So there might be strange coincidences here and there with some of the things he mentions, it does make you wonder though, if those food and other items he mentions would help.

Perhaps the blue popsicle has a color your body needs at this time, or maybe the blue might help awaken your 6th chakra.   That would be a "riot", awakening your upper chakras with ice popsicles...lol.... but hey you never know.

PH

We also have a moon and Saturn conjunction later tonight, which carries a practical energy. So it will be easier to gather information through doing research, outlining financial details, etc. to back up our plans.  But with Mercury still in retrograde until this Friday, and Mercury still in what is called its "storm" period until August 4th, many of us will find that it's still a little premature to set those plans in action. It's best to wait for the all clear after August 4th before pushing ahead with major stuff. I write about these influences in my Sunday, July 23rd blog entry:

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/blog2.html

New moons are great days for doing affirmations and setting intentions because they function as a "mini New Year" for the month. They are great times for summoning up the energy for the reality you want to align with.  New moon periods are also  fun times to write yourself a new moon abundance check as a prosperity ritual or meditation. (This is best to do within three days before or after a new moon.)

Jupiter went direct on July 5th, which was kind of a biggie, astrologically speaking. Here is an article of mine about what it means now that Jupiter is direct:

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/astro/jup … grade.html

Philosopher Richard Tarnas just came out with an intriguing book called Cosmos and Psyche which offers some great thoughts on how astrology acts as a hologram or energy blueprint that we move through. My article about this and his work:

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/astro/why … works.html

My Mystic Mail piece: Can Astrology Predict the Future?
http://www.lipstickmystic.com/mail/astr … uture.html

Vedic Astrology Vs. Western Astrology
http://www.lipstickmystic.com/mail/astr … ereal.html

Okay, I just wanted to pitch in about some recent astrology material at my site that addresses some of the wonderful comments created in this thread, since I was posting here back when this thread first got started.

Best,
LipstickMystic aka Jennifer

Ascension Astrology

http://www.bryandeflores.com/articles/A … y0606.html

PH

'It is a pity,' agreed the unknown man with  a  glint in his eye,  and
went on: ' But this is the  question that disturbs me--if there  is  no God,
then who, one wonders, rules the life of man and keeps the world in order? '
     'Man  rules  himself,'  said  Bezdomny angrily in answer  to  such  an
obviously absurd question.
     'I  beg your pardon,' retorted the stranger quietly,' but to rule one
must have a precise  plan worked out for some reasonable period ahead. Allow
me  to  enquire  how man can control  his own affairs  when  he is not  only
incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term, such as, say, a
thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow? '
     'In  fact,' here the stranger turned to Berlioz, ' imagine what  would
happen if you, for  instance, were to  start organising others and yourself,
and  you developed a taste for it--then  suddenly you got. .  . he, he ... a
slight heart attack . . . ' at this  the foreigner smiled sweetly, as though
the  thought of  a heart attack  gave him pleasure. .  .  .  ' Yes, a  heart
attack,' he repeated the word sonorously,  grinning like a cat, ' and that's
the end of you as an organiser!  No one's fate except your own interests you
any  longer.  Your relations  start lying to you. Sensing that  something is
amiss you rush  to a specialist, then to  a charlatan, and even perhaps to a
fortune-teller. Each  of  them  is as  useless  as  the other, as  you  know
perfectly well. And it all ends in  tragedy: the man who thought  he  was in
charge is suddenly reduced to lying prone and motionless in a wooden box and
his fellow  men, realising that there  is  no more sense  to be  had of him,
incinerate him.
     'Sometimes  it  can  be  even  worse  :  a   man  decides  to  go  to
Kislovodsk,'--here the stranger stared  at Berlioz--'  a trivial matter  you
may think, but he cannot because for no good reason he suddenly jumps up and
falls under a  tram! You're not going to tell me that he arranged to do that
himself? Wouldn't it be nearer the truth to say that someone quite different
was directing his fate?' The stranger gave an eerie peal of laughter.

http://www.chaosastrology.net/

It's one of the better sites that I have found in my research so far.

Also, here is a link to articles on the same site that link.  Some of them relate astrology to a fractal understanding of the universe.

http://www.chaosastrology.net/chaosarticles.cfm

Here is a link to "Worlds within Worlds: an introuduction to fractal scaling in astrology":
http://www.chaosastrology.com/worlds.htm

Here is a selection from the article "Bringing it Down to Earth: A Fractal Approach":

"Both astrology and Chaos are the study of what physicist David Bohm calls the 'implicate order', the notion of unbroken wholeness. Implicate order is the order of the hologram, in which the whole object is enfolded in each part, and each part contains the image of the whole. Ours is a holographic reality, an undivided universe where everything influences everything else in a cosmos of the ultimate complexity. Wholeness, where even the minutest part plays a crucial role in shaping the total picture. There is also a current trend of thinking in ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, which regards the planet Earth as an undivided conscious whole and where to exist at all is to exist in connection with the planet. Astrology takes this a step further, predicating a universe that is self-aware, interconnected and purposeful - an entirely integrated system. We stand in relation to our surroundings interactively - it feeding into us and we feeding into it. And, as astrologers, we employ our charts as tools for understanding this relationship. Astrology is about making correlations between one part of our system and another, the happenings up there and our lives down here. We use the chart to trace the unfoldment of an idea, a business or a human lifetime, and all of these could be thought of as systems interacting with other systems. "

Here is the full article:
http://www.chaosastrology.com/dntoerth.htm

I assume that if you were working on a chart for the Appollo Luner Landing, for example, the chart would show the earth as the planet that governs the emotions, much like the moon does for us.

I don't remember how the houses are figused up. I started doing Astrology before the age of computers, so I remember that there was a lot of math involved to figure up the Ascendent, but the details escape me now. I have the notes somewhere, I'll have to look them up, but I suspect that they will have to be refigured as well, but I could be mistaken.

This is what would be called theoretical metaphysics, as opposed to theoretical physics. It can make your head spin sometimes, but it does bring up some very interesting question.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

WizardT

Bruce

Thank you for the comments and the very useful information. I conclude from your replies that you consider the principles of Astrology to have at least some validity and, consequently, some use and that the subject merits a degree of consideration and study. I have been using Astrology in various ways for many years and have found the horoscopic corrrespondences to individual behaviour at times to be quite revealing and telling. But in the back of my mind and because of this infernal matrix of which we are a part I suspect that it could also be a tool of deception. If it isn't, and intrinsically is of value, then it would be worth a deeper look?

Bruce

http://www.lipstickmystic.com/mail/astr … uture.html