May 11, 2011: Has Newt Gingrich announced his run for US president yet? He’s supposed to be doing so today and weeks ago the story was that his prez bid announcement would be made from Philadelphia’s *Independence Hall. My assumption is that announcing from such a location would be a shout-out to Tea Partisans and a bid for hyper-patriotism.Well, here’s Mr. Gingrich’s birth data (hour unknown)
Tag: mundane astrology
Visible Alignment of Planets: a presaging of 2012? 5.10.11
1999, the New Millennium, 2012, and Planets All in a Row 2011by Jude CowellMay 10, 2011: as of today it is possible to see with the naked eye a fabulous celestial show: a line-up of Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter in the wee hours of the morning for the next few weeks.Even quirkily inclined Uranus and shy Neptune may be viewed if environmental conditions are right and you have a decent pair of
Week of May 9, 2011: China to Washington DC
With China’s counterpart officials to US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner visiting Washington DC this week for meetings, I’ve had a peek at the natal horoscope of China and the nation’s current progressions. Click to view China’s 1949 national horoscope which I published in 2010 on the occasion of Mr. Geithner’s visit there. Plus, here’s a creaky old post from way back in April 2006 when China
A fake bin Laden story? (video); the Reaganomics Eclipse of 1981
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
Solar Eclipse January 4, 2011: from May 2011’s perch
This week has been busy to the point of very little blogging time (day job, you know) and today, Friday May 6, 2011, is more of same.Making a flash appearance here to moderate comments, I find some interest has occurred in a previous post still current by topic which concerns America and the Solar Eclipse of January 4, 2011, the Series in which the world now twists and turns.The post includes
Doubting the bin Laden assassination story?
If all the governmental flip-flopping and murky details concerning the story of the raid and death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1, 2011 seem fishy to you and a certain Why Now? feeling persists, you are not alone for Dr. Roberts joins you:The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event By Paul Craig Roberts In Washington-think, a 24% rise in approval rating justifies a staged event. #Justice
Timeline of the bin Laden assassination: Pluto Rising
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
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