Knowledge of the Moving Stars

An exploration of Astrometeorology; weather forecasting with astrology

One of the things I learned from my masters degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology was an old medieval astrology technique of weather forecasting. During my MA I discovered that in times past, weather forecasting used to be done with astrology. In fact, it seems this was common practice for centuries.

 There are still echoes of it our modern times:

 Presently, our weather is forecast by the ‘Met Office’, and you probably already know this name is short for, 'Meteorological Office'.

 

If …

we are to understand that an 'ology' means 'a body of knowledge' ie. Biology = knowledge of the body.

 

then …

Meteor - logical = Knowledge of the Moving Stars.

 The BBC get their weather forecasts from the Met’ Office; the Office of the Knowledge of the Moving Stars …

Here then are extracts from a series of emails looking at the possibility of weather forecasting with astrology. I think it'd be really good if people were aware of this; so much of our modern culture has forgotten its pagan roots.

I've been looking into Astrometeorology for five years now (April 2009) and it

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seems to work very well: Friends book picnics and sailors plan trips on yachts based on this ability to look into the weather months or even decades ahead.

Among the following extracts of weather forecasting emails sent so far you will find examples of weather forecasting with astrology in practice, as well as reminders of the technique and how it is done.

To recap;

2004 – forecast of weather so hot in 2006 that the media would compare it to the summer of 1976

2005 – forecast of combination of heat and water would bring a lot of storm and rain in 2007 – re-sent 2006 forecast to people new to address book.

2006 – forecast that the winter of 2007 into 2008 will herald a 2 year period of temperatures being colder than usual (meaning, usual for a climate of general warming temperatures, not, colder than the temperatures usual for the mid-Victorians with funfairs held on the ice of the Thames).

2007 – retrospective review of weather patterns and trends seemed to support the notion that weather forecasting with astrology is possible. The cold period of 2007, 2008 and 2009 discussed in more detail.

2008 – A quiet period for weather watching due to house move and computer problems;  forecast in October (pasted above) suggested that the warm then wet, then dry autumn would be followed by a period of intense cold.

The October 2008 email said:

Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:32 PMSubject: brrrrrrrrrrrgggh ...

Hello

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Well, who would have thought, apart from us astro-weather watchers, that at the height of the heat in 2006 we’d be on our way towards snow in London and Hail Storms in Devon … in October 2008 ?

We did, of course, know all along; Saturn (extreme cold) is in Virgo (cold) until July 2010, and we won’t feel the full benefit of the new reign of dryness (Libra) until the following summer in 2011. Meanwhile, Mars (extreme heat) is in Scorpio (intense water) until the 19th of November. Sagittarius normally indicates high cloud and clear skies – great for summer,  but in a cold winter it suggests heavy frosts, ice Etc.

To cap it all, excuse the pun, Mars moves into Capricorn on the 27th of December, heralding a couple of months of the planets of both extreme heat and extreme cold in cold signs (Earth; Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn)

Brrrrrrrrrrrgggh indeed ….

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Mars is in Capricorn until the 5th of February, inferring  that the current cold spell will last until then.

However, weather patterns seems to unfold in a manner that implies the condition of the previous period describes the context, and therefore the tone, of how the next period will unfold.

Yes, it is the case that Mars, the planet of extreme heat will begin a passage through Aquarius; an Air Sign, and therefore dry. Saturn (extreme cold) is still in Virgo (an Earth Sign, and therefore cold). The change on the 5th of February doesn’t necessarily mean that the weather will instantly change, like someone flicking a thermostat switch. It suggests that a warmer period will begin which is nonetheless sitting on top of a very cold platform – which was generated in the period 27th December 2007 to 5th February 2009.

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It would appear then that the heat of this year will be slow to build. The intensity of the present chill will ease in February, but I don’t think we’ll feel comfortably  warm until the Sun has sufficiently lifted in its cycle – probably around the Spring Equinox. Mars ingresses to its own sign of Aries on the23rd of May and temperatures will certainly lift then.

This isn’t an email of chilli doom, however.

It’s time for the annual 2-years-ahead weather forecast; so we can see if it is possible to look ahead in time far beyond the scope of convention, and compare the accuracy of the suggested forecast with the reality of the moment when we reach it.

So far, it would appear that it is possible to use astrology to get a measure of the forthcoming trends, though such a conclusion may still be premature at this time. 2009 is the 5th year of looking at astrology via the weather in this way, and it will probably be the case that we are unable to form a sound conclusion until we have a decade of experience with this.

First, I’d like to resent the 2 year forecast, looking ahead to the weather of 2011 and the drought to come. Then there will be a look back to the beginning of this experiment of weather forecasting with astrology and see how it unfolds. Also, it would be useful to review how it is done …

2009 to 2011:

2009 …

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Saturn – extreme cold – leaves Virgo (old)  and enters Libra (dry) at the end of October 2009 – hooray. This suggests a period of dryness rather than cold; though not necessarily so. You may remember from before; astro-meteorology theory says that dry is not wet, but may be cold or hot. We may have a dry heat or a dry chill, but it will not be wet.

At the height of the heat of Saturn’s passage through Leo (dramatic heat) in the early summer of 2007, a dampener on the solar festivities came in the form of Mars (extreme heat) spending months in Cancer (wet). The resultant clash of heat and water produced storms and intense rain from Sheffield to Gloucestershire

By the way, I’m sorry if I’m talking as if the astro-meteorology causes the weather. To talk in this manner is the easiest way to discuss the topic and while it would seem that the astrology signifies the weather patterns I am not suggesting that the astrology creates or causes it  …

In august 2009 Saturn is still in Virgo (cold) and Mars is in Cancer (wet) so that suggests a bit of a drippy/storm summer.

Then, things change in October:

Saturn leaves the Cold of Virgo and enters Dry Libra on the 30th of October. Unfortunately, it doesn’t stay there; returning to Virgo again on the 8th of April 2010. This does mean though, that we have a period of dry-er weather from  October though to April next year.

Alongside this, Once Mars leaves wet Cancer on the 17th of October,  it begins an 8th month stay in Leo – the sign of dramatic heat, until the 7th of June 2010.

Put these two together, Dry + Dramatic Heat, and it looks like we are in for a period of dry weather with temperatures higher than usual from October until April 2010, with temperatures cooling a little from April.

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Wonderful …

But …

Saturn in Virgo from April to July while Mars is in Virgo though June and July, suggest a cooler start to the summer

Things will warm at the end of the Summer and we’ll be firmly inside the 2 and a half year period of Saturn in Libra – 2 and a half years of weather dryer than usual.

