Star Guide

Alan Watts was born on 6 January 1915 at 06:20 GMT in Chislehurst, England (51°25′ N, 00°04′ E). With Sagittarius rising, his chart ruler Jupiter sits at 23° Aquarius 28′ in the 3rd house of communication and teaching. This Jupiter forms an exact quincunx to the Trans-Neptunian Point Poseidon at 23° Virgo 25′ in the 9th house of higher knowledge and spiritual vision.      In Uranian astrology, Poseidon represents illumination, clarity of mind, spiritual truth, and the refinement of consciousness. A 3rd-house Jupiter linked by quincunx to a 9th-house Poseidon is a classic signature for a gifted interpreter and popularizer of profound philosophical ideas. This configuration found its perfect expression in 1957 with the publication of The Way of Zen (Pantheon Books, New York). During 1956–1957, transit Jupiter made three exact passes over natal Poseidon. At the same time, solar-arc directed Uranus reached 23° Pisces and opposed natal Poseidon around 17 August 1957. Ur...

When we look at the birth of a nation through the lens of mundane astrology, the founding chart becomes a living map of its destiny. For the Maratha Empire, that map begins on 6 June 1674 at Raigad Fort, the day Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was crowned.     The coronation chart shows the Sun at 15° Gemini in the first house, tightly conjunct the warrior star Bellatrix of Orion. It is a fitting signature for a state born in resistance and strategic brilliance. Shivaji’s own natal chart (19 February 1630, 18:26 LMT, Shivneri Fort) supplies the personal foundation. With Virgo rising, the chart already carries a vulnerability in the intestinal tract. The Sun–Mercury conjunction in early Pisces opposes the Ascendant, while a powerful Grand Cross involving the Trans-Neptunian Points Hades and Zeus across the meridian completes the picture. Martha Wescott’s description of Hades/Zeus is almost clinical: a chronic or inflammatory condition, often localised in the bowel.   ...

Demeter’s Lamentation For Her Child On 28 August 2026 a deep partial lunar eclipse took place with the Sun and South Node in early Virgo and the Moon with the North Node near Fomalhaut. When the chart is cast for Brussels — the exact location of the European Parliament — the eclipse axis sits firmly on the horizon.      Secondary progression (Q2 Mean Quotidian) to 15:30 UT on 3 September tightens that angular emphasis to near-exactness, the precise window in which Naomi Wolf presented findings from the Pfizer documents to Members of the European Parliament. The symbolism is strikingly coherent. The eclipse Sun and South Node sit close to the asteroid Demeter (the archetypal mother who will move heaven and earth for her child) and the star Thuban. Opposite them, the Moon and North Node conjunct Fomalhaut — the bright mouth of the Southern Fish that receives the life-giving waters poured from Aquarius’s urn. These fixed-star themes were explored in detail in an earlie...

 New lunar impact site, before and after  On 13 March 2025 a Total Lunar Eclipse occurred with the Moon at 23° Virgo 56′. When the chart is cast for Phoenix, Arizona — home of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Science Operations Center — that eclipsed Moon sits powerfully in the 10th house, close to the Midheaven. In mundane astrology the 10th house rules public visibility, reputation, and discoveries that reach the wider world. Seven and a half months later, on 24 October 2025, image-processing specialist Robert Wagner of Intuitive Machines (working with the LROC team in Phoenix) noticed something extraordinary while running a routine temporal comparison of Wide-Angle Camera images. A bright ejecta pattern stood out. Further investigation revealed a brand-new 222-metre-diameter lunar crater that had formed sometime between 11 April and 22 May 2024. It was the largest contemporary impact crater yet identified anywhere in the Solar System — a once-in-132-year eve...

Crows vs farmers: age-old battle  In mid-September 2026 a curious viral video [1] circulated widely: crows solemnly “paying” with coins or shiny tokens for french fries at a food truck, receiving their goods in return, and flying off with their purchases. The clip was AI-generated, yet its timing felt uncanny. Real-world crow and raven stories surfaced in the same narrow window, and on 14–16 September the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced a streamlined statewide permitting system for managing common-raven conflicts with livestock and sensitive species. Astrologically the synchronicity is hard to ignore. Mercury was moving through 12–13° Libra — exactly the degrees occupied by the principal stars of Corvus, the constellation of the Crow. Mercury, classical god of trade, commerce, clever exchanges and messages, was sitting amid the celestial crow while opposing Saturn at 12° Aries. That opposition formed a powerful square to the horizon in the First Quarter Moon chart ca...

