The Ides of March - Nolle's monthly report

[Dover]

Excerpt:

...Mercury's intersolar cycle and retrograde is a major feature of the month. The little planet reaches maximum eastern elongation on the 12th, marking the beginning of the intersolar ("evening star") period that lasts until Mercury attains its greatest apparent distance west of Sol on April 26. This cycle marks a time of prominence for all things Mercurial: commerce, communication, transport, and all manner of electrical and electronic infrastructure. The sharp focus on these areas of human endeavor and experience often uncovers (and sometimes causes) delays, interruptions and outright failures. Since this cycle includes the March 20-April 12 Mercury retrograde, much of the accompanying Murphy's Law outbreak will be laid at its doorstep. But it's really the whole Mercury "evening star" (intersolar) phase that delimits the mess. So go ahead and do your best to be prepared for everything that can go wrong doing so - and at just the very least opportune moment.

From transport and communication tie-ups and strikes to teacher walk-outs and media mess-ups to power failures and attacks on networks and computer, they're all standard fare while Mercury is in its evening star phase. Have your backups, backup plans, workarounds and detour routes all planned out and ready. Go over all paperwork and calculations with the proverbial fine-tooth comb, and then do again for good measure: double- and triple-check everything, and then follow up on it right down the line. Assume nothing, except that nothing will go right without careful monitoring. (The retrograde and direct stations on March 20 and April 12 respectively, as well as the March 29 Mercury-Sun conjunction, mark especially prominent moments in this cycle.)

The Moon reaches maximum declination north of the celestial equator on the 18th, suggesting a brief upsurge in storms and seismic activity in effect from the 17th through the 19th. You know the drill: strong storms with high winds and heavy precipitation, raising the likelihood of floods, mudslides and avalanches; moderate to severe seismic activity, including Richter 5 and higher earthquakes as well as volcanic eruptions (and possible tsunami effects); and extreme high tides. Stay tuned to the news, and be prepared to take appropriate precautions. Don't wait 'til the last minute to have your plans and supplies ready. Plan for weather-related delays if you're traveling, or expecting someone who is. (A change of itinerary might be prudent.)

Late March brings a couple more notable planetary stations, when a planet as seen from Earth appears to come to a standstill in the heavens, and then begins moving in an opposite direction through the night sky. The first of these is Saturn's direct station on the 22nd, when the Ringed Planet pauses in place at 20° Cancer, ending the period of retrograde motion it began back on November 8 last year. Saturn has been within a degree of this station point ever since February 17, and will remain so until April 24. This whole period centered on the March 22 station is a time of consequences coming due: whatever is earned, for good or ill, tends to get collected under a Saturn station like this. On the macro level, the US dollar's decline resumes and will continue until Saturn leaves Cancer in July. On the personal level, taking responsibility and making commitments for the long haul are prominent themes. As with the Mars-Saturn opposition in the same degree, people born in 1930 and 1931 or around January 11 or July 13 in any year are among those who are in the zone of this station. (Check your chart for significant placements around 20 Cancer in particular; and also its opposite point, 20 Capricorn.) Whether at the micro or the macro level, a Saturn station is a time to get serious, to take account, to make the best appraisal you can and act on it.

Pluto's retrograde station at 24° 31' Sagittarius on the 26th is the other major celestial reversal of late March. Falling so close to sensitive points in the US Declaration of Independence (opposite Mars) and Federal Reserve (conjunct Venus) charts, as well as conjunct the Galactic Center, this particular Pluto station seems to point to significant developments focusing on the American economy and financial system. Falling so close to the Saturn station in Cancer, I suspect this is part and parcel of the dollar decline trend - but a new contribution to that momentum. And since both stations are within a degree of exact all month, the triggering event could happen anytime at all in March . . . perhaps in association with the March 7 Mars opposition to Saturn. Given that both stations portend uncertainty and a reversal of previous trends, it's hard to envision a scenario where the financial markets do much of anything other than take profits and retrench. And again, this may already be in progress as the month gets underway . . .

http://www.astropro.com/forecast/predict/2005-03.html

[hippiechick]

1. "US Economy Headed Toward Crisis"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3199404


Spot on as always, Dover, thank you !