2010 will have a start stop feeling, due to Saturn’s back and forth retrograding between Virgo and Libra, so 2011 will be the first year that has Saturn in Libra at its beginning.

This implies that 2011 will be a year with weather dryer than usual and if we take the implications of the weather at the end of 2010 into account as well, the conclusion is that 2011 will be a year of drought.

When people think of the drought, they sometimes have images in their mind of scenes akin to something from death valley – tumbleweed blowing past a sheep skull …

Remember though, that this island’s water supplies are dependant upon the underground streams and we can often enter drought periods even when it’s raining – because only certain styles of rain are  absorbed through the soil into the reservoirs. Perhaps we should start an awareness campaign to encourage people to get rid of their concrete drive ways & decking and return their gardens to grass. This would give the land a higher chance to absorb as much as possible (it was also said to be a contributory factor in the land’s inability to cope with the high rainfalls in the floods of 2007).

2011 starts with Mars in Capricorn (like today) so it could well be off to a chilli start. Mars follows it’s Sign-every-2-months pattern pretty evenly until 2012, when odd things occur once again.

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I’ll have an experiment with forecasting the weather for  the Olympics a little later.

I have to return my attention to the writing for my Msc once again, so will have to leave this here for now.

Hope you’ve enjoyed this peek into future frosts and sunshine and I very much hope you remain suitably cosy and warm

 in kindness

David

2005:

The experiment begins …

Weather we're having …(May 2006)

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I thought it would be fun to show you the astrology of the present band of rain we're experiencing.

Some people may not have seen last year's email predicting this years drought and the hot summer to come, so I've pasted that at the beginning.

So, below are a couple of emails I sent last year explaining astro-meteorology and forecasting the hot 2006 summer to come. The astrological information in these initial mails shows the weather for the summer of 2005.

The weather for the Summer of 2006 follows afterwards.:

re-sent 10th October 2005:

Hi there,

During my MA I discovered that in times past weather forecasting used to 9

be done with astrology. In fact, it seems this was common practice for centuries.

There are still echoes of it our modern times:

Presently, our weather is forecast by the Met Office. The is short for, 'Meteorological Office'.

Meteor - Logical =  Knowledge of the Moving Stars.

I've been looking into this for nearly two years now and it works very well Friends book picnics based on this ability to look into the weather even decades ahead.

You may remember the email below regarding Saturn's ingress into Leo …

Well, the temperature has been slightly warmer than usual, which is pretty good seeing as the year began with Saturn in Cancer and we haven't had a chance to warm up properly. It is for this reason that I've said it'll be next year that we feel the heat.

Now, you may remember;  the ancients saw the planets as either hot - or - cold - or - wet - or - dry.

So, a planet that is dry might not be hot and a planet that is hot isn't necessarily dry.

In weather systems, pockets of heat create thermal currents which become winds etc ...

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and one thing I did forget to mention in the earlier mail below;  Leo is a sign of DRAMATIC expression.

With this in mind maybe it's natural for this hurricane season to be the worst for years, big quakes and who knows what else to come during this time. Saturn leaves Leo in September 2007.

Here's the original mail from July:

  Hi there,

As you may be aware, the past two and a half years of weather being colder and wetter than normal is now in its closing stages.

Temperatures are climbing and, because of the wetness that's still around (Saturn in Cancer) this means a lot of steam.

Saturn's at 26 degrees at the moment and it’s not until the 17th of July that Saturn ingress's (changes sign) into Leo.

From then on, things will be hotter and a little dryer (Fire Signs are Hot - it is the Air signs that are Dry).  Saturn is conjunct the Sun, and therefore, sitting on the horizon at dawn, until 4th of August, so there will still be that sense of the summer trying to be unleashed from its confines, which, as the temperature builds could well mean hot and cold weather bumping around in the form of thundery storms.

After that, it'll be blazing for a while and the overall temperature will rise a

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little through the coming seasons in preparation for next year's very hot summer.

Nearly there then.

Well, true to form the weather is slowly turning and the humidity is dampened by Saturn (cold) still Conjunct (next to: within 8 degrees) the Sun on the horizon at dawn, although the gap is now widening. Once the degrees of separation between Saturn and the Sun on the horizon reaches 8 degrees the chill of Saturn will have dissipated and the humidity will disperse, leaving us with unbridled heat and a warm, hot summer:

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Saturn 4 degrees from the Sun today - 29th July 2005

Saturn separates from the Sun by 9 degrees - 4th August 2005

The Moon (moisture) has entered Leo, which ordinarily will lift the temperature. However, it is applying to Saturn which could mean the cold/wet scenario continues for just this last day.

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The good news is that on the following morning, not only has the Moon, still in the hot sign of Leo, separated from Saturn, it is also Conjunct the Sun, meaning that the New Moon will now lift the temperatures over the next two weeks; which is handy, since this year's Ley Line day and Stonehenge Moonlight visits are booked for this period (!).

Mercury is also in Leo, indicating warm and settled winds:

New Moon in Leo, Mercury in Leo in the 1st House.

Also, Libra on the 4th is a clear indication of fair weather, enhanced by the presence of Scorpio:

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and ...

Aries on the MC, at the top of the chart, also indicates heat:

Summer, it would seem, is here at last.

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Enjoy the sunshine,

love

Dave

ps.

Here's the whole chart - drawn, in his instance, for Dartmouth, Devon:

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The predicted rise in temperature was verified by an article in the Times, November 2005:

Hi,

I knew it was going to be warmer, but did you know it's up by 4 degrees ?

That is really high. Outside our door daffodils are beginning to come up and toads are still hunting in the early hours - they should have found a place to sleep by now.

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This is going to have a bigger impact than I first thought ...

The Times November 07, 2005

Birds hungry for cooler weather

The unseasonably warm autumn is causing British seabirds to starve to death, according to animal experts. Wildlife rescuers say they have been inundated with

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scrawny seabirds washed up on beaches, many of which cannot be nursed back to health. Animals experts believe that the hot weather has caused the fish on which the birds feed to swim away from eastern waters to find cooler water. Temperatures this autumn have been 4C warmer than usual.

The rain – April and May 2006:

You may remember that, astrologically, planets and signs are considered to be hot, cold, wet or dry.

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Mars is the hottest planet and Saturn the coldest. Cancer is a water sign, signifying, well, wetness and Leo is a fire sign, signifying heat (but not dryness – that is signified by air signs).

