Friday January 31st 2003 - edited by Bernard Fitzwalter
This week in Astro News:
~ The Sun and Neptune ~
~ AstroDiary ~
The Sun and Neptune were conjunct in Aquarius yesterday. Astrologers say they
are 'aligned', 'together' or 'meet up', but the meaning is the same: two
planets appear at the same place in the sky. They don't actually meet,
though. If they did, we would have exploding planets all over the place. All
that happens is that from the point of view of someone on Earth, two planets
appear to line up together. Usually the faster-moving one overtakes the
slower one. If conjunctions are especially close, one planet might pass in
front of another, so that the second one seems hidden for a while. That is
quite rare, and when the sun and moon do it, we call it an eclipse.
So, if the two planets never physically meet, what do conjunctions mean?
Well, think of a clock at midnight. The hour hand points upwards, the minute
hand comes up to cover it, and at exactly midnight the second hand covers
them both. Bong! It's a new day. Conjunctions in astrology work like that.
Your birth chart is like the hour hand, telling you what time it is in your
life, the slow-moving planet is the minute hand, and the Sun is the second
hand. When all three get together then a new era starts � which in this case
is a new Sun- Neptune cycle, bringing new ideas and hopes for the future.
This weekend's New Moon in Aquarius heralds (as the New Moon in Aquarius
always does) the start of the Chinese New Year. The year of the Sheep (or the
Goat) is about to begin.
AstroDiary
Monday February 3: Astrology of Parenting, Mavis Klein. 7pm, 50 Gloucester Place London W1. �5 (Astrological Lodge members �3) www.astrolodge.co.uk
Tuesday February 4: Astrology of the Global Village, Mark Fountain. Black Boy, Guildhall Street, Bury St. Edmunds, 7.45pm. �3.50 (Members �2.50) www.earthsea.co.uk/sas
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A few weeks ago, the Astrological Association of Great Britain launched this new,
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News: "I am delighted with the warm response that we have had. Once, if you
wanted a reading of your full birth chart, you would have to struggle to find
a genuine, reputable astrologer. Then, you would have had to make an
appointment and travel miles. Now, at last, there's a quick and easy way to
get your questions answered by a real expert - from the comfort of your own
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"I rang last Tuesday and spoke to an astrologer called Maria. Within moments,
she was telling me details about my childhood that she could not possibly
have known... then she said some fascinating things about my future.
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