[Dover]

2. Let's not jump the gun....

We won't know whether Nolle is spot on again until the end of the month, but things sure seem to be headed in that direction.

Welll... we can at least take comfort in the fact that they've just minted a new nickle (sarcasm off).

[hippiechick]

5. Wonder what Iran and Venezuela have planned for us re: oil ?

Most interesting that the countries we have been beating the 'axis of evil' drums against are now actually forming a loose coalition -- to show the BFEE that they can - and will - royally screw our economy by playing hardball with the oil supply ?

Very interesting.

[Dover]

6. Yeah, that's like threatening an addict with removal of the drug....

Unfortunately.....them's fighting words and this administration shoots first and uses diplomacy only as a last resort. I don't think they'll take kindly to being bossed around. A very arrogant, vindictive bunch.

[cliss]

3. Interesting......thanks Dover for the update.

I'm reading a lot of other astrology web sites, and they all seem to be saying the same thing: something is going to happen this spring. They seem to be focusing on Bush and governmental hi-jinx; some kind of scandal or uncovering.

It's supposed to be explosive. I've read speculations about paperwork which reveals that Bush personally ordered the torture at Abu Ghraib, or that the administration will be found guilty of orchestrating 9/11, or something that will blow the lid off the White House. In other words, so explosive that it will blast them out.

But maybe it involves the US currency, like Nolle speculates.

Anyway, my hunch tells me somthing is up, and it will be massive.

[Dover]

11. Cliss, saw you mention on another thread that you live within 35 miles

of Mt. St. Helen?! Hope you have a good exit strategy...

[Dover]

4. Want to add this siesmic monitor graphic for comparison to Nolle's

astrolocality. Looks like the whole Ring of Fire is very active.
And I heard that the Ohio River Valley area has also been active recently.

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/



And with Mercury retrograde on the way....we have Iran threatening to stop oil supplies if the U.S. invades or creates sanctions. They seem to have allies in Russia, China, Venezuela, etc. so they might actually be able to do it.

[Dover]

8. Undersea quakes send scientists scrambling

Undersea quakes send scientists scrambling

Two tectonic plates appear to be pulling apart
The Associated Press
March 7, 2005

SEATTLE - A swarm of undersea earthquakes off the Pacific Northwest coast has scientists from the University of Washington scrambling in hopes of glimpsing of two tectonic plates pulling apart.

The 209-foot RV Thomas G. Thompson, a research ship from the university, headed for the Endeavor Hot Vents over the weekend after seismic equipment had detected nearly 3,800 small quakes as of late Thursday

..snip..

"These earthquake swarms are associated with sea floor spreading," Dziak said.

"The speculation is it might be a volcanic eruption or a magma event on the ridge," Garry Rogers, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia, said Sunday.

"Thousands of earthquakes occurring over a few days, it's a tremendous amount of energy, but it's way offshore," Rogers said. "They are too far to be felt, so as far as we know there is no threat."...cont'd

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7122368 /

[Pallas180]

7. In the Progressed(Gemini Rising) chart of the USA, Prog Mars

is in the 5th house in Libra --- that sounds like a wild gamble/inflation to me...so I go along with Nolle. He's pretty terriffic I think.

Meanwhile the eclipse of April 8 at 19 Aries hits Chiron at 20 Aries in the USA 11th house of Congress, and squares transiting Saturn on the third house cusp.

Something nasty about Mercury Sun Moon Venus and North Node of the eclipse transiting the 11th house, like all of Congress is in agreement to keep quieet about something (eclipse Saturn on the third) while Progressed Mars opposes USA natal Chiron activated by the eclipse.

Yup, it's financial risk, a gamble but it's also an attack/wounding on Congress.

Eclipses can be activated a month or more before the actual eclipse and also are effective for as much as a year after the eclipse, when
the eclipse point is again activated by a transiting planet.

[Me.]

9. Plumes Rsing Up From Mt. St. Helen's

Saw it on Keith O. Did anyone else see or hear anything about this?