On the 14th of April 2006 Mars (powerful heat) entered the sign of Cancer:

This indicates a period of raised temperature while the air is full of water. This can manifest in a couple of ways: spells of sunshine and then rain and then sunshine again, or, just a period of humidity and fog.

This will come to an end when Mars enters Leo on the 4th of June 2006.

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Now things will begin to heat up. Mars (hot) is in the sign of Leo. Saturn (cold) is being filtered through the heat of Leo, meaning that things are generally warmer than usual.

The last time this occurred was in 1976.

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Note: both Saturn and Mars were in Leo, 1st July 1976

One thing to watch for though …

You'll have noticed that when Mars is at the beginning of Leo on the 4th June 2006, Saturn is already there at 7 degrees of Leo.

This means there will be a short period of Hot (Mars) applying towards Cold (Saturn). While this plays itself out there may be a drop in temperature and a propensity for the hot and cold to bump into each other – this sometimes produces thunder …

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It doesn't last long: by the 18th of June 2006 Mars passes over Saturn and by the 20th of June 2006 the separation is complete.

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Now, the summer will begin in earnest …

I hope you find this useful or helpful and I'd love to hear any comments or feedback you have.

Although it's been around a long time, I'm fairly new to the art of weather forecasting by astrology so it's a little bit experimental, hence the need for any comments you may wish to share.

So, thank you very much, in advance, and have a great summer.

Love

Dave

1st of July 2006

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Weather report – 1st July 2006, The times

Hi

By now you are probably aware that Saturn has an orbit around the Sun of 30 years and is presently transiting through the sign of Leo; a fire sign of dramatic expression.

Since this is 2006, the last time Saturn was in Leo, with Mars in Leo at the same time, was 1976, and certain parallels may be drawn. In an email I sent in July 2005 I suggested that we may experience drought and that the media would give global warming a higher profile than it had previously.

For the specific details of the forecasts and timings, please refer to the previous emails: Weather We're Having and Weather Forecast for English Heritage – Summer Solstice 2006.

The Times has reported on the weather patterns for June 2006, and so far it appears to be as expected (though of course, you are the best judge of this).

One thing I found interesting was a day in June 2006 was the hottest for 61 years, which is two orbits of Saturn around the Sun.

I had to look, of course, and what do you think ?

Yep, both Saturn and mars were in Leo in the Summer of 1945:

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Coo huh ?

Here's the report from today's Times:

The Times July 01, 2006

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Can't stand the heat? Don't worry, our summer may be over

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By Fran Yeoman and Paul Simons

JUNE ended in scorching heat over much of Britain yesterday, bringing good news for sellers of ice-cream, barbecues and sunscreen but causing more ballgirls at Wimbledon to wilt in the sun.

Last month was on course to have been the hottest June for 30 years, and perhaps the fourth hottest in a century. It continued the trend of extreme weather in 2006, which saw a freezing March and sodden May. William Hill drastically cut its odds on June having the hottest day of the year after a flurry of late betting.

Provisional statistics suggest that they may have been wise to do so. London saw the hottest June day for 61 years, as temperatures reached 31.4C (88.5F) at Heathrow on June 12. The average temperature for Central England for the month could be over 16.1C (61F), including both day and night. This beats even 2003, when heatwaves are reckoned to have killed thousands.

The previous highest average temperature for June was in 1976, when a stifling heatwave hit 32C (90F) or more in southern England for 15 consecutive days. This was a truly phenomenal event — no heatwave before or since has reached such heights for more than five successive days.

The parallels with 1976 do not stop there. Both that year and 2006 have seen extraordinarily long droughts in parts of southern England, lasting well over 12 months. In addition, the June of ’76 was a mixed bag of weather, with bouts of cooler and wetter weather breaking up the hot spells — much the same as this year, which featured a powerful Atlantic gale that rolled in last week (around June 20-21) and gave Wimbledon its soggy start. The reason for the drought, and later the heat, was stubborn blocks of high pressure that kept our more usual Atlantic weather at bay. So instead of the expected rain and wind, the Great Drought saw soaring temperatures, wildfires and water rationing. Dire warnings from water companies have brought suggestions that this year could see a similar scenario.

But cool off — we may not be quite so hot and bothered for long.

Simply assuming that we are in for a repeat of 1976 — standpipes and all — would be a mistake. Trying to make a long-range forecasts based on previous years is a minefield for the unwary, and this year the outlook is very difficult to predict.

Although this weekend should be mainly warm and sunny, the current Met Office forecast for July is for the heatwave to break down, with cooler weather and rains in the middle of the month.

“Some areas could even see a spell of unusually wet weather, suggesting a possible easing of the drought conditions,” the BBC weather presenter Everton Fox said.

The Met Office’s forecast for summer overall suggests that the southern half of Britain will see only average temperatures for the season. After an above-average June, this may mean

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putting the picnics on ice for much of July and August, although the far North can expect things to stay slightly warmer than normal.

Meanwhile umbrellas should be kept at the ready, as a lack of clear signals from the Atlantic mean that meteorologists are struggling to predict when the heavens will open over the next few months. Wimbledon finals weekend next week, presumably, is a reasonable bet.

WILD WEATHER

JANUARY

England and Wales had their driest January since 1997, and the sixth-driest on record. The South East and central southern England had already had the fourth-driest year on record in 2005

FEBRUARY

Gloomiest February in England and Wales

MARCH

Coldest March in England since 1996. In Scotland, March was colder than the three preceding months for the first time since 1975-76, and on March 2 some areas were chillier than Moscow (-10C/14F). Parts of Scotland saw record March snowfalls

APRIL

Most westerly winds in Britain since April 1977 Temperatures fell to -7C (19F) in the glens during the first half of the month

MAY

Wettest May for 23 years in England and Wales (113mm/ 4.5in rainfall). May 3 saw the year’s first temperature above 20C (68F), the latest this has occurred since 1983. In parts of the South East groundwater reserves were lower than before the 1976 drought

JUNE

Hottest June 12 for 61 years: a temperature of 31.4C (88.5F) at Heathrow

23.7.2007

Hello

You may remember, from  a recent email, that in an April astrology class we experimented with a long-range weather forecast by only taking into account the movements of Saturn (extreme cold) and Mars (extreme heat).

