July 15 We can also see Rahu's influence upon Martha Stewart's chart. She has been running its cycle since 1990, during which time Martha enjoy amazing successes. However, Martha will be sentenced Friday, July 16, and news reports indicate some jail time is called for. I had predicted this in the May 11 Celestial Wheel. Rahu is made difficult by its birth chart placement in the twelfth house of prisons and its transit position in the seventh house of the courts. So, at some point during its planetary cycle, Rahu the serpent would strike Martha. While it is testimony to Martha's powerful Venus that she was able to delay sentencing, Rahu dominates. Considering that Rahu and Ketu are eclipse points, blocking the light of the all-important Sun and Moon, they must be the most potent of all the planets -- in their strange and mysterious ways. Arnold Schwarzenegger is similarly running Rahu with Venus planetary cycles, and again, birth chart Rahu is in his twelfth house of loss. In this case, Mars is also in the twelfth house, which accounts for his tremendous desire and his sexual deviance. This combination also brings problems with friends, who become his enemies. I had felt Rahu would cost Arnold the election last year, but Rahu's good transit position in the eleventh house of gains gave a temporary lift. Sooner or later, Rahu must exact its toxic price, and news reports about a gridlock in the California budget process may be an early indication of this. Arnold will be running Rahu/Venus/Mars from July 25 until September 27. Look for him to experience setbacks during this interval. Lance Armstrong is also running his eighteen year Rahu planetary cycle. Like Arnold, Lance's Rahu is with Mars, giving him the tremendous desire needed for achievement. This combination previously brought the testicular cancer in 1993 but later fueled his five Tour de France wins. That is how Rahu operates, often bringing great worldly success but also the inevitable but unexpected and uncontrollable serpent's bite. In this instance, Lance has further accident risk (especially this week), brought by Mars, and the Rahu/Mars conjunction in his chart reveals Rahu's influence. However, Rahu is also foreigners, and Lance has exper- ienced several problems with the French, which is also negative for his winning the race. We can see in these examples how difficult it is to predict exactly how and when Rahu will act in a chart for good or for ill -- but we can also see it is impossible to avoid or deny its karmic potency.
July 14 Further, as these daily Celestial Wheels e-mailings are large files, I will now e-mail you only the current day's log entries. Should you wish to refer to previous days, just go to the archives and click on the Celestial Wheel page that holds those dates. This is the link to the archives, http://www.vedicpredictiveastrology.com/forecasts/ When you click on this link, a window will come up asking for your user name and password. Here are these codes: user name: subscriber password: moon Please save the archives link in your favorites, and write down the user name and password. Most computers allow the user name and password to be saved -- so you won't have to type in these each time you go to the archives. As some Subscribers do not renew, I will periodically change these access codes and send them to you. I was up all night completing this task and hope all the links still work. Let me know if you find any dead or incorrect links, and I'll fix them right away. Also, as I will be copying the current day's log entries from the web to my e-mail program, it is possible that some images will be corrupted or converted to attach- ments. Again, let me know if this occurs. I apologize for any inconvenience this necessary security upgrade brings. The result, of course, is to keep this forecasting work truly restricted to current Subscribers. On another topic, I received the newest version of the Vedic Astrology program, Parashara's Light. This is a major upgrade from my old 1999 version, and it should enable greatly improved analyses of celestial patterns. I need to compose an in-depth Forecast for the remainder of the summer through the elections -- as I promised in the July 9 Celestial Wheel log. Of course, as I'm still running Rahu in my planetary cycles until July 21, publishing this Forecast will likely be an eventful experience! In regard to what's happening in the cosmos, as reflected in world events, I had previously and repeat- edly predicted implosion/disintegration in Iraq and within the Bush administration. The news is just chocked full of Rahu-like reports of aggressions and scandals, and these will continue. Recall that momentum is an important concept for astrology prediction, and the snowball gathers size and speed. In this regard, the Sun will be changing signs today through Thursday, dampening energy, power and confidence. This suggests some emotional vulnerability to negative news reports and a temporary loss of initiative.
