Nothing is to be preferred before justice
Socrates
Freedom is a Universal Right
Autumn is here
and despite US support for the Arab Spring
in countries such as Libya and Syria,
freedom has still not come to Palestine (nor Bahrain).
Instead a coalition of both democrats and republicans who support the State of Israel
in the US congress has decided to freeze aid to Palestine
(when it comes to supporting evil, the members of the US congress have apparently no trouble coming to agreement).
Thankfully, the US is becoming more and more isolated around the world,
and the evil prince Obama has lost all the credibility he once may have had.
Not only because of the recent assassination of a US citizen without due legal process,
but thanks to a most impressive record of amorality going all the way back to day one of his presidency.
The State of Israel was founded on terrorism and is today headed by people with genuine terrorist background. The state, which is guilty of war crimes according to International law, is supported by the US government. Gaza is the only part of Palestine not presently under Israeli occupation. The people in Gaza lived under a complete siege by the Israeli government and Egypt until Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak was overthrown by the Egyptian people earlier this year. The Israeli state still controls the water outside the Gaza shore and does not allow everyday civilian products into Gaza through its land border.
Last year the EU reiterated calls for an immediate, sustained and unconditional opening of crossings for the flow of humanitarian aid, commercial goods and persons to and from Gaza
,
but has yet to act.
Welcome
The Cosmic Ledger warmly welcomes all newcomers and repeat visitors! With Saturn having transitted Virgo (the speedy cleaning lady) during the last couple of years progress has picked up speed everywhere. The financial markets have received some critical attention; megafraudsters, sexoffenders, war criminals, and many others have been arrested, tried and some already convicted.
Also for my personal astrological know-how it has meant a great deal. Things have fallen into place after many years of trial and error. In the world of software the most remarkable news has obviously been a number of technological previews of the next Astrolog for OS/2 – and more are on the way. For this website it has meant much less, but long awaited updates are getting there. God willing, the astrology section will get a new page on horoscope interpretation early next year. The Sankhya Yoga page should be readable even sooner. You can already read about horoscopes and psychopaths. The page is recommended reading for anyone working with people, going out for a date, or living on this planet.
On a more serious note with Jupiter very weak in Aquarius the last year was not a good one for prosperity – nor for truth and morality. But things should have picked up a great deal this year, as Jupiter currently facilitates insight in Pisces, and Venus and Saturn peace and justice in Libra. At the very least the tide seems to have turned on the Zionist State of Israel, with more and more people waking up to its evil ways and not only US but also EU and corporate complicity in crimes against International law and war crimes including the Gaza war, the demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, and the construction of the West Bank barrier. Many of the lies in relation to the US invasion of Iraq have also been exposed by documents published on the commendable WikiLeaks website. Monday the Sun entered Sagittarius, the sign of truth, joy and optimism, so let us hope for even more of the Truth to come out and set us all free!
Finally, I wish every truth-lover out there Love of God.
The source of all good is always the solution to all evil.
Mistakes,
many and grave,
happen when you do not think of God.
Taking the higher view there are no mistakes,
as all they do is make you wiser.
In his ignorance, Man transgresses the eternal Laws of Nature and wonders when his inexorable penalties are exacted.
Evil is obviously necessary for us to learn Good.
Updates
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 65
2011-10-12: TP 65 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version has been released. This is a major special update. Gender can be specified in chart info. The combustion factor considers retrogradation, selecting shorter ranges for Mercury and Venus when applicable. Atmakaraka stats should now be correct.
Astrology: Sankhya Yoga
2011-10-03: The straight-talking Sankhya Yoga page in the astrology section has been updated with a great number of significant changes and additions. It is still available as a working draft, but could reach final draft status before the end of the year. Your feedback is most welcome and most definitely needed!
Astrology: Horoscopes and Psychopaths
2011-06-30: The astrology page detailing the astrological ins and outs of psychopathy has been updated with new figures and a few corrections following the release of the latest technological preview of Astrolog for OS/2 (see below for more information on the software).