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Obviously, such a generalised approach would only produce a rough guide to the weather so, in the light of this week’s flash floods, I thought it might be a good idea to take a closer proper look …

This is the weather chart for yesterday in Marlborough:

You may remember from previous emails, that the most significant house in a weather chart is the 4th, followed by the 1st

Significant planets would be the 4th House ruler and then the Moon for moisture, the Sun for warmth, Mercury for wind, Venus for warm moisture (Greek – or the Arabic Cold moisture, depending on your astrological position), Mars for extreme heat, Saturn for extreme cold , Jupiter for bright light days, Neptune for water, Uranus for sudden changes and electrical storms and Neptune for water and floods. Pluto indicates weather of extremes.

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The Signs have their individual meanings too, and these may also be grouped together as:  Fire – hot, Earth – cold, Water – wet and Air – dry.

The cusp, or beginning, of the 4th house is changing from Leo (dramatic heat) to Virgo – cold …

Signifying an increasingly cool month or so of lower temperatures (lower than recent temperatures, which still may be the seasonal norm)

Also, the rulers of both Leo (the Sun) and Virgo (Mercury) are in the sign of Cancer – a water sign, indicating a propensity for rain or humidity, for just under a month

While Saturn in Leo (cold in a hot zone – which is synchronous with the overall rise in temperature; 1976, 1947, 1917 – all Saturn in Leo – Saturn has a 30 year cycle) at the moment is just separating from the cusp (beginning) of the 4 th

House, signifying a week or so of cold and wet weather. At the same time, Venus is applying (getting closer to) Saturn, which also indicates moisture or rain,

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On the 26th of June, this Conjunction is applying at 3 degrees, which means it is not even exact yet. So, it might well gather strength over the next few days until it dissipates – about 5 days or so from now

Unfortunately, the Saturn-Venus Conjunction is also caught up in a configuration of multiple Oppositions:

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And, significantly, at the centre of this set of Oppositions lays Saturn (extreme cold) Opposing Neptune (Water and floods). This Opposition is applying and exact (just coming into its maximum)

If it were only this Opposition between Saturn and Neptune alone that we had to contend with it would indicate a rough time: add Venus, The IC (cusp of the 4 th), Chiron and Part of Fortune into the picture as well and things look rather uncomfortable.

This whole configuration will pass, and it finally breaks up completely by mid July, when Saturn is 3 degrees separating from Opposing Neptune and Venus has long since sped on her way

Another dampener on our summertime delights is Mars’ transition into Taurus (Earth – cold) from Aries (fire – heat)

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This signifies a steady, if somewhat cooler time, rather than a changeable buffeting heat (Aries – late April and May 2007)

Putting all of it together we get a period of time between late June and mid July, during which the overall temperature is higher than usual, rain and floods are highly likely to express themselves in dramatic ways and the temperature cools at the end of the time period

Easy to see all this in hindsight, I know, but I thought a bit of astrological explanation might illuminate things for you

Many thanks

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Love

Dave

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July 2006: Saturn is currently at 12 degrees of Leo

You may remember that the two most important houses in Astrometeorology are the 4th and 1st houses.

The Sun is now in Leo, it's been there since 23rd July 2006, and weather forecasting charts are generated from the moment the Sun rises. As the Sun continues to move (aprox: 1 degree per day), the degree of the sign rising also progresses at 1 degree per day if you are looking at the moment when the Sun is Conjunct (sitting on) the horizon, as we do for weather forecasting charts.

This means that as the Sun approaches 12 degrees of Leo, the horizon at sunrise also reaches 12 degrees of Leo. At some stage, that these two points will 'catch up; with the slower moving Saturn.

So, there will come a moment, roughly 12 days into the Sun moving through the sign of Leo, that Saturn will sit on the horizon; and you may remember that Saturn represents extreme cold.

This is not to suggest that we will freeze, because the Saturn that begins to increasingly dampen the tone up to the moment that the Sun/horizon breaks free and reaches 14 degrees of Leo, is after all, still in the sign of Leo; the hot, fire sign of great resilience and drama. So, the overall temperature will still be higher than normal, but, in comparison to the recent heatwave, it will seem decidedly cooler.

As the Sun continues on its journey and the horizon, the Sun at day-break, begins to move away from 14 degrees of Leo, Saturn becomes a resident of the 12th house, which has little bearing in the day's weather. So, just from this perspective, without taking any of the other planets into account (so it's a little out of context) one can see the temperature lift once more throughout August 2006.

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The good news is that, in a general sense, the temperature will continue to be higher than 'normal' (or, rather, higher than those years that Saturn is not in Leo) until it ingresses into Virgo in September 2007.

So, it's still hot hot hot !

See next page …

Saturn Conjuncts (is next to) the Ascendant (cools things down) on the 7 th of August 2006 (both Saturn and the Sun are at 14 degrees of Leo – they are next to each other).

By the time we reach the 9th of August, the Sun, or the horizon-at-sun-rise, has moved sufficiently to allow the 1st House to not be influenced by Saturn afterwards:

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so …

from the 9th of August we're back into the heat – until the Sun ingresses to Virgo at the end of August, and then we're in the very warm …

love

Dave

23rd July 2007

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Hello

It takes a fair bit of time to look at the weather astrologically, which is why I only tend to pay attention to it for special occasions or when I’m specifically asked to. This afternoon, a Berkshire flood survivor asked me to take a look and I found the results pretty startling – so I thought I’d share them with you.

Often, there is a mixed bag of factors in a chart and a forecast is derived from blending these differing components into a unified picture. Sometime, there might be four or five things that signify similar things, so a theme can be found and that guides the final conclusion.

So, I was very surprised to see how many things in today’s weather chart pointed to the one singular theme: rain

I’ve listed out each one for you, and included their separate timelines as well, so you can gauge for yourself how things may progress

Here’s the chart:

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There are many components to this astrological picture of the weather:

Moon in Libra = fine weather … until 23rd of July, then enters Scorpio (strong possibility of being wet) until reaches Sagittarius on the 25th of July (warm and pleasant) – will be back here again in one month’s time

Moon in 4th = rain … until 24th of July – will be back here again in one month’s time

Moon in 4th Square Mercury = windy and wet … until 21st of July – will be back here again in one month’s time

Moon in 4th Square Pluto = extreme rain … until 21st of July – will be back here again in one month’s time

Moon Conjunct IC = heavy rain … until 21st of July – will be back here again in one month’s time

Saturn Opposing Neptune = cold and wet … until separated by 6 degrees on the 1st of August

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Saturn Square Mars = buffeting of hot and cold fronts (in warm seasons = thunder) … until 11th August

Mars Square Neptune = lots of moisture and humidity … until 7th August

Mars in Taurus = cold … until 8th August. Mars then transits through Gemini, signifying a period of warmer changeable and breezy weather until 29 th

September.

