Random thoughts as the weekend draws to a close.
- Astrology & ethics: a student of astrology writes to ask if you will join forces with him in applying astrology to solve a missing person case. The student hopes to collect a cash reward for information leading to the missing person. Would you agree to it?
- I wrote a few weeks ago about Saturn’s station in early Virgo. I mentioned, “Lodged in Virgo, the sign ruling the intestines, stationary Saturn is a tummy ache that just won’t move.” This weekend, during Saturn’s station, I visited a relative hospitalized with exactly that complaint. I’ve read in Frawley and elsewhere that second station (the one where the planet finally turns direct after being retrograde) is like an ill person getting up from his sickbed; still severely weak, but just beginning to improve. I hope so.
- A chart I was contemplating this morning had a minor fixed star, Porrima (or Caphir), on the ascendant. This is a star at about 10 Libra, appearing in the sky in the left arm of the constellation Virgo. Virgo, among other things, has been depicted as a winged angel. As I was trying to put together what Virgo’s left arm might signify, the Sarah McLachlan CD on the little stereo behind me played the song “Angel.” Lyrics? “You’re in the arms of an angel, may you find some comfort there.” Chills.
- Planning your next astrological vacation? How about Ibiza? (Stonehenge? Please. So last millennium.) In an article about a new 2009 Audi wagon, which was recently previewed on the Spanish-owned Mediterranean island, reporter Holly Reich manages to work in a nifty side note about Nostradamus. Apparently the 15th century astrologer (he of the cryptically prophetic quatrains) once predicted that Ibiza will be the only habitable place in the world once disaster wipes out the rest of our planet. I’m so there. To paraphrase Emma Goldman, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your cataclysm.”
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