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Lady Gaga is an Aries ( data sourced from Astrotheme)
Born: March 28, 1986, 9:53 AM
in: New York, Lenox Hill Hospital (NY) (United States)
Sun: 7°38' Aries Asc: 27°12' Gemini
The 7 Aries position has been affected by the transits of Uranus & Pluto since May 2012 and Feb 2011 respectively, so these body stress issues are deep-seated and have been in development for some time.
Saturn the teacher of harsh reality is right on Gaga's Moon through Feb 2013 and lingering during March - hard not to feel heavy, depressed, serious, emotionally withdrawn even guilty under that weight. The positive side of Saturn here is about making emotionally mature and transformational choices now. remember Aries is one of the big kids of the zodiac & it takes something big to jolt those who mature more slowly into the sort of responses that are more sensible.
The good news is the current cycle ( which represents a karmic issue for her) is coming to an end soon.
Since June 2012 Gaga's spirit has been more in retreat mode. This continues through Feb, March & April 2013. It is Jupiter activating the zone of retreat and withdrawal, and in mid March 2013 Jupiter will contact Gaga's birth position for Saturn. Saturn in Gaga's chart brings karmic & often chronic health problems, but Jupiter coming in opposition to Saturn in March could easily be the turning point she needs as the last exact contact of Uranus ( major change) passes over her sun position at 7 Aries also in March.
By mid June 2013 with Jupiter on her birth point -the ascendant at 27 Gemini a whole new positive cycle, like a rebirth, begins.
Neptune in transit at 3 Pisces, right at the top of Gaga's chart will make her extra sensitive and more spiritually open. Avoiding harsh, intense substances is advised as this is a time of significant fragility around all forms of drugs, medicines or addictive intake. This advisory is in affect from Feb 2013-Feb 2014.
Gaga needed to go through this to make inner changes. Best advice for her while having time out - reflect, meditate, get in touch with your spiritual needs & make those beneficial choices related to your health and lifestyle. That will really pay off.
The period Feb 5-13 is a window for increased pressure on terrestrial forces, due to the sequence of Moon at max south position (6th), New Moon (10th) & phase (7th-13th) and Moon on equator (12th). Similarly 18th-20th Moon is max North position. 23rd-March 1st - Full moon phase with Moon on equator 26th.
These are the time frames for greater stress on planet earth itself, along with effects on all biological systems. Individual differences apply in terms of a strong, medium or low resonance with these or any prevailing energetic effects - because it depends on your own personal energy template ( as described and pictured by your individual birth chart - (or in the case of locational effects, it depends on the resonance with the individual energy template of that location - if that can be determined)
These lunar phase factors are just a part of the prevailing picture of energetic effects (Yes, astrology is complex) because a swag of other extra-terrestrial influences are in play at any moment in time - most observers limit themselves to looking at the main planets & some asteroids, but there is the potential for extreme complexity, beyond practicality, since the sources of information to use for interpretation are theoretically countless.
Writing on the 8th, there is ongoing seismic unrest in the South Pacific as a consequence of a M8.0 seafloor quake on Feb 6 when the Moon was at maximum South position. The New Moon on Feb 10 2013 There is an exact T-square pattern involving the north and south lunar nodes with the sun-moon pairing. 21.43 degrees Aquarius Sun conjnct 21.43 Aquarius Moon both at right angles to the 21.30 Scorpio North Node & 21.30 Taurus South Node. The involvement of the nodes brings important themes related to us collectively, into public prominence. This time it is:
death and transformational change as well as issues around use & abuse of power or control -be that physical, material, financial or due to status or position.