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 54
2011-06-28: TP 54 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version has been released. This is a relatively minor update, making a few small, but statistically significant, improvements in the automatic chart analysis. This release also extends the chart influence list with values for each dispositor, presenting total, dignified and disgraced influence expressed in a variety of ways.
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 50
2011-01-27: TP 50 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version has been released. This is a relatively minor update, primarily fixing a bug in the automatic chart analysis, but thanks to this and many other small changes the system now yields better statistical significance. This release also identifies the atmakaraka as part of the chart analysis.
Astrology: Sankhya Yoga
2011-01-19: The straight-talking Sankhya Yoga page in the astrology section has been revised and is now available in a working draft.
Health: The Vegetarian Way
2010-11-09: All three vegetarian pages are now in working order. Hypertext markup has been corrected and a number of broken links have been removed or replaced.
Astrology: Horoscopes and Psychopaths
2010-05-31: A new page detailing the astrological ins and outs of psychopathy has been added to the astrology section. It can help you spot potential psychopaths by following a straightforward astrological checklist.
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 49
2010-05-15: TP 49 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version has been released. This very significant update brings the chart analysis module a big step closer to the pre-alpha stage.
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 39
2010-04-21: TP 39 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version has been released. This release features a number of significant improvements to the chart analysis module and also includes a simple stats function.
Health: Reasons to go Vegetarian
2010-01-27: The vegetarian reasons page is now in order. Hypertext markup has been corrected and a number of broken links have been removed or replaced.
Software: WarpCalc 1.10
2010-01-16: Version 1.10 of the WarpCalc scientific calculator package has been released. This is a minor version update. It includes a fix to correctly recognize numbers with spaces following the decimal separator.
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 22
2010-01-08: TP 22 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version has been released. Sankhya Yoga is a new chart analysis factor.
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 21
2009-11-07: TP 21 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version has been released. It features a substantial rewrite and expansion of the automatic chart analysis (ACA) system.
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 13
2009-05-02: TP 13 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version has been released. Its most important new feature lets the user configure the default rising sign.
Software: Astrolog for OS/2 2.0 TP 10
2008-07-12: Technological Preview 10 of the next Astrolog for OS/2 version now gives the straight Sankhya Yoga and a separate and complementary Integrity Score.
Wikileaks
Three things cannot be long hidden: The Sun,
The Moon, and The Truth.
Buddha
Following the award-winning new media website Wikileaks’ publication of documents revealing a plethora of crimes committed by the US government, including most recently the Secretary of State’s incitement to engage in espionage on diplomats world-wide, high-profile members of the government and political establishment of the United States of America have seemed to equate revelations of its misconduct and illegal activities with attacks on the people of this world. It is of course the US government that is attacking people and not WikiLeaks. The most grievous attacks on logic, morality and human dignity being statements by a number of literally insane US politicians, such as Sarah Palin, suggesting that one of the website’s founders, Julian Assange, who is not a US citizen, should be arrested or in Palin’s case assassinated. She is obviously used to assassinating animals who cannot shoot back, but this time she may have found herself going too far even for a US politician. If there was any law enforcement in the US she would have been arrested already. The well-known Israeli-American politician Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairing the Senate homeland security committee, said earlier this month that the department of justice should indict Julian Assange under the 1917 Espionage Act and try to extradite him from the UK. Born in early 1942 he joins the former dictator of Iraq, the current dictator of North Korea, and the biggest swindler in US history, as yet another excellent example of the stupidity and madness of the Virgo generation.
Another sad case of US immorality is four big corporations acting like idiots.
First out to stop people from donating money to the not-for-profit organisation was MasterCard.
It was soon followed by Visa Inc.
Although WikiLeaks may have been set up to run a Zionist agenda (as some online sources insist),
there have been no criminal charges filed against the website or the organisation behind it,
much less any trial with a guilty verdict,
so for US corporations to act as judges and juries
seems at the very least unprofessional
and should definitely be illegal (if it is not already),
since it reveals a very real threat to democracy.