From 30th September until 10th of May there is a high chance of rain (Mars in Cancer), followed by heat until 2nd July 2008 (Mars in Leo)

Jupiter in Sag = warm and fine … until 19th December

Uranus in Pisces = sudden downpours and electrical storms … until 12th March 2011

Saturn in Leo = hot and dramatic weather … until 3rd September 2007, then 3 years of Saturn in Virgo = 3 years of cold, dry, on the cool side with blustery winds

Mercury in Cancer in the 12th = lots of moisture in the air … until 5th August, then air is warm for a month (remember, if warmth follows rain we get humidity)

Mercury in Cancer in the 12th Square MC and IC = even more blustery wet winds  … until 30th July

Venus in Virgo = cold and wet … until 10th August – retrogrades back into Leo, which is warmer … but … applies Conjunct to Saturn, which is cold until 19 th

August. Separates from Saturn and remains in Leo, warmer until 16 th September, and then comes forward again, passing across Saturn between 9th and 21st of October and finally leaves Virgo 9th November for the fair weather of Libra

Venus Conjunct Saturn = cold and wet … until 19 th August, and then again from 9th October to the 21st October

So, there are more than 16 Astrological factors that signify the components that make up the astrological weather picture. Each component has its own time-line, so if you were to draw some kind of graph you’d be able to gauge an approximation of what’s happening in a general sense – you have to look at each day, specifically, for a proper close look.

Remember, some parts of the Lunation components of the picture repeat themselves every 28 days or so.

Hope this is helpful

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Love

Dave

23rd July 2007

Hello

Hope you’re ok and this finds you safe and dry …

Here, it’s all a bit close to home:

The nearest flood areas are about 20 minutes drive to the east, in Newbury and 40 minutes northwest towards Cheltenham

The river Kennet behind the house is just about holding itself well and the flood waters that often surge down the hill towards the house have so far been diverted by the sandbags I put in place last November

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Fingers crossed then

Love

Dave

x

4th June 2007

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Summer Solstice 2007

Weather Forecast using Astrology

For English Heritage, by David Rowan MA

Title Pre- Solstice

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Date 20th June 2007

Place Stonehenge

Placements Forecast

4th House Leo, Virgo & The Moon Generally hot with cool moments. Possibility of cloud and humidity: might lead to very light and short showers/spits of rain

1st House Gemini, Cancer, The Sun, Mercury

A little breezy, wind changeable

Moon Virgo, 4th House, 1st Qtr Damp or humid with high cloud

Mercury Cancer 1st Slight moisture in the air

Significant Aspects 1 Mars in Leo Trine the Moon & Trine Pluto

A blistering hot day

Significant Aspects 2 Jupiter in Sagittarius Trine Venus in Leo

High clouds on a sunny day

Significant Aspects 3 Saturn Opposing Neptune 2 degrees separating from the IC/MC

Cold and wet weather diminishing, leaving a clear open sky

Significant Aspects 4 Pluto Opposing the ASC. exact

Very hot day

Conclusion A hot day with high clouds. A slight changeable breeze with humidity at times: possibility of very light warm shower

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Title Solstice day

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Date 21st June 2007

Place Stonehenge

Placements Forecast

4th House Leo, Virgo & The Moon Generally hot with cool moments. Possibility of cloud and humidity: might lead to very light and short showers/spits of rain

1st House Gemini, Cancer, The Sun, Mercury

Damp or humid with high cloud

Moon Virgo, 4th House, 1st Qtr Damp or humid with high cloud

Mercury Cancer 1st Slight moisture in the air

Significant Aspects 1 Mars in minor aspect the Moon & Trine Pluto

A very hot day

Significant Aspects 2 Jupiter in Sagittarius Trine Venus in Leo

High clouds on a sunny day

Significant Aspects 3 Saturn Opposing Neptune 3 degrees separating from the IC/MC

Cold and wet weather diminishing even more , leaving a clear open sky

Significant Aspects 4 Pluto Opposing the ASC. 1 degree separating

A hot day

Conclusion Another hot day with high clouds. The slight changeable breeze with a little humidity is still there, though with less propensity for a light warm shower

24th July 2007

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Sent: 24 July 2007 11:20To: Pan_Spirit@davidrowan.co.ukSubject: RE: thought you might like to know ...

Your forecast was more or less spot on. The dawn was cloudy and damp, glad I didn’t go this year

Helen

 

Mrs Helen N*Stonehenge Administration - Stone Circle AccessEnglish HeritageWyndham House, 65 The CloseSalisburySP1 2ENEngland

24th July 2007

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NB: 2007 – Saturn ingresses from Leo to Virgo. 1947 Saturn ingresses from Leo to Virgo (Saturn has 30 year cycle; 2007, 1947, 1917 …)

  From The Times

July 24, 2007

Flood alert: pay up or keep your fingers crossedDavid Aaronovitch

There was something awe-inspiring about the scale of the disaster enveloping Central England yesterday. From Pangbourne on the Thames to Tewkesbury under the Severn, and a score of places besides, locals seemed overwhelmed by the deluge of television reporters that had descended upon them. The luckiest journalists stood on bridges with roaring rivers as a backdrop, the less fortunate organised themselves a shallow lake or a watery road, the effect often subverted by the kids on bicycles riding over the supposedly impassable floodwaters. In Gloucester, by a large puddle, the BBC news was securely anchored by Kate Silverton, wearing a distressed expression and an even more distressed maroon waterproof. George Alagiah circled overhead in a helicopter, rescuing no one.

The perils of this inundation were obvious. The BBC website carried one item inviting the flooded to send their pictures “and moving footage” to a web address, and another informing readers that motorists who had stopped to photograph the floods had been slammed by the police for “endangering themselves and other road users”. From Standlake in Oxfordshire (“where the Windrush meets the Thames”) a reporter periodically stopped volunteers filling sandbags so that she could interview them. Then there was the danger of runoff from the concerned furrows of Silverton’s brow.

There is a rubric for moments like this, and it’s usually a slightly silly one. “Chaos” refers to irritating disruption, not a state of anarchy; “tales of human misery” don’t signify imminent death, but pensioners being taken upstairs and given hot meals by volunteers; “a wall of water . . . expected to roar down the Thames through the heart of England” is an abrupt rise in river levels, not an inland tsunami.

