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equal night

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Moon (early Aries) - Jupiter.Uranus (late Piscis) : on Thursday September 23 2010 Venus close to Mars (Scorpio) : on Saturday September 25 2010

The Delphic Oracle

On BBC - radio 4 "In Our Time" , Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle, the most important and best documented source of prophecies in the ancient world. In central Greece, on the flank of Mount Parnassus, lies the ruined city of Delphi. For over a thousand years, between approximately 800 BC and 400 AD, this was the most sacred place in the ancient world. Its chief attraction was the Delphic Oracle, which predicted the future and offered petitioners advice. Travellers journeyed for weeks for a chance to ask the oracle a question. The answers, given by a mysterious priestess called the Pythia, were believed to come straight from the god Apollo. At the height of Greek civilisation the oracle was revered, and its opinion sought in some of the most significant conflicts of the age. Its activities were documented by historians including Xenophon and Plutarch, and it was regularly depicted in Greek tragedy, most famously Sophocles's masterpiece Oedipus

even if you remember ..

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with the T-Square in the background .. time is speeding up this week, demanding that we make up our mind and some long awaited life choices September 19 : while both in retrograde motion, Jupiter conjuncts Uranus at 28°43 Pisces for their second meeting this year - their first encounter was in Aries on June 8th and they will meet again in January 2011. as mentioned in previous posts, this year is to bring major scientific and socio-cultural breakthroughs: while humanity has been in a state of expectation for a giant leap (Jupiter.Uranus), some important advances since June may seem to have gone unnoticed and taken time to be announced as such (Pisces retrograde) .. but they are to be taken at another level this time. according to the house in which it happens and the aspects it makes with other planets in each individual chart, the Jupiter.Uranus conjunction is to set in motion the area in our life where we are ready to take risks and step beyond the familiar .. and into the unkn

telescopes at Paranal ..

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© Yuri Betetski telescopes at the Paranal Observatory in Chile being used to produce an artificial star in the high atmosphere with a laser beam.

momentum : the harvest

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have you noticed how the new moon falling before the Libra ingress / fall equinox is always a major momentum in the astrological year ? New Moon 8/9/2010 10:29:49GMT 7e15 43n42 the Virgo new moon corresponds to the harvest month and represents the mid-cycle 'gathering' impulse, from all our earlier responses to cosmic conditions since the Aries ingress - it is in fact a 'karmic' moment, when our sowing and labor lead up to fruit bearing, when the result of our intentions, actions and reactions is made manifest .. hence the symbol of the virgin (initial idea/concept) holding a sheaf of wheat (now given physical form). the planet Mercury is the main ruler of Virgo and gives it the detached mental acuity for precise detailed "work", while understandably so Ceres, now considered a secondary ruler, enhances the provider and nurturer dimensions of the sign as well as its intimate relationship to Nature .   as i looked at this chart, the first