Dear Friend and Reader:
I’ve mentioned a few times that I was giving a presentation at Omega Institute last night. That actually happened; I spoke to a full room of Omega staff, presenting on the topic of 2012 astrology. To do this, I started with an introduction to astrology and in particular, to what is different about modern astrology.
The first issue I took up is what it means to be doing astrology in our historical phase of discovery — of new planets constantly being plucked out of the heavens. We’ve gone from knowing about 2,060 minor planets orbiting our Sun at the time of Chiron’s discovery in 1977, to knowing about something like 500,000 of them today. The chart you see above is a little snip from the Minor Planet Catalog (MPC) that’s kept by some devoted scientists at Harvard University. The bit you have there is from when the first dwarf planets were given their places — Pluto, Eris, Haumea and Makemake (Ceres is way at the beginning of the catalog, as minor planet 1).
We then look at the Uranus-Pluto conjunction of 1965-66, and the corresponding Uranus-Pluto square of 2012-2015 (which has its first exact contact in June 2012). And I talk about the Venus transit of the Sun of June 2012. So the discussion leads up to the astronomical events of June 2012.