The Not-So-Secret Diary of a Wanna-be (maybe) Astrologer Monday, Jun 12 2006 

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Astrology Class – Term 1

Week 1: Started Astrology classes. Most concerned to discover our Illustrious Tutor despises Taureans, as they are greedy, fond of excesses of the VERY WORST KIND, and insufferably slow and boring. Shows how much he knows. I am a model of sensitivity and propriety (apart from that incident with the psychologist and the strawberry ice cream in 1982 — and that was only in the interests of dispelling our baser instincts to achieve spiritual unity — so it quite clearly doesn’t count).

Week 2: Things have picked up slightly. The mysteries of astrology have deepened, but the woman sitting next to me is very interesting, and A MAN has joined. Wonder if he’s interested in Taurean excesses? N.B. Remember geometry set for next week.

Week 3: Start to draw our charts. This is very difficult

a) because I bought a cheap geometry set and the compass slips all over the place, and

b) because it is very difficult.

The interesting woman next to me says she is thinking of doing yoga instead — either that or committing suicide — she hasn’t quite decided.

THE MAN is interested in Taurean excesses. Also, he is not interested in astrology. Dismiss him totally. You can’t win ‘em all!

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Flashy Creepy Soulmates Monday, Jun 12 2006 

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At relationships-soulmate.com they have a sort of Ouspenskian-E.T thing going on.

Here’s a little taste (click on “dawn”).

Yes, the cosmos isn’t something you select for yourself; would that it were. No – it is pre-destined: it puts its mark on you and you are asleep.

Sleep well – you are being watched!

Not quite astrology – but all figured out it seems. Rather like these folks.

 

Stocks Eclipsed? Monday, Jun 12 2006 

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Arch_Crawford.jpgAstrologer and market trader Arch Crawford (who once advised burying a stockpile of canned goods and an M-16 in the back yard) is once again warning of financial trauma. Not only is the current market in a “corrective” phase, he believes that it will crash a la 1987 somewhere near or on the fall equinox eclipse of 22 September 2006 and that we will be entering a “historic period” of “German-style” hyper-inflation which will last throughout 2007.

Arch Crawford’s Dim View Of Stocks
John Dobosz, 05.30.06, 12:15 PM ET

New York – It’s not a far-fetched notion that recurring patterns can be found in just about every earthly and human process. No doubt the oceans’ tides and the change of seasons move in predictable cycles. Human beings, bipolar or not, also experience mood changes that tend to run in cycles.

As Carl Jung would explain, human beings also seem to exhibit collective mood swings. And certainly, the oscillation between extremes of fear and greed are rather pronounced in the financial markets.

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Meet Jack the Cat Monday, Jun 12 2006 

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This is what Jack did. Twice.
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WEST MILFORD, N.J. – A black bear picked the wrong New Jersey yard for a jaunt earlier this week, running into a territorial tabby who ran the furry beast up a tree — twice.

Jack, a 15-pound orange-and-white cat, keeps a close vigil on his property, chasing small animals when he can, but his owners and neighbors say his latest escapade was surprising.

“We used to joke, ‘Jack’s on duty,’ never knowing he’d go after a bear,” cat owner Donna Dickey told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday’s newspapers.

Neighbor Suzanne Giovanetti first spotted Jack’s accomplishment after her husband saw a bear climb a tree on the edge of their northern New Jersey home’s back yard on Sunday. Giovanetti thought Jack was simply looking up at the bear, but soon realized the much larger animal was afraid of the hissing cat.

After about 15 minutes peering down at the cat from the tree, the bear descended and tried to run away, only to have Jack chase it up another tree.

At this point Dickey, who feared for her cat, called Jack back home and the bear scurried back to the woods. “He doesn’t want anybody in his yard,” Dickey said.

Some Cat.

 

A Knave and a Fool Monday, Jun 12 2006 

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There and knaves . . . and then there are knaves.

In Aspen Colorado, “former astrologer” Thomas Gregory Brown was sentenced to 18 months probation for “for harassing two girls, concluding a case that referenced everything from a movie cannibal to lie detectors . . . Brown, who was originally charged with two felony counts of sexual assault on a child, pleaded guilty in April to two misdemeanor harassment charges as part of a plea agreement.

According to the British-born Brown’s defense attorney, the resemblance between the astrologer and the star Anthony Hopkins, the star of Silence of the Lambs, is “uncanny.” Would love to know Brown’s birth data. Hopkin’s is December 31, 1937, time unknown. Read More here.

Speaking of things British, here is a 2004 astrological analysis of the UK’s National Health Service.

The chart is criss-crossed by opposition aspects, and each end of these oppositions is at right-angles to other oppositions. There is a predominance of tense aspects, showing on one level that this organisation is biased towards action and doing, but on another level that there is a great deal of conflict within it.

There is much to commend in this chart, and it’s a very complex chart overall; it’s important to keep in mind though that it needs to be such, because it represents a service that caters to more than 60 million residents plus visitors to the UK – an amazingly complex operation.

In a later post, the author rails against politicians for “the sinister, treacherous, and brutal Pluto side into the equation. It is playing the Plutonic role of the murderous villain, not the life-bringer.”

Pluto the life-bringer?!?!