Egyptian Election Announcement

The results of the Egyptian election run-off will be declared in Cairo on June 24 2012 at 3:00 pm. If we were looking for a manifestation of the first Uranus Pluto square then we have it all wrapped up in one in this case. Uranus square Pluto, the most significant and most challenging planetary alignment in over a generation, is exact on June 24 2012, less than 3 hours before the announcement. This is a sign of major political, social and economic upheaval. The revolution in Egypt and the subsequent rise of the Muslim Brotherhood clearly shows the effects of Uranus revolution and radical change squaring off against Pluto power and control. The Egyptian revolution began in January 2011, a sign of things to come with Uranus square Pluto applying at 8 degrees. The dictatorial regime of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was backed by decades by the Pluto superpower, U.S.A. The power behind the dictatorship, the Egyptian military, was directed funded by the U.S.A. After a brief pause, another 1.5 billion dollars is currently propping up the military rulers of Egypt. The reason for the U.S.A. wanting the military to remain in control is obvious, the popular, or democratic […]

How To Use Fixed Stars

How does one use fixed stars in the birthchart? There are two methods nowadays. 1) The fixed stars longitude method on the ecliptic or 2) The visual astrology of parans. The ecliptic is the path the Sun takes to travel around the earth, and it comprises the 360 degrees of the zodiac. The use of fixed stars in astrology goes back thousands of years, but since many of the important books were probably burnt in the fire of the great library in Alexandra we will never really know how fixed stars in astrology were really used astrologically as opposed to astronomically.

Jupiter Meets Uranus while Typing on a Weekend!

Typing on the Weekend of June 22–24, 2012

by Jude Cowell

Since this weekend is the last for composing and setting up my new subscription newsletter Stars Over Washington Monthly by early July, you can imagine that typing is keeping me tres busy and I won’t be hanging out much here on my SO’W blog until Monday or Tuesday–crazy events in Washington DC notwithstanding. No, it isn’t a weekend

Close To The Finish Line With Saturn Direct

Time for some good news; Saturn in Libra goes direct on June 25th! Some of you (especially those with planets between 22-29 degrees Libra) may barely be able to muster a grimace. It’s been a looong, painful journey that won’t … Contin…