All 3 of these signs are reluctant to change, can be rigid and stubborn but Taurus & Scorpio are arguably the worst. The Aquarian sun & moon energies are rebellious, resistant to convention, both from an ego standpoint as well as emotionally. This combo suggests more protest energy during the lunar month till early March - issues of injustice and human rights likely to be front page & headline news. [ Animals & all other creatures being granted greater rights is also an Aquarian mission, so expect outrage in NZ over the farmer jailed for horrendous violent assaults on his dairy cattle]
A prominent NZ broadcaster Sir Paul Holmes was farewelled on Feb 8 in a hi profile funeral service. Update Feb 10 6pm: 3 cases of violence -two murder charges & one attempted murder all in the news in New Zealand Update Feb18 2013 - refer to my special report on the death of Reeva Steenkamp & arrest of boyfriend Oscar Pistorius in South Africa on Valentines Day
The Full Moon on February 25 2013 Pisces Sun opposite Virgo moon with Jupiter in Gemini at exact right angle, all around 7.30 degrees, so another t-square pattern. Jupiter in Gemini means a lot of movement, a lot of communications. The Pisces-Virgo energies can relate to health & wellbeing via awareness of nutrition, diets, health supplements, awareness of allergies & toxins & the need to eliminate these and addictive substances ( drugs, tobacco, alcohol) or behaviours, to gain optimum health. In elemental/environmental terms this full moon pattern is water opposite earth and both stressed by air or wind. This suggests a storm pattern with high winds and a lot of rain as well as possible seismic unrest due to the moon's position on the equator then. [update Mon Feb 25: New South Wales and likely Queensland getting the brunt of the flood-storm energy as full moon approaches
In February 2013, Saturn and Pluto remain locked in a pattern which will be noticed particularly by Scorpios and Capricorns. ( read Oscar Pistorius [Scorpio] case analysis ) Deep transformational changes are in process for both groups, but the process is slow. Expect March to be very similar.
Death surrounds Capricorns, either the sense of their own mortality or that of others. Rebirth is also an option for those who want to start again on a different life path.
Similar issues arise for Scorpios but this is a familiar life-long process. Issues related to aging, responsibilities, new roles of significance are on offer for integration.
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI has connection to the Pisces-Jupiter aspects of the Full Moon this month, but falls primarily witihn the context of the over-riding long term Uranus-Pluto transformational, sudden unexpected, world upside down pattern, altering the power dynamics in the Catholic Church Again remember only certain people and places affected, depending on a matching resonant pattern. Richard Nolle has a lot to say about Mercury's role in thisFebruary 2013 forecastincluding the retrograde phase beginning on the 23rd.
Every Moment Changes. Stop a moment and take note. Even if you are in an isolation chamber with extreme reduction in sensory information, there will be indicators of continual change in every moment. Even if your heart beat and your breathing remain apparently constant to your perceptions, your mind will struggle to maintain any length of focus. Your body is engaged in constantly changing processes, mainly beyond your awareness, until a pain, a pressure, an itch, a pleasure arises. Every moment changes.
In your daily world if you pause while immersed in everyday input, you can observe the run of conversation or audio sound, the variations in the breeze, the random dog barking, birds in motion, traffic and how from moment to moment one or another rises then subsides providing a morphing soup of sounds and visions
I know of only two explanations that work in terms of explaining why every moment is different from all others. One is Buddhist philosophy, with karma being the determining cause of all conditions arising and dissolving. The other is astrology - and the two perspectives have much in common.
Astrology is a language for the interpretation of energetic patterns which are identified at the time of a person's birth. Karma is the sum of conditions that relate to a person at each moment in time and at the point of birth can be identified in a person's astrological birth chart.
Karma changes continually, as does the birth chart - since the planetary energies are in constant cycles with perpetual variability in relationship to each other. An astrological analysis made at any point in a person's life identifies what changes exist at that point in relationship to the original astrological or karmic template pictured at the start of life as a separate being, i.e. birth. Astrology can also look at pre-birth conditions from the conception phase and during gestation to look at (karmic) imprints received via the mother and her experiences. Fascinating stuff. Yet so few on this earth have the blessing (karma) of understanding the depth and capacity of astrology to provide self understanding and that of others.