The third corporation to get in the way of people trying to donate money to WikiLeaks was PayPal
and at least initially it went even further than the others.
On 8 December 2010 it announced it had restricted WikiLeaks’ account,
effectively engaging in money theft.
PayPal has been in trouble before over seizing assets that does not belong to it,
but this is the first time, as far as I know, that an internationally renowned public service website
has become a victim of the corporation.
A day later it said the money already in the account would be returned to WikiLeaks,
but that new payments would not be accepted.
Although a huge improvement over theft,
the announcement is hardly enough to bring any customers back.
PayPal’s history is shady to say the least,
but convenience has brought many websites (including this one) to use it for accepting
payments and donations.
Many people have now quit accepting payments and donations via PayPal
and although it is little more than a symbolic gesture for this particular website,
it has now joined the moral majority.
PayPal’s attempts to justify theft of donations made to wikileaks are so thin
no one should be able to take them seriously,
and I am glad to see that few if any people seem to do so.
To borrow from online comments:
The US government, it’s officials
and faces of at least two administrations
have more blood on their hands than Wikileaks ever will.
To date, there has been no record of anyone being killed because of wikileaks.
Last out to join the three other corporations in their illegal activities was Bank of America.
Due to the Terms of Service used by PayPal its behavior may not be illegal in the US (though theft and obstruction of democracy certainly is immoral). MasterCard and Visa Inc. are being sued over breach of customer agreement by DataCell, an IT company that enables WikiLeaks to accept credit and debit card donations. According to the Guardian newspaper both MasterCard and Visa Inc. have no trouble funneling money to overtly racist organisations such as the Knights Party, which is supported by the Ku Klux Klan.
The Russell Tribunal
on Palestine
May this Tribunal prevent the crime of silence...
Lord Bertrand Russell
For the love of God, peace and justice this website supports the The Russell Tribunal on Palestine. In its own words the tribunal will reaffirm the supremacy of International law as the basis for a solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
The first International War Crimes Tribunal was constituted in 1966 to investigate crimes committed in Vietnam and judge them according to International law. Initiated by Lord Bertrand Russell, Nobel laureate in literature, and supported by intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, who chaired the Tribunal, this Tribunal was named the Russell Tribunal.
Today, and in the same spirit, the Bertrand Russell Foundation supports the setting up of a Russell Tribunal to examine the violations of International law, of which the Palestinians are victims, and that prevent the Palestinian People from exercising its rights to a sovereign State.
The tribunal has completed two sessions (two more sessions are planned, the next to be held in South Africa). The first one in Barcelona was on EU complicity and omissions. The one just completed in London on 22 November 2010 focused on International corporate complicity.
Witnesses appearing in the London session testified to the potential legal liability of several corporations, including the following: a) G4S, a multinational British/Danish corporation, b) Elbit Systems, a leading Israeli multinational, c) Caterpillar, based in the US, d) Cement Roadstone Holdings, an Irish multinational corporation, e) Dexia, a Franco-Belgian corporation, f) Veolia Transport, a French corporation, and g) Carmel Agrexco, an Israeli corporation,
The Tribunal heard evidence that G4S, Elbit Systems and Caterpillar all acknowledge and actively boast in their promotional material about the use of their equipment during the Israeli War on Gaza, which killed at least 252 children under 16 and an estimated 900 civilians in all, and leaving countless survivors homeless. Please read the tribunal’s concluding statement for more details, including the exact complicity of the offending corporations. Regardless of your view on the previous tribunals or the list of jurors on this one, its findings are worth reading.
If you have a conscience, or a business sense, you will do well to avoid any unnecessary business with the above corporations. Thankfully, Veolia Transport lost the operating franchise of the Stockholm Metro, a USD 2,45 billion eight-year contract, last year. Hopefully, all other corporations complicit in crimes against International law will also lose much of their business.
