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Astrology Now: Relationships, Projects Coming to a Head

Posted: 02/ 1/2012 8:21 am

This can be a high-urgency week wherein many matters come to a head -- or at least attempt to come to a head. Relationships can experience feisty stand-offs. Business activities can have a "This needs to get done -- now!" pushy drive. Many can have a feeling that if something doesn't happen now it never will. But don't worry.

Fact is, a lot of what we are doing now may cycle back to be reviewed or refined over the coming few months. You don't have to have everything figured out right now. You'll have plenty of time to tweak matters in your life and relationships so they work better for all concerned.

Relationships can be particularly volatile this week, especially on Wednesday. Venus and Mars are opposing one another, which can intensify irritability and opposing intentions. Angers can flair more easily. Avoid ultimatums as they could cause unnecessary separations. And try not to burn bridges, either. You may find that later on this year you come face to face with the very person you thought you were rid of.

Instead, use this week to consider other people's points of view. Ask yourself what you could do to bring healing and compassion to the very issue that irks you. In that way you are not only taking the higher ground, you might sow seeds for good relationship successes later on.

Bottom line: This is a time of action, but not finality. Whatever takes place these weeks serves as steps toward the finish line, not necessarily to the finish line itself. Watch your temper and avoid being reactive, lest you create extra problems. Holding an intention to serve and extending compassion to yourself and others is the best way to navigate this week.

If something you've been working toward stops, changes direction or simply falls away, look around -- there might be a better route opening to you.

Ask your astrologer how this, along with the other powerful energies of 2012 will affect you personally. (I'd love to be your astrologer!)

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This can be a high-urgency week wherein many matters come to a head -- or at least attempt to come to a head. Relationships can experience feisty stand-offs. Business activities can have a "This needs...
This can be a high-urgency week wherein many matters come to a head -- or at least attempt to come to a head. Relationships can experience feisty stand-offs. Business activities can have a "This needs...
 
 
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09:21 AM on 02/08/2012
Cable 1977 I'm sure you don't believe global warming is scientific fact either... But no worries... live and believe as you wish.
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance
06:37 PM on 02/08/2012
AGW is supported by hundreds (if not thousands) of peer-reviewed research articles and the consensus of scientific researchers all over the world (more than 95% of climatologists). Astrology has no peer-reviewed support for it's highly implausible assertions. How are they at all similar?

I have now asked you several times to provide peer-reviewed evidence supporting the scientific research supporting astrology, but so far all I have gotten is non-sequiturs and strawmen. Since the effects of planetary bodies falls under the scientific research of physicists and astronomers, so perhaps you could link to a consensus of the individuals in those fields in regards to astrology.
11:54 AM on 02/03/2012
Please study astrology before you bash it... I posted comments in general, but meant them to be in reply to your post. Here's something else important on the point... My husband is an MD and very much a scientist. When we were first together he didn't believe anything was true in astrology but after reading some good books by scientists, he does understand that there is definitely science to it. NO, it's not chemistry... it's a different science.... And just think of this one very basic point: It is a well known scientific fact that the moon affects women's cycles as well as the oceans... and we humans are 98 percent water, so even that supports that we are influenced by the moon. Why wouldn't we be influenced by other planets in the universe...?
01:21 PM on 02/03/2012
Because the pull of Jupiter's gravity on your body is about the same as the pull from your toaster's gravitational field. But it was sweet of your husband to humor you. What does the dishwasher say about my odds of running into an old flame next week?
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11:34 PM on 02/04/2012
"Why wouldn't we be influenced by other planets in the universe..­.? "

Ask Newton. The effects of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between those objects. The further away something is from you, the less it will affect you. The effect of any other planet would be dwarfed in comparison to the earth. The sun is over 300,000 times more massive than the earth. So why don't we all fly off the earth and get pulled into the sun? Because we are also 93 million miles away from it.

Perhaps you could provide some peer-reviewed studies detailing the predictive power of astrology? So far it appears that you have only offerred arguments from authority.