The other Buddhist concept ignorance prevails in terms of how astrology has been denigrated, misunderstood and maligned - largely via misinformation through media sources and where far more emphasis is given to pop astrology - where simplistic or fun readings are made into a weekly column.
The use of astrological knowledge is more likely than not to have been a universal human practice since ancient times and in western culture the most dramatic shift occurred when Christianity first absorbed then rejected any ancient knowledge of this type which could be seen to challenge or threaten the Church. Centuries of this type of thinking have sidelined astrology in the West, while Eastern and tribal cultures are likely to maintain their practices.
The merging of East and West is a phenomenon in process on many levels in this age, as an important method of balancing. The more that westerners can embrace ancient & Eastern philosophies, the greater wholeness of mind and spirit can be achieved. It is a two way process as well, with western influences spreading across the globe.
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January 2013 data shows date time, magnitude, depth and location of a strong event. Jan 19 2013 @ 9.15 pm M4.62, 11.8 kms deep, 380m from 265 Selwyn Rd Rolleston
This magnitude does not fall in the Top 100 range for the region (min Mag 4.74)
but there has not been one of similar size since April 12 2012 M4.60 in the east at New Brighton. Between April 12 2012 and prior to this 2013 event of M4.42, only 4 aftershocks have exceeded M4.6, all in the middle months of 2012, and the last being:
July 6 2012 M4.88 12.62kms deep, 130m from 246 Brookside Rd Rolleston Canterbury
What these two events have in common is their location in the region of the eastern surface rupturing of the initiating Greendale Fault of September 2010.
On Jan 19 2013 further aftershocks were at 9.48pm (M2.38) - in the region of the first
On Jan 20 2013 two aftershocks ( M3.59, M3.05 occurred in the morning - 7.09, 7.17 am. Both of these were in the region of the western end of the Greendale fault.
A gradual quietening of activity in recent months has lulled locals into less expectation of jolts but local seismologist Mark Chadwick expects aftershocks in the range of M3.
Relatively shallow rumblings have reawakened.
Updates are added to this 2013 log, as entries below, where necessary
January 28 2013 Quakelive provides an intriguing data graphic re the time of day since Sept 4 2010 of quakes in Chch-Canterbury M3+.
In overall frequency, 2pm is the top ranked time of day for the earth to move in the overall region of Canterbury in this current swag of seismic sequences.
2pm also has a sizeable chunk of the M4+ events - but not the most M5+ - that honour goes to 4am - and its neighbour 5am gets special mention for its top spot in the M4+ category
CLICK to enlarge
As for the Top 5 since Sept 4 2010:
The time frames around 4am, and 1-3pm also figure significantly
January 30 2013 In a surprising development, (due to location) two aftershocks (?) have occurred this afternoon, south of Akaroa on the seafloor - around latitude 43.53S - M3.79 and M3.11 in close succession In the Top 100 events (M4.74 is current holder of the 100th position), the aftershock on Oct 8 2011 at 4.17 pm, M4.81, depth 7.18kms is the furtherest south event - being in Richfield Road, Port Levy, which is 43.40S latitude February 5 2013 This screenshot shows the latest 25 quakes across the region, largely forming a latitudinal band, with a spread from west to east & into seafloor zones
click to enlarge source: Quakemap
The energy graphs on both Quakemap and Quakelive can be read as showing renewed vigour in this phase, occurring since late January 2013
Feb 10 2013
Clustering around New Moon, an area south east of Rolleston is showing a string of quakes up to M3.8, adding vigour to the energy output of this long sequence
source: Quakemap
Feb 13 2013
The noted focus around Rolleston continues in this snapshot from Quakemap showing the region of most of the prior 25 quakes. 6 of that 25 are in the range M3.3-M3.9 and 3 of this group are in the zone of most activity across the region, circled in image below;
February 22 2013
The two-year anniversary is commemorated in respect of the 2nd and most destructive event in the sequences since Sept 4 2010 - The Press reports
Almost as if in response, the largest shake since Feb 10 occurs in Pegasus Bay - 5 tonnes of energy at 9kms deep, at 2.54 am - yes the current sequence still contains considerable energy, being in a sustained up phase for the past month according to the energy graphs such as Quakemap
Quakelive graphic
Death of a Cathedral - a drone camera filmed inside the Christchurch Cathedral this week, upsetting and frustrating the Bishop Victoria Matthews, who says legal wrangles over the fate of the building are leading it to "die without dignity" with ongoing aftershocks and environmental effects. - report and video
Interesting that the Christian perspective is so different from the Buddhist when it comes to change, transformation and death. The acceptance of these three fundamentals of life is so central to Buddhist philosophy yet so problematic in a Christian framework.
