This week is Christmas, which is basically a Christianized form of a pagan celebration on the Winter Solstice, when the “Sun” begins its daily ascent higher and higher in the sky.  It is like a new beginning, a new year; starting out as a child and maturing to fullness of adulthood at the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year....

While our minds have become numbed by the hectic pace of modern 21st century life, a deep long forgotten spiritual force is awakened nevertheless.  We all share a primordial connection to the idea of the Incarnation of God: Christ, Krishna, Vishnu, Dionysus, or Osiris; and the names may be different but the story is the same: birth, death, resurrection, and eternal life....

A more indepth look at the Astrology of the Week of Dec 15-22, 2008

So it is mainly the Rahu’s task to direct us to earthly attachment as a means to fulfilling destiny in matter.  Call it fate,destiny, or the dinive mission, it is Rahu's task to focus the full energy of the spirit to the accomplishment of of a unique purpose.  There is a strong desire, urge, or impelling towards the arriving at this point of manifestation.  W. Clement Stone, early 20th century motivational author termed a thing called a "magnificient obsession"....

Desire though brings a lot of unpleasant things in its wake, especially if that original desire becomes polluted by the mass consciousness: a feeing of non-fulfillment, compulsiveness, unrequited desire, and attachment to the fruits of one's actions.  From attachment comes pride and more "foundation" for the ego....

There’s an upcoming astrological configuration in the very near future, a Super Moon on Friday, Dec, 12, 2008.  What is a super moon?  This is basically an alignment of the Sun, Moon, and the Earth called perigee-sysygy when the Moon is at it’s closest to earth (perigee).  A very big full moon.

Sysygy basically means “three planetary bodies in a line”.  Richard Nolle coined the term “super moon”, and it can be either a new or full moon that is at 90%+ of perigee. I couldn’t tell you hard facts that this does indeed coincide with powerful astrological effects, but it is definitely something to be aware of.

Also in this article I open up on the astrological community in general; I hope I still have friends after this gets out ;)

The last two charts (Inauguration 2001 and 2005) have got to be the worst in the last 30 or so years, especially in regard to crisis, strong proactive measures, and emotional shocks.

I want to say on the outset that this new administration chart look fairly good, and that buoyed me up for some time.  Upon deeper analysis though, some of the great things promised in it tend to....