July 13 I am running some Rahu in my Dashas (planetary cycles) and it is further powerful in its transit position in the seventh house of relationships. So, I saw a woman I had previously met but was not impressed with. Now, under Rahu's influence, she comes briefly into my world like a brilliant skyrocket -- a tremendous sexy charisma colored by Venusian pink. (As a friend said, pink can be very intimidating.) I had a call from a former landlord that a process server was looking for me regarding something from Florida -- a complete mystery, but the seventh house is also the courts.. A Western Astrologer new to Sedona called me, press- ing for astrology information and interaction. I don't get involved with that astrology and had a difficult time making her understand this. A very strange woman from New York, looking for Astrocartography to solve her problems, ordered a consultation. Astrocartography relates directly to the Vedic chart, which shows it is her Saturn Dasa that holds her back, but I was unable to convince her that location was not the issue, and I had to issue a complete refund. I have a karmic twin of sorts in Phoenix who has re-entered my life, as she has done so periodically for over four years. Yet, the intense attraction continues to not actualize beyond brief flurries of e-mails and phone calls. I have a Mexican client trapped in an ashram, who has to sneak away to a phone, and I have to call him because of phone service problems. But, he's been unable to get away, and we've changed the appointments by e-mail several times. What's most provocative about Rahu is that, unlike the other planets, divining what its manifestations mean in the life is difficult. Saturn teaches lessons by experience, Mercury is the intellect and commun- ications... Rahu's intensities appear to be inexplicable karmic assaults. Watch the Mideast to witness Rahu in action there, but don't expect to fully grasp what the serpent's venom, which can harm or heal, portends for the region. Personally, I'm waiting until July 21, when Rahu in my planetary cycles ends. Hopefully the serpent will slither away into someone else's yard. NASA reports a major sunspot may soon send a coronal mass ejection toward earth -- about July 17. While these trigger auroras and communications disruptions, the solar storms impact personal energetics as well. Venus will be a brilliant morning star with the crescent Moon tomorrow morning in Taurus. The com- bination influences for charming imaginative creativity, especially for artists and writers.
July 12 On July 3, I wrote about Lance Armstrong not winning the Tour de France this year because his Mercury maturity year is over at age 32. C.S. in Gulf Breeze Florida sent Armstrong's birth data of September 18, 1971 in Dallas, Texas. She rectified the birth time to 3:00 PM. Below is my reply,
He
has Rahu/Mars -- the tremendous desire often found in
athletes but also toxic for his 8th house of the
reproductive system. Lance actually looks pretty
strong now, but he has accident influences (already fell
once) and he susceptible to more falls, especially this
coming week. So, while Armstrong's Mercury maturity
being over is a negative (as I stated in the Celestial
Wheel) the added influence of accidents cements the
prediction for losing the race. Several times this year, Subscribers have worried that the Bush
Administration will declare martial law and cancel the November 2
elections. I brushed this off because I couldn't believe
they would
go that far to maintain power. In case you missed it,
here's a Newsweek article posted on MSNBC http://www.
msnbc.msn.com/id/5411741/site/newsweek/ This ploy of using
terrorist threat to pressure
congressional legislation empowering Tom Ridge to cancel the
elections is only evidential of their panic over dropping public
support. You would think they have enough problems with all
the scandals inevitably surfacing to avoid this incredibly
strong-armed and controversial tactic. Bush continues to run
Saturn/Jupiter/Saturn (March 4 to July 28), and together with
Sun/Saturn restrictions in his twelfth house, he has inevitably lost
power and popularity. He runs Saturn/Jupiter/Mercury from July
28 to December 6, and while this will stimulate for lots of ideas,
these will involve deception and must bring him further losses.
I've been predicting for some time that the difficult transit
conjunctions of Sun/Saturn, Mercury/Mars and the Moon with Rahu from
July 7 through July 10 will
be difficult with strife and violence.
There's always some
surprise in how the planetary karmas actualize, and while there has
been a lot of discord all over the world during this interval, the
threat of canceling elections a quite amazing manifestation of those
energies. I also stated on
July 9 that, The news is
full of controversies, but because lies are interlaced with the
truth, it's best to wait a few days for clarity to be regained. July
11
It's always interesting to
witness congruencies between forecasting efforts and media reports
-- like when I used the word awry
on July 3 to describe problems with Fourth of July fireworks, and
then two later news stories used the same word.
