Today is Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. We’ve just experienced the Virgo New Moon. Virgo is the sign we can associate with hurricanes. Just about all the famous ones (I haven’t found an exception yet) have the Sun in Virgo; Hurricane Irene — downgraded to a tropical storm Sunday morning — is passing over New England during the New Moon in this sign.
My theory about the evacuation of parts of lower Manhattan and the outlying areas of the other boroughs was that this was a practice run for the inevitable floods that will come with global warming.
I lived in one of the Brooklyn evacuation zones for eight years as a kid, and went to high school in another. There was never the faintest notion that these places might flood, much less be evacuated — but now we all know that the sea levels are rising, and storms are becoming more frequent because they draw heat from the sea, which is their one and only natural source of power. As the world gets warmer, the hurricanes become more prodigious. While this one was not Katrina, it moved a heck of a lot of water.