Karmic Knowledge

In the past month, we’ve seen an enormous amount of volatility in the global financial markets, mostly due to the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of the real estate bubble. In an attempt to calm the panic, the Federal Reserve dusted off a protocol last invoked during the great depression of the 1930s, enabling […]

Shadow and Substance (http://shadowandsubstance.com/) has some lovely animations and illustrations of tonight’s full moon in Virgo and lunar eclipse.

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The word that seems to be most closely associated with Senator Hillary Clinton is Polarizing. According to Lanny Davis, writing in The Hill’s Pundit Blog, a Google search on “Hillary Clinton” and the word “polarizing” returns 1,260,000 hits, far more than you would get if you paired that word with the name of any of […]

Wired News reports that the state of New Mexico has introduced a bill declaring that, as it passes over the state’s night skies, Pluto will be called a planet. The resolution would also designate March 13th as “Pluto Planet Day.”
Read more here.

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February 2nd is the day that everyone waits for Punxsutawny Phil, the weather predicting groundhog, to tell us if we can expect cold and wintry conditions in the coming weeks, or if we’ll be seeing the early signs of spring. Unfortunately, with the changing weather patterns associated with global warming, Phil may soon find himself […]

John McCain, long considered to be the frontrunner for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, is suffering a bit of a setback after President Bush’s announcement last week that he would be sending 20,000 additional troops into Iraq, a plan now commonly referred to as the McCain Doctrine.
The Boston Herald reports today that new polling […]

This past week, several of my favorite astrology blogs wrote about the Mars/Pluto conjunction that will be exact on January 13th. As if their coming together was not significant enough, the dynamic duo will be doing their dance at the Galactic Center.
Mars and Pluto represent Force and Power. When they come together you can get […]

While President Bush may claim to still be making up his mind about how best to proceed in the war in Iraq, the recent shifts in military command and the changes and additions to the White House legal staff seem to say otherwise.
It is expected that Bush will announce plans to increase troop levels in […]

The White House today announced the resignation of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Bolton was given a recess appointment to the post by President Bush on August 1, 2005 after the Senate refused to confirm the original nomination. That appointment, which occurred during a Mercury retrograde cycle, is set to expire […]

Less than 12 hours after the clock struck midnight, ending one of the most exciting midterm elections in recent history, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has indicated that he will resign his post.
If you have followed my previous posts on Donald Rumsfeld and the karma in his natal chart, you may have noted that I […]