[Dover]

10. Yes, there's a thread on this in LBN

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7122368

Apparently (according to scientists) not that unusual, because it's been spewing gases/ash for several weeks now, off and on. But there is a huge lava dome forming up on top (higher now than the Empire State building), so I'm guessing that an eruption could be any time now...

On edit: It IS no doubt significant, but the scientists are just saying that this release is not that different than the previous recent ash plumes.

[Pallas180]

12. But - a 25,000 foot high "plume" spewing forth of ash & smoke

is unusual.

And put it together with the earthquakes off the ocean floor on the
West Coast (by the way, which I predicted with the astrocartography)
and there's trouble coming.

The astrocartography showed the ocean quakes midway from Hawaii to the California coast.

[Pallas180]

13. BTW, Scallion also predicted this, Indonesia, Japan, & California

quakes in that order...

[Dover]

14. Not familiar with Scallion.....do you have a link to his/her predictions?

I missed your astrocartography predictions. Was that in a recent thread?

I know Cayce made earth change predictions...but can't remember exactly what they were (with the exception of Northern Europe disappearing under water in the blink of an eye).

I think all this Earth movement and activity IS unprecedented in our recent human history...because it seems that the plates are shifting now in a big way which may or may not have something to do with polar shifts. A dream I had many moons ago was about all this happening (long before I knew what a polar shift was or thought in global terms).

[Pallas180]

15. Dover, you know - Gordon Michael Scallion ? the guy with the

map? I'll find the link.

Yes, on the astrocartography thread....I mentioned out in the pacific.

Truthfully, we have too many threads - and it's getting discouraging...

I miss the discourse on astrology....

A thread starts and just dies away.

And, dreams seems so popular, maybe they should ask for their own group...

But the astrology room is moving so fast, which it didn't use to, and actually has lost people because of the profusion of many many subjects - so many to follow.

tell the truth, I'm so discouraged that I've been tempted to stop posting here too....

(grumble, grumble)

I'll go find the links.

Pallas

[Pallas180]

16. Link to Scallion

Pallas180 (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-21-05 01:20 PM
Response to Original message

2. You might also want to keep track of Scallion's earth changes at


this website:

http://www.matrixinstitute.com.

[Dover]

17. Ah yes.........the guy with the map. Seemed outrageous at the time

it came out. I don't remember much about the actual predictions though. Thanks for the link. ON EDIT: Sure doesn't give out much in the way of predictions on that page. Does he make you buy his newsletter?

Re: thread overcrowding - well, if it's a problem, I can sure reduce the number of threads I post. I just hate to pass up a good subject, but you're right....it's hard to really study them when they are coming so fast.

Maybe we should create an indexing thread with different subheadings in it (Astrology, Tarot, Dreams, etc) and have links to the various subject threads that have been started here. That way someone can quickly locate a subject and the connecting threads, even after they have fallen off the first page. We can keep the index thread bumped or get Skinner to permanently keep it posted at the top. Just don't know how to prevent it from timing out on the Edit capability so that we can continue to keep updating the index thread with new subjects/links.

What ya think?

The reason I probably missed your thread on astrocartography is because I've had less and less time to do any indepth reading here at DU........busy, busy.

[Pallas180]

19. Hey Dover...don't reduce the number of postings - but how about

continuing them in one thread? they are interesting subjects - but it would cut down on 50 different threads if they were posted in one continuous thread, (and I think more llikely to be read).

Know what I mean...Now we have people posting separate questions, separate dreams..instead of one dream thread...

think indexing could work in this format? hmmm..then someone has to be in charge of posting links..

how about just retraining everyone? lol, back to the old way?

boy I'm sounding like a curmudgeon...like an old dog not wanting to learn new tricks, eh?

but I miss a continuous thread on a subject in astrology. like earthquakes/earth movement/Mt St Helens in one thread.

Eclipse coming up in one thread

Bill's surgery and aspects..it's looking bad for him and I hope that isn't the big thing happening in March/April.

I would do a thing on the eclipse on dimbot's chart (which hits his MC and conjunct Venus, so it doesn't look bad for him - it aint him....... but it doesn't look so good for congress and kids and schools....but what's the sense when the astrologers seem to have lost interest here? (I hate talking to myself. :) )

[Dover]

22. Having a Saturn transit ? We should call them curmudgeon transits..hehe!

Well, if we talked to Skinner about formatting that and then all agreed to keep up an index page I really do think that would be great to have.