Israeli Attack on Gaza Aid Convoy
All States shall cooperate to the fullest possible extent in the repression of piracy on the high seas or in any other place outside the jurisdiction of any State.
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
In an act of mass murder on the high seas the State of Israel on 31 May 2010 killed at least nine people aboard a ship bound for Gaza with humanitarian aid. According to the Israeli military they boarded the ship on international waters some 100 km off the coast of Gaza in a pre-dawn raid. All the six ships sailing together as part of the international Freedom Flotilla were then hijacked and forced to make port in the Israeli city of Ashdod.
The complete freedom flotilla consisted of eight ships from different countries, but two US-flagged ships were sabotaged by Israeli agents and forced into port in Cyprus when steering systems on both ships broke down on the passage from Heraklion in Crete. The six remaining ships carried 10 000 tonnes of building, medical and educational supplies along with close to 700 human rights activists from every populated continent.
The passengers who survived the Israeli attack were taken as prisoners and all of their belongings were confiscated, most of which remain in Israeli possession to this day, including notebook computers, SIM cards and photo and video equipment. The BBC reported that 30 passengers were injured in the attack. At least 7 commandos were injured as they were overpowered by passengers.
In response to early and even more ludicrous claims than usual from the Zionist state of the human rights activists being members of al-Qaeda or associated with Hamas we can only assume that the Israeli government views anyone taking action to break the illegal siege of Gaza as a terrorist or terrorist supporter, including the Swedish best-selling author Henning Mankell (that I am not a fan of his books is totally irrelevant – he is still not a terrorist supporter), the Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, the US holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, the retired US Army colonel Mary Ann Wright, the former US ambassador Edward Peck, and the members of the European, German, Israeli, Scottish, Swedish and Turkish Parliaments – all heroes on board the eight vessels of solidarity.
Endorsements of the aid flotilla have come from an overwhelming number of terrorists around the globe including Jewish groups that campaign for the rights of Palestinians (for US readers without a sense of humor I should make clear I do not consider these people terrorists).
The Elders group of past and present world leaders,
including former President of the Republic of Finland Martti Ahtisaari
and former South African President Nelson Mandela,
has condemned as completely inexcusable
the deadly Israeli attack.
The EU has reiterated calls for an immediate, sustained and unconditional opening of crossings for the flow of humanitarian aid, commercial goods and persons to and from Gaza
.
Now will the EU act?
Age of Experience
Besides assessing the Sankhya Yoga of a birth chart to know the big picture and the general level of good and bad at which the individual planetary placements operate, I (and others with me) have discovered the importance of the lunar nodes. The north node, which is called Rahu in Jyotish, reveals age as measured in past-life experience. This spiritual age tells a lot about how a person, institution or anything else will take to “new” ideas in this life. Rahu is at home in the really old signs of Capricorn and Aquarius. John McCain has it placed in the former and Barack Obama in the youngest of all signs: Leo. No doubt who is the eldest, is there? John McCain has expressed his wonder regarding Obama’s willingness to try ideas that have been tried and failed in the past. Another example is Adolf Hitler, who had Rahu in Cancer, the partner of Leo and likely the second-youngest of all the signs. He did mistake after mistake and one can perhaps argue that all he did was a mistake.
On the matter of Sankhya Yoga I should point out that both McCain and Obama (unlike Hitler) are examples of Dama Yoga, and therefore should exhibit at least some of the good qualities associated with pillars of society, including above average IQ, a strengthened sense of justice, tact and diplomacy, innate education and a genuine concern for people. Keep this perspective in mind while reading the following paragraphs.
