Here’s NPR’s timeline of the May 1st raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan (his hidey-hole – considerably ritzier than Saddam Hussein’s had been.)Though I’ve been studying horoscopes of the event I’ve held back from posting about it and have since found it better to use the chart provided by Bernadette Brady with Moon 24Ari08 and 8Cap39 rising with saboteur and assassin Pluto
Tag: political astrology
NPR turns 40 today with a Uranus/Chiron opposition
Looking at the natal horoscope of NPR’s first-ever broadcast of All Things Considered, it’s interesting to note a few of the astro-factors shown.Broadcaster Jupiter Rx 3Sag58 (‘4Sag’ = "A Little Child Learning to Walk"!) is in process of its Great Conjunction with Neptune 2Sag13 Rx in 2nd house with Neptune representing media and its masses of listeners. Let’s consider – not all things – but a
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,
Founding of Washington DC based on pay-offs
On the Early History and Pre-History of K Street and Washington DC (aka, Funktown)by Jude CowellK.A. Muston’s The Little Green House on K Street is a must-read as I discovered today when its link was sent along to me by the excellent Alex D’Atria of GOP Astrology.You’ll note the date mentioned: June 20, 1783 at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the morning our desperate Continental
Horoscope of Barack Obama w 4.27.11 transits
This morning I posted the NPR News Alert that the White House has released the birth certificate of President Barack Obama. This inspires me to publish a copy of President Obama’s natal horoscope, something I had not done before on this blog although I have referred to its placements, of course. The released BC shows the birth time that most if not all astrologers have been using: 7:24 pm AHST,
Of YODS, Quincunxes, and Prince William’s Royal Wedding
As part of her blog’s ongoing aspect series on quincunxes (150 degrees), master astrologer Donna Cunningham has published an excellent analysis concerning YODS, quincunxes, and the April 29, 2011 Royal Wedding of the ‘Eclipse Prince’ William and Miss Kate Middleton.Links to other Astrology articles on the happy couple and the Royal Wedding are included along with natal chart, YOD, and quincunx
Horoscope USA: Uranus in Gemini Rising
Shown: America’s natal horoscope with Uranus in Gemini Rising July 4, 1776 2:22 am LMT Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; it remains a Venus Hour as in the US Sibly chart, and Venus, Mars, and Pluto retain their out-of-bounds status.Click to enlarge the chart for more details.The following is one of the several potential birth charts for the founding of America. There are two historical hints as to the
Summer Solstice 2011 Horoscope w details
Image: Horoscope Summer Solstice 2011, June 21 @ 1:16:35 pm edt, set for the White House, Washington DC as the seat of US power.Hour *Jupiter 3Tau19 in 8th house of Transformation, Credit and Debt; ASC 1Lib21 gives US natal MC rising with natal Saturn/Neptune midpoint 3Lib37 and transiting Mercury/Pluto midpoint 8Lib23; chart-ruler Venus 14Gem46 in 9th H of Foreign Lands, Travel, Higher Education
One year on: BP-Gulf Oil Blowout Apr 20, 2011
Today my thoughts are with the families and friends of the eleven workers killed on British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010 and all the good people on the US Gulf Coast who continue to suffer from BP’s mistakes, incompetence, and greed. (Click to view the BP Blowout horoscope along with the natal chart of Mexico.)Environmental damage, health concerns, and income depletion of
Solar Eclipse of the Siege at Waco 1993
The US government-Branch Davidian stand-off which history calls the Siege at Waco began on February 28, 1993, ended on April 19, 1993, and was shown live on TV in the US around the clock, as I remember (or perhaps it only seemed that way. We were more easily shocked back then – and perhaps shocking the public was part of the motivation.)The 50-day Waco stand-off happened within a certain Solar