But for once we have a really quite substantial natural calamity, more akin to the Great Hurricane of 1987 than to the Not So Great Floods of 2000. Rivers that local people have never heard of are bursting their banks from the Welsh border to the Home Counties, covering substantial areas in a reddy-brown soup of water, soil and God knows what.

My favourite question from yesterday came from the front of this paper, asking: “The floods: what went wrong?” The answer, it seemed to me, was: “It rained a hell of a lot.” But the query suggested another headline, this time from a Sunday newspaper, announcing that the Government had been warned of potential flooding as early as last Wednesday. So why, it was implied, hadn’t they stopped it? An irresistible image came to mind of members of the Government, led by Gordon Brown, lying down on river banks to block the rising tide.

I have seen it suggested that ditches weren’t properly cleared, that pumps were unavailable and that perhaps this would have been resolved had we only appointed a minister of floods to coordinate everything (or, failing that, to build an Ark).

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All this is just possibly true. Perhaps some of the places now under water would have been an inch or two drier had things been handled better, though it could be that our demands for complete security from natural disaster are overoptimistic. Maybe there are countries where no one ever gets flooded, and there are no forest fires, avalanches, hurricanes, landslides or tornadoes, or if there are, no one is ever inconvenienced by them. I doubt it. I was struck by the mobile flood barriers for Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire getting stuck in gridlock on the motorways – and which would have been insufficient for the scale of the floods in that town even had they arrived.

So much for the short term. What about medium-term prevention? Couldn’t we spend enough on flood defences to ensure that almost any building in the flood plain is safe? Or couldn’t we stop building houses in the flood plain, in case we cannot construct good enough defences? The answer to these questions lie in risk assessment. We don’t get flooded every year. Last year, in fact, we had a drought. So how much ought we to pay to safeguard ourselves against an occasional inundation? This week’s publication of the housing Green Paper turned flood-plain building into the temporary “dominant narrative” of housing policy. Everywhere it was as though the commentariat were quoting that fabulous precautionary couplet from William McGonagall to the effect that: “The stronger we our houses build/ The less chance we have of being killed.”

You’d think we were talking about the Nile with its reliable flooding. But our places are built in valleys and by rivers. The nervous Spaniard may have built up hill, we, however, built down dale. Somewhere such as Tewkesbury, surrounded by clue-bearing water meadows, was created on the flood plain, and every 60 years or so, it floods. So should we spend billions on flood defences and stop flood-plain building – incurring an inevitable extra demand on green-belt land – because of this infrequent risk? Mr Brown, I think, says no.

The Dutch, apparently, only permit developments where the risk is of one serious flood every 10,000 years, whereas our Government is prepared to build where the risk is one flood every century. If we think that’s wrong, are we the British people willing to run the expense and non-financial costs of Dutch levels of prudence? Might you not end up, as the British rail system has done, extraordinarily safe at huge expense?

One should note here that the prices of floods themselves have risen. Those of 1947 set the country back £300 million at today’s prices. Yesterday the Association of British Insurers estimated this year’s floods as costing a rather round £2 billion. It could be that we simply can’t afford not to spend the necessary money on flood protection. Even so, I can’t help recalling that, back in the mid1990s, the people of Shrewsbury opposed flood defences that were recommended by the Environment Agency, because they would have been too physically intrusive. They would rather, they said, live with the risk.

That, at least, was a grown-up discussion, in which citizens weighed up the chances of a catastrophe against the price of guarding against it. It suggested the improbable day when we might see a sodden householder tell a TV reporter that yes, she had lost half her furniture, but, on balance, it was worth it.

2nd August 2007 - In a Tea Cup

This article appeared in the Times last Saturday and I thought it was so brilliant I wanted to share it with you.

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On second reading, my curiosity woke up even more and I found myself looking at weather charts from the 13th Century to see if anything was similar to our present experiences, and, of course, to further this experiment in astrological weather forecasting.

See what you think …

From The TimesJuly 28, 2007

750 years ago the weather was just as calamitousAlexander Murray

Readers of The Times may turn to Matthew Parris to follow the tide of contemporary events, but a monk with almost the same name served a similar purpose in the 13th century. After a month of relentless rain and widespread flooding, the latter’s observations make illuminating reading.

Matthew Paris’s massive History of the English was written, in Latin, mostly just before and after 1250. The author was a Benedictine monk of St Alban’s and his details on nonpolitical subjects are usually credible. His weather reports for the 1230s and 1240s show that the present floods had precedents.

Global warming makes an appearance. The summers of 1236 and 1241 were “almost unbearably” hot, and so dry that cattle died of thirst. But wind and rain are more prominent. The year 1237 had two hurricanes strong enough to knock down buildings, and another in early 1238 sank 20 ships at Portsmouth.

That wind was followed by two or three months of incessant rain, after which came the same period of heat and drought, and then rain again all autumn, ruining crops.

There were several floods, the worst in 1236-37 and 1248-49. In 1236, Paris writes: Between January and mid-March the rain never stopped. No one could remember anything like it. Serious floods began in the second week of February, when high tides meant that rivers could not empty into the sea. Fords became useless, river banks disappeared, fields, bridges, mills, all vanished.

Disaster struck again later in the same year, this time in East Anglia: In the middle of November a combination of onshore wind and high tide continued for an unheard-of two-and-a-half days, so that the rivers could not empty. Coasts were laid waste, ships torn from their anchorage and lost, houses wrecked, trees torn up. Many people were drowned, not to mention entire herds and flocks of livestock . . . One tiny village had to bury a hundred bodies in a single day.

The Thames valley suffered seriously twice in these years. In 1236: On 19 November there was a deafening thunderstorm with terrifying flashes of lightning. People feared that worse was to come,

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and were right. Rain and wind continued incessantly for many days afterwards, and the Thames overflowed its banks, so that round Lambeth it grew to a width of six miles.

Floods came again 13 years later: There was heavy rain from early June, followed by serious flooding, especially severe in the country round Abingdon.