I think people may post separate threads in order to draw attention to their dream or other subject...
Don't know how to change that behavior unless you want to be the forum monitor-lady and run around encouraging the 'long thread' solution.

But for my part, I'll try to consolidate more.

Now Pallas....go to bed and ask for a liberating Jupiter dream.

Not to worry...the curmudgeon transits don't last that long.

[autorank]

18. Pallas180, Dover, etc. ... you folks are scaring me with this earth change

stuff. Seriously, the guy may have maps but he makes it look like Utah becomes beach front property. It's too freaky when you look at it. Do you really believe this. This is a friendly message BTW, I'm just curious as to why this is accepted (or is it?).

[Dover]

20. I don't know that it is widely accepted. Ask someone who is more

familiar with it than me. I don't even know specifically what he predicted or how soon he saw things happening.

Of course the Earth can make significant shifts whenever she gets the itch. But I wouldn't live in fear of her. On the otherhand, if I lived in an area that was currently very active, I'd sure consider moving or taking whatever precautions seemed appropriate. But even then.....I wouldn't take my cues from Scallion, scientists, or anyone else...though I'd certainly listen and weigh their thoughts. But I would be more likely to follow their lead if they triggered some other indicators...such as my own instincts, dreams, premonitions, etc. Cayce made predictions too, and was off on many of them (though we don't know whether the inaccuracies are limited to timing or to the event itself).

[Pallas180]

21. Hey Autorank - nice to hear from you... if you look at his maps

like for Indonesia...

and look at the maps they showed on tv of what is left of the area...
it doesn't become so outlandish.

Yeah. After seeing what land mass sank of Indonesia after the tsunami, I believe it.

The ocean floor pushed up 60 feet. The tectonic plates moved that much. The magnetic North Pole has shifted which is causing the whales and porposes to beach themselves (we've had more of that in
Florida this week - apparently they're oriented to the magnetic North Pole which has moved)

But he is a recent predictor of these things (the last 20 years or so.

From the time of the bible, and Nostrodamus and Cayce the earth changes have been predicted....

and apparently we're in the middle of them right now.

It's not the first time this has happened to the earth - and if we don't blow it up - I guess it won't be the last time.

[Pallas180]

23. Merc Retro, & other planets changing course upon us now - so kick a good

thread.

[Pallas180]

24. Info on Merc Retrograde at 14 Aries on March 19, 7:15 PM EST

http://www.astrologycom.com/mercret.html


Rules: Gemini & Virgo
Exalted: Virgo
Detriment: Sagittarius & Pisces
Fall: Pisces
Exalted Degree: 15 Virgo

On March 19/20th, 2005 at the Equinox—the cosmic turning point—Mercury, the cosmic magician, turns retrograde again, sending communications, travel, appointments, mail and the www into a general snarlup! This awkward period begins a few days before the actual turning point (as Mercury slows) and lasts for three weeks or so, until April 12, when the Winged Messenger reached his direct station. At this time he halts and begins his return to direct motion through the zodiac. Everything finally straightens out on May 1, 2005, as he passes the point where he first turned retrograde

What does Mercury affect?

In general, Mercury rules thinking and perception, processing and disseminating information and all means of communication, commerce and transportation. By extension, Mercury rules people who work in these areas, especially people who work with their minds or their wits: writers and orators, commentators and critics, gossips and spin doctors, tricksters and thieves.

Mercury retrograde gives rise to personal misunderstandings; flawed, disrupted, or delayed communications, negotiations and trade; glitches and breakdowns with phones, computers, cars, buses, and trains. And all of these problems usually arise because some crucial piece of information, or component, has gone astray, or awry.

It is therefore not wise to make important decisions while Mercury is retrograde, since it is very likely that these decisions will be clouded by misinformation, poor communication and careless thinking. Mercury is all about mental clarity and the power of the mind, so when Mercury is retrograde, these intellectual characteristics tend to be less acute than usual, as the critical faculties are dimmed.