It's Astrological - Newsletter

Can you believe?! This by Jane Spencer, staff reporter for the
WALL STREET JOURNAL about astrologers and the Vote, with
statements from several of our astrological community!

Never have I gotten so much response to anything I have sent! So, here
are some of my opinions, ideas and may answer some of your questions.

No matter what the definitions, they are what they are. I personally like
the scientific definition, because of what I know physically about the
planets. I don’t think astrologers are at all qualified to have voted.
Personally, I like the divergence of astrology and astronomy. I don’t
have time or inclination to be an astronomer. The field is huge and highly
technical in this modern time. We are no longer shepherds watching the
night sky. So I love it that those astronomers are working for us, I love
the things they find out!

We all have been using space bodies forever without any definitions at all!
The fixed stars, asteroids, some astrologers use the black holes, quasars,
and several other phenomena! And they work!

We have been using Pluto for a long time, I will continue to just as we
have been. Many astrologers have been using Ceres since before I
became an astrologer, because, after all, at one time, it was thought to be
a planet! Using the minor planets is nothing new. They are getting
press right now, so the issues will be revisited. It usually comes down to
how long do you have to talk about it and what is your personal preference
as an astrologer. If you are a client, find out what an astrologer uses and
request what you want if you have a preference, or find an astrologer
experienced with the factors you want to know about.

I don’t think the fact of the vote has any influence on our current transits or
progressions, unless the transits/progressions at the time of the vote are
affecting your chart, and you are specifically affected like the toy makers
and educators. And then I think it still makes no difference about Pluto or
Scorpio other than you hearing about the vote. There are some pretty
media making melodramatic statements being made.

Please don’t be thinking that just because something happens to a Scorpio
it is because Scorpio’s planet Pluto, uh, dwarf planet, is no longer a major
planet! What happens may be related to the same factors as related to
Pluto’s change of status, and maybe it’s not. Please be careful, because
your Progressions and Transits always are a suite of aspects. To take one
out of context and say it alone, ahem, is a cause of something is, to say
the least, a stretch. It takes a lifetime of choices to bring us to the
presence of an event. Yes, Progressions and Transits trigger our actions,
Progressions and Transits correlate to events of their nature that occur
around us, that have emphasis at that time. But, calling Pluto a dwarf
planet doesn’t change its real nature or diminish its being, power, effect.
Pluto has not changed.

All that said, all astronomers are not all happy with the vote. Excerpts
from Robert Roy Britt at Space.com: …Alan Stern, leader of NASA's New
Horizon's mission to Pluto and a scientist at the Southwest Research
Institute said "Less than 5 percent of the world's astronomers voted."
Stern called it "absurd" that only 424 astronomers were allowed to vote,
out of some 10,000 professional astronomers around the globe. "It won't
stand," he said. "It's a farce." Stern said astronomers are already
circulating a petition that would try to overturn the IAU decision. Owen
Gingerich, historian and astronomer emeritus at Harvard who led the
committee that proposed the initial definition added: "In the future one
would hope the IAU could do electronic balloting."

Astrologer Ms Lee Lehman, academic dean of the Kepler College of
Astrological Arts and Sciences in Seattle, the only such degree-granting
institute in the Western hemisphere, says it well: "I'm not saying anything
out of school in calling this a 'definition in progress'." She pointed out
that Chiron, a planetoid in the outer reaches of the solar system, was first
classified as an asteroid after its discovery in 1977, and later a comet, and
is now considered to meet both definitions. "The scientific definition has
shifted several times, but none of that affected the interest of astrologers in
Chiron and so, by the same token, I don't see why there will be
ramifications flowing from the reclassification of Pluto." Who knows what
will happen next! Work in progress.

NASA's New Horizons robotic mission to Pluto launched in January.
The ashes of U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who identified Pluto as the
ninth planet in 1930, are on board for the nine-year journey. It's due to arrive
in 2015. Several astronomers told SPACE.com that the project is now
more significant and interesting than ever, because Pluto is finally
recognized as what it is: part of a swarm of small things beyond Neptune.
We really are learning about a new class of objects," Mike Brown, Xena’s
discover said. "Pluto is close and it's easy to get there. We'll learn a ton."

Very good news from astrology software company Astrolabe already,
Solar Fire program users take note! They have released a software
patch this week for users that provides additional information on the
asteroid Ceres. "As soon as the orbital elements are released, we can
incorporate new asteroids into the software," says Madalyn Hillis-Dineen,
marketing director for the company. But, she adds, the company isn't
about to turn its back on Pluto.

Naming Xena: Despite reports that a name for this object is pending from
the IAU, Brown said an early proposal he submitted was long ago rejected.
He does not know what he will do now, name-wise. "I'm still trying to figure
out what the rules are," he said today.

Stephen Maran, author of "Astronomy for Dummies," has a novel idea. "I
think the IAU should consider selling the naming rights to dwarf planets,
whether they're private individuals or corporate sponsors, and use that
money to support education and science around the world."

Xena is too far away to have any impact? Au contraire! I have already
looked at it in my own chart, and it fits as I think it would! Fixed stars, a
heck off a lot further away than Xena, have been used by astrologers for
centuries. They work too.

As I signed off to several ones I love today, I’m most excited now to see
where Xena is in everyone’s charts, and am really hoping SHE will be put
in our programs very soon! Since she is slightly bigger than Pluto, I think
this is justified.

Great big starry hugs!
Cerena aka the other warrior princess! LOL

PS: Again: Here is a Xena (now Eris) Ephemeris (listings of Xena’s
positions 1900-2103) compliments of Karma Astrology, if you haven’t
checked where XENA is in your chart yet!

If you have questions or need help placing Xena in your chart, Sign, House,
Aspects, Transits, call Cerena 805-898-7888 or email, for your
appointment! Thanks so much!

*****************************************************
*****************************************************
If you like what you see here, you are most welcome to subscribe!
Getting this Newsletter at your email doorstep couldn't be finer!

And please tell your friends, email this page to them. See below.
I would really appreciate that a lot!

*****************************************************
*****************************************************

Back

Many thanks!