John McCain, unlike many politicians before him (ok, not really before him) was born with the Sun in the eighth house (using Sidereal Houses). This position brings emotional isolation in some form. In his own isolation, it is hard for him to see the need and vulnerability of others, and he may be capable of terrible coldness and even cruelty, to those who need him. All according to The House Book by Stephanie Camilleri, whose reading for this house placement makes perfect sense for the Sun in Virgo as well. It also mentions that death, imprisonment and/or exile may mark his life. McCain’s Virgo Sun also reveals a slight mental deficiency. As a result McCain develops his talents at a slower pace and appears less warm than Obama.
The mental picture for Obama is quite different. His vibrant Sun in Leo shows mental capacity to learn quickly and to live up to the best that is within him. Compared to McCain’s his temper should be more civil and pleasant. However, Ketu extremely weak in Aquarius brings both his learning speed and temper closer to that of the average person. Technically, Obama’s Sun may be considered in the eighth house just as McCain’s, but with an even Ascendant (Capricorn) its meaning is very different. In this case there may be a great potential for power, as well as an ability to manage others with skill, though that skill may sometimes appear somewhat Machiavellian. The great wording of the last two clauses is another loan from Stephanie Camilleri’s house book.
The Moon signs of both candidates are tougher to read, with McCain’s in Aquarius indicating a focus on society and a hunger to be a force for social good. He does not share this Moon sign with any other Dama yoga politicians that I have on file. However, there are a few Pasa yoga examples with Angela Merkel, Tony Blair, and Richard Nixon. Most often the Moon in Aquarius reveals good intentions gone wrong. A notable exception is for the Full Moon, but none of the mentioned politicians have it. Obama’s Moon is in Gemini. Again I have no Dama yoga politicians with this Moon sign on file, but a couple of Pasa yogas are John Kerry and Vladimir Putin. There is also a Kedara yoga example with Helmut Kohl. The Moon in Gemini most often indicates psychopathy, but the combination with Obama’s Sun in Leo should minimize this. It still indicates a very youthful person, and not someone with a clear direction in life. Together with a zero strength Jupiter it gives Obama much of the bad child about him – but nothing of your typical leader figure. Gemini is the sign of money, as well as ideas and the persuasive selling of them. It is also the sign of modern science, which explains Obama’s unusually narrow focus.
Intellectually, McCain is light years ahead of Obama, in large part thanks to his Jupiter in Sagittarius, which is the single strongest possible indication for a leader and a moral king. McCain’s Jupiter is here in complete disagreement with his Virgo Sun, which represents the antithesis of a leader. The strong Jupiter, nonetheless, gives McCain a sense of humor, right and wrong, and human understanding that Obama sorely lacks. Both McCain and Obama have more dignified sidereal rising signs (Aquarius and Capricorn, respectively) than W Bush and Dick Cheney (Cancer and Leo, respectively). For the former this should indicate better health, and also increase the likelihood of good deeds, as well as better fortune in general. Aquarius is the most dignified of the twelve possible ascendant signs and according to Jyotish a doer of all things which are morally right. Capricorn is the even complement of Aquarius and able to plan and carry out schemes of considerable magnitude.
As far as generations go I would have preferred the Pope’s, Hillary’s or my own. McCain has Neptune in Virgo, which he shares with John Lennon (bigger than Jesus), Josef Fritzl (not really a monster) and Bernie Madoff (what a fraud). This is an intellectually impaired generation of egoism and general stupidity, which values modernity and the antithesis of Truth. Virgo is big on sex and low on emotions. At her worst she represents evil, and has an easier time believing in monsters than in God. Obama has the same planet in Scorpio, which is a lot less stupid and far more intelligent, but nonetheless also strengthens antisocial traits on an even lower level than Virgo, such as jealousy, general idiocy, blind hate, delusions, and all sorts of wickedness including killing for its own sake.
I am an astrology student and not a professional astrologer.
As I through the grace of God learn more,
please expect some interpretations to change over time.
The birth data used have been published elsewhere on the web.
The rodden ratings are AA for Obama’s chart
and A for McCain’s.
For a professional reading of the two Sun-Moon combinations
I recommend the astrology classic Heaven Knows What
by
the late American astrologer Grant Lewi.
