria . BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29321136 A chart for the upcoming lunar eclipse of October 8 drawn for Washington DC is shown here. Pluto has just (Sept 23) stationed direct on the IC of the chart triggering it into manifestation....

John D. Rockefeller built a vast fortune on oil. Now his heirs are abandoning fossil fuels. The family whose legendary wealth flowed from Standard Oil is planning to announce on Monday that its $860 million philanthropic organization, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, is joining the divestment movement that began a couple years ago on college campuses. The announcement, timed to precede Tuesday’s opening of the United Nations climate change summit meeting in New York City , is part of a broader and accelerating initiative. New York Times Sept 21, 2014 http://nyti.ms/1ynEZmz John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. The world’s first monopoly over a strategic resource was John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, and it made him and all his heirs billionaires. The commercial development of oil remains in the hands of a few multinational corporations, and their dominance determines our collective polit...

Readers have been getting in touch about their experiences of terminated job interviews, losing out on promised promotions and leaving jobs because of their tattoos. It followed a Magazine article which asked whether discrimination against people with tattoos should be banned in the workplace. BBC; Sept 22 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29211526 On July 16 at 11:22:52 UT, the Sun [23cn52] was square the Mean Node [23li52]. This is a phenomena known as “Moon Wobble”. While it was exact on July 16, 2014 it was felt for approximately a week on either side. Moon Wobble are cycles associated with the conjunction (0°), opposition (180°) and square (90°) from the Sun to the Moon's Node. These powerful contacts occur when the Sun and the Node are in the same sign, or the opposing sign, or when the Sun is in a square aspect to the nodal axis. During Moon Wobble the instability factor is high, resulting in more accidents, fires, plane crashes, freak accidents, f...

The discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece , dating to the time of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, has enthused Greeks, distracting them from a dire economic crisis. Who, they are asking, is buried within. In early August , a team of Greek archaeologists led by Katerina Peristeri unearthed what officials say is the largest burial site ever to be discovered in the country. The mound is in ancient Amphipolis, a major city of the Macedonian kingdom, 100km (62 miles) east of Thessaloniki , Greece 's second city. BBC; Sept 21. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, accompanied by his wife Georgia and Culture Minister Konstantinos Tasoulas, visited the excavation site of Ancient Amphipolis, in Serres, northern Greece on Tuesday morning (Aug.12 ). Samaras visited the Casta tomb and was guided through the excavation site by the archaeologist in charge Katerina Peristeri who briefed him on the discoveries.  Aug 13,2014 [1] The July 26, 2014 New Moon [3le5...