Update 5:15 pm edt: the Pentagon has released 5 video snippets of what is supposedly Osama bin Laden rehearsing with a blackened beard (which looks fake to me!) Audio has not been included. Original post begins here:Now I’m definitely not the only one entertaining doubts about the US government’s shifting story of the Osama bin Laden raid and assassination in Pakistan.Did a raid take place? I
Tag: Lunations
Horoscopes of New/Full Moons of May 3 and 17, 2011
With this post, Stars Over Washington passes the 2,700-post milestone and begins to reach toward 2,800 entries so let’s discuss the horoscopes of May 2011’s two lunations: a New Moon on Tuesday May 3, 2011 (12Tau31; seeding phase) and a Full Moon on Tuesday May 17, 2011 (26Sco13; culmination or fulfillment phase of the Sun-Moon cycle.) Click to enlarge; New Moon chart lists US natal placements,
Full Moon in Libra Horoscope Apr 17, 2011
Washington DC by the Light of a Libra Full Moon April 17, 2011by Jude CowellThe Air (mental) sign of Libra is all about relationships, balance, justice, and beauty. The opposite degree of the Full Moon’s degree is the Illumination Point where unconscious info lurks if we care to take a peek, and it is naturally the degree of the Sun (27Ari44 in 5th house; see their Sabian Symbols below.) On the
Aries New Moon Apr 3, 2011 w US natal Mars rising
The more I look at the chart factors in the horoscope of the April 3, 2011 New Moon at a critical/crisis degree, the more worrisome they appear. Sadly, the cure isn’t to stop looking.Well, as you know, the combination of Mars and Uranus is a permanent signature in the American natal chart and national psyche so we can’t say we’re not a warring bunch of varmints, can we? With Gemini the sign of
SuperMoon or Full? March 19, 2011 lunation in Virgo
If you’re contemplating upon the Full Moon of Saturday March 19, 2011 @28Vir48 and the fact that it qualifies as a ‘SuperMoon’, as the phenomenon was titled by astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979, then you’ll want to read the list (1954 – 2036) provided of natural disasters which have occurred within 3 days of a SuperMoon.Now Astronomy does not concur on the subject of influence upon the Earth’s
Pegasus and the Virgo Full Moon of 3.19.11
Image: Horoscope of the Mar 19, 2011 Full Moon 28Vir48 in 3rd house @2:10 pm edt, Capitol Building Washington DC; Hour Moon (changes, fluctuations, publicity); Moon conjunct asteroid Nemesis; Sun 28Pis48 in 9th H conj Uranus 00Ari26, conj Fixed Star Scheat (Beta Pegasus); chart-ruler Moon applies: inconjunct Neptune 29AQ30 (0A42) in 8th H, and opposition Uranus (1A39) in 9th H.1. Moon inconj
3.1.11: Pres. Obama in secret meetings, New Moon on Friday
ABC News’ Jake Tapper reports that all day today President Obama will be in secret meetings behind closed doors including one with Biden and Gates. Hmmm…wonder what’s hatching?And I report my return last evening from a fun weekend with family in charming Raleigh, NC. Over the weekend, only one post made it online and you’ll discover it @ Jude’s Threshold, as you wish!Naturally an out-of-town
John Wheeler murder case: $25,000 reward offered for info
Family of slain ex-Pentagon official wants info is quite a mild headline considering that search warrants and other information have been sealed by Attorney General Beau Biden’s office and Newark police in the investigation into the mysterious death of John P. Wheeler, whose body was found in a Wilmington Delaware landfill on December 31, 2010.The excessive sealing of information reflects the
AQ New Moon 2.2.11 and Leo Full Moon 2.18.11
Our February 2011 Lunationsby Jude CowellImage: New Moon 13AQ54 Feb 2, 2011 9:30:36 pm est Washington DC; Moon Hour (changes, fluctuations, publicity, daily concerns); ASC 2Lib52 = chart-ruler Venus 28Sag42; Venus applies: square Jupiter (3A28) and conjunct Pluto (7A45 – see below); New Moon conjunct Mars 14AQ16 in 5th house of Risk-Taking, Gambling, Creative Pursuits.Neptune 27AQ51 continues
Capricorn season 2011? Pass the Twinkies! And explain the dead birds
Today I’ve pretty much been hibernating and reading, partly due to the snow and ice still on the lawn and bitter cold in the forecast, partly from recent shocking events which my natal Moon in Pisces often absorbs a little too deeply. Regular breaks from Politics are needed to maintain (or attain?) emotional health and sanity, as most people agree.Yet I’ve not been wholly inactive and have spent