TMA This Week
Mercury & Pluto Make Waves
By Mary Plumb | December 15, 2008
As if we needed more evidence, last week’s Full Moon brought a few daring new players on to the front pages in a continuing display of the general upheaval, corruption, downfall of all we’d like to believe in. Pluto in Capricorn rocks! Sordid though it is, since the news has touched many big political names ... read more
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Full, Full Moon
By Mary Plumb | December 7, 2008
This week’s Full Moon, exact on Friday, December 12 at 8:38 am PT, is especially dynamic and we have a week upon us where paying attention to our emotional reactions and keeping steady amidst strong stimuli may be a very good idea. The planets suggest a volatility and passion in the air. The Full Moon ... read more
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Terror in Mumbai
By Robert Blaschke | December 1, 2008
Here is the the mundane horoscope for the City of Mumbai (when its name changed from Bombay), cast for August 12, 1996 at midnight: Mumbai has a very rare fallen Cardinal T-Cross comprised of the opposition of Mars in Cancer and Jupiter in Capricorn and each in square to a fallen Saturn in Aries. This ... read more
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Michelle Obama
By Mary Plumb | November 24, 2008
Although we don’t have a time for Michelle Obama’s birth, we know that she was born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. (1) The Sun is at 27° Capricorn and Venus is at 1° Pisces, trine her husband’s Venus at 2° Cancer. The Moon changed from Aquarius to Pisces at about noon on the ... read more
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Good Monday!
By Mary Plumb | November 24, 2008
Hello all, I am writing this from a very beautiful remote ranch in west Texas by the Rio Grande. We are surrounded by distant mountain ranges, including 9,000 foot peaks in Mexico to the south and the colorful Chinatis to the north. It’s a windy day and the sky is becoming a brilliant blue after ... read more
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Early Thoughts on Obama
By Mary Plumb | November 16, 2008
We’ve enjoyed several weeks of relief and hopefulness about the US election, and articles about the President-elect are beginning to appear on the web. Like many of you, I’m delighted to be looking at some new figures on the national scene and I’ve selected a few of the early blog posts. Joyce Hopewell is a ... read more
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Yes, He Did!
By Mary Plumb | November 10, 2008
At 8:00 pm PT on November 4 MSNBC announced that Obama had won the presidency. Over 200,000 people erupted in celebration Grants Park in Chicago and in tv rooms all around the country, indeed the world. At that moment, the Ascendant in Washington, DC was 10°11′ Leo, very close to Obama’s natal Sun at 12°33′ ... read more
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The Aspect of the Year?
By Mary Plumb | November 3, 2008
Much has been written on the upcoming Saturn Uranus opposition, exact on November 4. This is the first in a series of five exact oppositions that will last until July 2010. The previous opposition between these planets – representing the old and the new, the status quo and the visionary – was between April 1965 ... read more
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What’s New – and What’s Coming – in TMA
By Tem Tarriktar | November 3, 2008
Our Dec. 2008/Jan. 2009 (21st anniversary) issue is at the printers now, and it is due to be mailed out to all subscribers in early November. It is packed with useful information, as usual, and I’m always amazed to witness how much care goes into each and every issue. This is what has sustained the ... read more
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Monday morning notes
By Mary Plumb | October 27, 2008
I’d like to share a few points made last week at our local NCGR panel on the elections. Obviously this election year has been a great year for astrologers shall we say, as the planets are speaking so starkly. (I especially mean in terms of the overall zietgist of the times, predicting the winner is ... read more
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