"It is a well known scientific fact that the moon affects women's cycles as well as the oceans... "

Could you provide your evidence to support this claim?

www.skepdic.com/fullmoon.html
10:46 AM on 02/05/2012
I'm sure you're intelligent enough to have all the answers already so there's no need to provide you with evidence. It's all there for whomever opens their eyes to see it.
11:46 AM on 02/03/2012
If people who ridicule astrology actually studied it rather than thinking it's the little blurbs written in the newspaper, they would get it. Many years ago in college I did a paper on "Cosmo-biology" in my astronomy class... It was a 36 page paper that basically convinced my unbelieving astronomy teacher that astrology is valid science. It is as the amazing Jeffrey Green says, a "natural science" based on correlation and observation rather than hypothesis and theory... and to quote Robert Bly: "Astrology is the great intellectual triumph of the mother of civilization." (Notice MOTHER... this is in the matriarchal world which we are returning to. That's the paradigm shift going on right now.. HELLO Mr. noiseannoys!

There are many books out there by scientists who set out to prove astrology is a bunch of crap, only to have to change their tune after the research they did and write a book supporting it. So do your homework before you make comments that just reveal how uneducated you are on the topic.
01:24 PM on 02/03/2012
I'm actually female, but that was a nice try. But I guess we know you aren't psychic now! Also, please use sources that aren't poets. Try Stephen Hawking! What does he say, pray tell?
05:23 PM on 02/03/2012
Well, I did wonder about the M/F question, but that's really irrelevant to the discussion as are dishwashers. Humorous that you dismiss the wisdom that farmers have known for ages--that planting seeds or transplanting living plants in harmony with the moon cycles results in higher crop yields. Even the seeds inside humans are strongly influenced by the moon, as menstruation cycles and moon cycles are closely synchronized (28 days, roughly) but I repeat myself...

There are many stages in the soul's evolution and if we took a look at your chart we would see that you are a baby soul. So it's completely understandable that these things would be foreign to you. That's normal.

I admire Stephen Hawking's work and his brilliant mind, but he missed the mark in 2001 when he said astrology didn't make sense once we realized the sun wasn't the center of the universe. Probably an area he hasn't studied yet felt he had to weigh in. Not many scientists have the balls to study it and speak the truth about it. They are influenced by the old school thinkers. Totally understandable, and we see this kind of stuff happens all the time in all fields. There have been other "greatest minds" of the day that had it all wrong, and also greatest minds who were right and yet were the laughing stock and even persecuted for their correct views (think Galileo).
Much happiness to you in your journey.
05:26 PM on 02/03/2012
oh and btw my husband who would never humor me, but he is intelligent enough to study it even a little and realize that there's something to it when studied beyond the popular fad astrology. But then he is not just highly intelligent but a evolved soul, a very spiritual man with a love and respect for nature and what our natural world has to teach us. He was a chemistry major in college so he is certainly a scientist. But he is very forward thinking and is an anomaly in his field and quite gifted. He is an MD psychiatrist who treats many illnesses successfully without drugs--not to say that he doesn't use drugs; some people need them. But he also uses psychotherapy,QEEG's, neuro and bio feedback, electro medicine, TOMATIS, and energy medicine, as well. And people travel long distances to see him.

He is a typical forward thinking Aquarian and so am I. Aquarius rules electricity and we met through electro medicine... That proves absolutely nothing scientifically, but it's a pretty cool bit of info. :)
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02:15 AM on 02/02/2012
Astrology Now: Relationships, Projects Coming to a Head

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08:04 PM on 02/01/2012
It's cute that the Huffington Post includes an astrology section like newspapers traditionally have for so long, but....come on, really? Widely debunked pseudo-science doesn't belong on news blogs, unless you also believe we should be teaching creationism or intelligent design alongside evolution in school. It's not even opinion, just misleading crap for suckers. Do we keep having to pretend it deserves any attention?
12:27 AM on 02/03/2012
That's just your uneducated opinion. You know nothing about what astrology is about. How do I know? All I had to do was read your rant. That's okay. Not everyone can be enlightened.
01:26 AM on 02/03/2012
Well, no, actually, you're wrong. Modern science does actually classify astrology as a pseudoscience, but if *magically* you've discovered why it qualifies as actual science, I'd love for you tell me in this forum. Maybe next we can discuss alchemy and chemistry!