A late night M3.9 quake in Pegasus Bay is the largest in the region since 19 January 2013 - this being 9 tonnes, 7.7kms deep around 11pm. Further confirmation of renewed energy in this sequence.
This Quakelive graphic shows that from mid July 2012-mid January 2013 there were repeated lulls in regional activity. since then, continual higher energy events up to M4.6 (Jan 19 2013)
For some perspective: The initial rural Darfield, Canterbury quake of M7.1 on Sept 4 2010 released 671 kilotonnes of energy
The next highest quake M6.3 -damaging central Christchurch released 49 kilotonnes
It takes at least a M5.2 to release a kilotonne.
It is currently around a 50/50 or even split in the top 25 quakes as to geolocation - west versus central and east to seafloor.
Clearly the much lower energy releases have extreme destructive potential, and anything over M7 is catastrophic if in an urban density. February 25 2013
Three of the largest quakes (M3.2-M3.9, from 8-12kms deep) in recent days have all occurred in Pegasus Bay showing renewed activation there.
March 13 2013 Quake energy across the region has declined since March 4
Central city Red Zone footage taken recently shows the extent of the CBD still stuck in a time warp
The Press reports: The central city remains off-limits to residents. The red zone, renamed the 'rebuild zone' by politicians, is expected to be reopened by June, although many areas will remain fenced off.
April 2013
The most recent 25 events March 27-April 9 -from M1.9 to M3.0
Coloured dots show variable depths. Though intensity & frequency have declined, recent activity is diverse across the region -north-south-east-west as shown on this clickable graphic from Quakemap
July 2013 After a lull mid May-mid June 2013, quake activity produced more energy in July, with more events over M3 July 29 2013 North Canterbury event felt in Christchurch A M4.8 event , 9kms deep 20kms n/w of Culverden - south of Hanmer Springs -at 4.37pm confirms a new emphasis in the west and north of Christchurch - with more connection to faults associated with the major Alpine Fault - a specialty subject of Canterbury researcher Tom Robinson -video PRESS news report July 29
August 2 2013 An
uptick is evident in seismic energy output in the Canterbury region in
the same time frame as significant quake activity is sustained in the
Cook Strait region since July 19 M4.4 Swannanoa area around 4 am on this day Last 100 quake snapshot from Quakelive shows widespread activity for events M3+ over the past 10 months
Update August 16 2013
This day saw a sudden resumption of high level seismic activity centred in Marlborough, with a M6.6 shake and strong aftershocks. This activity is consistent with the August -High Risk forecast published in June - which indicates further caution is recommended in the latter period of this month. Christchurch/Canterbury may well be registering resonant effects.
August report update August 22 2013 Seismicity in the larger zone of Canterbury and northwards now figures prominently since the southward drift of quakes from the Seddon Sequence which began in July 2013. This map segment from Geonet shows a background pattern over the past year with colour coding from grey to blue, green orange in increasing intensity - and does not include the Seddon quakes
September-October 2013
A largely unremarkable period with declining activity prevailing, many lull periods
November 2013
A pattern of very minimal activity interspersed with random higher events is continuing
Monday 18 Nov 11.36pm M4.6 in suburban Christchurch, 137 tonnes, being the largest event in the region since October 1st 2013 M4.7 - a seafloor event off New Brighton report
This graphic section from Quakemap shows the pattern over the past year No events over M5
November 18 2013 is the M4.6 event at extreme far right -and is the 3rd of this level in 12 months.
