Full Moon Capricorn: Wednesday August 05 2009:

Moon Full Capricorn Wednesday August 05 2009 08:55:PM EDT at Toronto

Exact Positions: Moon Full Wednesday August 05 2009: 08:55:PM EDT at Toronto:

Moon New Sidereal Cancer: Tuesday July 21 2009:

Moon New Sidereal Cancer July 21 2009 10:36 PM EDT at Toronto

When do Solar and Lunar eclipses occur?

Moon New Sidereal Cancer July 21 2009 10: 36 PM EDT at Toronto

Sun Is In Sidereal Cancer: July 17th August 17th 2009:

Sun In Sidereal Cancer July 17th August 17th 2009:

July17-August17 The Sun is in the Constellation of Cancer:

A really good loaf of bread is a fine thing. You worship security comfort and wealth as a means to sustain and protect the many deserving and undeserving people you care about. It is the mood music of life that you listen to and play moment by moment day by day as you pass in and out of each person’s atmosphere. Life is a soap opera starring you and featuring everyone you know.

You tend to absorb a lot of heavy emotional energy and carry it around with you to the point of depression. Being a natural busy body you forget where your boundaries are and interfere in things that you do not understand. But so convinced are you that your feelings are real information that there is no talking to you once you have made up your mind about what the ‘problem’ is.

Super sensitive to rejection you tend to protect your inner feelings from possible damage by being on guard all the time. You can be irritable and easily offended. In this way you reject others and hurt the ones who love you. You easily substitute emotional fulfillment with a job or career that absorbs all your time and energy. Respect is extremely important to you and you are willing to work very hard to gain it.

Like everyone else you enjoy good news. But what really engages you is bad news, the worse the better. Empathizing with people in trouble is a special natural talent which you possess; if you add real training to it you become a highly skilled councilor.

Highly interested in Theatre Art and Film you like to collect books artifacts CDs and DVDs. Youre always upgrading your iPod because you just need more music. You may also be engaged in any of the many careers related to these fields.

You are interested in the world to the extent that it can impact upon your personal life your family your friends. And it sometimes happens that you find yourself personally involved in an issue that concerns the community as a whole. In this case public life and politics come naturally. Celebrities interest you and if you happen to become one yourself then you really don’t mind.

In love you seek emotional security and must be convinced that you are deeply understood before you give your emotional loyalty. You may be obliged to go through a series of harrowing emotional disappointments before you gain the inner stability to sustain a long lasting relationship. At your most intensely involved the romantic passes over into the mystical and you enter a kind of heaven of love.

Religious and spiritual concerns engage you because you carry a deep need to believe that there is a god/dess watching over you. When young you are likely to explore many different spiritual paths but as you grow older it is the god/dess of your childhood and ancestors that is likely to gain your final allegiance.

Yet there is a much deeper level to your spiritual longings and if you can find the actual courage, you are able to go there and become a “twice born” member of the Elect.

With the ever changing and moody Moon as ruler of the Constellation of Cancer the Key Word is inevitably: Emotion.

As the third Star House in the Archetypal Zodiac Cancer has everything to do with ones Mother and of course also ones siblings. The third Starhouse is also the scene of ones capacity to communicate to and empathize with others in an immediate and spontaneous way. The very first person anyone communicates with is Mother and that communication begins in the womb. The connection with siblings and spontaneous communication makes the Third Starhouse a house of Friendship and convivial self projection.

With the Exaltation of Jupiter in the Constellation of Cancer we find it’s Natives capable of being happy expansive and generous. Jupiter also endows the native with a strong interest in religion and to an extent in philosophy and the occult. The Moon if dramatically configured and strong will incline the native towards music acting and a public life. Though innately shy and defensive Cancerians love to be the centre of attention and bask in the warm feelings of their family friends and the public.

Because of the connections between the Moon Jupiter and the effects of Saturn in Detriment in the Constellation of Cancer its Natives are very often deeply concerned with issues of Security and Safety.

Most immediately this need for Security is the need for Emotional Security. Many a Cancerian has terminated a relationship or employment position simply because they felt insecure. Whether this feeling of insecurity is rational or not will depend upon other factors in the Birth Chart such as the position of Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn. Natives of this Star House can be extremely intense emotionally and sexually. Often romantic to a fault they personalize every aspect of life, and can indulge in the most outlandish displays of self pity and melodrama. They also have a rather overdeveloped sense of guilt and when not busy making others feel guilty are indulging in it themselves.

