Featured Articles Added 05-08-2010 1. The New World Age Mayan and Egyptian astrologers were aware of the Precession of the Equinox, a gradual shifting of the first day of spring (when the Sun is at 00 Aries) westward through the zodiac (ecliptic) by 1-degree every 71-years. The Mayan 2012 end date is based on this movement; their calendar ends in 2012 because this is the beginning of the next New Age according to their calculations. 2. Flu Pandemic Concerns have risen over the recent, rapid spread of the swine flu (the H5N1 virus) in Mexico, the United States, and in Europe. Is this the beginning of the next world-wide pandemic? Astrology can shed light on this question. I wrote the following short article as a newspaper column and a posting to my website several years ago. The article has been updated to conform to the current dilemma. 3. Renaissance or Perish What a thrill to live during a Pluto perihelion! Faced by both difficult challenges and tremendous opportunities, this is an age of discovery. As the Industrial Age gives way to the Age of Information, educational demands increase. 4. Inflation Warning and the War in Iraq An inflationary crisis will begin shortly after the Jupiter conjunction Neptune of May 27, 2009. This aspect occurs twice more during its retrograde phase peaking July 10, 2009 and final direct motion peaking December 21, 2009. 5. Decline: The Fall of America? What you are about to read may be frightening or enlightening. But we as a nation are surely on a course, like the English and Roman Empires before us, toward decline. 6. War & Peace Relatively peaceful conditions throughout the world are most likely to end within a year or two of sunspot maximums. An increase in local hostilities and the eruption of large-scale war tends to occur near the sunspot peak. Peace resumes within a year or two of sunspot minimums. |