Jan 4 2013, smoke seen from above Hobart airport, Tasmania
The Australian wild fires, destructive winds, and rape are all big news in early January 2013 and the annihilating, murderous Pluto is highly activated. In transit at close to 10 degrees Capricorn, Pluto has conjuncted the sun since late December 2012 whilst also triggering the lunar nodes at close to 25 degrees Scorpio-Taurus. Saturn also in Scorpio -but out of range of the nodes was fuelled by an exact square from Mars in Scorpio, plus a lunar conjunction in Scorpio in the middle of the day period (New Zealand D/L time (13hrs ahead of London) I certainly felt this intensity, in a rather irrational fashion at that time of the day.
But back to Pluto - in range of the nodes by semisquare ( powerful, not minor) for the whole first half of January 2013 = transformational, destructive & extreme forces of nature along with brutal, dominating human energies. These themes have connection to the zodiac sign Scorpio, which has an imperative of death & rebirth, with associated transformational life experiences, but also an underbelly of control & domination.
No wonder rape is in the global mindstream ( the accused in a New Dehli , India gang-rape are brought to court. The victim having died. Widespread national and international protests are likely to pressure the Indian government to enter the age of accountability and protect their female citizens from this most primitive of controls used by men. More cases of this kind of abuse are currently being exposed in India along with a very similar case from Fiji. In New Zealand a woman was raped and violently assaulted in an extreme manner, in a community garden, daytime on January 1 2013.
The over-hyped Mayan apocalypse may have been majorly misinterpreted but their indications of a new age beginning may be the critical aspect. Eras don't tend to begin at a single date, though energetic forces clustering at a focal point may later be seen, with hindsight, to have heralded in a new cycle. In general this period around 2012 could be significant in ushering in not simply one single, final cataclysmic event but a sustained apocalyptic era of extreme natural and human forces, independently as well as synergistically operating with pronounced chaotic characteristics.
It's not that the planet has not experienced wild, chaotic and extreme conditions in prior decades, or millennia, but that with the bloated human population exceeding 7 billion at this time, the strain on natural resources along with detrimental human impact, is entering the feedback loop of chaotic natural systems. Furthermore, the apocalyptic vision is not from a natural perspective - for nature it is natural rebalancing - but with more humans on the planet, the impact upon human lives increases and thereby the potential for a greater sense of devastation as viewed from an anthropocentric position.
Even if, like I, you never received an upbringing infused with Christian teachings, you have probably heard of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and you have some basic notion that this is a prophetic vision of a world in serious decline. In prior periods this has had a variety of interpretations, dependent upon prevailing conditions. One which resonates strongly in this era is that the horsemen are the "angels of the four winds" - Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Urielwhich in terms of planet earth, represent the four cardinal directions N, S, E, W. The astrological correspondence is the four cardinal signs Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn - the ingress, or entry point of each at zero degrees is marked by either a solstice or equinox point in the annual calendar, around the 3rd week of March, June, September, December.
Pestilence (disease),war, famine and death are said to be associated with the four horsemen and these conditions have plagued humanity time and again over the course of our existence, in what might be seen as a cyclic healing and cleansing of our collective degenerate short-comings.
Reference to the astrological markers gives rise to the identification of this current period as an apocalyptic era.
Given the four winds of the four directions as a signifier, this is highly symbolic of the energetic forces which operate in the world, both on the level of natural elements, other sentient beings and in terms of the collective of human energies.
Both humans and nature are in a critical situation in this era and we are already witnessing the apocalyptic period if you care to take notice. Imbalances of all kinds are the dominant condition, locked into a feedback loop that must deconstruct and destabilise before renewal. These processes are the work of the cardinal signs and we will continue to witness with great intensity at times the power of this transformation process manifested through natural forces (extreme weather, climate change -wind, deluge, flood, drought and structural rebalancing experienced as earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic activity.