My June 30, The
Timeless Mideast Bottleneck Saudi Arabia concluded
its government is at risk from foolishly feeding the dragon of
Islamic fundamentalism. Yesterday's log entry discussed oil
supply worries there. Today, the Washington Post runs a front
page article, Saudis
Facing Return of Radicals -- Young Iraq Veterans Join
Underground Their
intent is to drive out the 100,000 plus Western infidels serving the
Saudi oil industry and damage oil facilities, which would put the
world into an economic tailspin. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41375-2004Jul10.html
As always, it's impossible to know how karma will actualize in
specific events, but it certainly appears that Saudi oil is a
lynchpin in The
Timeless Mideast Bottleneck -- Ancient Karmas
The planets are more benign
now, although the Moon is still sensitively conjunct Rahu through
the end of the day. My earlier prediction for terrorism acts
from July 6 to 10 is not yet fully seen, although there certainly
have been other stressful events these past few days, including
damage to Iraq's oil and gas facilities. We'll see what media
reports come out over the next few days, for not all reporting is
real time, and often, news on events is withheld. July
10
Last evening, worn out by the Mercury/Mars transit, I watched an
incredibly boring program on CSPAN on Saudi oil reserves by Mathew
Simmons. He analyzed engineering papers to determine Saudi
Arabia's oil is running out. This morning, I found this
information in the March 31 edition of Energy
Security http://www.iags.org/n0331043.htm
Below are the introductory paragraphs. I have put in
bold italics the most worrisome
part of the article, that world energy supplies literally hinge on
one nearly depleted oil field. Saudi Arabia's chart was interpreted in the June 30 Forecast, #53 Part 2 -- The Timeless Mideast Bottleneck -- Saudi Arabia, which concluded with, Further and increasing terrorist violence in Saudi Arabia is therefore expected, and it is entirely possible that its Kala Sarpa rise since the late eighties will be followed by the government's fall by early 2005. The intent here is not to create any further worry or fear but rather to encourage attention to Saudi Arabia -- hard to do when the country is mesmerized by Iraq and the presidential campaign.
July
9
Today, I offer comments on current events, with some
references to earlier predictions. Mars/Mercury
& Moon/Rahu
As previously discussed, he planets are stirred up July 7 through
10. Today and tomorrow are dicey. Mercury is almost
exactly conjunct Mars, and the Moon is with Rahu. These
conjunctions agitate
I took another look at the 7:02 AM birth time, which continues to be used on Astrodatabank. (There are no other birth times on the web, yet.) This 7:02 time is from an anonymous source and an e-mail quoting the mother's memory -- pretty soft data. A major problem with this chart is that it puts three planets in the twelfth house of loss, and this is a man of great accomplishment. Perhaps, like John Kerry's birth time, Edwards' will remain controversial.Martha Stewart Martha will be sentenced next week. From the May 11 Celestial Wheel,
The Economy The media and government have been offering conflicting reports about the economy. Again from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, the following clarifies,
Israel News items about Israel's nuclear weapons and its wall through the West Bank reflect the difficult Saturn/Ketu planetary cycle that began April 3 and ends August 9. This is a weak and highly karmic cycle for Israel. Hopefully, volatility there will not further destabilize Israel/Palestine, nor spill over into other sensitive areas in the Mideast.Blue Moons, Red Sunsets & burning oil? Omens are part of every culture, although our scientifically dominated one gives them no credence. If we do have blue (or even green) Moons and red sunrises and sunsets from forest fire smoke, these may warn of, not just global warming but also oil fields burning in the Mideast. Below is a image of the Gangotri Glacier in India's Himalayas. Look at the dates to see the increase in its melting. Thank you M.P. from Newark, DE for this.
Upcoming
Forecasts
Tuesday morning I arose to a red sunset. I'm expecting a Blue Moon, maybe even a Green Moon or Red Moon.
in Alberta in 1950 blew east to bring Blue Moons to the east coast. Even England saw the striking visual effect. This summer's forest fires, not reported much because the media is so focused on political issues, could bring some Blue Moons. As with the Alberta fires, the prevailing west wind would make them visible throughout the U.S., perhaps even Europe. While a blue full Moon is the most noticeable, the color change is also upon other Moon phases. Some- times, the Moon will even appear green or red. Too, the rising and setting Sun can be colored by forest fire smoke, deepening its yellow to red. With big fires here in Arizona, the sky has been smoky. Tuesday morning I awoke to a deep red, and rather alarming, rising Sedona Sun. As the summer progresses, keep your eye out for these striking visual effects. While these are beautiful, they also alert to the ongoing drought in the U.S. West that is causing widespread forest fires and depleting water supplies. Las Vegas in particular, is really rolling the dice as the fastest growing city in the country -- God's retribution, a modern Sodom and Gomorrah? Phoenix isn't far behind. Perhaps the blue Moons and red Suns will remind us that we've allowed terrorism, the neoconservatives, the upcoming election and Iraq to distract us from other vital matters. The drought here, is, after all, a manifestation of global warming, and even if scientists disagree on this, blue Moons and red Suns are omens we ignore at our own risk.
