Reconsidering the Natal Chart of Thomas Paine
by Jude Cowell
Recently I discovered an interesting site featuring an excerpt from Bertrand Russell’s book of essays such as, Why I Am Not a Christian though I did not read far enough to find out his reason. But that’s because the excerpt concerned Thomas Paine and his fate. The page contains a few typos one of which is Paine’s birth year as ‘1739’
For Inauguration 2017 (January 20, noon EST, Capitol Building), the American people may expect a horoscope and planets that look like this:
Please enlarge the image to read my scribbles of basic information and scroll below for the midpoint picture potentials active during the day.
Providing the cosmic conditions for the 2017 Oath of Office and the 4-year term of the next president is a
“Going gently” sums up Libra’s approach to the world. It appears as elegant touches in unexpected places, moving with grace, choosing the nice shirt, setting things down carefully, coaxing the cat. It’s in the little ways of approaching life with a spirit of beauty and grace, smoothness and quiet.
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If Not Nominated Candidate Trump Signals Riots for RNC 2016
When 2016 candidate Donald Trump announced his presidential bid on June 16, 2015 it was influenced that day by a New Moon @25Gemini which denotes a new cycle of activity, and for Mr. Trump marked a new cycle involving Mercury, planet of announcements and voting and ruler of communicative Gemini (sign of Good News).
And perhaps you
With the March 23, 2016 Lunar Eclipse occurring in early Libra, sign of Partnerships, Relationships, Beauty, Art, Balance, and Diplomacy you’ll find that Barbara Goldsmith can sort things out for you:
I woke up this morning feeling violently happy, which made me think of Icelandic songstress and musical genius, Björk. I wondered if she was born on an eclipse. So I checked: she was born the day before one in November 1965. If you want to know about the surge of emotions of an eclipse, I recommend listening to Bjork. With her Sun, Moon, Ascendant in Scorpio, she is able to clearly express something deep, dark and dangerous. With her North Node in Gemini, she was destined to communicate this. Her songs are often about being on the edge of madness. […]
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Tomorrow evening a Solar Eclipse manifests @19Pisces in the 18 South Saros Series:
18 South themes include potentials for: endings, separations, and partings which can relate to travel or to endings of relationships or alliances; grief and anguish may follow yet the pain of separation can be lessened by new situations which create positive outcomes (Brady’s Predictive Astrology).
As you know
Though eclipses are dramatic and interesting, few of them are truly life-changing. For many of us, this Solar Eclipse will come and go with some mild emotional disruption and perhaps some unexpected developments in some area of life, and that’s about it. But watch your chart closely over a number of years, and you learn to identify its hot spots. And this particular eclipse triggers one of mine….
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Mercury-Mars signatures are always favored around Stars Over Washington for their political connotations, propensity toward debate (preferably of issues, not personalities), and strong opinions (which may or may not be expressed). Mercury square Mars and more are well addressed here by astrologer Steve Judd along with information on the March 9, 2016 Solar Eclipse:
Brief Astro-Notes on the March 23, 2016 Lunar Eclipse @3Libra
by Jude Cowell
First, here’s the Lunar Eclipse horoscope set for March 23, 2016 (Sun 3 degrees past Aries Point) manifesting at 8:00:48 am EDT the White House Washington DC with Aries rising and Mars as chart-ruler; a Mercury Hour with Full Moon @3Libra17 in 6th house (Wash DC):
No rigid Fixed energy, all active Fire and