More recent birthdata available through
Astro-Databank
have 18:25 as the birthtime for John McCain.
These data carry an AA rating and should be more accurate
than the A-rated data used in an earlier postscript from 8 May 2009.
The Sun is no longer in the 1st house, but the 8th.
The Moon has also changed.
It has now advanced from Capricorn to Aquarius,
which I think gives McCain a more suitable reading from
Heaven Knows What
.
Full Moon
Once a year we experience an ideal Full Moon. This occurs when the Sun is in Leo and the Moon is in Aquarius. While a New Moon is considered a natural malefic in Jyotish (Indian astrology), a Full Moon is seen as a natural benefic. Also the Chinese consider a Full Moon fortunate. With the Sun in its natural domicile this Moon represents the very best of single planet indications. For a little more than two days a year both the spiritual and the material sides of life are fully energized. A person born under this Moon is aware of ultimate reality (Aquarius = Knowledge) and has the sense of self necessary (Leo = Royalty) to see dreams materialize. For Kedara yoga this could mean a master of numbers. For the Dama and Veena yogas it spells leaders of thought. For the others unreliable emotions yield caprice.
A Note on Happiness
If you are not happy but want to be, try these three steps: 1) realize you are better off with God, 2) ask His forgiveness in full understanding of your past stupidity, and 3) expect Him to surprise you with all the happiness you need.
As for giving, remember that you cannot give what you do not have. If you want to give peace to the world you have to have peace within. You can only have peace within if you are with God and you can only be with God through asking forgiveness. To receive forgiveness you also need to give forgiveness.
Life in the material world is said to be like having a constant 40-degree fever. Until you remember God you are delirious beyond all hope of recovery, especially so if you do not realize how bad your condition really is.
According to Jesus we are all evil and only God is good. Thanks to God’s love he constantly teaches us how to restore our health. Some of us may be more difficult to teach than others, but we are all work in progress.
For people on the road to recovery God has provided astrology, through which we can learn where we stand, how far we have to go, and what to expect from both ourselves and the people around us.
As astrology helps keep madness at bay we get a grip on our situation and it gets easier to love – His first commandment. Astrology can also give practical advice on everything from selecting a suitable spouse to the best time for celibacy.
Finally, astrology makes it more obvious that we do not have free will. To praise or blame ourselves or others is to worship the created in place of the creator, so we better stop the praise-blame game and realize who is God.
When we receive punishment it is not for our
actions,
but for believing we are actually responsible for them – thinking we could have acted differently.
If you think you are doing good (self-righteousness) you have in this sense just as much to ask forgiveness for as someone who thinks he or she is doing evil.
All that does not take place in faith is sin
(Rom 14:23).
Let us all follow God’s long-standing advice:
Worry about nothing, love everyone, know and trust in Him.
Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother
(Mark 3:35).
Astrological Review and Forecast
There are many wills in the world and not all of them can have their way at the same time. Using astrology one can track who is on top at any given time. Simplistically speaking demons reign when the planets are in their signs of fall and saints reign when they are in their own signs.
The most important planet for tracking the will of the world is Saturn, or Kronos in Greek. Saturn left the sign of Leo and its state of fall on 3 September 2007. It continues to be somewhat poorly placed all through Virgo, but the worst of the current cycle should now be over. After a period of relative happiness and tolerance, Saturn entered Gemini on 21 April 2001, then reached Cancer on 4 June 2003, and finally Leo on 16 July 2005.
The period through Cancer and Leo covers the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a magnitude 6 earthquake killing over 5 000 in Indonesia, a tsunami killing more than 200 000 people around the Indian Ocean, a hurricane killing over 1 000 in the U.S., and all sorts of horrific injustices including abortion legalizations. Closer-to-home, less high-profile and more every-day nerve-wrecking activity should have left many without proper sleep.