July 7 I've predicted in previous logs that the planets would be relatively benign throughout the holiday weekend and that today, July 7, through July 10 will be difficult with strife and violence. A front page article in the Washington Post, Troop Presence Fuels Anger, is headlined with, Despite recent lull, U.S. is warned attacks will continue http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32356-2004Jul6.html Let's see what happens, or not. As these challenges may be viewed as a purging of of the U.S. neoconservatives' karma, we can choose to view upcoming discord in a positive way. The short essay, below, about what Astrology offers, may be helpful -- to understand why astrology appears too often to predict struggle and change rather than peace and contentment. A sky analogy is applied.
July 6 The July 3 log stated, fireworks watchers may witness some of the aerial displays go awry. Although I don't know if there were more such mishaps than usual this year, the use of the word awry in the below news reports is eerie. The Timesleader in Pennsylvania reports,
The Seattle Post Intelligence reports
Predictions about planetary dispositions on individual charts are similarly applicable. As only some fireworks displays went awry, only some Subscribers experience events inspired by the celestial wheel. Note the July 2 log entry about favorable results from Venus regaining forward motion June 30. Still, if we pay attention to our internal and external realities, we can generally feel the planetary influences and use them to guide our intentions and actions.
July 5 NASA's successful Mars rovers have unveiled much about the red planet this year. Now this summer, Saturn comes into focus in the Cassini spacecraft's rendezvous with the ringed giant. While astronomy and astrology were integral in ancient India, most of us no longer have a connection with the heavens and the planetary gods symbolizing predestination. These pioneering explorations remind us of astrology's perceiv- ing order in the universe and too, tell us what these planets' physical qualities. To keep abreast of new discoveries about Saturn, and also updates on the Mars rovers, NASA has an excellent website at http://science.nasa.gov Another good information source is the MacDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at http://stardate.org/ McDonald also produces Star Date on National Public Radio. Saturn will become prominent in astrology later this summer as it prepares to transit out of Gemini and move into Cancer on September 5. Saturn is an old and slow planet. It withholds much of its influence for restriction and duty until the last few weeks of its transit through a constellation. This will be discussed in detail in later Forecast efforts. Below is a wonderful image of Saturn taken by Cassini in late May.
July 4 Happy Independence Day! Here are two views -- first an unexpurgated reminiscence of a piece of Americana, the way we used to be, from freelance writer, Sadie Thorndike. The second are my observations on the coming week. Considering that this predictive work falls within Forecast Series III -- The Journey To Regain Liberty, the information is timely.
With ongoing and increasing reports by Homeland Security and the FBI of imminent terrorist attacks this holiday weekend, I repeat here a statement in the July 1 log, Beginning Tuesday, July 6, the effects of the upcoming conjunctions of Sun/Saturn, Mercury/Mars and Moon/Rahu will begin to bring their disruptions. July 7 to 10 will be the most challenging time. It is impossible to predict terror- ism's when/where/how, but a hint can be found in Mars' aspect (glance) to Ketu (gas and oil) closing in on Tuesday, Mars' day of the week. Because the Sun (government) is blanketed by Saturn during this interval, government would be unable to stop terrorist aggression. Terrorist disruption of gas or oil could occur in the U.S., but this violence is more likely to occur in Iraq, and Saudi Arabia appears vulnerable as well. Considering that this Spring's Celestial Tumult is completed with this coming week's triple conjunction inspiring violence upon powerless governments, one or more major events should be expected. As con- cerns President Bush, he is at personal and medical risk during this interval. Cheney's chart is negative as well, but Rumsfeld's is even worse. A weakened Team Bush faces major reversals this week. As difficult as this coming week may be, as harmful as violence is, we can take heart, and begin have pride again in America, for the purging of Bush's neoconservative fascism.