The fall of Mars in Cancer can make its Natives sexually demanding and emotionally explosive with a pronounced weakness for alcohol and drugs. But should Saturn be stronger in the chart than Mars then the native will be abstemious controlling and miserly. It is often the case that Control as the afflicted extension of the need for Security can become the dominant theme in the Natives life. In this case the Native is moody withdrawn and uncommunicative and can drive others to distraction by subjecting them to the “silent treatment”. But so variable are the moods of Cancer that in due course the victim of the “silent treatment” will be subjected to an unending litany of complaints and grievances. If these are ignored the Cancer throws a big tantrum which can easily end in tears, with or without a remorseful confession of guilt.

There is a highly developed Native of Cancer who is capable of meeting and calmly confronting every kind of emotion come what may. These aristocrats of the Constellation of Cancer are able to become the central character in a very large “extended family” composed of a very wide variety of distinctly different human individuals who oddly are able to get along on a good humored “agree to disagree” basis. We can also find these individuals as the Heads of Corporations and Organizations enjoying the unflagging love and loyalty of their employees and associates.

These rare exalted Cancerians can also be found as spiritual teachers. The planet Jupiter carries the meaning of “spiritual teacher” and indeed it is true that by observing the position of Jupiter and its aspects in any Sidereal Birth Chart we can see the quality and worth of the Natives spiritual teacher. This kind of Cancerian will be found preserving and fostering a spiritual tradition rather than setting the world on fire with any unseemly or eccentric innovation. We should not forget that even at this level the need for security will make itself felt and the wise Cancerian will seek the most reliable and well tested spiritual knowledge and practice.

If Mercury and Saturn are also strong and in a positive position the Native will become an extremely effective spokes person for their spiritual tradition. There will be a natural talent for writing, public speaking and the ability to face any spiritual challenge. Being well able to understand the emotions that move and change people they are able to communicate with a very wide variety of people. There is a sound and sensible concern for the physical as well as spiritual needs of people and pragmatic social activists are found amongst the natives of this Star House.

CANCER:
Element: Cardinal Water:
Ruler: Moon:
Exaltation: Jupiter:
Detriment: Saturn:
Fall: Mars:
Sense: Touch:
Philosophy: Materialism:
Archetypal Zodiac: 3rd House:
Age of Pisces: 5th House:

Moon Full Sagittarius: Tuesday July 07th 2009:

Sidereal Moon Full Sagittarius: Tuesday July 07th 2009 05H22M AM EDT at Toronto.

A full Moon filled with excitement, magic, promise and caution. Mutability is the name of the game here so a kind of Murphy’s Law kicks in: “If something can change then it will change”. Eccentricities will abound! Thinking about bursting out and trying something new? Want to step off an existential cliff? Here’s your big chance. If you have the itch to travel you will be scratching hard here.

Love and romance is in the air in a wild and crazy kind of way. Will you; are you, crazy Jupiter+ Neptune Square Venus+ Mars? Come to think of it Jupiter is the Ruler of this Full Moon and just look at the way it is electrified! It’s a spiritual thing a very powerful spiritual thing for anyone who can vibrate at that pitch of Tantric intensity.

There is wild oscillation, very hard to balance really. You either fall headlong and heartlong in love, or you fall out of bed altogether.

Reckless financial behaviour is to be expected, if you are so disposed: You want what want and you want it Now! Addicted gamblers are going to have an extremely rough time of it. I don’t just mean online credit card, or Casino gamblers, but also futures traders, currency and stock exchange gamblers in general.

This is Gemini Sun Sagittarius Moon; inevitably there is a certain schizophrenic quality at play. I don’t necessarily mean in the mental health sense though we can’t exclude that entirely, but there are definitely two separate realities at play simultaneously. Underneath the magic and razzmatazz is Saturn in Leo. The Sun in Gemini is Sextile/Harmonious to Saturn in Leo, in turn Saturn is giving a Trine/Harmony to the Moon Full in Sagittarius, but don’t forget it is Saturn, so it looks more like compromise than joy.

Do you see the Mystic Rectangle? * When you see that in a natal chart it connotes extreme individuation and spiritual resilience, it also promises an inescapable destiny. Something long in the making must now come to fruition. This is in Toronto where the City and Mayor are having a crisis in authority and garbage and stench frustrated city populations are coming to the end of their patience. Full Moons encourage high running emotions and extreme reactions.

The situation in Iran will come to a decisive head: A new unity will be born.

For the spiritually involved and active the Mystic rectangle signifies a breakthrough in awareness and understanding, the realisation that individuation once attained cannot be undone by any outside agency.