In August of this year the world also experienced a magnitude 8 earthquake shake Peru, killing over 500 people and injuring more than 1 000, and the day Saturn conjuncted the Sun, reenforcing the roaring Leo characteristcs, the first and probably only category 5 hurricane of this season struck Mexico. The period as a whole saw no fewer than 7 category 5 atlantic hurricanes.
Finally, as the period came to an end this past Summer, Greece saw more than 3 000 wildfires giving many people a visible picture of the hell that is Leo at its worst. A personal example of Saturn in Leo is Adolf Hitler, notable for exhibiting the worst qualities of this placement including invalidism, need to head the parade at any cost, and being too smart for his own good. The same traits also grow strong when the Sun joins Saturn, or with Uranus placed in Cancer, both cases notably showcased by current Russian President Vladimir Putin. Unlike Hitler, however, Putin is a young adult rather than a school boy. His Rahu in Aquarius (success/strength) is also the exact opposite of Hitler’s in Cancer (arrogance/addiction).
Things should be improving as Saturn now transits Virgo. Despite being weak at first and then possibly resentful and plagued by frequent changes, the coming 2 years should see an overall improvement over the past 5. Already since December of last year, Jupiter in Sagittarius has been mitigating the worst of Saturn in Leo. Jupiter – the planet of fundamental truth, insight and joy – will continue to be extremely well-placed until December of this year.
Not long after Jupiter leaves Sagittarius in December of this year, the Moon’s nodes enter their best signs. The longest period of dignity in their cycle begins in January of 2008 and lasts all through Saturn in Virgo and beyond. People should become more aware of reality, and astrology could see a major breakthrough. Spirituality booms yet again as it did once before in the early 90s.
Jupiter will see another high as it enters Pisces in January of 2010. This transit favors intellectual ventures, perspective on life, stand-up comedy, and general prosperity. In summary, the overall forecast until 2010 is for the better, with the middle of November especially good for saints and a lot worse for demons.
Website Design
To reap all the benefits of web standards the current design of this website complies with the strict document type definition of HTML 4.01 and completely relies on Cascading Style Sheets for layout and presentation. Behind the scenes PHP hacking makes future changes and additions simpler than before. The publishing end has been sped up thanks to enhanced REXX scripting.
For the foreseeable future this website will have many rough edges including obsolete search pages. Expect all pages to have been converted by next Spring. Presentation should continue to improve steadily.
Website Accessibility and Web Browsers
Accessibility for a website means that as many users as possible should be able to access the website. The most important prerequisite for achieving this is to use all applicable web standards. Another effective measure is to unburden visitors from having to download browser plugins or the like. In addition to such basic accessibility this website also uses skip links and associated access keys. The skip links are not only available to visually impaired visitors using screen readers, but also to anyone using the keyboard for navigation. In many regular browsers such as Opera and Mozilla you can also use their Site Navigation Bars for previous/next page, etc. Read more about the accessibility of this website.
The website has been tested and seriously tweaked for Internet Explorer, but IE 7.x browsers and older are no longer supported by this website. Small CSS adjustments have been made for Opera. Contrary to expectations Firefox does not consistently have the best CSS support. In at least one instance Opera and even Internet Explorer outperformed Firefox. At this time it seems to me that no single browser can fully replace the others. However, the open source browsers are the only ones to fully support fixed sidebars.
Although somewhat mellowed after testing I would still recommend the Mozilla web browsers: FireFox for former Internet Explorer users and SeaMonkey for Web developers and former Netscape users. If nothing else the Mozilla products are available on more platforms and support all the accessibility features in use by this website. For speed and the most complete CSS support I recommend Opera, but it is unfortunately not available for the best PC platform – OS/2. If you are using Mac OS X then I would recommend the Safari web browser for nice things such as text shadow. There are many more web browsers around these days than was the case at the time of this website’s redesign. Your chances of finding a decent web browser is also a lot better now, and even the latest IE may be an option, but for your own safety you will probably still want to use something else.
Quote for Thought
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength– Mark 12:30
