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Astrometeorology - Weather Sage

Weather Sage is a most attractive site devoted to astrological long-range weather forcasting. There are articles, on-line books and even forecasts published by analysts bold enough to risk being proven wrong by events.) Especially interesting is a table of techniques used by various astrometeorologists.

This analysis of New England's 'perfect storm' of 1991 gives an idea of how analysts in the field work. Also interesting is this description of an astrometorologist who was supposedly consulted in the early 60s to do wind forecasts for times of guided missile test shots.

Dr. Krick, along with his staff, prepared the forecast and presented it to Martin Marietta for their hypothetical space launchings in February, on the 6 and 7th. On the morning of February 6, a headline leaped at him from the front page of the Denver Post: 6,500 MILES - TITAN II LIFTS TOP PAYLOAD. On February 7th, yet another headline: POLARIS MAKES 1,800 MILE TRIP DOWN ATLANTIC.

There could hardly be more flattering verification of Krick's forecast for Martin's insoluble problem than these headlines. The flights of the Titan and Polaris dramatically demonstrated what Krick had long been shouting to the wind - that he and his group were able to make detailed and accurate forecasts far into the future for a given day and place.

Introduction to Astrometeorology

In ancient times, the need farmers had for weather knowledge probably was a factor in the development of astrology. Interest in that art is not dead. Our friends at The Mountain Astrologer have given us this article by a current practitioner.

His techniques seem to involve casting charts at signifigant points in the lunation cycle, and localizing the chart by backfitting aspects to the angles for some place where he then suspects weather events to occur. Sounds computationally intensive.

Red Sox win World Series during Lunar Eclipse

Sun-Scorpio, Moon-Taurus, Cancer Ascendent.

Almost a Grand Cross in the fixed signs - Sun opposing Moon and squaring Saturn-Cancer and Neptune-Aquarius. Persistance through adversity pays off in the end.

Autumnal Equinox

Today, 9/22/2004 at 16h29m UTC, the sun will be at 0 Libra 0. You folks living at the equator - don't look straight up at noontime, you hear?

This morning, we have a Sun-Moon square - moon in early Capricorn - that will be pretty much seperated out by the time of the equinox. "But honey, I really *want* to run an insurance brokerage out of our basement."

Harmonic Astrology Project

The Harmonic Astrology Project is a little thin right now, but does have a nice explanation of some harmonic techniques (the author thinks only prime harmonics are signifigant,) a bunch of worked examples and even a web-based calculator for planetary harmonics given a time interval (the input is a bit persnickety - best to edit the defaults that comes up, preserving format and punctuation.)

More 2004 US Election Analyses

The Mountain Astrologer (a very good resource) has a number of high quality links to online articles on the upcoming US General Election.

Of course, people are paying close attention to Mr. Bush's 2nd Saturn return in October. Here is a traditional astrologer who thinks it's bad news for his re-election (it's in his natal 12th house.)

I know next to nothing about Vedic Astrology, so I can't evaluate this article but the author also thinks it's bye-bye Bush in November.

On election conditions in general, this article looks to the Sun-Moon and Mercury-Saturn trines on election day for an indication that this election will not be as confused and ill-resolved as the 2000 election. Let me note that both trines are in watery signs (Cancer-Scorpio) so that perhaps the most we could say is that it'll *feel* well resolved (with murky stuff lurking under the surface from the Scorpion Sun and Mercury.)

Presidential Candidate Natal/Progressed Charts

Here are the natal charts progressed to the 11/2/2004 U.S. General Election of Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry (courtesy AstroDienst.)

Follow the link for the gory details, but a fast summary:

G.W. Bush: b. 7/6/1946 7:26 am EDT New Haven CT.
Sun 13 Cancer 46
Moon 16 Libra 42
Ascendent 7 Leo 06

Mr. Bush is coming up on his second Saturn return on 10/9/2004. His progressed Sun transits conjunct over his natal Mars sometime this year (it's too late to do the arithmetic.)

J. F. Kerry: b. 12/11/1943 7:10 am MWT Denver CO.
Sun 18 Sag 37
Moon 17 Gemini 02
Ascendent 5 Sag 04

Mr. Kerry has 4 natal planets - including the Moon - in Gemini, opposing his Sagittarius Sun. (Not to use partisan slurs, but this suggests both quickness and duality of mind.) His progressed Mars is almost on his natal Mars because it was retrograde until 1973 (end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam,) then went direct.

Much more later, but I'm sleepy now.

Harmonics

Harmonics are a generalization of aspects. Two planets/angles are in Nth harmonic relation if the angle seperating them is (within orb) 360/N. So, conjunction is a 1st harmonic [360/1 = 360 = 0 (mod 360),] opposition is a 2nd harmonic [360/2 = 180] and so forth.

The 20th Century English astrologer John Addey pioneered the study of harmonics. Here is a two-bit tour of the subject. Not surprisingly, some people try to assign numerological signifigance to harmonics. Your humble obedient blogger is ignorant of numerology, so cannot intelligently comment on the matter.

We're Back

Your humble obedient blogger has been taking an extended break. Now, it's over. Time to get back into the hurly-burly of the blogosphere. Enjoy.

Correction

In "Sedna Bits and Pieces" March 17, 2004, I wrote that Sedna was sextile Neptune when I damn well should have written that they are square. Doh!

Feminist Take on Sedna

Somebody had to do it.

More Sedna Mythology

A much darker view of Sedna: in this cycle, her father chopped off her fingers when dumping her out of the boat. Her fingers became the sea creatures the Inuits hunt. When the sins of the people become too heavy, her hair gets entangles with sea debris and a angakok (shaman) must descend into the sea and comb her hair clean to restore good hunting.

Some regionally alternate names of Sedna are Arnakua'gsak and Nerrivik.

You Can Quote Me on That

Nice collection of astrological quotes even if the page author should lose their current color sense.

Sedna's Natal Chart

Thanx to Joe Perez for putting this up. I guess it's not clear when someone said 'Aha! This is something new" so we don't have angles and houses. But the chart is watery and mutable - Pisces again. And that Sun-Mars-Saturn grand trine in the water signs (plus the Sun-Moon trine in water) is real pretty! There's also that Mars-Venus/Pluto-Jupiter mutable T-square to ponder. The Gemini slot there is empty - so does this mean Sedna's giving us a lot to puzzle over?

Today's Aspects 3-18-2004

(all times in UTC)

Sun 28 Pisces
Moon 21 Aquarius (00:00)
Moon 28 Aquarius (12:00)
Moon 0 Pisces 0 (15:26)
Moon 5 Pisces (23:59)
Mercury 11 Aries
Venus 13 Taurus
Mars 28 Taurus
Jupiter 12 Virgo (R)
Saturn 6 Cancer
Uranus 4 Pisces
Neptune 14 Aquarius
Pluto 22 Sagittarius

Moon sextile Pluto (partile 01:46) (you feel like it's all coming unglued)
Saturn trine Uranus applying (old habits are breaking up)
Mercury square Neptune applying (and your thoughts are getting fuzzy)
Sun square Pluto separating (and that's how you like it)
Sun sextile Mars (partile 09:47) (so take the chance to act)
Venus trine Jupiter separating (and draw into your circle what you really want)
Venus square Neptune applying (even from your wildest fantasies)
Moon square Mars (partile 12:15) (before you feel you're acting recklessly)
Moon enters Pisces (15:26) (and then you start feeling lost)
Moon conjunct Uranus (partile 22:56) (and shattered)