Libra 14° – “In the heat of the noon hour a man takes a siesta.” Just three days after Fox News reported a mysterious rise in kidney failure among young, otherwise healthy outdoor workers in Texas, the First Quarter Moon of 18 September 2026 rose over Houston with a message written clearly in the stars.     The chart for 15:43 CDT in Houston places Gemini on the cusp of the 6th house — the traditional domain of public health, working conditions, and everyday labour. Its ruler, Mercury, sits at 13° Libra. In medical astrology, Libra has long been linked to the kidneys, the lumbar region, and the body’s delicate fluid balance. Mercury here speaks of public-health issues filtering through the very organ system that maintains equilibrium under stress. The Sabian symbol for Mercury’s degree is especially pointed: Libra 14° – “In the heat of the noon hour a man takes a siesta.” Keynote: The need for recuperation within the social pattern of everyday activity. It is hard t...

On September 14, 2026, at 20:26 UT, the Department of War Office of Inspector General released its first quarterly Lead IG report on Operation Epic Fury—the U.S.-led campaign against Iran that began in late February. The document delivered a sobering accounting: roughly $33.4 billion in costs through June, $22.3 billion of that in expended munitions, strategic inventory shortfalls, industrial bottlenecks, hundreds of damaged or destroyed buildings at U.S. bases, dozens of aircraft lost, and significant human toll.   Astrologers looking at the moment of release found a striking synchronicity. A Sibly Progressed Solar Return cast for that exact time and location in Washington shows a powerful nodal axis near 0° Pisces–Virgo, Uranus near 3° Gemini squaring the Nodes, and a tight Cancer stellium of Sun–Hades–Kronos. These configurations, read through traditional fixed-star lore and modern psychological astrology, paint a symbolic picture that resonates with the report’s findings. ...

    On March 3, 2026 , a Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo cast its shadow across the skies. When the chart is calculated for the coordinates of ancient Tula (≈20°N, 99°W) — the former Toltec capital in Hidalgo, Mexico — the celestial symbolism aligns with an extraordinary archaeological discovery made public weeks later.   During railway salvage work, archaeologists unearthed a momoztli (a small ritual altar) with four human skulls and associated offerings. One skull retained neck vertebrae, suggesting possible decapitation. The find dates to the Tollan phase (circa 900–1150 CE) and points to ceremonial practices at the edge of Tula Chico.       A Chart Written in the Stars The eclipse chart for Tula is remarkable. Uranus at 27° Taurus sits on the IC (4th house cusp), the angle of roots, buried history, and the land itself. Uranus conjunct the fixed star Algol (the “severed head” of Medusa) — long associated with violence, beheading, massacre, and pi...

India's government says 56 glacial lakes had been classified as "very high risk" In early September 2026 a major report from Systemiq, the Integrated Mountain Initiative, ICIMOD and the GB Pant Institute warned that Himalayan glaciers are losing mass 65 % faster than a decade ago. The mountains that have long been called the “Third Pole” and the water tower of South Asia are approaching a tipping point. The economic stakes for India are enormous: Himalayan water underpins roughly 20 % of the nation’s GDP, yet the mountain states themselves capture only a fraction of that value. Astrologers watching the sky in the same days noticed something equally striking.   On 10 September 2026 Mercury formed an exact parallel in declination with Saturn. Mercury-Saturn combinations frequently coincide with serious scientific assessments and sobering reports. The chart for that moment, cast for Delhi, showed Saturn and Neptune tightly conjunct on the IC (the angle of land, foundat...

  On 11 September 2026, as a New Moon dawned over Delhi, Russian President Vladimir Putin stood at the BRICS summit and called for something bold: a comprehensive BRICS-wide payment and settlement system, a dedicated depository infrastructure, reinsurance mechanisms, and a grain exchange. In plain terms, an architecture designed to reduce dependence on Western financial rails and the dollar.     The timing was exact. The New Moon chart cast for Delhi places Venus at 0° Scorpio 31′, closely accompanied by Haumea, while Pluto sits at 3° Aquarius 20′ (retrograde). These form a potent square that straddles the horizon—Venus rising in the east, Pluto angular in the west. In astrology, angular planets shout. When Venus and Pluto lock horns across the horizon, themes of power, control, and transformation around money, values, and shared resources take center stage. Venus–Pluto is classic for the intense undercurrents of finance: who controls the purse strings, how value is...