"Zodiac Is Wrong" Scam

FROM : Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter





Here We Go Again with the "Zodiac Is Wrong" Scam

(There's more info about this issue on my site: http://bit.ly/AstroHoax)

News Flash: The zodiac isn't wrong. Your sign isn't changing. Ignore the
misinformation.

Every year or so, another astronomer erupts into the mainstream media
with a portentous announcement about how, due to the precession of the
equinoxes, the astrological signs are no longer aligned with the actual
constellations. Often the supposed 13th constellation, Ophiuchus, is also
invoked as a further proof of how delusional astrologers are.

What it means, according to these experts, is that astrology is invalid.
Most of the people who think they're Tauruses are actually Aries. Most
Scorpios are really Libras. And so on.

That latest offering is from Parke Kunkle, a board member of the
Minnesota Planetarium Society. "When [astrologers] say that the sun is in
Pisces," he speculated, "it's really not in Pisces." His supposition hit the
Internet recently, on Gawker (http://bit.ly/i1VxqE) and the Minneapolis
Star Tribune (http://bit.ly/f7hWwW), among other places.

I understand that scientists like him would prefer not to lower themselves
to the task of actually doing research about how astrology works. But if
they're going to question its foundations, they should at least learn it well
enough to know what they're talking about.

Here, briefly, is the lowdown on what certain astronomers are too lazy to
find out for themselves.

The astrological signs are not defined by the constellations you see in the
sky. In antiquity, when both astrological and astronomical thinking were
based on insufficient data, the names of the constellations happened to
be paired with the astrological signs. Today, those pairings are no longer
in sync: Astrological signs do not line up with the constellations in the
same way they did way back then, due to the precession of the
equinoxes.

Modern Western astrologers understand this perfectly. It 's irrelevant to
their work because the information upon which they base their
hypotheses does not involve a study of distant stars or constellations.
Rather, their data have to do with the movements of the planets in our
own solar system within a zone of influence defined by the relationship
between the Earth and Sun.

The key demarcation points in that relationship are the equinoxes and
solstices. At the Northern Hemisphere's vernal equinox, which occurs on
about March 20th of each year, the Sun enters into the sign of Aries. At
the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice, the sun enters into the sign
of Cancer. The locations of the constellations are irrelevant; the "influence
of the stars" isn't considered.

To reiterate: Western astrologers don't work with stars or constellations.
Their focus is our solar system. They study the patterns of the planets
and the moon as they pass through 12 zones defined by the relationship
between the Earth and sun. Those zones have the same names as
constellations because of a historical quirk, but they are unrelated to the
constellations.

When Parke Kunkle triumphantly says, "There is no physical connection
between constellations and personality traits," as if he has finally stamped
out the delusions of us astrologers, he doesn't realize that we agree with
him completely. We don't deal with constellations.

P.S. There haven't been many corrective articles in the mainstream press
-- most publications have been content to let their un-fact-checked
stories stand as if they were gospel -- but the New York Times and the
Daily Beast did have the journalistic integrity to make a stab:
http://nyti.ms/gSSVIq and http://bit.ly/fNEijs.

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Felíz 2011!

wedding info

Ancient Greek Wedding

Weddings in ancient Greece were a major part of a person's life, especially for the bride-to-be. The weddings were usually arranged by the bride's parents (Kitto 220).
The marriage symbolized:

• love
• mutual respect
• equality
• and sacrifice

The wedding consisted of three parts:

• pre-wedding ceremonies
• the actual wedding itself
• and the post-wedding ceremonies.

This way, it took about three days.

Time

In ancient Greece, there usually was a certain time when couples decided to marry. According to Flacelière (62), Greeks married during the winter. However, various superstitions say that Greeks were married during the time of a full moon. A common month in which couples married was the month Gamelion (January) which is sacred to Hera and means "the wedding month."

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In Tibetan Buddhism's "Four Dignities of the Warrior's Path," courage and ferocity are absent. In fact, the qualities regarded as essential for being a warrior have nothing in common with the training regimens of Marines or football players or lobbyists.

The first dignity is often translated in English as meekness, but that word doesn't convey its full meaning. "Relaxed confidence" is a more precise formulation -- a humble feeling of being at home in one's body.

Perkiness, or irrepressible joy, is the second dignity. To develop it, a warrior cultivates the habit of seeing the best in everything and works diligently to avoid the self-indulgence of cynicism.

The third is outrageousness. The warrior who embodies this dignity loves to experiment, is not addicted to strategies that have been successful in the past, and has a passionate objectivity that's free of the irrelevant emotions of hope and fear.

The fourth dignity is inscrutability, or a skill at evading the pigeonholes and simplistic definitions that might limit the warrior's inventiveness while fighting for his or her moral vision.



source:http://freewillastrology.com

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foto dal treno : - piccolo re mida della luce -

alla mia destra il lago di caldonazzo baciato dal tiepido sole mattutino, le poche foglie gialle sugli alberi quassi completamente spogli ...
di fronte a me una giovane ragazza, il volto illuminato da una felicità incontenibile. Quando si addormenta sorride, sorride davvero... ascolta qualcosa dal suo ipod e di quando in quando prende in mano il cellulare e scrive: la gote si tingono di rosso e mordicchia il labbro su un lato. I suoi occhi azzurri e freddi brillano di una luce radiosa, poi anche lei comincia ad avere un po di sonno, di stanchezza e lentamente il suo volto riprende una forma normale, ordinaria... ma ecco che si ri-accende lo schermo del suo cellulare e il suo volto risplende, e invitabilmente un sorriso le esplode in faccia e innonda il mio mattino. Si guarda intorno e semina amore con quello sguardo, diffonde luce e miracolosamente rende a colori questa scena grigia di treno da pendolare.
Affermazione inevitabile: è amore quello che scorre nel suo corpo.
Perchè è amore quella cosa così brillante che lancia addosso a tutto quello su cui appoggia il suo sguardo.
Ed è qui che tutti i miei pensieri di questi ultimi giorni approdano.
Non sò se lei in effetto sia innamorata di qualcuno, non so se quel qualcuno la ami, non so se quando lo schermo dell’altro cellulare si accende la persona che lo prende in mano è una persona buona o no, se questo è un gioco o una cosa seria. Ma che è amore lo so. Lo sa anche il signore che sull’altro sedile legge il giornale e non lo vuole vedere.
Il golfino verde che appena cinge il cuore di questa creatura appena riesce a contenere i raggi di questa cosa che per comodità di linguaggio chiamiamo amore.
Per oggi e in onore di questi piccoli miracoli smetterei di farmi mille domande sulla conformazione, l’origine, la struttura di questo fenomeno: apoggio la schiena al sedile e mi godo la vista di questo meraviglioso spettacolo che rende questa giornata migliore, questo treno più bello, questa mattina più calda.

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i'm affected

When I look into your big brown eyes
And I feel like I'm in paradise
I want you by my side
'Cause I'm affected, 'fected
Yeah, I'm affected, 'fected
Well I'm affected
And all I want is you

Didn't know it a few years ago
But now I finally know
I want you by my side
I want you baby, baby, baby, baby

Yeah, I love you and I want you to know
Yeah, yeah, and that's for sure
I want you by my side
'Cause I'm affected, 'fected
Yeah, I'm affected, 'fected
Well, I'm affected
And all I want is you


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