The Square between Pluto and Ouranus is extremely explosive.

* Mystic Rectangle: The Ascendant 60 Degrees to Saturn which is 120 Degrees to the Moon which is 60 Degrees to the Mid Heaven which is 120 Degrees to the Ascendant. The Sun is Opposite the Moon and Saturn is Opposite the Mid heaven.

Moon Full Sagittarius July 07th 05H22M AM EDT 2009 Positions at Toronto

New Moon Gemini: Monday June 22 2009:

Moon New Gemini: June 22 2009: 03H: 36:M M EDT: at Toronto:

Moon New Gemini: Positions at Toronto: EDT Zone:

The Sun is in Sidereal Gemini: June16-July17:

Isn’t it amazing the way the thousand and one things flash in and out of your mind at a moments notice? You enjoy variety and novelty and always want to know what the latest fashion trend is.

The narrative line is important and you spend a lot of time in your own mind talking to yourself. Not that you are engrossed in an inner dialogue deliberately it just happens even when you are asleep. You spend a lot of time rehearsing what you are going to say to people, some of whom are imaginary, or what you should have said to people, some of whom are also imaginary.

Essentially alienated and detached from your world you put great effort into trying to show a genuine interest in others. But others don’t really exist for you beyond what ever information you are able to gather about them. This makes you sad sometimes, though not for long.

You act in the most spontaneous adaptable and easy going manner ready to engage everyone and anyone. You like to put on a very convincing display of how open minded and progressive you are. This gives you enough popularity to get you invited along to the party. You take the occasional trip through the dark side of town just to see what you are missing out on.

Anything that offers continuous variety novelty and change appeals to you. Journalism, Advertising, Information Technology and sales involving travel are obvious choices. But you are also extremely status conscious so you seek higher education and training for the prestige they confer. You have a natural aptitude for music, writing, science, information technology, and law.

Being highly secretive you never let anyone know what you really think of them. In the privacy of your inner mind you judge everyone you meet slotting them into a private cast and status system that you believe in. You lie to people as a matter of course and only get caught when you have not been given enough time to rehearse. Consequently you have become highly adept at changing the subject in a hurry.

You are convinced that society is composed of two kinds of people: the privileged and the underprivileged. You do everything in your power to be associated with the privileged and become one of them.

In love you are a bit of a lightweight due to the fact that you are really a bachelor at heart and never let anyone get to where you really live. You never enter into anything without thinking about how you are going to get back out of it should the need arise. Consequently others pick up on a certain coldness and distance coming from you. Real intimacy eludes you but you can be happy enough with someone just like you.

Your spiritual interests tend to be wide ranging and eclectic. As you love to read and inform yourself you probably have a collection of spiritual literature. You share what you have found without ever committing to a specific spiritual path yourself. Beware of the god/dess you worship in secret.

Full Moon Scorpio: Sunday June 07 2009:

True Wesak Moon Full Taurus June 07 2009:

You may remember last  Dec 12 2008 when there was a big buzz about the Full Moon and how that chart was forming a critical T Square involving the Sun in Scorpio Full Moon in Taurus and Saturn in Leo.

I had mentioned how that Moon represented amongst other things the True Halloween. The polarity of Taurus Scorpio is the bridge between the living and the ‘dead’.

This full Moon is the Zodiacal opposite of that Moon. In this instance we are witnessing the true Wesak Moon which was the Moon under which the Buddha was both born and attained Absolute Enlightenment.

This time the Sun is in peace loving Taurus and the Moon is in the intensity of Scorpio and Saturn is very close to where it was last December having spent months Retrograde in the interim.

We are in for a highly rewarding romantic and spiritual weekend. At a political, military and financial level: Major shifts and realignments as the World attempts to absorb these high level energies.

Moon Full Positions: June 07 2009: 02:13: PM EDT

Aung San Suu Kyi Burma-Myanmar Karmic Astrology:

Karmic Astrology In Burma-Myanmar:

Aung San Suu Kyi is again in the news accused by the Myanmar regime of breaking the terms of her “House Arrest” by covering up the clandestine visit of an American admirer…Intelligence Community agent?

I wrote most of this when the Buddhist Monks were rioting against the Myanmar Regime and being killed in great numbers in September 2007.

Burma-Myanmar is on the brink of another convulsion based largely on what happened in September 2007, but with the addition that  Aung San Suu Kyi is in the endgames of her struggle with the Regime there in her home land.

