OK. After watching this, I am slightly tempted to erase everything I have ever written about sun sign astrologers. Because it is such a wicked response to this skeptic.
(hat tip: The facebook horoscopic astrology forum)
Brilliant Sun Signs Tuesday, Jan 29 2008
astrology and foolish wisdom and oracles and tom foolery aquarius, aries, benloka, bill nye, cancer, capricorn, gemini, leo, libra, pisces, sagitarrius, scorpio, taurus, virgo 1:22 am
Yet Another “Astrologer” to Princess Diana Stripped of Faculty of Astrological Studies Diploma Monday, Jan 28 2008
astro-gossip and astrologers and astrology and debbie frank and ethics in astrology and general knavery and penny thornton and princess diana and skullduggery d.f.astrol.s, debbie frank, ethics in astrology, faculty of astrological studies, penny thornton, princess diana 12:32 am
I am going to London in March for a week and a friend, who was awarded a Certificate from the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London last year, sent me the link to the Faculty’s Annual Open Day in case I might like to purchase a ticket and attend.
While scrolling down the program page, I noticed at the very bottom that yet another Faculty Diploma holder has been stripped of her D.F.Astrol.S. This would make Debbie Frank the second astrologer to late Princess Diana to be stripped of her Faculty Diploma–the first being Penny Thornton in 1995–for violating several clauses in the Faculty’s code of ethics(pdf), the most serious, of course, being the violation of client confidentiality by speaking and writing publicly about their work as astrologers to the princess.
Polling Astrology Friday, Jan 25 2008
2008 presidential election and Around the Blogoverse and astro-gossip and astrological prediction and huffington post and michael lutin and oracles apotelesmatics, arianna huffington, astrology, chris brennan, huffington post, jeralyn merrit, michael lutin, politics, sun sign astrology, talk left 9:47 pm
Arianna Huffington has launched a new section at the Huffington Post called HuffPollstrology, to push back against the pollsters by treating “them as lightweight diversions on par with horoscopes and political betting lines.” Says Arianna:
To this end, we are introducing a new feature today: HuffPollstrology. It will keep you up to date on the latest poll results, along with the candidates’ latest horoscope predictions, the latest online political betting lines, and the latest weather forecasts for key primary states (and we know how accurate those often turn out to be!). Pollstrology is a great way to see who is hot and who is not — and which candidates’ stars say they might be lucky in voter love today.
So you can feed your poll habit every day, but in the right context — the way people who check their horoscopes every day know (unless they’ve checked their sanity at the door) that they have to take them with a large pinch of salt.
This way, you’ll be well-armed with the fun ways to start a conversation that polling and astrology provide: “I hear Hillary is ahead in California… What’s your sign? I bet you’re a Scorpio.”
The Huffington Post currently hosts two rather superficial astrology features: one a rather typical canned sun-sign treatment, courtesy of iVillage and the other by Michael Lutin (which I commented on here). (more…)
Cockroaches for Mikey (Updated) Friday, Jan 18 2008
2008 presidential election and astro-gossip and astrologers and general knavery and general stupidity and hillary clinton and michael lutin and scorpio 2008 presidential election, astrology, barack obama, bill o'reilly, cockroaches, gender, hillary clinton, huffington post, huffpo, michael lutin, mikey, misogyny, scorpio, vanity fair 7:18 pm
One of most common justifications offered by sun-sign columnists is that they perform a valuable public service by introducing astrology to the public and representing it in a positive way.
So, how does one jibe this rationalization with the misogynistic and hateful pseudo-astrodiatribe typed by former Vanity Fair sun-sign columnist Michael Lutin in the popular political blog, The Huffington Post. He writes:
Moving Foward… Thursday, Jan 17 2008
astrology fidaria, Jupiter, saturn, sunrunner 4:23 pm
A year ago, when I posted a video of Fred Mittle of Young@Heart singing Fix You by Cold Play, I was aware that I was entering a crucial Saturnian period in my life. Not only was I in the midst of a 2 year Saturn period via Fidaria, but transiting Saturn in its detriment, was hanging out in one of my angular houses and hitting a number of personal planets by hard aspect. Etc. But I did not expect that a whole year would go by without a single post, even though Saturn is about slowness, halting and yes, even reversals.
But all that is over, I am now in a Jupiter Fidaria (woo hoo!), transiting Saturn is in a Succedent house, and well, the world out there seems a lot more interesting…as I scroll the astrological ‘net, I notice a few things out there that I am looking forward to having some fun with.
Fun being the operative word! To that Jupiterian end, I have taken the liberty of “rectifying” my nome de Blog from daimones to Sunrunner.
(Photo credit: Foundations of Alter to Zeus at Pergamon from Sacred Destinations)