July 3 Lance Armstrong at age thirty-two is seeking his sixth Tour de France bicycle championship this sum- mer. Sportscasters, nothing other multi-year winners have lost this race of skill and youthful endurance when they attained this age, suggest Armstrong will lose this year. I agree, although I don't have Armstrong's chart. Each planet in Vedic Astrology matures at a certain year, during which the planet's significations come into full effect. Planetary maturity is similar to Dashas, the planetary periods that sequentially turn on the planets in the chart. Mercury, symbolizing skill and also youth, matures at the thirty-first birthday. Because Armstrong has finished his Mercury maturity year, he is past the youthful burst that brought him a close win last year. Here's another sports hero who has seen his Vedic chart indicating the end of a long winning streak. I wrote about Tiger Woods in the May 22 Celestial Wheel,
Tiger Woods continues to lose, but he has made some remarkable shots, which sportscasters attribute to flashes of Woods' earlier mastery. His Vedic chart, however, suggests this is just Ketu (the tail of the dragon bringing insight) taunting Woods with occasional brilliance while denying him worldly success. Note that for both Armstrong and Woods, Mercury plays a major role in sports success. This is because, as noted, Mercury is skill. While Mars and the fifth house are sports, a strong Mercury is needed for a champion, at least in sports requiring high levels of skill. Predicting sports outcomes for team sports, however, is not so easily done, for the charts of all the players come into play, and playoffs involve several games. Team and group analysis can be done, of course, and this was done for the Bush administration in the April 25th Forecast #50 Tornado Season For Bush, which is unfolding as predicted. Sports events this weekend bring the unexpected, for Mercury is now fast-approaching Mars in Cancer. The aggression, impulsiveness and anger of this combination can bring upsets to favored players. Already at Wimbledon, the Washington Post reports, Maria Sharapova outplayed two-time defending champion Serena Williams in straight sets Saturday to win Wimbledon at age 17. The news article notes Sharapova, showed no signs of nerves and kept Williams on the defensive, hitting 17 winners and only 11 errors, indicates the newcomer was able to utilize the Mercury/Mars energy to advantage. The veteran was overcome by it. As Mars is explosives, fireworks watchers may witness some of the aerial displays go awry - exploding too early or too late.... As Mars is also barbeque (cooking with fire), be patient and use care flipping burgers.
July 2 Venus was retrograde from May 18 until June 30, during which it was burnt in its transit across the Sun on June 8. Venus's significations, including relationships, happiness, wealth, vehicles and artistic expression, suffered during this period. Some experienced severe events around the June 8 period. Overall, the entire retrograde has been harmful to Venus. Forward motion restores Venus's influences. One Subscriber became so exuberant that she traded in a five month old car for a new and bigger one. Another indulged herself in an impulsive weekend trip all the way across the country. Even in Iraq, with its government chart's strong Venus, emotional buoyancy has temporarily overweighed severe strife. As Venus is enjoyments and celebrations, holiday weekend activities are enhanced. However, like a small child in a candy store with a wad of bills, overindulgence can be an issue. Realty returns Tuesday, as discussed in yesterday's log entry. Until July 22, Venus will be advancing toward the June 8 eclipse point at twenty-four degrees Taurus. For some this means a heartfelt revisiting of relationships, a process of resolving residual feelings that will be complete after July 22. Then, people can begin again to use Venus energies in a forward-looking way.
July 1 The free trial of The Celestial Wheel ended yesterday, and those materials remain available to the public on the website. A new website page title prevents public access to future daily logs. Subscribers will continue to receive these daily logs by e-mail, and you may also visit this new Celestial Wheel on the web anytime. To do so, either bookmark this page, or go the the Subscriber Archive, where this new Celestial Wheel web page address is listed. http://www.vedic predictiveastrology.com/SubscriberArchive.htm The Subscriber Archive also includes a listing of all previous Forecasts with hyperlinks to these documents. Use this Archive page to revisit Forecasts and Celestial Wheel logs. Yesterday I e-mailed you #53 Part 2 The Timeless Mideast Bottleneck in four individual nation chart sections. These are also available via the Subscriber Archives page. The interpretations contain a lot of information, and you may wish to digest them slowly over this long holiday weekend. I pushed hard to publish these Part II sections before events in the Mideast overtook predictions. I'll review them to correct any errors that persist. Enjoy tonight's full Moon. Since the Moon in Sagittarius will be next to Scorpio, this should be a pretty arrangement for sky watchers. Scorpio is only visible in the summer's southern sky. This is a mentally intense full Moon, as discussed in previous daily logs, for mental Mercury is transiting into Cancer to be conjunct Mars. Tonight's full Moon and the weekend that follows will be a good interval to gain clarity and perspective. Beginning Tuesday, July 6, the effects of the upcoming conjunctions of Sun/Saturn, Mercury/Mars and Moon/Rahu will begin to bring their disruptions. July 7 to 10 will be the most challenging time. While some may be tired of the unpleasant events this spring and summer, this is a historic period, affecting everyone. The Mideast Forecast offered hope for a more peaceful and cooperative world during 2005, but it also alerted to turmoil the last half of this year and the beginning of 2005 -- to first resolve discordant issues in the U.S. and the Mideast.
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