It is hard to conceive that the Buddhist Monks of Burma and their supporters would willingly place themselves at the hazard of persecution torture and death. Why are they doing it now? And what role does the existence of Aung San Suu Kyi play in all of this.

They are Buddhists and they could tell you that Burma/Myanmar has entered an era of ripe national karma. But then what is that?

When it is the time of a truly significant destined event, nothing can prevent it. Individual and group freedom rests in the level of the response to the destined event. I said in my last post that the Buddhist Monks of Burma have deep knowledge of Sidereal Astrology and its karmic significance.

[…”Burma was the only part of the Indian Empire to separate itself completely from Great Britain on gaining independence. Full independence was granted at 04.H: 20.M: AM: on January 4th 1948. ‘the hour having been chosen by Burmese astrologers as auspicious’. The independence ceremonies took place ‘before dawn in bright moonlight’ in the capital Rangoon…”][The Book Of World Horoscopes - Nicholas Campion. -The Aquarian Press 1988]

There is only one next thing to do here and that is to look at this ‘auspicious’ chart of Burmese Nationhood.

Burma-Myanmar State Chart Independence:

When you are looking at an electional chart – a chart chosen in advance to facilitate a certain ongoing outcome – you are looking at intention and intention is of course motive.

The very first thing that  jumps out here is the Nexus of Sun, Jupiter, Mars. Ascendant.

The Sun is in Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter. Jupiter is in Scorpio ruled by Mars. Mars is in 10th House Leo ruled by the Sun. The Sun is in Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter. The ascendant in any chart signifies the place of the rising Sun. The 10th House signifies the Sun at its greatest strength at noon. And right there Mars in Leo- the Army will be King.
A powerful Nexus.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this Nexus is extremely strong, positive, and fascistic. The military is very strongly emphasized in this Nexus. Democracy, not so much. Sure enough these newly independent Burmese wanted a total break from the British Empire, no Commonwealth of Free Nations for them.

Immediately apparent too is the predicament of Mercury – the mind communication – combust and in detriment in its exact conjunction to the Sun. Perhaps the astrologers thought that the Moon in Virgo combined with the influence of Jupiter would compensate for the critically compromised Mercury. Asian sidereal astrology ignores Neptune! Weirdly we see a very strong devious and intellectually closed mind, even as it is filled with images and vivid imaginations.

Clearly the Venus at 18 Capricorn 31′ in the 3rd house is the famed and long enduring Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest no less. As we will see her Natal Chart is in critical opposition to this National Chart of a nation born to be ruled by the Military.

The Conjunction of Saturn and Pluto both retrograde is at the end of the 9th House Cancer. I know what that astrologer was thinking about that too. Saturn in the 9th House is in strength when it is not in detriment or otherwise afflicted. Well that Saturn is big time afflicted by being in Cancer except for the ‘reverse adverse law’, which means that a double negative becomes a kind of positive. Saturn in Cancer is Retrograde. But again he ignored Pluto! He was also thinking that the Saturn Sextile to the Moon however wide would still lend a kind of stability to the Moon and by rulership transference, Saturn in Cancer is in the Home of the Moon-add some weight to that poor fried Mercury.

The people in such a state would suffer greatly from the images and confusion in their minds, they would seek relief and the relief would be right there in the form of Buddhist meditation. The people in such a state would seek relief in the form of transcendence, because it would be next to impossible to get too comfortable in this world.

Are we looking at a devils contract between the military oligarchy and religion? Or what is more likely the Oligarchy who was to receive Burma from the British Empire had their own astrologer calculate the hand-over ceremony chart so that it would benefit them.

State sanctioned religions tends not to do well in a Democracy. The Buddhist Oligarchy and the Military Oligarchy decided to wash each others hands.

That Elder Astrologer is for sure, by now in his next or even second next lifetime from the time of calculating that chart. Perhaps he is out there now demonstrating against the Junta, atoning for his karma.

In all probability he knew that his electional chart would, given time, blow up in the faces of the ruling oligarchy who commissioned it. Surely at the time, back in January 1948 the Esoteric Buddhist Initiates throughout the new country also saw what had happened.

Now from a Buddhist point of view that chart and the way it came into being can only be regarded as a mirror of past and future karma in itself. Did they even know that the Daughter of the General who founded the Burmese Military, the General who they had assassinated would one day come back to haunt them?