—The author is Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford, and a former tutor in medieval history

1236:  Saturn in Gemini. Gemini is a mutable Air sign, which is dry = drought, and the mutable component of Gemini signifies changeable, blustery weather

1241: Saturn is in Leo: Leo is a fire sign = a time of dramatic weather and dramatic heat – 1916, 1946, 1976, 2006 … Saturn was in Leo during all of these very hot years

1237: Saturn in Cancer from September, Cancer is a water sign – a time of cold and wet weather – Boscastle, Katrina and the Tsunami … Saturn was in Cancer when all of these events occurred

1238: Saturn retrogrades (an apparent backward motion) into Gemini until June = a time of strong changeable winds leading to further cold and wet weather when Saturn moves on to Cancer once more

1248 and 1249: Saturn in Scorpio: a water sign = intensely cold and wet

There is a specific mention here of 19th November 1236 in Lambeth. As an experiment, it might be worth looking at the weather chart for Lambeth that day, just to see what it shows …

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Thunder usually occurs when hot fronts bump into cold fronts …

Aries on the 4th indicates a hot day

Saturn in Gemini indicates a day of string winds and the air is dry

Saturn is applying to Neptune; a cold and wet day

Mars, ruler of the 4th, is in Leo – a dramatically hot day

The Moon is waning in Leo – a day of dramatic hot weather and moisture in the air – ‘close’

Mercury is in Scorpio – lots of water in the air

Mercury is Square Mars, ruler of the 4th and traditional ruler of Scorpio = a day of tempestuous  ‘angry’  winds

Jupiter in Sag’ signifies warmth and high clouds, but … it is in exact Opposition to Saturn, which is a bit like putting a wet blanket onto a nice day

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Venus: cold and wet, is in Capricorn: cold = cold wet day

Conclusion:  there are enough powerful differences in the mix to create a cauldron of forces that needed to boil over.

Over the next few days, the Moon would pass through Leo and make contact with Mars, ruler of the 4th, on the following day and leaving dramatic Leo for cold Virgo on the 22nd.

A second event mentioned in the article is the flooding of Abingdon in June 1249:

Leo – dramatic weather, is on the 4th

It is The 15th of June and Leo’s ruler has just ingressed to zero degrees of Cancer – it is the summer Solstice (impressed if you know how come it’s not the 21st of June in 1249)

Saturn is in Scorpio, signifying a time of intense problems with water, and is Conjunct Pluto, the planet associated with Scorpio in modern astrology.

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Mercury is in Cancer, a water sign, signifying moisture or water in the air

Mars is in Aries, the sign that it rules, signifying a time of  ‘aggressive’  or blistering heat

Mercury is Square Mars, signifying day of tempestuous  ‘angry’  winds

Neptune is Conjunct the Ascendant, signifying even more water problems

Jupiter, light high clouds, is in Capricorn, which is akin to dropping your hope into a well of deep gloom. It also happens to be in exact Opposition to Neptune, the archetypal God of the seas and all things water

Saturn, planet of extreme cold, is Square the IC, which would signify a lower temperature and a time of hard weather

Conclusions:

I’d love to hear your conclusions …

To me, it seems there are some uncanny synchronous coincidences with the themes that pop up here with those of our own times.

In one sense it shouldn’t surprise us because, after all, we already know the planets of our solar system repeatedly revolve and form complex patterns that are constantly making, breaking and re-forming again. What might be surprising is the frequency with which the symbolism of the positions held by the planets at the times of these weather events matches these events so consistently …  and, if that were not enough, how often the same symbolism is present at the times of extreme weather conditions. Food for thought isn’t it … ?

Love

Dave

1st September 2007

Hello

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Today is the last day of Saturn in Leo

Or, at least, the last day for the next 29 years

You may remember, from all the previous emails that Astrometeorology states that Planets, and Signs of the Zodiac signify Hot, Cold, Wet and Dry:

Heat is not necessarily dry and may be wet – but certainly not cold.

Cold is not necessarily wet and may be dry – but certainly not hot.

Now, of course, generalisations do tend to be somewhat broad, and to take a long term overview of the weather is far from the accuracy afforded by looking at a specific day (and even this degree of accuracy may be befuddled by the subjective wishes and innate optimism of the astrologer doing the interpretation … )

So, just in a general sense, I sent an email in the summer of 2005 telling people that 2006 would be on a par with 1976 and that the media would shout about global warming from the spring onwards … which is exactly what has happened.

During this time, however, the specific details of our daily weather have clouded our enjoyment of our once-in-30 years moment of dramatic heat …

Through August 2006, Mars, the planet signifying extreme heat, transited through Virgo, and the temperature cooled.

Ramsey, the medieval astrologer from whom much of this olde lore comes, states that Virgo signifies:  Virgo - cold, dry, on the cool side with winds; blustery

and indeed, it was …

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And for the last 18 months or so, like a hazy cloud spoiling a hill top view, Neptune has been Opposing Saturn:

(Neptune - cool, wet, fog, mist, erosion in an earth sign, peculiar, freakish weather events, flooding Neptune’s power lies in its ability to lower the barometer and provoke torrential downpours and flooding conditions. During colder seasons, warming trends and thaws are Neptune’s delight. Dry and warm stormy – from Kim Farnell)

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The above Opposition is shown from the weather chart of the day of the huge rain storm that deluged what still turned out to be a warm summer.

Yesterday, the BBC carried a news item in which they said that this summer has been the wettest since records began in 1914 and yet temperatures were still above the seasonal norm

So …

What now ?

Well ….  (and please remember, should you feel an urge to complain or moan at me, I am not the designer of the universe nor the creator of things, I am merely acting as a messenger of a signpost)

... it’s not too hot I’m afraid

In fact, it really won’t be too hot again for a little while

In a broad, and general sense, the thermostat is turning down for a little while

Tomorrow, Saturn begins a 3-year passage through Virgo, signifying a period of weather that is cooler than usual

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And with accompanying Venus Opposing Neptune and Moon in Taurus, it’s not a great start

and …

there is more

(remember, this is a general overview)

The orbit of Mars around the Sun is twice that of the Earth.

Or, to state it subjectively, The Sun takes a month to transit a sign of the Zodiac and Mars takes two months … usually.

However, due to a phenomena known as ‘Retrograde Motion’, the passage of planets through Sings of the Zodiac is sometimes stilted and longer than normal.

Just such an instance occurs with Mars after it ends its current residence in Gemini.

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Mars - acute, heat, extreme if combined with other violent planets. Warm and dry influence. Hot summers, droughts, and mild winters are but a few of its traits.

Filtered through …

Gemini - tends to cold, dry, fair, clouds moving, open sky, fluctuations in temp. – yep, that seems like today

Cancer - cooling off to cold, wet, chance of rain with downpours, short-term wet – guess what’s on its way …

The forthcoming transit of Mars through Cancer is longer than the usual two months. In fact, it’s longer than three months, four months and even five months.