Regarding astrological signifiers, in this era, the lineup in cardinal signs includes the entry of Pluto into Capricorn in January 2008, Saturn into Libra in November 2009, Uranus into Aries in May 2010. In 2011 Jupiter joined this group while in Aries, so four transpersonal (i.e. relating to the human collective,) planets were in Cardinal signs (March-June 2011).
As 2013 commences, Uranus resumes its synergy process with Pluto. Jupiter enters Cancer at the end of June 2013, accentuating the powerfully transformational mix of Uranus-Pluto in August 2013.
In December 2013, Mars, the activator and energiser enters Libra creating the full house of cardinal signs, with much intensity around the December Christmas-New Year period. (this is likely to correspond with earlier identified powerful envonmental effects) The four signs remain activated by the planets Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto until mid July 2014 and there is then not another such period until September 2016, when these four planets again join forces in 3 of the cardinal signs (October 2016 is notable, then June 2017). Beyond that, the gathering of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn in 2020 will have major long-term implications for the nature of government, control, use and abuse of power as well as the environmental spectre of depleted resources and drought.
What can you do? Find balance within yourself, your own life situation, your relationship to all other sentient beings and life forms and with the natural world. That is what is being demanded. Updates:
2013 has begun with dramatic news -from weather extremes to destructive human behaviour;
Though major, transformational natural events have always occurred on planet earth, in this era the frequency and severity of destructive natural events & weatheris reflected in events such as:
The end of 2012 sees a supposed slowdown in quake activity leading local scientists to announce:
"The probability of a large earthquake hitting Canterbury continues to decline as the earthquake sequence settles down, says GeoNet. Latest aftershock probabilities show the chance of a magnitude 5.0 to 5.4 aftershock happening in the next year is now at 69 per cent - compared to 71 per cent last month and 82 per cent in January.
There is now a 29 per cent chance of a magnitude 5.5 to 5.9 hitting before November 9, 2013, a 9 per cent possibility of a magnitude 6.0 to 6.4, and a 2 per cent chance of 6.5 to 6.9 aftershock.
There is just a 1 in 100 chance of another magnitude 7.0 or higher like the 7.1 which struck Darfield on September 4, 2010, sparking the Canterbury earthquake sequence."
shows the enduring activity of the current sequence over the past year. It has had many more supposed decays and declines than any of the other sequences shown, followed by rebounds. The general trend looks to be down even to the non-specialist observer -but is that what is really going on?
To accept and believe in a clear and definite reduction, i.e. in effect a cessation in earthquake activity in the larger Canterbury region, may be too much to hope for, given the unusual and unexpected seismic features in the period since Sept 4 2010 and the unpredictability element associated with natural forces of this type.
The previously active Pegasus Bay area is seemingly quiet but as recently as June-mid November 2012 featured a string of quakes many would not be aware of (Canterburyquakelive graphic)
I continue to regard the Pegasus Bay area as a vulnerability, and to locals, the source of further unexpected activity, (the "hidden" factor of being sub-marine, not land based, a dark horse element if you like. Pegasus of course being the winged horse of Greek mythology). There is a clear west to east progression in the aftershock sequences and in view of the current global condition of increasing extreme weather, and in the context of a holistic interpretation, associated geophysical stresses and strains are likely to be exacerbated, rather than lessened.
This consideration of the broader picture suggests a resumption of more significant seismic activity in the region may have a greater probability than standard models deduce.
As at Jan 2 2013, the last 100 quakes in Canterbury, M3.0 and over. See how the intense dark area is indicative of the amount of earth movement within a concentrated area, heading into the bay.
The very latest on Jan 2 was in Pegasus Bay (purple area) -source canterburyquakelive
Further reading: Background posts on this site reference the events in Canterbury in detail as well as some opinion re the pattern of unfoldment provided as an alternative viewpoint to standard scientific modelling. Refererence:
For some initial seismological data on the Canterbury Earthquakes refer to this video