In the second part of this we are going to look at  Aung San Suu Kyi:

New Moon In Taurus Sunday 24th May 2009:

New Moon Taurus: Sunday May 24th 2009: At Toronto:




Positions: Sidereal New Moon Taurus: May 24th 2009: 08:12:AM EDT: At Toronto:

What kind of year is Sidereal Taurus going to have?

What kind of year is Sidereal Taurus going to have?

Sidereal Astrology places the emphasis in initial chart interpretation on the Ascendant + Sun + Moon combination. Sidereal Astrology also utilizes Solar Return charts which again are initially determined by the Ascendant/Sun/Moon combination. That said we can still garner useful insights from a multiple Solar Return chart which is what we are doing here.

During the passage of the Sun through the Sidereal Constellation of Taurus from the 15^th of May to the 15^th of June we have 30 Birthdays. That is thirty approximate Solar Returns.

From 15th to 25th May
Sun Transits 01Degrees to 10Degrees Taurus:

The Sun is in a noticeable Conjunction to Retrograde Mercury and a Square to Jupiter Neptune in early Aquarius.

You need to make up your mind and you need to do it quickly, unfortunately you find it hard to concentrate and see a clear vision of what you really want this year. There is also the issue of timing, and coordinating the changes you know you must make, with the other things that are going on in your life and relationships.

With the all important Moon for Taurus in Capricorn in a conjunction to the Dragons Head your emotions may feel a bit flat and a tendency to take relationships for granted may lead to some degree of estrangement from the ones you love.

With Ouranus in a Sextile to Sun Mercury from the cusp of Pisces you may have spiritual and creative ideas and images streaming through your imagination giving you more alternatives than you actually need to keep your life in order.

In the months leading up to July 2007 and beyond into 2008 you experienced real changes to the Structure of your way of life and were forced to redefine your identity and role in the world and in your relationships. If you took care of business back then this year becomes a year of tweaking and refining an already existing situation. Though still a bit confused and indecisive at times, you get to be creative and enjoy life this year.

New Moon May 24^th 2009 at 08 Degrees Taurus:

Mars Enters Aries: May 25th 2009:

From 25^th May to June 05^th 2009:
Sun Transits 10: Degrees to 20: Degrees Sidereal Taurus:

At this stage the Jupiter Neptune Square from the Cusp of Aquarius has pretty well lost its influence and the Venus Mars Conjunction in mid Pisces is forming a strong Sextile adding energy, creativity, luck and a certain extravagance to you emotions and financial dealings.

At the same time the Sun Saturn Square is active forcing developmental, emotional and career changes which may all be marked by a certain feeling of unavoidability.

If pushed to change by external forces or circumstances, something you detest at the best of times, you may dig your heels in and lock horns in some stubborn but pointless attempt to maintain the status quo, thus squandering the positive side of this opportunity to bring about much needed changes in your life.

These changes can only be delayed and not avoided. Better to just get on with them seeing as you have been thinking about them and planning for change for the last several months at least.

With the New Moon in its first ¼ Waxing you should be able to go forward with enthusiasm if you give up pointless resistance.

On Sunday May 31^st the Waxing Moon is in an exact Conjunction to Saturn at 20: Degrees Leo.

Now that will be a dramatic and serious Birthday.

From 05^th June to 15^th June 2009:
Sun Transits 20: Degrees to 30: Degrees Taurus

In the early days of this Decanate, the birth Sun is in an exact Square to Saturn. Well here it is the big unavoidable restructuring of your Identity in the face of radically altered life circumstances.

Always slow to change, in all probability you have been procrastinating in the face of all those things you know must inevitably be addressed and settled, you may be feeling pressured and anxious now.

If you are in a troubled business partnership or relationship this may be the year when long held resentments and dissatisfactions break surface. Not necessarily through any of your doing, because don’t forget you are procrastinating, but through changes imposed upon you by others and life circumstances.

In your heart you know the truth of how you feel about your life and you know exactly what needs to be done. Just let it happen if you can, allow the turn of events to create the openings and spaces you need in order to fulfill the plan you have been brooding over for so long. If you resist change here there will be much unnecessary distress and suffering.

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Moon:

May 17^th Moon Last ¼

May 24^th New Moon

May 31^st Moon First ¼

June 07^th Moon Full

June 15^th Moon last ¼

Planets:

May 17^th Saturn sDirect 20: Degrees: 02: Minutes:  Leo:

May 25th 2009: Mars Enters Aries:

May 29^th Neptune sRetrograde: 01: Degree 36 Minutes Aquarius.

May 30/31^st Mercury Direct 27: Degrees: 59: Minutes:  Aries