Mars ingresses to Cancer on the 29th of September 2007 and finally leaves Cancer for Leo on the 9th of May 2008

That’s a whole 7 months of the planet of extreme heat in water while the planet of extreme cold is in cold.

Or, to put it a little more clearly …

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That’s a whole 7 months of the planet of extreme heat (Mars)  in water  (Cancer) while the planet of extreme cold (Saturn) is in a cold period (Virgo).

and with a little interpretation …

Mars in Cancer = Lots of warm water in the air: humidity, fine rain and fog.

Saturn in Virgo = Overall temperature colder than seasonal norm.

So, we have a potential for there to be a period of cold, wet weather from the end of September 2007 to the second week of May 2008 … with fluctuations, of course, and Saturn remains in Virgo until the 21st of July 2010

Well, since everyone expects the global warming stuff to continue making everything really hot and for temperatures to continue being above their seasonal norm – and why shouldn’t they be, we’ll now have a really good chance to see if this astro weather forecasting malarkey really does work.

When it was seriously wet, the astrology said it would be surprisingly warm for a couple of years – and it was.

Now, the astrology indicates a cooler and wet autumn followed by two colder than usual years  - and we shall see

If it does go the way the astrology indicates, against the grain of our expectations, then we may have to conclude, ‘there is something in it’, will we not ?

Many thanks

Love

Dave

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4th January 2008

Hello

The BBC article below describes the last year of Saturn in Leo (dramatic heat) as one of the warmest on record.

Weather Forecasting with Astrology suggested us this would be the case when I first looked at it in 2003/4

You may remember (and, if you haven’t seen any of the previous Astro-Weather Forecasting emails and would like to, please ask) …

2005 – I sent an email saying that Saturn’s initial passage into Leo at the end of 2005 would sit on top of the old cold and wet Cancerian weather, and it would not heat up dramatically until the spring of 2006 – which it did

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You may also remember the emails regarding flood patterns and the cycle of heat/flood … heat/flood … heat/flood … that seems to recur every 30/60 years

and, you may remember that Saturn went into Virgo in the autumn of 2007, sitting upon a year of different weather, much like Saturn’s initial sojourn into Leo at the end of 2005

This would indicate then, that it would nt be until the mid-winter of 2008 that we are afforded the opportunity to experience Saturn in Virgo properly. In other words, the Astrometeorology suggests that it is from now that we will begin to experience temperature lower than usual.

The idea of a lowering of temperature in 2008 and 2009 flies in the face of all expectation, so this really will let us know whether or not the transits of Saturn have a significant bearing on the overall temperature or on the magnitude of cold  that we experience

Time to find out …

BBC article appears below

Many thanks and a safe, happy and comfortably warm year

Love

Dave

2007 'second warmest year' in UK

A summer of rain but still much warmer than average

Last year was the second warmest on record in the UK, according to figures released by the Met Office. The average mean temperature across the UK was 9.6C - slightly cooler than in 2006, but continuing the recent trend towards warmer temperatures.

Since UK-wide records began in 1914, nine of the 10 warmest years have happened since 1989.

2007 was no exception despite a natural weather event

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known as La Nina, which usually reduces global temperatures.

It was one degree above what you would normally expect for the 30-year period from 1971 to 2000.

Extreme weather

Many people will look back on 2007 as a year of weather extremes. Enormous amounts of rain in May, June and July caused devastating floods but in other months it was drier than usual.

The year was also characterised by relatively warm conditions at night, bringing fewer frosts - 18 days fewer than normal for the UK overall, and warmer sea temperatures.

"To the public it seemed like a very dull and cool year because we didn't get a heatwave," said Met office climate scientist Dr Matt Huddleston.

"But the warm night temperatures and the lack of frosts mean on average it was a very warm year."

Global trend

The UK's top 10 warmest years on record (in order) are 2006, 2007, 2003, 2004, 2002, 2005, 1990, 1997, 1949 and 1999.

Globally, there is a similar trend - the top 10 being 1998, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2001, 1997 and 1995.

"Nine of the 10 warmest years have happened since 1989," said Dr Huddleston.

"There is an inexorable rise in temperature that is small compared to daily weather changes," he added. "There is much greater certainty that this is because of manmade pollution."

The Met Office originally predicted that 2007 could be the warmest on record globally. The year began with a weak El Nino, a Pacific Ocean phenomenon that normally raises temperatures.

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There is much greater certainty that this is because of manmade pollution

Dr Matt Huddleston

But since the end of April 2007, its cooler relation, the La Nina, has prevailed, taking some of the heat out of what could have been an even warmer year.

2008 is expected to be another warm year with global temperatures forecast to be 0.37C above the long-term average.

11th August 2007 - there’s nothing like a country walk on a sunny day …

and, this was nothing like …

Well, with The Moon in Scorpio in the 4th it was bound to be a tad wet. True to form, the predicted rains and sweeping winds made for a dramatic day exploring Barrows, Mounds and Stones.

Like last year, the very friendly people who came had a wonderful robust spirit and everyone was determined to see the Ley Line day through to it’s final destination at Old Sarum. That’s not to say that the bright warm and sunny Ley Line days are any less spirited, but here’s a telling contrast …

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This was taken a year ago today:  11th August 2007, the last month of Saturn’s journey through Leo:

And, the first summer of Saturn in Virgo …

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And, just in case you didn’t catch it, here’s the weather prediction (for further information on weather forecasting with astrology, please feel free to ask_ …

5th August 2008 - Weather to wear a hat

Hello

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Just thought I’d let you know that the astrological weather forecast chart for Saturday’s Ley Line day looks like rain – again …

While the Trine between Jupiter and Saturn bodes well, and Mercury signifies a warmer wind in Leo, the most significant element is the 4th House Moon in Scorpio, signifying a lot of water …

That the Moon is also Square the Sun and Mercury compounds this, even though it is lifted by its Sextile to Saturn

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I’d expect the day to be overcast with a high chance of rain, so please bring wet weather clothing and be prepared for a hot lunch at The Barge in Honeystreet if it’s too rough to go up onto Alton Barnes White Horse

Last year was a thoroughly wet and windy day and was one of the best Ley Line days we’ve had. The  ‘get to the end of the tour’  spirit was really tangible and made for a dramatic landscape

See you at 10.00 on Saturday

Love

Dave

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